The Fifth Column
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it
has destroyed itself within – Will Durant
What is meant by the Fifth Column?
Definitions:
1: a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies.[1]
2: a clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation’s solidarity by any means at their disposal[2]
The term is conventionally credited to Emilio Mola Vidal, a Nationalist general during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). As four of his army columns moved on Madrid, the general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his “fifth column,” intent on undermining the loyalist government from within.
A cardinal technique of the Fifth Column is the infiltration of sympathizers into the entire fabric of the nation under attack and, particularly, into positions of policy decision, national defence and media. From such key posts, fifth-column activists exploit the fears of a people by spreading rumours and misinformation, as well as by employing the more standard techniques of espionage and sabotage.
Fifth Column is an apt description of the various forces at work within Western societies, particularly English-speaking countries.
Let’s first examine the external enemies of the West, then we will look at how the Fifth Column aids and abets these enemies.
It has recently become clear China is a clear and present danger to the West. While the global warming scare has seen Western nations scurry down the path of economic destruction in ”decarbonising” their economies, China ignores the alarmism while expanding economically, politically and militarily.
It is only a matter of time before China invades Taiwan. It remains to be seen whether the United States comes to Taiwan’s aid. If it does the ensuing war will be fought on China’s terms and in their backyard. It is a war the US will probably lose, with far-reaching consequences for the West.
General Secretary Xi has advocated for a new global governance concept that would institutionalize China’s pre-eminence. He has echoed Mao Zedong’s call for China to “stand tall in the forest of nations,” and desires “nothing less than pre-eminent status within the global order.”[3]
At the CCP’s 19th National Congress in October 2017, General Secretary Xi vowed national rejuvenation would see China become “a global leader in terms of comprehensive national power and international influence.”
Since General Secretary Xi took power, the CCP has increasingly promoted the “community of common human destiny,” a concept for a new international community influenced by historical Chinese traditions and underpinned by an organizing vision that offers to unite the whole world, despite its differences, under the CCP’s harmonizing influence.
It is through the “community of common human destiny” that the CCP will finally secure what General Secretary Xi has called “the ultimate demise of capitalism and the ultimate victory of socialism,” and he has ordered CCP cadres to be faithful and to be prepared to make sacrifices to achieve this goal.[4]
“If we don’t act now, ultimately, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) will erode our freedoms and subvert the rules-based order free societies have built. If we bend the knee now, our children’s children may be at the mercy of the CCP, whose actions are the primary challenge to the free world. The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.” – US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo
Islam will continue its Al-Hijra policy of “settlement” in Western countries. The meaning of Al-Hijra is “to immigrate.” The Hijra was enshrined by Muhammad from the outset within Islam as the “Doctrine of Immigration,” or the “peaceful means of extending the Islamic political state garbed in religious terminology.”
The primary goal of the Hijra is the establishment of an Islamic state. This is through dawa. Dawa means “to call.” In Islamic terms, it means a call to Islam. The dawa is to spread the message of Islam as a softening-up process in preparation for jihad. The Hijra is considered, by Islamic scholars and leaders, to be the vanguard, a prelude to jihad for the establishment of an Islamic state.
The Hijra is a slow, stealthy process, gradually accustoming the host society to Muslim ways and Muslim demands.
Muslims are encouraged to infiltrate the social, political, legal and academic institutes of their host countries. More and more Muslims are being elected to parliaments in the West.
A key document of the Muslim Brotherhood, The Explanatory Memorandum, (appendix 2) discovered in a raid by the FBI details the second arm of Islam’s invasion of the West.
Their aims of the Muslim Brotherhood are exposed in the document’s revealing words:
The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and “sabotaging” its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.
By mid-century, France will become Muslim-controlled if not Muslim majority. France has hundreds of “no-go” areas where police and authorities do not venture. The areas are controlled by Muslim gangs and sharia law is the norm. Germany and Belgium are also in danger of becoming Muslim countries.
Climate change alarmism: a key weapon of the Fifth Column
“Delusions, carefully implanted, are difficult to correct.”
― Joost A.M. Meerloo.[5]
Described by some as the greatest scientific fraud in history, climate change (or global warming as it was originally called until the planet refused to warm over the past twenty years) is the brainchild of Canadian Maurice Strong.
Maurice Strong was born in 1929 in Canada into a family with a strong socialist leaning. His cousin Anna Loise was a Marxist and member of the Comintern who spent two years in China with Mao and Chou En-Lai at the height of the Cultural Revolution. Her burial in China in 1970 was supervised personally by Cou En-Lai. This family connection is partly why Strong enjoyed such a close relationship with the current Chinese regime until his death in 2015.
After becoming being embroiled in Saddam Hussein’s ‘oil for food’ scandal, he scurried to an apartment he owned in Beijing. While living there it was reported he advised the Chinese regime on climate change policies.
Maurice Strong’s lifetime goal was to transform the UN into a world government ruled by unelected elites.
He founded the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). He argued that rich Western countries had benefited by exploiting the earth’s natural resources. Therefore, he argued, the Western countries must fund the poorer countries so their economies can catch up with America. President Obama supported this UN idea.
