By Sushi for the Saker Blog
The header picture shows the rotunda dome of the People’s House as first seen by me in a video captured on 1/6. I had been to Washington years before. I had viewed the Jefferson Memorial through the cherry blossoms, attempted to enter the Washington Monument (the stairs were accessible, but the elevator was broken), explored the Smithsonian, stood in President’s Park and gawked at the White house before following the route of the deplorables to the Capitol grounds.
On 1/6 an insurrectionist, a domestic terrorist, gave me my first glimpse of the Capitol’s interior. He had entered the Capitol by a broken window, creating a running video as he did so, complete with voice commentary. He navigated the confusion of the interior hallways until he arrived in the rotunda. There his feet stopped; his commentary reduced to an incredulous gasp as he encountered the immensity above. I shared his experience of that instant. My heart skipped a beat, I felt an identical rush of breath as the camera lifted towards the dome. We were both in awe of the architecture and ornament, the majesty of this space limned with light, the incomparable human-crafted heaven of the dome. For an instant I was at one with the insurrectionist, both of us transfixed with humility as our minds processed the incredible beauty around and above us.
This is the first item in the defense of Mr. Trump. It is most facile and inconsequential from a legal point of view. But from a human perspective, 1/6 was the first opportunity granted many Americans to gaze upon this space, to behold the wonder of this place of work, the gilded factory of democracy. The Court will not care a whit for these sights. The inadvertent presentation of them to the American people will be deemed irrelevant; the Court will be unimpressed by Mr. Trump’s role in this presentation. All these things are true. But the American people may come to thank Trump for causing their first introduction to the sacred space of this political temple.
I now caution the reader that she or he may wish to cease his / her reading of this essay. What follows is an attempt to set out the truth of 1/6 and the defense of Mr. Trump. It may be a grisly truth, an uncomfortable truth. It may be a warped truth, a biased truth, a sad truth, a revelatory truth. Whatever form of truth you may find it to be, it is as honest and uncompromising as I am able to make it. If you, dear reader, are easily offended, or made uncomfortable by an expression of truth, then you should turn away from these pages. Contemplate your own memorial, your own ceiling, your own cherry blossoms. Or plan a pilgrimage to this shrine to opulence, the great cathedral of capitalism built of stone quarried by slave labor in Maryland.
Generations from now, ordinary citizens will come to gaze on the same sights that froze the insurrectionist and myself. Tour visitors will shuffle like slow penitents through the halls of the Capitol. Arrived in the magnificence of the rotunda, the great dome of mammon, they will be fixed in awe as both the insurrectionist and I were fixed in awe. And, after some minutes of silence, perhaps one of them will inform the tour guide that his great grandmother entered this space when she was 33 years old. That on her first encounter she too was overcome with awe just as I and the insurrectionist domestic terrorist were overcome.
The old man will go on to say she too took a video, but it was confiscated as evidence on her arrest and, when finally released, it became impossible to view because of all the changes in digital formats over so many years. That the only remaining record of her experience were some faded legal papers, a discharge certificate, something else which recorded her jail time. There was a family diary that spoke of the difficulty his grandfather had in the years without her.
And the tour guide will lean in close and thank him. For 1/6 had entered the historical record and was now recognized not as the ending of the great tyranny, but as that moment in time when the great tyranny was first pulled into focus, when it first became visible to the American people. The guide will ask to shake the old man’s hand. And then he will turn to the other tour group members and explain, and they too will thank the old man and speak well of his great grandmother. Others will disclose they too have come because of the stories passed down through the generations, because of the Hollywood movie, having listened to the family history, reviewed faded records, old notebooks, pieces of glass from a broken window collected by a family member as a souvenir of that fateful day.
Outside the Speaker’s Lobby there will be a wall plaque which records that in this place Ashli Babbit was felled by a single gunshot. The weapon was a 9mm automatic and the range was less than 5 feet. The bullet had a muzzle velocity of 1,180 feet per second and was through and through, grazing Ms. Babbit’s spine before it exited the back of her neck, continuing its upward trajectory until it embedded itself in the wall of the Capitol high over the head of all the subsequent visitors to this space.
