By Alice Byrd
September 15, 2025
Time Magazine’s cover for Sept 11, 2025 is blood red with the word “ENOUGH” emblazoned in white, with the subtitle “The killing of Charlie Kirk and the Epidemic of American Political Violence” underneath. It hauntingly has the scene of Charlie Kirk sitting under the usual canopy his organization used for those rally’s, students and attendee’s choking around the front of Mr. Kirk.
I got a call from my son who asked me if I had seen anything about the shooting, and I told him the TV wasn’t on. He asked me to check for him, as he was in the car driving (for the record, he has Bluetooth hands free calling in his car). We hung up and I immediately turned on the TV. Will Cain was on Fox and the crawler on the bottom of the screen said Kirk had been shot and was in critical condition at the hospital. I have been aware of Charlie Kirk for a long time. He was a shining star, not for his impassioned persuasiveness for the Conservative cause, but because he was passionate in his faith in Christ. Unapologetic. Brave. Completely committed.
The wound was articulated, “in the neck”. I called my son back and told him the details as they were then known, and said, “apparently it’s in the neck”. My son said, “he’s dead”. I said no, not yet. There’s still hope son. But there wasn’t any. After only a short time, the communication ear piece in Will’s ear passed the news: Will Cain paused in his talking, bowed his head and looked up and said, “Charlie Kirk has died. He’s dead”. I dissent. Charlie is not dead. The Scriptures tell us, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. (2Cor 5:8)
The next morning, 9/11, I woke up a few minutes after 4am, seething with rage. I never wake up like that. Yet for some reason, I was filled with a species of indignation completely unfamiliar to me. Not only was this the day our nation suffered the most violent attack against innocent human begins (maybe some not so innocent) but millions in the country were still reeling from the scandalously depraved murder, indeed, assassination, of a man of peace who sought only to bring our youth back to the right way to see LIFE. Not through the screens of social media and social discord, not through the infectious poison of radical revolutionaries our youth are virtually hypnotized by daily on the campuses of “academia” (I hesitate to even use the word academia, for the simple reason there is nothing academic about our institutions of ‘higher learning’), not through their TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, BlueSky bot infested social gathering places…there is only death of the spirit in those places. There is a robbing of LIFE there. We, as a collective of American Citizens, should stop the hell what we are doing and reassess the path we are on; because the end thereof is death. Physical, spiritual, intellectual DEATH.
Awakening like I did, I reminded myself that sometimes, we have to step out in faith to respond to a calling to bloody DO SOMETHING about the terrorist inspired dialectic coming at us at warp speed. We Christians, Conservatives, American Constitutional Citizens cannot remain silent in the face of impending national suicide…or should I say murder? The Enemy we are facing seeks to remove us from the face of the earth and they acknowledge NO LIMIT to accomplish their demonic goal. This is not a physical battle; this is a spiritual WAR. Make absolutely NO mistake. You MUST look through different eyes, NOW.
During an interview with a well-known addiction specialist, Dr David Drew Pinsky, I heard a new term that I had to immediately look up. “Stochastic Terrorism”. Here is what Britannica reports about this condition:
“…the repeated use of hate speech or other vilifying, dehumanizing rhetoric by a political leader or other public figure(s) that inspires one or more of the figure(s) supporters to commit hate crimes or other acts of violence against a targeted person, group or community. In legal terms, stochastic terrorism generally does not constitute incitement or solicitation to violence, which is a serious crime in many countries, because the speech involved lacks sufficient specificity.
“Incitement entails explicitly directing or encouraging an act of violence against a specific target at a particular time or place, thus immediately putting the target at an IDENTIFIABLE risk. In contrast, stochistic terrorists do not supply their followers with any detailed plan of attack, which means that the particular time and place of the eventual violence (is)are unpredictable”. Stochastic terrorism | Definition, Examples, Social Media, Criticism, & Facts | Britannica. I highly recommend the reader to investigate this topic, as it will really open your eyes to a tactic that has been in use for decades, perhaps eons. This is the evil little whisper the Enemy uses to steal our spirits and destroy our lives, while we yet still breathe. It creates human zombies with no life left in their eyes. This spiritual poison is mortally dangerous, indeed…terminal.
In Aug 2025, Charlie Kirk wrote on “X”: “Assassination culture is spreading on the Left.” I disagree; it has been influencing humans for many thousands of years. Didn’t Cain slay Abel for his birthright? Ehud murdered Eglon? Rechab and Baanah slew Saul’s son Ish-Bosheth; Didn’t the Senators of Rome join together in the murder of Julius Caesar? Ancient assassinations like Peter of Verona, King Gustav III, Alexander II, and the more historically recent, Lord Louis Montbatten, Arch Duke Ferdinand, Lincoln, JFK, MLK, RFK, Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat…and vicious, but failed attempts on many more.
