Charlie’s Mission is DEAD
On this day, 9/21/2025, the day Charlie is buried, I will honor this GREAT MAN by seeing clearly. Where others have taken up the effeminate false hope of comforting lies, I will do what men should always do in hard times: tell hard truths.
Someone can’t pick up where Charlie left off. Besides the Man, the Husband, the Father, what is missing most isn’t the things he was doing. What the world has lost is what he was about to do, what he was going to do over the next year, over the next 5 years… 10 years… 40 years. The deep things in his heart, the things that were between him and his God… the things that were only a small seed, deeply planted… those are the things we need… the things that were coming that we will never know, these are the things the world will miss most. All the well-meaning and loving fools pretending we can pick up where we left off are the sheep he was trying to lead. I know your intentions are good, yet you disgrace him by pretending you, or anyone, has what he had. You don’t. They don’t.
Charlie is Dead. His mission is Dead.
More than we need to do what he was doing, we need to go where he was going.
The “Next man up” philosophy has always been a lie. There is no next man up… Yes, I am going to keep saying it. He is dead. Charlie is dead. This is a reason why death is such a big deal. Charlie AND all the things he was going to do are DEAD. You dishonor him if you do not let that sink in.
ONLY CHARLIE was CHARLIE
What we can do, what we should do, is increase our resolve to be the most wildly courageous version of ourselves that he was always encouraging and leading us to be. But we will be doing our thing, not his. We have to set aside all the childish fairy tale comforts and bullshit feel-good stories and let the full weight of what evil stole from HIM and US. If we are not honest about how bad it really is, our response will not be fitting, our response will not honor Charlie to the magnitude he EARNED.
Again:
CHARLIE IS DEAD.
His voice is GONE.
His future missions and objectives are DEAD.
What happens next, to the degree we attempt to carry on Charlie’s mission, is our version of his mission, not his mission.
We MUST be honest about this.
We owe it to Charlie!
The Truth is always best. Let your heart leap in hatred of evil. There is no goodness where there is a lack of will and passion to hate evil. It is even better to hate evil to the fullest extent for which it has so consistently earned. Anything less is less good, less righteous, less noble, less mature, less loving, less compassionate, less like him whom we remember.
With Charlie’s mission being dead, we owe it to him and all the others who have sacrificed to have, as Lincoln said, a “fitting and proper” response. We owe it to Charlie to be the most ferociously courageous version of ourselves. You be YOU. To the fullest measure, to the highest degree, be YOURSELF! And as yourself, find out how you can fit into this War we are fighting against evil. A war we will win by laws, by words, by ballots… by any peaceable means we can bring to bear against an evil that has done far more than we will ever know. Goodness isn’t goodness until it hates evil more than evil hates goodness. We must be the terror that keeps them awake, that breaks their will and invades every corner of their minds.
The only way we overcome is when we overwhelm.
We can’t invade the land occupied by evil a little here or a little there… our planes must fill the sky from east to west, our ships must fill the sea from north to south, the might of our courage and force of will must fill their hearts with fear from dawn to dusk. Antifa must spend all their time on defense, fearing the magnitude of our full-scale oppression that comes from every direction, from the shaddows of everywhere they try to hide. Soros, Gates, and the like must spend all their time running from concrete walls and iron bars. The forces of evil, from your school board to Davos, must experience a full-court press that only Rommel’s forces in the spring of 44 could appreciate.
Take Courage, charge into the Unknown.
We remember Charlie not by being him, but by being the most courageous version of ourselves.
Fix bayonets and get after it.
Be Brave
Wage War
There must be NO less conviction when we fight by: Word, Law, and Ballot.
A Cold War is no less of a war than a Hot War.
A War by WORD is not less important than a War by BLOOD. The greatest gift from our founders will be that we can, and will win this war by word, where every other nation so lost would be forced to win by blood.
