Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, September sixteenth. This is the morning our
Speaker 1: country it's in big trouble. Yesterday the American people were
Speaker 1: witnessed to a disgrace without precedent. There are some things
Speaker 1: that need to be said, and I will do my
Speaker 1: best to say them clearly. Charlie Kirk, during his public ministry,
Speaker 1: divided the United States. He humiliated and he degraded people.
Speaker 1: He did not stand for the proposition that we are
Speaker 1: all created equal. He stood for the idea that some
Speaker 1: are above others, more equal than others. And he went
Speaker 1: about his business not trying to spread reason, not embracing dissent,
Speaker 1: but engaged in a type of performance. Theerer that sought
Speaker 1: to punch down. Charlie Kirk's legacy is not something that
Speaker 1: at the moment of his assassination was particularly interesting. It
Speaker 1: was enough to deplore the killing, to say that it
Speaker 1: has no place and a free in democratic society. That
Speaker 1: the killer had no right to steal from Charlie Kirk's children,
Speaker 1: from his wife, from his family, Charlie Kirk's life. It
Speaker 1: was not his. The author of Charlie Kirk's life was
Speaker 1: the supreme judge of the universe, not some hate filled
Speaker 1: twenty two year old Charlie Kirk. When I look at
Speaker 1: his life from the perspective of midlife, had many many years,
Speaker 1: including in those years, was the possibility, from my perspective,
Speaker 1: that he would have turned his perspectives around and seen
Speaker 1: something that helped him grow up. But that was taken
Speaker 1: away in an instant. And I'll say this, if I
Speaker 1: had an employee and on their social media account in
Speaker 1: public was celebrating the death of this young man, I
Speaker 1: would fire them immediately because I wouldn't trust their judgment.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't trust their decency and their morality. I would
Speaker 1: know that there was something broken within them. There is
Speaker 1: no question that we live in an idiotized era that
Speaker 1: is beyond the dimensions of most of us to be
Speaker 1: able to articulate. The reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination
Speaker 1: proves this. When Charlie Kirk lived, he said what he believed,
Speaker 1: and here is what he believed.
Speaker 2: For these blacks trying to go rob her happening all
Speaker 2: the time in urban America. Prowling blacks go around for
Speaker 2: fun to go target white people.
Speaker 3: That's a fact.
Speaker 2: Black crime is a major issue in our country. Why
Speaker 2: are you pushing criminal justice reform exactly? Joy Reid and
Speaker 2: Michelle Obama and Shila Jackson Lee and Catangi Brown Jackson.
Speaker 2: They're coming out and they're saying, I'm only here because
Speaker 2: of affirmative action. We know you do not have the
Speaker 2: brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously.
Speaker 1: These quotes demonstrate what he believed and the things that
Speaker 1: he believed, right down to the idea that empathy is
Speaker 1: weakness should be deplored. And this pastor understands that.
Speaker 4: Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I'm
Speaker 4: overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America
Speaker 4: at half staff, calling this nation to honor and venerate
Speaker 4: a man who was an unapologetic racist, has spent all
Speaker 4: of his life sowing seeds of division and hate, and
Speaker 4: to this land.
Speaker 1: Everybody in America should appreciate that two things can be
Speaker 1: true at once. We have to condemn the violence, but
Speaker 1: not at the point of threat on our knees in
Speaker 1: submission and to the causes and ideas that Charlie Kirk's
Speaker 1: life served, because those ideas were indecent. It is not
Speaker 1: fair to impose on Charlie Kirk at the hour of
Speaker 1: his death, responsibility for the actions of the living who
Speaker 1: have sought to fundraise and profit off of his open casket,
Speaker 1: have sought to assign blamed for his murder on every
Speaker 1: person who opposes Donald Trump. The reaction of the Vice
Speaker 1: President of the United States, it is terrible crime, demonstrates
Speaker 1: his utter and absolute unfitness for high office. That he
Speaker 1: is there is the result of a misjudgment of the
Speaker 1: American people that will carry tragic consequences for our nation
Speaker 1: for a very long time.
Speaker 5: So when you see someone celebrating charlie murder, call them
Speaker 5: out in hell, call their employer. We don't believe in
Speaker 5: political violence, but we do believe in civility, and there
Speaker 5: is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved,
Speaker 5: Get involved, Get involved. It's the best way to honor
Speaker 5: Charlie's legacy.
Speaker 1: The Attorney General of the United States is a buffoon
Speaker 1: who is threatening the erasure of the free speech right,
Speaker 1: as if the First Amendment doesn't exist, But it does.
Speaker 1: Across the depth and breadth of the government. At the
Speaker 1: hour of a man's death, in a premeditated and calculated campaign,
Speaker 1: we have seen fascists seek to expand their political power,
Speaker 1: and they have done so by making demands, by threatening,
Speaker 1: and using propaganda to intimidate. And every American should being
Speaker 1: prepared to say enough is enough.
