12/10/2018 - Will Alexander Townhall.com
The kidnapping of Helen
of Sparta by Paris of Troy sparked a 10-year clash of fruitless battles between
Troy and Mycenaean Greece in 12th century BC. The deadlock ended quickly after
the Greek hero Odysseus had a brilliant idea: “Let’s give Troy a gift.”
Pretending to quit the
war, the Greek armies rolled a giant wooden horse outside the gates of Troy,
then sailed to the island of Tenedos nearby. One unarmed Greek stayed behind to
persuade Trojans that the horse was a gift.
It worked.
Disarmed by the gift,
Trojans pulled the wooden horse inside the city walls and closed the gates.
Odysseus’ Greek
warriors crawled from the hollow belly of the horse while Trojans slept, then
opened the gates to the returning Greek armies and sacked Troy from within.
Troy’s demise came in
the garb of a gift.
Much like the ancient
story from Homer’s “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” America is being tricked by many ill-advised
and odd Trojan Horses that leave us stupefied as we watch the country’s
load-bearing institutions crumble from within.
Today, liberals,
Leftists and the biased media justify all sorts of bad behavior under the cloak
of the Constitution. “Freedom of the press," “freedom of speech” and
the “right to peaceful protest” are used as Trojan Horses to disarm political
opponents while they punch them like crazy below the belt.
Take CNN’s John Acosta
at that press briefing last month. He began, not with a question, but a
rhetorical challenge then refused to quit talking and hand over the mic.
It was shocking!
Fox’s Chris Wallace,
son of a legendary tough reporter, said: “I thought [his] behavior was
shameful. Jim Acosta, I thought, embarrassed himself today.”
But rather than being
embarrassed, CNN rolled out a Trojan Horse.
“This president’s
ongoing attacks of the press have gone too far,” CNN wrote. “They are not
only dangerous, they are disturbingly un-American. While President Trump
has made it clear he does not respect a free press, he has a sworn obligation
to protect it. A free press is vital to democracy, and we stand behind
Jim Acosta ...”
True, the president is
obligated to protect a free press, but he’s not obligated to protect bias,
inaccuracies and hysteria. It’s false reporting he hates, not “the free
press.” He’s been saying that for decades.
“When people say
something false, I attack those people,” Trump said in a 1990 CNN interview.
“The news gets away with murder… It’s very tough in terms of libel laws because
the media is so protected…they can write virtually anything. But the
difference with me – at least they pay some price, and I think more people
should have that attitude. I think you’d find more accurate reporting.”
CNN confuses a free
press with the business of news which, today, is basically show
business. The right to a free press doesn’t belong to the news business,
per se; it belongs to the American people. The press holds a sacred
trust, similar to officeholders. They are the Fourth Branch of Government
– the “Fourth Estate.”
But with virtually no
accountability, Americans trust the press to place limits on itself. Some
do. When they don’t, we love it when someone stands up to them. Not doing
so would be “disturbingly un-American.”
CNN’s “attacks of the
free press” argument is a Trojan Horse – big, loud and hollow.
The most deceptive
Trojan Horse trots around as compassion. By twisting the meaning of equality,
fairness and justice, liberals shame politicians into overspending on social
programs, ignoring federal laws, and giving special rights to “victim” groups.
The migrant caravan is
the latest victim group.
Carrying the Honduran
flag, thousands of migrants stormed the Mexican border headed for America,
taunting Trump along the way. They used women and children as human
shields, attacked U.S. Border Patrol, and admitted they’re just looking for a
better life.
The “caravan” turned
out to be a Trojan Horse – unarmed intruders disguised as asylum seekers.
But the rock-throwing
didn’t stop CNN’s Chris Cuomo from trying to disarm us with compassion.
He went south of the border to a squalid migrant camp filled with
wrinkled tents sunken in by recent rains. Unkempt little boys took turns
going down a dirty sliding board surrounded by mud and puddles. A little
girl, wearing a religious necklace, pulled along a dirty toy wagon carrying a
tiny Bible. Mothers stooped in front of mud-soaked tents amid piles of
trash and the stench of portable toilets as they watched their kids play in an
area back-dropped by the U.S. border.
“Look at how close they
are,” Cuomo said, pointing to the border fence. “That’s how close they
are to realizing their dream. But more and more, that fence is
representing exactly what – you know, to be frank – the president hopes it
does: A barrier that says you’re not getting in. That you’re not wanted.
That you should go away.”
Using legal
immigration to justify illegal immigration, biased media seldom show the
awful consequences of unprincipled compassion. Tijuana is buckling under the
weight of those consequences.
“In Tijuana,
we’re worried,” delegate Genaro Lopez Moreno said recently. “Somebody popped
the bubble of their [migrants’) American dream and they’re staying here.”
“Staying here” meant
Tijuana is spending $40,000 a day on 6,200 migrants.
“… If these people came
here legally,” Moreno said, “there would be no problem. But these guys
didn’t cross legally into Mexico. They tore down our border and jumped
and started this caravan.”
Like Tijuana and Troy,
the gates of America’s time-honored institutions have been breached by an army
of “bad hombres” burrowed inside all sorts of Trojan Horses.
Antifa anarchists,
extreme “me-too” feminists, ill-willed politicians, Socialists, race hustlers
(black and white), climate change cults, left-leaning media, celebrities and
educators – all make up regiments of rag-tag fighters who hide inside the
language of the Constitution and Compassion to – intended or not – sack America
from within.
We’re at war, folks.
It’s not a violent war – and it should never be – but we’re at
war.
Boiling at the root of
all the noise is an ideological war that’s been brewing for decades. It’s a
clash of two opposite, irreconcilable wills imposing themselves on America. The
winner is not predetermined. The side that loses the will to win, will
lose the war – no matter how right the cause.
It’s past time we see
America’s Trojan Horses for what they are, and fight like crazy.
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