The beastly murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a Utah College event makes it clear again this week that conservative speakers are not safe on the American campuses, and that something must be done to change that.
The Trump administration has tools in the shed to tackle this problem, but before we get, let’s see how bad things have become.
Top -conservative speakers promise that they ‘will not be silent’ after the murder of Charlie Kirk
The term “Heckler’s Veto” is a relative newcomer in the English language. It was conceived in 1965 by Professor Harry Kalven from the University of Chicago, Harry Kalven, in his book ‘The Negro and the First Amendement’.
Kalven described how government agencies would deny civil rights demonstrators the right to gather because of threats against them, and because of the costs related to protecting them against those threats. That is why the Heckler may pronounce the Veto event.
Charlie Kirk speaks before being shot during the visit of Turning Point to Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday 10 September 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
Fast-Forward 60 years and the Veto of the Heckler is alive and well, but today it is not used to silence the left, but on the right. And this week the Charlie Kirk raised forever, at the tender age of 31.
This is the veto of the Heckler under shot.
For years, when conservatives such as Kirk, Ben Shapiro or Jack Posobiec showed up at university campuses, the threats against them have been so serious that the college has to incur safety costs. And after this murder, those costs will be even more untenable.
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In the meantime, terrorist members of the weather underground and supporters of COP killers such as Mumia Abu Jamal regularly speak in our higher education institutions with little or no protest.
Nowadays, conservative student groups that want to invite speakers, everywhere throughout the country, are almost insurmountable challenges in arranging protection.
Add to that, the fact that prominent conservative speakers themselves now, very understandably, choose not to take the risk of appearing at colleges, not out of cowardice, but out of common sense.
This is the veto of the Heckler under shot.
There are three ways in which the Trump administration could act to ensure that conservative speakers and their audience are safe when they appear at colleges. Let’s take turns.
The first is hard power. Just as the government spent resources in the 1960s to protect the first change rights of civil rights protesters, it must also protect current conservative speakers, perhaps with the National Guard.
At least for a certain time, the government was able to compensate for the burden with which colleges are organized that organize conservatives, and it is possible to restore the once-communal value that debate and ideological diversity to restore good things.
Secondly, now that it seems clear that Charlie Kirk’s murderer was inspired by Antifa, there must finally be a focus of law enforcement on the breaking of the well-organized antifa machine that not only terrorizes colleges, but whole cities such as Portland and Seattle.
It was only a few years ago that the outgoing rep. Jerry Nadler, DN.Y., the press told that Antifa is a myth. To this day there are brainless idiots who drone by saying: “How can anti-fascism be bad?” Even if masked criminals burn federal buildings.
It was indeed claimed that fascism, conceived by the enemies of Kirk, directly stated that he fought that he fought with his cold -blooded and cowardly act.
Due to the courageous reporting of journalists such as Andy NGO, we absolutely know that Antifa not only exists, but a multi-state, even international organization is dedicated to the use of violence to achieve their extremely left-wing political goals. Just as the FBI worked to break De Ku Klux Klan when he tried to intimidate and stop protests of civil rights in the 1960s, Antifa must be treated in exactly the same way today.
Finally, the Trump government wisely used the threat to reduce federal financing at colleges for their failure to combat anti -Semitism. A similar effort can be made to ensure that ideological diversity is protected in our universities.
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Such a measure could make it clear that conservative students and campus organizations appeal when their institution refuses to keep events to keep events, or claims that it is too expensive to do this.
Charlie Kirk knew the risks all too well, but although he made himself a target, he was in large, wide open quads and invited all newcomers, including the one who made him an American martyr.
Charlie’s sacrifice should not be in vain. It must be a Clarion call to ensure that every student or speaker can enter into a political discourse without fear of violence, or even death.
As it was while he lived, Charlie Kirk’s name should be synonymous with the protection of free speech.
The time to act is now, and with President Donald Trump in the White House, the required actions can actually be taken.
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