This Web Site has been used to emphasize the three threats to the survival of American civilization. They are the, first and foremost, the threat of decay and dissolution from within (characterized by the 'culture war' that Balint Vazsonyi wrote about in his prescient book ('America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning?'), state sponsored terrorism (which became a reality the morning of 11 September), and China.

       I have explained on this Web Site that all three of these threats are related in ways that we are only beginning to understand. This essay exposes the connection between the first two listed threats - the culture war and the war against Jihadistan. There is a direct historical connection. It is real. And it is not being discussed in the mass media. It is discussed here.

       The Trade Center and Pentagon bombings by Islamic terrorists were not the first terrorist attacks on such buildings. Indeed, America has produced and still harbors terrorists of an earlier age, the counter-culture revolutionaries of the mid-1960s and 1970s, who attacked the same type of targets - and they are still at large in America. Indeed, they are even now, celebrated, admired, and revered by those who harbored them. They, their sympathizers, and those who have extended their counter-culture revolution into the 1990s and beyond by political means are America's 'enemies within.'

       On the very morning of the 11 September attack on America, the New York Times featured a fawning interview ('No Regrets for a Love of Explosives: In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen, by Dinitia Smith) with Bill Ayers. Ayers is pictured with his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, "...former members of the Weather Underground, a radical Vietnam-era group..." in the 1970s.
       Ayers has written a book, 'Fugitive Days,' which is a boastful memoir of his days as a 'fugitive.' Ayers is quoted in the interview, "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough." Of the 30 bombings carried out by the Weathermen, Ayres relates in his book that "...he participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972."

       Please observe that these 'targets' are the same types of targets the Islamic terrorists attacked on 11 September. But not once in the New York Times article was the word, 'terrorist,' used to describe Ayers or others of his Weathermen. According to the Times, they carried out 'daring acts.' Incredibly (in view of the Islamic terrorist attack on the morning of the Times' laudatory piece), the article provided an affectionate profile of Ayers, his wife, and his Weathermen associates.  It describes Ayres and his wife sitting in the kitchen of their [spacious] turn-of-the-19^th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. It touts Ayres as the "...distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago." It is almost beyond belief that members of the '70s Weather Underground are training our nation's future teachers. But if one reads B.K. Eakman's exhaustively detailed book, 'Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality Through Education,' the results of Ayres-style 'indoctrination' of our nation's future teachers is understandable.

       Ayres, who in 1970 was said to have summed up the Weatherman philosophy as: "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents, that's where it's really at." His wife, Ms. Dohrn, had a law degree from the University of Chicago and was a magnetic speaker who often wore thigh-high boots and miniskirts. "In 1969, after the Manson family murders in Beverly Hills, Ms. Dohrn told a Students for Democratic Society (S.D.S.) audience: "Dig it! Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach."

       Ayers went underground in 1970, after his then-girlfriend, Diana Oughton, and two other people were killed when bombs they were making exploded in a Greenwich Village town house. With him in the Weather Underground was Bernadine Dohrn, who was put on the F.B.I.'s 10 Most Wanted List. J. Edgar Hoover called her "the most dangerous woman in America" and "la Pasionara of the Lunatic Left."  Between 1970 and 1974 the Weathermen took responsibility for 12 bombings. Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn later married.

       "Today, Mr. Ayers and Ms. Dohrn, 59, who is director of the Legal Clinic's Children and Family Justice Center of Northwestern University, seem like typical baby boomers, caring for aging parents, suffering the empty-nest syndrome...[Their two sons are in college]...and they have also brought up Chesa Boudin, 21, son of David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin [fellow members of the Weathermen], who are serving prison terms for a 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in Rockland County, N.Y., that left four people dead. Last month, Ms. Boudin's application for parole was rejected."

       The New York Times goes on to provide an affectionate profile of Bill Ayers. "...[he] has always been known as a 'rich kid radical.' His father, Thomas, now 86, was chairman and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Edison of Chicago, chairman of Northwestern University and of the Chicago Symphony. When someone mentions his father's prominence, Mr. Ayers is quick to say that his father did not become wealthy until the son was a teenager. He says that his father promoted racial equality in Chicago and was acceptable as a mediator to Mayor Richard Daley and the Rev. Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. in 1966 when King marched in Cicero, IL, to protest housing segregations." Ah yes, Ayres father marched with the angels. And the New York Times uses this 'glowing' biographical sketch to glorify Bill Ayres, a 'terrorist' of the Weather Underground.

       "Ayers attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, IL, then the University of Michigan but dropped out to join the Students for Democratic Society...During his fugitive years, Mr. Ayers said, he lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes the typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom; fermented Vietnamese fish sauce in the refrigerator, and live sourdough starter donated by a Native American that was reputed to have passed from hand to hand over a century."  Yes, indeed, the New York Times presented a romanticized version of a 'terrorist,' a 'hero' of the power elites of the Boomer generation - America's present day 'enemies within.'

       And wouldn't you have guessed it, the New York Times (whose editorial board is three-quarters homosexual) would find something in Bill Ayers' background to carry the torch for their decadent homosexual agenda. "[Ayres] also writes about the Weathermen's sexual experimentation as they tried to 'smash monogamy.' The Weathermen were 'an army of lovers,' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend." The New York Times, indeed, extols this fact as a 'shining light' of 'tolerance' on their hero of the Left - a 'terrorist' who predated the Islamic terrorists who would later destroy the World Trade Center and severely damage the Pentagon. But to the 'enemies within' Ayers and his fellow Weathermen are their New Age 'heroes' who carried out 'daring attacks' against the enemy - America.

       It was not brazen enough that this glowing account of New Age American 'terrorists' [no, not Timothy McVeigh, but Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn] in our midst appeared in the New York Times on the very morning of the 11 September attack on America.  The newspaper had the hubris to stick it in America's eye with an unapologetic, even braggadocio interview only five days after the attack on New York and Washington, D.C. Indeed, almost before the incinerated remains of the victims of the terrorists' cremation of the living had drifted to the ground, the New York Times published a follow-up story on their 'hero.' In the Sunday issue following the Islamic terrorist attack on Tuesday, the New York Times ('Forever Rad,' N.Y. Times Magazine) carried an interview with their 'hero,' Bill Ayres.
                            Question: You're living a normal life now, with a job and a family and a book
                                            to sell, while at least one former comrade, like Kathy Boudin...
                                            is still in prison. Does that mean you've come to a certain trust
                                            in [American] society?

                            Answer:  I don't trust it. You can't live in a society like this in equilibrium
                                          and not sell your soul. This society is not a just and fair and decent place.

                            Question:  So you're troubled?

                            Answer:  Oh, I'm troubled, troubled. We're living in a country where the
                                          election was stolen, and we didn't have a mass uprising. It's incredible.
                                         We're all asleep. The pundits all pat themselves on the back: God,
                                         what a great country. You know, we could have had a constitutional crisis,
                                         but instead, we let him steal the election. Isn't that great? What a country.
                                        It makes me want to puke.

       And this guy is a professor of education in a university, which trains our nation's future teachers. These teachers in turn 'educate' our children and grandchildren in our public K-12 schools. Indeed, America's 'enemies within' have burrowed deep into our nation's foundational institutions as their generation progressed into middle age - as every generation does in its turn. But Ayres' generation is different. They are potentially the most dangerous generation in America's history.

       If you don't recognize Ayres' rhetoric as exactly the same used in the aftermath of the year-2000 presidential election, you haven't been reading the nation's newspapers or watching television. Bill Ayers is a member of and, now, the 'hero' of the eight million or so elites of the Boomer generation who carried out a counter-culture revolution on our nations campuses during the mid-1960s and 1970s. These same 'enemies within' came to power during the 1990s and attempted to carry their revolution to a conclusion - in a continuation of their 'long march' through every institution in the land. Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Strobe Talbot, Donna Shallala, and Madeleine Albright are icons of that power elite. All those who manned positions of power in the Clinton administration were and are 'foot soldiers' of this 'cultural Marxist' revolutionary movement. They are the 'enemies within.' They were and are now the 'foot soldiers' of the Frankfurt School revolutionaries, intellectuals from Germany, who provided the texts for their 'cultural Marxist' revolution. You can read a history of this movement by 'clicking' the link, Frankfurt School.

