The High Priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and his doctrine. Jesus answered him saying:
“I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple areawhere the Jews gather and in secret I have said nothing. Why ask me? Ask those who heard me what I said to them. They know what I said.”
When he said this, one of the temple guards standing there struck him and said: “Is this the way you answer the High Priest?” Jesus answered him:
“If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong, but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?”
As everyone knows Charlie Kirk was a follower of Jesus Christ and it seems they had one thing in common.
Jesus was accused of all sorts of wrong by the Sanhedrin but despite speaking publicly in front of multitudes they were unable to find testimony that showed him guilty of anything.
Likewise we see Democrats from AOC to Ilan Omar along with multiple celebs and activists on the left claim that Charlie Kirk was a racist, a fascist, a homophobe and a white supremacist, they call him head of the modern Hitler youth, when they’re not cheering his murder that is or booing the idea of praying for him & his family.
But there is one thing that they DON’T do. They never link to video to back up these claims.
This is rather odd if you think about it. Charlie Kirk like Christ, spoke openly, he was at campus’ all over the nation and was interviewed all over the world. There are literally hundreds of videos showing him taking questions and answering them going back years. You don’t have to ask the people who heard him as Christ suggested, you can literally see what he said.
Yet none of these leftist calling Kirk all these names do so, why?
Well the answer comes from Catholic Cardinal who had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan on Charlie Kirk – "The more I learned about him, I thought this guy is a modern-day Saint Paul. He was a missionary, an evangelist, a hero."✝️ @MrsErikaKirkpic.twitter.com/hEtdxhS3k4
You see not knowing who Charlie was and not being familiar with his work he went online and checked out the videos and came to the conclusion that he was a hero.
And THAT’S why the left doesn’t dare link to any video to support their charges, because a person seeing the videos, the questions and the answers will see for themselves that their charges are unsubstantiated by the facts and that they are in fact liars.
The irony here is that Charlie, being very familiar with scripture would expect nothing less because as a servant of Christ he would remember the warning given to his disciples during the last supper discourses:
If the world hates you, realize that it hated me first.If you belonged to the world, the world would love its own; but because you do not belong to the world, and I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you.
Remember the word I spoke to you, ‘No slave is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.And they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin; but as it is they have no excuse for their sin.Whoever hates me also hates my Father.
The world hated Charlie Kirk, because the world is loyal to the prince of the world. That’s why those loyal to the prince of this world cheered his death loudly and publicly.
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command, and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Lee is going to do.
US Grant, at the Battle of the Wilderness 1864
One of the most famous scenes in movies is the opening speech of Don Corleone in the Godfather when he tells the undertaker who is asking for Justice for his daughter who was disfigured by men let off by the courts:
If you’d come to me in friendship, this scum who ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.
For the last 10 to 15 years or even more the woke mind virus has held ordinary Americans in fear of saying the wrong thing, or expressing an approved opinion. We had not reached the point of England where people were getting arrested but the fear was palatable and most of all those who perpetuated this fear to control us kept pushing in order to give the illusion, backed up by media and culture, that they were the overwhelming majority.
It could be something as simple as not putting out a Trump sign because you didn’t want your car keyed or your house egged, or keeping your mouth shut while a leftist ranted on at work about Trump being a Nazi.
Quite a few gave into this fear but a much larger amount of people simply wanted to get on with their lives and didn’t want to waste their time dealing with fools. They were quiet and quite a few were armed but in the end all they wanted was to be left alone.
The political left seeing an advantage in this kept pushing farther and farther and seeing no penalty for their actions didn’t bother to police or restrain themselves, in fact I suspect more than a few understood the monsters they created in places like Portland but realized that said monsters could easily turn on them.
It’s generally a bad idea to push a well armed population beyond their endurance, because people eventually decide they’ve had enough and once you push a person who only wants to be left alone past that point bad things tend to happen.
And that brings us to the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
When we had a Christian society that valued life it was axiomatic that people would not celebrate a political murder or frankly any murder. One might not worry if criminals murdered criminals as that was considered part of the risk of being one, but the murder of a political figure for expressing & debating those who disagree with them in public? Unthinkable.
