DR. FISHER'S RESPONSE TO A FORMER GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE OF FEAR

DR. FISHER'S RESPONSE TO A FORMER GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE OF FEAR

James R. Fisher, Jr., Ph.D.
© June 8, 2008

"The end of the American Century was 1968, 32 years early."

JRF, Green Island in a Black Sea (novel-in-progress)


Reading the governor's remarks, which follow mine, I wonder how anyone could rise to the level of governor of a state of the United States with such myopic and incendiary views of such a sensitive issue. Fear is our enemy and not our friend, and the good governor should know that speaking in hyperbole does not engage reason, but disengages it.

If the good governor were a student of history, he would know the United States stole the state of California from the Mexicans, and that like many other pieces of what is now called the United States of America, it once belonged to indigenous people before Europeans invaded the continent.

America is the land of the free and home of the brave for mainly interlopers these many centuries later, my people among them.

Now, American Indians are confined to reservations or casinos, and I've seen enough of reservations (SOWETO in Johannesburg) from my time in South Africa to know the nature of exploitation of indigenous people.

I write in the forward of my new novel-in-progress, "1968 ended the American Century, 32 years early." The evidence is overwhelming. We have been standing on our metaphorical head ever since, and the good governor gives palpable evidence of that fact.

Will we ever learn how self-indulgence and immaturity have been our bane, how they have suspended us in permanent adolescence, and blunted our perception and perspective of the world in which we live?

While we bask in self-righteous arrogance secure in our hedonistic lifestyle the world festers around us. It never occurs to us why the hegemony of corporate America is suddenly falling apart. The good governor spoke from its citadel with the right words, the right assurances, and the right enemies.

Corporate America, despite this platform, is falling apart because its sense of omniscience and invulnerability, no matter its rhetorical stupidity, has been exposed finally for the fraud that it is, lost in its own surreal world.

If you want to throw arrows, throw them at who employs you or your children or grandchildren. They are the culprits, not Hispanic immigrants. Corporate America has not paid attention, and now we all must suffer for its greed.

Imagine if you will, why twelve million immigrants are to be made responsible for the excesses of 300 million. How is it we should take pride in being the least multiple language literate people in the entire developed world? That takes ethnocentrism to an entire new level.

If I was a Mexican, I would do exactly what these Mexicans are doing in order to survive, which is anything, risks and humiliations be damned!

How easy it is to make people who are exploited in jobs we will not do ourselves for wages we would not accept to become the object of our wrath.

How easy it is to look for the source of our problems outside ourselves than inside ourselves.

Politicians, and all of them now running for office are included, never ask us to behave differently, to sacrifice for the common good, or to do anything that might cause us a little discomfort. Hope is passive. Courage is active. Has anyone asked you to be courageous?

We squander our lives away smoking and drinking and partying and violating every standard that might represent discipline, and then in our old age get religion and moral values that were tabled when the blood was hot and our money was burning a hole in our pockets.

We failed to save because we wanted to keep up with the Jones, and who egged us on to do that -- Corporate America! Who is still egging on us? The same.

We never learn because we are always looking for answers outside ourselves provided by people who are as confused or more so than we are.

Who are these people?

They are celebrities who become environmentalists, political pundits, and wise men and women who have nothing to lose and everything to gain by appealing to our baser instincts, people who have popular television gigs solving lifetime problems of people they have just met on camera, and, of course, there are always those best selling books on self-improvement that promise how we can be healthy, wealthy and wise for $29.95.

People have sent me emails for years to celebrate leaders who have not led, but are full of themselves, have ask me to support national inanities that make no sense to me, or even have ask that I decry people who are not patriotic or religious enough, when the patriotism and religious beliefs espoused were xenophobic and selective.

Going along to get along has become a patriotic if not a religious oath, giving comfort to those that man the Military Industrial Complex or the elected offices of our society. This combined effort has driven us into the mess we are now in.

Leaders, and I use that word advisedly, in the government and Military Industrial Complex have successfully deflected our angst on this or that minority group, the people least able to defend themselves, and whose relevance to our major societal problems is peripheral at best. Well, I've had enough.

So, your SUV takes $90 to fill the tank, so you get 20 mpg or less, so Detroit is groveling like a whimpering kid, so the air lines are collapsing, the country is heading to God knows what or where, and the Mexican immigrants are the reason?

Why do we have cars and trucks as big as tanks? Why do we gas guzzle a third of the refined gasoline in the world when we are less than one-twentieth of the world's population? Because of minorities?

I've worked all over the world and have seen people who didn't make a $1 a day, who lived in circumstances that make these homeless camps in our metro cities look like, well, real homes, and they endure.

Two-thirds of the world's population has no power, no voice, and little energy to complain. They spend every waking hour attempting to survive until the next day, and often they fail in that attempt. What is worse, their own people exploit them, murder, and rape them, and turn their countries into veritable wastelands.

Worry about the Mexicans today, and tomorrow will make today seem like a dream.

JRF

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AN EMAILER WRITES

We 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 America 's finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by the name of 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.

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FORMER GOVERNOR DICK LAMM OF COLORADO SPEAKS OF "AMERICA'S SUICIDE"!

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 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 , 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 difficulties with Basques, Bretons, Corsicans and Muslims.'

'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 multi-ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentriy 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 en sure 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 plation.'

'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 precet. 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 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 multi-cultum, 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.'

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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. 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.

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THE FINAL COMMENT OF DR. FISHER

As president Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933 at the height of the Great Depression, he had a simple message, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

The governor's speech here is predicated on the reader's capacity for fear and loathing of the world that is emerging as certain as these words I am now typing.

Just as Galleo proved the earth is not the center of the universe but simply a planet that rotates around its sun, the United States is simply one constituency in a global universe of nation states, and not the center of them all. The suicide, if suicide is to be our destiny, is the failure to recognize and deal with this reality.




















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