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How to destroy America

 
 
au1929
 
Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:07 pm
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, 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.


Any comment??? Agree or disagree.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:19 pm
Re: How to destroy America
au1929 wrote:
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.


Although the USA claims to be the oldest democracy on world, the Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft/Confederation Suisse/Confederazione Svizzera in plain English commonly called "Switzerland" - survived since Anno Domine 1291. (Fully independend and souvereign country since 1499.)

So, I stopped reading at "First".
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au1929
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:29 pm
Walter. The US is not switzerland and this is not 1291.
That aside have you any other comments pro or con regarding the opinions expressed.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:33 pm
I´f an article starts with ...
Quote:
First ... History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures.

... I don't read any further. Since when the the first = the most important point, is deadly wrong ...
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parados
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:35 pm
Every wave of immigration has been predicted to destroy America.

They have all swept accross this country. They have all changed our language and our culture. The US is nothing like it was in the 1700s before the Dutch, the Spanish, the French, the English, the Germans, the Irish, the Italians, the Chinese, the Hmong, the Somalies, etc, etc all came to this country and changed it.

Our history is filled with those that railed against immigration. They have always been wrong. They will always be wrong.
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blacksmithn
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:38 pm
Good choice, Walter. You didn't miss much.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:40 pm
The - by Lamm - "revised version" of that speech can be found on snopes, btw.
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:42 pm
blacksmithn wrote:
Good choice, Walter. You didn't miss much.


This has been posted so many times. Actually, I'd thaught to read it some time.

But after your commend: thanks! :wink:
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parados
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:43 pm
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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.

This speech was given in 2003...

3 years ago.

Rolling Eyes
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:49 pm
Since ever, through history, people have been playing Cassandra...
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 02:55 pm
Isn't Cassandra the teacher at the bee-school of Maya the bee (Maya l'abeille, Biene Maya, Ape Maia - as the Swiss would say)?
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Francis
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 03:31 pm
We have not the same references, Walter, it seems. Twisted Evil
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 04:26 pm
Well, what can I do: I only graduated from kindergarten :wink:
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ebrown p
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 04:55 pm
If I wanted to destroy America...

I would give women the right to vote, and say that women should be able to join the workforce as equals to men.

I would make it legal for people of different races to marry.

I would sell foreign foods in public with words like "taco" or "spaghetti" or "chow mein" or "sushi" understandable to all.

I would treat Catholicism and Judiaism as equal religions to Protestant Christianity. I would even work to elect a Catholic as president. I would tell Jewish kids that they don't have to pray at school in Jesus' name.

I would insist that white children and colored children should be educated together.

I would accept music, like Jazz or Blues, that have non-European roots.

I would reward the illegal behavior of abolitionsists and escaped slaves by outlawing slavery... more than this I would even offer them citizenship.
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blacksmithn
 
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Reply Thu 23 Nov, 2006 09:52 pm
I think America's been on the short road to hell ever since we let all those goddammed Norwegians in.

Wait... What?! I'm 1/4 Norwegian?!!!

Never mind...........
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talk72000
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 12:17 am
India has 27 official languages - Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, etc. It has been around for thousands of years.

China too has many languages but under Imperial compulsion forced to have one written language. China also has survived for thousands of years. Each province has it own language. Mandarin, Cantonese, Fukienese, Hakka, etc.

Switzerland has three official languages - German, French and Italian.

America too has many languages - American English, Ghetto English, vulgar English, Southern drawl, Yankee talk, Midwestern English, ethnic English.
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hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 12:36 am
Paul Kennedy proposed a thesis about the rise and fall of great powers - which is not the same as nations being destroyed. Just their sphere of influence being reduced. There is every chance it will happen to the USA, but it doesn't mean the end of the USA. There's still a Rome, an Alexandria, a Netherlands, an England - they just end up being tourist destinations.
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 01:10 am
I would dearly love to destroy this current (political) version of the US. I have thought long & hard about how this can be achieved & this is the best I can come up with: create another "super-power" quickly! An outside threat is needed, urgently! I mean, look at how disappointing (& downright dangerous for all of us on the planet!) the US has been as the sole super power! A lost opportunity to create a better world. A tragedy, really.

So, OK, next!
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hingehead
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 01:21 am
Gawd, I think I disagree with Olga. Which probably means I'm wrong. But I think the worst excesses of the current US administration are caused by their fear that they aren't that far ahead of the pack. If China called in the US debt their economy would be crushed. Economically China is a superpower, in terms of influence. India is working on it. Russia isn't quite out of it either. Resources are the name of the game now - military might is meaningless (Iraq yet again proves that).

But what I think will bring down all this super power crap is the globalisation of people. I think the nation as the main mode of political power is on the way out. The planets biggest challenges, global warming, water supply, fuel, et al cannot be solved by a government acting unilaterally, there has to be supra-governmental cooperation - united we stand divided we drown in our own filth.
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msolga
 
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2006 01:35 am
The worst excess since "the fall of Communism" is the US having too much power on the planet. Far too much power.

But since then, globalization has added yet another dimension to the situation.

The thing is, I doubt that the gurus originally advocating globalization (largely US-based), ever dreamed that that countries like China & India would become so strong, so quickly. I'll bet they'd like to put the lid back on the bottle, but it's too late, by far. I think they always believed, because of the "natural supremacy" of the US, that they'd be able to control the situation. It's clear they can't.

Does this mean we're sort of half agreeing, hinge?
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