But once, thanks to the rise of abortion & gay marriage and the transgender business the political lines became split along religious lines. While it is not an absolute rule odds are if you were and are against these three things you were a Christian and thus a republican, while if you were for it, you were a Democrats.
It started in the 1970’s, continued in the 1980, and by the rise of Barack Obama the lines were pretty much set.
Now the thing about Christianity is this. The core principles, beyond the divinity of Jesus include the following:
The equality of man before God in value and love
The love of neighbor and even of enemies
When your culture embraces this, you can get along with those who disagree with you.
But when half of the culture decides those are not values they share, who decide that those who disagree with them are worthy of suffering and death the social compact was shattered.
And the reaction of leftists all over the nation has done this.
We see that poor Ukrainian girl murdered in Charlotte Iryna Zarutska who could be their daughter and realize that the left doesn’t care if violent lunatics’ are free to do this because they see political gain in having them free.
We see that poor hotel manager Chandra] Nagamallaiah BEHEADED by an illegal immigrant who was let free by the Biden administration with just two weeks left before Trump took office and realize that could be them at work while the left marches against deporting such people.
And last of all we see people openly celebrating the murder of a young man with a wife and two kids because he argued for opinions opposite of theirs opinions that we share.
If it was the odd crank on the net we wouldn’t care, but the sheer number of teachers, physicians, college administrators, members of government and the military and those in various industries that serve the general populace who have taken to the net either on video or via social media to celebrate the murder of Charlie Kirk has been a great shock to many who are suddenly realizing that these people who they work beside would celebrate their deaths for agreeing with him.
Now mind you, they have a perfect right to hate Charlie Kirk, they have a perfect right to say they’re glad he’s dead, either at home or in private or public conversations, they even have the right to post what they did. It’s not a criminal offense and I would object to anyone being prosecuted for such a thing.
We also have rights, and when you go on a public platform, and appear in the public square and in our workspaces or in a place where our children are being taught and publicly celebrate assassination, not because they’re a terrorist or that we’re at war with an enemy or because a person is a gangster or mafia guy to whom such a thing is an occupational hazard, but because you disagree with the person’s political opinions and dared to openly and effectively debate others, then we have the right to very publicly call you out.,
For this breaks the social compact, it actually shatters it. This is a trust society and we can’t trust them anymore. The line is crossed and something must be done.
If we were leftists who had rejected Christianity the solution would be rather simple, we would slaughter them and say good riddance. The right is certainly well armed enough for this, but we don’t just pay lip services to those Christian beliefs, we actually believe them and thus such an option is off the table as it is grave sin that puts one’s soul at risk.
Furthermore like in the Godfather scene above, while these people have celebrated murder these people online have not actually murdered anyone. Consider this exchange prior to the Godfather quote above:
Don Corleone: I understand. You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn’t need a friend like me. Now you come and say “Don Corleone, give me justice.” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me “Godfather.” You come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married and you ask me to do murder – for money.
Bonasera:I ask you for justice.
Don Corleone: That is not justice. Your daughter is alive.
So instead us worrying about what they will do to us, we’re thinking about what we’re doing to them. They are being named and shamed and pressure is being put on the institutions & businesses that employ them. Such people have no place in government, or in law, or in teaching or in medicine. And if you own a private business that serves the entire public you can’t have someone on staff publicly cheering the death of someone for having the same opinions as half the population.
So now hundreds, or even perhaps thousands of people will lose their jobs. I suspect most if not all of them had no issue when Roseanne Barr or Gina Carano lost their jobs over public statements that didn’t involve cheering for political murder and if it was 1968 they would have no problem doing the same to anyone who celebrated the murder of MLK or RFK but they never dreamed their actions might actually have consequences.
If they didn’t get it before they get in now. Some might celebrate themselves as maryters but I suspect most of them may have figured out they’re crossed a line…
…and now they fear us.
It would be very nice if it didn’t reach this point, but one must live in reality. This is where we are, where we go from here is anyone’s guess however there is one other aspect of Christianity that does comes into play here.
Then Peter approaching asked him, “Lord, if my brother sins against me, how often must I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
Matthew 18:21-22
That’s a non-optional doctrine because if we don’t we condemn ourselves as the Our father says: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
If these people seek forgiveness we are required to forgive but will they have the humility to ask for it?
