Okay, let's assume that everything that was said about Ashli Babbit is true: she was 'charging' toward officers, and could have had a gun concealed on her -- just as you and I could have one concealed on us right now.
So you're saying that in this situation, a policeman is justified in shooting the rioter dead? And you'll be perfectly happy when the next BLM/AntiFa riot occurs, and rioters charging toward policemen -- unless the rioter is stark naked -- are shot dead? Really?
Well, as Julius Caesar would have said, 'In war, the laws are silent'. The Left is happy, or at least not unhappy, that this woman was killed, because she was a Trump supporter. That's the long and the short of it. We all know that if the tables had been turned, if she had been Black, shot by a white policemen in abolutely identical circumstances, the Left would be shrieking blue murder.
Let me make something clear: this woman was foolish, like all the 6 January rioters. Like them, she deserved and should have received the same punishment a group of Leftist rioters would receive in similar circumstances. So long as we believe in the Rule of Law, that's what every decent person should believe.
But we're clearly moving away from the Rule of Law. A pity, because, since about 1970 or so, we had been making great progress towards establishing it for everyone.
And I don't need any lectures about the egregious departures from the Rule of Law that we saw in the past. I grew up in Houston Texas, and saw one friend jailed for six months because he wore a good imitation of a military uniform in an anti-war guerilla heatre performance -- he appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, and won. A step forward for the Rule of Law [
Schacht v. United States - Wikipedia]
Another acquaintance was sentenced to 30 years in prison, and served four, for giving a marijuana cigarette to an undercover policemean. The real reason for his sentence was that he was a Black radical activist and a thorn in the side of the Houston Police Department.
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Release of Black Activist Ordered in Marijuana Case (Published 1972) ]
In the summer of 1964 the Houston Socialist Forum sponsored a meeting on the upcoming presidential elections. One of the speakers was a member of the Communist Party. The John Birch Society showed up and disrupted the meeting and prevented it from continuing. We [I was a Socialist then] called the police, the disrupters were arrested ... but in court, their lawyer got up and said just once sentence, a famous quote from the Republican Presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater: "Extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice!"
So if you were a Leftist then, in Texas for sure, you could not count on the protection of the law. Things changed, and it's a good thing they did. [I give the examples above because I witnessed them. There were far, far worse examples: for instance the leaders of the Communist Party were sent to prison in 1949 for violating the Smith Act. (A friend of mine, on the National Committee of the Communist Party, was waiting in prison in Boston to go to trial when the Supreme Court pulled the teeth of the Smith Act in the Yates decision.) [
Yates v. United States - Wikipedia ]
And everyone should know the names of the heroes Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner. The Rule of Law finally caught up with at least one of their murderers. Good.
But now it is the Left who disrupts and attacks conservative meetings and rallies. And, under the pressure of the threat of more violent riots, it's white conservatives who cannot count on the fair application of the Rule of Law in many areas.
Too bad.
I hope that we see a reversal of this trend, and return to equal justice for all, Black militants and rednecks alike, but I doubt very much that it will happen.
At the moment, many people on the Right still, nominally, adhere to a belief in the rule of law. (They rationalize 6 January by saying it was the work of provocateurs, which shows they know it was wrong to do what the rioters did.) But if things continue as they are ... and there is no reason to think they won't ... then this will change.
Too bad.
So, any patriot reading this, remember that, as old Bismarck said, "All the great questions of humanity are settled not by parliamentary majorities, but by iron and blood." Act accordingly, remaining within the law as long as we can.
But the law is not a suicide pact. The Left is destroying it. (Yes, a certain leader of the Republican Party is helping them. History is a series of accidents, and we got really lucky with the Founders, with Lincoln, with Churchill and FDR. Now apparently history has decided we've had enough good luck.)
Too bad.