Today I have the pleasure of speaking on free speech and my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” in Prague at the Pražská křižovatka (St. Anne’s Church) (The cultural centre founded by Václav Havel). I have been meeting with the extraordinary free speech community in the Czech Republic, including members of Institute H21 who have been instrumental in focusing attention on the issues surrounding free speech. Europe is now ground zero in the fight for free speech as the European Union ramps up its censorship laws, including the Digital Services Act. Free speech is in a free fall in Europe and these conferences have never been more important.
The speech obviously took on an ominous and bitter quality with the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I will be addressing his murder today, but I have been speaking with reporters and academics about its implications. I will also be writing again about it tomorrow in my Saturday column in The Hill.
We have clearly entered the most dangerous stage of an “age of rage” with two attempted assassinations of President Trump, the assassination of Democratic politicians in Minnesota, and now the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The death of Charlie, who I knew and respected, was unnerving given his effort to create debates in higher education and to challenge the intolerance for opposing views.
Some in the anti-free speech community are already using the Kirk assassination to call for additional controls over what they consider hate speech and disinformation. It is a crushing irony to use the murder of a free speech advocate to justify greater censorship.
Charlie spent his life fighting against speech controls and orthodoxy on college campuses. To use him as an excuse for additional limits on free speech is the ultimate dishonoring of his life and his legacy.
I look forward to today’s event and the opportunity to interact with this esteemed group of academics, journalists, and advocates in Prague.
More than a third of college students – 34 percent – believe the use of violence to prevent someone from speaking on campus is acceptable, according to a survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). This is an indictment of our higher education system.
Today’s Democrats are Nazis. By the thousands they are celebrating the brutal murder of a loving husband and devoted father of two for no other reason that they disagreed with his political views. By the thousands they persecute Jews everywhere, especially on college campuses. They are Nazis.
Today’s Democrats also know people will inevitably notice that they are Nazis, so they devised a plan to delay the inevitable: call everyone else a Nazi.
That is wearing off, so their new plan is to start sea-lioning everyone with idiotic questions about Goebbels. It’s all a delay tactic. The more we answer them the more time it takes for even that tactic to lose any effectivness.
This can’t last forever. They will inevitably suffer the same fate as their ideological brothers did in 1940s Germany.
Professor Turley, Do you agree?
Darren?
If I can be accused of getting Charlie Kirk killed just for asking questions, why can’t I accuse him of getting Ukrainians killed?
Because you aren’t a person. You are anonymous. Nobody cares what you have to say, including you, or you would have a moniker.
Why does it seem that this free market place of ideas is more like a controlled economy?
Why don’t you encourage my inquiries as Voltaire would have done?
There is no requiirement to encourage stupid inquiries – and you are clueless about voltaire.
There is a giant gulf between not censoring you and not criticizing you for stupid.
I hope you are just playing games trying to waste other peoples time.
Because if you actually beleive the nonsense you post your IQ is below dirt.
You can be accused of anything.
You can accuse others of anything
When you make stupid accusations – the rest of us decide you are stupid.
Why did Goebbels deserve to die?
Give it a rest ANON!
Why is this relevant to anything ?
While it is certain that Nuremberg would have tried him found him guilty of “crimes against humanity” as well as participating in genocide and a war of agression and executed him – he chose to commit suicide with his entire family – so it is not necescary to prove the obvious – that Goebells was a criminal who would have been sentenced to death
The assassins bullets were full of Antifa references just like the comments from Anonymous on this blog.
A likely defense will be insanity. Just like Anonymous on this blog.
So apparently you have swallowed the MAGA Koolaid about the etchings on the bullet casings all being associated with the left.
The “Hey fascist! Catch!” next to a series of arrows pointing in various directions is a reference to the shooting video game Helldivers 2, in which pressing this combination of arrow keys on the keyboard generates this message and a 500kg bomb to be used against opponents.
The “O bella ciao” message is also a theme from the Helldivers 2 video game. It is used along with other patriotic songs to satirize military dictatorships. The Helldivers 2 game is a very tongue in cheek satirical game.
“Notices, bulges, OwO what’s this?” is an internet meme meant to insult and troll those in the furry movement.
“If you read this you are gay lmao” is a homophobic internet meme used to insult and troll gay people.
So you see these messages are nothing more than stupid internet meme trolling by a kid who plays video games.
You seem to be clueless and fail to grasp that two things can be true at once.
Regardless there are really only three choices with the slightest probability of being true:
He is nuts – likely paranoid Schitz,
He is a lone wolf left wing nut.
He is part of a left wing conspiracy.
What is certainly Not True is this was a hit on Kirk taken out by Ben Shapiro.
BTW the gun and bullets were used to assassinate Kirk – this was REALITY not video games.
Absolutely you can use memes to convey political messages.
“If you read this you are gay lmao”
If an LGBTQ+ meme intended to make straight people unconfortable.
It is NOT homophobic
“The bold and vibrant If You Can Read This You’re Gay Shirt serves as a powerful declaration of pride and support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (Gay) community. Featuring an eye-catching design and a clear message, this shirt invites open dialogue and fosters a sense of unity. Whether you identify as Gay or are an ally, wearing this shirt is a statement of acceptance, inclusivity, and solidarity.
