YOUTUBE | BOOGIEFINGER | RICHARD D. LAMM | OCTOBER 18, 2003
DAVID MIKKELSON | JUNE 15, 2005
PHOTO SOURCE | NYTIMES.COM
A former Colorado governor delivers a speech on the destructive effects of multiculturalism on the U.S.
This is the original audio file of Dick Lamm’s now rather famous and very short “My Plan to Destroy America.” Mark Levin introduces a clip by Former Democrat Governor Richard Lamm, Colorado. At a gathering talking about a book called ‘Mexifornia’ by Victor Davis Hanson, the liberal Democrat highlights his concerns over ‘multiculturalism’ in a unique way.
TRANSCRIPT
Mark Levin speaking:
0:00 I have an audio clip that’s three
0:01 minutes long that is very very
0:04 fascinating and I’m gonna play this
0:06 audio clip it’s never been played before
0:09 anywhere I’m going to play this for you
0:12 because there is a stunning news story
0:15 at Breitbart where Senator sessions and
0:18 his staff point out that fully 98
0:22 percent of individuals deported from the
0:25 United States last year were either
0:27 criminals apprehended while illegally
0:29 crossing the border or had been
0:31 previously deported so in other words
0:33 they’re not deporting anybody unless
0:37 they’re criminals they’ve been
0:38 previously deported or they turn them
0:41 away at the border once they get into
0:44 the interior the United States the
0:46 overwhelming majority of them are not
0:49 removed this is a huge story which is
0:53 being completely ignored except by me
0:55 now I want to give this some context a
0:58 couple of times in the past I’ve read to
1:00 you a transcript of a short speech that
1:03 was given by former Liberal Democrat
1:05 governor of Colorado dick lamm a Liberal
1:08 Democrat and at this particular venn he
1:10 was introducing or he was introduced by
1:12 Victor Davis Hanson who has written a
1:15 magnificent book it’s written several
1:17 years ago actually called Mexifornia and
1:19 the title you know it gives away the
1:22 substance of the book but before I get
1:25 into the specifics of what Obama is
1:27 doing to this country I want you to hear
1:29 not me reading what dick Lam said in
1:32 October 2003 but I want you to hear what
1:36 dick lamm himself said I really want you
1:39 to listen to this turn up the volume and
1:41 here you have a former governor who
1:44 really really gets it again a Liberal
1:47 Democrat and he calls it my plan to
1:50 destroy America my plan to destroy
1:52 America and a hat tip to our partners at
1:55 fair who provided this to me and this
1:57 has never been played before
1:59 cut one go I would like to share with
Richard Lamb speaking:
1:59 cut one go I would like to share with
2:01 you my plan to destroy America
2:04 if you think and some do that America is
2:08 too smug too rich too self-satisfied not
2:11 diverse enough to white-bread I have
2:15 this plan Toynbee you know said that all
2:19 great nations rise and they all fall and
2:20 he said and the autopsy of history is
2:23 all great nations commit suicide so
2:28 here’s my plan eight parts
Part One
2:31 Number one I’d make it a bilingual bicultural
2:32 country history shows us that no
2:35 bilingual bicultural country lives at
2:38 peace with itself there’s not one I
2:41 believe that doesn’t exist with an
2:42 incredible amount of tension they that
2:45 and conflict if not civil war.
