March 10, 2005

Celebrate Diversity? How About Celebrating UNITY?

The following email was sent to me by an acquaintence. I thought you would be interested in what it has to say.

We all know Dick Lamm as the liberal, Democratic 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 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.'"

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 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."

"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. 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.

Every great society in all of history destroyed themselves and fell within because of a lack of moral and ethical values, greed, and internal strife. Does the following sound familiar?

Happy holiday replaces Merry Christmas

Diversity replaces excellence in education

Ethnic history becomes more important than American History

Historical fact is replaced by revisionist idealism

Founding christianity is replaced by political correctness, which becomes the new religion

Posted by GM Roper at March 10, 2005 05:31 PM | TrackBack
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Meanwhile, over at Mr. Cooper's place they are tiresomely rearguing the whole Iraq situation based on the poorly timed mistake that is the Sgrena Giuliana affair.

Kudos to you Mr. Roper, kudos indeed. I may not always have something interesting or pithy or valuable to say but I damn sure enjoy what you write.

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Why thank you kind sir, your comments are ALWAYS appreciated. Too bad that most of the commenters at Marc's place aren't as (relatively) open minded as Marc is.

GMR

Posted by too many steves at March 10, 2005 07:10 PM

Gee...thanks for posting that!

It certainly seems to put a lot of things into a different and more helpful perspective.

Lots that has gone on for the last few years in Europe - with the emerging problems they seem to be having - also are coming into the same perspective...as far as immigration policies are concerned. I hope we can learn somethig before we take the same road all unaware.

I've had a lot of trouble getting folks who espouse "multiculturism" and "diversity" to define them for me...and to offer a goal which they are supposed to attain. I do get shushed a lot when I ask, though.

I will definitely read "Mexifornia"!

Posted by Samuel Finley at March 11, 2005 08:54 AM

So true, GM. I work at a CA university, and its religion is multiculturalism. Happy Holidays and let's have a Ramadan dinner!

In the last five years, my suburb has gone from diverse to 1/3 Korean (mostly illegal), 1/3 Hispanic (mostly illegal) and a mixture of the rest. The three parts of our Balkans do not worship, socialize, or do business with each other, and the cash economy is IMO the main reason they have come in such great numbers. Oh, and the good schools. The Caucasians are excluded, except from paying taxes, and so they are leaving. Meanwhile, everyone from the schools to Arnold do not mention the unmentionable. And so I want to leave, too, but where to go?

Posted by PJ at March 11, 2005 08:59 PM





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