I know: I’ve got to get over Charlie Kirk’s assassination. But please bear with me, because that story is haunting me, and I can’t stop thinking about it just yet.
(As the Book says, “To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” And for me, this is still the season for mourning, and for railing against the evil a-hole who murdered Charlie Kirk, and those who celebrated his murder.)
I’ve already got enough drafted for several more columns, so I’ll make this Part 1 of 3. And sure, once I’ve done a little more praying and confessing, and I edit out of all of the “F” bombs and the physically impossible sexual acts that I’ve invited the Charlie-haters to do to themselves, that’ll cut the rough draft by a good 500 words or so. So I’ve got that going for me.
Anyway, I’m going to focus mostly on the Left, and their reaction to Charlie’s murder, and at least partial culpability for it. But I can’t help talking about Charlie just a little more, too.
Over the weekend I was watching some of his public speeches, and I landed on an excerpt from his recent debate at Oxford. The details aren’t important, other than that his responses were thoughtful and smart, as usual. But I caught my breath when the debate was interrupted with a plug that Charlie gave for a book by Todd Nettleton (which I am now going to get and read) called “When Faith is Forbidden: 40 Days on the Frontlines with Persecuted Christians.”
What stopped me, and landed like a physical blow, was when Charlie read the name of the organization that Nettleton leads: The Voice of the Martyrs.
And now Charlie is one. And I am still so pissed.
Then, just last night, I came across a full video of that Oxford debate. (I’d recommend watching it if you haven’t seen it, though doing so might make you even angrier about the mind and spirit that we lost last Wednesday.) Remember: Charlie had a high school diploma, and decided to forgo a college education in favor of creating one of the most important political organizations in the world instead.
But he also asked some wise mentors for a reading list of the great works, and over the next 13 years – while he was doing the work that 10 average men might be able to do in a lifetime – he read voraciously, and educated himself on the Western canon.
The debate took place in front of one of the oldest and most august debating societies in what used to be called Christendom, and it was broken into two parts. For around an hour, Charlie responded to challenging questions on very controversial topics, from birthright citizenship and mass deportations to racism in the US justice system and free speech restrictions in the UK. After that, he did a Q&A debate with a series of six Oxford debaters for forty-five minutes.
And that self-taught American high school graduate coolly, respectfully and politely wiped the floor with the most expensively-educated alleged brainiacs in the Mother Country.
USA! USA! USA!
Actually, they weren’t all hyper combative, and the give and take was respectful on both sides. But as a teacher of argumentative and persuasive writing and debate, it was a pleasure to watch Charlie think on his feet, and deftly construct and refute arguments with unflappable good humor.
One particular opponent of the six in that debate was less impressive, and he is actually back in the news now. But I want to save that story for part 2 or 3, so that this one doesn’t get too long.
In my column on Friday I said that the mainstream right doesn’t encourage, sanction and justify violence like the mainstream left does. But for this entire weekend, I repeatedly thought about an equally important fact: we also don’t react to violence like they do. And they should be damned grateful for that!
In Charlie Kirk, the malevolent left has created a martyr, as they almost did – twice! – with our president. And as they did with a number of the aforementioned murdered Christian school kids, and Jews in several cities. They murdered an unknown healthcare company CEO for the crime of running a company in a field of which the left disapproves. They’ve attacked and assaulted and shot too many cops, border patrol and ICE agents to count, all for the “crime” of enforcing our nation’s laws.
Now please get out your notebook and your number 2 pencil (yes, I’m old) and make a list of similar conservative atrocities committed against commensurate leftist targets.
Include all of the times when righties shot up a rainbow church while non-binary warlocks were teaching the kiddies inside such lefty hymns as, “Stalin loves me, this I know, ‘Cause Das Kapital tells me so,” and “What a friend we have in Gaia, all our sins and griefs to weaponize.” And all the times when GOP assassins shot Democrat presidents and influencers. And all the times when conservatives shot NPR executives in the back like micro-phallic loser cowards.
I’ll make myself a cup of coffee while I wait for you to complete your list.
What’s that? I don’t even have time to make a cup of instant coffee, because there have been no similar right-wing murders of similar left-wing targets?
Huh. What do you know about that?
But it’s not just that we don’t react to our opponents’ violence the way that leftists react to right-wing violence – which, inconveniently for them is exceedingly rare. We also don’t react to our political opponents’ mere EXISTENCE the way that the left does.
