My Two Cents On Charlie Kirk.

 I did not know much Charlie Kirk. What I did know did not interest me. Since his killing, there has no improvement in my opinion. I began this post two days, hoping that sense would finally prevail in this country.

That he was killed for his ideas is reprehensible. That others want to use his murder to justify their hatred of other Americans, is worse.

I was eight years old when RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. were killed. I remember when George Wallace as shot. The Weathermen were bombing, and the Symbionese Liberation Army was robbing banks - and kidnapping Patty Hearst. 

We had enough peace that the Oklahoma City Bombing was a shock.  Since then, we have not taken seriously the violence of the Right. We were too self-satisfied about the solidity of our American Way.

Enough should be enough.  

The murder came up during last week's group session, and I will repeat what I said there. There seems a difference between these killers and Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray: there is a desire to be seen and heard and social media fame.

What I did not say then, but will now: the Democrats did not condone or encourage or lionize The Weathermen, while MAGA does all of that for its killers.

Inappropriate comments about Charlie Kirk assassination gets workers fired - which makes me wonder if we do not understand that the First Amendment only applies to our governments.

DCS worker out amid other fallout from Kirk assassination (Indiana Capital Chronicle)

 A British commentator raises the point why Charlies Kirk's words are being suppressed by his allies. Maybe because they do not want reminders of his not being a lamb.

 

Widow of Charlie Kirk says her ‘cries will echo around the world like a battle cry 

Erika Kirk, speaking from her husband’s Turning Point USA office on Friday evening, said Charlie had been killed because “he preached a message of patriotism, faith and of God’s merciful love”.

“The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done,” Erika said. “They should all know this: if you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea what you just have unleashed across the country and this world.”

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Using divisive language and at times bigoted rhetoric, Charlie Kirk played a crucial role in bringing young people, especially men, into the Make America Great Again (Maga) movement. He was known for his inflammatory and discriminatory views, believed in no separation between church and state and said that Democrats “stand for everything God hates”. He claimed the west was in a “spiritual battle” with “wokeism”, Marxism and Islam, and called for a total ban on transgender healthcare, described immigration from Muslim countries as “civilizational suicide”, and peddled conspiracy theories about Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

 

Mother Jones reported on this as Politics September 12, 2025 The Full Weight of the Federal Government Is Being Used to Memorialize Charlie Kirk 

Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), for instance, wrote on X that she had contacted the superintendent and principal in a district where an art teacher is accused of writing “One Nazi down” on Facebook after Kirk’s murder.

“Cheering political violence is always wrong,” Miller-Meeks tweeted, “and should NEVER be done by those who educate our children. I will be contacting the superintendent and principal first thing in the morning to ensure this is addressed immediately.” The art teacher was subsequently placed on leave pending an investigation. 

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana suggested several measures against people who either criticized Kirk online or celebrated his murder. “I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Higgins declared on X, in a statement suggesting actions that were not legal and one that clearly overstepped his authority. “If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down. So, I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER. I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers’ licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”  

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Soon after Kirk’s death, many conservative and far-right activists called loudly and widely for revenge, variously blaming the left, the Democratic Party, the media, and an “anarcho-terrorist” network for the environment that led to the murder. Prominent extremist groups and pardoned insurrectionists have also said they’ve been galvanized by Kirk’s death, and plan to use it to intensify future organizing, as well as seek their own forms of revenge. When Trump announced Friday afternoon on his favorite TV show Fox & Friends that a suspect had been arrested, he downplayed the idea that the far-right acts violently. “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. The radicals on the left are the problem, and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy.”

Funny how after the attack on Pelosi's husband, or the murder of the Minnesota Democrats, there was no demonizing of the Republicans or calls for revenge by Democrat politicians. The "conservatives" know they are wrong, they promote hate, they are anti-American, so they call for violence to protect themselves.

 And they get away with their hate:

 And so much for the vaunted leftism of UC Berkley: UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move.

Nuts: Rep. Mace to introduce resolution authorizing Charlie Kirk to lie in honor at US Capitol. I agree with the comments, not an elected official or war hero.

The most important sentence you will read this week about the Charlie Kirk murder (Chris Cillizza):

 Those are the items that have come through in my email and Google News feed. There have been items indicating that the killer was actually to the right of his victim. If so, more proof that the Right's knee-jerk reaction to blame the Left is a sign of bad conscience and ulterior motives. Whatever his motives, his does not represent an organized political movement. Those wanting revenge on their political opponents are the epitome of an organized political movement.

 

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