       In fact, the phrase 'foot soldiers' was used in the Sunday New York Times interview of Bill Ayers. The interviewer, Hope Reeves, whose parents were also Weathermen asked Ayers (regarding the Weathermen quote, '...kill your parents'), "did you actually mean for people to do that?"  When Ayers attempted to brush it off as a 'joke,' Ms. Reeves said, "Well, my mom took it seriously, as a directive from you.

       To that, Ayers asked, "She killed her parents?"  And Ms. Reeves answered "No, but it took years to heal the wounds. She and the other foot soldiers, as she calls them, looked to you and the Weather Bureau for direction."  Yes, indeed, by their own admission the 'enemies within' are the power elites of the Boomer generation, the 'foot soldiers' of the 'cultural Marxist' Revolution which has been thrust upon America over the past 30 years. The 'enemies within' are not only the icons of that power elite - they are those who were and have become 'foot soldiers' of their 'cultural Marxist' revolution. This eight million or so political, intelligentsia and media elites have sufficiently persuaded over 40 million Americans that they should vote for their presidential candidate (see the red/blue voting map in the year-2000 presidential election) for three consecutive presidential elections. America just dodged a bullet in that the 'enemies within' were unsuccessful in the year-2000 election. Had Al Gore won, America would be going down a steep path of decay and dissolution - toward the extinction of American civilization.  And this would have occurred, even in the absence of the Islamic terrorist attack on America.

       Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn of the Weather Underground are not the only former 'terrorists' to surface in the news. An article in the New York Times (Goldberg, Carey, 'Sorrowful Outlaw Radical Abandons Bid for Parole,' 3/07/98) tells of a member of another anti-war group to turn to criminal acts to support their anti-Vietnam War movement. "In turning herself in nearly five years ago, one of the last Vietnam-era outlaw radicals to come up from the underground, Katherine Ann Power, performed an act of contrition, relinquishing a homey life in Oregon to face responsibility for her role in a 1970 bank robbery that had left a police officer dead."

       "When she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and accepted a sentence of 8 to 12 years in prison, that, too, was penance. Now Ms. Power has taken the penance one step further, by withdrawing her request for parole at a hearing...and instead taking the opportunity to apologize tearfully to the slain officer's family...Officer Schroeder left a wife and nine children, and the family, which includes several police officers, has been slow to forgive Ms. Power, wary of her motives and unappeased by her explanations of her need to take action against a war she regarded as unjust."

       "When Ms. Power surrendered back in 1993, the message that came across through the news media and the lawyers focused more on 1960s politics than on how sorry she was...Ms. Power had spent 23 years as a fugitive, 14 of them on the F.B.I.'s most-wanted list, when she turned herself in. She had long been living under the name Alice Metzinger in northwest Oregon, where she taught cooking, ran restaurants and reared her son, Jaime, now 19. She had come to realize, she said then, that she could no longer live a life of hiding."

       "Much earlier, in 1970, she had been a bright, naive young woman of 20, a senior at Brandeis University, when she became involved with a small group [now, after the Trade Center bombing, called a 'terrorist cell'] of antiwar radicals who included furloughed prisoners studying at the university. On Sept. 23, 1970, the group, looking for money to support antiwar efforts, robbed the State Street Bank of $26,000. When the police responded to the bank's silent alarm, one of the furloughed prisoners, William Gilday, shot and killed Officer Schroeder.  Although Ms. Power's only role was to drive the getaway car, in her letter published in The Globe... she did not seek to diminish her responsibility. 'I remember clearly and with deep shame,' it said, 'the moment when I realized that some of the people in the group were dangerous in their willingness to use criminal violence, and decided to stay anyway.'"

       Ms. Power has been joined by another student-activist 'terrorist' of the counter-culture revolution. A big stir in the print news media in 1999 occurred when Kathleen Ann Soliah, 52, was finally captured. The Washington Times ('Fugitive wanted since '76 captured: SLA member became actress,' 6/17/99) informed us that "A fugitive member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst 25 years ago, was captured in St. Paul [MN], where she had made a new life as a stage actress under one of the most common of Minnesota names: Olson."

       "Kathleen Ann Soliah had been wanted in Los Angeles since 1976, when she was indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges, accused of putting pipe bombs under two police cars. They did not go off. The FBI said she also committed bombings and bank robberies with the SLA."

       "Until yesterday [6/18/99], she had been living as Sara Jane Olson in a comfortable, ivy-covered house with her doctor husband and three daughters, the FBI said. She had gotten good reviews for her starring performances in local theater productions...FBI agents received tips to her whereabouts from viewers of 'America's Most Wanted,' which featured Mrs. Soliah in a broadcast last month. The FBI had also offered a $20,000 reward for her capture last month, on the 25^th anniversary of a shootout in Los Angeles that left six SLA members dead. Mrs. Soliah did not participate in the shootout or the Hearst kidnapping."

       "In a federal warrant drawn up this year, authorities said that in 1984, her husband was aware of her true name and fugitive status. It is not clear whether she was married at the time to her current husband, Fred Peterson. They bought their house in 1989."

       "'We've got a pretty good fingerprint identification that she's the person we're looking for,' said James H. Burrus Jr., the agent in charge of the Minneapolis FBI office. Her capture closed a chapter in one of the most sensational news stories of the 1970s. The SLA, a band of leftist radicals with a seven-headed snake as its symbol, kidnapped Miss Hearst, then 19, from her apartment in Berkeley, CA, in February 1974. The group demanded that the newspaper heiress' parents, Randolph and Catherine Hearst, distribute $2 million worth of food to the needy before it would discuss freedom for their daughter. The demand later climbed to $6 million. Miss Hearst metamorphosed into Tania, a member of the very group that took her prisoner. Two months after the kidnapping, she was photographed carrying a carbine during an SLA holdup at a San Francisco bank."

       Within two weeks after she was captured, wouldn't you know it, the liberal Washington Post published a glowing puff piece on Sara Jane Olson, aka Kathleen Ann Soliah the SLA 'terrorist.' In a front page story in the Style section, the Post (McCombs, Phil, 'A Wanted Woman,' 7/01/99) Sara Jane Olson is described as "...the 'soccer mom' fugitive nabbed...on charges that she's actually 1970s-era terrorist Kathleen Soliah of the Symbionese Liberation Army, is a passionate - even obsessive - gourmet cook. Her dearest friends all mention it. Her elaborate entertainments are never just personal indulgences, however, but are invariably keyed to liberal causes and community activism. At her house, labor leaders and immigrants, leftist pols and right-thinking progressives abound. They eat very well."

       "'Exquisite spreads, each strawberry individually carved,' recalls liberal state legislator Andy Dawkins of repasts at Olson's $300,000 ivy-covered Tudor-style home in trendy Highland Park. There, Olson, 52, and her husband, Harvard-educated physician Gerald 'Fred Peterson, have hosted chummy, 'wonderful' get-togethers where Twin Cities leftists mingle with the couple's pals from the medical, theatrical and church communities. And - yes - with other soccer moms. Olson's youngest daughter plays for the Black Hawks."  Isn't that a nice homey description that the modern liberal leftist Washington Post presents for the SLA 'terrorist' of the counter-culture revolution of the 1970s? How nice. How soft. How mainstream these 'terrorists' have become - to those who participated in their counter-culture revolution, sympathized with it, and indeed, even today continue to support it. America's 'enemies within.' Soccer moms, indeed!

       "Old friend and self-described 'peace and justice' activist Spencer Blaw, for instance, recently brought a local Somali refugee leader [one of war lord Mohammed Farah Aideed's Islamic fundamentalist supporters?] to a backyard blowout celebrating the high school graduation of Fred and Sara's 18-year-old daughter, Emily. 'At the end of the day, he'd met so many other community activists,' Blaw marvels." No doubt about it, these people are the counter-culture revolutionaries who still 'hate America.' They are, indeed, the 'enemies within.'

       "All of this wouldn't be particularly noteworthy, except for this: For the better part of a quarter century, Sara Jane Olson - who as Kathleen Soliah, allegedly roamed California's revolutionary underground armed with guns and bombs, tried to murder two L.A. cops in 1975 and harbored newspaper heiress and SLA recruit Patricia Hearst - has been hiding here from police and the FBI. Who'd have thought she'd go to ground just an hour's drive from her Fargo, ND birthplace, in an area that is home to some of her relatives? Or manage to evade capture all these years while flaunting her angular good looks and characteristic personal intensity in full public view?"

