Never Forget 9-11 Charlie Kirk Murdered. Two Days of Sorrow

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"Yesterday, December 7, 1941, is a date which will live in infamy." So said Franklin Delano Roosevelt on December 7, 1941, the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Those who lived at the time never forgot where they were when they heard the news. Fast-forward 40 years to September 11, 2001, when the United States suffered a horrific terrorist attack with multiple targets. The twin towers of the World Trade Center were hit by Islamic extremists from Al-Qaeda using commercial passenger jets as missiles. Another plane plowed into the Pentagon across the Potomac from Washington, DC. The other plane was taken back over by the passengers to stop more carnage at its intended target, likely the United States Capitol building, which crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Two thousand nine hundred seventy-seven people died that day at the hands of a radical ideology that wanted to destroy the United States of America and collapse the Republican democracy founded on Judeo-Christian principles. We will never forget!

The following is reprinted by permission from Jersey Conservative

Charlie Kirk died exercising his First Amendment rights.

It was reported that 7,000 people had signed a petition to prevent Charlie Kirk from speaking at Utah Valley University, where he was later assassinated. If true, then they got their wish. His voice is now silent.
 
We found an online petition with just 943 supporters. Here is the reasoning behind the petition:

You can access the petition here: 
https://www.change.org/p/prevent-charlie-kirk-from-speaking-at-utah-valley-university

Some argue that the speech of ordinary citizens must be curtailed because it is a form of violence. “Speech kills” they will tell you.
 
But history informs us that the ordinary speech of people, no matter how learned or eloquent or edgy, is not the speech we need to worry about. Historically, the speech that kills are the words of authority.
 
The orders given by government to go to war. The orders given in the field by its officers. The making of a new law – to be enforced at the point of a gun by an armed constabulary. A change in regulation that will allow an unsafe product or prevent a needed something from being produced. Orders that limit access to a thing needed to sustain life. Or a judge ordering a violent criminal released into the community. These are words that have the power to harm.
 
But even with these words, blame for acting on them is shared. Those on trial at Nuremberg (1945-49) didn’t get away with it because they were following someone else’s orders. As Shakespeare wrote: “Every man’s duty is to the king, but every man’s soul is his own.”
 
So, words from someone without the authority to compel, are just words. They cannot do harm.
 
But large groups within our society believe that they do and are eager to go to some lengths to prevent the airing of opinions that they disagree with, or that they find offensive, or that “upset” them. They even favor government intervention – ordering in the men with guns – to stop what they dislike.
 
The American ideal was tolerance for speech we disagree with. We don’t like the burning of the American flag, but we put up with it. We don’t shoot the person doing the burning. We may not like a particular work of art, say Serrano’s “Piss Christ”, some may even call it offensive, but the artist remains free to express himself.
 
Our greatest altruism was the defense of others to present and argue for an idea that we disagree with. Whether on the Left or Right, safe in the understanding that irrational arguments will be defeated by rational ones. That even the worst ideas will be surrounded by opposing language and end up encased in counter arguments and reduced to curiosities.
 
The day before Charlie Kirk was murdered. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) released its sixth annual College Free Speech Rankings. It indicates “a continued decline in support for free speech among all students”. The survey is the most comprehensive look at campus expression in America. It ranks 257 schools based on 68,510 student responses to a wide array of free speech-related questions.
 
The survey, notes that 166 of 257 schools surveyed received an “F” for their speech climate. And shockingly, for the first time ever, “a majority of students would prevent speakers from both the left and right who express controversial views, ranging from abortion to transgender issues, from stepping foot on campus.”
 
Worryingly, the survey shows an uptick in speech intolerance among self-described “conservatives”. This is what your “side” having power, or the illusion of power, does to some people.
 
FIRE writes: “Students of every political persuasion show a deep unwillingness to encounter controversial ideas.” If this is the case in centers of learning, and if it cannot be reversed through the committed practice of tolerance and the defense of free speech, what hope is there for our Republic?

Charlie Kirk minutes before his life was taken by an assassin’s bullet. (Trent Nelson - The Salt Lake Tribune / Getty Images)

Yesterday, when I saw the graphic video of Charlie being shot, as a nurse (retired), I knew that he would be dead in seconds. The gunshot clearly hit his left carotid artery. The heart muscle was pumping blood out at a swift rate. The loss of blood to his brain caused him to pass out in seconds, and a few seconds more, he was dead at the scene. The rumors we heard that he was in critical condition at a hospital were false. I'm told they did that until they could contact his wife and family. He was DOA. I don't think he had time to feel pain. He did not suffer. 

Within moments, he went from proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ to meeting Jesus face-to-face. Charlie's witness in death is being multiplied throughout the media all over the world. His influence will be felt more strongly now than it was when he was alive. Satan always overplays his hand. Charlie Kirk, barely out of high school, was a genius, a man who formed one of the largest conservative organizations in the world. He had over 84 million followers. That's larger than the population of the East Coast by 30 million people. 

Charlie Kirk was a champion of the Gospel. He was also a humble man of strong character. Fierce in his love for mankind to know their Savior. Charlie Kirk is an example for this old man to follow. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of one of his saints (Psalm 116:15)." For all Christian believers, we know that Charlie, when he passed from this life, he entered into the presence of his Savior and heard the words "...well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou has been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Matthew 25:21-23.

May the work of Charlie Kirk continue to grow and flourish. On behalf of the Center for Garden State Families, its Board of Directors, employees, and volunteers, we express our gratitude to him and TPUSA. We pray for his wife, Erica, and their two small children—may God's blessing and protection be upon them.