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Can Diversity Destroy Us?
Human Events ^ | Dec. 4, 2007 | Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on 12/04/2007 9:27:51 AM PST by Travis McGee

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To: Bishop_Malachi

AMERICAN SUICIDE
Wherever you stand, please take the time to read this; it ought to scare the pants off you!

We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado (Democrat). In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Recently there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America’s finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of Victor Davis Hansen 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 tha! t no nat ion 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, and 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 difficult times with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.”

Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, “Invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are
no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely 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 ethnocentricity 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 enforcing 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 that 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 will balkanize America assuredly 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 bi-lingual/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: 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, da! rkly, yet pervasively across the United States today.
Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even 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. If you care for and love our country as I
do, take the time to pass this on just as I did for you.


41 posted on 12/04/2007 10:30:34 AM PST by B4Ranch (( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share." ))
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To: tom h

Yup, obedience to the law, assimilation and a colorblind society are all we really need to fix even the bad problems we have today.


42 posted on 12/04/2007 10:31:03 AM PST by onward_xtian_soldier (God Bless America! America Bless God!)
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To: Publius6961

“. . . the utopia of multiculturalism involves a bureaucratic class presiding over a nation divided into a variety of ethnic nationalities. That, of course, looks awfully like the old Soviet Union. Such a system cannot work, and its failure is likely to inflict great damage on the people, their traditions, and their liberties.”

— Lady Margaret Thatcher -


43 posted on 12/04/2007 10:33:57 AM PST by donna (If America is not a Christian nation, it will be part of the Islamic nation. Take your pick.)
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To: onward_xtian_soldier

Colorblind society may sound good, but how do you get any race other than whites to agree to it? Look around the world. Non-white nations protect their racial make-up. White nations don’t. We admit people of other races, who then practice racial politics and activism against the white population of the host nation.


44 posted on 12/04/2007 10:40:20 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Travis McGee
CW2 Ping.

"Diversity is our strength" Bump...

(Could you please put me on your CW2 Ping list too?)

45 posted on 12/04/2007 10:41:30 AM PST by Screaming_Gerbil (Let's Roll...)
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To: Travis McGee

Add me to your ping list, too. Thanks!


46 posted on 12/04/2007 10:44:49 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: wardaddy

......”we will not all go quietly”...
I am with you there wardaddy!


47 posted on 12/04/2007 10:47:02 AM PST by whipitgood (Let's burn some MEXICAN flags!)
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To: puroresu

You’re not getting a race to agree to colorblind society, you’re getting individuals. That’s the whole point. In my church there are Hispanics, Asians and Blacks who love the Lord, live and raise their children by good American values. They aren’t the ones funding pressure groups like La Raza or Sharpton’s crew or whatever crazy Asian supremacist lobby there probably is somewhere, and I think they and people like them are actually the majority of Americans of those races. And I don’t care what other benighted countries do, I care that we do what’s right here in America.


48 posted on 12/04/2007 10:49:13 AM PST by onward_xtian_soldier (God Bless America! America Bless God!)
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To: Travis McGee

May not be a bad idea to divide America into several different nations. You could have a Christian conservative nation; a secular liberal nation and maybe a few others. People might be happier.

The Roman Empire divided itself into 2 and sometimes 4 parts to make governing easier. A state should only exist to serve the needs of it’s citizenry. It is not an end in itself. If it cannot do so, there is no reason for it to exist.


49 posted on 12/04/2007 10:52:27 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: Travis McGee

51 posted on 12/04/2007 10:58:07 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Travis McGee
Western civilization in general has taken a turn for the surreal, like a culture from some old science fiction story. We've all seen the formula in episodes of The Twilight Zone or Star Trek; a highly advanced people gradually turns into a collection of idiots incapable of maintaining the elements of the culture passed down to them by their forebears.

Most of the time, those societies perish, either due to time and attrition (see: abortion) or because they are taken down by the competition. Once in a while, though, they fight back and the story ends on a positive note:

"What was ours, is ours again. It will never be taken from us again!"
- Cloud William (Chief, also Son of Chief)

52 posted on 12/04/2007 10:58:28 AM PST by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: Travis McGee
Just think how great these WWII airmen could have been, if only they'd had more diverse backgrounds.


53 posted on 12/04/2007 10:58:55 AM PST by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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To: onward_xtian_soldier

Well, you’re no doubt correct that there are good people and colorblind people of all races. But the reality is that certain races vote as a racial block and pursue racial identity politics. Even interracial marriage doesn’t stop it. Take a look at Halle Berry. She’s mixed race, and looks like a white girl with a tan, but she identifies herself as black, Black, BLACK! Or Barack Obama. He’s mixed race, but he identifies with the black father who abandoned him, not the white mother who raised him.

The truth is, colorblindness is a white liberal creation which doesn’t exist outside the white world, except in a few individuals and as a rhetorical device for getting racial capitualtions from whites. It’s why there are groups like La Raza, MECHA, the NAACP, and so forth, that are respected and catered to, and why demagogues like Jackson & Sharpton have huge followings and are treated as respectable commentators while David Duke is justifiably shunned.


54 posted on 12/04/2007 11:01:42 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Travis McGee

“Last week, we learned that in the last seven years 10.3 million people, almost all from the Third World, entered the United States, more than half illegally. The nation that was one-tenth minority in 1960 is now one-third minority. European-Americans will soon be a minority in the nation, as they are today in California, Texas and most large American cities.”

I’ll wager 3/4 or more were illegal.


55 posted on 12/04/2007 11:04:28 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: puroresu

capitualtions = capitulations.


56 posted on 12/04/2007 11:05:30 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Travis McGee
The only time this nation was almost seperated was during the Civil War. That was basically white versus white. It wasn't caused by blacks or immigrants. You had two groups of whites with same ancestry, religion and language who couldn't get along and ended up killing 600,000 of their own.

My cyncial view is that if you can't handle minorities, you will probably find a way to hate your own as well: The biggest killer of whites in history have been other whites.

57 posted on 12/04/2007 11:05:45 AM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: B4Ranch

B T T T


59 posted on 12/04/2007 11:10:56 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: B4Ranch; wardaddy; whipitgood; donna; TonyRo76

See post # 58


60 posted on 12/04/2007 11:12:02 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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