Charlie Kirk’s free-speech advocacy: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: The assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk at a Utah campus occasion.
The radical left celebrated the homicide of a man exercising his freedom of speech (“A Free-Speech Liberal,” Rich Lowry, Sept. 15).
The day Kirk was killed shall be often known as the day the unconventional left dedicated suicide. This conduct is unacceptable, even for individuals who disagreed with Charlie Kirk.
Sandy Stafursky
Old Forge, Pa.
After the homicide of 12 staff of the French magazine Charlie Hebdo for no cause different than speech disliked by their killers, the slogan “Je Suis Charlie,” which interprets to “I am Charlie,” was coined as a approach to show solidarity.
It’s a good time to mud off that slogan. All lovers of freedom should as soon as again stand in solidarity with Charlie.
Ezra Huber
Baldwin
Whether one agreed or disagreed with Kirk’s opinions is irrelevant.
One of our nation’s foundational ideas is people’s proper to specific their views and compete for the public’s opinion with out worry of persecution. There is nothing more repugnant to this core American worth than political violence.
Stephen Silver
San Francisco, Calif.
Liberals’ disgusting celebration of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, together with the deafening silence of the Hollywood elites, will lead to a main shift within the political panorama of this great nation.
The reign of liberal terror and assaults on free speech is over. The rich — largely white — liberal mainstream media is gone ceaselessly. The oppressed will now rise.
Matthew Nugent
Staten Island
Since when did supporting free speech grow to be fascist? When did believing in equality grow to be fascist? When did “do unto others” grow to be fascist?
Peter Boeko
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Manorville
Charlie Kirk’s homicide isn’t an remoted incident — it’s a symptom of a rotting system the place the left’s media machine manufactures outrage to suppress dissent.
It’s time to demand retractions, boycotts and journalism that values reality over agenda.
We need to battle for insurance policies that defend free speech in our faculties and public areas, guaranteeing America stays a beacon of open debate.
We owe it to Charlie’s reminiscence to debate more durable, communicate louder and by no means back down.
If we let the forces of misinformation win, America as we all know it’s completed.
Ben Lewis
West Hartford, Conn.
The world mourns Charlie Kirk, a free-speech advocate who was revered for the civil dialogue and debate he inspired.
Kirk lived the phrases of Voltaire, who stated: “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Kirk did simply that, and the world is aware of and honors his sacrifice and management for freedom of speech.
Chris Robertson
Stony Plain, Alberta
People have all the time thought that America is the best nation on the planet as a result of you’ll be able to say what you need to say and do what you need to do. But that’s what received Kirk assassinated.
Gary Masi
Greenwich, Conn.
I bear in mind when America was a nation the place Democrats and Republicans may exist collectively to higher our nation. Those have been days when when you didn’t agree with somebody’s political beliefs, you didn’t kill them, you voted them out.
I strongly consider that the Democratic Party, in addition to the liberals who inhabit our nation, should get their acts collectively, or someday we received’t have freedom of speech, as a result of speech might be a death warrant.
Ilene Simon
Old Bridge, NJ
It is evident that freedom of speech is in jeopardy. Charlie Kirk was a one that, for years, spoke freely to school college students and debated them in a gentlemanly approach, solely to be shut up by vermin who search to silence all free speech.
These vermin should be sought out and dropped at justice. It is time for severe considered given to the unconventional left’s rhetoric, which is initiating actions by loopy people on this nation. It has to stop proper now.
Richard Ketay
Newark, NJ
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