EZRA LEVANT ｜ Hundreds attend Charlie Kirk vigil in London, England
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Summary
The death of Charlie Kirk has shocked the entire world, especially in the United Kingdom, where he was a well-known and beloved activist who championed freedom and democracy. He was a student at the University of Oxford, and was a member of the debating society at the most prestigious debating society in the UK, the Oxford Union.
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Tonight the entire world grieves the loss of Charlie Kirk.
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It's September 12th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Hi everybody, you may know that I am in the UK because tomorrow
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Tommy Robinson is having what could be the largest rally in British history.
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The largest one to date was during the Gulf War when approximately 750,000 people
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marched against the war and Tony Blair, the prime minister at the time,
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There is a chance that tomorrow's freedom rally by Tommy Robinson reaches or even exceeds that number.
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But even if it's only a tenth thereof, 75 or 100,000 people,
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it will be an enormous rebuke not only of the political establishment in the UK,
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Earlier today I received an email from The Observer,
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which used to be part of another left-wing conglomeration of newspapers.
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And I sort of, I did write back, I did give them some basic information,
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but my real feeling was the media are no longer relevant or at least no longer as relevant.
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And what I mean by that is 10 years ago, what The Observer or The Guardian or The BBC would have said
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about Tommy Robinson and his rallies would have had an enormous impact.
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But now, especially with Elon Musk liberalizing Twitter and making it a free speech zone,
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does it even matter what The Observer, which is owned by a bunch of oligarchs, have to say,
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I mean, the very fact that there will be a huge rally tomorrow is proof that the incumbents,
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in both politics and journalism, no longer have a lock on the people.
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I think you know that Rebel News sort of pioneered citizen journalism in the video form.
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A recent protest I went to in the British city of Epping,
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there must have been 10 independent journalists on the street.
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My point is there's simply no way that some left-wing hack from a legacy outlet like The Observer
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You know, sometimes snobs that these legacy media outlets look down on citizen journalists, but so what?
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I mean, it's the citizen journalists that are getting hundreds of thousands or millions of views.
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Anyways, it's a bit of a detour because while I'm out here in preparation for the big rally
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tomorrow, and by the way, I'll be speaking, I'm delighted to say, and so will Avi Yamini of our team,
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the terrible and horrific and heartbreaking assassination of Charlie Kirk happened.
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And what was interesting was seeing that here in the United Kingdom, he was a known and beloved
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So much so that the left-wing prime minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, actually put out a
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And today there was a vigil, an outdoor vigil for Charlie Kirk in London, England.
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I mean, Charlie Kirk was America first personified.
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He did visit the United Kingdom and try to give his point of view on things like socialism and mass
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immigration and the Islamification of the public square.
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But really, he was an American focused on America.
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I'm not sure if Charlie Kirk even visited Canada, but he gave support to freedom-oriented people
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around the world, including to us at Rebel News, where he was kind enough to talk to us and promote
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some of our stories, especially during the trucker lockdown.
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So six, 700 people gathered in London, England today to help remember Charlie Kirk.
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I'm going to, in a moment, throw to Avi Yamini and Rakshan Fernando, who did a live stream and
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And I think it's just so interesting to see the reaction in the UK to Charlie Kirk's loss.
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I think it's because everyone knows that Charlie Kirk believed in debating people, not shutting them
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down, not humiliating them, but reasoning together with them.
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And second of all, shocked that anyone in the democratic process would be murdered.
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The fact that the killer has purportedly been arrested, or let me phrase it this way,
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the accused killer has been arrested and is a trans activist just adds a layer of proof that
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Let me give you one more British anecdote before I get to the live stream of the vigil.
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The most prestigious debating society in the UK, and they love their debates.
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They're famous for their parliaments and their orators, is the Oxford Union at Oxford University,
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perhaps the most prestigious university in the world.
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And the Oxford Union is where future prime ministers cut their teeth on debates.
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Charlie Kirk went into the Oxford Union to debate ideas.
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And he, I mean, sometimes people wear tuxedos there.
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He wore a smart suit and he was debated against by a radical Black Lives Matter Marxist
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Oxford Union student who apparently got in on a DEI admission because his marks are lower
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than anyone has ever heard of for someone getting into Oxford.
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And his debate counterpart participated in sweatpants and slippers.
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I can't even believe that the mighty Oxford Union would do that with a straight face.
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So here's a man who spent an hour going toe to toe with Charlie Kirk and had an opportunity to put
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any objections to him as a man, as a thinker, as an ideologue.
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The whole point of the Oxford Union is words, not swords.
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And after Charlie Kirk was murdered, this very person who spent more than an hour in Charlie's presence,
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laughed and loved and tweeted how delighted he was by the murder.
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You shouldn't do that about anyone being murdered,
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but about someone with whom you had a collegial hour and you're in the Oxford Union?
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I really can't believe it, but sort of proves everything about the decline of the United Kingdom.