Under Strong’s leadership, the 1972 United Nations Stockholm Conference put the environment on the international agenda. Strong commissioned the report by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos, “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet,” to help promote the Principles of the Stockholm Declaration.[6]
In 1978, Professor Bert Bolin of Sweden and his tiny band of meteorologists proposed the rise in atmospheric CO2 causes a rise in temperature, and human CO2 emissions may be bad for mankind.[7]
In October 1985, UNEP and the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sponsored the first international conference on climate change in Villach, Austria. Bolin presented his theory with an urgent call to action. Strong made Bolin’s climate theory a key part of UNEP and thereafter protected the theory from critique by the scientific community.
In 1988, UNEP and WMO formed the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The U.S. government promoted and funded the IPCC.
The IPCC appointed Bolin to be its first chairman and his supporter, John Houghton, to lead “Working Group 1” that would produce IPCC’s climate reports.
In 1990, IPCC’s First Assessment Report made global headlines. It claimed human CO2 caused global warming and warned the world must reduce its CO2 emissions by 60 per cent immediately to save the planet.
Environmentalists quickly adopted the IPCC climate claims because they supported their environmental agenda.
In 1988, James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), testified before a Senate committee chaired by Senator Tim Wirth. Senator Al Gore was on the committee. Hansen predicted the world was headed for a global warming disaster.
The media produced headlines across America and cover stories in Newsweek and Time. Senator Al Gore carried the climate change agenda in America.
In June 1992, Strong, Secretary General of the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, chaired the conference in Rio de Janeiro, the “Earth Summit.”
US President Bush and 107 other world leaders attended. Some 20,000 climate activists and green lobby members attended. All expenses were paid by UN and government funds.
Strong’s Summit speech declared,
“A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns. We may get to the point, where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse. Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”[8]
But what was Strong’s real motive? Was he really passionate about the environment? Did he sincerely think the planet’s climate was imperiled? Or was “environmental security” merely a convenient excuse for trying to impose UN domination?
John Izzard, writing at the Australian website Quadrant, forcefully argues that it was the latter. Strong, as Izzard recounts, “was the driving force behind the idea of world governance by the United Nations,” one of his ideas being “a world tax on monetary transactions of 0.5% which would have given the UN an annual income of $1.5 trillion.” When he wasn’t able to push this idea through because of the veto power of the Security Council, Strong actually tried to get the Security Council eliminated. According to Izzard, it was only after that effort failed that Strong conceived of “the idea that global warming might just be the device to get his World Governance proposal up and running.” [9]
He’s the reason that “climate change” is now so heavily embedded within our system of global governance that it is now almost literally impossible for any politician or anyone else whose career depends on the state to admit that’s it not a problem and to argue that there are more important issues in the world.
Gore played to the greatest emotional lever of all: visceral fear. Fear for the future causes the majority of people to lose their sense of direction and the ability to think rationally. There is something deep within the human psyche that causes people to band together and abandon good sense when in the grip of fear. Fear takes control of our innate and automatic self-preserving behaviour patterns, which ensure our survival.
Cascading fear is a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation that triggers a self-perpetuating chain reaction: the more attention a danger gets, the more worried people become, leading to more news coverage and greater alarm.
No better example is the cascading fear around the Covid pandemic. Political leaders have discovered that regardless of how harsh their responses to the pandemic, most people will gratefully accept their draconian responses with a ‘he saved us” attitude. The popularity of such leaders has soared, easily winning them elections.
Now children, believing the world will end in their lifetimes, are increasingly depressed about their future, thanks to the constant barrage of global warming propaganda that they receive at school.
Added to children’s fear and anxiety is the scourge of Critical Race Theory which teaches children to divide into racial and gender tribes and to hate their countries.
American children are taught their country, founded on slavery, is irredeemably racist.
Similarly in Australia, children are taught their country is based on colonialism where the original Aboriginals were “dispossessed” and “slaughtered”.
But most hatred is directed at white people, particularly white Christian males.
The enemy knows that nearly all the great achievements of Western civilization were created by white men (Chapter 2) and it is mostly conservative white males that stand in their way of imposing their view of utopia on the Western world and hence they must be “cancelled”, denigrated and their standing and reputations destroyed.
This is not to downplay the magnificent efforts in recent times of the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell in the US and Jacinta Price, Warren Mundine and Josephine Cashman in Australia. These great defenders of Western civilization are called “traitors” by enemy forces.
The various anti-Western groups have one thing in common: the destruction of the moral fabric of their countries; by promoting division through the alien philosophy of Critical Race Theory; by teaching hatred of their country; by attacks on white people through labelling them “racists” or “white supremacists”; by destroying economies with lunatic attempts to reach “net-zero” CO2 emissions.
This is a softening-up process to allow the introduction of their agendas, whether it be the installation of a socialist utopia or an Islamic theocracy governed by sharia law or a world government ruled by unelected elites, or opening the door to economic domination by China.
Many of the groups are quite open about their aims and activities: Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists openly advocate the overthrow of capitalism and white society.
Point two of The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM)’s 10 point plan declares “We will destroy the state, police, military, corporations, and all those who run the American plantation”.[10]
Western civilization’s Fifth Column had its origins in the writings of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School in Germany in the 1930s.
