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Published 9.16.2025: New York Post
Libertarian: Kirk Was Right
on Liberty’s Cost
After Charlie Kirk’s assassination “came a spate of malicious chuckling over” the fact that “he’d once called shooting deaths the price of keeping the Second Amendment,” notes Reason’s J.D. Tuccille, “except that’s really not what Kirk said.” Rather, “he emphasized that you can’t have the good parts of being free without also suffering the negative consequences.” And he was right: “Yes, freedom can be abused by bad people. But if we can’t trust everybody to use freedom wisely, why would we trust people in government” with the power “to disarm the public, censor speech, invade homes at will, and more?” Fact is, “there are trade-offs not just in liberty, but in restricting liberty,” and the risks of liberty are “far less perilous than granting governments enhanced powers that they’ll inevitably abuse.”
Conservative: America Needs More Arguments
“Even most politically engaged people don’t actually spend much time in active disagreement with people who have different views,” warns Yuval Levin at The Free Press. Yet: “Our Constitution is premised on the assumption that our neighbors aren’t always going to share our views, and that dealing with each other through those differences is what politics is for.” Insisting “the other party is the country’s biggest problem” is “just a way to avoid dealing with the country’s actual problems, and that dealing with those will require negotiation, accommodation, and a lot of patience for opinions that aren’t our own.” In fact: “Our political adversaries will still be here tomorrow; they will be part of any future we build. Any politics not premised in that reality will be dangerously delusional and can only point us down.”
The radical left celebrated the murder of a man exercising his freedom of speech (“A Free-Speech Liberal,” Rich Lowry, Sept. 15).
The day Kirk was killed will be known as the day the radical left committed suicide. This behavior is unacceptable, even for those who disagreed with Charlie Kirk.
Sandy Stafursky
Old Forge, Pa.
At The Bifurcation
Some Took The Wrong Path
Freedom is never free. We always must pay to keep it. I recommend the radical left should study to know the differences between “Freedom” and “Liberty”, learn our true history, recognize that you do not know the true meaning of the word “Fascism” and you really do not know what you’re talking about. But if a Fascist dictator is what you insist upon having, you’ll probably have another dictator like Mindoro of Venezuela or Castro over Cuba and then you will understand the mistakes you made.
The radical left does not understand The Bible and does not believe what they don’t understand. This is like saying, “I made it up so it must be true. This is living in a fantasy. Psychiatrists call living in a dream, “Psychosis.”
By that definition these young students have been taught to be psychotic and someone is paying a hefty price for this toxic teaching. It would be well to buy the latest books by Rabbi and Messianic Pastor Jonathan Cahn, sold at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and many book stores. When you DO buy a title, make the time to read it. You need to know what has been transmitted through him.
“Transmitted” you say? “You mean like channeling?” Yes, but channeling comes from Satan’s minions and the transmissions Rabbi Cahn gets come from G-d and he explains how we know that.
In my view we have two choices. We can let these brainwashed people (victims of the KGB old brainwashing programs”) take over and run the US into the ground, or continue to resist them, even if indeed some very good people lay down their lives to say what must be said.
Paying college teachers to preach hate and turn freedom’s economy into trash and freedom’s youth into mentally ill monsters is a terribly expensive mistake. Top college administrators have not been aware of what is said in classrooms, thus have proven their incompitence.
One might say, what these ultra-liberal youths are doing is unnatural and unhealthy and is NOT good. Their professors are teaching them to hate what is good and love what is sickly and evil. From a Christian viewpoint, they have been wasting their lives.
They do not excell in accademics, no corporation wants to hire them. They are very good at what is done at wild college parties. If the Christian perspective is correct interpretation, their lives will end sadly.
Such behavior has destroyed great historic empires and will do it again to ours if we don’t put a stop to this misbehavior and mental mal-management.
I pray for Charlie Kirk’s wife. She is a woman too good for most men, and too kind and gentle to be caught in such a horrific crossfire. May G-d heal her. Stephen Newdell, Editor
The Murder of A Fine Man
Published 9.15.2025
Charlie Kirk and the danger of selective empathy
To deny empathy to Kirk and his camp is to undermine our stand against the very divisiveness we criticise.