“Young women wantonly murdered by mentally deformed and frenzied deficient’s; 4 college students in Moscow ID; 2 children murdered by their own mother; children slain in churches; a CEO attending a conference; 8 people simply out shopping in Allen, Texas; 4 young people at a Sweet 16 party in Dadeville, Alabama…and the list could go on and on. Yet the more current and mindless murders seem to have made less impact on those who can truly affect these horrific acts: Our leaders.
WHY??? Because humans are being dehumanized through the violent rhetoric of unhinged personalities with nothing more than hate or greed in their minds and hearts. Humans with compromised souls or no soul at all. Morally vacant humans indoctrinated with the most vile temptation of all: self-worship. The psychopathy of the extreme progressive left wing moral assassins is not just dark, it’s demonic. I don’t say that lightly. Ephesians 6:12 tells us CLEARLY, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Charlie Kirk knew this and tried to bring young people to the Truth and to inspire them to choose a better path and find their better angels.
He promoted coming back to the foundations of all success everywhere: the building blocks of life are FAMILIES, men and women who come together in marital union to beget children to carry on the march of humanity; to find the Grace of God and His plan for our human race; To be moderate in our temperaments and congenial in our interactions with others; Respectful to our parents, obedient to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Something I was stirred by in the life and mortal, physical absence of Mr. Kirk: He felt a calling and FOLLOWED it without reservation. He was 17-18 yrs old when he began his public “ministry” to guide his generation back to a good conscience and citizenship. Not a religious ministry, as he was never parochial in his approach, but inclusive in the truest sense of the word. He knew his message was the diametric opposite of what the universities and colleges were doing to our GenX’ers minds and personalities, and he rebuked it with dignity and virtue. Then he went right to the source of the agony brewing in our culture: high schools, colleges and universities…and he preached Truth to Power.
I am reminded of how our Savior, Christ Jesus went to dine with tax collectors and whores. When his disciples admonished Him about his associations, telling the Christ ‘the people will abandon you if you do this thing’, He quietly reminded them that He didn’t come to this earth to save the righteous, He came to save the sinners. That’s what Charlie did. He went to the root of the problem and confronted it. He made a lot of enemies on the Radical Left. He opened up a dialogue with those who felt disaffected, diminished and demoralized, even though they don’t recognize those emotions in their waking minds. Our young people have been fed poison for so long their think it’s the only food available to them and they have become used to it; They are hypnotized to believe THE GREAT LIE. I might ask here…who is the father of lies?
John 8:44 tells us clearly what and who we are to reject for the sake of our eternal souls. “Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it”.
Our political environment is a living pandemic of vulgar, despicable, soulless human beings who promote and encourage debauched, immoral intellectual aggression. They promote, with almost every breath they take, weak-minded individuals to look at millions of us with contempt and revulsion. They promote violence, even though with the next breath, they deny incitement of any sort. I can think of hundreds of instances where I have heard members of Congress decry the “conservative base” and our associated counterparts as fascists and followers of the “Hitler in the White House”. Do their bewitched neophytes (their public) actually know what the term fascist implies? One student told Mr. Kirk he (Charlie) was a fascist. Charlie asked the student to define fascist…the student stood there speechless. OF COURSE he didn’t know what fascist meant; he was simply parroting what had been drilled into his still forming brain. Dangerous rhetoric: stochastic terrorism.
Let’s define Fascist: “a populist political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation, and often race, above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition.”
How about Nazi? Nazism, was a totalitarian movement led by Adolph Hitler as head of the Nazi Party in Germany. In its intense nationalism, mass appeal and dictatorial rule, Nazism shared many elements with Italian Fascism. However, Nazism was far more extreme both in its ideas and in its practice. In almost every respect it was an anti-intellectual and atheoretical movement, emphasizing the will of the charismatic dictator as the sole source of inspiration of a people and a nation, as well as a vision of annihilation of all enemies of the Aryan Volk as the one and only goal of Nazi policy.”
I have searched and searched the founding documents; you know…the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution? and I can’t find ANYWHERE in it that it endorses a dictatorial concept of GOVERNMENT that says none but Aryans are to be privileged and in control of the government. Nor do either one of those documents induce the leaders of the nation called America to “exalt” the nation over the individual, or to favor one race over another…and I am SICK TO DEATH OF THE TIRED OLD, THREAD BARE MANTRA OF MONOTONY THAT BLACKS ARE STILL BEING OPPRESSED! My God! According to ‘Go Beyond’, a data and tech site, there are 5.3 million non-white millionaires in America. There are 7 black Billionaires in the US. So anyone wanting to debate that should reconsider their position, because their gas-lighting simply doesn’t work with people who have eyes, ears and a functioning frontal cortex.
