Hezekiah’s Mirror: What Scripture Teaches Us About Modern Cognitive Warfare.

My father once told us.... gathered around him in our routine family meetings, that the truest measure of honor is how one protects and reveres a person in their absence. He was preparing for yet another journey to Nigeria, and even in a world where technology had advanced, his physical presence remained the irreplaceable catalyst for progress. Every meeting, every negotiation, every logistical detail carried a different weight when he stepped into the room.

He looked into the eyes of what he considered his legacy, adolescents, yes, but quickly matured by his conviction that responsibility is not an age but a calling. Respect for a person is measured most honestly when they are not there to witness it. He said, "Take care of one another. Take care of your mother." That admonition echoes still, shaping my understanding of allegiance, loyalty, and legacy.

It is the very sentiment that now guides me as I follow and support Charlie Kirk’s work and the quiet strength of his family. E, please know this: even if my reach is limited, my loyalty is not. Your efforts, your research, your strategic leadership for Turning Point USA, and the well-being of your daughters remain in my thoughts, my prayers, and my priorities.

Foundations, Nations, and the Shadows of Legacy

American culture traces its architecture to men whose influence forged monopolies of thought, industry, and terrain such as Carnegies, Rockefellers, Morgans, figures who shaped the contours of our economic and ideological inheritance.

The world they built still casts a long shadow. Yet we stand now at the threshold of renewal, an age where our nation’s ideological foundations tremble and reconfigure. Despite the fractures, I believe we have entered a season of revival. Leadership is emerging with ideological cores reminiscent of the principles that first forged our territorial dominion. But revival always sits beside revelation, and in the quiet corners of our national consciousness, secrets remain, secrets that explain why voices like Charlie’s rose with such precision, conviction, and timing.

Charlie Kirk, Cognitive Warfare, and the New Ideological Battlefield

I cannot speak to the conspiracies swirling around the Kirk family or Turning Point USA. I will not give oxygen to conjectures. Instead, I will speak to the measurable impact of Charlie Kirk’s intellectual footprint. Charlie was an early observer of ideological destabilization. He identified, long before it became popular to do so, the early drift of American higher education toward Marxist-derived frameworks and identity-based ideologies that exploded across campuses around 2018. He noticed the shift before the data fully confirmed it, and the data now does.

His central concern was simple but profound: the colonization of the American youth identity. Not merely through activism, but through epistemology, how truth is defined, how dissent is punished, and how national identity dissolves when ideology replaces inquiry.

This was not unlike the ancient cognitive warfare waged during the reign of King Hezekiah in Scripture. Judah’s walls fell not first to weapons but to persuasion. The Assyrians understood the art of psychological erosion. If you can control the mind, the body soon follows. After destroying physical structures, they spoke words designed to cripple the spirit.

There is no God coming for you. Hezekiah is deceiving you. Accept our rule and live.

This tactic, strategic demoralization, creates a trauma bond with captivity. It reshapes identity, loyalty, and reality. It is a soft power assault with very hard consequences.

In Scripture, King Hezekiah reigned during a period when Judah’s defenses had been shattered at the spiritual level. Cognitive warfare was deployed against them. The Assyrians demolished their physical structures then assaulted their minds. They told the people God would not save them. They urged them to surrender their identity, their faith, their dignity. It was psychological rupture wrapped in military intimidation.

Hezekiah understood this. He did not match their rhetoric. He fortified the spiritual infrastructure. He strengthened priests before soldiers. He reinforced truth before territory. And God extended his life because he aligned with heaven’s strategic order.

In modern language, Hezekiah disrupted the adversary’s pathway to violence, the systematic psychological conditioning that precedes overt aggression.

Charlie Kirk, in his own era, recognized a similar assault, an ideological drift eroding the American mind, the American student, and the American national identity.

I deeply appreciated Charlie's conversational approach, knowing him was a esteem honor. His conversation...which was not overtly defensive or reactionary... it was surgical. It was patient. It was compelling. He dismantled flawed thought patterns not by force but through quiet, intelligent provocation, asking questions that required the listener to awaken.

He embodied an American Socratic lineage.

The Pathway to Violence: What the Research Really Shows

In behavioral threat assessment, the pathway to violence describes a progression that transforms grievance into ideology, ideology into identification, identification into intent, and intent into action. It is not random. It is patterned, measurable, and preventable. Also key here, this pathway does not only represent sequential consequences.. it represents a living, breathing person on the way to crisis.

Key Indicators Include:

1. Ideation: The individual begins forming a belief that violence or radical disruption is necessary or justified. Ideation is not merely having an opinion. It is the formation of a cognitive framework that governs identity.

   
   

2. Identification: The person fuses with the ideology. They cease to treat the belief as something they hold and instead become the embodiment of the belief. Attack the idea, and they feel you are attacking them.

