Dick Lamm's "Plan to Destroy America."

[lawrocket 3]

Dick Lamm is a Democrat - former governor of Colorado. He gave a speech about a year and a half ago in Washington D.C. wherein he detailed how to destroy America.

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"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."

Interesting.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[rushmc 18]

A very sharp point indeed!

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[lawrocket 3]

By the way. Snopes confirmed it as True, and had a written reprise by Lamm.

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

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Trent 0]

Good speech! Props to someone with the balls to tell it like it is. The problem is that too many are already brainwashed by the PC/Mediocrity bug to see it.

A wise man once said: "Borders, Language, and Culture"

Without those 3 things, any country will fall apart sooner or later. Hopefully, enough people will get their heads out of their activist asses to see it.

Oh, hello again!

[SkyDekker 1,121]

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History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures.

I wonder how Switzerland or Belgium have been doing this.

[jdhill 0]

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"Borders, Language, and Culture"

Its a Savage Nation...

[shropshire 0]

Or India... one of the fastest growing economies

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Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[goofyjumper 0]

Isn't Canada a bi-lingual country? Looks like they are surviving just fine........

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[rehmwa 2]

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"Borders, Language, and Culture"

Its a Savage Nation...

perhaps that particular statement is decent enough, but that man is not 'wise' at all. He's a nutjob, either that or someone putting on a very good act as a nutjob jsut to target a specific market demographic

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[SpeedRacer 1]

Kinda surprising that the USA managed to accomplish so much in the 19th & all through the 20th century, what with all the goldurn foreign-speaking riffraff coming here & buiding railroads & cities & whatnot. Damn immigrants coming here with their funny-soundin' furrin languages! We shoulda had tougher immigration laws! If you don't believe me, ask an American Indian.

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[Amazon 7]

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Damn immigrants coming here with their funny-soundin' furrin languages! We shoulda had tougher immigration laws! If you don't believe me, ask an American Indian

GO HOME

[SpeedRacer 1]

Don't tell ME to go home! I speak American, the language the Bible was written in!

now go fetch me another beer & a sack o' pork rinds. & don't stand in front of the TV, I'm tryin' to watch the game.

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[goofyjumper 0]

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[Trent 0]

So, goofyjumper, SpeedRacer, Amazon, shropshire, and SkyDekker...

Do you disagree with the article? Do you disagree with the history that suggests it might actually be right?

Oh, hello again!

[Amazon 7]

Hey if you guys dont want to be PC then dont... but do not get all huffy when you lose a job when you make sexist or racist comments.

[jumpingjimmy 0]

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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 togeth

awsome speach
i liked the bit quotd above, made me instantly think of the blacks who call themselves African Americans. No, you're either black...or an American, or both if you want to be perdantic

forget about the past, the ones who can't forget about the slave trade and want to remind everybody at every opportunity, call themselves African Americans. Let go and start thinking of yourselves as Americans.... unless you want to keep the divide between the races going and keep your hatred simmering underneath

[jdhill 0]

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Hey if you guys dont want to be PC then dont... but do not get all huffy when you lose a job when you make sexist or racist comments.

What does PC have to do with the idea that multi-culturalism is a bad thing? You can promote one culture without being racist or sexist... those that would set themselves apart based on their race or gender are being racist and/or sexist.

[Amazon 7]

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What does PC have to do with the idea that multi-culturalism is a bad thing? You can promote one culture without being racist or sexist... those that would set themselves apart based on their race or gender are being racist and/or sexist.

Gee I think it was these lines
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.'"



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."

[goofyjumper 0]

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So, goofyjumper, SpeedRacer, Amazon, shropshire, and SkyDekker...

Do you disagree with the article? Do you disagree with the history that suggests it might actually be right?

