Why Is Honesty Necessary for Freedom?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday concerns honesty in personal relationships, media, and politics. One important reason that honesty is necessary is that dishonesty usually ends in someone being hurt in some way. Another reason for honesty is that dishonesty shuts down open communication. A third reason honesty is critical is that other people do not know when they can trust you with the truth and when they cannot.

Seconds after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, his critics and enemies attempted to destroy his legacy. According to staff at Blaze TV, Kirk was previously labeled “racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic white supremacist.” After his death, the ghouls in our society “had to make up bald-faced lies about him, twisting his words to paint him as the nazi they believe all conservatives are.” 

The many circulating lies are an attempt to justify the murder of Charlie Kirk. Beck called their efforts “grotesque to the highest decree because the truth is: Charlie Kirk was above reproach.” Beck recently discussed “the five biggest lies” about Kirk on “The Glenn Beck Program.”

Lie #1: Charlie Kirk endorsed the enslavement of black people.

One of the lies currently making the rounds is that Charlie Kirk said, “Black people were better off in slavery.”

… On the contrary, Charlie made it clear that the enslavement of any man is evil.

What he did say, however, was that the black family was faring better before the passage of the Civil Rights Act, which ended the Jim Crow era. “And it was!” says Glenn, a history aficionado. In those days, divorce rates were lower, fathers were more present in the home, and the crime rate was lower in the black community. Statistics prove that following the Civil Rights Movement, divorce rates among black couples surged, as did crime rates.

Glenn’s theory is that the Civil Rights Movement was spearheaded by progressives who wanted to oppress the black community, but instead of denying rights, they targeted the family. According to his hypothesis, President Lyndon B. Johnson, who he reminds was “the biggest racist up until he died,” packaged his Great Society – Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and expanded welfare programs – as a means of tackling poverty and racial injustice in order to conceal his true intentions: enslave black people financially.

“The Great Society did more damage to the black family than anybody could have done outside of Margaret Sanger. I think that’s what [Charlie] meant,” says Glenn.

Lie #2: Charlie Kirk said black women are intellectually inferior.

Many progressive[s] are falsely claiming that Charlie Kirk said all black women are inferior intellectually. This is a distortion of a comment the Turning Point USA founder said on “The Charlie Kirk Show” in 2023 following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and UNC, in which the court declared that affirmative action violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14^th Amendment.

Kirk called out Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Ketanji Brown Jackson – all of whom had admitted that their success was only made possible by affirmative action.

“All of them basically confess, ‘Yeah, I was an affirmative action person, and I’m proud of it.’ This is how arrogant Joy Reid and Ketanji Brown Jackson and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee are. They’re like, ‘Yeah, I took your slot.’ They do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously, but they had to go steal a white person’s slot … to be taken somewhat seriously,” Kirk said….

To suggest that he called all black women dumb is “so incredibly dishonest,” says Glenn.

Lie #3: Charlie Kirk said gun deaths are worth protecting the Second Amendment

Another quote that’s making the rounds is Charlie’s comment following the Nashville school shooting. At a TPUSA event in Salt Lake City, he was asked about defending Second Amendment rights against gun control advocates.

In response, he said, “You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel. But I am – I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

He then gave the example of deaths related to car accidents. “We have determined as a society that it is worth it to have cars, even though 40,000 people die every single year in car accidents.” ….

Lie #4: Charlie Kirk used an Asian slur

Perhaps the most egregious lie circulating among leftists is that Charlie used the racial slur “c***k” to refer to an Asian woman. A deceptively edited video from a 2018 Politicon event shows Charlie using the word repeatedly.

Except the word he was actually saying was “Cenk.” Charlie was engaged in a heated exchange with socialist progressive Cenk Uygur, co-host of “The Young Turks.” The maliciously edited video aimed to paint him as a racist and give progressives justification for celebrating his death….

Lie #5: Charlie Kirk advocated for stoning gay people

Following Kirk’s death, renowned horror novelist Stephen King responded to a tweet from Fox News’ Jesse Watters calling Kirk a “patriot,” saying, “He advocated stoning gays to death. Just sayin’.”

However, he quickly deleted the post and issued an apology when the facts surfaced. Kirk never once advocated for killing anyone in the LGBTQ+ community. King’s lie originates from a 2024 episode of “The Charlie Kirk Show” when Kirk called out children’s YouTuber Ms. Rachel for citing “love thy neighbor” as justification for supporting Pride Month and LGBTQ+ inclusion as a Christian.

Kirk argued that true love means telling people the “truth” about sin rather than affirming it, accusing Ms. Rachel of cherry-picking scripture by ignoring the context of God’s laws on sexual morality. To illustrate his point, he pointed to Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination punishable by death.

Kirk’s point was that God clearly sees homosexuality as sin – not that gay people should be killed.

The Blaze Staff concluded their article by paraphrasing a statement made by Stu Burguiere: “The truth … is that if there was any legitimate dirt on Charlie Kirk, progressives wouldn’t have to resort to these distortions.” He then described Charlie as:

Charlie was “a guy who worked hard to debate people, who tried to practice politics and civic life the right way, who tried to be a shining light for his faith, which was vitally important to him and his family,” he says, but “if that vision of Charlie Kirk was false, you wouldn’t need to go to these things. You could come up with 50 different things he said that were really offensive. Instead what you come up with are lies because that’s what you’re in the business of.”

The article included a video with more of the conversation between Glenn and Stu.