An insurrectionist had filmed the gunshot, filmed Ms. Babbit’s collapse, filmed the last twitch of her body, filmed the attempted resuscitation, filmed the fruitless attempt to restore life to her body. The bullet remains embedded in the wall, the film remains embedded in the mind of each viewer, embedded in the consciousness of peoples around the globe, embedded in the history of humankind’s struggle for freedom. The original recording is embedded in the National Archives along with the Zapruder film and the Bobby Kennedy film and the Martin Luther King film and the Regan film and the 9/11 film, and all the other films maintained by a once great state attempting to preserve some record of its people and their times of great distress. None of this has any application to the defense of Mr. Trump. But it was during his second term that he ordered the preservation of various records and artefacts and caused the Architect of the Capitol to uncover the original hole in the wall and remove the coverup plaster and paint ordered by Speaker Pelosi. He also ordered the plaque which was affixed to the wall beneath the restored bullet hole.
This is the second defense of Mr. Trump. It will not by accepted by the Court as the law forever looks backwards. The Court imposes the rule of the past upon the present. That is the intent of the law – to create stability, continuity, to avoid the fevers of the mob and the intolerant. To examine the facts of a case with care and honesty and give full respect to the law and its precedent. The era of the quick lynching died out years ago. Or so some people claim. The absence of precedent was ignored on the date the Congress arrogated to itself the right to convict a political opponent who was now a private citizen. This action set a new precedent in American law. This was the start of the “troubles,” so called because it was unsafe to speak of them due to the danger of summary conviction. But historians generally agree that the moment the Congress assumed the power to try political opponents for offenses under the Jefferson Truth and Reconciliation Act marked the onset of the “troubles.”
The third defense of Mr. Trump was ruled to be fake news and therefore inadmissible. When It became known that a Republican representative advocated the rounding up all Trump supporters and confining them in Guantanamo, the Bidenists applauded this suggestion. It conformed with the dictates of Biden’s inauguration speech on the importance of unity of the American people, and American political parties. The initiative hit a small snag when it was realized Gitmo lacked the capacity to accept 78 million Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorists. Then the new government of United Afghanistan offered space in Abu Ghraib on a contract basis. This was followed by similar negotiations with the Government of Independent United Iraq to accept the Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorists as indentured labor to clean the DU – 38 from the sands of Iraq.
This was celebrated by the BPA (Blue People of America, the name adopted by the United political party composed of former Dems and Repubs and inspired by the films of James Cameron) as it solved a variety of problems: First, it addressed the horrible problems inflicted on these two countries by earlier Trumpist adminstrations. It was thought only fair that those who caused the problem should be forced to clean it up and accept the personal risk of DU-38 contamination.
Second, it created lebensraum within the continental United Peoples of All Races Creeds Sexual Identities Belief Systems and Blue Loyalists (this was the later shortened form of the renamed Bidenist united state. The original name had included all the TGLGBHRXUBCY rainbow acronyms and the great diversity of personal pronouns (numbering in the hundreds and too many to fully document here). When the BPA introduced the Free United Bidenist Androgynous Recognition (the FUBAR medal, the highest honor in the new state) it was realized that a medal alone was insufficient recognition for the heroes who had led the peaceful protests which erupted across North America in the summer of 2020. More honor was needed. More recognition. It was quickly realized that once the convicted Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorists entered into indentured service with the Government of Independent United Iraq, they would be forced to abandon their houses and property (following the Bidenist precept that it was inhumane to separate a child from his, her, or its, parents it was decreed that the entire family of any Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorist should be sent to Iraq to atone for the great damage they had caused there. This created surplus housing stock throughout the nation and FUBAR recipients were granted first choice of this housing).
Third, the adoption of the FUBAR housing rewards scheme created vacancies in some of the most desirable homeless encampments across the BPA. All the vacant tents, rusted out recreational vehicles, and cardboard mansions, were now available to accommodate the surge of new immigrants who flooded the BPA in search of the BPA dream. They could not be disappointed. Each immigrant was assigned its own tent, vehicle, or mansion. If they were unsatisfied in any way, they were immediately found in violation of the Insurrectionist Domestic Irredentism Overseas Terrorist Act. Referred to in secret as the IDIOT Act, this was used to convict those persons who refused to accept the united policies of the BPA which were strictly enforced to ensure no further social upheavals such as had occurred during the extremist assault on 1/6. The Cubans objected but were quickly convicted and exported.