If You Can Read This You’re Gay Shirt, hoodie, hoodie and long sleeve tee
The If You Can Read This You’re Gay Shirt celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of the Gay community. By proudly displaying this message, individuals not only express their own identities but also send a signal of welcome and acceptance to others. Wearing this shirt is an opportunity to show that you stand with the Gay community, regardless of your own sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s a way to create a safe and inclusive space for all, where every individual is valued and respected for who they are.”
John Say, your stupidity and obsessive behavior are beyond belief.
How much time did you waste researching the meaning of the “If You Can Read This You’re Gay” and the fact that this phrase is used on clothing to make straight people uncomfortable.
You are right about that, but in your utter stupidity, you do not realize that the phrase on clothing does not include “lmao”.
Adding the “lmao” to the phrase turns it into the homophobic meme that is used on the internet to insult and taunt gay people.
“How much time did you waste researching the meaning of the “If You Can Read This You’re Gay” and the fact that this phrase is used on clothing to make straight people uncomfortable.”
It is called google and it is easy to use.
“You are right about that, but in your utter stupidity, you do not realize that the phrase on clothing does not include “lmao”.”
I do not know and I am not going to waste time on the likelyhood of proving you wrong again
are you really going to argue that lmao in postfix notation in a meme is a logical not ?
“Adding the “lmao” to the phrase turns it into the homophobic meme”
LMAO
Except that he killed a person. But yeah, ignore the messages as stupid internet meme trolling.
*. I heard a woman on radio say that it isn’t a difference in viewpoint. It’s a difference in values. She’s a leftist.
They have values? Find where they live, enter their domicile, ransack it, beat or murder the occupants, bury them in the backyard, move in?
*. The noise box aka radio feeds this into minds 24/7. The problem is it’s true. The sane thing to do is to call on governors to create safe States for sane people. Once that’s done implement phase 2?
Congratulations to Tennessee for willingly, happily inviting feds to clean up Memphis. They’ve been waiting for too long. Bravo!
California can use help in the ports. Send the “college boys” to work. Avoid the debt of a fake education. Graduate high school by computer GED at 16 and go make some money for 4 years then pay your own way.
How novel!
If there were ever a time that we needed to totally ignore the Anonymouses on this site, it is now.
They intend to provoke so that they can display your response later on to show how unhinged you are. Don’t fall for it. MOVE ON.
Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth
https://www.ae911truth.org/
9/11 was a MOSSAD operation of controlled demolition to commence multiple wars in the Middle East in support of Israel.
It worked.
Yesterday was 9/11.
https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/1966543262438830284
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Yesterday was 9/11.
https://x.com/RichardGage_911/status/1966543262438830284
Why do you ride with Charlie Kirk when doing so is like riding with Joseph Goebbels?
Kirk and Goebbels are about as dissimilar as you can get.
Goebbles did not allow anyone to “prove him wrong”
Yes, they are dissimilar.
OTOH, Goebbels and modern-day Democrats are very similar. Modern-day Democrats believe in killing people they dislike, and they persecute Jews by the thousands. They’re Nazis who celebrate when people they dislike are murdered, making their wives widows and their children orphans. In the way they have reacted to Charlie Kirk’s murder, including in this comment section, they have proven themselves to be exactly like then Nazis. And they will inevitably meet the same fate.
The left has been fascist for over 10 years if not their entire existence. The heavy antisemitism is relatively new. They don’t realize the formula: Fascism + antisemitism = Nazi.
The Left would have us believe that Trump is the problem because he has sent mean tweets. Charlie Kirk tried to engage constructively, and yet, the Left managed to kill him even before they got to Trump. If Trump and Kirk were both gone, the Democrats would find a new Hitler.
In the Democrats’ future, everybody will be Hitler for fifteen minutes.
Some leftwing sophists are trying to argue that Tyler Robinson is just a madman and not representative of Democrats, but then somebody noticed thousands of posts from thousands of Democrats, applauding his murder of Charlie Kirk… suddenly Charlie’s murder has cosmic significance.
Some leftwing sophists are trying to argue that Iryna Zarutska’s murder was just an exaggeration of crime by the right, but then somebody kicked over that rock and found the perp was a violent schizophrenic with 14 other arrests and that somebody set loose guys like this by the thousands in America’s inner cities… suddenly Iryna’s murder has cosmic significance.
If you are a Democrat, you probably know at least one other Democrat who is dancing on Charlie’s grave or memory-holing Ilyna, and that means there must be millions of Democrats across the Country doing so. Is that the Party you voted for?
If not, it’s too late for you to fix it from within… you’ll be the next Hitler. You’ll be the next “threat to democracy.”
Diogenes – there was a London vigil for Charlie this evening. One person interviewed nailed it: this is no longer a battle between left and right, it’s a battle between good and evil.
It is, Kansas.
Yes it is.
Diogenes, how did you read my mind so accurately?
The only thing I have to add is that Tyler Robinson is the vehicle, not the source.
It’s not difficult to read an empty mind.
Hmm. Let me think……… To a dim mind, clarity always looks like a void.
Yes, but you are so dim, you likely won’t understand what I just said.
clarity (noun): the quality of being easily seen through.
In other words, the absence of content.
Only a dim mind would confuse clarity with emptiness. No wonder your life looks so hopeless.
S. Meyer, ignore Carl Dung. He’s a vehicle, too.
He fell into the hole he dug.