Would You Send Your Children To Fight To Defend Germany?

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The cold-blooded killing of campaigner Charlie Kirk on a university campus in Utah should have been a moment of shared grief for everyone. A young father who believed in and lived by a code of free speech and debate was gunned down in front of horrified students.

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Yet here in Germany, the response of the media class was even more disturbing. They seemed to revel in it. Instead of uniting in condemnation, major outlets reached immediately for the smear.

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Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin’s leading newspaper, ran the headline “Death of an Arsonist”, portraying Kirk not as a victim of murder but as some kind of extremist who has had it coming.

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State broadcaster ZDF allowed its chief correspondent, Elmar Thewessen, to claim – falsely – that Kirk had called for “stoning homosexuals”. And then came the digital chorus of mockery: T-Online’s Lars Wienand quipped, “Part of Liberty? Maybe this shocking murder will make the US Right rethink its gun laws”.

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Felix Schulz, spokesman for the Left-wing die Linke party’s leader, tossed out a meme reading, “Oh no! Anyway”. The comedian Sebastian Hotz (“El Hotzo”), a darling of public service satire, posted a famous TV chimpanzee named “Charly” with the caption “Rest in Peace”.

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Even when the country’s most decorated presenters attempted solemnity, the mask slipped. On ZDF heute journal, the fortress of Germany’s mainstream media, presenter Dunja Hayali began: “Kirk’s murder cannot be justified by anything”. A decent start. But then, in the same breath, she reminded viewers that Kirk was guilty of “abhorrent, racist, sexist and misanthropic statements”, branding him a “radical-religious conspiracy adherent”.

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This seems to be the journalistic trick: pose as balanced, then twist the knife. The result? Millions of ordinary Germans, who take prime-time anchors at their word, are invited to conclude that while murder is technically bad, this particular victim was barely human in the first place.

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The reality is different. Kirk, whatever one thought of his politics, was a debater. He engaged hostile audiences. He welcomed disagreement. He thrived on argument, often in unfriendly rooms. That, in a democracy, should be valued. Yet Germany’s commentariat class chose not to acknowledge this but to vilify him, as if to suggest that the killing of a conservative voice was not a tragedy at all.

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This is a sign of how far the political mainstream in Germany has drifted Leftwards. It is no longer enough to oppose your adversaries. They must be delegitimised, dehumanised, treated not as mistaken citizens but as moral outcasts. Conservatives are no longer simply wrong; they are wicked, even “fascists”. And if they are wicked, then what happens to them is of little consequence. A society that cannot even pause to mourn the death of a man who dedicated himself to free speech has lost its moral bearings.

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Germany’s establishment congratulates itself on “defending democracy” by excluding the AfD. In reality, it is laying the groundwork for that party’s advance. The famous Brandmauer, an informal agreement by mainstream parties not to work with or form coaltions with the AfD, is collapsing. Not because of some master strategy by AfD leaders, but because Germany’s mainstream has abandoned the basic values that once bound society together.

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Charlie Kirk died for his belief that words, not bullets, should settle political disputes. Germany’s media elite could not even bring themselves to honour that conviction. Instead, they applauded the silencing of a man who did nothing more dangerous than challenge his opponents. If this is the moral standard of the German mainstream, then its democratic future is far darker than its leaders dare to admit.

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