The Fifth Column has been gaining strength ever since, and its membership now numbers in the millions, although many would not admit or even recognise their membership, but if their activities undermine the values of Western society, then they are supporting one of the enemies of the West, radical Islam or the Chineses Communist Party, or both, and therefore part of the Fifth Column, whether they admit it or not.
The Western civilisation values of free speech, independent thought, the rule of law, property rights, parliamentary democracy and capitalism are under attack as never before in history. Even the scientific method, the tool of so much advancement over the past 200 years, has been trashed by climate alarmists and Covid alarmists.
Almost all of the establishment, including progressive elites, mainstream media, left-wing political parties, government institutions, corporate bosses, white wokesters, Hollywood celebrities, and Marxist groups, line up on the side of anti-Western values. They have connived in this attack on their civilisation while exhibiting no commitment at all to the key values of an open liberal democratic society, especially the values of free speech and due process. Hence they are all part of the Fifth Column.
Most of the so-called elites, including Prince Charles, much of the political class, mainstream media, the Big Tech oligarchs, academia and Hollywood have embraced cultural Marxism or the so-called climate emergency, taking a left-wing, visceral approach to problems confronting Western society. Even large corporations have succumbed, introducing Critical Race Theory and “diversity” training into their company training programs.
Prince Charles would probably not see himself as belonging to the Fifth Column, but rather as someone who genuinely cares about the future of the planet. But by promoting global warming alarmism, he is guilty of assisting the demise of his country’s economy while aiding and abetting the growth and power of the Chinese Communist Party. Under definition 1 of the Fifth Column above, Prince Charles, in my opinion, is clearly a member of the Fifth Column.
I have divided Western populations into three broad demographics. On the far left you have the hard-core Marxists, anarchists and the university “educated” woke leftists, as well as the enforcers: the black-clad members of Antifa (definition 2).
The hard-core left members of the Fifth Column are masters of propaganda. They conceal their aims in high-minded goals such as saving the planet from climate change or supporting the Black Lives Matter movement to attract to their cause well-meaning emotionally-driven people (“useful idiots” in Lenin’s terminology).
Most of the rest of the Fifth Column in Western countries are what I call dupes. A dupe is defined as a person who is easily deceived. Weak and vulnerable persons fit into this category. Dupes are often ruled by emotion rather than logic. They have been brainwashed or succumbed to the scaremongering tactics of the global warming alarmists and joined the ranks of the Fifth Column.
Because they are ruled by emotion, dupes tend to adopt a posture of moral superiority, looking down with disdain on people not of their faith. These are some of the sewer rats on Twitter.
At the other end of the spectrum, we have the conservatives, in which category I place myself. A definition of conservative is useful. Dictionaries variously define the noun “conservative” as “embracing traditional values” or “averse to change”. I certainly embrace the traditional values of Western civilization such as free speech, parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, property rights, the free market and holding the family unit as the cornerstone of society.
Apart from those fundamental values, conservatives are not averse to change. In fact, we welcome change that improves our way of life while preserving our traditional values and institutions.
In between the Fifth Column and the conservatives, we have a significant demographic who have little interest in politics and who are gradually losing confidence in Western civilization. They are more interested in paying off a mortgage, raising a family and going to the beach or a barbecue. Sadly the woke mainstream media are slowly indoctrinating them into believing they are irredeemable racists (if they are white), and global warming will soon destroy their planet and they too are drifting towards the Fifth Column.
Fifth Column activity has enabled uncontrolled mass migration into many Western nations. By mid-century, France will become Muslim-controlled if not Muslim majority. France has hundreds of “no-go” areas where police and authorities do not venture. The areas are controlled by Muslim gangs and sharia law is the norm. Germany and Belgium are also in danger of becoming Muslim countries.
But in countries such as the United States, Britain and Australia I believe the greatest threat is from the “enemy within” (the Fifth Column).
For a century the American mind, in particular, has been subjected to a barrage of propaganda and disinformation, firstly from the Soviet onslaught against the West, then from the Marxism of the Frankfurt School, resulting in a swing to the left in universities. Marxist professors in the universities were responsible for graduates in Marxist thought becoming lawyers, judges, journalists and corporate leaders.
Children, believing the world will end in their lifetimes, are increasingly depressed about their future, thanks to the constant barrage of global warming propaganda they receive at school.
Added to children’s fear and anxiety is the scourge of Critical Race Theory, which teaches children to divide into racial and gender tribes and to hate their countries.
American children are taught their country, founded on slavery, is irredeemably racist.
Similarly, in Australia, children are taught their country is based on colonialism where the original Aboriginals were “dispossessed” and “slaughtered”.
But most hatred is directed at white people, particularly white Christian males.
The enemy knows that nearly all the great achievements of Western civilization were created by white men (Chapter 2), and it is mostly conservative white males that stand in their way of imposing their view of utopia on the Western world. Hence, white males must be “cancelled”, denigrated and their standing and reputations destroyed.
This is not to downplay the magnificent efforts in recent times of the likes of Candace Owens and Thomas Sowell in the US and Jacinta Price, Warren Mundine and Josephine Cashman in Australia. These great defenders of Western civilization are called “traitors” by enemy forces.
Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter is, without a doubt, a Marxist organisation. Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi. In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, “Myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.”[11]
According to orthodox Marxist theory, the overthrow of capitalism by a socialist revolution in contemporary society is inevitable. Socialism is a precursor to communism, although Marx used the terms socialism and communism interchangeably.
