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The Brew: Did Our Attorney General Endorse Canadian-Style ‘Hate Speech’ Censorship?

By John Zmirak Published on September 17, 2025

People who talk about “hate speech” just plain hate speech. Period. They don’t believe in free expression, open debate, or the rights of other people. They want to place their hands over our mouths — and if it were possible, they’d like to manipulate our lips and tongues with their fingers to force us to say what they want to hear.

They’d force us on pain of bankruptcy to bake their sodomy cakes, and teach our kids to bleat their made-up perverted pronouns. And if we complain, they’d use the bayonets and bullets of the State to take away our custody and hand those children over to groomers.

In Canada, pastors go to prison for reading aloud from the Book of Leviticus. In Britain, Christian evangelists are escorted out of public parks and put into cells. In Australia, praying for a gay friend who wants to be less gay can land you five years in prison. In what moral universe do conservatives and Christians — the only intended targets of such wicked, inquisitorial laws — pick up the tainted One Ring and try to use it against Sauron?

Not in this Middle Earth. But President Donald Trump’s second choice for attorney general, Pam Bondi, just gave it the ol’ college try. She got on TV and hopelessly muddled crucial issues in the midst of the fierce moral backlash against leftist ghouls celebrating the political murder of Charlie Kirk. Check it out:


This isn’t just stupid, but actually dangerous. The moral muddle that Scientology-linked, former Pfizer attorney Pam Bondi got mired in here isn’t just un-American. It’s the kind of thinking from half-educated zealots that got Kirk killed. It was Kirk who denied that political speech can be hate speech, unless it’s direct incitement to violent, illegal activity (which isn’t “hate speech” and is already illegal everywhere).

The people who whipped up a frenzy of hatred aimed at Kirk, who are now doing little victory dances over his death, had a very different theory. To them, when your assertion of scriptural, moral, or biological truth makes them feel disrespected or disempowered, it amounts to a threat of violence. It threatens their existence as a “trans woman,” a “furry,” a “fully qualified” DEI hire, or whatever other Gnostic fantasy identity they want the government to force their fellow citizens to honor.

If you cross any of the arbitrary moral lines in the made-up, intolerant dogma of the ever-metastasizing cult that is post-Christian wokeness, you’re effectively a Nazi — and you deserve to be smothered, just like baby Hitler in the cradle. So by denying the existence of 45 extra genders, Kirk was “erasing” transgender people — and that’s a kind of genocide, when you really think about it. Therefore acts of violence aimed at Christians by the Left are simple self-defense, quod erat demonstrandum.

Rightist speech is violence, and Leftist violence is free speech. Got it? Good, now you’re qualified to write for The New Yorker or teach ethics at Princeton. Or (apparently) serve as the highest law enforcement officer in the land in a MAGA administration.

Thanks be to God, the Right responded as one by rejecting Bondi’s pernicious amoral mish-mash. On this issue at least, we are unanimous and in accord with the few principled liberals that are left:

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Even some on the hard Left are giving conservatives props for vomiting Bondi’s nonsense out of our collective mouth:

Thankfully, this administration is actually listening to its supporters. Bondi was forced almost immediately to walk back her remarks and explain the Trump Department of Justice’s actual policy. As The New Republic (remember them?) reported:

“Hate speech that crosses the line into threats of violence is NOT protected by the First Amendment,” she wrote on X. “It’s a crime. For far too long, we’ve watched the radical left normalize threats, call for assassinations, and cheer on political violence. That era is over.”

Bondi cited a federal law stating it was illegal to transmit “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another” across state borders. She also cited a federal law that bars using the U.S. Postal Service to send threats, and another law against threatening to assault the family members of public officials.

“You cannot call for someone’s murder. You cannot swat a Member of Congress. You cannot dox a conservative family and think it will be brushed off as ‘free speech.’ These acts are punishable crimes, and every single threat will be met with the full force of the law,” she wrote. “Free speech protects ideas, debate, even dissent but it does NOT and will NEVER protect violence.”

Laura Loomer is satisfied with Bondi’s explanation and thinks we should forgive her:

Forgive, yes. But not forget. Trump can’t keep letting his people make such egregious, unforced errors. Why not send Bondi to work with her peers on Fox and Friends, and appoint instead Stephen Miller — that indomitable, principled patriot — to her post? It would burnish his resume for the job he really deserves as Trump’s next appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Hey, a fella can dream, can’t he?)

Candace Owens Blames the Jews

In a desperately unseemly publicity grab, online provocatrix Candace Owens has tried to insinuate that Kirk’s murder was somehow connected to his allegedly shifting opinions on the policies of the current Israeli government. Owens has been posting claims that “Jewish billionaires” were putting heavy pressure on Kirk to disavow Tucker Carlson and ban any other critics of Israel from Turning Point USA events. Some also have claimed that Kirk received “death threats from the Israeli government.”

Rather than wade down into such a moral sewer, let’s accept the request of Kirk’s pastor, who’s mourning his murdered friend:

Amen.

Along The Stream…

Check out Wanda Alger’s inspiring testimony on the blessings that Christians are getting from the example and intercession of the martyred Charlie Kirk.

Later this morning, watch this fascinating discussion between Peter Demos and a secular philosopher on whether humanism is just a religion in disguise.

 

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.