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footage of the self-immolation at the Israeli embassy in DC.
The individual, wearing fatigues, introduces himself as “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
After ignition, he repeatedly yells “Free Palestine.”
akasha
People calling Aaron Bushnell “mentally ill” to discredit his act of protest is quite frankly disgusting. Immolation has long been a form of protest and that is precisely what this act was. This is a man who could have helped uplift communities and lead transformations. The best of us.
akasha
The last post of Aaron Bushnell. RIP 🙏🏽
akasha
“He is one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known,” said Xylem, who worked with Bushnell to support San Antonio’s unhoused residents.
“He’s always trying to think about how we can actually achieve liberation for all with a smile on his face,” said Errico.
akasha
I will never forget Aaron Bushnell
I will never forget his selfless act to give his life to draw attention to Israel’s crimes.
May he rest in eternal peace and his family find peace.
akasha
Aaron Bushnell, age 25, succumbed to his injuries after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in DC. His last words were "Free Palestine".
akasha
its tough to live in this world if you have empathy
akasha
Mad respect for Aaron Bushnell. 25 yrs old.
This is as pure a conscience as it gets.
akasha
“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” he says calmly, walking down a street. “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.”
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He walks to the driveway of the Israeli embassy, places his phone down to film, goes up the driveway, dumps liquid from a metal water bottle over his head, tosses the bottle, places his uniform hat on his head. He pulls out a lighter from his pocket and struggles to light it.
akasha
You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a 25 yr old man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers.
akasha
They'll smear Aaron Bushnell as mentally ill, but but his resume speaks for the shit he had access to. An active duty devops engineer, he really meant it when he said he will no longer be complicit in the genocide.
Rest In Peace Aaron.
akasha
They will never succeed in re-writing Aaron Bushnell. He was clear and resolute! He knew exactly what to say. He is a Hero! “This is what the ruling class have decided will be normal. I will no longer be complicit in a genocide. Free Palestine.” From the river to the sea!
akasha
This isn’t even the first self-immolation we’ve seen in protest of Israel’s US-backed atrocities after October 7; back in December an unnamed protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate building in Atlanta. News got buried. Remember Norman Morrison who set himself on fire in 1965 below McNamaras office to protest the vietnam war.
akasha
This action may have been inspired by Thích Quảng Đức and other Buddhist monks, who burned themselves to death to protest the repression committed by the South Vietnam government of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem.
akasha
Don't let the self-immolation and subsequent death of Aaron Brushneel in protest of the on going genocide in Palestine go in vain.
akasha
It’s 2024 and he still felt this was the only way this issue might get the attention it deserves - goes to show how the global leaders have fallen well below par to the standard they ought to hold themselves to.
RIP, Aaron Bushnell. Thank you for speaking up for what’s right. The picture below explains why he had to resort to this extreme step. As he burns, an israeli embassy security staffer pulls a gun on him
akasha
Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza
Dont look away
akasha
I don't really cry much but I shed a tear when I saw the video. There's an intense moral clarity to what Aaron Bushnell did. He understood his actions. But because liberals are verboten from acknowledging his self stated rationale for his extreme actions, he must be "unwell."
akasha
A friend described Bushnell as 'the kindest, gentlest, silliest little kid in the Air Force'
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“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.” Aaron Bushnell
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This is what the horrors of a warmongering, apartheid, murderous state, & making people complicit in their genocidal violence, drives people to.
RIP Aaron Bushnell.
Thoughts with his family & friends.
akasha
"The Genocide is Gaza is not only a crime against Palestinians, but against the whole world. Children throughout the world are traumatized watching and hearing about Gaza. Your children."
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@FrankFrank The protestor is correct. People in Gaza are being burned alive, are suffocating to death under collapsed buildings, are having operations and amputations without anesthesia, are starving to death, are watching their loved ones die in front of them, are experiencing suffering of a degree that very few of us here in the west can even imagine. And our ruling class is absolutely attempting to normalize this for us. but then you are not human i guess.
Frank Frank
A mentally ill man.
But then again, the extreme fundamentalist ISIS, Al Qaeda, AQAP, Houthis, Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihadi, & the Anti-West, Pro-Terrorism/Jihadi/Intifada dupes do love their Martyrs.
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