Lady Adrasta: Why haven’t you died? Organon:I’m sorry, my lady. It was an oversight.
Doctor Who: The Creature From the Pit 1979
Yesterday I picked up my son from work and he told me about the shooting of Charlie Kirk who was not reported dead by the time I dropped him off and got myself home.
By that time the online left was already dancing a jig and while some places like Jezebel who literally hired witches to curse him two days ago (and whose comments on the article I can no longer access (unexpectedly of course) suddenly added this editors note to their piece:
We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk
If the far-right misogynist with a bad haircut wants to villainize independent women, Jezebel is more than happy to be the hag of his nightmares.
Editor’s Note: This story was published on September 8. Jezebel condemns the shooting of Charlie Kirk in the strongest possible terms. We do not endorse, encourage, or excuse political violence of any kind.
(BTW If you believe that editors note then there are thousands of Nigerian email scammers dying to meet you)
We’re also seen some of the loudest voices that were screaming Nazi & Fascist a few days ago suddenly deciding that political violence is not a good idea, largely because it hit them that conservatives are well armed and very angry at the moment.
This hasn’t stopped the left online from celebrating loudly with plenty of people cheering about the murder even to this extreme point where a leftist crashed a vigil for Kirk shouting that he deserved it got kicked out and played the victim online
Here’s Jacob Nestegard (@statefarm_206) being pushed out of the vigil tonight after he ran around screaming that Charlie deserved to die, and that he would have shot Charlie himself.
Now for those few people who side with the left out of habit or a joiners who might still have a semblance of a conscience this should bring the obvious Mitchel & Webb question: Are we the Baddies?
But there is a more fundamental and much more obvious question worth asking to those few on the left who are not so brainwashed as to be unable to think.
You have been calling us Nazi’s for decades, you have been calling us Klan members, you talk about how guns cause violence and seek to disarm us. You keep telling how right wing violence is the scourge of the nation.
If this is true why aren’t we killing you right now?
Why aren’t leftist enclaves in Red states running red with blood? How come you aren’t being hanged from every lamppost in Texas or Georgia or Wyoming? How is it that, since as you claim guns cause violence, we haven’t used those guns to execute you with two in the back of the head? Why aren’t cities burning?
Mr. Nestguard is the perfect example. If there was ever a person who put himself in a position to be sized by an angry mob and lynched where he stood, Mr Nestguard interrupting a vigil for a murdered Charlie Kirk screaming that he deserved it and wished he did it himself, that would have been it. Yet all they did is push him out so he could go online and play the hero to his fellow psychopaths.
Yet we are not.
Part of it is all that Christianity that you hate which tells us that we should not murder you.
Part of it is the knowledge that not a single one of you is worth the cost to our souls if we did it.
But most if it is because we aren’t the people you claim we are. That we never were the people you’ve claimed we are because if we were the life expectancy of a CNN or MSNBC or ABC pundit would the shorter than a mayfly.
As I put it the moment I heard Charlie Kirk had died:
The Media left should thank their lucky stars that we aren't what they publicly claim us to be #CharlieKirk
Mind you it’s still possible that you will drive us to the breaking point and the Devil will be doing his best to push us in that direction and once that line is crossed it’s going to be very hard to put that genie back in the bottle.
But before that happens take this moment to ask yourself the obvious question I’ve raised and realize that you’ve been played badly by the media, by the professional left and by those seeking power for their own purposes.
You have a choice to make for yourselves, we on the right will do our best to keep our own souls, I suggest to try to rediscover your own.
The left has a new mantra. Well, they always have a new one. And their newest mantra is, “The right doesn’t know the meaning of the word ‘woke.'”
As far as I can gather, the earliest use of “woke” was by African American musician Lead Belly, who added “stay woke” in an afterword of his recording of “Scottsboro Boys,” which was about the injustices faced by nine black youths accused of raping two white women in 1931.
But words often change meanings. For instance, centuries ago “garble” meant “to sift.” In the spice trade “garbling” was the process of removing impurities from spices. Over time, “garble” evolved into meaning confusing, unclear, and yes, impure. For instance, someone might say, “I couldn’t understand the voicemail message you left for me, it was garbled.”
