Although I was a child when President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, I vividly remember my own grief for their families and our country. What I don’t remember is anyone openly celebrating the deaths of these three great Americans. Especially since they were shot in cold blood by assassins. These murders shook our nation to its core and rightly so.
Today, there is no doubt that too many Americans have lost their souls, their humanity, and their decency, in that they rejoiced to see Charlie Kirk gunned down in front of his own family and for what?
Charlie Kirk, armed with only faith and facts along with a genius IQ, respectively allowed all comers to challenge his faith, knowledge, and patriotism, in an open forum. And because he was extremely successful in the battle for hearts and minds on college campuses across America, he became the enemy of the left in America. An enemy whose death was worth celebrating by too many people.
Do any of these people still believe these words from the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”?
Is it no longer a self-evident truth that murdering somebody speaking in the public square is evil?
Apparently not.
The people who are celebrating Charlie’s murder obviously no longer believe in free speech, the right to peacefully assemble, freedom of religion, nor the unalienable right to life and liberty.
That begs the question, what do these wicked people believe in? Certainly not the God who gave us our Divine rights along with such commandments as “Though Shalt Not Kill.”
Thomas Jefferson rightly warned us that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants, as he emphasized that freedom is never free in our ongoing struggle against tyranny. And that is exactly what members of the left in America have become: tyrants. They don’t recognize anyone’s right to oppose their wicked ideology.
Regardless, Charlie Kirk’s mission has now gone viral. And so, where do we go from here?
I, for one, plan to continue to call out the godless and un-American people who celebrated the assassination of a man who simply wanted to have a civil conversation to preserve our civilization. A man who believed from the bottom of his heart, and by way of the history of our great traditions, that talking with one another is our only chance to avoid division, and worse, violence.
Ironically, his murder was celebrated by some of the same political ideologues who believe words constitute violence, and who also rally against gun violence at schools. Go figure. In their opinion, Charlie’s murder was justifiable homicide because of his words. So, while calling Charlie a fascist and a wannabe tyrant, the real fascists and tyrants are those who called for and condone his assassination.
The group of people that needs to be confronted – the very people Charlie Kirk was talking to – would include the bulk of American college students who Charlie gave his life to reach. As Daniel Greenfield pointed out in a recent column in Front Page magazine, a very large survey of some 68,000 students at 257 universities by FIRE (The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression's) revealed that 1 in 3 students believed that using violence and/or aggression to stop a speaker they disagreed with on campus was acceptable at least in some way, shape or form.
Unfortunately, a lot of Americans are done with talking. As one pundit on social media stated, “No, we don’t need to have a conversation. You killed the guy willing to do that!”
Andy Caldwell, Executive Director, COLAB
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Great article Andy. I too remember vividly, the assassination of JFK back in 63’. Like you, I too was let out of class early on that fateful November day while attending Arthur Hapgood Elementary. Seems like a lifetime ago, maybe because it was.
I find myself agreeing with you that the Left has become an “evil ideology.” My parents, long gone now and true blue Democrats, would never recognize their own party.
Today, we bid farewell to our friend and brother, Charlie. Millions are celebrating his young life and expressing their love for him.
Why then has the MSM continue to hide and conceal the “evil ideology” that took Charlie away from us? Why did Jimmy Kimmel lie to us on national television about the motivation of this evil?
There has now been overwhelming evidence that those that identify as “Transgender”are becoming more brazen and violent, having been involved in multiple attacks. So much so, that some in the media are now referring to this movement as “Transtifa.” Why is this, does the massive amount of hormonal replacement therapy that Trans receive as part of their “transition therapy” play a role in violent behavior as a horrible side effect? Regardless, there must be a full and transparent investigation into the motives, funding and actions of this evil, sick and vile ideology.
Those on the Left, that have rejoiced in this act, are now reminding us how sick and twisted they have become. The recent articles by Jerry Roberts and “Newsfakers” denying culpability by the Left and doubling down on their hate is truly disgusting.
May God help us all.
Megyn Kelly said it better than I can:
“We don't trust you. One of yours killed Charlie and then you laughed at our pain, protested our vigils & said Charlie was to blame and in hell. You lied about the killer’s motives & said he was MAGA when you knew he wasn’t. You put us all in danger by not admitting the truth and then not relenting on the lies you tell about us. You cried endless tears for Jimmy Kimmel but none for Charlie.
You gleefully cancelled all of us for five+ years and danced when we suffered. You censored us & ruined careers of distinguished doctors & others who dared to say the truth during Covid and George Floyd. You cost our children years of learning during lockdowns and endangered them with deadly myocarditis by burying the risk disclosures and never apologized or owned it.
Your govt tried to strong arm Fox into firing Tucker bc of his J6 coverage and you said not a peep about the first amendment.
You changed Title IX with the stroke of a pen, without consent, and endangered and hurt our defenseless daughters. You sterilized and cut off the healthy body parts of children & want to keep doing it.
You lied about a near-vegetative president being fine with the nuclear codes.
You (personally) had Doug Emhoff on as the scandal of his alleged woman abuse and cheating broke and you didn’t ask him ONE Q about it, then tried to tell us you care about women.
You opened the border and let in ten+ million illegals who killed Laken Riley and 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray after they sexually assaulted her and threw her off a bridge, along with the countless other innocents they rape, murder and molest to this day.
So no, we don’t care what you say about Tom Homan.
We do not trust you.
We only care about defeating you.”