How are all the left wing and liberal posters who uncritically shared this piece-of-crap XKCD comic feeling now? The time to have a strong defence of free speech was when it was inconvenient, not now when you’re on the receiving end of the ‘consequences’. pic.twitter.com/ReJN3pGsoe

— Simon Biddle (@simonbiddle) September 18, 2025

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URGENT. FYI.

After Charlie Kirk, on the sky app there are people asking for the next person to be targeted. These include JK Rowling, Matt Walsh, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Libs of TikTok, Elon Musk, and Andy Ngo.

I took as many screenshots as I could. pic.twitter.com/CnZmmJAjvh

— Jennifer ‍♀️‍⬛ (@babybeginner) September 11, 2025

(Warning: long rant)

My liberal friends are completely oblivious about how radicalizing the last week has been for tens of millions of normal Americans. Zero clue.

I’m not talking about people who are “online”; I mean regular, everyday Americans. “Normies.” People who scroll… pic.twitter.com/NeCxHqrFXi

— Robert Sterling (@RobertMSterling) September 13, 2025

Peggy Noonan, in the Wall Street Journal, chinstrokes over the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

We like to say that something happened gradually and then suddenly. It’s from Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises”: A character, asked how he went bankrupt, says, “Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.” That’s how political violence in America has been growing in this century. I would say the 2024 assassination attempts on Donald Trump, and now the assassination of Kirk, are the “suddenly” moments. The reality continues while the dark tempo is picking up.

We know this can’t continue and we don’t know how to stop it. That is our predicament.

For those of us who remember the 1960s and the killing of Medgar Evers, both Kennedys and Martin Luther King, it feels like we’re going through another terrible round of political violence. It’s tempting to think, “That was terrible but we got through it.” But the assassinations of the 1960s took place in a healthier country, one that respected itself more and was, for all its troubles, more at ease with itself. It had give. Part of why this moment is scary is that we are brittler, and we love each other less, maybe even love ourselves less. We have less respect for our own history, our story, and so that can’t act as the adhesive it once was. The assassinations of the 1960s felt anomalous, unlike us. Now political violence feels like something we do, which is a painful thought.

Yes, Peggy, and who exactly was it that smeared American History with Marxist agitprop made up of a lengthy, sometimes false always one-sided, catalog of grievances? Who denigrated and condemned “our story” as all about nothing but Slavery, Exploitation, Racism, and Oppression?

Some of us recall quite clearly the way the great Peggy Noonan “gradually, then quite suddenly” changed being an eloquent editorial page cheerleader for Conservatism, when Conservative Republicans had been winning for a long time, into one more establishment media figure knee-twitching and fawning over Obama.

Just a few samples.

Germans gathered at the US Embassy in Berlin to hold a candlelight vigil for Charlie Kirk.

The event was described by locals as “spontaneous” and not pre-planned.

A political earthquake has occurred across the West. https://t.co/OynBbGENeF pic.twitter.com/ObJ6iPEW6d

— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) September 12, 2025

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MADRID, SPAIN: Spanish patriots placed candles outside the US Embassy to honor Charlie Kirk.

This isn’t just an American awakening. It’s a global awakening.

Leftists have no clue what they’ve started. pic.twitter.com/3DYkamQ1u0

— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) September 12, 2025

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South Africans held a massive vigil for Charlie Kirk at the US Embassy in Pretoria.

Global awakening.

Thank you, patriots. https://t.co/dJUpFGA3fM pic.twitter.com/nhaglFRfWt

— Vince Dao (@VinceDaoTV) September 12, 2025

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Devon Cassidy, a Social Worker from Victoria BC who we covered after celebrating Trump’s assassination attempt, is over the moon about Charlie Kirk being killed & calls on for more murder.

Devon Cassidy is currently employed with @legalaidbc @libsoftiktok https://t.co/tzmtnL6W6B pic.twitter.com/mzyyEVwz5p

— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) September 11, 2025

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Devon Cassidy takes it even a step further by stating she has no sympathy for anyone on the right & calls on for assassinations for those who are conservative, labelling herself as “bloodlusty.”@vicpdcanada @RCMP @rcmpgrcpolice pic.twitter.com/S36zXCSTZP

— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) September 11, 2025

HT: The Anonymous Professor.

Captain Rescorla in action at Ia Drang, Republic of Vietnam, 15 November 1965.
photograph: Peter Arnett/AP.

Born in Hayle, Cornwall, May 27, 1939, to a working-class family, Rescorla joined the British Army in 1957, serving three years in Cyprus. Still eager for adventure, after army service, Rescorla enlisted in the Northern Rhodesia Police.

Ultimately finding few prospects for advancement in Britain or her few remaining colonies, Rescorla moved to the United States, and joined the US Army in 1963. After graduating from Officers’ Candidate School at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1964, he was assigned as a platoon leader to Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, Third Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). Rescorla’s serious approach to training and his commitment to excellence led to his men to apply to him the nickname “Hard Corps.”

The 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry was sent to Vietnam in 1965, where it soon engaged in the first major battle between American forces and the North Vietnamese Army at Ia Drang.

The photograph above was used on the cover of Colonel Harold Moore’s 1992 memoir We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, made into a film starring Mel Gibson in 2002. Rescorla was omitted from the cast of characters in the film, which nonetheless made prominent use of his actual exploits, including the capture of the French bugle and the elimination of a North Vietnamese machine gun using a grenade.

