Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins has vowed to get those leftist ghouls who’re celebrating Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination permanently banned from social media and cancelled from public life.
“I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk,” he announced in a post published to X on Thursday.
“If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of that beautiful young man who dedicated his whole life to delivering respectful conservative truth into the hearts of liberal enclave universities, armed only with a Bible and a microphone and a Constitution… those profiles must come down,” he added.
I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. If they ran their mouth with their smartass hatred celebrating the heinous murder of…
— Rep. Clay Higgins (@RepClayHiggins) September 11, 2025
Higgins continued by vowing to permanently “cancel” from public life the hooligans and miscreants who’ve been celebrating Kirk’s death.
“So, I’m going to lean forward in this fight, demanding that big tech have zero tolerance for violent political hate content, the user to be banned from ALL PLATFORMS FOREVER,” he wrote.
“I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I’m starting that today. That is all,” he concluded.
While the abundant left-wing celebrations of Kirk’s death have been extremely disturbing, critics say there’s just one problem with Higgins’ plan: Kirk wouldn’t have wanted things to be this way.
“You should be allowed to say outrageous things,” Kirk himself said earlier this year to the Oxford Union while talking about the U.K.’s crackdown on speech. “You should be allowed to say outrageous things.”
“You should be allowed to say contrarian things. Free speech is a birthright that you gave us, and you guys decided not to codify it and now, poof! It is basically gone,” he added.
Not surprisingly, Higgins’ critics include many of Kirk ‘s own highly principled supporters.
“I hear you Rep. Clay Higgins, but Charlie Kirk would not have wanted that,” one Kirk fan wrote. “I do not want that. Conservatives do not want that. Charlie believed in free speech. Even vile speech.”
“Popular speech does not need to be protected. If we start policing speech where does it end?” the supporter added.
“Charlie Kirk would be the first to call you out on how stupid this is,” another fan wrote. “The man opened the mic for all to speak, even if they hated his guts… For you to silence people in his name is a desecration to his legacy.”
See more responses below:
Charlie wouldn’t have wanted this. He believed in Free Speech. Don’t sully his legacy.
— eatingthevoid (@eatthevoid1313) September 11, 2025
Killing free speech is not the answer. It would spit in the face of how Charlie lived his life. If you can’t think clearly yet about Charlie’s legacy, sit down and wait.
— Millennial Drift (@millennialdrift) September 11, 2025
I understand the sentiment, but it’s not right to do this. Charlie fought for free speech and this would tarnish his legacy.
— Ann (@Unhappy_in_Cali) September 12, 2025
This is a blatant attack on free speech, one of the principles I had in common with Charlie Kirk.
Using his name to attack free speech is more of an insult to his legacy than the commies celebrating his death.
— ✝️ The Intern (@EiratheIntern) September 11, 2025
Knee jerk, meet reaction. This is against free speech. There are better paths forward. Are the celebrators Godless and evil? Yes. Even so, they were created in the image of God.
Suppressing their right to free speech, ugly as it might be, is the antithesis of CK’s legacy.— Me (@TornTempleVeil) September 11, 2025
This does not honor Charlies legacy he died debating people with different views. He would never approve of banning anyone for free speech. Do you let their employers know? Absolutely! because they are demented but no way will anyone MAGA/MAHA endorse this censorship
— Olddognewtrixs (@BriMuellerUT) September 12, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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