Justice For Ashli Babbitt - By Carl Petersen

Found here. Our comments in bold. 

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The author does his best to parrot the leftist false narrative about January 6th. 

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"There was no reason Ashli should have lost her life that day. We must all demand justice for Ashli" - Donald Trump

Two friends decide to rob a bank together. One enters the bank and the other stays in the car as the getaway driver. When things go wrong and the police show up the driver leaves the scene. Shortly afterward his friend gets into a shootout with law enforcement and ends up dead. When the driver is eventually arrested he is charged with the murder of his friend under the premise that without the initial crime, he would still be alive.

On January 6, 2021, Trump did a lot more than drive the getaway car. With a plan years in the making, (This isn't a reference, it's a leftist opinion.)

he had spent the weeks after the 2020 election rejecting the will of the voters and presenting theories to his supporters about how he had been cheated out of a certain win. (It certainly bothers the author that the election results were contested. We pretty certain, however, that the author has no problem with the only ones who have really been challenging presidential elections, the Democrats:

In 2001, House Democrats challenged the certification of electoral votes for then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, a Republican, but the objection failed because no senator agreed to sign the written objection.

“The objection is in writing, and I do not care that it is not signed by a member of the Senate,” Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said during the 2001 joint session of Congress.

“The chair will advise that the rules do care,” then-Vice President Al Gore, ceremonially presiding over the session, told Waters. Gore was overseeing the very session that would confirm his loss to Bush.

A similar situation occurred in 2017, when then-Vice President Joe Biden oversaw certification of the electoral votes that handed the presidency to Donald Trump. House Democrats challenged the electoral slate, but to no avail, because they lacked support in the Senate.

“It is over,” Biden told Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who objected to the election results during the 2017 session.

The certification challenge in 2005 was the only instance in recent years in which both a senator and a House member signed a formal objection to an electoral slate. Then-Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, and then-Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., together challenged Bush’s victory in Ohio on grounds of alleged voter irregularities.

The House and Senate adjourned and met separately for no more than two hours, as the Constitution stipulates, but ultimately neither Jones nor Boxer was able to gain enough votes from their respective colleagues to alter Ohio’s electoral slate.

The fact that Trump had no evidence to support his accusations resulted in at least 166 court rulings against him. (The Brookings Institution is a leftist think tank, not a reference.

Each of those cases were dismissed without actual consideration of the evidence. They were all process dismissals.

Thus the evidence has yet to be examined in any court. Dinesh D'Sousa has ably documented election fraud in multiple states in his documentary, 2000 Mules. The evidence is irrefutable.

But what we are dealing with here is a Leftist talking point. The Left always trots out that there's no evidence of widespread election fraud. When someone points out evidence, they simply shout even louder that there's no evidence.)

With the Electoral College votes already cast, Trump was quickly running out of time as Mike Pence headed to the Capitol on January 6 for the ceremonial counting of the votes.

With his fragile ego unable to accept the loss, Trump tried a Hail Mary attempt at retaining power (Undocumented claim. In actual fact, there was no attempt to retain power, since Trump had said multiple times that he would he would leave office if he lost. And the fact is, he did.

The transfer of power documents were signed on Nov 23rd.

Contesting an election is not the same as attempting to retain power.)

and organized a rally in support of his wild conspiracy theories on the morning of the count.

The defeated president took to Twitter to invite his supporters to the event, telling them to "Be there, [it] will be wild!"

In a speech that used the word "fight" 23 times, (Actually, 16 times. That author, lazy and presumptive, didn't even bother to do more than a word search of Trump's speech. Here are the quotes:

And Rudy, you did a great job. He's got guts. You know what? He's got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican Party. He's got guts. He fights, he fights.

Jim Jordan and some of these guys, they're out there fighting. The House guys are fighting.
And you have to get your people to fight. And if they don't fight, we have to primary the hell out of the ones that don't fight. You primary them.

Republicans are, Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. It's like a boxer. And we want to be so nice. We want to be so respectful of everybody, including bad people. And we're going to have to fight much harder.

So we've taken care of things, we've done things like nobody's ever thought possible. And that's part of the reason that many people don't like us, because we've done too much. But we've done it quickly and we were going to sit home and watch a big victory and everybody had us down for a victory. It was going to be great and now we're out here fighting.

The American people do not believe the corrupt, fake news anymore. They have ruined their reputation. But you know, it used to be that they'd argue with me. I'd fight. So I'd fight, they'd fight, I'd fight, they'd fight. Pop pop. You'd believe me, you'd believe them. Somebody comes out. You know, they had their point of view, I had my point of view, but you'd have an argument.

hat's what they do, they suppress. You don't fight with them anymore. Unless it's a bad story. They have a little bad story about me, they make it 10 times worse and it's a major headline.

None of these are Trump saying what he wanted the crowd to do that day. Most of them are references to people whom he admired for their willingness to fight. 

He did tell the crowd to take action that day:

I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.

The author is simply keeping to The Narrative. He's a liar.)

he fed the assembled crowd a diet of conspiracy theories. He told his gathered supporters that "if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." He ended with marching orders: "we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. I love Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're going to the Capitol, and we're going to try and give."

Probably due to bone spurs, Trump did not take that walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. His agitated masses did and quickly overtook the police barricades surrounding the capitol. (This is false. Categorically. The barriers were breached before Trump ended his speech. With the large crowds, the speech location is at least a half hour walk walk to the Capitol Building. There is no way he could have "agitated" the crowd into action.)

Included in the mob was Ashli Babbitt, who was high on QAnon Conspiracy Theories and convinced that the election was stolen. When she tried to climb through a window into a hallway that was just yards from where legislators were located, she was told to stop. She did not listen and was shot and killed. (That's the "official" story. In actual fact, Babbitt was not a danger, was not armed, and was not acting in a manner that justified her murder.

If her behavior was problematic, then why didn't the officer take out a dozen protestors standing within 5 feet of her? They were all doing the very same thing.)

The mob's advance was stopped.

"That [Ashli Babbitt] is dead is her fault, and Trump's fault." She decided to accept Trump's lie and follow him into battle and for that she holds personal responsibility. But the fact cannot be ignored that without Trump's call for an insurrection, (There was no insurrection.)

Babbitt would have never been in that building illegally. (Trump's speech ended about 1:11 p.m. But the first protestors arrived at the Capitol about 12:40 p.m., before Trump had even uttered the words about marching peacefully. 

Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said, “I realized at 1 p.m., things aren’t going well. I’m watching my people getting slammed.” The Capitol was breached at 1:49 p.m. 

Babbitt almost certainly did not hear Trump's speech. She was murdered at 2:44 p.m. Trump's speech could not have been the motivating factor for the Capitol breach or Babbitt's actions.)

Babbitt paid the ultimate price for her mistakes, but justice demands that Trump pay a price for spreading the lies that led to her death. He should be charged with her murder.

Carl Petersen is a parent advocate for students with special education needs and public education. He was elected to the Northridge East Neighborhood Council and is the Education Chair. As a Green Party candidate in LAUSD's District 2 School Board race, he was endorsed by Network for Public Education (NPE) Action. Dr. Diane Ravitch has called him "a valiant fighter for public schools in Los Angeles." For links to his blogs, please visit www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com. Opinions are his own.