Fourth, many of the enlightened regimes in the United Middle East had changed their names so as to repel the B-52s, the big drones, the mini drones, the wasp drones, the F-39s, the F-57 [all 57 varieties were equally lethal and equally invisible] and the Tomahawks regularly conducting freedom of air navigation operations in all the disunited regions. These newly united countries had also suffered great harm from the past decades conduct of prior Trumpist administrations. They too began to contract for Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorists as cheap labor to deploy as servants, grounds keepers, household pets, houseboys, second and third wives, and a great many other utilitarian purposes. Even this demand was insufficient to exhaust the excess supply. This was especially true once the United Muslim Countries of Europe began to apply the lessons learned from the BPA for the purpose of uniting their own populations. So great was the surplus labor that it was decided to employ it to clean the DU-38 from the sands of the Sahara and then to go on and scrub the melting icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica before any residual trace of DU-38 found its way into the sea. Once the icecaps were scrubbed, the next herculean task was the cleansing and reforestation of the Amazon basin. The Bidenists were hailed round the globe as a force for good by peoples of all the major 52 sexual identities and the 643 minor identities.
The Fifth Defense of Mr. Trump was based on the argument that he could not have incited the Insurrectionist Domestic Terrorists as the assault on the Capitol commenced while his supporters were still in President’s Park nodding off to his speech which eventually ended at 13:13 pm. Trump sought to introduce images obtained from Google which showed that it took 33 minutes to walk the 1.6 miles from the site of the Save America rally to the place of insurrection. Google objected to this use of their intellectual property and this evidence was refused.
Trump then sought to introduce press reports which showed the assault on the Capitol commenced while he was still speaking 33 minutes away. He claimed it was not possible for him to incite an activity that was 1.6 miles distant and beyond earshot of him. The Articles of Impeachment made specific reference at Page 4, Lines 7 and 8, to a phrase uttered at the end of his speech; by then the assault had been underway for over 20 minutes and therefore could not have been incited by Trump. This evidence was dismissed as conjectural.
Trump then attempted to introduce a series of screen captures from a blog. These described the day’s events from a supporter’s perspective and were contained on a series of slides. Unfortunately for Trump, his manacles made it difficult to operate the projector (Trump had been refused all counsel because of his of political views. Giuliani was in a holding cell three down from Trump and the guards continually played the excretable songs from the inauguration to prevent the two either sleeping or communicating).
Senator McConnell then asked Trump if he was trying to make a mockery of the proceedings. Trump said no, he was making a beautiful defense, really beautiful, and then claimed all the slides had been in perfect order before he was placed on suicide watch (the attending Doctors were unable to determine if the cause was Brooks, Lopez, or Gaga. Trump claimed it was all gaga and the physicians ordered the music to be dialed down to 11). Senator Harris then asked Trump if he thought this was a Kangaroo court. Trump gave a puzzled look and before he could answer Senator Saunders rose on a point of order and informed the assembly that Kangaroos enjoy protected legal status and that was not the case in this proceeding. After much discussion it was decided it would be unwise to accord marsupial rights, or any rights at all, to the defendant. The Chief Justice appeared to nod his head in approval. Others claimed he was just having a nap.
Trump drew attention to the fact the first of his supporters to reach the Capitol found the assault well underway. He presented video which showed a man smashing a Capitol window while the surrounding black clad cloud chanted “Antifa, Antifa, Antifa” in an endless cycle. Then a red hatted Trump supporter entered the frame from the left and pulled down the man smashing the window before he was himself battered down by the black clad mob. Trump asserted there were two groups at the Capitol on 1/6. The first, early group, did not wear red hats and commenced the assault. This crowd of organized active assault teams prevented the later, second group, of Save America attendees from immediately getting close to the Capitol. Most did not climb to the west terrace but remained on the expanse of lawn before the Mall.
