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When historians look back at our era, this week will be noted as a Turning Point. First, a Ukrainian refugee and proud American was murdered in a racially motivated attack and left alone to bleed out, in a train car/carriage. Those around her ignored her. Her name, Iryna, in Ukrainian means peace. And while society was learning that Peace had been murdered in a racist stabbing, Debate was mortally shot in the throat.
Charlie Kirk was a larger-than-life figure on the American Right, whose presence spread to the UK and wherever common-sense conservatism was valued. It is hard to overestimate the effect he (and his group, Turning Point) had. In the 2024 Election, he was an integral part of a R+44 swing in the youth vote. Which was, to use a term overused, “unprecedented”. He was the epitome of the traditional classical liberal ideals, visiting universities, discussing and debating with whoever wished to. The Long March Through the Institutions had turned many of our centres for Higher Learning into narrow-minded organisations where only one side could speak. Charlie rolled that back. With vigour, respect, and a faith-filled love of humanity, he robustly argued for truth, family love, and traditional values.
He was the inheritor of the classical values of democracy and civilisation. A modern paragon of the virtues we have inherited from both Athens and Jerusalem. A man of Faith and Action, who deserved to walk among the great orators and debaters of the English & Anglophone Civilisation.
And what must be the grimmest irony of all, he won his last argument posthumously. His blood proved beyond any reasonable doubt that there is a serious problem with intolerance and political violence in the trans & trans ally community.
I’ve seen many people say now that Charlie’s dead, the time for talking is over. We are angry. As Nick Freitas said, “the young saw him as their older brother, and the Old Republicans as their heir.” Mr Kirk was the millennial future of the Republican Party, and his assassination killed the rising star. Not since the brutal murder of Robert F. Kennedy has the American public been so horrifically denied a say in their future. And yet, he was one of us. He wasn’t an elected politician. He was a citizen. He wasn’t a congressman. He was a citizen. Just like the rest of us. It wasn’t our representative who was murdered. It was one of us.
But I disagree that the time for talking is now past. Unquestionably, debate is dangerous. Certainly, the other side’s elite have taken no responsibility for their highly irresponsible language and the way they have ratcheted tensions to a fever pitch, escalating tensions just shy of actual violence. You’ve seen the examples already, and nobody needs to see more rage bait. No one with eyes, ears, and a phone can deny that millions of our compatriots across the West are gleefully rejoicing in his murder.
Most chilling of all, many are justifying it.
Let us be honest. Charlie was murdered because he was the biggest threat to the authoritarian Left and their psychopathic delusions. He went into the Universities, often facing a screaming mob, only to leave with 50 new conservatives. Death threats and obscenities alike bounced off him, and his love for his fellow man and the Truth shone out. He walked the Path to Truth that our civilisation has held to be the best: via Dialogue, Reason, and Debate with any who would join. His love for his Saviour made him a human Whitepill in an era of anger, denial, and apathy peddled by countless other, less noble influencers. I will not name names.
To give up on his dream is to acknowledge defeat; that we cannot reason with anyone on the opposition. That a sizeable part of humanity is beyond truth, redemption, and love. That they are not misguided Humans, but irredeemable Orcs with no desire for facts over feels, or appetite for the Glory of Truth.
Yet plenty of people on the left do want the truth. A brief search of X would show not merely the horror of Reckless Hate, but, as @Paul Birch said, “The sound of scales falling from the left’s eyes.”
Most of us are where we are because someone was “Always prepared to give an account for the hope that is within them.” If that was you, please comment and explain what shifted you. I dare say it wasn’t irrational internet insults.
The assassin and his odious ilk want us to say, “It’s a waste of time to talk”: They know their control is slipping. They know – to quote GK Chesterton – their time, like their scales, are short. Their support is haemorrhaging because the world can see we are not who they say we are. Charlie Kirk proved this to tens if not hundreds of thousands. His death proved this to millions.
I am certainly not unaware of the danger the Corrupt Left and their mentally unstable henchmen pose to each one of us. A steady theme of “legitimisation” for the murder was that Kirk was a transphobic and homophobic bigot. This is so patently untrue as to be comic were it not so serious. Kirk – and millions of Americans, Brits and people all over the world- believe that each human being is perfectly made in the Image of God. And that each one of us is endowed not only with certain unalienable rights by our Creator, but with everything we need to fulfil what we were sent on earth to do. And that we will only find true Joy when we walk that path – Our Personal Path. Deviating from it and being tempted by the Silver tongue of Envy will never satisfy. And the statistics of mental conditions bear his position out.
Yet, for wanting what was best and openly striving to offer the opportunity to understand this, Charlie was murdered. This, we are told, is “hate”. It is “transphobia”, or “bigotry”. It is “love” to wilfully accept only this one peculiar form of Bodily Dysphoria. This one must be affirmed with irreversible mutilation of children’s bodies. And thus to deny this as a moral good is a capital offence, for which the punishment is to be murdered at any time and in any place.