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But let me leave you with scenes from the vigil for Charlie Kirk.
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That was not snickering and smirking that one of their opponents had been silenced.
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And I think that a million or a hundred thousand Oxford grads around the world
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groaned at what had been done to the university.
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All right, without further ado, here's the vigil.
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Well, I'm here because a young man lost his life for saying words.
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And I think as a show of solidarity and just humanity,
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I think it's really important that we counter some of the despicable responses we saw to that,
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which I think have been quite devastating for the human race.
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Yeah. So firstly, what was your initial response when you saw that shocking footage?
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I just I was it's just too upsetting, isn't it?
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I mean, it's it's so graphic. At first, I thought it was AI.
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And then and then I guess you think about what it means to his family and you see you
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You see a young man and then you think about his wife and his kids and you think about your own children
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and your own family. And then obviously, I can reflect on what happened to me in New Zealand.
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And I we know, you know, that that that is the risk that we in the back of our heads, we think
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that we face. And unfortunately, like, I also think what's happened is biblical to him.
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It's such a it's such a moment. And I guess he might actually end up being the turning point.
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People are saying that to us. Just my children feel like the world has shifted.
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They didn't necessarily watch a huge amount of his content, but he was all over everywhere.
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But they genuinely feel like the world has shifted. And I do, too. I feel like the vibration of this
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world has changed. Do you think because, you know, one of the concerns I have is that people are going
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to be too scared. I can't help. Like you said, I've been attacked. You've been somebody that's
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been mobbed in New Zealand. There are people that clearly want us all dead. And it's not just words,
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they mean it. And then when it happens, it's celebrated by their team. And I know the day after,
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like when it happened, my phone was full of messages from people saying, be careful, be careful.
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Does it make you think twice about what you're doing?
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I think it might make me think twice about going out in the States. Like when I went in the States
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before, I did have armed protection, but that's probably not enough. And it just takes one person,
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doesn't it? It's not like, I mean, New Zealand was very special. It was thousands of them,
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but it just took one person to take his life. So yeah, it does. And then, but it doesn't. It makes you
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pause and then you say, well, if not me, then who? And, and it has to be me. It has to be you.
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We, we can't, we can't stop because the silence is so much more frightening than actually coming out
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and facing, facing the noise. And you were alluding before too, or you were talking about the,
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some of the reaction from the vile left showing their true colors.
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What is, what is your reaction to that now moving forward when they say that it was justified
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ironically, because he's full of hate and because they say that his words had real life,
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real world consequences, not seeing the irony and the fact that they're celebrating a real world
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consequence of an act of hate. I think all you can do is keep talking, right? That's all you can do.
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Like we, when we can't, we can't battle hate with hate, then there's just more hate.
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Um, so you have to just keep talking and keep saying the things that you believe and keep making
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everyone realize that it's not hateful to have boundaries. Um, it's, it's not hateful to,
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to want to speak your point of view. I just got in a taxi actually and the guy said, oh yeah,
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he did say some things. And I went, do you understand what you've just said? I said,
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you said, he said, I said, number one, I don't think he said the things that you probably think he said.
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I said, but number two, I could hate everything that he said. I could dislike everything that
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that man said. And I still defend the right to have fame to say it, which is why I've always
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maintained that when the protesters come out to say they don't like the words I'm saying,
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I say that I welcome them. As long as they don't prevent my right to speak, I welcome them a hundred times.
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Oh, thank you. Thank you guys. Good to see you. We're going to see you tomorrow.
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The Turning Point. I'm the youth ambassador for Turning Point UK.
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Firstly, tell us what's going to happen here today. What is it?
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So at the memorial starts at six, speeches start at seven. And when it starts to get a bit nightly,
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uh, we're going to do a candle service, lighting candles. And it's, I think it's more of a Christian
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tradition because almost it's our supplications and prayer given to God. And it was almost a key
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element of Charlie's Christianity to kind of have intrinsically within the conservative movement,
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Christianity. So yeah, keep it conservative and keep it Christian.
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What was your initial reaction to the horrific footage?
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It was extremely upsetting. So you see him doing his regular tour of America,
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one second, him talking with his opposition, and then his opposition, unfortunately have to shoot
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him and like that, he's dead. Of course, the wound in the neck and due to blood pressure,
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he would have instantly been unconscious and died there and then. So it was unsettling. I mean,
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typically US assassinations are to politicians, elected members of the house, for example, but
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they're never political activists. So everyone had the same response of being deeply upset, um, worried
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about other events, especially on the 13th tomorrow, but it's not going to stop anyone.
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I think murder tactics like that are just for self-moderation purposes. They want to frighten
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their opposition into not doing the platform that Charlie set out here in the States.
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So he's obviously had an effect on you and that's what I think most people recognize is he,
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is that he's, he's reaching, he's cutting through to the younger generation.