       All of this questioning is quite easily explained. That is, if one knows of the writings of Sun-tzu, the ancient Chinese military strategist who wrote the basic doctrine for waging a guerilla war - 'The Art of War.' Sun-tzu wrote that the 'terrorist fish swims undetected in the sea of the citizenry who are sympathetic to his cause.' Our modern liberal elites, the former counter-culture revolutionaries of the 1960s and 70s are the vast sea within which the 'terrorist' fish swim. They are all America's 'enemies within.'

       The Washington Post reminds us that "While many white middle-class members of the counter-culture adhered to principles of peaceful 'civil disobedience,' there were fringe groups, like the SLA, whose methods were violent...The SLA - its name derived from 'symbiosis' in an effort to suggest the union of black and white, rich and poor - had begun as a ragtag band of radicals in 1971 but soon developed into a feared paramilitary organization. Its flag bore the likeness of a seven-headed snake, and its reported motto was 'Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.'"

       "Kathleen Soliah allegedly joined the organization a few months after Hearst's abduction and shortly after the fatal police shootout. One of those killed was Angela Atwood, Soliah's best friend, whom she'd met while waitressing and performing in small theater productions. Two weeks later, Soliah delivered a eulogy for the slain revolutionaries in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park, declaring that they had been 'viciously attacked and murdered by 500 pigs.' She publicly urged the SLA to fight on, adding, 'I am with you. We are with you.' Soliah's speech, captured on film, shows an intense young woman with long flowing hair, speaking confidently."

       "Today, Olson faces charges that she - as Soliah - and [another SLA member] planted pipe bombs under two LAPD cars in August of 1975 in retaliation for the shootout. The bombs failed to go off...In her memoir, 'Every Secret Thing,' [Patty] Hearst [who was abducted by the SLA and then joined them] recalls how Soliah and another SLA member used to go '...shoplifting. They were masters. They came back with steaks and chops and fancy desserts and, according to them, such a diet was all part of the counter-culture. It was perfectly appropriate for them to rip off the establishment supermarkets.'"

       Like other young counter-culture revolutionaries of the period, "...The Soliahs [Kathleen and her brother Steve, also an SLA member] came from a middle-class, conservative home in Palmdale [CA], on the edge of the Mohave Desert northwest of Los Angeles...Kathleen had been an enthusiastic Nixon supporter in 1968...Soliah's political views changed after a student protest. The Lost Angeles Times quoted her mother, Elsie, as saying 'She came back and told us the police turned the situation into chaos. There were bullets flying overhead. Kathleen could hear them swooshing by. I think it was a moment that changed how she looked at things for good.'"

       "[Patty] Hearst's book...indicates Kathleen was deeply involved [with the SLA]. [According to Hearst] "...Kathy's eyes sparkled as she described the destruction caused by the pipe bomb. The police car had been completely demolished,' Hearst writes of a bombing for that took place before the attempts for which Siliah was indicted. Earlier, according to the book, 'Jim Kilgore and Kathy Soliah...began to press for some action - bombings.' Another time, as the group prepared to rob a bank, Hearst writes that 'Kathy wore a green turtleneck sweater, trousers, and riding boots and in a straw bag she carried a carbine and [her brother] Steve's pistol.'"

       Since her arrest, Kathleen Soliah has received a vast outpouring of support from her modern liberal neighbors. This former SLA terrorist has been embraced by the Little Minnehaha United Methodist Church (Kersten, Katherine A., "To Hell With Sin: When 'being a good person' excuses everything," The Wall Street Journal, 17 September 1999), located in a comfortable older neighborhood of Minneapolis, MN. This is the church of Kathleen Soliah. The Minnehaha Church quickly leaped to Soliah's defense, proclaiming its 'unconditional love.' The church spearheaded her bail campaign, raising $1 million in one week. Church representatives acknowledged that the charges against Soliah were serious. In essence, however, they argued that any crimes she may have committed were 'canceled out' by her good works as a community volunteer -- like reading to the blind and working at the center for torture victims.

       Her church has been described as a "liberal, social activist" church. There are trappings of the modern liberal church: a sign pronouncing Minnehaha a 'hate-free zone,' and advertisement for a camp where children learn to be 'earthsavers' and 'peacemakers.' But a closer look revealed something else.  It revolves around the serious question, "Could it be that a church need not be on the radical fringe to be tolerant of evil?"

       Kersten points out that, "Thirty years ago, the psychologist and scholar Philip Rieff shed light on this question in his classic work, 'The Triumph of the Therapeutic.'  Traditional Christianity, Mr. Rieff observed, made great moral demands on believers.  Its goal was salvation: consequently, it exhorted believers to 'die to self,' repent of sin, and cultivate virtue, self-discipline and humility."

       "Today, however, wrote Mr. Rieff, 'psychological man' is rapidly shouldering Christian man aside as the dominant character type in our society.  For psychological man -- the offspring of Freud and his ilk -- life centers not on the soul but on the self.  Psychological man rejects both the idea of sin and the need for salvation. He aspires to nothing higher than 'feeling good about himself.'  Mr. Rieff summarizes it this way: 'Christian man was borne to be saved; psychological man is born to be pleased. The difference was established long ago, when 'I believe!, 'the cry of the ascetic, lost precedence to 'one feels,' the caveat of the therapeutic."

       "One would expect that, with the rise of psychological man, American churches would begin to empty. Quite the contrary, suggest Mr. Rieff.  Psychological man seeks to enlist all institutions in his service.  'Independent from all gods,' he is drawn to 'any faith that lends itself to therapeutic use.' By draining faith of doctrinal content, psychological man reduces religion to a free-floating spirituality. He can embrace any faith, so long as it takes no real moral demands -- consoles but does not judge."

       "In churches like Minnehaha, this process is far advanced. Minnehaha's primary focus is not on God and the demands of salvation but on man and his earthly needs. The church focuses on healing, affirming and consoling -- on accepting others 'for exactly who they are.' Largely drained of doctrine, Minnehaha strikes the observer as little more than a club for good works, a kind of Red Cross with a steeple on top.  What fills the hole at the center, where the Christian moral code used to be?  An ethic of conspicuous compassion, where 'being a nice person' excuses everything."

       At churches like Minnehaha, the cathartic personal story is a therapeutic centerpiece. Such stories -- often marked by pathos and self-absorption -- jostle around the altar in endless procession, replacing the tenets of the old faith. Rather than guiding and instructing, they stir pity or indignation, or elicit emotional 'commitment.'

       The saga of Kathleen Soliah lays bare the all-too-human underpinnings of the modern therapeutic church. From Minnehaha's perspective, it seems, Soliah is not a sinner in need of forgiveness and atonement but a 'patient' in need of nonjudgmental care. To determine what justice requires in her case, the church maintains, we need only consider her personal story -- the heart-tugging tale of a revolutionary turned 'community volunteer' and soccer mom, who is now the victim of a cold and impersonal justice system. In the church's view, Soliah's individual circumstances should take precedence over universal principles of justice.

       Minnehah provides a cautionary tale of how the world of bake sales and Boy Scouts can co-exist with the uncritical embrace of a woman accused of attempted murder. "The unsettling thing is that Minnehaha is not an aberration.  Like as not, it's the church down the block."

       So, on the one hand you embrace an escaped terrorist.  On the other hand, you have, in this therapeutic age, a victim of a cold and impersonal justice system. This is an example of cognitive dissonance in our mainstream churches. It is clear that the 'cultural Marxist' revolution has been so subtly introduced into the roots of American civilization that even our churches have been undermined.  The power of the confluence of Freud with Marx has gone unnoticed. But it is here. It surrounds us. It has invaded even the foundation of our constitutional republic -- our Christian religion.

       Indeed, even our traditional religious institutions have been infected by the 'enemies within.'