Part Two
2:49 the second part of my plan would be to
2:51 invent something called multiculturalism
Part 2.1
2:53 this would be two parts number one I
2:56 would say that all cultures are created
2:58 equal that would make no difference
3:00 that would make it impossible to talk
3:02 about such things as culture and the
Part 2.2
3:05 second one is that I would really try
3:07 very hard to make people continue their
3:10 cultural identity I would replace the
3:13 melting pot with the salad bowl my third
Part Three
3:17 part of my plan would be to make the
3:18 fastest-growing demographic group in
3:20 that country the least educated I would
3:23 add a second underclass to the first
3:25 underclass unassimilated undereducated
3:28 antagonistic and then I’d have 50% of
3:31 them drop out of school not graduate
3:33 from high school the fourth part of my
Part Four
3:36 plan would be to get the big foundations
3:38 to fund and big business to fund these
3:41 efforts with lots of money I would
3:43 invest in ethnic identity and
3:46 victimology I would get them to think
3:49 about their lack of success was only the
3:52 fault of the majority I would start a
3:55 grievance industry the fifth part of my
Part Five
3:58 plan is I would develop dual citizenship
4:00 I would promise people actually divided
4:04 loyalties allow them to allow both vote
4:07 for both Vincente Fox and George Bush
Part Six
4:10 the sixth part of this is important I
4:12 would place all of these subjects
4:15 off-limits I would make it taboo to talk
4:17 about actually or criticize this whole
4:20 thing I would make it come up with a
4:22 word like heretic used to be 200 years
4:25 ago let’s say we’d call it racist and I
4:29 would try to accuse anybody of this that
4:32 would object to my ideas my seventh part
Part Seven
4:36 then I would make it impossible to
4:38 enforce our immigration laws I would
4:41 develop a mantra let’s call it this that
4:43 because immigration has been good in the
4:45 past for America it will continue to be
4:48 good in the future my eighth and last
Part Eight
4:52 part and it’s important as I would
4:54 censor this book this man is dangerous
4:58 he’s onto my plan don’t read this book
Mark Levin speaking:
5:03 and he’s pointing to our friend Victor
5:06 Davis Hanson in his book Mexifornia
5:09 where he lays out the case this is ten
5:13 and a half years ago where he gave this
5:16 speech and he was right on wasn’t he
MIKKELSON:
Richard D. Lamm was a Democrat who served as governor of Colorado for twelve years from 1975 to 1987. In 2005, a third-person account of a speech attributed to him, on the perils of multiculturalism, became a viral item online:
A Frightening Analysis
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. (Which was the video included here.)
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 — todate, 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 are 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.
Response from Lamm to Mikkelson:
Yes, it is a speech I gave a year and a half ago in Washington D.C. It was a 5 minute speech, and I am amazed and gratified it has received so much coverage.
He also passed along to us the following “revised version” of his speech:
I HAVE A PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA
RICHARD D. LAMM
I HAVE A SECRET PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. IF YOU BELIEVE, AS MANY DO, THAT AMERICA IS TOO SMUG, TOO WHITE BREAD, TOO SELF-SATISFIED, TOO RICH, LETS DESTROY AMERICA. IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO. HISTORY SHOWS THAT NATIONS ARE MORE FRAGILE THAN THEIR CITIZENS THINK. NO NATION IN HISTORY HAS SURVIVED THE RAVAGES OF TIME. ARNOLD TOYNBEE OBSERVED THAT ALL GREAT CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND THEY ALL FALL, AND THAT “AN AUTOPSY OF HISTORY WOULD SHOW THAT ALL GREAT NATIONS COMMIT SUICIDE.” HERE IS MY PLAN:
I. WE MUST FIRST MAKE AMERICA A BILINGUAL-BICULTURAL COUNTRY. HISTORY SHOWS, IN MY OPINION, THAT NO NATION CAN SURVIVE THE TENSION, CONFLICT, AND ANTAGONISM OF TWO COMPETING LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. IT IS A BLESSING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TO BE BILINGUAL; IT IS A CURSE FOR A SOCIETY TO BE BILINGUAL. ONE SCHOLAR, SEYMOUR MARTIN 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 ITS BASQUES, BRETONS, AND CORSICANS.
II. I WOULD THEN 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 THAT ARE IMPORTANT. I WOULD DECLARE IT AN ARTICLE OF FAITH THAT THE BLACK AND HISPANIC DROPOUT RATE IS ONLY DUE TO PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION BY THE MAJORITY. EVERY OTHER EXPLANATION IS OUT-OF-BOUNDS.
