How To Destroy America

Scary

Published on April 1, 2006 By KFC Kickin For Christ In Politics

A Frightening Analysis

This is a speech given about 2 years ago but still worth repeating. Have you heard this?

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 American's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor named 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, 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 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 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 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like 'racist' or 'x! xenophobes' 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. Every 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 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.

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Comments (Page 6)

drmiler

on Apr 18, 2006

k....think this getting "Off topic" boys!!

BE NICE!!!

okie-dokie with me.
Now try getting the other half to agree.

Rightwinger

on Apr 19, 2006

Rightwinger

You should wake up and smell the Roses. Your BOY is a looser!

Tell that to the majority of people who voted him a second term. I dunno, Gene, but I think maybe you're the one who likes boys. Heh, heh, heh.....

If this topic was anywhere NEAR a discussion about your personal Satan, maybe your --lightyears off-topic-- input might have been welcome. Alas, it is not. And so, it is not. Have something to say about the article or what came after? Say it and join in. If not, beat it.
Quit trying to make a discussion about apples into a discussion about pears.

Rightwinger

on Apr 19, 2006

Damn it, I forgot to add this to my above reply. Sorry to post again.

The assumption being that there is a national language

---Baker

You're ignoring (again) the fact that a large majority of people in this country do, in fact, consider English to be the national language. We do hold some truths to be self-evident, Baker.
I wonder what answer you'd get if you went to Mexico or Europe and asked the people what the native language of the United States of America is? If a majority of them said "English", would you buy it, then?
The Founders were smart, wise, and had great and far-reaching vision, but they weren't infallible gods.....maybe they just assumed (as I said somewhere above) that we'd always have enough common sense to understand at least some their intentions without having to be taken in hand and pushed in that direction?

bakerstreet

on Apr 19, 2006

"You're ignoring (again) the fact that a large majority of people in this country do, in fact, consider English to be the national language. We do hold some truths to be self-evident, Baker."

Then put it up for a vote. Then, when the majority wants it to become Esperanto, they can do that too. That's not what you want, though. You want to declare us English-speaking via heritage and culture. You know that eventually you'll be in the minority, that's the undertone of all these "They're gonna move in and ruin our country" posts.

So, cement it now, right? That way, it doesn't matter how many different cultures move in, how big of a majority they are, and how small a minority your particular culture may end up, everyone has to bow to your will. What's important isn't what people want to speak, it's what people are SUPPOSED to speak.

Your self-evident "truth" concerning a national language isn't any more compelling than the "truth" of abortion or gay marriage as a right. It just seems true to you, and the alternative seems wrong, so you declare it wrong.

Democracy isn't about who got here first. If it was, Spanish would be on the menu LONG before English in Florida and California, and several other states, too. You claim that because English speakers have been the majority for the first x number of years, English has to be the national language from now on. Not hardly, not if you give a damn about real democracy and freedom.

As I said elsewhere, if we want to start hacking sections out of the bill of rights tomorrow, we have the constitutional power to do so. You're livig in a dream world if you think we can't make the "national" language anything we want, or forgo such a silly thing in the first place.

Tova7

on Apr 19, 2006

Wow, you guys have some great arguments here.

I live in a "lily white" suburb. There are a few Mexicans here and there, fixing the glass windows at Lowes, working at Abuelos (a yummy Mexican Resteraunt) and while they speak Spanish to each other, they use English when speaking to me. (And are usually very good about not laughing in my face when I make meager attempts at speaking their language.)

There are valid points to both sides of this debate. And I certainly can't add anything to them...Baker and Rightwinger you guys have done a great job.

So for me it boils down to this.....I don't want to learn fluent Spanish, I have other things I'd like to learn first. I want English to be the official American language, because I know it and for the sake of tradition. So I think if someone wants to move here, become a citizen of this country, they have to put on "new robes" of red white and blue and learn our language, which is right now English.

Change comes though, part of living in a Democracy is accepting the good changes (to you) with the bad changes (to you)...so who knows what our language will be in fifty years?

We could be conquered by the Chinese in a war and all be speaking Chinese!

I think as the Hispanic population increases in this country, this issue will get more attention. My guess...eventually something will be legislated.

But what do I know?

Rightwinger

on Apr 21, 2006

Your self-evident "truth" concerning a national language isn't any more compelling than the "truth" of abortion or gay marriage as a right.

I haven't got much time at the moment; heading to work (sigh). I'll start with the quote above.

I know what you're saying, but abortion wasn't legistlated or decided by the people in a vote. It was imposed on us by a liberal Supreme Court which decided on its own that it should be a right. Gay marriage is the same.....most of us couldn't care less about it and don't really want it, but will probably end up with it anyway.
A "national language", though, logically, is what the majority of people were, have been and are speaking. Presently, that's English.
Like Tova, I have no problem with people who want to come here and speak their own language among themselves. That's the way it's always been.
But, when they know they'll have to interact with people who don't speak their language, they should somehow learn at least some of the one the majority speaks (the way it's always been), rather than impudently insisting that the people in the country they're going to accomodate them and learn theirs.

You seem to hate and resent the fact that we imposed our ways and means on the immigrants who, in fact, themsleves wanted those ways and means imposed. America's greatest strength lies in it's "melting pot" mentality. People are more than welcome to (legally) come here and become Americans. That has always meant learning English along with our laws and history. Multiculturalism is a fantasy. Look at the cultural chaos Europe is going through right now. That's from, among other reasons, a fevered adherance to the ideal of multiculturalism.