       The Kathleen Soliah case is far more important than it appears on the surface. Even though her case is prosecutable, she is much more important to federal prosecutors in the matter of a slaying that occurred during a bank robbery in the Sacramento suburb of Carmichael back in 1975. During that robbery, Myrna Lee Opsahl was murdered by members of the SLA. The Washington Times (Taylor, Michael, 'Killing by 1970s radical SLA remains unsolved,' 2/14/01) reports that "On a quiet Monday morning in Carmichael 25 years ago, Mrs. Opsahl and a couple of friends were delivering Sunday's church collection money to the local branch of the Crocker National Bank."

       "One of Mrs. Opsahl's friends held open the bank door as a group of four young customers walked in ahead of them. Suddenly, the four persons pulled ski masks down over their faces, and one of them shouted for everybody to hit the floor. Myrna Opsahl was lugging a heavy adding machine and apparently didn't move fast enough - maybe she didn't understand, her husband said later, maybe she thought it was a joke. In any event, she was still standing when one of the robbers fired a blast from a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun."

       "She fell to the floor, a pool of blood spreading out from her left side. The robbers, one of them counting out the time from a stopwatch, scooped up $15,000 and fled. One robber stepped over Myrna Opsahl's body on the way out. Another kicked a pregnant teller." Mrs. Opsahl's husband leaned that his wife may have been wounded at the bank. He rushed to the bank. "At the bank, I saw all the blood on the floor, so I rushed back to the hospital,' Dr. Opsahl said...He desperately tried to save the life of the mother of his four children. It was no use. At the age of 42, she was dead."

       "The Carmichael bank robbery was committed by the Symbionese Liberation Army, kidnappers of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. For 19 months, the SLA members were the most hunted radicals during an era when left-wing revolutionaries were planting bombs all over the country. Most of the radicals from those days ended up living ordinary middle-class lives as they coasted into genteel middle age. Some went to prison for long terms. And there was a smattering that stayed out in the cold, fugitives for decades before finally turning themselves in or getting caught. Mrs. Olson was one of the latter, and prosecutors say that although she may have been a peaceful housewife when she was arrested in June 1999, back then she was a dangerous criminal." 
       Not quite. In the light of 9/11/01, she was a 'terrorist.' She was part of a terrorist organization which hated America every bit as much as the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists who cremated the living in the Trade Center buildings. And they still hate America. In fact, most of them even today will not cooperate with the federal government in solving the 'crimes' of their 'terrorist' past. According to the Washington Times story, "Prosecutors say they would like Mrs. Olson to testify against her old comrades, something that probably won't happen given most so-called radicals' historical unwillingness to cooperate with government agents."

       There is abundant evidence of Sara Jane Olson's guilt. "'That's the most frustrating thing,' says Dr. Jon Opsahl, Myrna Opsahl's son. 'Everybody knows [who] did it, but no one wants to step up to the plate to prove it. It's not that there isn't some evidence. According to prosecutors, much of the evidence that appears to tie Mrs. Olson to the SLA and to the Carmichael bank robbery was seized by the FBI from two San Francisco apartments when Patty Hearst, the Harrises and Mrs. Olson's brother, Steven Soliah, were arrested in September 1975. A $1 'bait bill' from the Crocker bank robbery was found in the refrigerator of one of the safe houses. Several 9 mm bullets found in the safe houses, where agents also found 9 mm pistols and sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns."

       "Investigators also found fingerprints of Steven Soliah and James Kilgore on stolen license plates that were on one of the escape cars in Carmichael. And Mr. Latin's evidence presentation also says that one of the suspected robbers, Mr. Bortin, made a 'confession' to a friend. Authorities say that in addition to their evidence, they would ultimately have the testimony of Patty Hearst - her 1982 book, 'Every Secret Thing,' spends nearly eight pages detailing the robbery. Outside the bank that day, Mrs. Hearst says - and investigators agree with her - were Bill Harris and Steven Soliah. And she and Wendy Yoshimura were waiting nearby in 'switch' cars. When she was being tried on the Hibernia Bank robbery charges nearly 25 years ago in federal court in San Francisco, Mrs. Hearst was also secretly meeting with Sacramento County prosecutors and was eventually given immunity from prosecution in the Carmichael case in return for her cooperation. Prosecutors and investigators say they have seen nothing to refute Mrs. Hearst's version of events."

       "Equally damaging is Mrs. Hearst's assertion that it was Emily Harris who shot Myrna Opsahl. After the robbery, when the SLA had regrouped in the group's Sacramento apartment, the mood was somber. According to Mrs. Hearst, when Kathleen Soliah asked, 'How's the woman who was shot?' Emily Harris replied, 'Oh, she's dead, but it really doesn't matter. She was a bourgeois pig anyway."

       "After six of the nine SLA members were killed in a fiery shootout with Los Angeles police on May 17, 1974, the remnants of the group [in the aftermath of the 9/11 Trade Center inferno, these are called terrorist 'cells'] Bill and Emily Harris and Patty Hearst went deep underground. [That means, in the words of Sun-tzu, 'the terrorist fish swims in the vast sea of their sympathizers and supporters.'] Crisscrossing the country, they were helped by a motley crew of radicals who rented safe houses, stole cars and robbed banks, including the April 21, 1975 Carmichael episode."

       "The Opsahl slaying was one of only two attributed to the SLA, and it is the only one that has yet to be solved. The other was the November 1973 killing of Marcus Foster, the first black school superintendent in Oakland [CA]. In September 1975, the SLA was caught. The Harrises pleaded guilty to kidnapping Patty Hearst and spent nearly eight years in state prison. Although claiming she was brainwashed, she was convicted of robbing the Hibernia Bank. She spent 21 months of a seven-year sentence in federal prison before having her sentence commuted by President Jimmy Carter in 1979."

       "President Bill Clinton granted Mrs. Hearst a full pardon on his last day in office." Is there no connection between the violence-prone 'terrorists' of the counter-culture revolution in the 1970s and the icon of the elite Boomers of those days, the one who, along with his wife, became the titular heads of the power elites of the Boomer generation? It is quite clear who are the 'enemies within' in America today. They are the power elites of the Boomer generation, those whom I have labeled The New Totalitarians in my first book published in 1996.

       The Washington Times published an article (Hedges, Michael, 'FBI still looking for '60s fugitives,' 7/12/99) with a picture of Sara Jane Olson aka Kathleen Soliah, the terrorist, as she played the part of Susan B. Anthony, the early 20^th century feminist suffragette, in a theatrical production in 1990. She is pictured with her right arm raised and a clenched fist with a banner from shoulder to waist proclaiming, 'Votes for Women.' This counter-culture 'terrorist,' now a beloved soccer mom and gourmet party-giver in her Minneapolis suburb, is not the only fugitive of the counter-culture 1970s era. According to the article, "...there are more out there. And from law enforcement's point of view, they are not forgiven. One of those sought is now a 59-year-old grandmother from Austin, TX, named Elizabeth Anna Duke, who the FBI considers an armed and dangerous criminal. She is wanted on explosives charges, including a bombing of the U.S. Capitol."

       "Mrs. Duke's career as a radical began with peaceful protests and escalated to involvement with an offshoot of the Weather Underground called the May 19 Communist Organization, named to honor the birthdays of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh. The group committed a number of violent crimes - some of which involved Mrs. Duke directly, according to federal law-enforcement officers. She has been charged with possessing more than 100 pounds of explosives used in a series of terrorist bombings, including one in New York City on New Year's eve in 1982 that blew the leg off one policeman and blinded another."

       "Mrs. Duke was arrested outside Philadelphia in 1985 and charged with being an accessory to the October 1981 Brink's armored care robbery outside New York City in which two police officers and a Brink's guard were fatally shot and $1.6 million was stolen. Based on evidence gathered by the FBI, Mrs. Duke was indicted on federal charges for her suspected involvement in a series of bombings, including an explosion in the cloakroom of the U.S. Senate and one at the National War College."

       "Mrs. Duke, a mother of two who now has four grandchildren she apparently never has met, was living in a defense attorney's home when she vanished in 1985. Among the other 1960s fugitives, none have been more successful at escaping detection than Leo Frederick Burt, 51, who is still hunted for his suspected role in the bombing of a University of Wisconsin research center. Mr. Burt disappeared Aug. 24, 1970, just after the early morning bombing of Sterling Hall, a six-story building. The blast and resulting fire killed Robert Fassnacht, a 33-year-old physicist, and destroyed the $5 million structure. Several other people were seriously injured."

