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For every kid who needed that voice: RIP Charlie Kirk

Wake up, Canada!

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Sep 15, 2025
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Where are all the poets? Where are all the songs? Where is the music? Where is your passion, your rage, your tears? Where are the crowds? Where is the patriotism, the red and white? Where is your soul, Canada? Where is your courage, your tenacity, your resolve, your love, your voice? Where is your fight for truth, for justice, for prosperity, for peace? Where are all the men?

Where are all the Canadian Charlies?

Listen to this powerful song and poignant lyrics below, by Diesel.

How dare they? by Diesel

This one hurts.

A young Christian man took a bullet for 
speaking his mind.
Name was Charlie.
Husband, Daddy, voice for the kids.
Lord, why’d it go down like that?

Stage lights cold as a winter rain,
one breath, one prayer, then the world went strange,
crowd froze up when the thunder cracked.
Truth on a mic and a life attacked,
he talked about hope and a storm and lane,
Bible in the heart and a promise in his hands.
But a shadow reached from a coward’s perch,
cut down a sun in the mid…
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