June 26, 2007
The June 26th Frightening Amnesty Senate Vote
Recalls Governor Lamm's Warning About How to
Destroy the USA
By
Donald A. Collins
This ghastly cloture vote in the Senate on Tuesday,
June 26th, should frighten all thinking Americans about
the likely course of events if S1639 should wind up the
law of the land. What is happening to the United States
of American under the leadership of the
Sellout Senate, the White House and its likely
mirror image of support in the Open Border Democratic
House of Representatives should spark immediate anger
and action from all Americans.
We speculated before this cloture vote in a
June 25th piece that enactment of S1639 would be
like putting a
Trojan Horse into America, allowing the swift almost
silent amalgamation of
Mexico, the US and Canada into the North American
Union.
All these steps remind us that our Federal Government
has consistently for years failed its citizens to
address the immigration invasion which now allows
largely illegal
Latin American workers in America to
send billions of dollars home, mainly to
Mexico, and the 12 to 20 million illegals in our
country to make increasing use of our tax supported
services. We are screaming and the
elites in Congress are scheming.
Very scary, generating a feeling among those aware of
what is happening of desperation, of frustration, of the
need to do something revolutionary to catch the
attention of those who should have repaired our
immigration system making our
borders secure and demanding that
employers not employ illegal aliens or import H1-B's
well beyond any need for them. Has the greed and
fecklessness gotten too high to reclaim of heritage? How
rich does one have to get before he or she begins to
think of the country instead of piling up more money?
Well this is not new business. On October 19, 2003,
an immigration-overpopulation conference, which I
attended, was held in Washington, DC, filled to capacity
by many of American's finest minds and leaders. Here is
what he said, as
written up by Frosty Wooldridge:
A brilliant college
professor named
Victor Davis Hanson 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:
"Turn America into a
bilingual or multi-lingual and bi-cultural 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,
Malyasia, 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:
"Invent 'multi-culturalism'
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.
"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 multi-ethnic and
multi-cultural experiment might have been achieved not
by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that
once dictated, however ethnocentrically, 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 sub-groups 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 sympatric and ignore the cumulative impact of
millions of them."
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped
his brow. The 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.
Now with events having gone exactly as the Governor
predicted, this immigration monster will rage like a
California wildfire and destroy everything in its path,
especially The American Dream.
There is of course still time, but we really need to
let these mad people in the Senate understand the extent
of their idiocy and greed. Let's keep going and maybe we
can stop it yet. But immense thanks again to Dick Lamm,
whose speech really captured the essence of what the
debate is about.
Donald A. Collins [email
him], is a freelance writer living in Washington DC and
a board member of FAIR, the Federation for American
Immigration Reform. His views are his own.