A Frightening Analysis
We all 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 named
Victor Davis Hanson talked about his latest book, "Mexifornia," explaining how
illegal immigration 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, 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 to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is
out of bounds.
Third, "We could make the United States a '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 ethnocentrically 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
reinforcing 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
businesses 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 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! Unity is what 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 worshiped 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 over
come 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 can 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
"Having made America a bilingual/bicultural country, having established multi-culturalism,
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. Every discussion is being suppressed. Over
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference
that our nation and the future of this great democracy are 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.