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[ken whitney]

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Date: 	Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:09:24 -0700
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This was sent to us by a church member.  Dick Lamm is a powerful, 
thoughtful ex-governor of Colorado and on the staff at Denver 
University.  Clare whitney
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Subject: Food For Thought


FOOD FOR THOUGHT (true or not....) 

    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.'"
     "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, 
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: "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 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 
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 'zenophobe' 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. 
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