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Um, is, is, is his murder going to change that? Is he going to still now reach the younger people
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or are more younger people going to be attracted or less? What, what do you think the effect of
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this is going to be? Well, his legacy is just going to be that of continuing other people to
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pick up the mic and kind of do street debating. It's going to make the platform that he kind of
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sets out with his founding of Turning Point USA, and it's going to be converted into everyone doing
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it. I mean, you're already hearing on social media, we are all Charlie Kirk, right? Everyone has this
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degree of sacrifice when it comes to preaching the truth. Again, that's another Christian doctrine,
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that the world should hate you if you should love Christ. Christ's lot, Charlie loved Christ,
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All right, last question. What's your reaction to some of the vitriol we're seeing online
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from people that consider themselves his political opponents? They're not his opponents. His opponents
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would be there in the tent debating with him and not shooting him or praising his shooter.
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There's not the opposition. Does it surprise you seeing, you know, a lot of young people celebrating
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it? I mean, when you have a generation of video people watching jihadi videos being beheaded,
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is it very much a surprise that they're demoralized to violence? I don't think so.
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Well, you pay respect really and do a little bit of filming ourselves because we are the media now.
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Well, I mean, he's biased. He's debating because he's always charitable. He's like a more debatey
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version of Jordan Peterson. So, I've seen a lot of him debating even trans activists and he's always
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a bit of compassion for them. He's saying they should like seek help and they seek help with
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their mental dysphoria and they're always compassionate and said they advise them. They
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don't belittle them to them. So, I think that's a very good way to approach people on the other side.
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I think the reason the left, like the radical left, assassinated him is because he represents the
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olive branch because the extreme left don't tend to, do you not realize, do you not recognize that they
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don't tend to attack the actual far right because the far right produced for them is a recruitment
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mechanism. So, they actually, but they probably hate the moderates more, which is why the moderates
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are the ones get shot. So, that's why I think on it. That's a good point. Thanks. Yeah, thanks.
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I think that's a really good point. I've asked that question a couple of times and I think he
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actually responded to that even without me asking it better than I could have thought. Oh, is that the
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one I'm in now? Yeah, it's a bit wide now. I never know which camera to look at with Rookshan. He's always
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playing games with us. How are you doing? Amazing. Good, mate. Good, mate. What's happening?
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Yeah, good. You want to tell us why? We'll interview you for once. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Fight, fight, fight, John. What do you reckon about the crowd here today? It's quite big.
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It is quite big and, you know, it's nice to see that it's, you know, there's a lot of people here that
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want to pay their respects and I think that's what's really important is that it shows that Charlie's
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voice has spread very far, you know, it's gone across a pond and further, reached the whole world
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to be honest, but the crowd's really good. Big turnout, really nice to see. Isn't it, isn't it
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you know, a shame that even tonight you've got a counter demonstration just over the road?
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What was your initial reaction seeing that footage? I just arrived, I just touched down in London and it
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was, it was shock and disbelief, but as much as I was shocked and disbelief, but sometimes really
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not surprised, you know, that's the, that's the nature of what you do when you put yourself out
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there and you wouldn't speak for truth, but it just talks about that only the courageous, it takes
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courage to stand up in the face of opposition and to speak what's truthful and to be fearless in your
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conviction and that's what this man stood for. And so, but I love his stand, love his stand for Jesus
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Christ. Everything he stood for is what we stand for. It's the very reason we came over to England
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with a 200 man strong team from England to stand here for freedom of speech, but to stand for
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something greater, which is what this man stood for as well, stood for his faith.
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You guys are, you guys are going to be at the Tommy Robertson rally tomorrow?
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Yeah, we'll be there tomorrow. We'll be standing and standing with all the British patriots,
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joining arms with all the British patriots, just saying that we all, you know, we all stand in
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solidarity with you. We agree. And it's, it's our responsibility just to echo this right about the
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world. So I love this man, an honour to pay tribute to Charlie Cook and everything that he stood for,
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and our love in regards to his, his wife and his children. And I know that the legacy,
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what's happened was simply amplify the message. So, you know, what people might think has been a bad
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thing, actually, for the long run, it will amplify the message of truth, right to the nation.
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That's what we've come here to England to do as well. Man stood for Christ, beautiful.
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I'm from New Zealand, here to do a haka and open the place.
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Why is it important for you guys to be here tonight for the Charlie Kirk vigil? You're obviously here for
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the Tommy Robinson rally, but tonight here, why? I mean, Charlie's stood for the same things we
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stand for freedom of speech and for Christian rights, etc. Yeah. So he stood before what we're
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standing for. So it was fitting for us to come down to a haka and open in prayer and honour Charlie's
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memory and pray for his wife and kiddies. Can you tell us first, let's start with, there's a pretty
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decent crowd here. How does it feel to see this many people come out to pay their respects to
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Charlie? It's incredibly touching. I know Charlie would be really touched as well. When we did
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the tour with him back in 2019, he drew massive crowds, but this is phenomenal. There must be
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hundreds, if not growing to thousands of people here. And it just shows what impact he had outside
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of America. It wasn't just the American political sphere he was shaping. It was the whole West and the
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Anglo-Swift. Tell me, what was your reaction when you first saw that footage as soon as it came out?
