John Bolton - September 11, 2025


Remembering Charlie Kirk (and a lesson for Canada)


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6 minutes

Words per minute

146.2907

Word count

984

Sentence count

1

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Charlie Kirk was a man who believed in freedom of speech. He believed in it so much that he dedicated his life to it. He died yesterday on a stage on a college campus in the United States after an assassin's bullet took his life.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech
00:00:08.580 benjamin franklin i thought it'd be appropriate to start this video by quoting one of the
00:00:13.920 founding fathers of the united states of america i've often said here i'm a man of quotes you can
00:00:19.220 learn from quotes and i think we ignore words like that at our peril there is not a lot i can
00:00:27.360 add to what has been said about what happened to charlie kirk yesterday there are people who knew
00:00:31.220 him personally i did not and there are people who are far more eloquent than i but in a way i did know
00:00:39.700 charlie kirk because i watched a lot of charlie kirk videos i followed the man's work and i admired
00:00:48.160 charlie kirk a man who was half my age who was far wiser than i am here's a guy
00:00:55.100 who would walk onto a college campus and sit among people who despised him he would sit with a smile
00:01:04.860 on his face and with dignity and grace debate people because he wanted to hear what they had to say
00:01:12.100 and he would listen to them because that's what he believed in as i heard so many people say yesterday
00:01:19.100 he died doing what he believed in when i first got word of this yesterday it's the time we live in
00:01:29.160 folks but i immediately ran to my tablet and i wish i hadn't watched the video i saw his
00:01:36.580 life literally spill out on a stage on a college campus in the united states after an assassin's bullet
00:01:44.780 took his life and although we're not really sure of everything that's going on here at this point
00:01:51.840 this person has not been apprehended no doubt they did this because they didn't like what he had to say
00:01:57.280 i immediately thought about his family because i've seen him with his family
00:02:02.680 his wife and children who will no longer have a husband and a father and then i immediately thought
00:02:09.360 of the chilling effect this could have on other people who do similar things
00:02:13.700 to what charlie kirk did people on the right like ben shapiro who no doubt is going to be worried about
00:02:24.120 the same thing happening to him and what kind of security he'll have to have just to go out
00:02:30.520 and say what he believes i watched one of ben shapiro's co-workers michael knowles yesterday
00:02:37.160 talk about charlie kirk and how many people spoke about him being a future president of the united states
00:02:44.180 of america
00:02:44.780 and i immediately thought about canada
00:02:49.620 the united states has what's called the first amendment of the constitution it's not 10th amendment
00:02:56.640 it's not the fifth it's the first because the founders of the united states of america realized
00:03:01.460 that freedom of speech was one of the most important things so they made it first it's what charlie kirk believed in
00:03:09.720 in canada the charter of rights and freedoms has your right to free speech but it comes in at number two
00:03:21.000 number one gives the government the right to take away your rights and we've seen that happen
00:03:27.680 quite recently here in canada but i worry about what is coming yesterday
00:03:31.720 i was on with cory morgan and the cory morgan show on the western standard and we were talking about
00:03:38.700 parliament coming back and we never got to it but i was going to bring it up if it came up in the
00:03:43.460 conversation about something i was very concerned about as a conservative here
00:03:46.640 and how the liberals are going to bring back the online harms act here which will get the support
00:03:52.020 of the bloc quebecois and the ndp which will have written into it the right of the government to take
00:03:58.420 away your free speech to tell you what you can and cannot say to determine what is continued
00:04:04.260 considered hate speech in this country i am a free speech absolutist if you're not threatening
00:04:12.240 somebody you should be able to say whatever you want but we don't have free speech rights in canada
00:04:22.000 right now and i'm concerned about that i'm concerned about things that i see coming out of england for
00:04:27.100 instance where people are sitting at home and the police show up at their door and they tell them
00:04:32.080 that they're going to go down to the police station because they've been accused of a non-crime hate
00:04:36.920 incident how orwellian is that and these are the things i thought about after what happened to
00:04:43.720 charlie kirk yesterday who believed in the right to freedom of speech and he gave everybody that right
00:04:50.740 and now he's gone
00:04:52.300 just on a final note
00:04:58.460 were you surprised by this yesterday
00:05:07.260 it's shocking
00:05:10.080 but when you have one side of the united states
00:05:19.980 constantly calling the leader of the country and that would be donald trump
00:05:25.660 worse than
00:05:27.260 talk about free speech and i can hardly say it on youtube
00:05:31.660 worse than the guy who ran germany from 1933 to 1945
00:05:35.840 is it any wonder that somebody's going to take up a gun and start firing
00:05:40.480 like what happened to president trump last summer
00:05:43.360 like what happened to charlie kirk yesterday
00:05:48.340 charlie kirk was given a lot of credit for re-electing donald trump
00:05:52.800 and for supporting him is it any wonder that something like this happened
00:05:57.560 and i see the hate that spewed online for politicians here in this country maybe we should
00:06:03.940 bring the temperature down just a little bit i'm going to leave you with another quote from another great
00:06:09.260 american a famous black abolitionist to suppress free speech is a double wrong it violates the rights of the hearer 0.90
00:06:19.340 as well as the rights of the speaker thank you very much for watching rest in peace charlie kirk
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