I absolutly disaggree with that artical, because of the fact that this guy is making these comments on something that he does not agree with. You can always find a negative side to anything that is argued. To say multi-culturalism will destroy a country like America (which was based off freedom like multi-culturalism) is to say that you do not like America, and like the conservative's would say "If you do not like America, then get the fuck out"

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I love and Miss you so much Honey!
Orfun #3 ~ Darla

[jumpingjimmy 0]

you can live in a dream world where every race gets on, or you can live in reality where the mojority of different races don't get on, and dont want to get on

in England, we're currently at 8% of our population being "minorities" thats enough for me, i'm white English, i don't want this country over run by other races. The bastardisation of races must end at some point. Stop watering down races... i'm proud to be English, just like a native from Nigeria must be proud to be who he is, but i dont want to be one world, one race. let them be proud of who they are, and let me be proud of who i am

[Amazon 7]

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you can live in a dream world where every race gets on, or you can live in reality where the mojority of different races don't get on, and dont want to get on

Kewl lets get it on with the rest of the non white world and genocide their colored asses out of existence...

Last time I checked.. White English were pretty much Mutts too

Britons...Welsh...Irish...Picts.. Celts ( related to Basques)Romans.....Saxons.. Vikings...Normans and then there was all that admixture from the Empire. Face it one hell of a lot of people have been emigrating to that set of islands since the Ice Cap Melted some 10,000 years ago.

[Richards 0]

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Or India... one of the fastest growing economies

Would that be the same India where about 700 muslims were slaughtered in Gujarat while the government stood by and watched?

The worlds largest democracy?

Richards

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

[billvon 2,393]

>History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict,
>and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures.

Exactly! After all, New Orleans was recently destroyed since it's been bilingual since, well, since before it was New Orleans. And every US city with a Chinatown or a Little Italy has fallen to pieces. San Diego has a significant percentage of spanish speakers, and people are leaving it in droves (right?)

>Invent 'multiculturalism' and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture.

That would definitely destroy the US. Once purely american foods, music, art and literature get polluted by those damn foreigners, we'd fall apart. Next thing you know, people would be replacing traditional american foods like frankfurters, french fries, tacos, pizza and spaghetti with some sort of bizarre foreign food.

And what about music? Imagine how much our music would suck if american rock and roll was replaced by some sort of "british invasion" of music.

And think about where america would be without entrepreneurs. We'd probably be like the French.

>Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to over come two
> factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured
> political divisions. Greece fell.

Exactly. If we have foolish people who support their local neighborhoods, schools, stores and charities instead of pledging allegiance to one king (sorry, president) and one strong, authoritarian central government, then we'd be just like Greece, and we'd fall rapidly.

>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."

Good point. We should replace "racist" with "uniter." We could have a uniter organization that preaches monoculturalism and ethnic homogenity. They could leave symbols on people's lawns that remind them of racial purity; would be a great way to unite a community. Of course, they'd probably have to wear hoods for a little while, at least until the irrational hatred people have of uniters is overcome.

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But seriously, guy's a kook. There are many threats to the US. Diversity is not one of them.

[Richards 0]

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Isn't Canada a bi-lingual country? Looks like they are surviving just fine........

The rift between the french and the english has almost brought us to breakup on several occasions. There is seething resentment throughout canada about the fact that official bilingualism is enforced in places like alberta where there is almost no french.

I have received rude treatment on many occasions in quebec and at one time I was in a french hospital and the receptionist would not serve me. Many english people in quebec have moved away because of the hostility that is present.

Richards

My biggest handicap is that sometimes the hole in the front of my head operates a tad bit faster than the grey matter contained within.

[jumpingjimmy 0]

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Britons...Welsh...Irish...Picts.. Celts ( related to Basques)Romans.....Saxons.. Vikings...Normans

all white and without a chip on their shoulder unlike alot of the paki's, indians and blacks that are living in their little ghettos in this country

the BNP http://www.bnp.org.uk/ are growing in support at an alarming rate in this country, why do you think middle class people are leaning towards extreme right wing parties more and more?

correct, they are sick and tired of ethnic minorities coming to this country and taking the piss