Trump claimed there was no incitement and when Save America participants later made entry, they did so through open doors, or were ushered in by the police. That there was clear evidence the leading assaulters were affiliated with either BLM or Antifa.
Trump also claimed there was emerging evidence of preplanning and organization. Trump stated that over the past four years the chief complaint against him has been that lacked any competence in these two areas. Press reports disclosed the F.B.I. had advanced knowledge of the attacks. Trump asserted that throughout his time in office, the F.B.I. leaked intelligence to the press but rarely informed him. Trump was forced to rely on the fake news to find out what was happening in his administration. The fake news contained multiple accounts by government office holders proudly stating they were secretly doing all they could to undermine government policy and direction. Some of these proud persons were alleged to be senior officers of the F.B.I. and other senior department heads.
When Trump paused, the Chief Justice asked him if the defense wanted to rest and Trump replied “No, please. No rest. I would rather stay here. I don’t want to face the music.”
“In that case may I examine you?” asked the Chief Justice.
“You can do anything if it stops the music.” Trump looked fearfully around the chamber as if searching for hidden loudspeakers.
“As I understand your theory of events, your defense, if you want to call it that, rests on two key assertions. The first is that you were down in President’s Park putting your followers into a deep hypnotic sleep until 13:13 pm. Is that correct.?
“It wasn’t just them. I had to go back to the house for a beautiful nap.”
“I understand. While your followers snoozed in the Park, 30 minutes from the Capitol, at approximately 12:50 pm, group of dark, radically black clad leftist insurgents were initiating a concerted pre-planned Domestic Terrorist attack on the Capitol. And it is therefore impossible for these insurgents to have been incited by the remarks cited in the Articles of Impeachment, which remarks came toward the end of your speech near to 13:13 pm.. In fact, the attack had commenced some 20 minutes before,” the Chief Justice placed great emphasis on the word before, “you uttered the alleged words of incitement. That is your second key assertion. Am I correct?”
“You said it beautifully. Completely beautiful. Very, very nice. Thank you. All my supporters thank you for making that clear.”
The tone of the Chief Justice’s voice had changed. It was deeper, more resonant, a sound of concern. “Mr. Trump, do you possess any knowledge of these leftist radical extremists having the support of agencies affiliated with either of the Chinese or Russian states?”
“Oh, your honor.” Trump sounded greatly relieved as the true culprits hove into view. “You have it beautifully. It is bad. Very bad. Much worse. It affects my supporters, everyone.”
The Chief Justice had by now snapped fully awake and fixed Trump with an intense stare. “And who do you think was the dark force behind this attack on our cherished democratic freedoms?”
“Pelosi. She controls everything up here. None of this could have taken place unless she was co-ordinating it. She is a master of the dark arts. The only other person is Brennan. He does this stuff all the time. He even does it on air. Comey too. They write books about it! Then there are the love bird weasels and . . .”
The Chief Justice immediately smashed his gavel down with a sound like a thunderclap, drowning out the loud murmurs racing around the chamber. “At this moment we are adjourned for an early lunch of two hours duration. This hearing will resume at noon o’clock.”
Everyone filed out of the Chamber. Trump was led away in his manacles and such an overly large orange jumpsuit it looked like a misappropriated circus costume. Everyone forgot about the slide projector which had been startled into life by the resounding thwack of the gavel. The projector appeared to be stuck, or being operated by some occult force. It flashed an image on screen for 3 short repetitions, then flashed up the same image for three long repetitions, immediately followed by a further three short repetitions before it allowed five seconds of darkness and then repeated the cycle. As it continued flashing, the projector seemed to speed up, continually flashing the identical sequence but at ever more urgent intervals. The image itself slowly dissolved. Before the hearing reconvened, it had almost completely melted away.
Part One of this series: On Democracy
Part Two of this series: What is to be Done?
The Impeachment Hearing will be reconvened in Part Four
During the Capitol protests one of the protesters said they were reclaiming their building.
25,000 troops and a symbol of the real rulers was played out before the tv cameras and the closest any real American got was through a screen.
Whose country and building is it?
Yes, its abundantly clear to all critical thinkers that it was a controlled demonstration infiltrated by Antifa / BLM / intel agencies’ agent provocateurs to discredit the movement
Is it really that surprising that given we have controlled oppositions, controlled academics that we wouldn’t also have controlled demonstrations?
