Thursday's Columns
September 18, 2025
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Lawrence Abby Gauthier
ace reporter
The Westphalia Periodic News
Over the past couple years, I started hearing about somebody named Charlie Kirk. I like listening to talk-radio on AM stations, like when I was driving a truck, and one of the Denver stations had begun airing his daily broadcast. I didn’t pay much attention. He sounded to me like Howard Stern with the mind of Rush Limbaugh and the presence of a Pat Dobson, or Elmer Gantry played by a youthful Burt Lancaster.
At first, there was too much of the Neocon warmonger about him to suit my taste. Russia had just invaded Ukraine. Then Gaza started. He had it all figured out. He gathered entire historical cultures into their own little box with labels — Russians in the “ bad Communist” box. Gazans in the “bad Terrorist” box. Simple as that. The enemy was in sight and out of control. It was time for American
might
to set things right. Onward right-wing Judeo-Christian soldiers waving the Red, White and Blue! The Neocon dream. I’d heard the story before.
I first started opposing the Neocons back in the late 70s when Brzezinski was Carter’s National Security Advisor. As he would later write in his many books and papers, the world to him was a chessboard. A game. The object of the game was to win, to be Number One, the biggest kid on the block. The official gameplan was to weaken the opponents by dividing them into warring tribes.
The game was to be played on the Eurasian landmass. As British imperialists had known for centuries, whoever controls the Eurasian landmass can control the world and make up the rules that everybody has to follow. In 1904, Mackinder called it the British “Great Game.” Brzezinski was playing the Great Game and I was against it.
They weren’t called Neocons back then, but other things like Trilateralists and Internationalists and Kissinger-style Realists. The Neocon moniker entered the vernacular after 9/11, when the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld got us into Iraq.
When the time came to invade Gaza, the Neocons were all for it and had a young, dynamic radio personality to spread their message — Charlie Kirk. Charlie had an organization — Turning Point USA. It was kind of a shoestring operation until rich supporters of the Zionist project like billionaire Bill Ackman started pumping tens of millions of dollars into it.
At first, Charlie supported Israel. No questions asked.
After October 7, most everybody expected another bloody Mideast tit-for-tat response before moving on to the next big news of the day — Trump was being indicted everywhere.
Just two months into the conflict, however, the Westphalia Periodic News broke the story in America that the Zionist plan was to utterly erase the Palestinian presence in Gaza once and for all by whatever means necessary so Israel could then build the Ben Gurion Canal and pocket all the profits.
It soon became obvious to anybody paying any attention whatsoever that the Netanyahu government was willing to commit genocide if that’s what it took to get the job done.
Apparently, that began to weigh on Charlie Kirk’s conscience. He was a Christian, after all. Prince of Peace.
Thus, according to friends, he recently had something of a conversion experience and was turning against the Zionist plan, joining other conservative voices like Candace Owens and Steve Bannon, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker shepherding a growing exodus out of mainstream MAGA and its support for Israel, no questions asked.
According to investigative reporter Max Blumenthal, in August, Charlie was summoned by Ackman to a gathering of his Zionist backers at an exclusive Hamptons location and told to get back on board or be financially ruined, which is legal under our free market system.
According to Blumenthal’s unnamed sources, who were reportedly at the Hamptons meeting, Charlie refused to bend.
Netanyahu invited him to come to Israel for a sit-down chat.
Again, Charlie refused.
Moments after Charlie's death was confirmed, Netanyahu took to the airwaves to express his condolences and to let everybody know that Charie had been Isreal's best friend in America.
Perhaps Netanyahu was right.
It's not easy, but sometimes you have to say no to people you care about.