The overarching BLM organization, according to its website, blacklivesmatter.com, is Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc. Their website states among its objectives:
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes.
The mission to “eradicate white supremacy” is a very revealing statement. As Chapter 2 shows, all the comforts, benefits, wealth, lifestyles and settled customs enjoyed by people in advanced economies in what we call Western civilisation were created almost exclusively by white men.
White people, in particular, white men, founded, created, nurtured and defended Western civilisation. The enemies know the strongest defenders of Western civilization are white conservative men. Hence, Fifth Column operatives must relentlessly attack their reputations and standing in the community.
The aim to “eradicate white supremacy” is code for “destroy the institutions of Western civilization by first destroying the standing and influence of white men”.
The rest of the About page on the website is couched in motherhood statements, but statements from its founders and associated organizations paint a clearer picture of its further aims.
Co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of BLM, Professor Melina Abdullah, in an interview, makes clear one of the aims of BLM:[12]
‘Defund’ was our way of getting away with saying we’re abolitionists,” she explains. “Policing, and jails, and prisons, they’re not reformable. They’re irredeemable systems. Policing, literally — and this is not disputable — the American system of policing literally evolved out of slave catching. When we think about what chattel slavery is and why it had to be abolished, and when we think about how ridiculous it would’ve been to say ‘let’s reform chattel slavery’ that’s the same ridiculousness with which we have to meet people who say “lets reform policing.’”
Daily Mail UK reporter, Guy Adams, revealed in a piece in the June 20, 2020 issue of the Daily Mail Australia, the aims of BLM UK:
On paper, Black Lives Matter UK is the semi-official British offshoot of its American counterpart. It has been formally ‘verified’ as such by Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other sites that carry its content — and is therefore highly influential as well as suddenly rich.
Indeed, while most donors and supporters may assume Black Lives Matter UK exists to lobby against racism, the group’s leaders, who remain largely anonymous, can use its financial muscle to pursue a smorgasbord of far-Left aims.
Some are extreme and many appear to have nothing to do with advancing racial equality.
On the group’s GoFundMe page, a statement outlining the Black Lives Matter UK policy agenda was uploaded in June 2020. It explains that the organisation intends to be ‘guided by a commitment to dismantle imperialism, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and the state structures that disproportionately harm black people in Britain and around the world’.
Elsewhere on its GoFundMe page, Black Lives Matter UK declares that it wishes to spend cash it has raised on ‘developing and delivering what it calls ‘strategies for the abolition of the police’.[13]
Eradicating white supremacy, dismantling imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy and state structures are straight out of the Marxist playbooks of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School.
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is a non-profit organisation, but it is not tax-exempt. To avoid paying income tax, it partnered up with a tax-exempt charity, Thousand Currents, to receive donations to BLM, which then parcels it out to the foundation. The system, known as fiscal sponsorship is typically between two organisations that share a similar mission statement – and that’s where Thousand Currents comes in.
Interestingly, sitting on the board of Thousand Currents (at least until January 2020) is convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg. Rosenberg is eminently qualified to mentor her BLM associates, having started out as a member of the 1960s revolutionary group Weather Underground, before graduating to even more violent forms of terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Weather Underground (also known as Weatherman or the Weathermen) was a radical-left violent extremist group active from the late 1960s through the mid-1970s. What became known as the Weather Underground began in 1969 as “Weatherman,” a dominant faction within Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a left-wing-turned-revolutionary Communist organization that split apart shortly after the founding of Weatherman.
In separate books detailing the history of the Weathermen, professional historian Arthur Eckstein and Vanity Fair journalist Bryan Burrough used law enforcement documents and personal recollections of numerous former Weathermen leaders to demonstrate that through at least May 1970, the organization aggressively promoted efforts to kill police officers and military personnel as part of its goal of sparking the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.[14]
From the late 1970s into the mid-1980s, Rosenberg was active in the far-left revolutionary terrorist group, May 19th Communist Organization (“M19CO”) which, according to a contemporaneous FBI report, “openly advocate[d] the overthrow of the U.S. Government through armed struggle and the use of violence”. The women in this group had the dubious distinction of being America’s first all-female terrorist group.
M19CO provided support to an offshoot of the Black Liberation Army, including in armoured truck robberies and later engaged in bombings of government buildings, including bombings at an FBI field office in Staten Island, the Navy Yard Officers’ Club in Washington, DC, and even the U.S. Capitol building.
After living as a fugitive for two years, Rosenberg was arrested in 1984 while in possession of a large cache of explosives and firearms, including automatic weapons. She had also been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur and in the 1981 Brink’s robbery that resulted in the deaths of two police officers and a guard, although she was never charged in either case.
Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years imprisonment on the weapons and explosives charges. She spent 16 years in prison before her sentence was commuted to time served by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, his final day in office.
The Thousand Currents Board of Directors website page was hastily removed on June 26, 2020, after Rosenberg’s history was revealed on a US TV show. It no longer publishes a full list of directors.