       "Three others indicted at the same time as Mr. Burt were apprehended over the years. While Mr. Burt evaporated without a trace, the FBI knows the location of Joanne Chesimard, who now goes by the name of Assata Shakur. She, along with as many as 100 other U.S. fugitives, have found a safe haven in Cuba."

       "Shakur - the aunt of slain rap star Tupac Shakur - has been convicted of killing New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster in 1973 after he pulled her over on a routine traffic stop.

       There is no remorse from those who carried out these 'terrorist' attacks on America during the 1970s. The Washington Times (Deutsch, Linda, 'Tumult of '70s to be recalled in Olson trial,' 12/19/99) interviewed Bill Harris, the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army. "With a family and house in the suburbs, gray-bearded Bill Harris easily blends into the breezy life of the Bay area [of San Francisco]...In this former hotbed of radical politics, the upcoming trial of one of their colleagues is rousing long-buried memories of Haight Ashbury, People's Park, Telegraph Avenue and other locales once charged with the rhetoric of revolution. Today, the community of former radicals in the Bay Area has taken on the veneer of middle-class life: law-abiding citizens with families, revolutionaries with careers and radical lawyers working as respected defenders of civil rights."

       "But now Sara Jane Olson, an ex-SLA member who lived underground for two decades until her arrest this year, is awaiting trial in Los Angeles, accused of trying to bomb two police cares in 1976 - and those who have reinvented themselves worry anew. Witness-stand appearances could shine a new spotlight on them. The past seems inescapable. Among them is Mr. Harris, 55, who served eight years in prison and now works as a private investigator. Long divorced from his wife, Emily, he is remarried, has two children and a house on the city's outskirts."

       Bill Harris still has no remorse for his 'terrorist' activities against America. In another Washington Times interview, Harris, an ex-Marine from Indiana with a master's degree in education who joined the SLA in a period of post-Vietnam alienation, cited "...the same seminal events that changed [his and other of his SLA terrorist's lives]: the Vietnam War, the FBI shooting of Black Panther Fred Hampton and the Symbionese Liberation army shootout in which six died...How did I become a revolutionary? You can thank our government. People ask me how could I do this. I say do this. I say: study history."

       In that same article, the names of Jack Scott and Stephen Bingham appear. Scott "was a radical sportswriter, physical education director at Oberlin College in Ohio and confidant of athletic superstars. His roommate was basketball star Bill Walton. He remembers hearing about the SLA while back east." He joined the SLA through a meeting with Kathy Soliah. Mr. Scott "...told the fugitives if they would disarm he would hide them, and he did, first at his parents' Las Vegas home, then at a Pennsylvania farmhouse, then in New York's Catskills. He said his parents tried to persuade Miss Hearst to go home but she wanted no part of it. She had become 'Tania,' the most revolutionary of all."

       Stephen Bingham was an activist lawyer at Berkeley Neighborhood Legal Assistance when he became interested in the prison movement. "On Aug. 21, 1971, he visited San Quentin inmate George Jackson. After the visit, Jackson pulled a gun, unlocked 26 prisoner cells, and triggered a blood bath in which three guards and two convicts were slain. Authorities accused Mr. Bingham of smuggling the gun to Jackson. Mr. Bingham fled, not to be seen again for 13 years. He said he understands why Mrs. Olson and others went underground."

       "Where was he? First he went to Eastern Europe, moved to Italy, then settled in France in1974 with a new name and occupation: interior painter and documentary filmmaker. He returned in 1984." Today, Bingham has no remorse for his 'terrorist' activities. He is quoted as saying, "It's hard today for young people to realize what would drive a person like me to go underground. My worst nightmare was everybody's worst nightmare, that the government would try to stop people from bringing about social change [i.e. the counter-culture revolution of the mid-1960s and 1970s] by framing us. And that's what happened. I'd like to keep a file entitled, 'I told you so.'"

       Today, "These white, college-educated children of the middle class [who] adopted an amalgum of revolutionary theories, took a black convict as their leader and adopted the slogan: 'Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people," have melted into the comfortable life-style of 'soccer moms,' activist radical feminists, civil rights and human rights lawyers - a whole panoply of America's 'enemies within' who are (in their middle age years) attempting to complete the counter-revolution of their young adulthood. They are, indeed, the 'foot soldiers' of the Frankfurt School intellectual revolutionaries who are destroying American civilization.

       The violence carried out against America during the counter-culture revolution of the '60s and '70s was not confined to the extremist groups like the Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army, Black Panthers, and others who killed and bombed the 'enemy.' They were spurred on by other campus radicals, some of whom espoused non-violent protest against the government, but all of whom were activists in carrying out that revolution. Arnold Beichman tells us ('Attack of the 'bomber left': America is still loathed by '60s radicals,' The Washington Times, 9/25/01) that "...At the height of the revolutionary 1960s on the American campus, Tom Hayden, a leading flamethrower of the era, wrote in the intellectually elite Partisan Review:
                                     "Perhaps the only forms of action appropriate to the angry people are
                                     violent. Perhaps a small minority, by setting ablaze New York and
                                     Washington, could damage this country forever in the court of world
                                      public opinion."

       "Little did the former husband of Jane Fonda think in 1966 when he published his manifesto that somebody would one day set New York and Washington ablaze in an hour or destroy the lives [via a cremation of the living] of some 7,000 people. But there was a useful abstraction called 'the court of world public opinion,' which, in order to be influenced demanded destruction of two cities and the concomitant incineration of their populations."

       "The 1960s and 1970s saw in America primarily, but in other democracies as well, the rise of a cult of revolutionary violence (today we call it by its proper name, terrorism) dubbed at the time as the 'Bomber Left.' Left liberalism, especially in the universities, defended this violence as a form of idealism among frustrated youths who were the victims of American society. Here are the words of Professor Douglas Dowd of Cornell University in 1970:
   "Violence on the left by the people who are trying to change things has to
                                    be understood for what it is...They've given up on the idea that a movement
                                    can get anyplace without violence."

       Professor Richard Poirier, then one of the editors of Partisan Review, explained away this violence with this exculpatory sentence: "Before asking questions about the propriety and programs of young militants who occupy buildings, burn cars and fight the police, let's first ask what kind of world surrounds these acts."

       "'Violence is necessary,' wrote Rap Brown, the black revolutionary, 'it's as American as cherry pie.' And not to be outdone, Eldridge Cleaver wrote at the time that 'there are...advantages to political assassination...It would give me great satisfaction if Richard Nixon should be killed.'"

       "The great apologist at the time for this campus terrorism was the late Professor Herbert Marcuse [the Frankfurt School intellectual who coined the phrase, 'make love, not war'] who lectured thus:
                                   "The violence of revolutionary terror, for example, is very different from that of
                                   the White terror, because revolutionary terror as terror implies its own abolition
                                   in the process of creating a free society."

       "And supposing somebody like Lenin or Stalin doesn't accept the implication? Tough. As the New Statesman wrote in defense of Stalin's bloody purges: 'A social revolution is accompanied both by violence and by idealism.' And now we come to Susan Sontag, who as a guest of the North Vietnamese government at the height of the Vietnam War, proclaimed that the United States was a 'criminal, sinister country.' Today she writes in the current New Yorker about the destruction of the World Trade Center and its inhabitants: 'Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a 'cowardly' attack on 'civilization' or 'liberty' or 'humanity' or 'the free world' but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?'"

       "It was this same Susan Sontag who wrote in the venerable Partisan Review in 1967: 'The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone, its ideologies and inventions which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.' She would certainly agree with Joel Rogers in the current Nation magazine when he says 'our own government, through much of the past 50 years, ahs been the world's leading 'rogue state.' Not Syria, not Iran, not Iraq, not Libya, not North Korea, not Cuba - the United States."

       "In 1986, the New Yorker magazine wrote: 'Having, as we believe, turned Europe into a danger zone, we now shun the place, leaving the Europeans to pay whatever price is paid.' For the New Yorker, it is America which has 'turned Europe into a danger zone,' not the Palestinian Liberation Organizatin (PLO) or Moammar Gadhafi's gunmen with their Rome and Vienna airport masacres, the Pan Am flight over Scotland, the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque, or the murder on the Achille Lauro."

