Pat Buchanan

I must confess that I occasionally read Pat Buchanan's columns online, even though I know him to be a soft core Holocaust Denier, an anti-Semite (denounced as such by none other than Norman Podhoretz), a xenophobe, and yes, a racist. I find that he often can be witty and make solid arguments for his views.

In 1992 he gave a very divisive "culture wars" speech at the Republican National Convention, and his Presidential Campaign was applauded for minimizing the impact of David Duke. Yes, but to replace Duke with what? I think that a recent column Buchanan wrote, excerpted below, is so full of racism, hate and outright lies, that it should disqualify him from a seat at any political forum on television or radio, from the McLaughlin group on down. (I make further comments at the end of the excerpt.)
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The Dark Side of Diversity
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted: 05/01/2007
Since the massacre of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech, the mainstream media have obsessed over the fact the crazed gunmen was able to buy a Glock in the state of Virginia.
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 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. ..., ..., ..., ..., ..., 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."
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The outright lie concerns the reactions of students and teachers at Virginia Tech to Cho. They DID react the way Pat Buchanan says would have happened only before 1970. As for Korean Immigrants, a lot of them are Roman Catholics. and the Moonies own the Washington Times. As for mass murderers, one could mention McVeigh and Koczynski. As for things accomplished by immigrants, does Buchanan object to Einstein? Fermi? Yang and Lee? S.S. Chern? Yo Yo Ma? Wang? Murdoch? Schwarzenegger? Not to mention countless Canadians.

Buchanan is entitled to speak his mind, and I don't think Holocaust Deniers should be put in jail. But does one have to be wearing a white hood or sporting a swastika symbol before being denied a seat at the table of political discourse in the Media? I think not. What comes out of Buchanan's mouth is often far more dangerous and insidious than anything Don Imus could ever mutter. Let's get real. Words matter. The truth matters