The US Air Force late in the day Sunday confirmed that one of its own active duty members was the man who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC in order to protest the Gaza war.
While in military uniform, the man was heard saying he “will no longer be complicit in genocide” and then self-immolated, an act recorded in live-streamed video which has since been removed from his Twitch channel. The US Air Force issued a statement through a spokesperson saying “I can confirm an active duty Airman was involved in today’s incident.”
The man has not been officially identified, but he was heard saying that his name is “Aaron Bushnell”. He had also been recorded as saying that what he’s about to do was minimal compared with the suffering and plight of the Palestinians, according to CNN.
“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,” he said before lighting himself on fire. “This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,” he had added.
The Washington Metropolitan Police Department said in the aftermath: “The Metropolitan Police Department responded to the 3500 block of International Drive, NW, at approximately 1:00 p.m., to assist the United States Secret Service after an individual set themselves on fire in front of an embassy in the block.”
The man is reportedly in critical condition after being transported to the hospital. According to a description of the grim scene just before the flames were extinguished:
He then sets the recording device on the ground before pouring an unknown liquid over himself and igniting it while yelling “Free Palestine” repeatedly. He eventually collapses as police officers rush to douse the flames with fire extinguishers.
Apparently the US Secret Service had been the first on the scene and were the ones to extinguish the blaze. The man’s injuries are said to be “life-threatening”.
The bizarre and rare incident is being investigated by the US Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). No Israeli embassy staff members or bystanders were hurt in the incident.
Media reports have since confirmed that Bushnell is 25-years old who may have been seeking discharge from the military:
The Air Force officer who set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in DC in protest against the war in Gaza was an ‘aspiring engineer’ and seeking to ‘transition out of the military’.
Aaron Bushnell, 25, was hospitalized in critical condition on Sunday after he doused himself in accelerant and struck a lighter, causing his body to become consumed by flames. DC Fire and EMS said he sustained ‘life-threatening injuries’.
According to more from The Daily Mail, he appears to have been involved in radical far Left groups:
The active-duty airman is a DevOps engineer based in San Antonio, Texas, according to his LinkedIn profile. He touted himself having ‘very good communication skills’ and ‘thriving in team environments’.
Bushnell is pursuing his bachelor’s degree in computer software engineering and is CompTIA Security+ certified, a credential that indicates he has the baseline skills to perform core security functions and pursue an IT security career.
He has apparent links to at least two anarchist groups, Burning River Anarchist Collective and Mutual Aid Street Solidarity – both of which are based in Ohio. Bushnell followed the groups on Facebook.
It’s actually not the first time this has happened on US soil in response to the Gaza war, where at this point close to 30,000 Palestinians have died, according to Gaza sources. In December a person self-immolated in front of the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.
That initial incident received scant media attention, and no information about the protester’s identity or even gender were released. Police had only described “likely an extreme act of political protest” – after which the person was hospitalized with severe injuries.
Atlanta’s police chief had said at the time that “police are aware of heightened tensions in the Jewish and Muslim community and have stepped up patrols at certain locations, including the consulate.” But again, curiously these extreme forms of ‘protest’ have received little attention in media, possibly because the imagery is so disturbing.
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Crazy people walk among us daily. It’s best to stay out of big cities and crowds.
fine line between bravery and madness
This will wake the sheep up that something is really wrong. Not good for our globalists.
Yep.
This will change the course of history.
Nope.
The way to do that is to stop bowing to the false jewish gods.
As long as you idiots keep bowing to the God they fabricated and then imposed upon your ancestors?
You will be their bitches.
And the jews inside laugh. “Look at that stupid goyim sheigetz light himself on fire out there! What a meshuggenah! L’Chaim!!”
Saw a photo of a tweet, allegedly from Mossad’s twitter, saying exactly that.
While I agree about the genocide. I wouldn’t light myself on fire for the Palestinians. I was talking with much younger people last night and they sure are confused about our criminal organization in Washington.
We know they be trippin’ when the anarchists run a collective, belong to separate organizations for mutual aid and espouse mainstream leftist, socialist totalitarian ideas.
Redefine words to satisfy yourselves, morons, what IS a woman, after all? A person setting himself on fire in a public act of protest used to be a pretty big deal. I remember when the Buddhist monks did it protesting the war against the communist international in Vietnam, it caused a world wide sensation.
Now it’s all relative. This crypto-Marxist joke stroke faux anarchist latter day hero of the revolution sucker of the Moslem appendage crispified his fatty tissue and the smaller muscles completely for the cause du jour which is as phony and illiterately presented as current readings of the communist manifesto at the indoctrination camp of your choice be it Harvard or your local community two year jazz.
