Disruptions Likely This Weekend From Kirk FalloutsThe Impacts His Death and Related Events Are Likely to Trigger
Although the murder of George Floyd triggered widespread violence, the murder of Charlie Kirk has not yet produced disturbances. "When George Floyd died, they burned down cities. When Charlie Kirk died, we host vigils. We are not the same." But the massive memorial service for Kirk planned for Sunday may still trigger protests. For example, after hearing what are expected to be impassioned angry words of outrage likely to blame "the left" for Kirk's killing - this may change as some angry Kirk supporters are moved to feel the need to "get even," "avenge his death," etc. Many are already expressing outrage and staging demonstrations over the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, the dismissal of many professors and public figures for statements related to and/or characterizing Kirk, and threats by Trump and others to crack down After Kirk's killing, a growing conservative campaign seeks to get his critics ostracized or fired (https://www.pbs.org/ History clearly demonstrates that college campuses are particularly at risk for angry and possibly even violent protests, although these often-illegal activities may well spillover and affect outsiders by blocking streets, desecrating nearby statutes or buildings, and even setting fire to cars. . . . Other students may feel the need to phone in phony bomb threats, or calls that trigger a response by heavily armed SWAT teams, in residential neighborhoods or other locations. Kirk's Turning Point USA [protes] has already received almost 40,000 requests to start college chapters to add to the 900 which already exist. . . . If they do, the protests, demonstrations, etc. sparked by Kirk's murder are likely to trigger counter protests by organizations and students who lean to the left, especially since surveys have demonstrated that most students (and also faculty) at major universities identify as "liberal," "progressive," George Washington University [GWU] is at particularly high risk because - located in downtown D.C. only blocks from the White House - it has too often been ground zero for protests related to many different causes, says GWU Professor Banzhaf. Who can forget the daily TV videos showing the lengthy occupation of GWU's campus by pro-Palestinian students from many different D.C.-area schools, with the hateful picture of then-president Joe Biden projected on one of its tall buildings; a tactic just borrowed by protestors in the United Kingdom where Activists Project Images of Trump and Epstein Onto Windsor Castle During President's UK Visit (https://www.kgns.tv/ . . . http://banzhaf.net/ End
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