Turning point

TPU speaker on campus! Aaaaghhh!

I got back yesterday afternoon, but new of Charlie Kirk’s assassination just saddened me so much that I didn’t have the will to read, let alone prost about it, but today is September 11th, and it seems appropriate to at comment on two milestones in the country’s disintegration, 24-years apart in time, but closely tied together.

September 11 shocked many of us into realization that in fact that muslim terrorists were really, truly coming after the western world; My shock has passed, but not my fury that my children had to endure watching the towers burn from Tod’s Point, and I will always mourn for the victims, the dead and their survivors, including Sally Malone’s son Tommy.

Yesterday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk, however, jolted us not so much into an awakening, but as confirmation of what’s been growing increasing obvious since the Light Bringer arrived in Washington in 2008: we’re a nation at war with ourselves, and that war has turned deadly.

Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point when he was an 18-year-old college student, with the specific goal of returning civilized, informed debate back onto campuses. To that end, he held debates across the country, where he would always conduct a question and answer segment, with an unwavering rule that those who disagreed with him would go first. Check any video of one of these debates, and you’ll see that process in action. Unfortunately, you’ll also see rabid, angry people who, incapable of rational argument, seek to shut it down instead, screaming, blowing air horns, tossing smoke bombs and hurling objects at Kirk and others on stage.

This was all condoned by campus administrators, just as pro-Hamas rioters have been allowed to attack Jews, vandalize campuses, and, before that, prevent any discussion of any issues “they” disapprove of. It’s been a quick march from seeking merely to imprison dissenters: a 2022, poll, for instance, revealed that nearly half of all Democrats believed that fines and prison time were appropriate for anyone publicly questioning COVID vaccines’ effectiveness to outright murder.

Kirk’s assassination is already being called the natural, expected reaction to “divisive, hateful” speech, by which the apologists mean “anyone and anything that departs from what we think is correct”. Leftist of all ages are becoming pretty scary, but the youngest of them are already there: A poll of college students showed 48% of them viewed the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson as tototally or somewhat justified. I’m guessing, but I imagine their professors would agree with them

We’re in for interesting times.