Most of you remember the story of the Trojan horse. The Greeks, under Odysseus, sailed over to Troy and made a huge wooden horse. They then climbed into the horse and were hidden away there.

Cassandra warned the Trojans not to take the horse into the city. However, a Greek prisoner, Simon, persuaded them that the horse was sacred and would bring the protection of the gods so the pulled the horse into the city walls of Troy.

That night as they slept, Odysseus and his companions crept out of the horse and opened the gates for other warriors to enter, and they killed almost all the Trojans, and saved Helen of Troy.

Almost from the time story in his Aeneid, the Trojan Horse has been a symbol for subterfuge for trickery, for the unsuspecting rising up within our ranks to destroy us. It’s an …