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You remember that guy who was hauled off by the police right after the Charlie Kirk shooting?  You know, the old guy whose pants fell down? The one who "confessed" to the police that he shot Kirk as he lay dying?

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It turns out that, while he did not shoot Kirk as we know or participate in the planning, he wanted to help Tyler Robinson escape and become a "martyr" for the cause. 

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As I wrote earlier today, one out of four very liberal people admits that they support political violence, and here is a perfect example. As the blood was draining out of Charlie Kirk's body before his eyes, many decided to take the fall so that the revolutionary killer could escape. 

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One of the more prominent liberal magazines is named "Jacobin," after the French Revolutionaries who perpetrated "The Terror." The most common liberal logo is the raised fist, and Antifa are the brownshirts of the radical left, and many liberals insist they do not exist. 

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For an idea, not an organization, they sure have "all the hallmarks" of an organization. The claim is absurd on its face that Antifa doesn't exist. They say that to get plausible deniability.  George Zinn is hardly the only person in that crowd to have celebrated Kirk's death. We have seen tens of thousands of leftists, including teachers, professors, lawyers, judges, journalists, podcasters, nurses, and surgeons, expressing glee that Kirk was murdered, and many who put out hit lists of other conservatives who should be next. 

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It now appears likely that, at the very least, Antifa and transgender individuals had prior knowledge of Kirk's assassination, and Robinson expected help in escaping. The exact circumstances have yet to come out, but there are at least 7 people who posted online that something big was coming at the event. 

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We should no longer be surprised that a radical leftist jumped at the chance of helping Robinson escape. Revolutionary violence it at the heart of leftism, and has been since the French Revolution.  As I have pointed out before, the origin of the term "left" as a political description refers to the seating arrangements at the French National Assembly during the Revolution, where the radicals sat on the left side of the aisle. Major revolutionary movements since then have looked to the French Revolution as their guiding light. 

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Hasan Piker is one of the most vile left-wingers on the internet.   No, I am not referring to his views, but his open calls to violence.  So imagine my (non) surprise when I saw that, of all people, The New York Times handed over some of the most valuable real estate in journalism--the Opinion Page of The New York Times--to him to give us a lecture on freedom of speech and peaceful disagreement. 

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Hasan Piker is not just a radical leftist. A man with millions of followers on social media platforms, he preaches that 9/11 was justified, that Jews are "pigs," and that conservatives should be gutted and have their blood running through the streets. 

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This, from a newspaper where there was a newsroom revolt over publishing an Op/Ed by Tom Cotton, and which fired the editor who approved it. The newsroom erupted because, and I quote, Cotton's words made them feel "unsafe." 

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Piker? Apparently, he makes them feel safe, and what makes them feel safe is living in a bubble where Hasan Piker can celebrate 9/11 as justice and advocate for the murder of capitalists, calling for their blood to run in the streets.  You can't hate the media enough.  Millions of ordinary people still don't understand who the media really are. The Times, which has bragged about its fact-checking abilities, published an obituary of Kirk that attributed to him views that he spent time criticizing. After a time, they appended a correction, of course, to cover their butts, but is it really possible that nobody watched the video from which they were quoting?

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