Consider this: most conservatives can give you a long list of leftists whom we believe are terrible people who have done terrible damage to our country. For example, I think that Joe Biden was an egregious grifter of a president who got 13 good American soldiers killed in the incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan, enriched himself and his family by using his addict son as a bagman for bribes from Chicom mass murderers and corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs, and is a cadaverous creeper around young girls. (And also, just plain cadaverous. Not a joke. I’m being serious.)
I think Obama is a narcissistic whitey-hater who poisoned American race relations and doubled our national debt to no good end. I think Bill Clinton is a sleazebag who raped Juanita Broaddrick and left no female bottom within arm’s length ungroped for his entire adult life. I think Hillary Clinton is worse than her terrible husband, and that the most useful public service Que Mala Harris ever did was that thing with Willie Brown.
I think George Soros’ original name was George Sauron, and I wouldn’t give you a plug nickel for every Democrat in the House and Senate, except for the hulking, man-child weirdo John Fetterman. (And I still think he’s better suited to don some fake plastic bolts in his neck and scare trick-or-treaters at Halloween than to be a US Senator.)
I could go on a lot longer. All conservatives could. But have you noticed that none of us have tried to kill any of those people?
Donald Trump is intermittently a great president, and an irritating jackass. But the Left calls him Hitler, tried to jail him for life, and tried to assassinate him twice. Most conservatives think the last four Democrat presidents (at least!) range from “horrible” to “also horrible,” and yet none of us have tried to jail, bankrupt or kill any of them.
We watch their SCOTUS judges and can’t believe their non-responsive, a-constitutional ramblings. Sotomayor looks like a mediocre, partisan hack, and Ketanji Jackson – who somehow sounds like she’s got advanced CTE despite having never played a down of football in her life – makes Sotomayor look like Maimonides.
And yet our leaders have never stood outside the Supreme Court and screamed that they will reap the whirlwind, and won’t know what hit them if they don’t rule our way. And we’ve never inspired an armed right-winger to travel cross-country to Kagan or Sotomayor’s house (I assume that Ketanji lives in a van, down by the river) on a mission to kill one of them.
You can also see the vast gulf between the parties by the quality of their “martyrs.”
Trayvon Martin was a ne’er-do-well kid who was justifiably shot in self-defense, while in the process of bashing George Zimmerman’s skull into a concrete sidewalk. Zimmerman was called a “white Hispanic” – a genus which had never before existed, until the Left needed a way to blame whitey for a false racial crime committed by a Hispanic guy. And Obama said that “Trayvon could have been my son.” (If you were the kind of parent who raised the kind of son who went around committing attempted homicide, I guess?)
Michael Brown was on film committing a strong-arm robbery against a small Indian convenience store worker shortly before he attacked and beat a cop, fracturing his orbital bone and trying to get his gun before he was justifiably shot. Brown’s friend Dorian Johnson lied that Brown had been shot while holding his hands up and not resisting.
(You may have seen the story that Dorian Johnson got shot to death last week, allegedly by a girlfriend he was beating at the time. Unexpectedly!)
George Floyd was a junkie and career criminal who once put a gun against a pregnant woman’s belly during a robbery. When he was committing another crime and the police were called, he died of an overdose that was wrongly attributed to a white cop’s restraint of him, despite the coroner’s report saying that the restraint didn’t kill Floyd.
Jordan Neely was a homeless black guy and violent recidivist criminal with a record as long as JB Pritzker’s grocery list (#putdownthatoversizedturkeyleg), when he threatened and menaced a bunch of subway riders in NYC. When a Marine put him in a choke hold to protect the civilians and Neely died, corrupt leftist DA Alvin Bragg charged the Marine with manslaughter, and put him through a criminal trial that ended when even a lefty New York jury came back with a verdict of, “You’ve got to be sh*tting me!”
Each of those four criminals, despite dying in the act of committing yet another crime, have all been elevated to the Mount Rushmore of Leftist Martyrs.
“Hands up, Don’t Shoot” became a lucrative, fraudulent nationwide money grab, and racial arsonists like BLM, Al Sharpton and most of the black caucus have made hay out of portraying Neely as a harmless Michael Jackson impersonator and Michael Brown as a “gentle giant.” Pathetic pandering leftist politicians put on dashikis and bowed on one knee to honor Saint Floyd, the Patron Saint of Opioids.
And the Left rioted and justified widespread, continuous, lawless destruction in the name of their Four Horsemen of the Race-pocalypse.
Tomorrow, I’ll compare the Right’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder, and examine the media’s orgy of rake-stomping self-beclowning reactions in the aftermath.
Spoiler alert: we can never hate the media enough!
Hamas delenda est!
Martin Simpson 