The Unforgiven

The Charlie Kirk assassination has overshadowed the deadliest foreign assault on its home soil.

SEPTEMBER 11 MARKED THE 24TH ANNIVERSARY of the Islamic terror attack on New York’s Twin Towers that murdered 2,977 innocent Americans.

How curious is it that the assassination of Charlie Kirk took place on September 10 while the deadliest foreign assault on America soil took place on September 11?

I’m not into predestination, or even numerology, but this latest chapter in the Holocaust, that is, the Palestinian assault on Israel of October 7, 2023 was planned for the day after Palestinians and their Arab allies launched the Yom Kipper War of October 6, 1973, exactly 50 years earlier.

These are not random occurrences and neither was the planned murder of Charlie Kirk as the ensuing investigation has revealed.

In the wake of his assassination, the tragic events of 911 that figured so prominently in propelling a once vibrant democracy toward a predictably dismal, dystopian future are being largely ignored by both the mainstream and social media, although the two events are inseparably linked.

How is that even possible?

It’s possible because a polarized America has arrived at yet another inflection point in its turbulent history.

In differential calculus and differential geometry, an inflection point, point of inflection, flex, or inflection is a point on a smooth plane curve at which the curvature changes sign.

Most think of politics as a smooth plane curve, although in reality it’s always circular. Move far enough to the Left and one arrives at the far-Right in America’s single-party system: two squads from the same team passing the ball back and forth with a constantly shifting goalpost.

Ever wonder how a novice politician with a negative net worth can take their seat in Congress then emerge four years later with $40 million in the bank? Call it a personal inflection point. Or whatever.

The firing on Fort Sumpter on April 12, 1861 was an inflection point that led to a half million deaths and profound changes in American society.

Pearl Harbor was an inflection point that led to the total destruction of the Empire of Japan and unleashed a nuclear genii that promises to end all life on Earth.

September 11, 2001 was an inflection point that triggered a $2.2 trillion, 20-year American-led assault on the Middle East that achieved absolutely nothing.

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is an inflection point that somehow has overshadowed even the horrors of 911 because a polarized America, desensitized by a daily diet of mass murder, is no longer cognizant of the lessons of history. Americans are not on the same page anymore, as they were in the 1940s when facing massive threats to world peace and their own wellbeing. Nobody even cares that the bad children are wrecking the sandbox.

Is this latest politically motivated killing a proverbial Fort Sumpter? The spark that will cause the powder keg to detonate?

"I just saw so much blood come out of the left side of Charlie's neck, and then he went limp." - Emma Pitts, Deseret News reporter quoted in NPR

A country is never happier than when it’s at war, even with itself

America is a society predicated on racism, bigotry, and greed, wherein manhood/womanhood is validated by gun ownership and disputes are settled with violence. 9mm trumps .22 caliber. 357 Magnum trumps “38.” 45 ACP shuts down every argument. Dispute that if you like.

What’s the first thing that every American teenager craves after above all else? No, it isn’t sex. It’s his/her driver’s licence leading to his/her own automobile. Speed, power. A driving licence in the wrong hands is a licence to kill.

What’s the second thing every young American lusts after? It’s their first gun. A gun has only one purpose. You can eat your dinner or dig the garden with a soup spoon but you can’t do either with a gun.

And what is everyone’s first impulse when handling their first firearm? To shoot someone, of course. That’s why targets at shooting ranges are shaped like human beings with circles over their vital areas, the so-called kill zones.

If you don’t agree with this assertion, then go ask Kyle Rittenhouse. I heard that young Kyle was offered an apprenticeship in Congress by Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Fla), so maybe that’s where he’s holed up these days. Or maybe he’s undergone a sex change and signed on with Antifa. Who knows? In the virtual world, however, Rittenhouse appears in a video game.

Since his trial and acquittal on two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, and two counts of reckless endangerment, Rittenhouse has operated a gun rights YouTube channel and started two projects, including another video game featuring himself and raising money for unspecified defamation lawsuits against media companies. Let’s hope he doesn’t sue this writer.

Meanwhile, America longs for another civil war. It looks back nostalgically to 1861-65 when the country divided itself along what many defined as moral lines: “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord…” Perhaps it’s the result of having viewed “Gone With The Wind” far too many times. Most cannot wait to zero in on a real human being with their spanking new AR-15 or nickel-plated lady gun.

