Tortured for months, finally and mercifully she died alone in the filthy hovel of her captor. Democrats will condemn society, and forgive her killer.
Others believe a brutal public execution will be the first step on the long road to reclaiming civilization in our nation.
I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country
Van, this wasn’t easy to share. I disagree with so much of what you say but I have such respect for you for doing this. I wish you both would have had the opportunity to sit down for that open dialogue because “when the dialogue stops, that’s when violence begins.”Charlie Kirk
NEW: CNN's Van Jones reveals he got a DM from Charlie Kirk calling for personal dialogue just one day before he was killed.
"Charlie Kirk and I were not friends at all. In fact, the last week of his life, we were beefing hard."
"The day before he died, [Charlie] did something that shocked me..."
A great mentor once told me that the greatest insights usually come from noticing what's not there.
You know what I notice? Never once since Charlie Kirk was assassinated have I worried about the possibility of riots, burning of cities, "autonomous zones" or violence in the streets.
And this is for a decent family man murdered in cold blood for his political opinions.
In the summer of 2020, all of those things happened across America and many other countries too. Over a career criminal who died in a police interaction with a negligent and careless cop. Politicians kneeled, media organisations held minutes of silence and billions were given to BLM in the very days that their supporters burned down entire districts of American cities and killed people to "fight racism". To this day there has not been a shred of evidence presented that George Floyd's death had anything to do with racism.
So no, I don't believe either party has a monopoly on political violence. We've seen left wing politicians attacked and killed too. It's just as awful and just as wrong.
But I also think it's worth noticing what's not there and thinking about why.
I hope I'm wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn't even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn't feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump's life. If I had to rationalise why I didn't, I guess it's because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie's death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don't pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I'm wrong.
RIP Charlie Kirk. It doesn’t matter what your opinion is of Charlie or his politics if you don’t view this as one of the darkest days in American history than you are part of the problem.
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say".
My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk's family.
Charlie Kirk has passed away at the age of 31.
A husband, a father of two, and a man of God. He completely reshaped our country and had so much ahead of him.
Gut-wrenching. Rest in peace, Charlie.
Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America - an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. Most of all, I weep for Charlie.