Michael Fanone

[BootinUp]

Last edited Sat Sep 13, 2025, 07:42 PM - Edit history (1)

EXCERPT OF HIS STATEMENT:





Full statement
https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelfanone/p/my-statement-to-the-american-people

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. Great statement by a hero of Jan. 6

[Bayard]

2. Can't disagree with that

[Crunchy Frog]

3. Charlie wasn't killed by a political figure.

This killing was not an act of political discourse. It was carried out by a disturbed kid heavily under the influence of toxic online culture.

Trying to pretend that this was some sort of political discourse gone awry is playing into the fascists hands IMO, who are using it to attack their political opponents (that's us).

I understand that Fanone's heart is in the right place.

[BootinUp]

6. Sounds like you did not read the whole thing.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. I did, but I'll reread it to see if I missed anything.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. I reread it. I was responding specifically to his last sentence.

[BootinUp]

10. If you visited the link to the full statement and you still

hold to your critique, that's cool, but I am going to disagree and say he set the context more broadly about violence and the celebration of it and didn't even mention the killer.

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Okay, sorry I hadn't clicked on the link.

I've now read the entire statement and my position remains the same.

Fanone himself was a victim of violence as political discourse, but at this point I don't believe that Charlie Kirk was. My views may change as more information comes out, but at this point, that's my view.

[WarGamer]

11. Did you hear the report... an actual report, not the online fiction

About his discussion with a family member hours before the CK visit where disdain for CK and noting his "Hatefulness" and "spreading hate"?

Doesn't get clearer than that.

This has been reported in every single source. Unlike the online speculation fiction.

[RandomNumbers]

22. It WAS political - if Kirk wasn't who he was, this guy wouldn't have killed him

That said, I mostly agree that the PRIMARY cause of this kid going out and shooting someone he disliked, was "the influence of toxic online culture."

Just because someone doesn't like either political party, doesn't mean that they no statement they make is "not political". And preplanned murder of a political figure is a political statement.

[sop]

29. Probably a meaningless distinction, but Kirk wasn't a politician, he was a notorious rightwing culture warrior.

[marble falls]

4. He's not pointing his finger at those who celebrate violence and endorse it, who look for any excuse to commit it ...

... that's not the amorphous American people he's made his honest and factual statement to. The specific audience should be the 35% that humps guns. that's whom he should be, pardon the expression, aiming for.

[BootinUp]

5. Its in there at the link.

[calimary]

9. Thank you, sir! And bless you!!!

Sheesh - if ANYBODY has earned the right to speak out about any of this, it’s Michael Fanone.

[tavernier]

12. Well then how are you supposed to hate anybody

If you’re not told who to hate.

Sorry, Michael, your words are true and right.
But children learn what they are taught on the knees of mom and dad. By the time you hit six or seven or eight, it’s pretty well ingrained.

[elleng]

14. No one is ' supposed' to hate anybody.

[Skittles]

16. yes

and we are certainly are not supposed to kill the people we disagree with

[rubbersole]

20. You're right.

But god did make Ted Cruz.

[Skittles]

15. now THIS represents honor

[Paladin]

17. Well said. (nt)

[bluestarone]

18. KICK!!

For the truth!!

[malaise]

19. Love him

Rec

[RandomNumbers]

21. Online harassment and threats to Michael Fanone in 3 ... 2... 1 ...

(I'm sure it's already happened, actually ... but I'm guessing he's used to it.)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20640157

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/13/president-elect-to-face-disciplinary-proceedings-for-charlie-kirk-remarks-oxford-union-says

[JohnnyRingo]

23. However, the world is a slightly better place now.

It shouldn't take violence but stopping Kirk's mission is a positive event

[BootinUp]

24. Immerse yourself more in Mr. Fanone's perspective

a perspective you might not fully appreciate yet. And you’ll understand why your comment is not only unimportant but also unhelpful.

——————-replied to

“ It shouldn't take violence but stopping Kirk's mission is a positive event”

[misanthrope]

25. Political violence

Is as American as Jim Crow, Dealey Plaza, Wounded Knee, and Gettysburg. The nation was born in political violence.

We remind ourselves of our ideals to soothe our reality.

[BootinUp]

26. If we are not interested in making things better

Than we can wallow in the negative view.

[misanthrope]

27. I am exhausted of hearing

“This isn’t who we are” when the reality of evidence says otherwise.

In the same way an addict can’t recover until they admit they have a problem, we aren’t going to move beyond it until we admit the truth to ourselves. And we certainly won’t defeat this addiction when we have a dealer in the White House and his cohort of manufacturers running one of our major political parties.

[BootinUp]

31. Maybe I just don't understand your pov

Is it your view that basically says we are lost as a democracy with the current system?

[Evolve Dammit]

28. Truth. He is a patriot. Period.

[bucolic_frolic]

30. Many people who say some of those things

lose their jobs.

[BootinUp]

32. This is about rejecting violence not violating

Company policies.

[BlueTsunami2018]

33. Hmmm....the Revolution, the Civil War, labor rights and civil rights movements want to have a word.

Nothing has ever been gained in this country without political violence. The owners never just give people anything without a fight.

And it’s going to be a hell of a fight to get rid of these fascists.

I hope people understand that.

[BootinUp]

34. Ridiculous nonsense to the power of 10. Nt

[BlueTsunami2018]

35. Yeah you're right.

Pinkertons and pigs didn’t beat the fuck out of workers trying to organize, didn’t kill them. That never happened. The ruling class welcomed unions with open arms. Bloody Sunday? Never happened. The South was like “Oh yeah, Black people are totally equal. Here’s your ballot fellow human being.”

The English just said “Yeah go ahead and break off from our rule, good luck!”


Nonsense. Hardly.

I just don’t think Americans are ready for what needs to happen. Too soft, too comfortable.

[BootinUp]

36. .

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016413377