By now we all know about the Liberal Leftist hate-America crowd.  They are just about in every place that wields some kind of influence over public opinion.  American univer- sities are havens for vile anti-Americanism.  Our newspapers and other media are filled with "journalists" who will promote the obvious fabrications of America's enemies as a perspective on the same level as and being a moral equivalent to American understand- ing of events and their causes, all the while emphasizing the negative and minimizing the positive aspects of America.

Among city-council members, state legislators, Congresspersons and other American leaders, there are those who spew forth the notion that America as it is, and what it really was, is an evil imposed on this world.  When America went to war against the ter- rorists, we went to war with groups who, by and large, agree with the contemptible rhet- oric coming from disloyal Americans in our universities, in our news media, and even among our political and cultural leaders.  Is it any wonder why they, all of them, opposed the war against the evil regime in Iraq and the war on terrorism?

Instead of waging war in self-defense, the America-haters on the political Left wanted the United States of America to view as merely rhetoric the declaration of war made on America and as merely a police matter the attacks on America, whether the bombing of American embassies overseas and murder of embassy personnel, the attack on the U.S.S. Cole, or the slaughter of three thousand Americans in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  According to the Leftist America-haters, there were no enemies of America, just criminals and law breakers who could be singled out for their specific acts, but not for their rhetoric.  If that were the case, the America-haters would be safe behind their First Amendment rights, and they could call themselves "patriots" and their dissent an act of "patriotism."

Michael Medved reported in the National Review Online about how even comic book writers are now standing with the terrorists who wish America's demise.  In an April 4, 2003, article entitled "Captain America, Traitor?" Mr. Medved pointed out that even the once venerable Marvel comic book hero Captain America has turned on America and the American people. The "new" Captain America voices only apologies for Ameri- ca's past foreign policy, and he refuses to rebut even the most vile anti-Americanism coming from terrorists.  The adherents of the political Left are doing what they claimed the dreaded tobacco industry has done--targeting our children.

Like good soldiers, the political Left infiltrated every important aspect of the life of their enemy.  America cannot be breached from the outside, so the Left chose the insidious placing of their spokespeople throughout our media, in our schools, in entertainment, and now even in comic books.  Whether the Left utilizes useful idiots or its rank-and-file members, the result is the same--American Leftists and their fellow travelers, in broken record mode, spewing anti-American vile. 

This is no longer just war overseas.  It is not just a matter of homeland security.  It is a war for the hearts and minds of Americans. 

The good news is, as we all know, the political Left's motives were exposed early.  Amer- ican polls show that nearly 8 out of 10 Americans are supportive of America's war effort.

That does not necessarily mean that 80% of Americans are unaffected by the subtleties of the Left's message and cannot be swayed further in that direction.  The Left wants us to know that the world, by and large, hates us.  They claim that it is our fault.  We are told it is not the American people that are hated, but rather it is our foreign policy.  All we need to do is change our foreign policy to the wishes of the "world street" and they will like us. 

In other words, all we need to do is become less American, less nationalistic, and more internationalistic in our ways, and we won't be hated so much.  If we could only abandon our principals and turn our backs on traditional friends in favor of the folks who now hate us, all would be better. 

All we need to do is not be who we are.

The political Left knows that it is just a matter of time before Americans begin to see that the rhetoric coming from America's enemies abroad is the same rhetoric coming from America's internal enemy, the Ameica-hating Left in our midst.  While the useful idiots may not know what horrors they are fomenting in their service to the Left's lead- ers, it really doesn't matter, since the effect is the same.

What the political Left does not want anyone to know is that the millions of America- haters abroad were not born that way.  They had to be taught  It is only a handful of people who control the media or who have power in those foreign lands with despotic and oligarchical regimes.  Public opinion is shaped abroad, and is not based on fact.  Trying to win the hearts and minds of the populations of other countries is an uphill battle when truth is looked upon by the elites of those countries with contempt.  Our target should be focused on the elites, not mass populations.  Once the "directors" in a foreign country are turned, the population as a whole will follow.

While every true American will agree that the freedoms bestowed on all Americans must be upheld, cherished and defended, it must be equally agreed to that certain acts are not an exercise of the freedom of speech or any other guarantee endowed on all Americans.  Certain acts, certain behaviors, must be called what they are, and in many cases the political Left's claim of acting and speaking in the best interest of American tradition is nothing more than a performance in subversion and sedition.

Paul Walfield is a freelance writer and member of the State Bar of California, with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and post-graduate study in behavioral and analytical psychology. He resided for a number of years in the small town of Houlton, Maine, and is now a California attorney. His articles appear in numerous periodicals and on numerous websites. He has been the featured guest on KTSA News Talk Radio.  CONTACT INFORMATION:  Email:   paul.walfield@cox.net

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