Posted on 05/01/2007 9:15:28 AM PDT by .cnI redruM
Like Congressman James Moran in search of an excuse to confiscate privately-owned firearms, Pat Buchanan seeks to glom onto the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. Like James Moran, Pat Buchanan reeks of execrable thinking and primitive hatred. Both men are truly Sons of Erin. However, just because I like green beer and rooting vehemently against Notre Dame Football, I’ll decline to follow the path of bigoted hate-mongering tread by the odious Patrick J. Buchanan in today’s column.
Buchanan attaches profound significance to the fact that Cho Sueng-Hui had a green card. Boy, that detail comes in handy, when you want to unjustly tar the reputations of over 1 million of the hardest working, most patriotic citizens the United States of America. Buchanan makes the hateful claim that because Cho was a murdering psychopath, none of the hard-working, dedicated business people of Korea, who have opened up shops in places like Annandale, Virginia, should ever have been allowed to come here and pursue their dreams.
What was Cho doing here? How did he get in?
The same way your ancestors got here; bigot. His parents scraped, saved, and barely made it for years while running a shoe-string family business. They benefited from the same beneficent mind set that made people in Boston and New York take down all those evil “Irish Need Not Apply” signs from the windows of their business establishments.
Cho was among the 864,000 Koreans here as a result of the Immigration Act of 1965, which threw the nation's doors open to the greatest invasion in history, an invasion opposed by a majority of our people. Thirty-six million, almost all from countries whose peoples have never fully assimilated in any Western country, now live in our midst.
Well gosh Patrick, you could say that about almost anyone from the Far-East. How dare these people come over here and walk around looking less of the Caucasian Persuasion than either you or I?
Cho was one of them.
Cue the cheesy horror music. Pat stops just short of asking for a good, thorough Kystalnacht to cleanse these guys the Serbian way.
And what does it mean to be one of them? Does that mean you drive a used Toyota instead of a brand, new German Luxury Car? Maybe your haircuts cost $10.50 instead of $400.00. These people live in an America that neither Patrick J. Buchanan nor John Edwards can remember the first thing about.
Or perhaps that implies you sink everything your family owns into a hard and sometimes demeaning small family business, so that you can afford to send your children to college. You know, like Middle Class Americans. Those people Patrick J. Buchanan hasn’t seen, heard from, or had anything to do with since his last, and blessedly abortive, run for The Presidency.
A similarly ignorant argument could also be made about Patrick J. Buchanan’s forefathers. The courage and noble dignity of The Irish Brigades be damned. Never mind that they gave it up for America like no one else who wasn’t brought here a slave.
The Infamous Westies were Irish Americans. I’ll betcha’ Mom and Pop didn’t even check their bags through Ellis Island. They shot so many people. They didn’t even have Cho’s insanity defense. It was all just takin’ care of bidness’. They were no more assimilated to our culture than Tony Montana; face down dead in his swimming pool.
So should we let Patrick J. Buchanan wear green on Saint Paddy’s Day? It could be a sign of his total lack of assimilation. He might even be one of them. I think we should let it go. Like the Korean cuisine my wife can cook so well, it adds flavor to our nation.
Despite the terrible consequences of Patrick J Buchanan being here, I think we should be good to Irish Americans and welcome further immigration from their country. In other words, we should be a whole lot more decent to them than Patrick J. Buchanan is to the poor, undeserving South Koreans.
Her second comment was. "What if they get payback against Korean People?" I'm glad she doesn't frequently read Patrick J. Buchanan.
Thi sartiucle is dripping with vile- no article this biased is worth reading. I don’t even think he makes rational points.
Buchanan is a disgrace. I was unaware he had made these comments. The shootings had little to with race. This kid was a loon and had deep issues. That his parents were Korean is moot.
Being in a military town, we have a larger than normal Asian population. I have not heard any negatives about the VT massacre directed at Asians or Koreans in particular. People know he was a “mental case” and accept it as such. He could have been caucasian or black and still have done the same thing. The race of this madman doesn’t seem to even enter the argument.................
Ain’t nothing like the anger directed at the hated truth.
pat buchanan is a moron....
That was a shameful article by Pat. I have always stood up for him, but to label a whole community based on one psychopath is disgusting.
No wonder Pat has talked himself into oblivion.
I guess ol’ Patsy never saw “The Gangs of New York”.
Foreign whack jobs always got in.
Giuseppe Zangara took a pot shot at FDR and ended up greasing the Mayor of Chicago, one Anton J. Cermak.
In Zangara’s own words: “I don’t like no peoples.”
Ol Giusep was an immigrant. Soooo, all those named Giusep gotta go!
He is simply asserting the fact that we have an overly liberal immigration policy, one which now encourages people to come here from all over the world, in tremendous, overwhelming numbers, and live in communities that not only are indifferent to American culture, but oftentimes, as in the case of many from the middle east (have you heard about these people?), are outright hostile to American culture.
Equating this with bigotry is a cheap shot that poisons the debate about our immigration policy.
Remember, the purpose of the United States, as recounted in the Preamble, is to "secure for ourselves and our posterity the blessings of freedom..."
It is not to assimilate every human being in the world who no longer wishes to live in his native land.
Flame away folks.
I’m sure if this article becomes a big deal, he’ll be called “Republican Strategist” or “Conservative Commentator” Pat Buchannan.
Buchanan’s article was vile, but this response is equally vile.
Now then, Timmy McVeigh, you might be on thin ice there too. I’m convinced that was a hit with a strong middle east connection. John Doe 2. Too many pointers in that direction and the Buffoon In Chief’s total allergy about having to confront things of that nature.
But on the other hand, I agree with you!
You know this was posted earlier. Tell us why you really hate Pat?
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