This is the unalloyed horror of his assassination. For a sizeable percentage of our fellow citizenry, objecting to biological reality, which has been accepted as fact for the entire story’s history of the human race, and to affirm what is a scientific fact by some of the most senior doctors and supreme court judges in the United States, UK, and countless other nations is somehow hateful bigotry and a capital offence. And it is not merely the fringes of the movement; Doctors, nurses, school teachers, professors, even presidents of Oxford University’s Union have all expressed support for this outrageous act of political violence.
I fail to see how a state can function when a significant part of its population believes in this. This is a chilling level of mass dehumanisation not seen since the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. The closest conservative position would be to say anyone who supports abortion legitimately deserves to be shot by vigilantes or hanged by lynch mobs. This reckless hate is irrational, unconscionable – and socially unsustainable.
It is for that, as well as Charlie, I mourn. I mourn for our humanity, our society, and our democracy. (Yes, even a monarchist values democracy)
Let us not delude ourselves. Everyone who believes in Biblical Values, free speech, debate, Western Civilisation, and respect for the opposition as human beings is now a “legitimate target.” I dare say that includes everyone reading this.
Effectively, we are all targeted by them. Should we make ourselves as hard a target as possible? Absolutely. But as much as our churches should promise protection against anyone trying to kill us, we must promise Life for anyone truly seeking it.
This is not the end of debate or of conversation. It cannot be. But it needs to be the end of ‘Casting Pearls Before Swine.’ We must remain open to and love those who seek Truth, yet value our life and security enough to face reality.
I have seen many say Charlie is a martyr. Some on the right argue that because he died, he was a failure. I cannot disagree more strongly. Look at his fruit. Can anyone else claim to have broken so many people free of their mental blinders? Turning Point (TPUSA) was the rocket that sent Trump into Orbit. Trump brought Kennedy and MAHA into power. TPUSA was the tool that broke The Uniparty, Big Business’ & Democratic hegemony over our youth.
Kirk was effective because he loved our opponents enough to “save” everyone who wanted the truth.
We won’t see someone as brave and effective as him until we learn to love people as much as he did. And when that man or woman comes along, we must support them in every way possible. Including watching every rooftop within 300 yards of their person. (Preferably not with a swarm of AI-controlled Anduril drones used by the local PD)
Because more effective than defeating our opposition is to make them Co-belligerents. And only the Love of God is strong enough. Look online at the liberals waking up. God forbid it had been Trump, or Ben Shapiro, or Nick Fuentes. The effect would not have been the same because Charlie Kirk openly loved people. It shone through him. Everyone who wasn’t blind could see it, and knows something of great value has been lost.
The right has a moral difficulty. We either pretend we have no enemy, merely an opposition, or we hate them. But the God of Western Civilisation calls us to love our enemies: Just as He did.
Love is not weak. It is strong. Hate is brittle. Love was the emotion that drove the foundation of Christendom. Our ancestors were not weak. Love does not require acceptance or appeasement. Weakness does. Love is enough to say no. It is brave enough to say it because it cares enough for the other to do so.
The time for naivety is over. The legitimisers and tolerators of political violence are our enemies. As are their commanders and the corrupt institutions and corporations which fund these evils. Those who view the law as applying only to their opposition.
We shall boycott them, we shall be vigilant, and make ourselves as hard targets as possible. We shall endeavour to dismantle their institutions through all legal means. Over the last eight years, we have seen how far institutional evil is willing to bend the rules to win, and how many new rules and tools they unilaterally create. We shall use these to our maximum advantage, but go no further. If universities refuse to fire faculty who approve of violence, we shall not go there, nor send our children there. If hospitals and schools legitimise such behaviours by accepting those who agree with murder, we shall boycott them. We will also refuse to allow our children to go to schools where they are unguarded prey for the most evil in society. Our churches and synagogues will be protected to ensure that ‘never again’ truly means ‘never again’. Now that we are deemed “legitimate targets”, we shall be as hard targets as humanly possible. God forbid it comes to it, we shall not strike first, but we will strike in defence and deterrence. We will be Our Brothers’ Keepers; we will now allow more Irynas to bleed out alone.
From now on, a line has been drawn. We say to all: Unless you distance yourself from those who approve of violence, you are our enemy and will be treated as such: you shall not receive one cent. As @Amber Trimble put it, “This is not Cancel Culture; This is Consequence culture.
We cannot coexist in a political union that tolerates armed and dangerous people who believe acknowledging biological reality should be punishable by death. Logically, the only way to survive such a terminally sick society is to shoot back first. And that is the horrible reality that Charlie Kirk’s murder means we must face.
We shall have no tolerance or mercy for evil, but we shall continue to love humanity enough to offer them the truth.
We are the true Party of Love. And that’s what Charlie wanted. Because that’s what he did. And the one thing he wanted to be remembered for was His faith in his God. And that is precisely what our God did. While we were yet His enemies, Christ died for us.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
And we must not allow it to be choked by the weeds, or scorched by the sun and wind. We are angry, yes, but we will not sin. We shall be as wise as serpents, but as blameless as doves, knowing that ultimately it is
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