Huge sums of money have been donated or pledged to the BLM movement. The December 10, 2020 edition of The Economist magazine reported that an astronomical $10.6 billion was donated, but adds the exact amount will not be known until its “fiscal sponsor”, The Tides Foundation, publishes its financials.[15]
On 30 July 2020, the BBC reported that since May 25, 2020, about $5 billion in pledges and commitments were made to racial equity organisations, according to data compiled by the Candid organisation, which tracks and analyses global philanthropy.[16]
That accounts for over 50% of the racial equity funding that Candid has identified since 2008.
The funds come from tech firms Google and Microsoft, finance firms like Morgan Stanley, and entertainment giants like Netflix and YouTube, celebrities and philanthropists. The funds are pledged to various causes like the Equal Justice Initiative, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and the National Urban League.
While donations have slowed, with many big firms having made their commitments, foundation grants are now beginning to flow in, says Candid’s corporate philanthropy manager Andrew Grabois, pointing to a $220m commitment by billionaire philanthropist George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.[17]
Antifa
Although Antifa rose to prominence in 2020 with their violence, looting and arson, they have been active in Western countries for many years. Antifa had its origins in mid-1930s Germany.
In May 1932, The German Communist Party announced the formation of Antifascistische Aktion (Antifascist Action, commonly referred to as “Antifa”), a new paramilitary communist group. This was the original Antifa and the group from which contemporary Antifa around the world takes its inspiration. Those who served as decision-makers in the original group were members of the German Communist Party and other allied communist groups.
Antifascist Action was a communist organisation under a thinly veiled new name. The two-flag logo used by today’s Antifa groups is based on the original red flags of Antifascist Action. The two red flags symbolised the union of communism and socialism.
According to investigative journalist Andy Ngo, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM), is part of Antifa. RAM’s 10 point plan is instructive of Antifa’s aims. Point two: “We will destroy the state, police, military, corporations, and all those who run the American plantation”.[18]
They certainly had a good try following the death of George Floyd.
In the first few days after Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, rioters tore through dense stretches of Minneapolis, St. Paul and other metro communities in retaliation, causing millions in property damage to more than 1,500 locations.
In their wake, vandals left a trail of smashed doors and windows, covered hundreds of boarded-up businesses with graffiti and set fire to nearly 150 buildings, with dozens burned to the ground. Pharmacies, groceries, liquor stores, tobacco shops and cell phone stores were ransacked, losing thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise. Many were looted repeatedly over consecutive nights, including many minority-owned businesses.[19]
Other property — like gas stations, restaurants and even parked cars — was set on fire, with much of it completely destroyed.[20]
Insurers estimate the total damage claims for the 2020 riots in the order of $2 billion.[21]
All the while the mainstream media reported the violence, arson and looting as “mainly peaceful protests”.
The same media give the impression that Antifa is just a loose collection of Marxists, anarchists and misfits dedicated to fighting racism by any means, including occasional violence.
Make no mistake – Antifa is a well-organised, disciplined paramilitary group. New recruits are required to undergo six month’s intensive training, including firearms training, before acceptance into the organisation. They are the modern equivalent of Hitler’s brownshirts.
Antifa began accelerating its mass organising in early 2017 as Donald Trump took office. Within a couple of months, they had developed a sophisticated system that included propaganda, outreach, operational security, surveillance and group fighting strategies.[22]
Antifa’s inner workings were clouded in secrecy until they were exposed in a video by Project Veritas, the independent investigative journalism site founded by James O’Keefe.
After befriending some Antifa members in Portland, the Project Veritas journalist was invited into the Rose City Antifa (RCA) group training program and given details of the six-month training syllabus.
RCA was founded in 2007 and is the first known formalised Antifa group in the United States using “Antifa” in its name.
The fifteen-page RCA syllabus is broken into nine sections or units. Each unit addresses a different aspect of militant Antifa training and has a set of required readings and a list of the “Key Competencies” that must be achieved for that unit.[23] For example, “Unit 5 -Class Struggle and White Supremacy” has as one of the key competencies, “Be able to discuss why whiteness was invented to break working class solidarity”.
When the recruit has successfully completed the training program, they require the unanimous consent of existing members to become a member.
RCA members must pledge to agree to disrupt “fascist” activity, refuse cooperation with law enforcement and courts, hold themselves accountable and support others within the network and those outside the network with similar aims, such as BLM.
An example of the Antifa paramilitary in action was the setting up of a so-called “autonomous zone” in Seattle in June 2020.
On June 8, staff and officers of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) frantically loaded what they could from their East Precinct onto cars and a rented removalist truck. The East Precinct is located in the heart of the Capitol Hill district in Seattle, a densely packed business and residential area.
For days the neighbourhood was marred by scenes of intense violence by rioters intent on overtaking the East Precinct, similar to what occurred in the Third Precinct in Minneapolis.
Night after night, hundreds of Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) militants lined the streets, throwing rocks, concrete chunks, and incendiary devices at officers, leading to many injuries.
No longer able to push back the nightly onslaught from black-clad rioters in Capitol Hill and facing pressure from the mayor’s office to pull back, Seattle police boarded up and abandoned the East Precinct.
Within hours, militant BLM and Antifa protestors declared ownership of the neighbourhood. They named the new six-block territory the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ.
CHAZ was allowed by the city to run its course for more than three weeks.
It was a large-scale experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality.
By the end of its twenty-four-day run, there were numerous assaults, robberies, an attempted rape, six shootings and two homicides. A sign of things to come if these militants and their backers are successful in their mission to “defund the police”.
