1. Pat Buchanan when he was young was, to use the language of NY York Times, "no angel."
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2. Buchanan's father beat his boys and encouraged them to fight -- part of manly ethos of house that worshiped Franco, McCarthy & McArthur.
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3. In 1956 as senior at Georgetown, Buchanan got into scuffle with cops.
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4. One account: "Believing that his ticket was wrongfully given, [Buchanan] verbally and physically assaulted the police."
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5. "He was then arrested and fined, and the incident left him with a minor police record. The university also suspended him for a year."
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6. Account of Buchanan's police troubles taken from here: http://www.notablebiographies.com/Br-Ca/Buchanan-Pat.html#ixzz3BS6qqeER …
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7. Buchanan and his brothers also launched regular vigilante assaults on news stands that sold girlie magazines.
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8. Buchanan brothers would go into news stands that sold allegedly "dirty" magazines & rip them up. Threaten dealers if they carried again.
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9. Buchanan Brothers were never charged for these vigilante acts because, he said, the authorities agreed with them.
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10. Let's say Pat Buchanan had been shot dead in his altercation with the cops. It would've been easy to smear him as deserving his fate.
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11. Dude with a history of violence, from family of violent political extremists. Yet I honestly don't think that would've been response
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12. Here's the kicker: how many Pat Buchanan's would take position that Mike Brown got what he deserves? I'd guess 95% to 99.99%
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13. One addendum: Buchanan wrote many, many "law-and-order" speeches for Nixon, Agnew & Reagan. Helped craft this discourse.
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