Radical politics and blind hate killed a man, what will we do about it...
Are we ready and willing to start listening to people we disagree with? We should be.
It was politics, radicalization and polarization that killed Charlie Kirk. A man killed for speaking his mind by a man who likely hadn’t watched Kirk actually speak but had watched angry videos and ingested outraged social media posts about the conservative activist.
At the end of this post you will see a video debunking the lies against this man, but first, what we learned about his assassination.
On Tuesday afternoon, Utah Attorney General Jeff Gray held a news conference where he laid out a long text exchange between suspect Tyler Robinson and his roommate and romantic partner Lance Twiggs, reportedly transitioning from male to female.
At the start of the text exchange, Robinson tells Twiggs to go read the note he left under his keyboard.
“I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it,” the note Robinson left for Twiggs said according to the indictment.
After reading it, Twiggs appears shocked at what he has just read and asks Robinson directly if he was involved. Here is part of the transcript.
Twiggs: you weren’t the one who did it right????
Robinson: I am, I’m sorry
Twiggs: I thought they caught the person?
Robinson: no, they grabbed some crazy old dude, then interrogated someone in similar clothing. I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. Its quiet, almost enough to get out, but theres one vehicle lingering.
Twiggs: Why?
Robinson: Why did I do it?
Twiggs: Yeah
Robinson: I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out. If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence. Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they have moved on. I haven’t seen anything about them finding it.
The messages go on and Robinson clearly was motivated by hate and politics to carry out his attack on Kirk. He knew he disagreed with Kirk, likely had never really listened to him and decided that to shut Kirk up he had to kill him.
Kirk was a person who tried to engage in dialogue, who wanted to talk through differences and find common ground. There are several videos of him interacting with transgender activists in which he is kind, patient, respectful and while they may have disagreed on some things did not devolve into hate.
I didn’t know Charlie Kirk, but I know many who did and they speak highly of him.
If you still believe the media hype and the online claims that Kirk was a hateful man, I encourage you to watch this video from Amir Odom, a young gay black man who worked with Charlie, was inspired by Charlie, didn’t always agree with Charlie but says the narrative about him by his opponents is false.
The “ far left” do not want to hear anything that goes against their narrative. While they claim to represent “freedom” you have to ask yourself - what kind of freedom? The freedom to only agree with them ? They distort and make up facts and scenarios - but sadly they are not the only ones engaging in that type of behaviour. These days you really have to ask yourself - is what I am reading, online especially, the truth or is it pure fiction made up by some crank in his bedroom of his parents house ? You also have to have this same jaundiced eye when listening to the CBC, CTV and Global, who have all crossed the line to actively promote left wing opinions so they can please their financial benefactors, the Liberal Party. Then you have Chinese, Russian and North Korean agents spending false stories and disinformation to try to further divide us and frankly, it’s working. If you disagree with a leftist you get - at least - labeled as either a “phobe” and they have plenty of phobe labels, a mysoginist, or a traitor. On the other end of the spectrum it’s cancelation or physical harm or in some cases death. -for merely disagreeing with them. Jordan Peterson, Sean Fuechs Ann Coulter and others come to mind - in your own case Brian, you too have been threatened. The internet is a paradox. In some ways is connects us all, instantly but on the other hand it disconnects as well and leads to social isolation. I am glad I am in my 70’s and I will not be around long enough to see the end point in all of this.
Thank you, Mr. Lilley, for being a voice of reason in this overheated, under informed society in which we now live.