Juno News - September 16, 2025Journalist Walid Tamtam asks Conservative MPs to weigh in on Charlie Kirk’s assassination
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Summary
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's death, it's important to remember the courage of others who speak their minds, even when it means risking their own lives to do so, and the courage it takes to stand up to censorship.
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this is a really difficult issue for me no i didn't know charlie kirk i followed a little
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bit of his stuff over the years i agreed with some things he said disagreed with others but
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as someone that made a living for many years in the conservative media space it's hard not to look
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at what happened to that and see that it could have been me and it could have been other people
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i've worked with you know the reality is i've always been a defender of free speech and that
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means you protect the right of people to say what they want to say without being censored and without
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being it's the it's the same spectrum on one end censoring on whether one on another end killing
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someone and it's despicable and disgusting not just that that happened but there are so many
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people that would call themselves open-minded tolerant progressive people that have been
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defending that in the days since. It's incredibly disheartening and I'll still remain firm in
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support of free speech and we have to embody the courage that other people who speak their