   
   

3. Leakage and Communication: They begin expressing the grievance or ideological justification outwardly. This may appear as essays, social media posts, confrontational campus behavior, or coded statements.

1. Energy Burst and Fixation: They escalate engagement, consuming content, joining groups, isolating from contrary voices, and preparing psychologically for confrontation.

   
   
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   Capability Development: Seeking tools, knowledge, access, or alliances needed to act on the ideology.

   
   

3. Last Resort Behavior: A belief that violence or confrontation is now necessary, inevitable, or righteous.

Our national security infrastructure understands this danger all too well. The Secret Service has made unprecedented investments in the study of targeted violence. They discovered younger and younger behavioral indicators. They discovered early destabilizing ideologies. They discovered that the pathway to violence is a cognitive phenomenon long before it becomes a physical one.

In the pathway to violence research we learn that ideation becomes identification. The idea fuses with the identity. And if you attempt to challenge the idea you are perceived as attacking the person. Obsession sets in… fixation… the individual becomes beholden to protecting the ideology because it has become the architecture of their self-concept.

Research from the United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center shows that radicalization is occurring at earlier ages than previously recorded, ideological fixation is a major predictor of targeted violence, many incidents are preventable through behavioral intervention, most attackers communicated warning signs months in advance, and cognitive distortion often precedes capability development.

What was once a concern for counter-terrorism analysts is now a daily concern in K through 12 schools and on college campuses.

The Secret Service responded with the most comprehensive national K through 12 violence-prevention program in the nation’s history, emphasizing behavioral threat assessment teams, interdisciplinary intervention, non punitive early response, data driven indicators, and school based mental health integration.

This initiative saved lives because it intervened before ideology fused with identity.

Charlie Kirk, from a different vantage point, exposed that college campuses are facing a similar yet far less diagnosed cognitive war. What K through 12 systems now manage with structured teams, universities often ignore or politicize. This vacuum is dangerous.

Normalcy bias, the assumption that this is just how campuses are now, is itself a threat indicator. If unaddressed, it becomes a predictor of targeted violence.

Charlie exposed that this pattern is not only present in violent extremism but increasingly evident in campus ideological movements.

Charlie’s Crack in the Wall

What Charlie Kirk and TPUSA did was expose a code, one validated by national security data. College campuses are no longer neutral intellectual spaces. They are contested territories of identity based ideological warfare.

In my professional assessment of Charlie...respectfully, he was not trained to handle this feat... because when a person is sick, the play is not to speak and ask them questions... it is to find a reasonable cure. It is to contain the outbreak.

Charlie was brilliant but this battlefield required clinical training, national security training, behavioral threat assessment training. It required a different set of tools, and that is not a criticism of him. It is an acknowledgment of just how dangerous the ideological terrain had become.

Charlie’s questions, debates, and provocations were not merely political statements. They were diagnostic tools. He showed the public that hostility toward dissent is escalating, ideological coercion is now normalized, students from faith based or conservative homes are increasingly targeted, and campus culture is shaping national workforce identity in ways that threaten social stability.

He cracked the wall and light entered.

The task now is not to argue conspiracy. It is to continue the research, shape policy, and operationalize protection.

His brilliance was the alarm bell. The professionals must now carry the torch into policy, research, and protection.

Our campuses are no longer intellectual marketplaces. They are battlegrounds for identity formation. They are the new terrain where cognitive warfare is deployed. This requires intervention not merely in discourse but in policy and training.

The Secret Service has already launched the most comprehensive school based prevention architecture in K through 12. The next frontier is higher education. Not punitive… but preventative. Not political… but existential.

The Future: Policy, Priests, and Rebuilding

As Hezekiah did, the work now is rebuilding. Not with swords, but with scholars, behavioral health experts, threat assessment strategists, spiritual leaders, and policy architects.

As investigations continue regarding the attacks on Charlie’s family I urge E to do what Hezekiah did. Rebuild your priests. Retreat with strong spiritual leaders. Sit in new environments. Pray. Strategize. Be renewed. Only then can the gatekeepers stand again with spiritual and intellectual stamina.

I will continue to honor Charlie’s legacy as my father taught me. One honors a person not in their presence but in their absence.

My commitment is to transform Charlie’s data, his insights, and his courage into policy arguments and national frameworks. The work continues. And you will always have my support.

Retreat with the wise. My recommendation is Action Chapel International with Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams, Strategic Networks with American Cornerstone Institute (with an emphasis on international spiritual retreats) and Wailing Women Worldwide, a covenant of women empowered to wail to the Lord of Host for sustenance. Recover your spiritual infrastructure. Return fortified. This is what Charlie would have wanted, not reaction, but reconstruction.

E, you will always have my support. Always. I leave you with If by Rudyard Kipling, a poem that crosses eras, ideologies, and nations. It steadies me, calls me upward, and returns me to what I can control: courage, integrity, and destiny.

With honor and affection,

Your Faith