From Vigilant Fox:
The evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done. They killed Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and of God’s merciful love.
They should all know this: If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea. You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world. You have no idea.
You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
To everyone listening tonight, across America, the movement my husband built will not die. It won’t. I refuse to let that happen. It will not die. All of us will refuse to let that happen.
No one will ever forget my husband’s name. And I will make sure it will become stronger, bolder, louder, and greater than ever. My husband’s mission will not end, not even for a moment. (Read more.)
Charlie Kirk's assassination prompts educators to reveal lack of integrity. From The Easton Gazette:
With the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we see teachers taking to social media to celebrate the murder of a man because of his political views. It's not just teachers in one district, one state, but teachers across the United States. The examples are horrifying. These activist teachers, for whatever reason, want everyone, including their students, to see the hatred they felt for this man and their glee at his assassination....
Sadly, there are many more examples of this hatred in and out of Maryland.
This is not what being a teacher is about. It is not what education is about. This is indoctrination into a world where, as Utah Governor Spencer Cox said in an admonition, "Politics feels like rage is the only option." He then went on to remind young people that this is not true.
First, teachers are supposed to be the ones who help students learn about truth, not inundate them with hate. A student cannot have a "safe platform" to form and express their opinions, beliefs, etc. in the classroom of a teacher who spews hatred. There is no trust in that classroom, only a dark cloud of rage filled bias.
Some have said, "Teachers have freedom of speech." They do. However, they also have a higher standard of discretion, responsibility, and professionalism that they must meet BECAUSE they work with young minds. If their contracts don't require this higher standard, their personal morality and integrity should.
But, like any other profession, there are those who are there for self-serving reasons.
Let's not forget, just because a teacher CAN say something doesn't mean there won't be negative consequences IF they say it. Imagine a teacher sharing a social media post about their hatred for Black people, gay people, etc. They wouldn't, and shouldn't, be allowed to keep their job. (Read more.)
From The Montgomery County Republican Club:
Words build worlds. When political opponents are constantly painted as existential threats—Nazis, fascists, totalitarians—it lowers the barrier to seeing them as legitimate targets. It normalizes hostility.
- After Trump’s 2024 shooting, many on the right pointed to Biden or Democratic leaders’ harsh phrases (“threat to democracy,” “authoritarian,” “menace”) as having laid groundwork. The idea: rhetoric shapes perception, and perception shapes action. Wikipedia+1
- After Kirk’s killing, there were similar patterns: immediately, before motive was confirmed, many blamed left-wing rhetoric. Then there were reports of leftist voices celebrating, or making comments like “karma,” though those individuals (e.g. a Secret Service employee) were put on leave once identified. New York Post | 2Wikipedia+2
So the pattern is this: demonizing speech → increased polarization → violent act → reaction blaming speech. It becomes a vicious circle. (Read more.)
From Amuse on X:
America is in the midst of a spiritual war of good versus evil. That claim sounds dramatic at first pass. It sounds like rhetoric in search of evidence. Yet anyone who has lived through the past two years can see the pattern. The corrosion did not begin with a single incident, but a sequence made the truth unavoidable. A president shot in Butler, Pennsylvania. A second attempt at a golf club that failed only because providence and preparation intervened. Then, a young father of two who dedicated his adult life to persuading students with questions and arguments, murdered while doing the very thing America promises as a first freedom. Evil is not a metaphor when it reaches for a rifle. The political fight is real, but it rests on a deeper contest over the dignity of the human person, the nobility of the family, and the sovereignty of conscience before God. That contest is spiritual.
I first met Charlie Kirk two years ago. He told me something that gave me pause, that America was in the midst of a spiritual war. He did not mean a crusade against people of different colors or creeds. He meant a war over first principles. He told me the left had stepped away from the word of God, dismantled Judeo Christian values, dismissed the Constitution and free enterprise, and rejected the nuclear family. He said Marxist ideas were no longer whispered in faculty lounges, they were shouted in lecture halls and normalized in freshman orientations. I agreed about the trend but rolled my eyes at the notion of a literal spiritual battle with Satan. Over the last year the evidence overcame my skepticism. Seeing the president shot in the ear in Butler and survive focused the mind. Weeks later, watching him narrowly escape an assassination attempt at his golf club, where a Secret Service agent intercepted the gunman before he could fire, finished the argument. The murder of Charlie, carried out while he was doing what he always did, asking questions and engaging opponents, offered the final confirmation. Hatred that kills a man for inviting students to think is not merely political. It is evil. (Read more.)
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