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We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado. In that
context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Last week there was an
immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by
many of American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by
the name of Victor Davis Hanson talked about his latest book,
Mexifornia,
explaining how immigration -- both legal and illegal -- was destroying the
entire state of California. He said it would march across the country until it
destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former
Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to
destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for
the destruction of the United States. He said,
"If you believe that America is too smug, too self-satisfied,
too rich, then let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in
history has survived the ravages of time Arnold Toynbee observed that all great
civilizations rise and fall and that 'An autopsy of history would show that all
great nations commit suicide.' "
Here is how they do it," Lamm said:
"First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or
multi-lingual and bicultural country." History shows that no nation can survive
the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and
cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; however, it is a
curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset,
put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bicultural societies that do
not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy." Canada,
Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of national existence in which
minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have
divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficulties with
Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans."
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy
America, "Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their
culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That
there are no cultural differences. I would make it an article of faith that the
Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination
by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds."
Third, "We
could make the United States an 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key
is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the
Atlantic Monthly recently: "The apparent success of our own multiethnic and
multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by
hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it
meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold
us together." Lamm said, "I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own
language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad
bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural
subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as
Americans, emphasizing their similarities."
"Fourth, I would make our
fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second
underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I
would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school"
"My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations
and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic
identity, and I would establish the cult of 'Victimology.' I would get all
minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I
would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority
population."
"My sixth plan for America's downfall would include dual
citizenship, and promote divided loyalties. I would celebrate diversity over
unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people
worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other -- that is, when they are not
killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most
historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation
together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to
the same race; they possessed a common language and literature; and they
worshipped the same gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common
enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet all these bonds
were not
strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical
conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. "E. Pluribus Unum"
-- From many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the
'Pluribus' instead of the 'Unum,' we will balkanize America as surely as
Kosovo."
"Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it
taboo to talk about anything against the cult of 'diversity.' I would find a
word similar to 'heretic' in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and
paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'xenophobe' halt discussion and
debate. Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established
multi-culturism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of
'Victimology,' I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America,
it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and
ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them."
In the last minute
of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally
he said. "Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson's book Mexifornia. His
book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America
deserves to be destroyed, don't read that book."
There was no
applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every
attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything
Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively
across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100
languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national
cohesiveness. Barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are
growing as we celebrate 'diversity.' American jobs are vanishing into the Third
World as corporations create a Third World in. America - take note of
California and other states -- to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing
fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell's book "1984."
In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building:
"War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," and "Ignorance is strength."
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the
conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in
trouble and worsening fast. If we don't get this immigration monster stopped
within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy
everything in its path, especially The American Dream.
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