Charlie Kirk Murder: An Unspoken Beneath Barbaric Wrinkle in American Democracy
by Professor John Huston Stanfield ASARPI Director
No one deserves do die because of their willingness to speak out about their beliefs. But in Christianity theology , Jesus who was God in the flesh, did die for having the nerve to speak out. And since His crucifixion time and before, that has remained the case everywhere in the world.That is, you speak up, you are murdered.
Yes, even in democracies people have lost their lives because they dared to speak up. No one because they embrace a political belief or looks a certain way or has a certain anatomy or worships a particular way should be deprived of life because they express themselves.
No matter their views are right or wrong, factual or conspiratorial, people should be allowed to live not be killed because speaking your mind and heart is a human right. We can and should debate limits and boundaries of speech expressing without killing the person expressing a view.
As quiet as it has been kept, well before the killing of Charlie Kirk, a paradoxical elephant in the room, that is, unspoken, wrinkle in America’s claim of being the sweet land of liberty and freedom of _expression_ is killing those who dare to speak to power. Usually they have been the now forgotten from the lowest rungs in society, the degraded and dehumanized like freed and enslaved Blacks, Natives,Asians, Latinos, White and Non-White women, White and Non-White, Immigrant radicals. More rarely, though too numerous, we see privileged Whites like Charlie Kirk, the Minnesota Senate couple, and longer ago, allegedly, John F. Kennedy and his mistress Mary Eno Pinchot Meyer being murdered because they dared to speak out.
And the beat goes on when the intent of this wrinkle in soulful American proclaimations regarding freedom of speech extends from physically killing an expressor to the more frequent total destructive killing the character reputations of expressors who dare to tell their truth.
We Americans will never become a truly free people until we iron out this wrinkle out of the fabric of our nation which physically or/and reputationally
kills those who dare to speak their mind and heart.lts un-ironed out hypocrisy in universal claims like freedom of the press, academic freedom, and in public assemblies, and around the kitchen table is killing our nation as well as those daring to believe in freedom of speech and subsequently being killed physically or/and reputationally for practicing it.
Thus all of us no matter our political beliefs or demographics in America and abroad in nations striving to remain as and to become democracies should be horrified about the taking away of Charlie Kirk’s life as a wrinkle problem which we need to confront and iron out since otherwise none of us are ever safe when we dare to open our minds, hearts and mouths and speak out.
This is not about politics. It is about human dignity as the human right to speak your and my mind and heart when you and I want to with the civility of those who disagree with us to respond through conversation not climbing up some roof with a high powered rifle be it real or a gossipy mouth or lying news media or a false negative job performance report , to aim and snuff out the life of us which is more than a few measures beneath being indecently barbaric.