I support the proposal that we, AUR MPs, should also request a minute of silence in the Romanian Parliament to honor the memory of Charlie Kirk, a voice that resonated worldwide in defense of free speech and democratic values.
Such a gesture was already proposed in the European Parliament by ECR MEP Charlie Weimers as a symbolic act declaring that the political right’s right to freedom of expression cannot be silenced with bullets. Yet, the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, blocked this minimal tribute under a trivial procedural pretext — claiming the request should have been made on Monday, not Thursday. Even when Weimers asked to dedicate the remainder of his speaking time to a moment of silence, Metsola refused.
This is blatant censorship and a shameless violation of free speech, as well as a clear attack on democracy and the rule of law. Where are the human rights so loudly invoked when they serve a woke agenda, but conveniently forgotten when the victim is a Christian?
Even more cynically, here in Bucharest — the so-called “progressive capital” — a Romanian journalist dared to claim that Charlie Kirk “got what he asked for,” while others celebrated that “the world is rid of a transphobe.” This is pure hate speech, grotesque and dehumanizing. Have we really reached the point where assassination is praised as a “good deed”?
This is the reality of politically correct, woke progressivism — what Herbert Marcuse once called “Repressive Tolerance.” They claim the right to impose the harshest repression on us, Christian conservatives, while demanding that we show them maximum tolerance, even by law. In this distorted morality, a crime against us — even assassination — becomes a “good deed.”
These things must be said clearly, firmly, and unequivocally — in a civilized manner, but without compromise.
