Dealing with the Islamic fifth column.

Deciding what to do about people in your midst who are intent on destroying your way of life and either killing or subjugating you is an important question to which we will return in this blog in the future.

For now, here is an approach advocated by someone who understands what it is to fight for what we are and what we have:

The key question is what our democracy “ought” to do with the fifth columnist in our midst. The answer is that they must be identified, prosecuted under conspiracy and other applicable criminal statutes, and they must be neutralized in federal prisons for a very long time. They should not merely be deported, only to show up here plying their terrorist trade yet again. Unlike the Australians who make suggestions, we must be ruthless about eliminating these people.

As to those not yet identified as fifth columnists, they must be watched (yes, with domestic wiretaps, and every other tool available to us), and when they cross the line put away until they pose no further danger to us. Undercover agents in mosques, surveillance, subpoenas, search warrants, grand jury investigations, use of the IRS—whatever it takes. Once we defeat the terrorists, things will get back to normal—as they did after the Civil War, WWI, and WW II. (Ask Lincoln, Wilson, and FDR how they would handle today’s problem).

If accomplishing this requires focusing on every Muslim in the United States (“profiling” is the pejorative term of art used by the left), so be it—and no apologies, thank you. As has oft been said, while most Muslims are not terrorists, most terrorists have been Muslims.

But the “ought” is not the “is.”

The “is,” I fear, is quite different. Those of us who understand today’s threat face a terrible confluence of factors:—the ideologically corrupt mainstream media, the ascendancy and resources of the hate-America crowd, the softness of many politicians, the short attention span of most Americans, the shallowness of the values, the lack of education, the aversion to the sight of blood, the absence of an historical sense, the mostly partisan left-democrats There is abroad in the land an anti-intellectual, anti-patriotic, anti-democratic, anti-security, and, yes, anti-freedom cancer that seems to metastasize every day.

Henry Mark Holzer, quoted in "Symposium: Banning Sharia?" By Jamie Glazov, FrontPageMagazine.com, 2/10/06 (emphasis added) <--- All Things Beautiful.