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Last week, I attended an
immigration-overpopulation conference in Washington, DC,
filled to capacity by many of America's finest minds and
leaders. Writers, speakers, CEO's, representatives from
Congress such as Tom Tancredo as well as former governors
graced the podium. Bonnie Eggle, mother of the national
parks ranger Chris Eggle, slain by Mexican drug runners last
year on our unguarded southern border--gave a compelling
speech that left not one dry eye in the place. Peter Gadiel,
father of Jamie Gadiel, spoke powerfully on how the World
Trade Center took his son and how nothing has been done
since--to stop the flow of illegal immigration into the
United States. Even with the façade of Tom Ridge's Homeland
Security, 800,000 illegal aliens continue walking, crawling
or tunneling across the Mexican border annually. Their
accelerating numbers are undermining America's ability to
function.
During the conference, speaker after
speaker astounded the audience with facts on how fast the
present administration and congress continue dismantling the
American Dream for average citizens. Mr. Rob Sanchez of
Arizona, showed how H1 B and L 1 visas have ripped one
million high tech jobs out of American worker's hands.
Another speaker told a packed audience how 'offshoring' and
'outsourcing', fully supported by the president and congress
have cost over three million American jobs in the past six
years. His prediction was even more depressing: "In
excess of three million more jobs will be 'outsourced'
within four years. Those American jobs are headed to Mexico,
India, China, Pakistan and Brazil." Later, 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. This writer sat in the audience
spellbound by the eight methods for destruction of the
United States.
He said, "If you believe that America
is too smug, to 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 bicultural 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
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 Basques, Bretons
and Corsicans."
Lamm went on, "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. 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 America, 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 factorslocal patriotism
and geographical conditions that nurtured political
divisions. Greece fell. 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
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
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 allowed me to hear my
heart beating. 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 greedy corporations create a Third World in
America-take note of California and other states-to date, 10
million illegal aliens and growing, fast.
It reminded me 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." I sat there as one of the most patriotic
Americans I know, 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.
Frosty Wooldridge (frostyw@juno.com) is a
teacher and author who has bicycled 100,000 miles on six
continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly. His
latest book is: 'STRIKE THREE! TAKE YOUR BASE'. For more
information to take action at the national level, you may go
to www.numbersusa.com or write the author for local web
sites to take local action in your state. This is your
country and your kids' future.
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