Globohomo has oversold itself to the extent that -genuine- anarchy is not only on the horizon, it may be right around the corner. The bogus leftist version demonstrated in the article is as dead as most of this fellow’s epithelium.
I would prefer to go out with a gun in my hand.
ankle deep in brass?
This is a very effective form of protest and hope to see democrats widely adopting this tactic in all paid and unpaid democrat “protest” events.
It is a very ineffective form of protest. It only works if the visuals are perfect and all the media want to push it.
Manchurian Candidate Aaron Bushnell completes his mission.
You have to starve the way your enemy starves in order to understand him.
If Israel has to burn in order to understand, then let the ring of fire commence.
Self-immolation is the sign that things have already gone too far, it is a sign where ‘easy to control’ emotions of hatred / anger are coming to a end, and the times begin where people stop caring&sharing: no reward is acceptable, nor is any punishment large enough to deter people.
This is the time where people ransack and burn entire cities, just to watch the flames.
Ignore at your own peril.
Sun Tzu:
“Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue.”
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I would assume that anything that happens from here on out, regardless of how ridiculous, is going to be blamed on the J’s historic long dead enemies: the Nazis.
We’ll ignore the fact that Blacks, Arabs and Hispanics are not from Europe, much less have any fascist/Nazi connections to Old Europe, but as long as they protest and destroy parasitical fiat banking, they become Nazis.
Don’t worry (white people). When we become the calm center in a raging hurricane of revolution, they will come crawling back for their greater reset 3.0
Just give them the (Irish mentality, Molotov cocktails), close the borders down, and everything will be fine
When the world goes cannibalistic, it is a real good feeling when you can hide out in your well protected country, within your own house, with protected borders 360 degrees.
Too bad I am not thinking about the west right now…
The NAZIs were/are the Jews. Does this help: AshkeNAZI
Astonishingly ineffective. A self-sacrifice of no benefit.
With more brains he could have been a million times more effective, changed his sex, and run for Congress.
This is what the anti white hatred of the USA military does to young white men.
He was antifag and blm. He was also supremely gay.
I believe I saw a screen grab of his social media. It had that latest symbol addition to the Rainbow Flag that supposedly represents pedophiles who are now attempting to ride the Rainbower’s backs to wide acceptance.
When the gov wanted our best and brightest I had no idea they wanted human torches.
Doesn’t that just burn you up?
Burn baby burn!
Dipso inferno!
The power of leftist propaganda ……. it’s so terribly sad.
The guy clearly got faulty instructions from the lord of the manor.
As of late, the “leftists” have been running up the score in crazy.
….and the 3 letter soup worries about right extremists…..lol
Too bad numbnuts didn’t make a more direct impressionable statement, if ya catch my drift.
Without seeing it with my own eyes I don’t believe ANYTHING from the government or its media mouthpieces. This is another Boston marathon, sandy hook, parkland…..
As a former smoker, and ex-USAF, Auntie can tell y’all, the Air Force will do this kind of shit to you from the inside out. Bad. Anyway, at least in this airman’s case, Bushnell was vaxxinated or it could have been worse.
Excellent protest however. The Gaza Atrocity is a true reign of terror against the Palestinians. It makes Auntie want to vomit.
*Pity his tactical gear wasn’t Nomex.
You thinking that booster induced brain swelling might have played a role in that wise decision?
I don’t understand why he didn’t take some Jews with him . What a waste of an act of immolation.
It was not an act of martyrdom, it achieved nothing for ending suffering. All this selfish act did was to create an horrific mess for others to deal with.
He did, however, get his 15 minutes of fame, along with a couple minutes of flame.
What a goddamn flamer rofl.
He was hoping to change the course of history like the sand nigger of Arab Spring. Nobody told the fuckin’ ginger that only works if you AIN’T WHITE.
The ultimate act of narcissism. “Look at me! You ignored me and now you’ve lost me forever!”
How fucking dramatic. So feminine. So vaginal. So where did I put that fire extinguisher?
Antifa bonfire…someone should have told the Leftist tool to never go full retard…
This is not good. The military is supposed to screen out unstable people like this before they get in. As standards for our military get lower and lower expect to see more cases of aberrant behavior by our military. Luckily, he did not turn his wrath on his fellow airman. Incidents like this will further drive down recruiting numbers. US military may be entering a personnel death spiral. As less come in and more get out readiness will be down for all services across the board. Our clueless Congress should be bringing back the draft. However, that requires Congress to do actual work, and there is no money in it for them so it will probably never happen.