The Sixth Column

International conglomerates like Sherritt International sure long for the good old days. Scheming with criminal governments, they raped and pillaged foreign lands with impunity and most of the entire world was completely oblivious to this bad corporate behavior. Any fifth column, refering to any clandestine group or faction of subversive agents who attempt to undermine a nation's solidarity, was easily rooted out and crushed by the most ruthless governments like that of Fidel Castro. Anytime fifth columns opened up to expose the evil they showed themselves in doing so and were killed or imprisoned in Cuba. So companies like Sherritt International made a deal with the devil Castro which means they pay Castro, for example, $3,000 per month for every Cuban geologist they employ in their Cuban mining operation. Then Castro pays those geologists $30 per month, everybody blames the resulting poverty (not for the Castro's of course) on the embargo and nobody is the wiser. But that was yesterday and this is today.

The Sixth Column has emerged. The Sixth Column is the Internet and can be used for good or evil. Fortunately, most people are nice reasonable people whether living in Havana or Washington, DC. They just want to go to work, provide for their family and come home. These are the members of the Sixth Column. They are the world cyber militia clicking away seeking out the truth. Each day thousands join the Sixth Column. We find the evil that is ruining the world and making everybody's life miserable and we expose it. We shine the light of truth on the lies that in the past were so easily hidden. Expo facto has no bearing either. Just because the type of slave labor deals just mentioned have not been exposed in the past will not stop the Sixth Column from tar and feathering Sherritt International forever on the Internet - because the Internet IS forever. The Sixth Column cannot be stopped now. There are no leaders to be routed out and crushed. The Sixth Column is a hive of hornets who individually could easily be destroyed by the bear. The bear against the swarm of hornets is no match. People like the Castro's and Sherritt's Executive Chairman Ian Dalaney act stupid and pretend this situation will change. They are in denial. Just the Cuba libre blogs and sites number around 300 now with their number growing daily. Here is a blog cataloging many of them.

The smart corporate executive will get out in front of the information tidal wave caused by the Sixth Column and try to ride it out. That means the faster they recognize the writing on the Internet wall, stop doing the evil they are doing, pony up some reparations as well as apologize for their bad behavior, the less it will cost in the long run. The first corporations who realize the jig is up will get off lightly by placing reparations in escrow for the future democratically elected Cuban government and by ceasing and desisting collusion with the criminal Castro government. The corporations that wait until Cuba has a democratically elected government will pay ten times that amount. Many simply will not survive at all but all still have time to do the right thing. That time, however, is running out...