8 Steps to Destroy America

[Ballygrl]

I hope I put this in the right forum. I was listening to Mark Levin at work, and he mentioned Richard Lamm and something called 8 Steps to Destroy America, he read this around 6:30PM EST in case anyone wants to listen to the podcast, and my mouth was open through most of it, it was amazing. I did a google search and found it:

Edited to change the link since the original link had some questionable and possible anti-semitic material.

http://www.apatheticvoter.com/HowToDestroyAmerica.htm

Eight Steps To Destroy America

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:

(First) ;"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:

(Second:) "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.

(Third:) 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 overcome 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,

(Seventh:) 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,'

(Eighth:) 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.

[Pat]

did Levin reference when the speech was given? or is this just more blog fear mongering?

[Ballygrl]

did Levin reference when the speech was given? or is this just more blog fear mongering?

I think the speech was in 2005 and given by Democrat Richard Lamm and it was proven to be a true speech by Snopes.

Truth=Fear Mongering?

[thundley4]

Even if the speech was given several years ago, it doesn't matter. It outlines the blueprint that the left has followed for many years.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Catering to non-English speaking minorities and excusing them from fluency may appear to be considerate, but in education especially it only prepares them to be a permanent underclass of serfs, unable to navigate the broader free market for goods and services and the unwitting slaves of the sharper and more manipulative elements of society, including bilingual weasels in their own group.

[Attero Dominatus]

I think the speech was in 2005 and given by Democrat Richard Lamm and it was proven to be a true speech by Snopes.

Yes it was. http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/lamm.asp

[Hawkgirl]

Back in the 70's, when I was an elementary school student, it was about America being a large "melting pot"  There were no hyphenated americans.  You were american, and those who emigrated here became americans...not afridan americans, irish americans, italian americans.

This is where it all started....

[bkg]

Catering to non-English speaking minorities and excusing them from fluency may appear to be considerate, but in education especially it only prepares them to be a permanent underclass of serfs, unable to navigate the broader free market for goods and services and the unwitting slaves of the sharper and more manipulative elements of society, including bilingual weasels in their own group.

As a 2nd generation Import, I concur. My grandparents had two rules. 1. do NOT speak Polish, speak English. 2. Assimilate. They were very successful (and legal) and had to go through one helluva a lot more to be citizens than people do today.

Either become an American or return to your native land.