Insightful wisdom from 2000 years ago!

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling though the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor, he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of the nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear.

The traitor is the plague."

Marcus Tullius Cecero,

Roman Statesman (106 BC)

I will leave this to your own imagination as to whom this applies!