One should intellectually and spiritually compare this to one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War: an officer summarily executing a Viet Cong prisoner by shooting him in the head. Even half a century later, from a war that killed over a million people, that stands out as symbolic of the brutality and inhumanity of that time and place.

And now this. Not on some faraway battlefield but in the very Capitol. Not an execution for crimes committed, but a murder (or more likely an assassination, as there is much more to the story). And not the happenstance of a war photographer, but in full view of cameras. The murderer is hailed as a hero and the victim denounced as a terrorist.

You have to ask yourself: if they would do that to her, what more care would they have for me, for my life, for anything I have and anything I am? If you believe it's one iota more than for Ashli Babbitt, you are living in a dream world. We see plainly all around how many are.

We are living through times far more barbarous and infernal than even that little slice of Hell known as the Vietnam War.