When the SPD evacuated from the station on June 8, 2020, masked militants stole city property – barricades, fencing and more to create makeshift barriers. These barriers became the official walls around CHAZ (later renamed as CHOP). To fortify their barricades, armed members of the Antifa paramilitary and their BLM allies moved in. They operated as private militia complete with their own uniforms.
A sign posted on one of the barricades read, “You are now leaving the USA”.
How Antifa shuts down free speech
On February 1, 2017, Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a talk about free speech at the University of California, Berkeley. But he was prevented from speaking by a group of 150 or so masked, black-clad members of a then-obscure movement calling itself “Antifa.” The protestors caused $100,000 worth of damage to the campus and injured six people throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.[24]
This is a common tactic employed by Antifa and their fellow travellers to disrupt, harass and even prevent public meetings where conservatives are scheduled to speak.
In April 2018, Antifa groups used information from the radical leftist Southern Poverty Law Centre [25]to successfully shut down four conferences on the threat of Islam scheduled in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Threatening calls flooded the hotels slated for the events, and the organizers voluntarily cancelled the events following numerous warnings that it would not be safe.
The conferences were hosted by Worldview Weekend, a conservative Christian organization that produces radio and TV shows and sponsors events nationwide. The Southern Poverty Law Centre posted the locations for these venues, after which Antifa groups urged their members through social media to attend events and swamp the venues with threatening calls and messages.
The conferences sought to expose how leftists supported by George Soros, the John Templeton Foundation, and other donors are intimidating America into silence by labelling anyone who exposes them as “racists,” “Islamophobes” and “white supremacists.” [26]
The hegemony of the anti-Western groups
The Western civilisation values of free speech, independent thought, the rule of law, property rights, parliamentary democracy and capitalism are under attack as never before in history. Even the scientific method, the tool of so much advancement over the past 200 years, has been trashed by climate alarmists and Covid alarmists. Almost all of the establishment, including progressive elites, mainstream media, left-wing political parties, government institutions, corporate bosses, white wokesters, Hollywood celebrities, and Marxist groups line up on the side of anti-Western values. They have connived in this attack on their own civilisation while exhibiting no commitment at all to the key values of an open liberal democratic society, especially the values of free speech and due process.
That is a formidable array of enemies of Western civilization.
The word totalitarian is a useful word to describe the common feature of these people and organisations. Like all totalitarians, they demand total submission to their viewpoint. Dissenters must be shut down, cancelled, denigrated and attacked.
The social media oligarchs enforce the suppression of non-complying viewpoints by cancelling accounts, even cancelling the account of the President of the United States. Other oligarchs such as PayPal cut off funding by closing accounts.
It is hard to find conservatives on campuses, in the media, in entertainment and in large corporations. There are certainly conservatives in these institutions but they have learned to keep their heads down.
Lionel Shriver writes:
Weekend revolutionaries imagine they can bring an end to capitalism and still keep all the fruits of capitalism that they take for granted. They think they can install a neo-Marxist equality of outcome, boot out all the wicked old white guys like Tim Cook, and keep their iPhones, replete with regular OS updates. They imagine they can pack faculties and student bodies with minorities regardless of qualification and “decolonise” the curriculum to rid it of “white knowledge” and still have prospective employers regard their degrees from Harvard as meaningful commendations. They want to undermine the means by which their parents earn a living yet still expect to crash back home when they’re low on cash, where they can always raid the refrigerator when feeling peckish. Woke white activists want to demonise “whiteness” as the sole source of all evil, while mysteriously believing this does not entail demonising themselves. Apparently the joyful embrace of one’s own “fragility” grants the right to hector others while triggering a racial opt-out clause.
Agents of a foreign power
Tens of thousands of Chinese agents, including academics, students, diplomats and businessmen, are scattered around the world, actively working to advance the CCP’s agenda in its undeclared war against the West.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also uses “soft power” to advance its influence and interests in foreign countries. “Soft power” is an all-embracing term covering propaganda, infiltration of foreign political parties and institutions, influence peddling, control of foreign media, the mobilization of overseas Chinese, and threats against dissidents.
To mobilize the vast Chinese global diaspora, numbering over 50 million people, the CCP has developed a highly sophisticated, multi-faceted plan, implemented by several well-resourced agencies targeting overseas Chinese.
Overseas Chinese management is known as qiaowu, with the purpose of rallying support for Beijing amongst ethnic Chinese outside of China through various propaganda and thought-management techniques.[27]
Much of the qiaowu work is conducted by the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the CCP Central Committee. The UFWD targets Chinese social organizations, Chinese-language media, student associations, professional associations and business leaders. The Propaganda Department of the CCP is also central to the campaign.[28] The UFWD has grown in importance under President Xi Jinping, who described United Front work as a “magic weapon” in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese people.[29]
There are around 50 million people of Chinese ethnicity scattered around the world. A percentage of these owe their allegiance to China, either voluntarily or because of threats against their families in China. Even if only 10 per cent sided with China, it would represent a significant (and dangerous) fifth column in the event of war.
