The Westies, Cho Sueng-Hui and an Opportunistic Bigot Named Patrick J. Buchanan
By Repair Man Jack Posted in Immigration — Comments (11) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
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.
You do know that green card holders aren't citizens.
I didn't really see where Pat said much wrong in that article. He didn't say that all immigration was wrong, which is where you seem to be taking it. He said that many newer immigrants have no desire to truly be Americans in the fullest sense, which holds true from everything that I have seen. If you can refute that on a large scale(ie. not one or two people), please do so, because I have never seen it and would like to. You have pointed out that he is a descendant of immigrants. That is true, but apparently his people tried to be Americans. I don't see him claiming to be Irish and talking about the glories of the motherland. He also points out that many criminals are illegal aliens. I don't know where you live, but if you live in any of the border states, you know that this is true.
Honestly, apart from a bit of overkill on the part of Buchanan on the dangers, what did he say that was wrong?
>>>what did he say that was wrong?
>>>Almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Cho Seung-Hui was not an American at all, but an immigrant, an alien.
A legal one. Presumably he was somewhere in INS' screwed up pipeline.
>>>>In stories about him, we learn he had no friends, rarely spoke and was a loner, isolated from classmates and roommates.
The guy majored in English. His inability to communicate with people had little or nothing to do with languistic skills. He actually wrote in English. What he wrote was tasteless and deranged. (I've read, but do not care to link to, both his one act plays he wrote in English class)
The point being, Cho went to American schools and received a good enough education to communicate what he felt like saying to anyone unfortunate enough to have to talk to him.
>>>If you can refute that on a large scale(ie. not one or two people),
Try going to any local China or Korean town in the largest city you live near. The signs may be in a different language, but the following things are true. The people are all employed. They are nice to you for a good reason. They'd like you to spend money there. Translate the Korean neon signs into English neon signs on either Wilshire Blvd in LA or on Rt 236 in Annandale, Va; and you'd have Main Street, USA.
These guys are predominantly family businessmen who work 10 to 14 hour days to send their children off to college. Does it really get any more American than that?
"...and each wasted evening is
a gross violation against the
natural course of your only life;"
-Charles Buckowski
> The guy majored in English. His inability to communicate
> with people had little or nothing to do with languistic
> skills. He actually wrote in English. What he wrote was
> tasteless and deranged. (I've read, but do not care to link
> to, both his one act plays he wrote in English class)
> The point being, Cho went to American schools and received a
> good enough education to communicate what he felt like
> saying to anyone unfortunate enough to have to talk to him.
In addition, Cho was apparently raised in a Christian, or at least church-going, home. His sister graduated from Princeton and is a contractor for the State Department. Cho was culturally American, not Korean, and is an example of "melting pot" rather than "multiculturalism", to steal terminology from swamp_yankee's post downstream.
Any attempt to use Cho as the poster child for the wrongs of multiculturalism is misguided. Either Buchanan is an idiot in making such an attempt, or his real target is Cho's race and ethnicity, not his culture. .cnI redruM is spot on.
-
NARF
" If you can refute that on a large scale(ie. not one or two people), please do so..."
Though I make no claims about any other race.
"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die, and then dies...
...But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway. Dies, dies willing, knowing he can stop it, then...
Well, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction
Pat's journalistic prose is tight and sharp. He looks to strike blows. He went to Columbia journalism school before it became a Marxist nest egg.
I'm a Buchanan fan. To put this article in context, I think one has to read Pat's earlier writings. his books have basically has the same premise as Steyn's America Alone. The only difference is that Pat had the guts to challenge neocon orthodoxy and was consequently shunned and ostracized by the neocon intelligentsia. Both discuss the growth of Islamic populations and a dying West. Pat goes into greater depth discussing the cultural cancer of multiculturism. You may recall his earlier and repetetive warnings of the "balkanization of America" and the dangers of ethnic nations within sovreign nations. He has long warned about America becoming a country with ethnic factions, at best, like Canada and Quebec and, at worse, like Serbia and Kosovo.
He is not a bigot and he is certainly not dumb. He is actually quite brilliant and tough and represents a withering, but powerful, conservative vision. The American Conservative is a good publication and does a good job of providing an alternate conservative vision.
>>>Pat goes into greater depth discussing the cultural cancer of multiculturism. You may recall his earlier and repetetive warnings of the "balkanization of America" and the dangers of ethnic nations within sovreign nations.
I think if Pat wants to ride that horse, he needs to take a good hard look at the people already here, not the immigrants arriving. He needs to castigate people in our education system that reflexively parrot Anti-American slogans at impressionable children. In CHo's case, those slogans made an impression; a deadly one.
"...and each wasted evening is
a gross violation against the
natural course of your only life;"
-Charles Buckowski
He often does. He has been fighting the cultural marxists before most Republicans were aware of the fight.
In 1992, he gave thee Republican Convention Keynote Address. A speech the Mainstream Media (when CBS/NBC/ABC/CNN/NYT still were kings) and wobbly Rockefeller Republicans called the "Culture War" speech and labeled him a right wing zealot for being prophetic and telling the obvious truth. The left had been fighting a culture war for forty years without any resistance from conservatives. It was only after 1992 that conservatives started to fight back.
He was considered a right wing zealot, but he was right. Just like has has been right about the Mexican border. He's been a leader in distinguishing Multicultural from Melting Pot and Assimilation from Alienation. The immigration debate going on right now is one that he was having fifteen years ago.
Micheal Savage is also right about the immigration issue, but he is still a crazy hate monger. Pat Buchanan is not quite as bad, but he is extreme and there does exist a basis for judging him as, shall we say, impolitic on matters of race.
I wish it was not like this, I wish we could be like the Leftists and stick up for anyone on our side no matter what they
said or did,
Alas that is the price we pay for having standards.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
could take the place of Bill Press in a new MSNBC show with Pat Buchanan.
I remember Buchanan asking rhetorically once who the reader thinks would be a better group of immigrants, Irish or Zulu. He conveniently ignored the fact that the Zulus are very conservative people even as Ireland itself has become a socialist welfare state; like many who write on the left, Buchanan expects to exploit prejudice in the absence of providing fact. There can be no other way to read his purpose for ever writing that.
Pat Buchanan is not Irish as we Americans commonly understand it. He's Catholic but not an Irish-Catholic. He self identifies as Scots-Irish, and is half German.
But it should be noted that people with a green card by definition are not "citizens", but resident aliens.
But you are right: if there were a group that needed to be denied the right to self defense, children of Korean immigrant parents who are senior English majors at major universities is not that group.
--
See the Academy.