Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO

A very interesting and frightening read.

We know Dick Lamm as 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 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, Corsicans and Muslims.'

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 multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentric 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.'

'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 precept. 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-cultum, 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.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp

Airforceone

Our society was built as a multi ethnic society. That’s what made this country great. You can’t be listening to people that want to go back 200 years and create an all white evangelical society. Blacks didn’t come here on there own someone went and got them.

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO

Did you read the entire speech, or just the first couple of paragraphs?

Do you understand the word 'assimilate'?

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Turd is incapable of understanding truths and facts. That immigrants were made to assimilate and even proud to. Also we had in America's earliest years had strict vetting. They had to have a trade skill, or ability to prove that they could have the financial resources to build their own business.

Looneytunabin

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Lamm's speech is dated, he gave that speech in DC in 2004. This doesn't dilute the message though.

And the man's name is Victor Davis Hanson, he is an American classicist, military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for National Review, The Washington Times and other media outlets.

thinksense

I believe that tdsrnest understands only too well. He is just one of the people who want to see the U.S.A. destroyed.

We have a number of them posting on OPP. Some of them posting from and in lousy foreign countries. We here used to refer to them as TROLLS.

When you read one, just make fun of them. They are losers in the greatest sense of the word, because when and if they succeed in destroying us, their only real hope for a happy and useful/successful life will be gone. There is no other country in the world where immigrants write back to their relatives that they too should come here, "the streets are paved in gold". That kind of encouragement drew my father to this country where I have had a wonderful life, a wonderful wife, two great children and 3 separate successful careers, free to work for myself and my family.

God, how lucky I have been, that America was here, and I got to live here.

So screw tdsrnst, may he get what he wishes for.

mongo Loc: TEXAS

I would like to see something historical that supports your post.

RT friend Loc: Kangaroo valley NSW Australia

Outside looking in I'm amazed at what I see in America, it's like a telephone box and a line up waiting to phone up helpful hints , it wouldn't be so bad except SuperMan is wanting to change into to his up up and away suit and no one will give up their place so he can soar into space and bring back the Starman Trump wonder if the wall is going to help at all?.

Snoopy

Turd:

Yes our society was a multi ethnic society . . . but the immigrants (not illegal aliens) blended and assimilated into our society. Many kept the language and customs but made America FIRST in their everyday life.

Forget going back 200 years . . . try the 20s and 30s as an example.

No one "went and got" the blacks . . . there were sold into slavery after losing wars to their neighbors.

Snoopy

Loki Loc: Georgia

That's right. They were enslaved by other blacks in Africa, purchased by mostly European slave traders and brought to this country at a time when slavery was legal and considered normal in most of the world. In the 1830 US Census, there were 1,276 BLACK slave owners listed in the US. About half of them owned three slaves or less, presumably family members they were protecting. The rest owned a lot of slaves, sometimes over a hundred, that they bought and sold just like their white counterparts in the US and their black counterparts in Africa.
You want reparations for slavery? Why don't you start over in the mother country? Why don't you ask the Black Africans who did the initial enslaving or the British, Spanish and Portuguese who shipped most of them to the Americas? Many of the black slaves sold to white slave traders were the sons and daughters of generations of slaves. Africans didn't need much help enslaving their own kind.
Black Africans demonize European colonial powers, yet had it not been for them, those same Black Africans would have still been living in mud huts and using a digging stick to plant a garden. Almost every advance in African civilization has been a result of contact with Europeans, or Arabs.

pappadeux Loc: Phoenix AZ

President Lincoln just before the Civil war described both his problem and our present one today in my cartoon.

okie don

Intregration without assimilation is Anniliation. Plain & simple (:

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

You're not paying attention. Read this again: "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."

Sinking in now?



Interesting point, just a couple of things to point out:

1. Going back in time is impossible. If it could be done there would be some record of it.
2. There never was an 'all white evangelical society'. That's an illusion created to support the pretext that white society is a bad thing and needs to be wiped out. By the way, society in the early 1800s was not as bad as you've been led to believe.



You're right. From the early eighteenth century, captives were bartered from African warlords by the Yankee traders and shipped to the American colonies and later the United States. Those who survived the Atlantic crossing were sold into slavery for a handsome profit. Try as I might, I have been unable to locate even one of those people from either side of that coin. Neither the African slaves nor their Yankee captors are coming forward to bring light to those dark proceedings. Were they to be found, I would attempt to make those traders pay some form of reparation to their victims, if the victims requested it. I would also see to it that those who wanted to return to their homelands were enabled to do so. Of course, I'm no lawyer, but beyond that, I can see no further actions that might help ameliorate the terrible wrongs perpetrated on these unfortunates. So what do you suggest?

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO

Yes, the speech is indeed dated and that was the purpose of my post. Everything Lamm professed in his speech is occurring today, 17 years later thanks to the open borders non assimilation lib crowd. The short poignant fact is; liberalism is destroying our country daily as we know it, pure and simple.