Australia has around 1.3 million Chinese permanent residents, plus tens of thousands of Chinese students. If only ten per cent owe their allegiance to China, that represents 130,000 agents of a foreign power roaming Australia. These people are organised and controlled by the Chinese embassy in Canberra.
In February 2021 Western Australian premier Mark McGowan appointed two pro-Beijing Chinese Dr Edward Zhang and Dr Ting Chen, to his 15-member multicultural council, a policy advisory body where members can earn up to $385 per day.
In 2016 Zhang was reported as condemning the federal government’s position on the disputed South China Sea.
At the time, he made this very revealing remark, “We overseas Chinese are the first line of defence for our motherland.”[30]
The report reveals Zhang is a founding member and honorary chairman of the WA branch of the Australian Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China, a group tied to Beijing’s United Front Work Department, an integral part of the state apparatus tasked with recruiting people at home and abroad to push the interests of the Communist Party.
The CCP has launched an orchestrated campaign, across all of its many tentacles in Chinese government and society, to exploit the openness of our institutions in order to destroy them. – former US Attorney General William Barr
Drew Pavlou is a young student from the suburbs of Brisbane, Australia. In July 2019, he organised a peaceful protest highlighting alleged links between his university, the University of Queensland (UQ), and the Chinese state.
But his small group of protesters was confronted by some 300 supporters of the Chinese regime, many of them concealing their identities with masks and sunglasses. Things rapidly turned violent. ‘I was sitting down, leading the sit-in, and they ripped the megaphone from my hands. I got up to confront them and was punched in the ribs and mouth, and things devolved into a brawl. Someone sneaked up behind me and punched me in the back of the head’, Pavlou says. ‘We had drinks with spit in them poured over us. Some students from Hong Kong were choke-slammed to the ground, and some were bitten.’[31]
Why the violence? ‘It was intended to try to force people into silence’, he says. Then things got worse. On the evening of the protest, the names and images of several protesters, including Pavlou, were spread across Chinese social media. ‘One Chinese student, who was part of our crowd, had his address, student papers, refugee papers and citizenship details leaked.’
“Ultimately, we had to leave under a police escort,” Mr Pavlou said. “The (pro-CCP) people stayed and sung nationalist songs and chanted for another hour.”
The instigators of the violence were older and didn’t appear to be students, Mr Pavlou said.
“I suspect they were sent by the Consulate,” he said.[32]
Things escalated even further the following day, when the Chinese consul-general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, praised the ‘spontaneous patriotic behaviour’ of the 300 counter-protesters.[33] Xu Jie is an adjunct professor at UQ.[34]
The enablers and facilitators
Each of the Fifth Column groups receives valuable support from their enablers: people and organisations funding or supporting them.
Most mainstream media give tacit and sometimes overt support to radical Islamists, Chinese operatives, and particularly BLM and Antifa. For example, during the height of the violent BLM riots, during which buildings were trashed and burning to the ground, media outlets such as CNN reported the events as “mostly peaceful protests”.
Cashed up tax-exempt charity groups, including the Soros foundations and the Ford Foundation, annually pour billions into supporting Marxist and “progressive” activist groups (Chapter 7). Numerous other “charities”, including Thousand Currents and the Tides Foundation, act as donation collectors or direct donors to the Fifth Column operatives.
A revealing insight into the mindset of the Big Tech oligarchs and their spouses is divulged in their charitable donations.
On July 29, 2020, MacKenzie Scott, former wife of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, posted on her website she had given $1.674 billion in recent months, including $585 million in this period to racial equity causes.[35] Donations to 30 July 2020 by Ms Scott were:
- Racial Equity: $585,700,000
- LGBTQ + Equity: $46,000,000
- Gender Equity: $133,000,000
- Economic Mobility: $399,500,000
- Empathy & Bridging Divides: 55,000,000
- Public Health: $128,300,000
- Fnctional Democracy: $72,000,000
- Global Development: $130,000,000
- Climate Change: $125,000,000
- TOTAL $1.674 billion
Out of that $1.674 billion, at least $890 million will fund Fifth Column activities of racial equity, LGBT equity, gender equity and climate change, all of which promote divisiveness and the breakdown of societal values.
That makes Ms Scott a prominent Fifth Column activist.
She is in good company.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is a Fifth Columnist: in April 2021 he announced Britain would cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035, a plan that would have a devastating impact on the British economy.[36]
US President Joe Biden is a Fifth Columnist: he blames major weather events such as Hurricane Ida on global warming. He announced US electricity production will be carbon-free by 2035.[37] Again, this will have a devastating impact on the US economy.
At the same time, China is flat out building new coal-fired power stations enabling it to ramp up its production of cheap consumer goods to flood world markets.
Johnson and Biden are continuing the transfer of their manufacturing base to China, allowing it to grow economically and militarily.
The Big Tech oligarchs work together to scrub all dissident voices from the Internet. “Dissident” voices are all those not supporting the progressive, Marxist line.
The Big Tech giants have already said they actively share information to crack down on “white supremacists” under the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a body previously reserved for targeting the Taliban and al-Qaeda.[38]
PayPal announced it will be working with the Anti-Defamation League, an activist group described as a Jewish spy organisation,[39] to scour the Internet, looking for “extremists” and “anti-government” voices in order to shut off their PayPal donation buttons[40].
Under this Chinese-style social scoring system, those guilty of online infractions get publicly shamed and silenced.
