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22 year old Tyler Robinson has been apprehended and confeesed to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Police say Tyler acted alone.
This goes against the Trump narrative hinting at a Leftwing conspiracy.
The danger now, is that Robinson does not make it to court, and suffers the fate of Lee Harvey Oswald, which will allow the Trump administration to paint what ever conspiracy narrative they choose on the killing of Charlie Kirk.
Will the Trump use this senseless killing as an excuse to crack down on his political opponents?
The world is at a turning point. Depending on what happens next, it could go either way
The only thing we know for certain about Tyler Robinson, is that he should never have had acess to a gun.
In every Hollywood movie ever, the protagonist is always some polished professional gun for hire who meticulously plan their assassinations and get away with it. And so begins the movie plot of the hero or heroes of the story uncovering some sort of a complicated hidden conspiracy.
The reality couldn’t be more different. Weird loners, who shouldn’t have had access to firearms.
President Andrew Jackson
Attempted Assassination: January 30, 1835
Perpetrator: Richard Lawrence
President Abraham Lincoln
Assassinated: April 14, 1865.
Perpetrator: John Wilkes Booth
President James A. Garfield
Assassinated: July 2, 1881
Perpetrator: Charles J. Guiteau
President William McKinley
Assassinated: September 6, 1901
Perpetrator: Leon F. Czolgosz
President Theodore Roosevelt
Attempted assassination: October 14, 1912
Perpetrator: John Schrank
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Attempted assassination: February 15, 1933
Perpetrator: Giuseppe Zangara
President Harry S. Truman
Attempted assassination: November 1, 1950
Perpetrators: Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola
President John F. Kennedy
Assassinated: November 22, 1963
Perpetrator: Lee Harvey Oswald
Malcolm X
Assassinated: February 21, 1965
Perpetrator: Mujahid Abdul Halim
Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy
Assassinated: June 5, 1968
Perpetrator: Sirhan Sirhan
Martin Luther King
Assassinated: April 4, 1968
Perpetrator: James Earl Ray
Presidential candidate George Wallace
Attempted assassination: May 15, 1972
Perpetrator: Arthur Bremer
President Gerald Ford
Attempted assassination: September 5, 1975.
Perpetrator: Lynette Alice Fromme
President Gerald Ford
Second assassinaton attempt: September 22, 1975
Perpetrator: Sara Jane Moore
San Francisco Mayor George Moscone
& elected representative Harvey Milk
Assassinated: November 27, 1978
Perpetrator: Dan White
John Lennon
Assassinated: December 8, 1980
Perpetrator: Mark Chapman
President Ronald Reagan
Attempted assassination: March 30, 1981
Perpetrator: John W. Hinckley, Jr.
President Bill Clinton
Attempted Assassination: October 29, 1994.
Perpetrator: Francisco M. Duran
Presidential candidate Donald Trump
Attempted assassination: July 13, 2024
Location: Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Perpetrator: Thomas Matthew Crooks
Fresident Donald Trump
Attempted assassination: September 15, 2024
Perpetrator: Ryan Wesley Routh
American Health Insurance CEO Brian Thompson
Assassinated: December 4, 2024
Perpetrator: Luigi Mangione
Democratic Party Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman
& husband Mark Hortman
Assassinated: June 14, 2025
Perpetrator: Vance Boelter
Democratic Party, Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman
& wife Yvette Hoffman, and daughter Hope Hoffman
Attempted Assassination: June 14, 2025
Perpetrator: Vance Boelter
Charlie Kirk
Assassinated: September 10, 2025
Perpetrator: Tyler Robinson
In this sad and sorry list, not one perpetrator got away with it.
So to all you crazy gun nuts out there, if you are thinking of committing a high profile political assasination, thinking you won’t get caught. Think again.
Seems to be a fallout within
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360822330/takuta-ferris-and-te-pati-maori-undergo-tikanga-based-restorative-process-after-racist-posts
Something about NZAO and Kiwis getting on with living. This from The Country which might fill a gap that exists behind formula newspapers and local reports and advertising features which are great but this could be good addition.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/ive-found-a-steam-train-historical-locomotive-discovered-at-whanganuis-south-mole/RQ7RKSJF65EC7A6C2EWHZ2I4OM/
[From Whanganui]
A historical locomotive has been unearthed on Whanganui’s South Mole.