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I couldn't believe it. I thought people were joking at first. My phone was blowing up and they said,
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Charlie's been shot. No, nonsense. And then I saw the video and sorry. We had so much hope at
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Turning Point UK that he was going to pull through. We were getting reports. He's in hospital.
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He's stable. And then when Trump put his statement out, it's everything came crashing down.
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It's we've been absolutely heartbroken by this. Charlie trusted us. He gave us everything over
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here and he helped majorly shape the British political narrative through the work we did.
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I had so much respect for Charlie. He mentored us massively at the start, guided us, and we wouldn't
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have anything without him. They've clearly tried to silence him. Do you think they're going to have
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any sort of success in that? Do you think his murder is going to quash his message?
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No. If anything, when Charlie was assassinated, it created a million Charlie Kirks across the
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Western world. We're not going to be intimidated by this. Today, I'm wearing a bulletproof vest.
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It shouldn't have to come down to that, but if need be, we'll turn up in full body armor and we'll
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continue our message. We're not going to be intimidated by these thugs. And if they come for
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one of us, they come for all of us. They shot Charlie, but that bullet was for everyone.
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Why do you think... Charlie was clearly a moderate on the political landscape,
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especially on the right these days. He was a moderate. Why do you think he was particularly
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the one that was targeted and not, let's say, actual extremists on the right?
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They hated Charlie because he wasn't extreme. They hated Charlie because his message cut through to
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young people. He was the one who revolutionized conservatism, Christianity, patriotism for young
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people across the West. And that's why he was killed, because they feared his message. They feared
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the fact it was cutting through. They feared the fact it wasn't extreme and it made sense.
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You have groups like Antifa say, oh, you can't let the fascists speak because their arguments are very
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convincing. Reality is not convincing. It's the truth. Charlie spoke the truth and he was punished for that.
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What's your reaction to some of the vitriol we're seeing online today from
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segments of even the young community online and TikTok and X and...
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Isn't it funny? The Be Kind Brigade, the ones who call us hateful, are the ones who are truly evil.
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It's no longer become a fight between right and left. It's become a fight between good and evil.
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And I don't think people understand. Normally, you'd give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they see a
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headline. Maybe they're young and they don't understand. But everyone saw that video. Everyone saw how
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horrifically Charlie was murdered. There's no excuse for this behavior. There's elements of society
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who want us dead. And we need to be calling that out. We need to be standing up for ourselves and
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saying enough is enough. These people don't belong in our society. What would you say to people that
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are scared now to speak out because of this? Terrorism is designed to shut you up. Terrorism is designed
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to stop you speaking. You let the Charlie Cox assassin win by stopping. We all now have to speak louder
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than ever. We all have to puff our chests up and say we aren't afraid. We aren't scared to death.
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We are here to push a message. We are here to stand up for what's right, protect our people,
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and promote our country and our values. If Charlie's listening, what would you say to him right now?
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Thank you for everything you did for us. You didn't deserve to go like that. The only comfort I
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have is that I know Charlie's... I know he's debating with the greats and he's giving them a run for their
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money. I met Charlie years ago. You met him? Yeah, yeah. It's like Jack Hadfield Independent List.
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How are you doing? Yeah. Yeah, I met him in 2019. He came to... I was living in Nottingham at the time
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and he came and spoke and I asked him a question. He and Candice were there and her future
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husband George Farmer and somebody else I believe. And yeah, he was just a very lovely guy. You know,
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he answered my question. You know, we spoke to him afterwards and she had my hand and got a photo.
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And yeah, this is sort of before I think he like really, truly came into his own. There was a lot
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of people sort of even on the right at the time who sort of mocked him in like 2017, 2018 for being a
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little bit dorkish, a bit sort of campus conservative. But after, you know, after the election, which was,
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I think, I think was stolen in 2020, past then, you know, Charlie really became just this pure force of
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energy. And I do think, you know, we have to give a lot of credit to him for getting Trump reelected
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in 2024. Yeah. And he is someone who also has been, who changed his mind and has gone harder,
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you know, critical on looking at like mass deportations, demographic change and stuff like
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that. And has really been someone who has been at the cutting edge of the mainstream right in America.
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And, you know, honestly, I still can't believe he's gone because he was such a ubiquitous figure
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for so long. And I've worked in sort of American political journalism for most of my career.
