Bob McCoskrie. It exposed the raw truth about human behaviour in the face of death. The video compared the aftermath of two very different deaths. One was George Floyd, the other Charlie Kirk.
The difference could not be more stark…
After Charlie Kirk was assassinated, people gathered quietly, holding candlelight vigils, praying, comforting each other. They were visibly upset but controlled. No riots, no looting, no smashed windows. They mourned a great Christian man with dignity. They did not behave like animals. They behaved like human beings.
Now look at the reaction to George Floyd. Floyd was under the influence of fentanyl and methamphetamine when he died. Despite that, or maybe because of it, his death sparked chaos. Entire cities burned. Businesses were looted. Streets were turned into warzones. Millions of dollars in destruction. People used his death as an excuse to riot. It was violent, reckless, and completely out of control.
The contrast could not be more glaring. One group of mourners turned grief into calm, reverent tribute. The other turned it into anarchy. One respected life. The other glorified destruction.
Now look at the reaction to George Floyd. Floyd was under the influence of fentanyl and methamphetamine when he died. Despite that, or maybe because of it, his death sparked chaos. Entire cities burned. Businesses were looted. Streets were turned into warzones. Millions of dollars in destruction. People used his death as an excuse to riot. It was violent, reckless, and completely out of control.
The contrast could not be more glaring. One group of mourners turned grief into calm, reverent tribute. The other turned it into anarchy. One respected life. The other glorified destruction.
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Bob McCoskrie’s video makes this impossible to ignore. It shows what happens when human instinct is unchecked, fueled by drugs and rage, versus when it is guided by respect and decency. Charlie Kirk’s mourners acted like humans. Floyd’s mourners acted like animals.
This is not about politics. It is about character. It is about whether grief is an excuse to smash the world or a reason to honour it. One group chose the high road. The other chose the gutter.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
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A similar thing happening in NZ, where tribal antics are becoming more common.
It is basically an excuse to loot.Look at the riots in Paris after PSG won the Champions League. Young disaffected youth, with no brains, purposely tagged on the back of the celebrations; then took to their looting. And it will happen again.
And another group, matua, continues to try and deconstruct Kirk’s influence — nz’s mainstream media — with nz herald’s resident left wing eco warrior Simon Wilson’s contribution today.
To which some would say:
Wilson is at it again: one part moralist, one part outrage curator, and all parts senior Herald columnist.
This time, the target is Charlie Kirk, a US activist most Kiwis couldn’t pick out of a line-up. Headline: “Charlie Kirk didn’t die defending free speech.” Subtext: apparently, Simon Wilson is.
Wilson’s strategy is textbook: pluck the juiciest Kirk quotes, strip context, and brandish them like evidence at a tribunal. “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor.” “If I see a Black pilot, I hope he’s qualified.” Wilson leaves out disclaimers, nuance, and the fact that Kirk’s commentary is performative, partisan, and designed to provoke. The effect: Kirk becomes pure villain, and free speech itself becomes a threat.
Next: invoke the ghosts of history. JFK, Malcolm X, MLK. The subtext: Kirk is no Martin Luther King, ergo defending him is morally wrong. Nice rhetorical sleight-of-hand. In reality, comparing a mid-tier American conservative activist to civil-rights martyrs is as fair as comparing a spam email to the fall of Rome.
Then comes the moral lecture: free speech isn’t a right, it’s a dangerous weapon, and anyone defending it is naïve at best, complicit at worst. Wilson even drags in the New Zealand Free Speech Union, dismissing their arguments as “complete nonsense.” Local colour for Kiwis, but mostly window dressing — the real target is Wilson’s own ideological hobbyhorse: controlling the moral frame.
For the ordinary Kiwi reader, what does this mean? Practically nothing. For Wilson, it’s everything: a culture-war morality play where he is the virtuous narrator, everyone else either villain or fool. Free speech isn’t an idea to be debated; it’s an enemy to be policed — unless, of course, Simon Wilson likes you.
At the end of the day, Wilson’s column isn’t about Charlie Kirk. It’s about Simon Wilson: moral certainty in prose form, outrage curated with a scalpel, and context treated like an inconvenient extra.
My comment is in no way a denigration of what Bob McCoskrie presents, for many he is seen as being NZ's Charlie Kirk as Bob has his own NZ "band of villifier's", many lean to the left and that includes members of NZ Gay Community.
What I wish to add, to this opinion piece is that what was discovered post those riots was intriguing.
Who was behind the riots, it required money, the management of the people (rioters), the systematic looting (which many African American stores were targeted), the widespread use of cell phone, video footage from same uploaded to social media accounts, the following written text's that followed, with many not understanding the - who/why/rational etc.
But "piled on" with their thoughts and further vilification.
Then the ineptitude of American Law & Legal process, that took a Police Officer through trial and sentencing, for which the charges then laid, where later proved to be a "fabrication" - but they where not dropped nor the Police Officer exonerated.
Oh and the best bit - a female who was a "head honcho" of BLM, who took money given to BLM and spent it on her whiles & whims - for which no Legal issue was pursued - in effect she got away with it.
Yup America home of the brave and the .......!
Sadly the "wise words of Bob" are not in the public domain, unless you go to YouTube - but then again, some posted comments are further vilification of his words, actions and intent - NZ does not need to look at America, we have the same problem here.
Excellent comment Matua
Arguably the best l've read about this horrific American tragedy.
Interesting that you describe yourself as a humble bloke just sharing thoughts. Some people would say you should not be commenting on topics outside your level of expertise.
Thank goodness you have decided to share your opinions with us irrespective of your qualifications to do so.
Thankyou.
Yes, the consequence of these two murders were very different, and so has been the aftermath, so far. The recent one was where a lone 22-year-old man with a high-powered rifle assassinated a political activist of far-right persuasion. It was a tragedy, and a deadly violation of free speech. Anger across America has been understandable, though non-violent, but calls for retribution and blaming whole institutions, including the Democrat Party, have been the result, including from the President. The victim as been fulsomely honoured.
The circumstances of George Floyd's murder in 2020 are entirely different. He was stopped on the street for an apparently minor crime, handcuffed and suffocated to death by an officer sitting on his neck, despite his pleas, while four other policemen looked on. This was seen as yet another brutal – in this case deadly - act by police in America against people of colour. The policemen involved subsequently pleaded guilty and were convicted. The United States Department of Justice conducted a federal review of the Minneapolis Police Department and Its report, released in June 2023, found that the city's police had a pattern and practice of using deadly and other force excessively, of disproportionately searching and stopping Black and Native American people, of violating the free-speech rights of protesters, and of discriminating against people with behavior health disabilities during emergency responses’..
Under the banner of “Black Lives Matter” there were held protests around the country, indeed, around the world. They beseeched peace, but, regrettably, rioting and destruction broke out. The then president, yes, Donald Trump, condemned the death of Floyd and called for an end to the violence, claiming, rightly of course, that such was in violation of the principles and law of a free United States.
Any noise about Trump arbitrarily killing alleged Venezuelan drug smugglers in international waters, no evidence, no trial, boom ................
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