Pure Evil
The cold-blooded, premeditated and deliberate murder of Charlie Kirk is as horrific as it was heinous. The assassination of Kirk, a political activist, should send a chill down the spine of every American who believes in freedom of speech, democracy and freedom. The killing of Charlie Kirk was an assault on the very foundations of our liberty and right to think for ourselves and speak our opinions. Most Americans cannot conceive that there would be an end to our way of life, of the almost unlimited freedoms we enjoy as a people, but lest we forget, ours is the exception to the rule. Russia was dominated for 600 years by a monarch who exercised autocratic and life-and-death powers over his people. Many of the governments in Europe and Asia were ruled by kings and emperors, who, if not absolute, wielded immense authority prior to the First World War. Russia was ruled for the better part of a century after toppling its emperor by heartless and merciless Communist dictators. Josef Stalin killed millions of his own people in the name of ideology. So, too, did the Chinese Communist kill millions of their own people, all in the name of their political beliefs. In Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, where there really was fascism, there was no acceptable dissent. For those people in this country who are either liars, morons or suffering from a terminal case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, if our present government were truly fascist, no dissent would be allowed. Comparing Donald Trump to Hitler is absurd to anyone who is literate or knows anything at all about world history. Criticism of Hitler was punishable by death, and anyone who displeased him had a bad end. No criticism of Hitler was allowed on the airwaves or barely even in whispers. People in this country are obviously allowed to say what they think, no matter how false, how foolish or radical. It is the right of free speech. Not everybody here in this country likes the idea of free speech, which was one of the most fundamental cornerstones in Charlie Kirk’s bedrock beliefs about the greatness of America.
The idea of occupying a “safe space” where our ears do not have to hear anything we dislike is relatively new, and polls show that one in three young people today believe it is just fine to use violence to shut down those who disagree with them. That coincides with every dictatorship and autocracy that has ever held sway on the face of God’s earth throughout the millennia. It is the very antithesis of America and the premise of our nation.
Senator Bernie Sanders has said that the murder of Charlie Kirk was due to political cowardice, and that is certainly true. As Sanders said, candidates and political parties should be able to debate their own viewpoints openly, and the people decide which they choose in free elections. Stifling, cutting off, or strangling the voices of those who don’t share our own views is an admission that one’s argument is weak or can’t stand scrutiny. Charlie Kirk knew and celebrated the fact that America was built on ideas.
The radicalization and indoctrination of our students on college campuses had its effect and it is a terrible one. There is good reason to believe the young man who is believed to have murdered Charlie Kirk is a radical leftist. Kirk’s battleground was the college campus where he willing debated those who had a very different political viewpoint from his own. University and college campuses have become the Xanadu of far-left ideology in the United States. No other single individual had more to do with the shift in the thinking of young people than did Charlie Kirk. Nobody could likely have been more surprised and horrified that young people were really listening to Kirk than the elitists who populate the offices and corridors of college and university campuses. Those same campuses have long ceased to be places of ideas and innovation, having been replaced by the rigid ideology of gender, race, and antisemitism. Theirs has become the citadel of open borders, race, gender, and sexual identity politics, while conservatives want our country to be gathered around faith, family and the American flag.
Kirk’s murder follows two attempts on the life of President Trump. Political violence is rising in this country, and the overheated rhetoric is in part responsible. That and the fact that we have left violent demonstrations, the burning of public, private and government property, all in the name of protest. Nobody, no individual or organization, has the right to destroy anything that doesn’t belong to them in the name of protest, period. When something is described by the mainstream media as “most peaceful protests,” we know it’s not.
The inhumanity of Charlie Kirk’s murder is a terrible stain that can never be washed clean. Kirk was a husband and the father of two small children, and he was ripped out of their lives in the worst way possible. It is both ironic and tragic that Charlie Kirk was murdered while literally using his First Amendment right to free speech. Kirk was a champion of free speech.
It is certainly true that Charlie Kirk pursued the upending of the status quo, but then so, too, did Dr. Martin Luther King. James Earl Ray murdered Martin Luther King because he hated King’s beliefs and what he stood for. Charlie Kirk was murdered for the very same reason. There were disgusting and soulless people who celebrated the murder of Dr. King then, and there are disgusting and soulless people who are celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk as well. The spilling of innocent blood can easily become a catalyst for change. God grant that we can change the hatred in this country.