A sick soap opera gets even sicker

The names and faces in this sick soap opera change so rapidly that it’s impossible to differentiate the white hats from the black anymore. It hardly matters, anyway, as one faction is as despicable another and there’s literally no moral high ground left to claim.

A lesser but no less sickening inflection point is when supposedly educated people publicly celebrate the death of those who don’t share their peculiar political views. I mean, it’s one thing to name-call and threaten on social media - that’s what the BLOCK button is for - and there’s hardly a writer with any degree of following who hasn’t received death threats; nonetheless, to act on one’s murderous impulses is quite another matter.

Killing isn’t anything special these days and, as war culture proves again and again, practically anyone can be induced to murder total strangers without any qualms of conscience whatsoever. Journalist Hanna Arendt called it “the banality of evil.” The regret comes later, of course, for some though not all.

I confess to mentally applauding every time Israel takes out another overfed member of Hamas leadership, especially when it’s accomplished in a clever, almost inspirational way, a trademark of the IDF and Mossad these days. So, why do I cringe at the news of Charlie Kirk’s murder or the senseless assassination of CEOs like Bryan Thompson? Did killer Luigi Mangione make America, or anywhere, a better place for having removed a single human being from the planet? Like whack-a-mole, CEOs are immediately replaced from a roomful of spares kept for just such a contingency.

No, he didn’t make this a better place. Mangione simply upped the ante. Like Elias Rodriguez, the woke-Left social warrior who murdered a young couple simply because they worked at the Israeli Embassy, he amplified public tolerance for the intolerable. All the lesser rats and cockroaches are pouring out of the woodwork now that their own murderous impulses have been validated.

These utter cowards who seek their five minutes of fame (but are all caught and eventually forgotten) would never have had the balls to storm the beaches at Normandy or Iwo Jima as a previous generation of real antifascists did in 1944. Instead, they are nothing but degenerate clowns playing for the attention of a nation of morons held hostage by a gang of thieves.

Speaking to a sibling recently, she commented that it was good that our father (MIA 1945) didn’t live to see the sad condition of today’s USA, all that he’d sacrificed for having gone down the sewer. I couldn’t disagree with that raw assessment.

Civil war in America is coming on like the prelude to a mind-blowing sneeze. Perhaps America needs a good sneeze to clear its head and dislodge the poisoned bone stuck in its collective gullet. What’s good about civil war, if there is anything good about war per se, is that a long overdue reordering is practically inevitable, perhaps for the better, but more likely for the worse.

Civil war in Russia following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 led to the horrors of Stalinism and a half century of paranoia, poverty, and despair for ordinary citizens. Nonetheless, many of America’s overly entitled academics and their ideologized students who cheer the assassination of Charlie Kirk naively believe that Marxism-Leninism, an ideology that has failed so spectacularly everywhere it was tried over the last century, will bring America into the Promised Land if only it were tried one more time.

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 resulted in almost a half century (the so-called Años Negros or “Black Years”) of Fascist dictatorship. Somebody commented to me recently that the Franco dictatorship sponsored a lot of housing development and civil infrastructure, something the socialists, both before the war and after the dictator’s death, somehow couldn’t manage.

I had to think about this. I mean, is it ever worth all the bloodshed? I always marvel that socialist party leadership, featuring the brightest, loudest lights of the woke-Left, never comes from the so-called working class they purport to represent. Nonetheless, they expect to step forward to lead the less enlightened masses to victory, if and when the workers ever do rise up and throw off their chains. This time, the bourgeoisie and their offspring don keffiyehs and chant slogans before climbing into their $70K Lexus and Teslas and retreating back to their comfortable, gated communities to congratulate themselves on the assassination of eloquent but essentially harmless figures like Charlie Kirk.

Yeah, I know that Charlie’s Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action (TPAction) got under a lot of people’s skin, especially with their alleged “hit list” of woke-Left academics who, in the wake of pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel protests at Harvard, Columbia, and other universities and institutions, are being held responsible by disgruntled donors and the federal government which cut massive amounts of public funding. Naturally, these people are bitter, though unwilling to own up to their roles in turning America’s schools and colleges into money spinners and hotbeds of radicalism instead of temples of learning.

They perceive folks like Charlie Kirk as personal threats to be eliminated with extreme prejudice. Why? Because Charlie put the lie to everything they and their skewed value systems ever represented. America remains a society predicated on racism, bigotry, and greed because its educators taught those values to generation after generation of children to the point that hundreds of university students are trashing their own libraries in a mindless assault on knowledge.