       This hatred for America from the 'enemies within' was evidenced within a week of the 11 September terrorist attack. On September 17, a panel of Yale professors...met to consider the implications of the terror attacks on New your and Washington. According to Donald Kagan, a historian who writes on the history of warfare, wrote ('Underlying causes,' Culture Bits, The Washington Post, 9/28/01) "...No one seems to have challenged the primacy of concerns expressed by history professor Paul Kennedy and Strobe Talbott, director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, that focused on reasons that caused the perpetrators to act and our need to understand and sympathize with them."

       "Kennedy suggested that the great power of the United States, its extraordinary influence in the world on international organizations, the attractive power of its political and social ideas - seen as 'offensive cultural messages' - understandably provoke hatred, as they would in us if the roles were reversed. He further said it might be better if we ceased being so powerful, if we reduced our engagement around the world, and if we stopped being so sure our way is best."

       "Talbott [the Clinton administration's former Russia expert in the State Department] emphasized other 'underlying causes' of terrorism, the gap between haves and have-nots, the understandable anger of those who are the losers in the modern globalized world, 'It is,' he said, 'from the desperate, angry and bereaved that these suicide pilots came.'"

       Indeed, the 'enemies within' are the same people who carried out the counter-culture revolution in their early adulthood on our nation's campuses - the same people who populated the Clinton administration's two terms and who nearly drove the nation to a constitutional crisis in contesting the very close year-2000 presidential election. These same 'enemies within' will do everything in their power to use the Islamic terrorist attack on America to take back the mantle of power and complete the revolution they fomented in the '60s and '70s. They are already at work attempting to undermine the Bush administration's efforts to mobilize for war against Jihadistan.

       For example, Michelle Malkin, a nationally syndicated columnist, writes ('Berkeley vs. America ... again,' Wash. Times, 9/25/01) "President bush urged citizens last week to go back to work and try to restore normalcy to their everyday lives. Accordingly, the Peoples Republic of Berkeley, CA, wasted no time in returning to its business as usual: stifling political dissent under the guise of 'tolerance,' stamping out every last ember of patriotism for the cause of 'peace,' and hating America while greedily feasting off the fruits of freedom so lovingly tended by their fellow countrymen."

       "The home of the Free Speech Movement spent much of the week attempting to squelch the free speech of those who were outraged by the 9-11 terrorist attacks. According to KPIX-TV in San Francisco, firefighters in Berkeley were ordered to take American flags off their trucks in advance of an anti-war rally. An assistant chief told the station that the safety of flag-waving firefighters 'could be compromised if protesters try to remove the flags and destroy them.' Only in Berkeley must firefighters fear retaliation from self-righteous 'pacifists.'"

       "Over on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley, the Express Yourself generation showed its gratitude for the blessings of liberty by attempting to shut down the student-run daily newspaper during a 10-hour standoff. More than 100 protesters stormed the office of the Daily Californian demanding an apology for an editorial cartoon printed on the day of the attack. The cartoon, drawn by UC Berkeley alumnus Darrin Bell, showed two men dressed in robes, with long beards and turbans, standing in a large hand amid flames in hell. One man exults: 'We made it to paradise. Now we will meet Allah, and be fed grapes, and be serviced by 70 virgin women, and ...' The other man has a book at his feet with the words 'Flight Manual' on the cover."

       "The Berkeley mob reacted to the tame cartoon as if it were an act of terrorism. 'They have to be held accountable,' said Wajahat Ali, a member of the Muslim Student Association. 'Vile,' another demonstrator proclaimed. This was a 'hate crime' that 'dehumanized' Arab students, others complained. Only in Berkeley can a measly drawing be viewed as a war crime while the rest of the nation mourns the murder [by the vaporization of the living] of thousands of innocent men, women and children at the hands of foreign terrorists."

       "Democrat Rep. Barbara Lee, who represents parts of Berkeley and Oakland, did her constituents proud by casting the lone vote against a congressional resolution supporting President Bush's use of military force against the perpetrators of the Sept. 11 carnage. She blasted supporters of military action - that is, the vast majority of Americans - for embracing 'the evil that we deplore.'"

       "'We'? As conservative author David Horowitz, who met Ms. Lee during his old days as a communist sympathizer in the Bay Area, noted this week: 'Barbara Lee is not an antiwar activist, she is an anti-American communist who supports America's enemies and has actively collaborated with them in their war against America.' Barbara Lee worked for Berkeley's powerful former Rep. Ron Dellums, who coddled the communist dictatorship of Grenada. Only in Berkeley can the treacherous be treated as American heroes as their leftist ideology fails around the world."

       "Echoing the blame-America pabulum of his Berkeley elders, student Patrick Rizzo of Berkeley High School told the Alameda Times-Star: 'I think the United States deserves it. It's pretty sad for the poor people, but the United States does the same thing.' Young Mr. Rizzo's attitude is typical of the Berkeley kids marinated up to their pierced eyebrows in moral equivalence. Only in America do we tolerate this radical indoctrination of self-loathing in government-run schools. Only in America do we suffer the fools bred in Berkeley who 'liberated' a crane to protest animal testing for life-saving research; who established 'sister-city' status with the dictatorships of El Salvador and Nicaragua; who banned military recruiters on its high school grounds; and who humiliated a Japanese group of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the name of diversity. In the foreign regimes that the Berzerkleyites so revere as superior to our own country, they would be rotting in jail for their political heresies. Tortured with cattle prods. Or buried up to their necks in sand and stoned to death. Here, we shake our heads and let them rant. God Bless America."

       John Leo ('On Society: Learning to love terrorists,' U.S. News & World Report, 10/08/01) reveals that Berkeley isn't the only campus in America with anti-American sentiments. "Spend a few hours on a computer search and you get some idea of how the American campus is reacting to the current crisis. It isn't pretty. The first thing you notice is that vigils and rallies tend to focus on feelings...the concern with emotions and personal dislocation seems over the top, as if we need to look inward for therapy more than outward to come together for the fight ahead. An anthropologist at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill said she was pleased that her students' 'thoughtful, passionate varieties of anger are openings to reflection, learning.'"

       "Worse, the words the rest of the nation is using - 'attack,' 'terrorism,' 'resolve,' and 'defense' - don't seem to come up much on campus. Umpteen college presidents put out timid statements about coping with 'the tragedy,' and 'the events of September 11,' as if we had just suffered an earthquake or some other passing natural disaster. "

       "The American Association of University Professors released a statement that probably would have made Neville Chamberlain throw up. It promised to 'continue to fight violence with renewed dedication to the exercise of freedom of thought and the expression of that freedom in our teaching.' What does that mean? That the people on campus in 1941 should have responded to Pearl Harbor by giving longer lectures? Bradford Wilson of the National Association of Scholars [of which I am a member], a group that has been struggling to restore intellectual integrity to the campus, called the AAUP statement 'fatuous nonsense,' 'Marxist claptrap,' and 'anti-American in its basic thrust.'"

       "The campus flight from reality takes many exotic forms. One is the notion that the terrorists' target wasn't really America. 'Students in my classes really see this as an assault on international trade, globalization,' said the dean of Columbia University's international affairs school. Another is the attempt to adapt the crisis to the campus fixation on bias crimes. The most animated rally at the university of California - Berkeley was a protest against a campus newspaper for an editorial cartoon showing two Muslim suicide bombers in hell Many students feel that singling out members of any religious or ethnic group as responsible for the attacks is a sort of hate crime.  The attack 'was done by ...people who hate,' said one University of Wisconsin student, 'and I don't think hate has a color or ethnicity.'"

       "But the dominant campus notions were ones the terrorists themselves would surely endorse: that America had it coming, and fighting back would be vengeful, unworthy, and a risk to the lives of innocents. A speaker at a University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill teach-in called for an apology to 'the tortured and the impoverished and all the millions of victims of American imperialism.' Georgetown University is holding a debate titled 'Resolved: America's Policies and Past Actions Invited the recent Attacks.' At a Yale panel, six hand-wringing professors focused on 'underlying causes' of the attack and America's many faults, including our 'offensive cultural messages.' In response, classics professor Donald Kagan said the panelists seemed intent on 'blaming the victim' and asked why Yale couldn't find one panelist somewhere to focus on the enemy and  'how to stamp out such evil.'"

