Buchanan blamed VA Tech murders on immigrant "invasion," claimed immigrants "are going berserk here"

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010008?f=h_side

In a May 1 syndicated column, conservative pundit and MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan blamed the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech on lax U.S. immigration policies, stating that gunman Cho Seung-Hui "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." In the column -- titled "The Dark Side of Diversity" -- Buchanan claimed: "Had this deranged young man who secretly hated us never come here, 32 people would {be} heading home from Blacksburg for summer vacation." He added: "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."

Buchanan suggested that Cho's actions were not an isolated phenomenon, asserting that "in numbers higher than our native born, some {immigrants} are going berserk here." He cited only anecdotes to support this claim. A 2007 study conducted for the pro-immigration American Immigration Law Foundation by University of California, Irvine sociology professor Rubén G. Rumbaut found that "for every ethnic group, without exception, incarceration rates among young men are lowest for immigrants, even those who are the least educated and the least acculturated." His research showed that over the last three censuses for blacks, Hispanics, whites, and Asians, "{a}mong men age 18-39 (who comprise the vast majority of the prison population), the 3.5 percent incarceration rate of the native-born in 2000 was 5 times higher than the 0.7 percent incarceration rate of the foreign-born."

[villager]

1. I'm pretty sure most Native Americans would agree.

n/t

[conspirator]

3. rec

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Marlon Brando would have agreed. n/t

[judaspriestess]

2. wow, he didn't blame the Mexicans?

I'm shocked I tell you.

[Blashyrkh]

4. Yeah, Pat is spot on.

I mean, McVeigh was clearly an immigrant. Klebold and the other one were so obviously immigrants that no one even bothered mentioning it. Everyone who "goes berserk" is clearly a foreigner because anglo-Americans are the most logical, reasonable and compassionate people on the planet.

:sarcasm:, just in case.

[SaveAmerica]

8. Who was that prominent someone who went berserk with a gun?

Could it be

CHENEY...cheney...cheney? I guess his ancestors should have been kept out when they arrived from Transylvania.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. ..

:evilgrin:

[fujiyama]

5. Buchanan showing his true nasty colors again

Hey Buchanan you ass hole, Cho being Korean didn't have anything to do with him being completely fucking batshit insane!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

12. Yes, and I hear he's planning to picket the Harry Potter movies

because of Harry's girlfriend, Cho.

Speaking of batshit insane...Buchanan fills those shoes real well. :)

[musette_sf]

6. Pat's ancestors might feel a bit differently

[Bluebear]

9. DEPORT!!! NOW!!!

(I mean Buchanan.)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

10. I wish some goddamn sense would immigrate into his head.

[Ms. Clio]

13. he's such an intellectually dishonest, bigoted, thoroughly nasty POS

I'm surprised he didn't agree that Satan was behind it all.

Fuck off and die, you old jackass.