The U.S. Is Offering Military Funeral Honors to a Deceased January 6 Rioter

Your tax dollars at work. From the AP:

The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol.

I give the AP credit for this next bit in that it speaks so clearly about what is prompting this heathenish exercise.

Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election as a patriotic stand, given he still denies he lost that election. Babbitt has gained martyr status among Republicans, and the Trump administration agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit that her family filed over her shooting.

Personally, I feel that full military honors are overdue for a young Marine who died 62 years ago. He admittedly led a troubled life that led him into active resistance to the lawful government of the United States, even to the point of attempting to renounce his American citizenship. But I feel his service in the country’s armed forces is as worthy of respect and honor as is that of Ashli Babbitt. And I’m sure much of the rest of the Oswald family agrees.