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To: Texas Eagle

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”-Obama

Kirk’s sharp wit and tongue was too much for them, so he was shot.
“”When the debate is lost, slander(and murder) becomes the tool of the loser.”— Aristotle


3 posted on 09/12/2025 9:16:15 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( REOPEN THE MENTAL HOSPITALS CLOSED IN THE 1970S!)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Aristotle quote is appropriate given he was a student of Plato, who was student of Socrates. Kirk was murdered because he was convincing the youth to examine their lives and beliefs through open debate and that is bad for leftists. The Athenian mob murdered Socrates for doing the same thing.


4 posted on 09/12/2025 9:25:04 AM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"The past is prologue."

-- Somebody Famous

5 posted on 09/12/2025 9:26:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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