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.
I'm sure your Korean "cuisine" would taste much better in Korea than in a nation founded by evil, rascist Europeans.
Go Pat Go!
I have several suggestions as to where Pat can go as well.
Pat can’t be all bad, he is smart enough to know Rooty can’t win.
The author focused only on one small part of Buchanan’s rather xenophobic column. Buchanan simply rattled off a list of violent crimes committed by immigrants from several countries — some here illegally and some here legally — including Egypt, Pakistan, Mexico, Honduras, and several others in addition to Cho.
The truth is that immigrants are slow to assimilate and should be tolerated with caution; we should net have to find ourselves in the business of making excuses for the bad apples as long as our government refuses to inspect the whole barrel.
It is called "Right from the Beginning" or something like that.
As I recall, it is relatively noncontroversial, and was written before he was commonly perceived (by his detractors) to be a racist.
Buchanan went to the Columbia School of Journalism and had to be pugnacious to assert his points of view.
He stayed that way when he teamed up with RM Nixon to help him make his comeback from 1966 onward.
Having read this book, I do not have the impression that he is a racist.
I do believe that he will make his arguments (many nonconventional) and is not deterred by name-callers.
Obviously, one of the most potent names you can call someone nowadays is 'racist'.
Because Buchanan has his own points of view regarding foreign policy, immigration, etc., he gets called a racist all the time.
Just because someone is pro-American culture and wants to see American interests attended to, first and foremost, by American politicians, does not make him a racist or anti-Semite, in my opinion.
And, I honestly do not think I have ever seen him express racist or anti-Semitic opinions. If he did, he would not be on the mainstream programs as much as he is. And, it would be inconsistent with his Roman Catholicism, in my opinion.
But he definitely is not PC, and does not parrot the PC line, and does not cave when he is called a racist.
Obviously on matters related to immigration he will get the racist catcalls a lot.
Because anyone against open-borders-immigration has GOT to be racist, right?
I read Final Exit, but I haven’t stocked up on plastic bags.
I happen to agree with you. I don’t think Buchanan’s vitriole was directed at a race, in particular. I think he bemoans the fact that multiculturalism is intruding on traditional America in an unhealthy way. I do think he made a stupid, faulty correlation between the fact that Cho was Asian and the fact that he was insane. Cho grew up here and from what I gather, was assimilated into American culture through the schools he attended, etc. This issue is a mental health issue, not an immigration issue.
My guess is that it was a calculated business decision.
Pat found a specific audience who would buy his books and read his columns. He commenced writing and saying what that audience wanted to hear -- irrespective of whatever philosophy he might have espoused in the past.
But he's selling books...
Since the massacre of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, the mainstream media have obsessed over the fact the crazed gunman was able to buy a Glock in the state of Virginia.Buchanan's anecdotes do not really validate his idea that immigration is bad since you could easily find a proportionate number of anecdotes of violent crimes, shooting sprees, and acts of domestic terrorism perpetrated by homegrown crazies. But that said, the author of the screed about this column sounds hysterical and shrill and like someone who is using his/her writing as a means to some sort of closure from all the bullying he/she experienced in middle school.Little attention has been paid to the Richmond legislators who voted to make "Hokie Nation," a Middle American campus of 26,000 kids, a gun-free zone where only the madman had a semi-automatic.
Almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Cho Seung-Hui was not an American at all, but an immigrant, an alien. Had this deranged young man who secretly hated us never come here, 32 people would be heading home from Blacksburg for summer vacation.
What was Cho doing here? How did he get in?
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.
Cho was one of them.
In stories about him, we learn he had no friends, rarely spoke and was a loner, isolated from classmates and roommates. Cho was the alien in Hokie Nation. And to vent his rage at those with whom he could not communicate, he decided to kill in cold blood dozens of us.
What happened in Blacksburg cannot be divorced from what's been happening to America since the immigration act brought tens of millions of strangers to these shores, even as the old bonds of national community began to disintegrate and dissolve in the social revolutions of the 1960s.
To intellectuals, what makes America a nation is ideas – ideas in the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address and Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
But documents no matter how eloquent and words no matter how lovely do not a nation make. Before 1970, we were a people, a community, a country. Students would have said aloud of Cho: "Who is this guy? What's the matter with him?"
Teachers would have taken action to get him help – or get him out.
Since the 1960s, we have become alienated from one another even as millions of strangers arrive every year. And as Americans no longer share the old ties of history, heritage, faith, language, tradition, culture, music, myth or morality, how can immigrants share those ties?
Many immigrants do not assimilate. Many do not wish to. They seek community in their separate subdivisions of our multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic, multilingual mammoth mall of a nation. And in numbers higher than our native born, some are going berserk here.
The 1993 bombers of the World Trade Center and the killers of 9-11 were all immigrants or illegals. Colin Ferguson, the Jamaican who massacred six and wounded 19 in an anti-white shooting spree on the Long Island Railroad, was an illegal. John Lee Malvo, the Beltway Sniper, was flotsam from the Caribbean.
Angel Resendez, the border-jumping rapist who killed at least nine women, was an illegal alien. Julio Gonzalez, who burned down the Happy Land social club in New York, killing 87, arrived in the Mariel boatlift.
Ali Hassan Abu Kama, who wounded seven, killing one, in a rampage on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, was a Palestinian. As was Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert Kennedy.
The rifleman who murdered two CIA employees at the McLean, Va., headquarters was a Pakistani. When Chai Vang, a Hmong, was told by a party of Wisconsin hunters to vacate their deer stand, he shot six to death. Peter Odighizuwa, the gunman who killed the dean, a teacher and a student at the Appalachian School of Law, was a Nigerian.
Hesham Hadayet, who shot up the El Al counter at LAX, killing two and wounding four, was an Egyptian immigrant. Gamil al-Batouti, the copilot who yelled, "I put my faith in Allah's hands," as he crashed his plane into the Atlantic after departing JFK Airport, killing 217, was an Egyptian.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, the UNC graduate who ran his SUV over nine people on Chapel Hill campus and said he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah," was an Iranian.
Juan Corona, who murdered 25 people in California to be ranked with the likes of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy, was a Mexican.
Where does one find such facts? On VDARE.com, a website that covers the dark side of diversity covered up by a politically correct media, which seem to believe it is socially unhealthy for us Americans to see any correlation at all between mass migrations and mass murder.
"In our diversity is our strength!" So we are endlessly lectured.
But are we really a better, safer, freer, happier, more united and caring country than we were before, against our will, we became what Theodore Roosevelt called "a polyglot boarding house for the world"?
How come Cho never became an American citizen?
Buchanan said, “I just don’t think Rudy can do it. I may be wrong, but I’m not usually.” He added, “I’m telling you, as Giuliani — if he should get somehow the nomination, as he marches to the podium, the Republican Party explodes right in the convention hall. The Republican base cannot go along with Rudy Giuliani, his views on social and cultural and moral issue, the background, the record. The party would explode, Joe. It would come apart. You would have a third party candidate, and that would kill Rudy in the South.” [”Scarborough Country,” MSNBC, 11/14/06]
Cho may or may not have had similar difficulties.
Maybe he just didn’t want to be an American.
It has been pretty common that articles Pat has written are hijacked to avoid the subject and turn the postings into hate Buchanan tirades. Buchanan puts American citizens before all others and they don't like that.
In fairness, Buchanan puts SOME American citizens before all others. A huge majority of 864,000 Koreans here that Buchanan termed the "the greatest invasion in history, an invasion opposed by a majority of our people" are now American citizens, yet he slaps them with a broad brush of racial hatred and lumps them in with Cho.
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