For his actions in Vietnam, Rescorla was awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star (twice), the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. After Vietnam, he continued to serve in the Army Reserve, rising to the rank of Colonel by the time of his retirement in 1990.

Rick Rescorla became a US citizen in 1967. He subsequently earned bachelor’s, master’s, and law degrees from the University of Oklahoma, and proceeded to teach criminal law at the University of South Carolina from 1972-1976, before he moved to Chicago to become Director of Security for Continental Illinois Bank and Trust.

In 1985, Rescorla moved to New York to become Director of Security for Dean Witter, supervising a staff of 200 protecting 40 floors in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. (Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter merged in 1997.) Rescorla produced a report addressed to New York’s Port Authority identifying the vulnerability of the Tower’s central load-bearing columns to attacks from the complex’s insecure underground levels, used for parking and deliveries. It was ignored.

On February 26, 1993, Islamic terrorists detonated a car bomb in the underground garage located below the North Tower. Six people were killed, and over a thousand injured. Rescorla took personal charge of the evacuation, and got everyone out of the building. After a final sweep to make certain that no one was left behind, Rick Rescorla was the last to step outside.

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Directing the evacuation on September 11th.
Security Guards Jorge Velasquez and Godwin Forde are on the right.
photograph: Eileen Mayer Hillock.

Rescorla was 62 years old, and suffering from prostate cancer on September 11, 2001. Nonetheless, he successfully evacuated all but 6 of Morgan Stanley’s 2800 employees. (Four of the six lost included Rescorla himself and three members of his own security staff, including both the two security guards who appear in the above photo and Vice President of Corporate Security Wesley Mercer, Rescorla’s deputy.) Rescorla travelled personally, bullhorn in hand, as low as the 10th floor and as high as the 78th floor, encouraging people to stay calm and make their way down the stairs in an orderly fashion. He is reported by many witnesses to have sung “God Bless America,” “Men of Harlech, ” and favorites from Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. “Today is a day to be proud to be an American,” he told evacuees.

A substantial portion of the South Tower’s workforce had already gotten out, thanks to Rescorla’s efforts, by the time the second plane, United Airlines Flight 175, struck the South Tower at 9:02:59 AM. Just under an hour later, as the stream of evacuees came to an end, Rescorla called his best friend Daniel Hill on his cell phone, and told him that he was going to make a final sweep. Then the South Tower collapsed.

Rescorla had observed a few months earlier to Hill, “Men like us shouldn’t go out like this.” (Referring to his cancer.) “We’re supposed to die in some desperate battle performing great deeds.” And he did.

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His hometown of Hayle in Cornwall has erected a memorial.

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2,996 was a project put together by blogger Dale Roe to honor each victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks. 3,061 blogs committed to posting tributes to each victim. Never Yet Melted’s tribute was to Rick Rescorla, and is republished annually.

You can't make this up.

The OFFICIAL Black Lives Matter account posted a video saying that "all oppressed people have a right to violence" in response to the murder of Iryna Zarutska. pic.twitter.com/g2ey77SGI0

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 10, 2025

Eugyppius states the home truth that our elite establishment determinedly persists in denying.

The Civil Rights Movement has successfully indoctrinated the American Community of Fashion into a sort of fanatical religious penitential guilt cult that has produced essentially a Second American Reconstruction Period.

White Americans have supposedly inherited limitless guilt for Slavery and Segregation and African Americans have inherited limitless entitlement to compensatory deference, privilege, and are expected, even sometimes encouraged, to feel racial animosity and to commit crimes. When apprehended, the enlightened member of the national elite looking on, simply nods his head in understanding, urges restraint and supports release without bail. If a white American has the temerity to defend his home or, like Daniel Penny, intervenes forcibly to save other people from violent black crime, the justice system in any major American city will throw the book at him and will pursue his condign punishment with all the zeal of Inspector Javert in Les Miserables.

All this is a pattern of perversity, derangement, and lies enforced by a system of thought and speech taboo.

Aside from Mariupol, the war in Ukraine has directly caused around 11 civilian deaths per 100,000 people every year since the Russian invasion in 2022. That is less than the intentional homicide rate of the city where Zarutska was murdered last August.

And Charlotte is far from the most dangerous place our young Ukrainian could’ve fled to. Detroit (32/100,000), Baltimore (35/100,000), San Juan (37/100,000), Memphis (48/100,000) and New Orleans (54/100,000) are all vastly worse. To put it as bluntly as possible – and with as little racial sensitivity as I dare – the U.S. black population is largely responsible for imposing on many American cities a civilian death rate equivalent to or far exceeding that seen in a modern country fighting a war on its own territory.

This fact has made the progressive American political establishment crazy, and they have developed an entire ideological system to avoid confronting this terrible, ruthless reality. They suppress stories of black violence and desperately promote quite rare and exceptional cases of white-on-black crime to invert the hated truths before them. When they are forced to acknowledge inconvenient stories like Zarutska’s murder, they insist that these are also the fault of white Americans because of things that happened generations ago and for which no living person bears any responsibility. All of this vile excuse-peddling, these blind rehearsals of antiracist ideological nostrums, and these unceasing, desperate searches for responsible parties and factors beyond the obvious ones – all these are psychological reactions arising from cognitive dissonance, finally sublimated into a quite pathological ideology.

RTWT