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And as I said, he was just always someone who was there, especially not even on the fringes,
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but on, on, on the main stage. And yeah, I just still, it still hadn't sunk in. It kind of feels a bit
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nightmarish, you know, like I'm still expecting him to turn up next week and debate some liberals and own
00:24:48.400
them, you know, as, as he, as he used to do and obviously just did until literally just a few
00:24:53.360
days ago. Um, it's, it's, it shocked me. One, one thing that really hit me, I was,
00:24:58.560
I was kind of fine all evening after I heard the news, I guess maybe I was in a state of shock.
00:25:03.200
And then I heard, I watched the clip, two clips that just made me crack. And it was Ben Shapiro
00:25:09.760
reading out Psalm 23, and then seeing the live clip of Megyn Kelly and, and Glenn Beck,
00:25:15.520
learning the news that he had passed and both of them just busting in softly tears.
00:25:19.760
And that really struck me and made it feel that it was real. It wasn't just, you know,
00:25:24.960
CGI or somebody's made this up. It's like, no, he's, he's gone. He's not coming back. And yeah,
00:25:30.320
he's only a few years older than I am. 31 is two young kids. And yeah, but I heard that they were
00:25:34.480
there and, you know, something going around that maybe they, they ran towards him when it happened.
00:25:38.800
It just sickens me. And the reactions of the leftists who, you know, you've seen a few of the,
00:25:44.240
like Dean Withers, for example, who Charlie's debated, Cenk Uyghur from Young Turks, you know,
00:25:48.240
demons of bloods of tears when he heard the news, Cenk Uyghur was calling it out.
00:25:50.720
And I think really you've seen the split between those on the left who are maybe,
00:25:56.000
you know, have the wrong policy ideas, um, you know, are against us because they,
00:26:00.400
they haven't seen the right facts, but are fundamentally good and decent people at heart
00:26:04.960
versus those who I think are, are ghouls, who are genuinely evil, who celebrated and whooped and
00:26:11.920
cheered, um, you know, his, his brutal assassination. Yeah. There was a photo of that one guy. He was
00:26:17.440
right in front of him when it happened. Like he saw that with his own eyes. He saw the killing with
00:26:22.080
his own eyes and he still stood up and cheered and pumped his fist. We cannot live with these people.
00:26:27.680
They cannot exist in a society, you know, that they, some, I don't know, you know, how you can live
00:26:35.920
in a society where there are people who openly and brazenly celebrate the death of their political
00:26:41.120
enemies. Even when they've literally seen them being killed right in front of their face. Um,
00:26:47.440
I don't know what humanity, a person like that has, you know, we, we can live in a society where
00:26:52.480
people disagree, but we cannot tolerate those who laugh in, in, in, in, in, in, in the face of death.
00:27:04.800
With that vitriol that we're seeing, what do you think Charlie's response would be to that today?
00:27:08.800
Hmm. Well, I believe he is looking down on us now and I think he would see the vitriol and would
00:27:16.000
still react to the same way he's always did. I think, I think he would, he would first laugh at
00:27:21.840
them and then he would still, despite everything, I'm sure he would try to win them over, uh, with
00:27:28.880
free debate, free speech and ideas. Um, just now, I mean, I, I'm sure that's what he would want us to do.
00:27:36.400
I, I just, I just struggled to think how, how do you change the minds of these people? So clearly
00:27:42.080
there are some people that you can have their minds change. Um, I think there are other people
00:27:46.080
who their souls might be quite rotten, uh, and I'm concerned to live in a society where these,
00:27:51.840
where these people do still exist. Can I ask what that question that you asked Charlie those years
00:27:56.080
ago was? It's funny. It was actually just after he had the debate, well, no, not here, but when Ben
00:28:01.760
Shapiro and Tucker Carlson had the debate on the free market, uh, and I basically asked him,
00:28:06.400
you know, what, what, how do you respond to, uh, a critique of the free market from the right
00:28:10.880
with somebody like Tucker, who's concerned more about sort of nation rather than sort of,
00:28:15.120
I think he called the free market. Oh, what was the phrase he used? Uh, but yeah, he didn't consider
00:28:19.840
the free market to be a God, et cetera. It was more critical of capital. So I, I, I asked him,
00:28:24.640
you know, how do you approach that? You know, what, what, you know, how do you approach
00:28:27.200
critics capital from the right? So now it just seems such a banal question and kind of the shape
00:28:32.240
of everything we have now, like 2019 is such a different era to what we have today. You know,
00:28:38.080
where you can have sort of policy debates on that. And now it's all about, you know,
00:28:42.080
people celebrating the deaths of others. You know, this is just in the space of five years,
00:28:46.240
five, six years. Um, I, I, I do hope, you know, we can tone down, um, uh, the heat and I just don't
00:28:53.680
hope that it escalates. What was his answer by the way? Um, I believe he said that they're actually,
00:29:00.240
um, what did he talk about? I think it was, I think, I think it still is up on YouTube somewhere.
