As relevant then as it is today...Ponder this as we look on the dying gasps of the Republic.
Incidentally, did you have trouble with your internet connections today, or with your telephones? Was Congress busy? Were they ignoring you? Did they take the phones off the hook to avoid us? Were your emails lost?
TREASON
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 galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a trator--he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, 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 under mint the pillars of a city--he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.
Cicero, 42 B.C.E.
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