THE DNA OF A TRAITOR

BY THE GREATEST ORATOR OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE:

MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Delivery before the Roman Senate (circa)  42 B.C.

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

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

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

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

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He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city,

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he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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A murderer is less to fear.

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THE TRAITOR IS THE PLAGUE."

Can you think of any in our current government that would fit this standard for the DNA of a traitor?

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Can you think of anyone in particular who would meet this standard??