The definition of woke has similarly evolved. It appears woke made a reappearance in the public dialogue in 2016 after the police shooting of Michael Brown in 2016, but by 2020, conservatives had adopted and co-opted the word. People who are woke–this is my take–are rigidly beholden to far-left political beliefs and they will use mob action to enforce their viewpoints.
“Politically correct,” a term that emerged from the left, was similarly co-opted by the right, so liberals dropped it years ago.
The word woke is a much more serious problem for the left, which is why libs, in a futile effort, are trying to reclaim it, or at least neutralize its meaning. After all, woke is an unpleasant word with only four letters and just one syllable, it is better suited for our contemporary sound bite and pithy headline culture, compared to the more cumbersome “politically correct.” Over the past week leftist journalists, an intellectually incestuous lot, pushed back. An opening to them was given by Bethany Mandel, the co-author of the best seller Stolen Youth, which is about the dangers of woke culture. Last week, in an interview captured on video–one that went viral–Mandel suffered, in her words, “a momentary brain freeze,” and she wasn’t able to clearly answer a question about the definition of woke.
But shortly afterwards on Twitter, Mandel was able to clarify what woke means.
“A radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination,” Mandel Tweeted last week, “and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination. It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint, enforced by an angry mob.”
A radical belief system suggesting that our institutions are built around discrimination, and claiming that all disparity is a result of that discrimination. It seeks a radical redefinition of society in which equality of group result is the endpoint, enforced by an angry mob.
Just now, as I was finishing up this entry, I watched as Jen Psaki, in the premiere airing of her MSNBC show declare, “Republicans have gone all-in on their anti-wokeness.” Psaki, a smug know-it-all, then presented a one-sided view of Mandel’s “momentary brain freeze.”
All but admitting defeat in the word war, Matthew Cooper in Washington Monthly says the word needs to be disposed. The headline of his article is, “Let’s retire the word ‘woke.'”
Too late!
The legacy media is up woke creek without a paddle.
This month two woke mobs attacked in California. The Federalist Society invited a US Appeals judge, Kyle Duncan, who was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump, to speak at the Stanford Law School. Only the mob, the led by the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusivity dean, Tirien Steinbach, all but prevented the judge from speaking. Diversity to the left hasn’t meant diversity of opinion for years.
In my opinion, outside of the ten percent or so of the populace who is indeed woke, no one can argue that such boorish antics are justifiable.
As is also the case of the second California campus woke outburst, when Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk spoke at the University California, Davis. “Black-clad goons” goons is how the Daily Mail described the protesters who pepper-sprayed attendees and smashed windows at the hall where Kirk spoke.
Kirk’s UC Davis address is available in podcast form. Unlike Duncan, Charlie was permitted to speak. And in his opening remarks, Kirk vowed, “Tonight, you’re going to see that anyone who disagrees with me tonight is not just allowed–but is encouraged to go ask [me] a question.” Kirk even called for his dissenters to head to “the front of the line.”
Now, that’s what I call diversity.
Those leftist protesters–I believe it’s fair to call them rioters–were probably egged on by a woke Sacramento Bee opinion columnist, Hannah Holzer, who, in a since retracted claim, said Kirk “called for the lynching of trans people.” In his remarks that evening at UC Davis, Kirk responded, “That is a lie. I have never done that,” adding, I’ve always been clear about peaceful activism.”
Charlie Kirk responds to Sacramento Bee for saying he has “called for the lynching of trans people.”
“That is a lie. I have never done that … I’ve always been clear about peaceful activism.”
The unpeaceful ones that night at UC Davis were the members of the woke mob.
The great majority of Americans don’t have politics on the top of their informational diet. But this truly silent majority, the ones who decide the outcome of elections, is aware of the evils of leftist violence, intimidation, misinformation and censorship. And now there is an ugly word for that and more that is now entrenched in the mainstream conversation.
“Woke” is that word.
To my conservative writers and influencers: The other side has betrayed a weakness and a fear. They hate it when we say “woke” to decry radical policies and angry leftist mobs. What is worse than “woke?” Well, those odious things that the word describes, such as the recent outrages at Stanford and UC Davis.
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