00:29:05.200
Uh, but I believe he talked about that, you know, there are, um, ways that, you know, the market can
00:29:10.800
still operate that aren't necessarily, um, you know, it's basically more like, um, it basically
00:29:15.760
pointed out to it being a more complicated issue than, you know, sort of Tucker initially looked at it
00:29:20.800
from, um, so yeah, and he gave a couple of examples, but again, it, it'll just, it's still
00:29:26.880
weird. It's just, just thinking about him there with this big, you know, toothy grin, which yeah,
00:29:31.760
a lot of people said it always took the thing out of him before, but now it just seems so endearing,
00:29:36.720
you know, in hindsight. What do you think he's, uh, his, his legacy is going to be?
00:29:42.480
His legacy is going to be, he's going to be the person that, that, you know, that, that stood up for
00:29:50.160
free speech and free debate and the marketplace of ideas when it became harder and harder to do so.
00:29:58.000
And people start to became more and more divided and less willing to talk to each other, both on
00:30:03.760
the right and the left. Um, and he did that in the face of politics getting more evil and more vicious
00:30:10.880
and more nasty. He stood firm right until the very end to literally his last breath on this planet was
00:30:19.200
trying to make sure that debate and free speech was the most important thing so that we didn't have
00:30:24.560
political violence, that we did not have the things that took him away. And, and I think frankly made
00:30:29.360
him a martyr, you know, he stood against this, uh, against that violence, uh, and, and, you know,
00:30:35.760
what took him away. And I said, we can only hope that, you know, we do return to a world, uh, where,
00:30:41.680
where Charlie's vision of politics is, is how we operate and not by the bullet.
00:30:47.200
Um, and, you know, Charlie was by all definitions, a moderate. He wasn't the extreme right. Why do
00:30:58.320
Well, two reasons. Firstly, he was effective, uh, in that he, you know, you, you, like you saw his
00:31:04.960
clips everywhere constantly. Uh, and he was, you know, obviously I think, you know, he sort of took
00:31:10.720
off the, uh, the Steven crowd to change my mind, uh, campus debate, 10 things, um, I did really
00:31:17.280
well and ran with it. And, um, you know, he, he clearly did change people's minds when he was there
00:31:22.240
and he was effective in terms of, you know, orchestrating, uh, getting young people out to
00:31:27.520
vote, like the amount of young people that vote for Trump in 2024, I think was, um, partially down
00:31:32.640
to, down, down to Charlie and his mobilization of the youth vote. And then number two,
00:31:37.360
because he was basically the biggest prominent person on sort of TikTok, Instagram, on, you know,
00:31:43.680
of the people, of the guys that killed him, which is the discord leftist chugs who, you know, make
00:31:49.280
jokes about, you know, killing, killing their enemies, but while saying, oh, whoa, at the same
00:31:53.360
time, that was on the bullet casing, the, you know, not, was it not just, not just you, oh, whoa,
00:31:58.080
build your balls or whatever it was. Um, you know, the people who are the iron, completely irony
00:32:02.480
poisoned and they actually go out and start killing people to him, you know, that the fans of
00:32:07.040
Hassan Piker, the fans of all the radical leftists, you know, like, what did Hassan say? He said
00:32:12.800
something like, I don't care about 9-11. Obviously now, you know, the anniversary of that being
00:32:17.120
yesterday. Uh, you know, the people who watch that content, he is their biggest, he stood as their
00:32:22.080
biggest political enemy because he stood up for, you know, he stood against violence. He stood for
00:32:27.840
free debate and he stood for being on the right. He stood for God, he stood for family and he stood for
00:32:32.480
country and that's everything that these people, that those young people hated.
00:32:36.960
And you said you were working in the US. I guess, how would you think it would be now,
00:32:44.960
obviously the way Trump's come out with it and the world leaders of all, on all sides have seemed to
00:32:51.200
kind of rally behind Trump's leadership on, on this horrific incident. Um, do you think it would be any
00:32:58.320
different if Biden or, or Kamala, like, where, where do you think we would be in the aftermath
00:33:03.120
of the killing of Charlie Kirk if it wasn't Trump in power? Well, I'm sure Kamala or Biden would have
00:33:09.040
said something. I'm sure they would have said that they, what they would have said is they would have
00:33:12.880
condemned all political violence. They say, oh, it's both the left and the right who are doing the
00:33:18.160
political violence right now. We've got to condemn all political extremism, you know, and they would
00:33:23.520
have said a tribute to him. But obviously now there's, there is a resolution going on the House
00:33:27.600
right now to have Charlie lie in state at the US Capitol. That would never, that would definitely
00:33:33.760
not even be close to a possibility, uh, if, uh, if he'd been elected. You know, you've seen the
00:33:38.400
reactions of Democrats in Congress when they tried to hold a moment of silence, Charlie there shouting,
00:33:42.800
no, you know, similar scenes of the European Parliament as well, uh, where somebody who gave the
00:33:47.360
rest of their time for a moment of silence, the left kept talking through it. So, you know, we, we, we, we would have seen
00:33:53.520
you know, thoughts and prayers. We've seen thoughts and prayers, uh, for about, you know, a few hours.
