Charlie Kirk Assassination

[harm_less]

His killing was not unexpected. His rhetoric served to put a huge target on his back and yesterday somebody took aim at it. 

With no suspect yet identified or apprehended it's difficult to judge what motives were actually involved but with the depth of political polarisation currently at play in the US possibilities are widespread. 

Perhaps a professional hit for political gain? It has taken the focus off of Epstein issue after all. 

A foreign actor is another aspect to consider. The likely aftermath of this may well be a destabilising influence on the US political landscape. 

Or it was just somebody with a high level of firearms skills that was fed up with the continual diatribe that was Charlie Kirk's MO.

A collection of his public statements...

[Lilith7]

His killing was not unexpected. His rhetoric served to put a huge target on his back and yesterday somebody took aim at it. 

With no suspect yet identified or apprehended it's difficult to judge what motives were actually involved but with the depth of political polarisation currently at play in the US possibilities are widespread. 

Perhaps a professional hit for political gain? It has taken the focus off of Epstein issue after all. 

A foreign actor is another aspect to consider. The likely aftermath of this may well be a destabilising influence on the US political landscape. 

Or it was just somebody with a high level of firearms skills that was fed up with the continual diatribe that was Charlie Kirk's MO.

A collection of his public statements...

I don't know much about him & obviously disagree with all those comments he made.

That said, to murder someone in front of his wife & child is beyond the pale.

[zqwerty]

Man arrested in Charlie Kirk’s killing had no known criminal history, had become ‘more political

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/sus...sts-views/

[Lilith7]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...uJPvKF7GRg


"He also lashed out at the gay community, denouncing what he called the “LGBTQ agenda,” expressing opposition to same-sex marriage and suggesting that the Bible verse Leviticus 20:13, which endorses the execution of homosexuals, serves as “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

“I don’t agree with your lifestyle,” Kirk told a gay Wisconsin college student last September. “I don’t think you should introduce yourself just based on your sexuality because that’s not who you are.”

He also argued against gender-affirming care for transgender people and insisted there are only two genders, sporting a T-shirt at one Arizona rally last year that read: “xy = man.”

[Oh_hunnihunni]

And now the vultures gather, to make meat of the remains. I watch the media, and remember Melissa and her husband, and their dog, and the way no flags flew at half mast for their murders. The school children, shot in their classrooms, again, and again, and again...

But, funny thing, these assassins, white males, not immigrants, not trans, not lgbt, not women, not poor, not Muslim, not the target groups, but killers none the less.

Sick society spawning sick acts of violence.

I'm glad to be a New Zealander.

[harm_less]

The media coverage of this is going to be very interesting. The MAGA outrage claiming that an extreme left motivated assassin was to blame has now receded and calls for understanding towards him have replaced it. The spin that we will see from MSM will be next level.

The shooter is allegedly influenced by the Groypers movement which is even more right wing that Charlie Kirk was and considered Charlie as being too moderate. In a nation with the social angst that the US presently has this is going to not only throw the reaction to Kirk's death into high gear but also energise groups and individuals with these hateful ideologies into even more radical actions.