Busy alongside Antifa is the movement’s unofficial legal arm: the National Lawyers Guild.[41]
Although much lower profile than their enablers within the establishment media and among the more extreme elements of the Democratic Party, the National Lawyers Guild is actually far more important when it comes to keeping Antifa’s program of extreme political violence going.
Made up of thousands of hard-left lawyers spread out in over 150 chapters across the country (not including over 100 student chapters), and funded by giant philanthropists like the Ford Foundation and George Soros, the NLG explicitly and openly coordinates legal action and public relations in support of the Antifa movement. As one chapter states online, the guild’s member-lawyers “understand that legal support is critical in the planning and aftermath of any action,” and “can usually mobilize NLG volunteer lawyers to handle initial court appearances, and . . . often continue to defend activists pro bono.”
NLG makes open justifications for its broad and deep support for Antifa on its website[42] and through the media. In the process, they usually recite, practically verbatim, Antifa’s frantic slogans and frenzied talking points, showing how indistinguishable the two are in terms of ideology and temperament.
NLG’s online literature reveals it is stridently committed to Antifa’s program. This apparently includes Antifa’s use of violent terror tactics.
As NLG states, “[t]aking militant and confrontational direct action . . . are a crucial part of the fight against fascism.” The group praises Antifa for “ensur[ing] that the virulent white nationalism sweeping the country is met with militant resistance” and for “directly confront[ing] fascism by shutting down far-right demonstrations.”
The SF Bay Area chapter’s website proclaims it “provides legal support for demonstrations and direct actions organized by progressive groups who oppose racism, sexism, classism, fascism, heteropatriarchy and transphobia”[43].
[1] Oxfoed languages
[2] https://www.britannica.com/topic/fifth-column
[3] 2020 report to Congress of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission p 86
[4] Ibid p 86
[5] , The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
[6] https://coherence.com.au/curlew/2019/08/maurice-strong-inventor-of-global-warming/
[7] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jan/09/climatechange.mainsection
[8] https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/01/22/the-u-n-s-global-warming-war-on-capitalism-an-important-history-lesson-2/?sh=248cdf329be6
[9] https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/01/discovering-maurice-strong/
[10] All ten points at: https://www.conservapedia.com/Revolutionary_Abolitionist_Movement
[11] We Are Trained Marxists’, YouTube. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgEUbSzOTZ8> (last visited 21 June 2021)
[12] https://uproxx.com/peoplesparty/melina-abdullah-defund-police-peoples-party/
[13] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8441405/The-avowed-aims-British-arm-Black-Lives-Matter.html
[14] https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/weather-underground-weatherman-weathermen/
[15] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/12/10/six-months-after-mass-protests-began-what-is-the-future-of-blm
[16] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53284611
[17] https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/open-society-foundations-announce-220-million-for-building-power-in-black-communities
[18] All ten points at: https://www.conservapedia.com/Revolutionary_Abolitionist_Movement
[19] https://fee.org/articles/here-are-just-10-of-the-many-minority-owned-businesses-destroyed-in-the-riots/
[20] https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots/569930671/?refresh=true
[21] https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a455-4067-b06a-66f9db4cea9c.html
[22] Ady Ngo, Unmasked, p79
[23] Andy Ngo’s book, Unmasked, pp 79-95 gives full details of the orientation course and the training nine units
[24] https://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/01/us/milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley/index.html
[25] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/08/17/southern-poverty-law-center-hate-groups-scam-column/2022301001/
[26] https://dailycaller.com/2018/04/12/anti-islam-events-wisconsin-minnesota-shut-down-antifa-splc/
[27] James Jiann Hua To, Qiaowu: Extra-Territorial Policies for the Overseas Chinese (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2014).
[28] Ibid., pp. 73-80.
[29] Marcel Angliviel de la Beaumelle, “The United Front Work Department: ‘magic weapon’ at home and abroad”, China Brief (Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC), Vol. 17, Issue: 9, July 6, 2017.
URL: https://jamestown.org/program/united-front-work-department-magic-weapon-home-abroad/
[30] The Age June 22,2021
[31] https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-australian-uni-student-china-wanted-to-silence-whose-simple-protest-sparked-a-living-hell/news-story/4fcea3b66535bed6d6e08a320cd246ae
[32][32] https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-australian-uni-student-china-wanted-to-silence-whose-simple-protest-sparked-a-living-hell/news-story/4fcea3b66535bed6d6e08a320cd246ae
[33] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jul/27/australia-warns-diplomats-after-china-praises-patriotic-clashes-with-pro-hong-kong-protesters
[34] https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/profile/4580/jie-xu
[35] https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/116-organizations-driving-change-67354c6d733d
[36] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-johnson-unveil-new-goal-emission-cuts-ahead-biden-summit-ft-2021-04-20/
[37] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-54858638
[38] https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-tech-giants-target-manifestos-militias-database-2021-07-26/
[39] https://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Truth-About-Anti-Defamation-League/dp/0943235073
[40] https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/paypal-partners-with-adl-to-fight-extremism-and-protect-marginalized
[41] Bradley Betters – The Tennessee Star March 10, 2020
[42] https://nlgsf.org/activist-support/
[43] https://nlgsf.org/activist-support/
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