This is Ashli Babbitt Day. I Honor Her Memory.

And her service to her country in the United States Air Force.

On this second anniversary of the only armed insurrection in history in which none of the “insurrectionists” were armed, now often referred to as the Fedsurrection due to the enormous number of agents of the Federal Bureau of Intimidation involved, I would like to humbly suggest that this day be referred to as Ashli Babbitt Day. I would like to lay claim to thinking up that name myself but cannot honestly do so as I just saw it for the first time in a post on Ricochet with this graphic:

A few months after January 6, 2021, and after a considerable amount of time in research and study of documents and what pitiful little video Our Betters have allowed us proles to see, I published what might have been my longest post since I have had my blog. It is entitled The Mindless, Heartless Execution of Ashli Babbitt And the death of her grief-stricken German Shepherd when she never returned and can be accessed here. I opened the discussion of Ashli Babbitt’s murder thusly:

I am haunted by the murder of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Air Force veteran who was almost certainly one of the very few citizens in America history to be executed for trespassing- even in the “hallowed” halls of our National Capitol, already soiled and profaned by the corruption which sluices through its spaces like the sewage it is.

I take my theme from one of my colleagues at Ricochet who I know only as @MarciN. She recently stated in a comment the following words which I cannot “unsee” as they so precisely fit the way I have felt since January 7, 2021:

The treatment of the 400 people involved in the January 6 demonstration may be the most important event in the history of western civilization. This is a turning point.

While I take those words as my theme, I address one aspect of that day, actually the most lawless, cruel, inhuman incident by more quantum measures than I know how to express—the taking of the life of a 110 pound, unarmed, American citizen who was exercising her God given right to peaceably protest what she viewed as an illegitimate election. She was reportedly an avid supporter of President Trump (Disclosure: so am I! And damned proud of it!) and paid with her life for believing the words of one of the most sacred documents ever written in the annals of freedom—

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

She also paid the ultimate price for believing that the words of another sacred document of freedom, The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, actually means what it says when it decrees:

Congress shall make no law … abridging .. the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I then proceeded to assemble, as we are taught to do beginning in Law School, but much more importantly as we are taught through sometime painful experience in the courtroom, documentary evidence, video evidence and family history material of Ashli’s background in an attempt to get a full picture of both the incident and the person- a military veteran who served her county in harm’s way, no less- who was murdered on January 6 by Pelosi’s enforcer. In going back and looking at the post, and the evidence it presented, it is my humble opinion that it sets forth a reasonable case for what was done to Ashli that day was murder, pure and simple.

Here is Senior Airman Ashli Babbitt sending a Christmas message home with her fellow servicemen, including her Commanding General:

I preface the following remarks with an observation I wish were not necessary but has proven to be so in these days of near-complete polarization of the citizenry: every American citizen has the right to express his or her views, a right preserved (NOT granted by government, it must always be noted) to express whatever views they may hold. That said, I have found some expressions after January 6, basically condoning and justifying her murder, to be quite simply repulsive and sickening and disgusting. One such expression was written by none other than the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet.com, apparently only hours after the “assault on Our Democracy” was over, entitled Impeach. Remove. Bar From Office. Here is a link to a post on Ricochet this morning, entitled The Best Ricochet Post of All Time, equally if not more disgusting, in which that unfortunate (especially with the passage of time and the forced divulging of more actual evidence about the incident) post is quoted. In order to present the views voiced so often by Never Trumpers such as those who wrote those two articles as carefully as possible, I will quote from one of them in a comment to another post this morning about Ashli’s murder:

It was a “good shoot.”  Lt. Michael Byrd did his job.  Ashli Babbitt forfeited her life when she tried to vault through that barrier.

I read words like “Lt. Michael Byrd did his job” and feel sick to my stomach. Michael Byrd is a murderer and should be prosecuted as such, although thanks to the efforts and power of his boss, Pelosi, he apparently never will be.

Here is the way I ended my post about Ashli which summed up the way I felt then about her murder, and still do today:

IV. Any hope for Justice for Ashli’s memory will have to come from her family’s lawyers and the Courts- her Government has utterly failed her.

As a lawyer, it is times like this when I am most proud to call myself a member of the Trial Bar. Setting aside the fact that this is no longer a sentiment loudly proclaimed due to the diminished esteem into which my profession has fallen, the fact remains that when this kind of scenario unfolds, there is only one more route to any kind of fair treatment-a committed, dedicated and- most of all- courageous lawyer who will bring light upon all the hidden evidence of what really happened to Ashli and who covered it up.

Call me naïve for thinking there will eventually be some measure of justice for her memory, but history is replete with examples of such triumphs.

Ashli Babbitt was, at worst, a trespasser. She did not hurt a single person. She was not a threat to anyone.

Ashli Babbitt was murdered.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that someday, somehow, her memory will receive the Justice the American Rule of Law once stood for and hopefully will again.

I pray for Ashli’s soul every single night of my life. She defended her country in harm’s way and her memory should not be thrown upon the dung heap of the Kabuki theater our political system has become and simply discarded with breezy comments by leftist commentators like the one who stated this morning that Lt. Byrd’s action was a totally justified “good shoot.”

She should, and in a better America, would, receive justice. I pray she will, someday.