Thought Provoking - Video
and speech by former governor of Colorado
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 Hansen Davis 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 bi-cultural 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 Hanson Davis'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. Even 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.