III. WE CAN MAKE THE UNITED STATES A “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 ETHNOCENTRICALLY, AND WHAT IT MEANT TO BE AN AMERICAN, WE ARE LEFT WITH ONLY TOLERANCE AND PLURALISM TO HOLD US TOGETHER.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE ALL IMMIGRANTS TO KEEP THEIR OWN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE. I WOULD REPLACE THE MELTING POT METAPHOR WITH A SALAD BOWL METAPHOR. IT IS IMPORTANT TO INSURE THAT WE HAVE VARIOUS CULTURAL SUB-GROUPS LIVING IN AMERICA REINFORCING THEIR DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN AMERICANS, EMPHASIZING THEIR SIMILARITIES.
IV. HAVING DONE ALL THIS, 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% DROP OUT RATE FROM SCHOOL.
V. I WOULD THEN GET THE BIG FOUNDATIONS AND BIG 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 ALL THE FAULT OF THE MAJORITY – I WOULD START A GRIEVANCE INDUSTRY BLAMING ALL MINORITY FAILURE ON THE MAJORITY POPULATION.
VI. I WOULD ESTABLISH DUAL CITIZENSHIP AND PROMOTE DIVIDED LOYALTIES. I WOULD “CELEBRATE DIVERSITY.” “DIVERSITY” IS A WONDERFULLY SEDUCTIVE WORD. IT STRESSES DIFFERENCES RATHER THAN COMMONALITIES. 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, AND WE CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS MYOPIA. LOOK AT THE ANCIENT GREEKS. DORF’S WORLD HISTORY TELLS US:
THE GREEKS BELIEVED THAT THEY BELONGED TO THE SAME RACE; THEY POSSESSED A COMMON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE; AND THEY WORSHIPED THE SAME GODS. ALL GREECE TOOK PART IN THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN HONOR OF ZEUS AND ALL GREEKS VENERATED THE SHRINE OF APOLLO AT DELPHI. A COMMON ENEMY PERSIA THREATENED THEIR LIBERTY. YET, ALL OF THESE BONDS TOGETHER WERE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO OVERCOME TWO FACTORS . . . (LOCAL PATRIOTISM AND GEOGRAPHICAL CONDITIONS THAT NURTURED POLITICAL DIVISIONS …)
IF WE CAN PUT THE EMPHASIS ON THE “PLURIBUS,” INSTEAD OF THE “UNUM,” WE CAN BALKANIZE AMERICA AS SURELY AS KOSOVO.
VII. THEN I WOULD PLACE ALL THESE SUBJECTS OFF LIMITS – MAKE IT TABOO TO TALK ABOUT. I WOULD FIND A WORD SIMILAR TO “HERETIC” IN THE 16TH CENTURY – THAT STOPPED DISCUSSION AND PARALYZED THINKING. WORDS LIKE “RACIST”, “XENOPHOBE” THAT HALTS ARGUMENT AND CONVERSATION.
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.
VIII. LASTLY, I WOULD CENSOR VICTOR HANSON DAVIS’S BOOK MEXIFORNIA — THIS BOOK IS DANGEROUS — IT EXPOSES MY PLAN TO DESTROY AMERICA. SO PLEASE, PLEASE — IF YOU FEEL THAT AMERICA DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED — PLEASE, PLEASE — DON’T BUY THIS BOOK! THIS GUY IS ON TO MY PLAN.
“THE SMART WAY TO KEEP PEOPLE PASSIVE AND OBEDIENT IS TO STRICTLY LIMIT THE SPECTRUM OF ACCEPTABLE OPINION, BUT ALLOW VERY LIVELY DEBATE WITHIN THAT SPECTRUM.” — NOAM CHOMSKY, AMERICAN LINGUIST AND US MEDIA AND FOREIGN POLICY CRITIC.
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