I have a plan to destroy America By Richard D. Lamm

[JJ_BPK]

I stumbled across this presentation while looking for something else.

A couple points:

1)he is a democrat and this is not from O's play book

2)although the speech is well formed, there is nothing new,, in fact we are in the process of doing exactly what he speaks of,, without his help...

Richard D. Lamm is the former Democratic Governor of Colorado. This is the short speech he gave at a conference sponsored by the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, around 2003. Just prior to Lamm's speech, Victor Davis Hanson spoke of his book "Mexifornia"..

I have a plan to destroy America By Richard D. Lamm

I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug, too white bread, too self-satisfied, too rich, let's destroy America. It is not that hard to do. History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and they all fall, and that "an autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide." Here is my plan:

1) We must first make America a bilingual-bicultural country. History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. One scholar, Seymour Martin Lipset, put it this way: "The histories of bilingual and bicultural 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 its Basques, Bretons and Corsicans."

2) I would then invent "multiculturalism" and encourage immigrants to maintain their own culture. I would make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal: that there are no cultural differences that are important. I would declare it an article of faith that the black and Hispanic dropout rate is only due to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out-of-bounds.

3) We can 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." I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would replace the melting pot metaphor with a salad bowl metaphor. It is important to insure that we have various cultural sub-groups living in America reinforcing their differences, rather than Americans emphasizing their similarities.

4) Having done all this, 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 percent dropout rate from school.

5) I would then get the big foundations and big 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 all the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.

6) I would establish dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. I would "celebrate diversity." "Diversity" is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. 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, and we can take advantage of this myopia.

Look at the ancient Greeks. Dorf's "World History" tells us: "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 in honor of Zeus, and all Greeks venerated the shrine of Apollo at Delphi. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. Yet, all of these bonds together were not strong enough to overcome two factors ... (local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions ...)" If we can put the emphasis on the "pluribus," instead of the "unum," we can balkanize America as surely as Kosovo.

7) Then I would place all these subjects off-limits - make it taboo to talk about. I would find a word similar to "heretic" in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like "racist", "xenophobe" halt argument and conversation. Having made America a bilingual-bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, 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 - "because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good." I would make every individual immigrant sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact.

8) Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson's book "Mexifornia" - this book is dangerous; it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please - if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed - please, please - don't buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?...#ixzz1JGL2ynt4

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.

[1stindoor]

I think you missed the point of his speech...he is trying to warn America of the problems we are facing. By his title he is drawing in the listener/reader...his last "point"...

8) Lastly, I would censor Victor Davis Hanson's book "Mexifornia" - this book is dangerous; it exposes my plan to destroy America. So please, please - if you feel that America deserves to be destroyed - please, please - don't buy this book! This guy is on to my plan.

...will probably do more to help sell Victor Hanson's book than anything else. The conservatives will read his article and buy Hanson's book out of support...the liberals will read his article and buy Hanson's book to refute it.

[JJ_BPK]

Originally Posted by 1stindoor

...will probably do more to help sell Victor Hanson's book than anything else. The conservatives will read his article and buy Hanson's book out of support...the liberals will read his article and buy Hanson's book to refute it.

Agreed 1000%, he is a supporter of Hanson and the 7 steps are real and exactly what the left is doing..

His speech was completely contemptuous tongue-in-cheek,, and he is a democrat..

[incarcerated]

I doubt Chomsky was speaking tongue-in-cheek.

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and U.S. media and foreign policy critic.

[Ret10Echo]

Amazing that this thread is from 2011.

I am in no way an expert or even more than novice in this subject area of Grievance Studies and really only became aware after listening to podcasts with Gad Saad and then later a podcast with Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay talking about their "experiment" that exposes the absolute fraud of the leftist academia.

These two gentlemen along with Helen Pluckrose wrote 20 fake scholarly papers and had several accepted and published in journals. One of the papers received an award.

With titles like: exposing “rape culture” by studying the sexual activities of dogs at dog parks in Portland

These frauds and freaks within the academic world have been exposed horribly and they are embarrassed. Now they are going after the only person they can in Peter Borghossian because he is still an academic as faculty at Portland State University. Deep in the crazy freakshow homeland.

All of the papers and some documentary videos are out there to review. Since it is on the platform that shall not be named I will offer up that you search for Mike Nayna or Grievance Scholars.

You might also check on the interview on the Joe Rogan podcast... Episode #1191

People that believed these papers to be real, true academic research are the ones who are most likely teaching your children....


To bastardize a quote from John Adams: letter to Abigail Adams, 1780

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Updated to add:

Unfortunately, after my children’s, children study music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, porcelain and sociology, their children will study gender, ethnicity, race-politics, privilege and socialism and determine that all that I have stood for and fought for in the establishment of this country is wrong and should be torn down….

[tom kelly]

Where is Rich Lamm today? I am surprised he is not seeling the Democrat nomination for President, along with the other 25 or 30 ass holes who call themselves "Progressives" Mitt Romney should switch parties and throw his hat in the dimo crat ring....The backstabbing among the D candidates should intensify now that h.clinton is in the running again.