By Christopher Rhodes, Al Jazeera
Lecturer in Government at Harvard University and lecturer in Social Sciences at Boston University.
Published On 12 Sep 2025
Arizonans mourn Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk outside the organization’s headquarters on September 12, 2025, in Phoenix, Arizona, United States [AFP]
Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday. His suspected killer, identified by law enforcement as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was taken into custody after a substantial manhunt, based on information from people close to Robinson’s family. Utah Governor Spencer Cox said a family member of Robinson had reached out to a friend, who then contacted the authorities, and that friends and relatives interviewed by investigators described Robinson as “full of hate” when speaking about Kirk at a recent gathering. Robinson’s exact motivations for allegedly carrying out the shooting are still being explored.
If past instances of political attacks are any guide, more detailed information about Robinson’s potential motivations may be revealed over time. But we don’t need to read a manifesto or scroll through social media posts to know that any attempt to justify killing Kirk over his words or views is indefensible.
Suspect Joked; ‘Doppelganger’ Did It
Before he was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson sent friends messages showing that he was closely following news about the killing.
By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs at: The New York Times
Sept. 13, 2025
The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an acquaintance of Tyler Robinson’s posed a question to him in a group chat.
The F.B.I. had just released two grainy surveillance images of a skinny young man in a cap and sunglasses walking in a stairwell on the Utah Valley University campus, and had asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect.
Tagging Mr. Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, the acquaintance attached the images and wrote “wya” — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Mr. Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.
Mr. Robinson replied within a minute. His “doppelganger,” he wrote, was trying to “get me in trouble.”
“Tyler killed Charlie!!!!” another user wrote, apparently in jest.
That was on Thursday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time. It was not until later that night, nearly 34 hours after the shooting, that Mr. Robinson was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination of Mr. Kirk, 31, a conservative pundit whose killing has inflamed the political world.
The Discord messages were the clearest glimpse yet of the suspect’s demeanor in the hours after the killing. They were shared with The New York Times by someone who knew Mr. Robinson in high school and has kept up with him in the group chat — which includes about 20 people — but said he had not seen Mr. Robinson in person for several years. He spoke on the condition that his name not be used, fearing harassment for being an acquaintance of the suspect.
The Times independently verified that the person who shared the screenshots attended high school with Mr. Robinson, and found other indications that they knew one another. The screenshots were shared at the request of The Times. Discord declined to confirm Mr. Robinson’s username, but it matches several other accounts that he used elsewhere online.
The suspect is expected to be formally charged by local prosecutors on Tuesday. It was not clear on Saturday if he had a lawyer.
The messages do not shed light on a possible motivation for the shooting, which has been fiercely debated by people trying to ascribe blame to a political side. A police officer wrote in an affidavit that Mr. Robinson had recently discussed Mr. Kirk’s upcoming event in Utah with a family member, and that the two had “talked about why they didn’t like him.”
People who knew Mr. Robinson over the years said that he was extremely intelligent, followed current events, and spent much of his time online or playing video games. He was registered to vote but was not affiliated with a political party and appeared to have never voted in an election; his parents are both registered Republicans.
On Sunday, Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah said in a television interview that Mr. Robinson had a “leftist ideology,” but he also cautioned that it could take time for an exact motivation to emerge.
After Mr. Robinson joked that the gunman was his look-alike, another user suggested that the group could turn Mr. Robinson in and get the $100,000 reward that the F.B.I. was offering.
“Only if I get a cut,” Mr. Robinson responded.
Someone posted, “Whatever you do, don’t go to a mcdonalds anytime soon,” a reference to the arrest of Luigi Mangione, who was found at a McDonald’s restaurant and charged with the killing of a health insurance chief executive in Manhattan.
Mr. Robinson agreed and offered a supposed joke of his own, writing “better also get rid of this manifesto and exact copy rifle I have lying around.”
