{"id":67515,"date":"2025-09-14T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67515"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T19:56:05","slug":"the-charlie-kirk-canonizers-cherish-free-speech-so-much-they-will-prohibit-anyone-from-using-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67515","title":{"rendered":"The Charlie Kirk Canonizers Cherish Free Speech So Much They Will Prohibit Anyone From Using It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the horrific shooting of ultra-conservative activist and organizer, Charlie Kirk, perhaps the most notable response from right-wing adherents to the MAGA cult of Donald Trump has been their fierce aversion to free speech and political independence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=The Charlie Kirk Canonizers Cherish Free Speech So Much They Will Prohibit Anyone From Using It%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67515\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=The Charlie Kirk Canonizers Cherish Free Speech So Much They Will Prohibit Anyone From Using It%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67515\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Censorship\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39062\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t enough for the Kirkians to solemnly honor the memory of the provocateur that they followed. They have a gnawing compulsion to elevate him to sainthood and decree any dissent to be unholy sacrilege. Not surprisingly, Trump himself is leading the charge of this emerging army of true believers. And praise for Kirk has devolved into a seething animosity toward his critics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67471\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Delivers a Despicable Diatribe Demonizing Democrats Following the Shooting of Charlie Kirk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Disrespect for the departed is not something that civil people should engage in. But Trump has pledged to abuse the power of his office to retaliate against the infidels who seek to blaspheme their newly minted martyr. In his recent White House sermon he made it clear that dissent is verboten, saying that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the same language used by the rest of the Kirkian flock who are so adamantly exalting him as a bastion of free and open dialogue. They apparently revere free speech so much that they believe it must be preserved in glass to keep it from being used by the unclean masses who would tarnish it. That sentiment is now being dispensed broadly throughout the MAGA-Sphere. For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3lysj44scwc2y\" target=\"_blank\">Sen. Katie Britt<\/a>: &#8220;The rhetoric that led us to this moment, calling President Trump a fascist, calling him Hitler, you have news organizations and mainstream media celebrating that. Allowing those things to take place and be said on their networks. That is dangerous. [&#8230;] Britt: If you are out there and you are celebrating the political assassination of a man who was exercising his free speech &#8230; you should be held accountable. You should be fired.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/hegseth-pentagon-staff-negative-charlie-kirk-posts-service-members-rcna230915\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>: &#8220;Hegseth has told his staff to identify any members of the military who have mocked or condoned the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk so that they can be punished.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/09\/11\/gop-rep-proposes-canceling-people-over-mean-posts-about-charlie-kirk\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOP Rep. Clay Higgins<\/a>: &#8220;I\u2019m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. [&#8230;] I&#8217;m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I&#8217;m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s just a sampling of what is circling the drain in MAGAVille. And it is already having a real world impact. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/13\/nx-s1-5538476\/charlie-kirk-jobs-target-social-media-critics-resign\" target=\"_blank\">NPR found that<\/a><\/strong> <em>&#8220;Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Kirk defenders might wonder why anyone would say anything untoward about their fallen hero. Well, the folks at Zeteo helpfully published an article of <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/zeteo.com\/p\/charlie-kirk-in-his-own-words\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk in His Own Words<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> It contains <em>&#8220;17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to ignore the hypocrisy of those condemning liberals and other left of center citizens for using harsh language. They are hardly innocent in that regard themselves. And that goes double for the Trump regime that regularly <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67238\" target=\"_blank\">maligns Democrats as a <em>&#8220;domestic extremist organization,&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> calling them <em>&#8220;radical left lunatics, Marxists, communists,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;enemies of the people,&#8221;<\/em> who <em>&#8220;hate God,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;want to destroy America.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, it also impossible to dismiss the fact that most political violence is committed by far right extremists. That was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250911012550\/https:\/\/nij.ojp.gov\/topics\/articles\/what-nij-research-tells-us-about-domestic-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\">confirmed in a study<\/a><\/strong> by the National Institute of Justice, an agency within the Department of Justice. Interestingly, the DoJ removed that study from its website this week, just as interest in the subject has been growing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67483\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Justice Dept Disappears Study that Proves Most Violence is Caused By Far Right Radicals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the right&#8217;s bellowing for retribution and the banishment from society of lefties who are mean to righties, they have a completely different standard for their own vicious vilifiers. This week the Fox News co-host of Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade, proposed <em>&#8220;lethal injection&#8221;<\/em> to kill all of the homeless in America. He offered a weak apology a few days later, but there has been no call from the right for Fox to fire or otherwise punish him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lystk7mkkc22\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidrg5675xx24et77sru6xbgmajuri3dhv4q65yshb6f3sm7rf7see\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Brian Kilmeade of Fox News made a pathetically weak apology for his &#34;callous remark&#34; calling to murder the homeless.And that&#39;s it? The right has been feverishly demanding that anyone who said anything mean about Republicans be fired or worse. But Kilmeade gets a pass after proposing mass murder?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3lystk7mkkc22?ref_src=embed\">2025-09-14T17:40:01.173Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tells you all you need to know about the right&#8217;s feigned concern about harsh rhetoric. In the words of their Dear Leader Trump, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67483\" target=\"_blank\">they <em>&#8220;couldn&#8217;t care less.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> They are merely exploiting a tragedy to advance their craven political agenda. Which for them is just business as usual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67401\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Border Czar Lies to Fox News that Protesters are Paid and He Will Prosecute the Funders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67254\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Threatens to Prosecute George Soros and Others for Supporting Protests Against Dear Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67230\" target=\"_blank\">Crybaby Trump Whines About Getting Bad Press and Demands that the Offending Media Be Terminated<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the horrific shooting of ultra-conservative activist and organizer, Charlie Kirk, perhaps the most notable response from right-wing adherents to the MAGA cult of Donald Trump has been their fierce aversion to free speech and political independence. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,1,1200,8],"tags":[870,1137,1525,554,879,33,40,1130],"class_list":["post-67515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-censorship","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-free-speech","tag-pete-hegseth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-censorship.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-hyX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67562,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67562","url_meta":{"origin":67515,"position":0},"title":"Trump Whines that &#8216;All They Do Is Hit Trump&#8217; and Decrees That &#8216;They&#8217;re Not Allowed To Do That&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/18\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"For the past few years Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans have belittled Democrats and liberals as \"snowflakes\" who were unable to tolerate a little criticism from their right-wing adversaries. 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