As I write this, we don’t know
who killed Charlie Kirk,. The Wall Street Journal claim that
ammunition found was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.
But The New York Times report:
A senior law enforcement official
with direct knowledge of the investigation cautioned that report had not been
verified by A.T.F. analysts, did not match other sum‘A moment of terrible
danger. Before the assassination of Donald Trump ally and far right US
commentator Charlie Kirk, there were already big questions about whether an
already deeply compromised US democracy will survive Trumpism. The looming
possible violence and repression is frightening to contemplate.
On a moral level, there’s no
justification for killing anyone except in cases of unavoidable self defence on
an individual or collective level. I don’t support the death penalty in any
circumstances, and certainly not for people with extreme views. Individual
terrorism with such a motive is morally and rationally bankrupt. That doesn’t
mean pretending Kirk was something he was not.
BattleLines maries of the
evidence, and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted. In
fast-moving investigations, such status reports are not made public because
they often contain a mixture of accurate and inaccurate information.
Therefore we have to wait until
motive is identified.
We know that the two would-be
assassins of Donald Trump, Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh, were
not left-wing in any meaningful way. Crooks was a registered Republican. Routh
had voted for Trump in 2016 then ended up backing politicians who belong to
both parties.
Luigi Mangione, who allegedly
killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO, wasn’t left-wing either: he seemed to have an
eccentric mishmash of “centrist” views.
That hasn’t stopped Trump
supporters lying about these acts of violence, however.
If this shooter happens to be
someone purporting to have left-wing opinions, then - morality aside - they are
completely and utterly insane if they think this would somehow advance the
interests of the left. In what scenario can anyone imagine this happening? It
simply strengthens the power of the state at the very moment it is under far
right control. It has placed left-wing public figures and activists in great
danger. That is very obvious…...’
Owen Jones plays a powerful role in exposing the
great lies of our times. His analysis of
the Charlie Kirk’s death here is through on how Trump will use it to further
build his dictatorial power in the United States. I support Owen Jones on Patreon.
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John/Togs Tognolini
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