Just when you think no Democrat will ever make sense, something like the following story about Richard Lamm, a Democrat, comes up, and it's true, according to Snopes snopes.com
Back when I was a very minor employee in the executive branch of the federal government, Clinton Era gurus were foisting off multiculturalism on us. Literally shoving it down our throats. The last office Christmas Party I attended there had banners from Kwanza, Hanukkah, Islam, and what have you. It was all part of an intense effort to install multiculturalism on us. Non-Christian events had no such multi-cultural flavor, but the daily effort to enforce multiculturalism was relentless.
Lest there be no misunderstanding about where I stand, I love the richness brought to the American culture by ethnic groups from around the world. Rich American culture, not multiculturalism.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp
Anything in this text look familiar?
As the person who reported this says, it is chilling because it isn't a
prediction of the future. It is something that is happening today, and not
just in California.
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.'"
1. "Here is how they do it," Lamm said: "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."
2. Lamm went on: "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.
3. "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 ethnocentrically and
what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to
hold us together.'"
4. 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."
5. "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."
6. "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."
7. "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 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."
8. "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-culturist 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."
9. 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 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. |
