The Truth About National Treason

Taken from a church  bulletin in Oklahoma...

A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. 
But it cannot survive treason from within. 
An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
For he is known and he carries his banners openly.

But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely,
His sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
And is heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears no traitor;
He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims,
And he wears their face and their garments,
And he appeals to the baseness that lies
Deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation;
He works secretly and unknown in the night
To undermine the pillars of a city;
He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to fear.

---Cicero

"O Lord, forgive us for being so sensitive about the things that do not matter - and so insensitive to the things that do!"  Amen.