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https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/qed/the-assassins-many-accomplices/

Charlie Kirk is murdered in cold blood and now the Democrats come out with their polished statements, their carefully worded condemnations, their feigned shock. I don’t want it. I don’t want to hear Biden or Harris express “disapproval” over this. I don’t want the likes of Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid wringing their hands and pretending to mourn because I do not believe them for a single second.

Their words are ash. Their outrage is theater. Their sympathy is counterfeit.

Charlie was not killed in a vacuum—he was assassinated by a sociopolitical disease. A disease that rots the mind, corrupts the heart, and dissolves every sacred bond that holds a civilisation together. And that disease was not born yesterday. It has been sown deliberately, watered relentlessly, and cultivated day after day, decade after decade, by the very people now offering their condolences.

The left does not get to cry over the corpse of the man whose murder was made possible by the poison they brewed. They do not get to condemn the harvest of the seeds they planted. Their hands are not clean. Their power, their careers, their prominence — all of it has been built on a politics of grievance, resentment, and destruction.

They stoked the envy. They legitimised the rage. They excused the violence. They told generations of young people that life is nothing but power and oppression, that truth is a lie, that responsibility is slavery, that freedom is domination. And then they act surprised when the mob, intoxicated with that creed, takes a knife or a bullet to the throat of those who dared resist it.

The only proper response to their “sympathy” is anger. The only proper reaction is rage. They do not deserve credit for lamenting the blood they themselves helped spill.

Charlie’s assassin was not alone. He had accomplices in every newsroom, in every faculty lounge, in every campaign office that mocked truth and exalted envy. He had accomplices in every pundit who sneered at responsibility and called it oppression. He had accomplices in every politician who excused chaos as “justice.”

This is the reality: Charlie was murdered by an ideology. And those now issuing statements of “condemnation” are the very apostles of that ideology.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/09/13/charlie-kirk-iryna-zarutska-and-the-death-of-society/

EXCERPT

For more than a decade now, I have been telling friends, readers, clients—anyone who’d listen, really—that it is now and will become increasingly important in the future to be strong and resilient: physically strong, emotionally resilient, spiritually active, financially tough and flexible, and able to handle oneself in a variety of potentially fraught situations. A big part of this is preparation, doing the planning, training, and homework to be “antifragile” (as Nassim Taleb puts it). Another part of it is attitude, having the confidence to handle what you can and the humility to ask for help when necessary. But even all of this is sometimes not enough.

As we have all learned over the past couple of weeks, and as Robert Burns warned us 240 years ago, sometimes even “the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” There is nothing Charlie Kirk could have done to prevent Tyler Robinson from killing him. It didn’t matter how strong Kirk was or how prepared, or even that he was an extremely and openly religious man. Even if he were a cross between Hafthor Bjornsson and Imi Lichtenfeld himself, Kirk could not have stopped his assassin’s bullet.

The same is true of Iryna Zarutska. The horrifying picture of her that has been all over the internet this week tells her story. As she looks up at her murderer, shocked and horror-struck that someone is standing above her, her fate is already sealed. She was dead before she likely even understood what had happened, much less recognized that her attacker had a knife. There was nothing she—or anyone else—could have done to stop him. Even if she had been a cross between Hafthor Bjornsson and Imi Lichtenfeld, she still would have died.

As I said, if someone wants you dead badly enough….

Thus has it always been for man, dating back at least to the time of the man, the woman, the snake, and the apple. Indeed, that man and that woman had two sons, one of whom brutally murdered the other out of petty jealousy. This is man’s nature as a fallen creature. It is who he is—who we are.