Posted on 02/26/2024 6:01:59 AM PST by Red Badger
"I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all," the airman said before lighting himself on fire.
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The man who died after setting himself on fire outside of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. while yelling, "Free Palestine" has been identified as 25-year-old active-duty U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell after harrowing footage of the live-streamed incident emerged on social media.
Bushnell succumbed to his injuries from the protest after being hospitalized, a U.S. official said Monday, per NBC News.
"I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal," Bushnell said in a video he live-streamed on the video platform Twitch as he walked in uniform toward the embassy Sunday afternoon while carrying a metal water bottle.
The video is still available on X, formerly Twitter, but Twitch removed the channel where it was posted for violating the platform's guidelines, per The New York Times.
Bushnell set down his phone in front of the embassy and walked toward the gate as he poured liquid from the water bottle over his head saying, "Free Palestine." He struggled to light himself on fire for about 20 seconds as someone off camera can be heard asking multiple times if he needed help.
After lighting himself on fire, Bushnell can be heard yelling, "Free Palestine!" at least five times while yelling and going silent 20 seconds later.
This is not the first time a person has set themself on fire in the U.S. after Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel. A demonstrator self-immolated in December outside of the Israeli Consulate General building in Atlanta.
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How the hell are people like this getting into our armed forces???!?
2 Thessalonians 2:10
10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.
We need more lefties using this particular form of protest.
We should start a gofundme to help pay for the gasoline and matches.
There has always been a certain amount of liberals in the armed forces.
Even back in the early 70’s I served with some......
Someone off camera could be heard asking, “do you need any help?”
Good to know we still have good Samaritans
Most of Social Media is lauding this individual as a hero for: “Standing up against the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian People by the AshkeNAZI Khazar Occupiers.”
Gee, what a surprise.
“ He struggled to light himself on fire for about 20 seconds as someone off camera can be heard asking multiple times if he needed help.”
I’d hand him my lighter.
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I hope the gasoline is OK.
Is it still technically a "water bottle," when it's filled with gasoline?
Are you telling me no one noticed this person the as me talky ill? they worked with him everyday and no one said a thing?
the whole airforce must be a sick bunch.
One man did not do this without precursors. Someone knew and someone shut up about this nutjob.
Died of stupidity.
Kyrie eleison.
Few things sadder than an unprepared and evil death.
“He struggled to light himself on fire for about 20 seconds as someone off camera can be heard asking multiple times if he needed help”
damn SMH
I thought the military screens for mental illness. Anyone who would do this for any reason just ain’t right in the head. And we are supposed to listen to his logic?
I’ll donate 500 Bic butane lighters.
Horrible, sad, frightening ... but accomplishing absolutely nothing.
“Need a light?”...................
My thoughts as well, I guess given nobody wants to join under Biden they'll take American hating terrorists
Shouldn't this be a disqualifier?
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