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OK Maggots, just stfu for a couple minutes and have someone read this to you.
Dear family of Ashli Babbitt: Your sister, mom, daughter was a terrorist. Now she’s dead. And that’s a good thing. You see, yesterday she decided to go to Washington DC to attack the United States Capitol. Once she had battered down the front doors, she and her friends made their way to the chamber of the US House of Representatives, where she smashed out the windows and was trying to claw her way into the room. When it was clear she was going to make her way inside, the capitol hill police shot her dead.
But this wasn’t who she was, you say. She was a typical woman from San Diego, owned a pool service company with her husband. But you’re wrong. She had been radicalized over the last few years by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, Q Anon, and even Donald Trump. She listened to them, and believed them when they told her that the Democrats had stolen the election, that Democrats were Socialists hell bent on destroying America, and every other twisted, demented conspiracy theory to be puked up by right wing media and its enablers. But she also was an adult, and believing them was a choice she made.
But she was a 14-year veteran of the Air Force, you say. She loved her country. But you’re wrong. She forfeited whatever right she had to the glory that comes from service to our country when she instead decided to attack the foundations on which it’s built. A terrorist with a suicide vest strapped to her chest only attacks a building, killing a few people, but what Ashli did was far worse: she attacked the institution of Democracy itself. She chose to feed into the paranoia that our country’s electoral process was a sham, and she went to the capitol with one thing in mind: to stop the certification of the election. It’s why she was there. When she wrote on Twitter Tuesday: “Nothing will stop us. They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours” she was writing her manifesto. And she died by it.
But there were ten thousand people doing the same thing and only she was killed. Why? Well many of us have asked that same thing, and the answer is because of the cowardice and complicity of law enforcement. Police either had an order to stand down, to not use deadly force, or they all just chose to do so, even when the center of our government was under attack. Clearly, as demonstrated by the overwhelming use of force at protests in DC in 2020, law enforcement knew what to do, and how to do it, but they chose not to, and that choice was a deliberate choice. The question isn’t why was Ashli killed, but why weren’t a thousand more killed.
We all know who Ashli was. She wrapped herself in respectability. She claimed to love America. She supported law enforcement. She hated Antifa and Black Lives Matter. She watched Fox religiously, and followed Q Anon (“but not the crazy part”). She exemplified white privilege. Believing somehow that attacking the US Capitol was somehow saving America. She was relatively smart, but radicalized. She lived in a nice house in suburban San Diego. She was a veteran. A small business owner. She had lots of friends. And yesterday she tried to climb through a window at the US Capitol while the entirety of the United States Congress was hiding in the basement, lying on the floor. And now she’s dead. Ashli Babbitt was an American terrorist.
Dear family of Ashli Babbitt: Your sister, mom, daughter was a terrorist. Now she’s dead. And that’s a good thing. You see, yesterday she decided to go to Washington DC to attack the United States Capitol. Once she had battered down the front doors, she and her friends made their way to the chamber of the US House of Representatives, where she smashed out the windows and was trying to claw her way into the room. When it was clear she was going to make her way inside, the capitol hill police shot her dead.
But this wasn’t who she was, you say. She was a typical woman from San Diego, owned a pool service company with her husband. But you’re wrong. She had been radicalized over the last few years by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Alex Jones, Q Anon, and even Donald Trump. She listened to them, and believed them when they told her that the Democrats had stolen the election, that Democrats were Socialists hell bent on destroying America, and every other twisted, demented conspiracy theory to be puked up by right wing media and its enablers. But she also was an adult, and believing them was a choice she made.
But she was a 14-year veteran of the Air Force, you say. She loved her country. But you’re wrong. She forfeited whatever right she had to the glory that comes from service to our country when she instead decided to attack the foundations on which it’s built. A terrorist with a suicide vest strapped to her chest only attacks a building, killing a few people, but what Ashli did was far worse: she attacked the institution of Democracy itself. She chose to feed into the paranoia that our country’s electoral process was a sham, and she went to the capitol with one thing in mind: to stop the certification of the election. It’s why she was there. When she wrote on Twitter Tuesday: “Nothing will stop us. They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours” she was writing her manifesto. And she died by it.
But there were ten thousand people doing the same thing and only she was killed. Why? Well many of us have asked that same thing, and the answer is because of the cowardice and complicity of law enforcement. Police either had an order to stand down, to not use deadly force, or they all just chose to do so, even when the center of our government was under attack. Clearly, as demonstrated by the overwhelming use of force at protests in DC in 2020, law enforcement knew what to do, and how to do it, but they chose not to, and that choice was a deliberate choice. The question isn’t why was Ashli killed, but why weren’t a thousand more killed.
We all know who Ashli was. She wrapped herself in respectability. She claimed to love America. She supported law enforcement. She hated Antifa and Black Lives Matter. She watched Fox religiously, and followed Q Anon (“but not the crazy part”). She exemplified white privilege. Believing somehow that attacking the US Capitol was somehow saving America. She was relatively smart, but radicalized. She lived in a nice house in suburban San Diego. She was a veteran. A small business owner. She had lots of friends. And yesterday she tried to climb through a window at the US Capitol while the entirety of the United States Congress was hiding in the basement, lying on the floor. And now she’s dead. Ashli Babbitt was an American terrorist.