The locomotive has been confirmed by SteamRail Whanganui Inc representatives to be “The Skunk” – the first railway locomotive, alongside “The Wallaby”, to run a scheduled service between Palmerston North and Foxton from 1876.
The Skunk later worked on the line between Palmerston North and Whanganui from 1878….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/nzs-vegetable-industry-is-shrinking-so-what-needs-to-change-michelle-sands/6QRXEMGPCBCNHGZM5254UKEHIM/
THE FACTS
New Zealand relies on domestic vegetable growers to feed its population.
The vegetable-growing area has shrunk by more than 25% over the past decade.
The Government is consulting on national standards for vegetable production.
More likely than not, you buy your broccoli at the supermarket.
Unlike fruit, it doesn’t have a sticker, so there is no way of knowing where it came from.
If the supermarket is following the rules, it should say “Product of New Zealand” or something similar on the sign with the price, but no further details.
That broccoli was probably grown in New Zealand, and probably on the island where you live.
Far more likely than not, it was grown by a family business, sold to a wholesaler, then sold to one of the two big supermarket chains, trucked to a distribution centre in Auckland, Palmerston North or Christchurch, then redistributed in a refrigerated truck back to a supermarket near you….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/keri-harrison-from-quarry-manager-to-health-and-safety-advocate/HE466T2Z45F4FKTCMW5L5WKRWQ/
How does this sound? Do vegetables and mines exist side by side? Read on and find out – (My invitation.)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sponsored-stories/kiwi-campaign-keeps-on-giving/R5S6KE7ZUFHYPARLCGNUIBDDCM/
Petrol stations with a heart, giving to community. Compare to Waitomo.
https://www.waitomogroup.co.nz/about
It came out of Waitomo area and was to save money on fuel for that area. Has come to Nelson taking over from Mobil and now Lisa and Steve and others don’t have their job there as it is card operated. Is that an advance for us in practical and efficient business practice. Go for the money and cut out people who actually buy your goods??
So Z sounds good but will it go card? Handing out charity to needy people at the same time reducing their opportunities to get a job, earn and be independent – would that be good for all? The local Z that I go to has mostly Indian people. Very good, but is that what we can expect in future? Present Kiwis forced out of their supposed citizenship and being economic-actors place in the community? I am not at all sanguine about this.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572966/advocates-concerned-women-ignored-in-new-homelessness-strategy
We should take note of this – a continuing reality for ordinary women without means underlying the me-too middle class histrionics of raucous women protesting with the woke banner.
The Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness project director Victoria Crockford said, while the language was vague, a “rebalancing” could be at the expense of those who work with a specific group of people experiencing homelessness – such as women, children or older people.
She said research by the group last year found New Zealand’s 57,000 homeless women “would do anything to avoid sleeping rough” due to the additional safety concerns of gendered violence…
Crockford also warned of the government replacing emergency housing with transitional housing without a plan for “the potential unintended consequences”.
“The rise in rough sleeping has not happened because more people are choosing homelessness,” she said.
“It has come about because of a set of policies that are managing emergency housing policies by exclusion, at the same time as a tough economic context, which is pushing more people into housing precarity.”..
[Extra info.] Jo Cribb, who was on the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness’ steering committee,…
“Women and men’s experience of homelessness is very different, and we need a range of services that are going to work for all.”
“Women make up 50 percent – or more – of the homeless population, and they aren’t the ones rough sleeping, so this is only really focusing on the ones you can see…
Cribb said the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness had to work hard with government agencies for them to even collect data by gender.
“Up until very recently, no data was collected by gender, which means the policy makers are flying blind when they are making policy decisions…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/572966/advocates-concerned-women-ignored-in-new-homelessness-strategy
Has anyone else noticed.
1. The restoration of the HUAC era threat of action against civil rights advocacy (now “DEI”).
2a The emergence of a women’s rights movement that idolises “white race heterosexual Christian men” like Charlie Kirk”, that is a in effect a secular shadow of the Promise Keeper movement.
2b One that opposes DEI (here favour to Maori to New Zealand), that includes people who are (say they are) Maori and in the USA those like Candace Owens.
DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
HUAC – …popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee
So we all think we know what we are talking about? Acronyms abound sheesh.
Do we have to look at USA things so much when we know that they are important in cutting us off at the knees – us ‘tall poppies’?
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