       "Some students show a glimmer of awareness that the campus is a bubble of unreality. A Columbia student said: 'A lot of people here think it would be a travesty to begin killing people...go off campus you year something else.' On other campuses students resist the antiwar tilt in large numbers. At the mostly blue-collar California State University - Fresno, says Victor Hanson, who teaches there, 'Maybe 90 percent of the faculty sympathizes with boutique anti-Americanism, and 90 percent of students are firmly behind the government, with the strongest support coming from the Mexican-American kids. The students understand what the faculty doesn't - that fostering humanity means stopping people who kill.'"

       "America still doesn't understand what has happened to its colleges. A campus culture has arisen around very dangerous ideas. Among them are radical cultural relativism, nonjudgmentalism, and a postmodern conviction that there are no moral norms or truths worth defending - all knowledge and morality are constructions built by the powerful. And to this knee-jerk antagonism to the 'hegemony' of the West and a reflexive feeling of sympathy for anti-Western resentments, even those expressed in violence. This is a toxic mix, and it is now crucial for those both on and off the campus to start saying so."

       Paul Greenberg, the nationally syndicated columnist who is an experienced commentator on Bill and Hillary Clinton and their Boomer elites over the past 20 years views the terrorist attack on America in a different light than the counter-culture revolutionaries of the '60s and '70s. He writes ('No time for detached teach-in on terrorism,' Wash. Times, 10/02/01) "The terrorist has his own world-view, and it has no room for any other. His response to those who see the world differently is simple: Destroy them. All his ideology boils down to nothing more than that. Terrorists like V.I. Lenin have constructed whole intellectual structures that are nothing but elaborations on that one, murderous instinct."

       "Wallace Stevens...understood the fanatic. The corporate executive who wrote poetry on the side, understood the mind of the fanatic:
                                       'The politics of emotion must appear
                                       To be an intellectual structure.
                                       The cause creates a logic not to be distinguished
                                       From lunacy...'

       "We are about to hear a great deal of explanatory logic, a lot of reasoned discourses and many a learned disquisition about terrorism. And soon enough the explanations will become rationalizations. We will be lectured on the origins and history of terrorism not in the way one would study a disease that needs to be eradicated, but in a way we would study a social phenomenon that deserves equal time in our pluralistic, postmodern, oh-so-tolerant multicultic time. First we'll be asked to understand the terrorist mentality, then to enter into it."

       "Some neutral Peter Jennings type...in the name of an inauthentic objectivity, [will make clear that] we are to remain neutral between good and evil, civilization and barbarism. In the 1930s, the experts explained how German feelings about the injustices of the Versailles Treaty were understandably reflected in Herr Hitler's demands for redress and the occasional pogrom. His rantings would become perfectly understandable once we grasped the historical context that produced them."

       "In the 1920s, the New York Times Walter Duranty performed a similar function in his coverage of the Soviet Union, minimizing the occasional liquidation of millions as understandable within the context of a vast social experiment. Even before the shockwaves had subsided from the attacks on the World trade Center and the Pentagon, we were being asked to understand what prompted these atrocities - not because anyone approved of them, you understand, but only to broaden our education and human sympathies."

       "Soon enough we will be asked to understand terrorism not as pathology but philosophy. The politics of emotion must appear to be an intellectual structure. It is not clear who will take the lead in educating us in this perversion of scholarship, which soon enough becomes a suicidal tolerance of evil. I'd put my money on National Public Radio."

       "Lest you think I'm being hasty, the proceedings of the just-concluded international conference at Durban, South Africa, if anybody can still remember, provided a handy-dandy list of just such scapegoats. The supposed conference against racism featured the greatest outburst of racist sentiment since the Nuremberg Rallies. Following its kind of logical lunacy, it can be shown that everyone is responsible for terrorism in the world except the terrorists."

       "It is still early in this game. The bodies have yet to be buried, or even all found. But after a remarkably short interval, the kind of intellectuals whose function it is to obscure the obvious will be asking us to understand the terrorists, their anguish, their sense of isolation, their pent-up frustrations, the experiences that shaped them, the historical context that produced them...The one thing all these great explainers will not explain, the one thing they themselves don't seem to understand, is that the world of the terrorists needs to be destroyed before it destroys ours."

       Balint Vazsonyi, the author of 'America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning?' spent the late-1960s at the University of Indiana as did I at the University of Michigan. We both experienced, first hand, how the young adult Boomers campaigned to undermine the war effort in Vietnam. Vazsonyi writes ('Preparing the next Vietnam,' Wash. Times, 9/30/01) "If you want to see the current state of the anti-American protest movement, log on to http://www.9-11peace.org/petition.php3. That is how the Vietnam War might have begun, had the Internet existed at the time."

       "I first received news of the campaign from Germany, where a producer of the Second German Television Network (ZDF) is leading the charge. It is in the form of a petition to the U.S. government to cease and desist from taking action, and is already posted in six languages, Arabic is not one of them. There are half-million participants - many of the usual suspects with the communist staples 'social justice' and 'economic justice' on their banners...In 1949, the Soviet Union launched use of the word 'peace' to mean 'Down with America.' The present campaign is no exception."

       In an Internet conversation with one of the 'protesters,' Vazsonyi relates that he was quite certain [that the] goal was to duplicate the anti-war movement of the 1960s. Another, Ms. Martin in Geneva, also assured Vazsonyi that "...the youth of the world stood ready, and getting readier every minute. 'We are discussing a number of steps,' she said. She wouldn't tell me who was meant by 'we.'"

       We know, however, who are the 'we.' According to Vazsonyi, "At last count, 110 American colleges and universities had responded with action. (Perhaps we could double financial aid to their students as they begin to demonstrate against America.) 'It's the progressive force around the world,' Mr Pariser explained. Progressive? 'Well, its kind of the Left,' he obliged again with his candor. Because a substantial group in the U.S. House of Representatives calls itself the 'Progressive Caucus,' we close our eyes to the fact that 'progressive' is code for those who subscribe to the agenda of the Socialist International. Having recently detached themselves from the socialist Web Site, members of the House Caucus may find it timely to rethink its designation and agenda."

       "The president has issued a call to governments of the world: Stand up and be counted. Are you with us, or with our enemies? A similar question may be asked of those who live here. Relatively few take an open position against America. But oh-so-many would deliver lengthy regurgitations about the need to redistribute wealth, CIA breaches of etiquette, global warming. As our government prepares to deal with the external threat to this country, we must resolve to address the anti-American sentiments that permeate most of our educational institutions. They are neither the product of academic freedom, nor an exercise in First Amendment rights. They are the result of our failure to explain the facts of life to our young in the 1960s. Let us not fail this time."

       Indeed, it is time that we must start recognizing that America has 'enemies within.' They have been described in some detail in terms of their hate-America stance in the war against Jihadistan. Had we been awake over the past ten years, we would have been aware of their existence and their agenda for taking American civilization down the Franco-German path of socialist ruin. All we had to do was read our nation's own leading national newspapers to know this. They weren't secretive about this. They stated their agenda and arrogantly bragged of its implementation by the Clinton administration and during Al Gore's presidential campaign to continue it.

       For example, Al Gore's mentor at Harvard, a leftist who handpicked Gore for his seminar class, 'Problems of Post-Industrial Society,' began with readings in Marx and his theory of alienation and ended with Freud's sex-based psychology (Wash. Post, 'A Whole New World: At Harvard, Experimentation and Discovery,' pp.A26, 12/26/99). He ended one lecture with the challenge, "Marx plus Freud equals Truth." This, of course, is 'cultural Marxism' using the tool of Critical Theory right out of the doctrine of the Frankfurt School revolutionaries. Those intellectuals captivated the imagination of our nation's young elites who carried out the counter-culture revolution on our campuses during their coming-of-age-years in the mid-1960s.