00:33:59.040
Uh, and then, then they would have tried to brush it under the rug, um, and go back to focusing on,
00:34:05.200
oh, you know, uh, this, uh, this person tried to stab a police officer and they got shot. Oh, isn't that
00:34:11.040
awful? We must have, you know, 20 days of mourning for them. Yeah. That's what they were trying to pivot
00:34:15.760
back to rather than, you know, actually caring about, again, the assassination of someone who was just a good
00:34:21.120
man. Charlie Kirk was a good man. It's funny. I've seen a lot of people who've been, um, who said,
00:34:26.720
you know, like, uh, I, I, I was against Charlie from slightly to the right. You know, I sort of mocked
00:34:32.240
him, you know, I, I, I took the mickey, but now, you know, and they all just, a lot of them said,
00:34:38.960
yeah, wow. Actually, I realized I was actually, you know, sort of a bad person and he was a good
00:34:43.120
person. Charlie Kirk was a good person. If he was listening now, what would you say to him?
00:34:49.360
We love you. We miss you. Um, and I, I'm so sorry. And I wish you're still here.
00:34:53.920
I'm kind of starting to tear up a bit now. Um, yeah.
00:35:03.200
that time is now. Well, with that said, I'm now going to hand it over to Kingy Charles,
00:36:50.280
Let's hear it again for the fantastic guys from New Zealand!
00:37:00.280
Well guys, thank you everyone for coming here today.
00:37:04.280
I know Charlie would have been incredibly touched by your presence.
00:37:09.280
We didn't expect this many people and it's a fantastic indication of how strong Charlie Kirk's legacy is.
00:37:16.280
So give yourselves a round of applause everyone!
00:37:24.280
As our fantastic fans from New Zealand have shown, we will not roll over.
00:37:31.280
We will not be bullied out of standing up for our country, our values and our people.
00:37:39.280
I would also like to thank members of the United States law enforcement who have successfully apprehended Charlie's murderer.
00:37:51.280
Whilst justice won't bring Charlie back, I hope it will ease his family's pain.
00:38:03.280
But I do hope, and we ask, that the law shows Tyler Robinson no mercy!
00:38:10.280
While we are angry, and certainly should never forget this anger or what they have done, we should look back on Charlie Finley as the man who led the charge.
00:38:18.280
mainstreaming patriotism, Christianity and conservatism across the world.
00:38:37.280
Despite what certain members of the press have reported, Charlie was not a hateful, far right bigot.
00:38:56.280
He was a good Christian man and his desire to help people came from his passion to Christ.
00:39:07.280
He wanted to educate them and teach them to make better life decisions.
00:39:12.280
When Charlie debated only fans, only fans individuals, he did not do so to mock them, to ridicule them.
00:39:26.280
He did it so they could have a future, so they could have a family, so they could have children.
00:39:31.280
He was a fantastic man and the world is a darker place without him.
00:39:45.280
My name's Jack Ross and I'm the CEO of Turning Point UK.
00:39:49.280
Charlie launched our organisation in 2019 and we've been pushing strong over the last six years, thanks to his trust and his guidance.
00:39:57.280
Charlie gave us everything at Turning Point UK and many of the faces you actually see on television or in politics or commentating wouldn't exist in this country by the way, not just in America, wouldn't exist except for Charlie Kirk.
00:40:12.280
He has a fantastic legacy and he did so much to shape politics across the world, not only in the United States but in the West, in Australia and as our friends in New Zealand.
00:40:25.280
Every country in the world mourns the loss of Charlie Kirk. He stood up for free speech, he stood up for what's right and we demand justice.
00:40:34.280
My only comfort right now is that Charlie's up there in heaven and he's debating with the greats and you know what, he's giving them a good run for their money.
00:40:52.280
Charlie's legacy will be one of hope, hope that the world will return to normality, hope that people will once again embrace Christian values and patriotism and hope that what happened to Charlie must never be allowed to happen again.
00:41:19.280
I will take this opportunity to ask people, particularly those on the left wing of politics, that they must be careful with their rhetoric.
00:41:38.280
Whilst sticks and stones do break bones, it is words which encourage people to pick up those sticks.
00:41:45.280
We all have a responsibility to do the right thing going forwards and we must call out those seeking to divide us.
00:41:53.280
Charlie was not killed because he talked, he was killed because people listened. Thank you.
00:42:27.280
Right guys, here to lead us in a short pair, we have Young Bob, okay, Thomas Moffat, who's our Youth Ambassador for Turning Point UK.
00:42:39.280
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
00:42:54.280
Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us for our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
00:43:00.280
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. Because thy kingdom, the power, never and ever. Amen.
