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For those who are a bit ignorant of history - the Reichstag Fire in 1933 that may have been set by a Nazi, was then used as an excuse for Hitler to impose new restrictions of certain segments of the German people. Conspiracy nutters are arguing online that it was either Israel's Mossad who killed Kirk or some Jewish terror group, OR that the killing was carried out by a right-wing organization for an excuse to penalize those lefties who don't like DJT.
The owner of a private jet that left Provo about an hour after Kirk was shot has denied claims that the shooter had flown on the plane to Arizona or Mexico. Why then did the plane shut down it's Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B), which provides positioning information between the aircraft and air traffic control as it crossed the border into Arizona?
Antisemitism flares and ‘Reichstag’ mentions soar online in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination
No alleged shooter has yet been identified in the assassination Wednesday of right-wing icon Charlie Kirk. But President Donald Trump is blaming the left and vowing vengeance, while antisemitism is flaring among extremists online who said they believed the Jews and Israel were responsible.
“Charlie Kirk was assassinated by jews,” tweeted an account called Greatest Noticer, whose username is an apparent allusion to a neo-Nazi watchword.
“The same people who called Charlie Kirk a ‘tool of the Jews,’ are now saying that the Mossad assassinated him,” tweeted Eyal Yakoby, an influencer who rose to prominence as a critic of antisemitism at his university. “These are sick people who will exploit a tragedy to pursue their own demonic agenda.”
Meanwhile, the situation has people across the political spectrum wondering whether Kirk’s assassination could be a “Reichstag moment,” a reference to the 1933 fire at the German parliament building that the Nazis used as a pretext to ramp up their repression of communists and ultimately their persecution and murder of Jews. (Historians have concluded that the fire was an inside job.)
“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” tweeted a far-right personality named Matt Forney who boasts of having been banned from X before Musk’s takeover. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left. Every Democratic politician must be arrested and the party banned under RICO. Every libtard commentator must be shut down.”
The owner of a private jet that left Provo about an hour after Kirk was shot has denied claims that the shooter had flown on the plane to Arizona or Mexico. Why then did the plane shut down it's Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast (ADS-B), which provides positioning information between the aircraft and air traffic control as it crossed the border into Arizona?