WHEREVER YOU STAND, PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS…. IT OUGHT TO GIVE YOU REAL CONCERN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT STARTED RECENTLY, BUT WAS STARTED MANY YEARS AGO SOMETIME IN THE 1970′s WHEN THE SYSTEMATIC DISMANTLING OF AMERICA BEGAN WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STEEL INDUSTRIES OF THE USA. ALL ADMINISTRATIONS AND CONGRESSES, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT, ARE TO BLAME AS THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD, AND ARE PRESENTLY BEING TOLD, WHAT TO DO AND HOW TO DO IT. THEY ARE NOTHING BY TALKING PUPPETS AND LAPDOGS FOR THE BANKING CARTELS AND BIG BUSINESS. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME JUST COMPARE THIS SPEECH, GIVEN SOMETIME IN 2004, TO WHAT IS PRESENTLY HAPPENING TODAY AND WHERE OUR JOBS HAVE BEEN OFF-SHORED TO. AND AS I SAID IN A PREVIOUS BLOG, THEY ARE NOT COMING BACK.
Posted many times on the internet. I am just continuing it as it is so relevant and becoming more and more so each day as you look at the news.
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 America’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. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal; that there are no cultural differences; 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, SEVENTH, 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, EIGHTH, 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. 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.
If you care for and love our country as I do, take the time to pass this on just as I did for you. NOTHING is going to happen if you don’t except for losing your country and your way of life.
Joe, I’m not buying all of it. Lamm’s quite the sensationalist, but he makes a few good points. My thoughts fwiw:
FIRST: peaceful multi-lingual countries exists. The Swiss have made it work for a long time, which means it’s possible. But Lamm only wants us to hear about the failures so he can bolster his argument and be “right”. My solution would be to ensure English is the national language but also require our kids to learn a second language–ya know, to open their minds? Unlike Dick Lamm, I don’t yearn for the good-old ethnocentric days of yore.
SECOND: nothing wrong with “multi-culturalism” if it’s balanced, something American culture struggles with. (The right wingers are working hard at demonizing the concept, just as the left-wingers practice politically-correct extremism.) It’s interesting that America’s very first and most powerful mechanism to turn “foreigners into Americans” was its public school system. And it worked. Then. One reason it worked was because the immigrants who came here WANTED to be Americans. The downside was that speaking the mother language was frowned upon, kids were embarrassed that their parents had “accents”. The irony is that even though Lamm is painting a picture of Americans being TOO tolerant, the reality is we are (on the whole) a narrow-minded, ethnocentric society that is ignorant and intolerant of other cultures.
THIRD: as I mentioned, Lamm makes it sound like the good-old-days of ethnocentric thinking was a wonderful thing. I think we need to find balance, not swing to either extreme. To that end, I think we need to re-instill “American” values in our education system while acknowledging the good points of different cultures. The trick is anchoring it to core national values (free speech, equality of the sexes, etc.). Admittedly, easier said than done. But going back to ethnocentric thinking hardly solves the problem. Education on so many levels is the solution.
FOURTH: I agree.
FIFTH: I agree.
SIXTH: Disagree. I don’t see dual-citizenship dividing the loyalties of my children. But if it ever did, I’m happy they have the choice. Lamm would obviously rather force everyone to choose one country over the other. Hardly a freedom-loving sentiment.
SEVENTH: Agree.
EIGHTH: No opinion since I haven’t read the book. The title sounds a bit sensationalist, but that’s par for the course when it comes to book titles trying to appeal to our politically polarized society.
In short, Lamm’s arguments strike me as myopic. Perhaps the nation state is obsolete and we just haven’t figured out a new model yet. Perhaps we have options and solutions that have never been tried historically. Either way, I’m guessing tumultuous times lie ahead. With the economy in the tank (maybe forever?) and the cultural inertia of living in a politically polarized society, I honestly don’t see us turning this battleship around in the water anytime soon.
The real problem with Lamm and others of his ilk is that his thought-process is so damn binary–he seems to offer only two (extreme) options: yes-no, American-not American, pro-America-anti-America, pro-immigtration-anti-immigration, and so on. If anything can destroy a nation, it’s limiting itself to two extreme choices.
So I choose to NOT to live in Lamm’s binary-thinking world. Frankly I’m sick of being fed just two choices like I’m an idiot incapable of figuring out their game.
My real concern is that we’ve much got bigger fish to fry. We’re destroying our planet as the global population explodes. I recently saw a graph that super-imposed the worlds population growth with our dwindling resources (including energy, food, water, etc.). According to the graph, we’ve already crossed a critical point: population growth has surpassed available resources. What happens when folks start fighting for these resources? (Actually, we already are, but anyone who frames it that way is labeled “unpatriotic”–the right wing version of political correctness.) This crisis goes way beyond national borders. I’m not optimistic about our chances of turning things around. I’m concerned now about the whole world, not just America. Current trends might not affect us in our lifetime, but it will definitely affect our children.
I don’t agree with everything in this post, but it is definitely interesting and thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing!