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Let’s hope for all the young people of America that they find spouses with the strength of Erika Kirk. On Friday night she issued the ultimate rejection of the assassin’s veto when she vowed that her late husband Charlie Kirk’s message will be shared far and wide, the campus discussions he initiated will proliferate, and his religious witness will be amplified. For the rest of us, it’s important to avoid trying to restrict the free-speech rights that Kirk was joyfully and vigorously exercising and that his killer could not tolerate. As depressing as it has been to see how many leftists on social media have been falsely attributing comments to him when they are not openly cheering his demise, it’s also been heartening to see the eloquent rebuttals. Claims that Kirk hated this or that category of people have been quickly answered by people in the allegedly hated category describing what a good friend Kirk was to them and how badly his views have been mischaracterized. Let the discussion continue, unfettered by new government powers that eventually would be abused by political friends and foes alike. With perfect timing, a key federal official is making a forceful defense of our constitutional liberties. John Hendel and Brendan Bordelon report for Politico: Amid a conservative firestorm over online speech, Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr on Tuesday rejected the notion that the government should crack down on social media posts following conservative organizer Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “I think you can draw a pretty clear line, and the Supreme Court has done this for decades, that our First Amendment, our free speech tradition, protects
almost all speech,” Carr told POLITICO’s Alex Burns on stage at the POLITICO AI & Tech Summit. Amen to that. The Politico report continues:
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