Then why and how did the congressional grifters have prepared speeches. Even cunning combination of rat and ape Mitch McConnell had a lengthy prepared speech.
Dear Insanity,
The one thing that the 6th Jan was not and that is a ‘controlled demonstration’. It was a psy-ops from the start.
Governments run psy-ops and have done for centuries, going back to at least 1605.
One such psy-ops was the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the 27th December 2007, when she was shot and once hit. and as she fell back into her car, a bomb was detonated, supposedly we are told a suicide vest the shooter was wearing, but the bomb simply aided the departure of the assassin.
For a government to run a psy-ops, they need ‘their version’ to emerge of the incident, and to do this they place ‘their’ people at certain posts and to either record or witness their required versions of the event.
How do we know that 1/6 was a psy-ops? Again the government tells us that as their version is completely different as to what many independent witnesses have stated, and it ‘fits’ the government agenda.
And so at 1/6 we have all of the various actors ready in ‘their roles’, and many of these people can be identified by the attire they wore, as they had to stand out, and become notorious in their behaviour.
Then we come to the most famous portion of this psy-ops, the shooting of Ashli Babbitt. The very first thing we should note is that Ashli was shot whilst in a frame where there once had been a pane of glass. However that pane of glass had been removed, supposedly by one of the ‘demonstrators, but just exactly how does a person remove a pane of ‘safety’ glass form its position at the side of a door? Well you can try to smash it, but that doesn’t work, but what any observer would have seen was that there was no shards of glass or anything else within that frame when Ashli climbed into it, be that with assistance from others (more than likely) or not. In other words, that pane of glass had to have been altered in such a manner as to allow it to fall out from its position, and that can only have taken place with aforethought. That was a plan.
So there had to have been somebody within the van of those people, who was aware and whose job it was to push that pane of glass out of its frame, and thus give access to another of the ‘demonstrators’.
And then there had to be somebody also in attendance to film this event, and that person I believe was ‘Sullivan’, who was also independent of the ‘Trump’ movement. And it was this Sullivan who filmed the execution of Ashli Babbitt, but interestingly enough his film did not capture the shooter, that apparently came from another source.
And so we should consider the role played by the shooter. We are told that he was a ‘policeman’, but I am uncertain of that. What I did note was his attire, that being a black suit with a white shirt with big sleeve cuffs, which was a specific uniform within itself. But then we have also noted that the assassin was hidden from view until the opportunity arose to shoot the person in the window frame, and that is not the role of any security person, but that of an assassin.
You see, the normal action within this scenario would have been for any security to stay at the scene to guard the doorway, and to disallow any entry. But that never occurred and an entry was gained by the removal of the pane of glass, and again that could only have been orchestrated prior to the ‘demonstrators’ arrival.
So, at this stage we have two ‘required’ players at the scene; we have the person filming the incident, and we have the assassin. We should now consider the third player required and his role in this event. To understand the situation more clearly we must also consider just exactly how these ‘demonstrators’ arrived at this particular door.
The answer is of course quite simple; they were guided there by a man dressed in the same attire as the shooter, the uniform of the black suit and very white shirt with big cuffs. On the Sullivan video, we first see this man about 10 feet from the door, towards the rear of the van of the crowd, with his back against the wall of the corridor, and you then realise that he is an employee at the site, and he has been guiding the crowd to this very door. But that being the case, then why is he not at the head of the crowd, and why is he positioned with his back against the wall? Well he is definitely out of the way, if anything erupts, but think about it for a moment.
Let’s just imagine that there was some violence occurring and people within the crowd were trying to smash their way through the locked door. Where would the guide normally be in such a situation? Why of course he would be where all the ‘action’ was taking place, trying to control the crowd and stop any vandalising and damage to any of the area, including the locked doors. But he is not, he is about 10-15 feet away from where the action is taking place, but that is where he should have been, and if the pane of glass had been broken then he should have rushed up and stopped the vandalising, but he didn’t, he was waiting at the rear for the ‘main event’.