"E Pluribus Unum"----"From Many, One". It's worked so far.

When/if the Spanish-speaking peoples do take over, and it becomes our "new" national language, we'll have to deal with it.
Right now, though, we're still an overwhelmingly English-speaking nation, and I, and many others, think it's only fair of others who come here from elsewhere to learn to speak to me, rather than the other way around.

bakerstreet

on Apr 21, 2006

"When/if the Spanish-speaking peoples do take over, and it becomes our "new" national language, we'll have to deal with it. "

If that were what is being suggested, I'd be a lot more agreeable. What I am reading here and elsewhere is that we have to take measures now to prevent our nation from ever straying from the English path. Sure, if you want the national language to be what is most spoken, that's fine by me.

That at least leaves the freedom for us to change our minds later. What's being suggested by people who are outraged atm seems to be that we need to hurry and define ourselves so that no matter how many people move in and differ later, they won't be able to do anything about it.

That is *exactly* like those who want the decision about abortion and gay marriage, etc., out of the hands of society.

Rightwinger

on Apr 21, 2006

As I look through the posts of this exchange, Baker, I'm strangely reminded of a Sunday Edition "Dilbert" cartoon I read some time ago:

The Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss was smiling benignly, just finishing up a meeting with the words "....and that's why Change is always good! Any questions?"

Wally asks "Okay, who wants this one?"

Dilbert raises his hand and says, "I'll take it."

"Yes, Dilbert?" asks the Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss, smiling benignly.

Dilbert asks, "If Change is always a good thing, why don't you double our salaries, extend the weekends and increase our vacation time?"

The Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss sagely replies, "That Change would not be good for the Shareholders."

"Then why don't you work for free? That Change would be good for the shareholders," Dilbert suggests.

Much hilarity ensues over the next few panels, as Dilbert shoots holes in the Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss's theory. In response, the Boss grows ever more frustrated and angry until, in the last panel, when Dilbert asks:

"....or are you ready to agree that not all Change is good?"

The Evil Pointy-Haired Boss shouts: "Stop using your confounded logic!"

The problem is, which of us is the Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss?

bakerstreet

on Apr 21, 2006

"The problem is, which of us is the Evil, Pointy-Haired Boss?"

Well, in terms of "selective" change, I'd have to say you guys are the ones wanting to rig it in a way that is most beneficial to what you consider to be your "culture". Change in terms of my position just happens. You guys want to head off that change and make sure it follows the path that seems most comfortable to you, and more difficult for others who aren't as well-positioned as you.

I mean, why shouldn't our national lauguage change over time? Because it wouldn't be good for the shareholders, I guess...

Rightwinger

on Apr 22, 2006

You guys want to head off that change and make sure it follows the path that seems most comfortable to you, and more difficult for others who aren't as well-positioned as you.

Gosh. Must be nice to be so understanding and mellow. So caring and loving. Have the wounds in your side, hands and feet healed yet?
As I've reiterated, time and again, if they want to come here, fine. Just learn the language, is all I ask. Not so much in the great scheme of things.

Oh, forget it. My "Dilbert" post was an attempt to end this discussion with a little humor, because it got a little intense there for a bit. But because someone disagreed with a point you hold especially dear, I guess no humor can be injected.
Well, that's okay....I'm just a lowly, culture-less American doofus anyway, with no language of my own. I guess I'll just bow to your greatness and give it up.

The majority agrees with me, anyway. That's what matters most.

KFC Kickin For Christ

on Apr 22, 2006

Well, that's okay....I'm just a lowly, culture-less American doofus anyway, with no language of my own. I guess I'll just bow to your greatness and give it up.

The majority agrees with me, anyway. That's what matters most.

You're not a doofus!! You're pretty smart in my book. And you have a language I for one can understand and agree with. I'm kinda worried about being in the majority tho. I don't like that. It's usually wrong.

bakerstreet

on Apr 22, 2006

"Just learn the language, is all I ask. Not so much in the great scheme of things."

Until you are asked to learn a language, and then we get a long list of reasons it is difficult. WHen you are a poor person in Mexico just trying to feed your family, multiply those problems exponentially.

"The majority agrees with me, anyway. That's what matters most."

We'll see if it matters when the majority doesn't, which is what this "destroying America" pre-emptive action attitude is really about.

Rightwinger

on Apr 22, 2006

You're not a doofus!! You're pretty smart in my book. And you have a language I for one can understand and agree with.

---KFC

Gawrsh, thanks. (face reddens)

I'm kinda worried about being in the majority tho. I don't like that. It's usually wrong.

---KFC

Sometimes, yes, but I don't think it is in this case, for reasons I've stated many times in this thread. You got a good discussion going here, KFC. Thanks.

Until you are asked to learn a language, and then we get a long list of reasons it is difficult.

---Baker

If I'm going to another country where they speak another language, I'd be more than happy to learn at least a bit in order to fit in a bit better and perhaps accomodate the people I'd be encountering. But then, that's me.
I'm American, see, and have been told on unimpeachable authority I have no real culture and no real language, so I guess it'd be pretty easy for me adopt another.

We'll see if it matters when the majority doesn't, which is what this "destroying America" pre-emptive action attitude is really about.

---Baker

Yes, we will at that.

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