House Republican Calls the Left ‘Evil’ And Willing to Kill Like Pol Pot In Wild Floor Speech
Rep. Bob Onder (R-MO) raised eyebrows on Thursday with a House floor speech on the killing of Charlie Kirk, in which he claimed Americans on the left “embrace the evil, the false, and ugly.” Onder went so far as to say his fellow citizens across the aisle “literally will kill those with whom they disagree, just as their predecessors—leftists Marx, and Stalin, and Lenin, and Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro—did.”
Onder began his comments by praising Kirk and his family. “Make no mistake about it: Charlie Kirk was assassinated. He was an incredibly effective force in American politics. He was beloved for his Socratic style of going to college campuses and gently, charitably asking questions and engaging in respectful dialogue with those with whom he disagreed,” Onder said, adding:
Most of all, he was a very convincing advocate for love of God, family, and country, the hatred of which is a sacred creed of the left. They could not have it. They killed him.
After quoting some of Kirk’s past statements, the Republican added, “Yesterday, a social media post of mine hit a nerve when I called Charlie a martyr. Without question, he was. The Athenians put Socrates to death for the simple crime of asking questions about culture and society and the meaning of life itself. Socrates was, in that sense, a martyr to the truth. And so was Charlie Kirk. But Charlie was also a martyr for Jesus Christ.” He added:
A priest friend of mine sent me this short passage from Saint Bede, referring to John the Baptist: “There is no doubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment and chains as a witness to our Redeemer, whose forerunner he was, and gave his life for him. His persecutor demanded not that John should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. Nevertheless, he died for Christ. Does Christ not say, ‘I am the truth’? Therefore, John shed his blood for the truth. Surely he died for Christ.”
Charlie also died as he was answering a question about the transgender cult that has gripped so much of our society and destroyed the life and health of so many of our young people. They couldn’t stand for that. So they killed Charlie: martyr for the truth and for Christ.
Well, what for us? Well, everything has changed. If we didn’t know it already, there is no longer any middle ground. Some of the American left are undoubtedly well-meaning people, but their ideology is pure evil. They hate the good, the truth, and the beautiful, and embrace the evil, the false, and ugly. And they literally will kill those with whom they disagree, just as their predecessors—leftists Marx, and Stalin, and Lenin, and Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro—did. We must know that. And we must stand firm, and we must win this twilight struggle.
Onder’s remarks elicited a bevy of angry replies from critics urging him to tone down the rhetoric and lower the temperature in the country:
__
