Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot and killed in the Capitol Wednesday.
(Courtesy of Timothy McEntee)
When women fought and won the right to fight, it wasn’t to then be romanticized as “poor her.” She got killed. No. She — Ashli Babbitt — was trained by the U.S. military.
She knew the difference between the police — who shoot to kill in America — and enemy combatants. There’s no exception for the U.S. Capitol Police. So stop gendering the woman’s right to die – by combat — her choice when she stormed the Capitol as a traitor.
It’s shameless for the GOP to invoke “due process” now. So, Senator Ted Cruz is trying to steal the flag and the constituents who followed Trump. Hopefully, he’ll thrown out by Texans who are now forming a blue wave in their state.
President Thomas Jefferson’s phrase “we are all Americans” came only after his election to office when he buried the Federalists — temporarily — and caught his own party wave as Jeffersonian Republicans captured both sides. The United States never planned on having political parties — and their existence is a constant extralegal — potentially disruptive — disastrous force. The GOP now can finally grab their party back from Trump. What’s stopping them? (Oh, the 75 million mob-sters — a gang of misogynistic white supremacists men and women — like Ashli they want to shamefully use and abuse to take power. Mob-ocracy. What a silly word.)
Ruth Frick O'Brien 