And again, further down from the ‘van’ of this crowd were two policemen, in full combat gear and armed with automatic rifles. And what was their demeanour? Well they were not threatening the crowd, and the crowd was not a threat to them, so perhaps they were as ignorant as the crowd as to what was to happen next, but consider this; had there been any noise or sounds of vandalism such as the breaking of the glass pane, do you think that these police would have heard it and acted upon it? But they didn’t act and so we can deduce that they didn’t hear anything unusual. If they didn’t hear, could it possibly be because that sound did not arise?
And then Ashli Babbitt was shot and fell back out of the window frame. While the people standing nearby were shocked and stunned, it was the guide who stepped forward and then checked Ashli’s pulse at the neck area. And it is this action that again tells us something. It tells us that he has had experience in this field before, most probably military. It also tells us that he, more than likely was not shocked by the event, and may have even been expecting it, which is why he was in the background away from any danger.
And I wonder as to why this reminds me so much of Ruby Ridge and the assassination of Mrs Weaver as she stood in the doorway holding a baby.
Think without a doubt your right everything in this country has become a scam from political to financial, every new candidates promise the moon then after elected blames someone thousands of miles away as to why he couldn’t deliver.
As far as Biden he’s tarnished goods at least half the country and probably more sees him as nothing but corrupt and a crook from his years on the political scene, topped off with his being vice president under Obama anther corrupt crook and warmonger, so we are looking at another four years of chaos as the rats fight among themselves with the only good things being perhaps other countries can now enjoy a little peace.!!!
Dear Bluedog,
The Italians have a lovely saying; “Shit always rises to the top”. This would appear to be the case in ‘all’ western governments these days, as the corruption has tainted the four pillars of our society, the government, the parliament the courts and the police.
And always in the background is the 13th tribe.
The Trumpet was a done deal long before 1/6 (whoever done it). His selection of Pomposo, his assassination of Soleimani showed him to be just a tool like all the rest – it’s called family you know
Excellent, notable comment. I really did feel betrayed by Trump when he ordered or allowed most likely, the killing of both gen. Soleimani and his counterpart from the Iraqi PMU. I’m ashamed that I didn’t stop right there and jumped ship. Just held onto the whole ‘trust the plan’ (not directly a follower of ‘Q’ movement or Alex Jones, myself) wanted to believe. I fell for O back in ’08, even as I didn’t vote for him. A nice security officer at a gated community on one of my routes at the time over the holidays at a package delivery company, she set me straight about the whole phony left, so-called progressives, now its all out in the open most all serve at the altar of Mammon, ultimately. “It’s a big club, and you’re not in it!” ~ George Carlin I had the kind lady’s phone number, which she had given me, if we ever wanted to chat politics. Wanted to thank her for caring as she had. O turned out to be quite the Neocon, etc. It all just seems like a dream, the past 20+ years. I swear if I’m not losing my mind anymore? I have faith it is all in God’s hands, has to play out as it must, yes? I’m at peace in this respect. Live each day to the fullest. Become the best you. Cherish your loved ones, friends, acquaintances. Even though I am disgusted with how the ‘sheeple’, my fellow citizens, have been behaving (since a long while, I’ve noticed) I can’t help but feel immense pity for them, as much as love, wish them well, lift them up as I can, depending on my mood. I truly enjoy people. It breaks my heart to see what has happened to our society (I’m in the US, Midwest, Chiraqland). I wish for people to attain self-realization, empower themselves, be happy, fulfilled. The power elite have abrogated their mandate to rule us, consent revoked (or in process of being). Rough time for the pharoahs, whatever. Power is just terribly boring, dehumanizing, even. We have to move on as a species, already!