Speaker 6: And while our side of the aisle certainly has its crazies,
Speaker 6: it is a statistical fact that most of the lunatics
Speaker 6: in American politics today are proud members of the far left.
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was a devisive figure of a fascist faction.
Speaker 1: He is not a national hero, and it is inappropriate
Speaker 1: to try to impose upon the nation him as one.
Speaker 1: The ceremony in Yankee Stadium under the uniform number of
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson was a disgrace. Charlie Kirk embraced the philosophy
Speaker 1: of the Yankee Ben Chapman. If you don't know who
Speaker 1: Ben Chapman is, look him up and see what he
Speaker 1: did to Jackie Robinson standing on the sidelines in a
Speaker 1: Philly uniform. Charlie Kirk embraced a long running poison in
Speaker 1: American life. Charlie Kirk denied an election result, which is
Speaker 1: the keystone of American life. None of those things gave
Speaker 1: that young man in Utah the right to kill him
Speaker 1: to assassinate him. It was an attack on liberty in
Speaker 1: this country. It was an attack on free speech. And
Speaker 1: instead of de escalating the situation, and instead of making
Speaker 1: an argument about liberty, an argument about free speech, what
Speaker 1: we have seen from the Trump regime are threats from
Speaker 1: fascists like Steven Miller, insanity from the FBI director, an
Speaker 1: incompetent loom, a bug eye freak show, in competence from
Speaker 1: the Attorney General, and more threats, threats everywhere. Here's the deal.
Speaker 1: Many years ago, in Nazi Germany, there was a perfection
Speaker 1: of the public mourning ritual, and no person personified it
Speaker 1: more than a man named horse Vessel. What you're seeing
Speaker 1: is something that is is un american, is anything that
Speaker 1: has ever been witnessed. You are watching a fascist movement
Speaker 1: try to cloak a member of their faction in the
Speaker 1: national cloth, in the American flag, trying to impose upon
Speaker 1: the nation the idea that the appropriate response to a
Speaker 1: murder is the seizure of political power and the stifling
Speaker 1: of dissent lest there be more violence. By incredibly, the
Speaker 1: people making the argument are the chief instigators of political violence.
Speaker 1: On a ten year basis, bar none and against any
Speaker 1: standard in American history. There has never been a political
Speaker 1: leadership that is called more consistently, more often for violence
Speaker 1: than has the MAGA leadership. When we meet our creator,
Speaker 1: we will all be judged, And in that moment of judgment,
Speaker 1: what is said about us here whom I'm matter at all?
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk deserves to have a long life, and it
Speaker 1: was cut short in an act of terrible malevolence and
Speaker 1: violence and evil and hate. But it is deeply unfair
Speaker 1: to involve Charlie Kirk into debate that has raged in
Speaker 1: the world that he is no longer a part of
Speaker 1: the world that exists after his death, the world in
Speaker 1: which his absence from it has become the springboard a
Speaker 1: rationale for mass murder, concentration camps in prison meant professional
Speaker 1: obliteration for anybody who dared to disagree with such hateful
Speaker 1: notions as the fact that Donald Trump lost the election
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. This madness, all of it, must be rejected.
Speaker 1: I want to share with you a brilliant eulogy by
Speaker 1: the Reverend Jesse Jackson of the American I Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1: Watch it, appreciate it, and know this In the end
Speaker 1: what we do with our time here does not get
Speaker 1: washed away at the moment of our expiration. The record stands.
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson's life was about justice, and there should never
Speaker 1: be a baseball stadium in America where a crowd of
Speaker 1: baseball fans and baseball players from all over the world
Speaker 1: are made to salute an idea that is poisonous, that
Speaker 1: is obnoxious and steeped in the racial arrogance that has
Speaker 1: hurt and harmed and killed so many. Still within the
Speaker 1: living lifetime of so many watch this and contemplated.
Speaker 3: Today, we must balance the tears of some with the
Speaker 3: tears of joy, nix the bitter with the suite death
Speaker 3: and life. Jackie has a in history. Was a rock
Speaker 3: in the wall, creating concentric circles and ripples of new possibility.
Speaker 3: He was medicine. He was immunized by God from catching
Speaker 3: the diseases that he thought. The Lord's arms of protection
Speaker 3: enabled him to go through dangers seen and unseen, and
Speaker 3: he had the capacity to wear glory with grace. Jack's
Speaker 3: body was a temple of God, an instrument of peace.
Speaker 3: We would watch him disappear into nothingness and stand back
Speaker 3: as spectators and watch the suffering from a far the
Speaker 3: mercy of God, antercepted this process. Tuesday, he committed him
Speaker 3: to steal away home where referees out of place. Only
Speaker 3: the stream of judge of the universe.
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