       The leftist mentioned above was Martin Peretz, now the publisher of The New Republic and a personal friend and advisor to Gore during the year-2000 presidential campaign. In the July/August 2000 issue of Brill's Content ('Marty's Moment,' pp. 71) we are informed that "If Gore is successful in his bid for the White House, Washington will once again be home to a media insider with unparalleled access to the president. Not surprisingly, people are already buzzing about what might happen to Peretz...should Gore win...Peretz, a man who loves rubbing elbows with powerful and famous people, would be content to be an unofficial Gore advisor." Of course, left unsaid in this piece is the 'old' history - given above in the Washington Post article - that Peretz was the 'cultural Marxist' professor at Harvard who indoctrinated Gore in the teachings of the Frankfurt School. Intellectuals from that school introduced America's young to the concept of a revolution that could not be stopped, even by the use of force. It would be a revolution based on combining the teachings of Mark and Freud to insert a 'cultural Marxism' into American civilization. The purpose?  To destroy it from within. And then?  To build a utopia of their own enlightened imagination. A socialist utopia in America.

       Ben Stein remembers those days at Yale (Washingtonian Magazine, 'Crazy Days at Yale with Hillary and Bill,' pp.51, 1996). "...we could make the law whatever we wanted it to be...Charles Reich taught constitutional law and wrote...'The Greening of America'...The law students took over the classrooms...The focus was on Yale Law as revolutionary playpen and safe house...we had also taken over the moral and intellectual control of the school from the once-mighty faculty... This, comrades, was no small thing...[We were taught by] Fred 'Fred the Red' Rodell...Thomas 'Tommy the Commie' Emerson...They taught that law was not created by judges following precedent...or neutral principles of general application...Rather, law was made by judges making up their minds about what a decision should be and then rationalizing their decision by picking and choosing among a variety of cases, some of which would support almost any decision...If you knew the beauty of Legal Realism and...Critical Legal Studies, which hold that law is basically what judges...say it is,...you would understand the Clintons' attitude toward law and precedent...It's not the Clintons fault. It's our generation."

       Hillary Rodham Clinton is a leading icon, who represents the 'enemies within.' According to Michael Barone ('Taking her seriously,' U.S. News & World Report, 7/12/99) "Hillary Rodham Clinton found her role [at Wellesley and at Yale law]: as an elite decision maker, operating through large institutions, trying to impose policies unlikely to win support on their own, and in the process disregarding rules and laws that bind everyone else. Grass-roots protest was not her choice. Saul Alinsky, the neighborhood protest organizer and subject of Rodham's senior thesis, offered her a job, but she turned it down to go to Yale law school."

       "'Organizing the poor community actions to improve their own lives may have, in certain circumstances, short-term benefits for the poor but would never solve their major problems,' she wrote in her thesis. 'You need much more than that. You need leadership, programs, constitutional doctrines.' The place to find those was at Yale Law School, where Rodham found her constitutional doctrine (children's rights), programs (legal services), and political leader (Bill Clinton)."

       "Her advocacy of children's rights was cast mostly in the stilted language of law reviews, where ordinary citizens were unlikely to notice what most would consider absurd arguments. Rodham argued that teenagers should be represented by lawyers to sue parents over the right to have or abstain from having cosmetic surgery; argued that self-appointed children's advocates should be able to sue the nuclear power industry or the manufacturers of junk food...for a long time she believed that family life would be improved by thousands of freelance lawsuits brought under no clear rules."

       "At different points in her career, she had a chance to put her ideas into practice. In 1978 Jimmy Carter appointed her chairman of the Legal Services Corp. The lawyers running the LSC disdained their assigned task of providing poor people with free lawyers in routine cases and set out to make public policy through class-action lawsuits - an attempt to avoid the democratic process. When Rodham was chairman, Legal Services affiliates brought lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire heroin users and to require racial quotas in school suspensions in Newburgh, N.Y. The LSC broke its own rules by organizing campaigns against a state referendum and against Ronald Reagan."

       "There is an obvious resemblance between this heavily lawyered regime and the one she sought to impose through her health care plan a dozen years later, or the centralized day care she plugged in her book, It Takes a Village. There is a resemblance as well to her penchant for cutting corners and disobeying rules in the White House. It was while her husband was the Democratic nominee for attorney general of Arkansas, with no opposition, that Rodham allowed a leading Arkansas businessman and his broker to guide her to, if not allocate to her, $100,000 of commodity trading profits. In 1980, when her husband was under attack for raising license-plate fees, it turned out Rodham had not bothered to pay hers in 1977 and 1978. It is a straight line from there to the illegally secret health care task force meetings and the Rose Law Firm billing records, out of sight for months and then found in the White House family quarters. The pattern is clear: rule making for others, rule breaking for herself."

       "Another approach comes from Yale law contemporary Richard Epstein, now at the University of Chicago. In his book Simple Rules, he argues that a complex society works not through centralization and complex rules but through decentralization and simple rules. Recent progress has followed his approach, not hers. Does a decentralized nation need a centralized leader, one eager to issue complex rules for others but unwilling to obey simple rules herself?"

In 1996, I wrote and published a book, 'The New Totalitarians.' The New Totalitarians are personified by their icons, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and others who represent eight million-or-so power elites of the Boomer generation. This generation still numbers over 75 million people. They will have an impact on America for at least two more decades. My new Eternal Vigilance journal takes a 'generational' and historical approach to the subject and relates it to the events that we see unfolding as we read our daily newspapers and watch our television news reports.

Modern liberal New Yorkers elected Hillary Rodham Clinton to the Senate in a landslide vote in the year 2000 election. Rest assured, the Clinton influence will be with us well into the future. They are not going away. This influence represents America's 'enemies within,' as described in detail in this essay.

There is much recent evidence to support this description. For starters, Al Gore fomented a needless constitutional crisis by contesting the ballots in Florida, the deciding state in the Electoral College vote in the year 2000 presidential election. We should not be surprised that he and his 'New Totalitarians' would grasp any fine thread to remain in power -- their sole objective has been and is still absolute power over us in every dimension of our lives.

In the wake of the New Age counter-culture revolutionaries' maneuver to 'steal' the Presidency, they have marshaled their media and political forces to 'delegitimize' our new president -- the same people who 'stuck their finger in our eye' throughout the Clinton presidency. From the Gennifer Flowers affair, to the endless White House scandals, to the impeachment, to the use of military force abroad to mask domestic problems at home -- we have experienced the Clinton 'legacy.'

We are still experiencing this 'legacy.' During President Bush's powerful and uniting speech to the joint session of Congress the evening of 20 September, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton shunned patriotism for petulance. "At a time when even the most partisan of her Democratic colleagues stood united with the president, she grimaced. She sighed. She rolled her eyes. She fidgeted like a 5-year-old at an opera. And when she mustered enough energy to clap, she acted as if there were razor blades strapped to her palms. She at times seemed bored and uninterested, clapping perfunctorily, and at other times she was talking during the speech."  It has been noted that she "looked like she was sucking on a lemon."

Michelle Malkin ('Frown of a Senator in crisis,' Wash. Times, 9/27/01) observes that "adversity magnifies deep character flaws. Hillary Clinton's resentful visage and insouciant behavior during the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attack on America reveal that - like her husband - she suffers from a fatal inability to put love of country above love of self." Before the terrorist attack on America, she had been gearing up a drive toward a future run for the presidency. That all changed when the Twin Towers came crashing down on 9-11. "'I think we were all victimized by this,' Mrs. Clinton said. An expression of sympathy for others - or a self-pitying lament? The cold, corrosive look in Hillary Clinton's eyes speaks for itself."

The Clinton 'legacy' would have been assured had Al Gore won the battle for the White House. But even if Bill and Hillary's 'legacy' is partially derailed by a Bush presidency, we have not seen the last of these power elites of the Boomer generation -- potentially the most dangerous generation in America's history. Their numbers and influence will be with us for the next several decades. We have yet to see the destruction in store for us over this period -- unless they can be neutralized. They are, indeed, America's 'enemies within.'

       Indeed, the 'enemies within' have been revealed - by their own arrogance and their supporters in the nation's mass media, its intelligentsia, and its political elite. They were essentially telling us, in the words of the transplanted British communist, Christopher Hitchens who is a favorite of his contemporaries, 'Get over it. The culture war is over. We won.'" Indeed, the 'enemies within' will do everything in their power to take advantage of the Islamic terrorist attack on America to seal our fate, to finish their agenda, to destroy American civilization.



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