00:43:41.280
So, guys, it's being led by Turning Point UK here.
00:43:48.280
We've got Young Bob, who spoke before, holding a portrait of Charlie Kirk as well.
00:44:24.280
I think the statue's on this side of Winston Churchill.
00:44:32.280
We'll just get there and then we'll talk to people on the outside.
00:45:03.280
they're going to cross that road is that somewhere yes i'm not entirely sure how
00:45:10.160
thank you thank you brother thank you guys we're just going to get to the end point of this is
00:45:14.320
which is the winston churchill statue all right this is where they got to get uh that's that's
00:45:19.600
the statue right there as one of charlie uh let's go there as one of turning point uh uk's spokesman
00:45:25.440
or spokespeople said that's one of his favorite places in london that's what he said right yeah i
00:45:30.560
think favorite places in london and political figures are yeah you got to watch the live
00:45:34.880
stream back i can't i'll just get this shot from here yeah yeah that's a good shot
00:45:44.080
just to get an idea of the crowd turn the other way
00:45:48.080
maybe we'll no they're going they've got to go around okay they're going to go there but let's
00:45:52.320
follow on because you're going to see just give people an idea of how large camera on here
00:45:56.720
so they're going that way yeah and that's why we're going anyway yeah yeah
00:46:45.400
Isn't it nice to see them respectfully marked, but you get an idea of how many people, there
00:47:13.000
are thousands here by this point to pay their respects to Charlie Kirk in London.
00:47:47.000
So, guys, I'm getting all the people coming down here.
00:48:00.000
They've crossed the road and there's two groups.
00:48:47.000
Why is it important to be here for Charlie Kerr?
00:48:50.000
I must have been stopped crying since it happened.
00:48:55.000
A beacon of light for the younger generation, for our generation.
00:49:05.000
How does it feel that so many people came out tonight here in London?
00:49:10.000
Never thought that we'd ever be going to a vigil for this, but we had to come down.
00:49:44.000
I'm not sure where exactly they're going, because that was the...
00:50:00.000
Remember they'll stop seeing that í—¤Kit, right?
00:50:03.000
Er, no, it's encrypted, looking down quickly from home.
00:50:05.000
What the hell looked like that was information.
00:50:08.000
I told her before he was probably already an empty window of the particulars...
00:50:11.000
spring engine roll out of the orê°–ized side before they not opening up the hill.
00:51:04.000
All right, guys, we're going to have a two-minute silence for Charlie.
00:51:17.000
Two-minute silence for Charlie Kirk here in London.
00:53:44.000
Christ is King, Christ is King, Christ is King, Christ is King!
00:53:59.000
Alright guys, we have done our best speed term on megaphone here so I'm going to speed that out of it.
00:54:11.000
Christ is King, Christ is King, Christ is King, Christ is King!
00:54:19.000
Right guys, thank you so much for coming here tonight.
00:54:40.000
What we need to do now, we have picked up Charlie's Torch
00:55:12.000
Each and every one of you should be radicalised by what has happened.
00:55:22.000
Charlie may well be in heaven now, but it is time to accept personal responsibility for what has happened.
00:55:31.000
And we will continue doing stands in the legacy of Charlie Cook.
00:55:41.000
He stood on a platform of civil discourse and we cannot stop to continue that civil discourse when our opposition will not meet us on the tent, but rather shoot at us.
00:55:54.000
And whenever you do a stand, you potentially consent to your political opposition being the thing by which you die by.
00:56:02.000
And I guarantee you, I have seen the United Kingdom, the radical left have been persecuting the Conservatives who have one clear message.
00:56:13.000
We want to conserve our culture and our heritage.
00:56:17.000
We will not import a culture that killed Charlie Kirk.
00:56:30.000
We will pick up the megaphones, the microphones, the stands.
00:56:34.000
They won't be able to move our minds by an inch because I guarantee you, ladies and gentlemen, I will continue to speak up at university campuses.
00:57:12.000
Does it do anything to rectify kind of some of that vitriol we've seen online of people celebrating his murder?
00:57:20.000
I mean, it's been obviously really hard to see everything that's been going on.
00:57:23.000
I mean, I knew that, you know, obviously we are going to have people who didn't like him and who spoke out against him and are happy about his death.
00:57:32.000
But, you know, I think it's nice to see that, you know, there are people who really loved him and, you know, are appreciative of all the work that he did.
00:57:41.000
It just reminds me of why we do what we're doing.
00:58:38.820
The daughter who will never again run to her father's leg.
00:58:53.940
Tomorrow, we're going to have a massive coverage of Tommy's Big Rally.
00:58:58.240
Avi and I will each be giving speeches, but we've got a whole team on the ground.
00:59:02.200
Avi and Rakshan Fernando will do a live stream.
00:59:12.360
It's going to be a big rebel effort because I think this could be the most important rally in a generation in the United Kingdom.
00:59:18.120
Until then, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.