When another user suggested that the killing of Mr. Kirk would lead President Trump to send the National Guard to Utah, the suspect replied, “in a red state??? nah CLEARLY the shooter was from California.”
Around that time, several news outlets reported that ammunition found near a rifle at the scene included engravings referencing “transgender ideology.” The truth, ultimately, was that the engravings included the phrase “hey fascist! CATCH!” as well as lyrics from an antifascist Italian folk song and a reference to a sexual meme about a “bulge.”
But at the time, before the exact phrasing of the engravings was publicly known, the suspect sent messages that suggested he was closely following the news.
“I heard the ammo had something about trans stuff on it, but they aren’t releasing photos or exact quotes,” he wrote. He added: “and also the claim wasn’t backed by the official fbi, just some dude in the briefing room.”
Utah’s governor said in the television interview on Sunday that a person previously described as a roommate of the suspect was in fact a boyfriend who was transitioning to become a woman, and he said that person was fully cooperating with authorities and was “shocked” by what had happened.
Mr. Robinson’s messages on Discord appeared next to his avatar, which was from a Garfield comic and depicted the confused face of Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle.
At one point, he joked in a message: “I’m actually Charlie Kirk, wanted to get outta politics so I faked my death, now I can live out my dream life in Kansas.”
The police have said that the suspect walked onto campus ahead of the event, in which Mr. Kirk debated students with opposing beliefs, and climbed up to the roof of a building about 400 feet away from where Mr. Kirk was speaking. The gunman fired one shot, they said, fatally striking Mr. Kirk, and then dropped down from the roof and rushed off campus.
The police said that Mr. Robinson had implied or confessed that he committed the crime, and that he was then encouraged by a family member and family friend to turn himself in, which he did.
He surrendered to the police in Southwestern Utah, where he lived, more than a three hours’ drive from the campus where the shooting took place.
Following the suspect’s arrest on Thursday night, members of the group chat on Discord struggled to believe that he was actually being accused of the crime. “Our governor wants to give him the death penalty dude,” one wrote.
Another said: “I truly cannot distinguish if this is for real.”
Aric Toler contributed reporting. Sheelagh McNeill contributed research.
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs reports on national stories across the United States with a focus on criminal justice. He is from upstate New York.
Steve Newdell, Editor: Maybe the “dudes” and their parents should recognize that we have been paying teachers and colleges to destroy the foundation of America. Freedom is not free, and paying taxes on time only pays the evil ones who want to spread their lies to the entire world. Moreover, all of this sort of “lawlessness” was predicted in Biblical Prophecy long ago. Now it is happening and still there are many who want to say that they are wiser than the one who created the Universe. What must we do to wake the general public to their good sense?
I personally believe that the first priority for the US President should be to stabilize the economics and promote the maintenance of peace. I think Mr. Trump agrees. He wants law and order and a restoration of America’s stability. Some economists do not agree with his financial policies but that can be another opinion piece for another day.
If you look around you see diseases spreading, morals are turned upside down. We claim that evil is good and that which is good is now evil.
Charlie Kurk was a young man with a beautiful young wife doing good wherever he went. Parents have been paying colleges to turn our youth into Communist robots who will overturn the Government and the Constitution of the United States.
Governments in Europe are collapsing, banks are collapsing, the French say France is no longer livable, The Italians do nothing to rescue their people from the south near Naples where obviously they are in serious danger, diseases created in China are spreading world wide and the Chinese government produces verbose statements that come to nothing more than endless negotiations ending with, “We refuse to negotiate internal matters.”
All over England, the US and China and many other places young people are sick, sleeping on sidewalks and dying there, or being picked up by criminal gangs and sold into slavery elsewhere. The US public knows nothing and says nothing.
It is not right or fair to expect the US President to carry the weight of the evil world alone on his left shoulder. Conservative Jews and Christians must stand up, work together, speak out and vote out of office all of those ultra liberals who have been promoting these evil behaviors for decades.
I’m taking chances speaking my mind on “digital paper.” What about you? What can you do to help “heal the world.”