For instance: where does Mad Maxine Waters live for God’s sake? Not in her own freaking district. Only her constituents are relegated to live in that hell hole…Not Fancy Maxxy!! She lives in California’s 37th district in a $6 Million brick and glass mansion, while her constituents live in the underserved 43rd District. She and her husband, Sid Williams, own 4 homes in California. Her district is 21% black and 61% Hispanic. 16% live BELOW the poverty line. I found this absolutely fascinating:
“The following agencies did not report the full year of data due to a variety of reasons including but not limited to issues with their Record Management Systems (RMS), unresolved reporting errors, staffing issues, being newly established reporting agencies, or failing to submit data…(for Los Angels County, where Maxxy’s 43rd district lies,) Los Angeles County, (Unable to report due to system issues.)
As for inciting violence, what was it she screamed about in 2018?? “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet (Trump’s) in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell then they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents” in front of the Wilshire Federal Building. Maxine uses children and the EMOTIVE subjects that create jealousy and sympathy…she uses children as nothing more than damn PROPS.
Ilhan Omar, a Marxist Muslim, Rashida Talib, a Palestinian Muslim, Ayanna Presley a dedicated Socialist, and the infamous most famous bartender of all time, Sandy O-Cortez who has endorsed a Communist for NYCity mayor. Mr. Mamdami titles himself as a democratic socialist, but do not be manipulated…there is no such thing as a democratic socialist. It’s all marketing for the herds of politically lazy brains who will drink out of the fountain of fiction until their lips, eyes and ears swell shut.
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen is the bloody POINT! Charlie Kirk’s calling was to expose the Truth to our youngsters so they didn’t get caught up in the most vile, vicious, dehumanizing, morally vacuous valley of confusion Man has ever been confronted with. Charlie said, “Dehumanization proceeds atrocities”; it degrades conservative freedom of speech, demoralizes the seeking spirit and shuts down liberty.
Shall we continue to rot in our “fear” of rage from the Communist Left in this nation? How in God’s name did we allow it to enter in through the gate of Freedom the first bloody place? Communist, Socialist, Marxist policies, philosophy and political construction is a million percent antithetical to our Constitutional Rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Property (Happiness). In Communism, Socialism and Marxism you are not allowed to own ANYTHING! YOU are a unit of property and are owned by the State. You only have the rights that the State says you have. There’s no favoritism and no class structure, except for those at the top of the food chain, and you, my dear reader are lunch. You are disposable, as the assassination of Charlie Kirk just proved. I might also remind you that Government cannot grant anything it does not intrinsically have available TO give. Government creates NOTHING. God created choice and freedom, not the people in Washington, District of Criminals.
Oddly, however, I have renewed hope. As I watched Sept 10th play out, the horror of that event causing me to bow my head and in flowing tears pray for God to move a mountain and save our nation from the sudden darkness and distress millions of people had just been plunged into, I saw a scene in my mind’s eye. Christ lamenting to the Father, “Forgive them for they know not what they do”.
Brain washing is a diabolical activity…and those who conduct it will be judged for it. Their names will not be found in the book of Life, for they seek only to extinguish life. They are delusional actors following a road that ends in their own destruction, not ours as His Children and the Living Stones of His Church. By the age of 31, Charlie had brought millions of people to Christ. He has moved on now to be with the Father and the Son but has left behind the RAGING fire of righteous determination in his followers…
Just like Jesus did…at 33.
© 2025 Alice Byrd – All Rights Reserved
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[BIO: A.M. Byrd is the granddaughter of Italian and Dutch immigrants who came to love and revere this nation and its opportunities. She is the daughter of an USAF Lt Col (now deceased) and the mother of an honorably retired Army SSgt, 2 men who served this country with distinction. Coming of age in the 60’s, contributed by living in the nest of the anti-war fervor of the San Francisco Bay Area, Berkeley in particular, she is a first-hand witness to the ravages of the Viet Nam war on her classmates and racial upheavals born in Oakland, Ca. with the Black Panthers.
Having worked in both the professional world and the medical field, she has come to see the vast unbalances between classes of people and the political pressures applied within those fields. A student of history with a particular interest in psychology, the events of the past 6 decades have left an indelible impression on her sense of honor and virtue. The darkness of such events has only strengthened her faith in God, that all things work together for the eventual supremacy of His will for this world. The Good wins.]