Beware of darkness (George Harrison)
Watch out now, take care
Beware of falling swingers
Dropping all around you
The pain that often mingles
In your fingertips, beware of darkness
Watch out now, take care
Beware of the thoughts that linger
Winding up inside your head
The hopelessness around you
In the dead of night
Beware of sadness
It can hit you, it can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for
Watch out now, take care
Beware of soft shoe shufflers
Dancing down the sidewalks
As each unconscious sufferer
Wanders aimlessly, beware of Maya
Watch out now, take care
Beware of greedy leaders
They take you where you should not go
While weeping Atlas cedars
They just want to grow, grow and grow
Beware of darkness
The gun came from the interior left side of the door where Ashli was shot as she was climbing into the high glass that was broken in the door. How does a bullet coming from the left hit her spine before her neck? Impossible. Grazed her neck and then her spine is more probable. She would had to have been entering backward for this article description to be correct. I watched the video of the shooting. I saw her dying last gasps of breath. So she was moving her hands after the shot and her immediate fall backwards onto the floor with a person in a suit that tried picking her up like a rag doll, twice! No one gave her aid. The one man on the floor next to her did nothing to save her and no blood was seen. It is possible that blood was going into her clothing and jacket and backpack. She had one great blessing, that she died within a minute or two at the most. Most people aren’t so fortunate.
You made some points. And what was the name of the officer who shot her? What is his skin color? That does matter. No one asks for an investigation of her death and the use of a weapon?!
The whole article is somehow a silly infantile attempt of a satiric essay…
Dear Phyllis,
The shooting of Ashli Babbitt reminds me of the shooting of Graeme Collier in the Broad Arrow Café during the Port Arthur massacre back in 96. Graeme Collier was shot in the neck with an AR-10 (please do not tell me that an AR-10 was not used in the Broad Arrow Café, as that is the rifle that Collier identified as being the rifle he was shot with) The round nicked Collier’s artery and the wound was seeping into his throat and he was drowning in his own blood, when an off-duty Victoria Policeman from Moonee Ponds, Dennis Gabbetty used a drinking straw to suck the blood out of the throat thus saving Collier’s life. For some strange reason Dennis Gabbetty ended up suffering from a drinking problem, but he saved Graeme Colliers life.
I saw no evidence of any blood as Ashli Babbitt lay on the floor dying, and there was no sign of blood on the guide’s hands when he attended her, so I imagine that if she was bleeding, it would have been internal, and I think that the movement of her hands would also have suggested that the spinal cord was not badly damaged.
Do not feel offended by the man standing next to her as she lay dying, as by the looks of it he was it total shock, as the shooting was so unexpected, and I think that is also applicable to most of the other people in the room.
Am I missing something…..Is there an nvestigation of the shooting of Ashli Babbitt?
Not that I’ve heard of, but then I’m not ‘there’.
Auslander
Well, apparently all Trump supporters need ‘de-programming’ according to “Cult expert Steven Hassan”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnblPVMEYAc&feature=youtu.be
https://www.news.tl/cnn-airs-guide-to-deprogram-maga-supporters-as-cult-expert-claims-entire-country-needs-post-trump-he-70854.html
Have you ever seen a more pathetic and disingenuous twerp?
The case for Impeachment
1. legality – Not quite a ‘private citizen’, Trump still has a staff and gets an annual pension because of his office as President, also he was impeached while he was in office, if a Senate trial has to also start and finish while a person is in office then it gives the President carte blanch to do anything in his final month in office.
In any case, the Republicans can make this objection to Judge Roberts at the Senate trial, who will most likely say, ‘interesting argument but it should be heard before the full court, and then let the trial proceed. Trump can then take his case before the Supreme court if he is convicted.
2. Your other arguments regarding incitement will have to be fleshed out in the Senate Trial which is why I favor Impeachment because we need more witnesses. 1. What prior knowledge did the Intel community have and did they brief Trump on it, if the answer it yes, it looks bad for him, if no then it looks better. 2. What was Trump doing during the 4hrs when his buddies in the Capitol were calling him for help. If he was rocking out to ‘Gloria’, it looks bad.
Your timeline ignores that protesters already at the Capitol could be watching Trump’s speech on mobile devices, also you simultaneously claim that the riot started too early but was not a riot because it was orderly.
You also ignore the issue of prior incitement leading up to the riot. Trump had been claiming for weeks that the election was stolen, there was a multi-state conspiracy against the people involving crooked courts and other claims that would take a book to write. Kind of like analyzing a single incitement against a specific Jewish neighbor but ignoring years long campaign about the evil Jewish bankers.
Am I saying Trump is guilty? no, but I am saying that a Senate trial is valid.