What these overly-entitled examples of the failure of education lack the courage and good grace to acknowledge is that no TPA “hit list” ever had anything to do with bullets or inflicting physical harm on anyone. Charlie Kirk himself was an outspoken advocate of nonviolent change. Instead, his supposedly educated adversaries fail to detect the relationship between the Second Amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) and the prohibition against armed attacks on individuals and the state.

Not a “Both Sides” issue?

Why is the woke-Left so violent?

Generation Z is giving us the answer but we’re simply not listening.

No sane person wants to live in an age when political figures have targets on their backs.

It’s beyond curious that the woke-Left in its vicious and often violent opposition to the deportation of undocumented immigrants, including persons guilty of having committed serious crimes in this country, never make the connection between their own gravitation toward street violence and political assassination and the values that these immigrants bring into the USA. There are good reasons why democracy has failed or, at best, operates at half-speed, in most Central and South American countries, and is a complete catastrophe in the Middle East and much of Africa.

These cultures are incompatible with the values that shaped the American experience. Import Islamism and MS-13 gangsters and you get murder and mayhem. There’s no other possible outcome. No sane society wants that, but America isn’t a sane society.

The one thing these imported gang bangers and their woke-Left advocates have in common is bad parenting. That’s what the aforementioned video games are all about: getting revenge on your parents, your teachers, the police, and your country’s political leadership.

Charlie Kirk’s assassin - now in custody and on track for the death penalty in Utah which still relies on firing squads to dispatch the condemned - is a mindless clone straight out of the woke/Left mold.

What differentiates Charlie Kirk’s assassin from the 911 hijackers, except scale and the fact that he doesn’t speak Arabic?

If Donald Trump lives in your head, then you have a huge problem

The problem with America isn’t Donald Trump per se. The problem is that those responsible for the morass have allowed him to live in their heads to the extent that they can no longer make rational decisions. It’s not as if America’s education system taught anyone to be critical and analytical. Quite the opposite. But despite whatever degree of education anybody received, too many Americans have completely lost the ability to think.

The only reasonable option at this point is to get onboard with the Trump agenda, hoping that a succeeding Vance administration will weed out the crazies and restabilize government. If not, then civil war is inevitable.

Now that it’s okay, and even admirable, to go around murdering those who don’t agree with us, it’s only a matter of organizing and channeling the murder and mayhem into two or more opposing fronts, then hammer away with the heavy weaponry. Last man/woman left standing wins.

Of course, one can never predict with certainly what will happen next. Things aren’t always what they seem. I mean, we still don’t know who really killed JFK, right? The USA is that kind of place.

I’m not suggesting that Republicans or, heaven forbid, the FBI or other government agencies had anything to do with Charlie Kirk’s murder, but I wouldn’t rule it out either. Inflection points are like that. Some are created artificially, planned and executed by agencies that one would least expect. False flags are trending.

Nonetheless, if it looks like a cockroach, crawls like a cockroach, and stinks like a cockroach, one usually doesn’t need DNA to know that it’s a cockroach. The cockroach in question isn’t the Trump Administration and the Republican Party. It’s a brainwashed minion of the woke-Left that crawled out of the woodwork, and there are plenty more where this one came from.

The forgotten lesson of 911

Charlie Kirk, or even Donald Trump, aren’t sworn enemies of the woke-Left.

Neither is the woke-Left a true enemy even of MAGAts or the far-Right. Americans have gotten it all wrong. As explained earlier, the political spectrum in America is circular.

Islamic fundamentalists, along with their Saudi/Qatari string-pullers, executed the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. The Muslim Brotherhood and its spin-offs are the true enemies of Western civilization and the biggest threat to democracy in America. Not even the mightiest military on the planet can defeat them.

Why not? Because like Donald Trump has gotten into the heads of the woke-Left and made them insane, Islam (as Communism did during the last century) has gotten into the heads of a billion persons worldwide. We saw what Stalinism was capable of. We experienced the consequences of Nazism. We will soon experience the consequences of global intifada.

It would be wise for Americans, both Left and Right, to not squander their energy and resources murdering one another in a senseless civil war when the country is being bled from within and assaulted from without.

911 was a foreign entity attack on American soil. Left and Right need to get onto the same page, fast. They will soon need as many enlightened folks like Charlie Kirk as they can get. It was dudes like Charlie who stormed the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima.

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