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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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Brainwashing works.
Reminds me of the hilarious meme someone here on FR created of the epic Buddhist monk burning himself ... but with Robert Mueller’s face on him. LMAO.
... hopefully no one shot him so he could enjoy the complete experience.
I think all of the terrorist supporting protestors should follow his lead.
Yup, I agree. I knew a USAF staff sgt in the early 80’s. He was quite good at his job, but made it very clear if he was called to war he’d go AWOL. He did not believe in war, period. Wanted nothing to do with it. He preached this every chance he could.
However this guy, even though an anti-war lib, was not the nut job type that would set himself on fire to prove a point. To set one’s self on fire is pure unadulterated mental illness that should not be praised or supported by others.
Not the best and the brightest any more.
The ones I served with in the Marines were usually smug, condescending rich kids from wealth families. What the hell they were in the Marines for I will never know.................
How the hell are people like this getting into our armed forces???!?
Biden has set all standards to the lowest level on everything it’s what keeps the party alive.
good riddance to bad rubbish!
(this illustrates the dangers of carrying Free Speech so far as to allow the mass media to promote Big Lies, we see similar results from the mass media promoting or featuring “trans-genderism” and “abortion on demand” and several other false “causes” as if they were all honest news reports)
Place him right next to Rachel Corrie on the too dumb to live scale.
[[”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]]
And then his next conscious thought as he realized he was in hell (if he wasn’t saved) was “oops”
He killed himself over a lie that he had been brainwashed to beleive.
Interesting that it comes to America.
Interesting that it was a member of the US Air Force.
We live in Interesting Times.
In a sane world, yes, it should be. Sadly the world embraces the sickness of liberalism
Bless his little, scorched heart. Now he’s going to find his 70 virgins all look and act like Helen Thomas.
“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.
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Israel.
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Time for a U.S. Air Force stand down to examine its standards and the folks who they’ve recruited.
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Oh just great! I hope this pic is fictitious.
There will be a ‘One State Solution’. I read about it in Revelations...................
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