Or let it be the death knell for militant-political Colonial Genocidal Zionism, the worst of the worst examples of Western Colonial ideologies.
Young Mr. Bushnell: may you find peace in your principled/ultimate humanity. The Prince of Peace is surely observing "I have noted this act of sacrifice during this Lenten season, and I am pleased by the 'faith with works' spirituality of my child Aaron Bushnell."
I guaranty you never read all of Darwin's works if any at all and just go by popular cultural second hand repeated "common phrases" and typical trite opinion on it. The lame and "weak" comes from your own ignorance and sheep mentality to go along with the herd group think
That he could predict you would..no point in bothering to educate such a typical run of the mill drone like you but darawin showed in his own studies that dog eat dog is not a long term survival strategy but cooperation is, and he further warned not to have humans organize society that way..but here you are.
Calling me an arogant person while ranting away in unhindered arogance as a "come back"? yup you definetly fully suffer from higharch fallacy thinking ..climb your little ladders and hide behind "polite" society like you all do and puff up like a peacock all you like..it won't change your circumstances
My understanding of the theory of natural selection is mostly based on Daniel Dennett's penetrating work, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. It's a challenging but still accessible walk through the science available for a non-scientist. Here's what's stupid about you, Chaz. You presume I don't understand evolution or natural selection based on nothing. We've had no conversation. Note you immediately mount your steed of intellectual superiority - based on nothing.
Indeed, eusociality is the 'special sauce' of human social evolution, as E. O. Wilson confirmed in his work. Group selection is quite fascinating as well. Also, you vapid troll, I never stated 'survival of the fittest' is the best model for a society. I was merely weighing in one what a moron this guy who virtue signaled himself into flames and death was. That triggered you to presume a whole bunch of stuff about me that isn't true.
In the real world that's called bias and bigotry. Get that, Chaz - you are highly biased and bigoted in your thinking and speech. That's what you've revealed here. You are a rhetorical thug. Move along, son, you've got nothing to teach anyone other than how to be an arrogant fool.
The other highly reviealing thing about you type that is so telling is you all start with that same phrase calling people "son" as a derogatory tactic to lessen them in your own mind so YOU can take the superior position ..anyone that does that right off the bat is clearly stuck in the psycology of the hiarchy fallacy you all suffer from and I was spot on about you in that too.
Your own words belie you..
Talk about a "thug" your little ego got bruised so you turned into one and then did the typical cry out in pain as you are striking people.. I'm guessing you suffer the ziopathology of defenders of Israel.
High probability you are the one assumed a fool and supremacist ...and you just acted that out yourself ...
Oh I get your type right off.
Not getting why Aron might have done it then saying he got a Darwin award denonstared your bias and bigotry in one paragraph right from the start..you are full of shit and now we both know it.. No empathy no compasion no integrity,,just a "study" and skewed perception ..
Zionist trolls like you are a dime a dozen.. You might read but you fail to understand . I'm sure you consume copious amounts of Jim Jones main stream fruit punch too..no I'm not wrong about you at all..
But no mention of the woman who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta? Dec 1st? Down the memory hole so soon? Or just not important cuz she’s a woman?
I've reiterated numerous times in the past month, in this space and others, to friends, political foes, Israel apologists, America-first sheeple, and others that I absolutely reject my identity as an American citizen -- with deep embarrassment and with cold entendre toward the criminal US government . But no amount of my verbiage could possibly express that rejection like this singular act by Aaron Bushnell. While I know I should watch Aaron's sacrifice as a tribute to his bravery, I also recall my profound distress watching that Buddhist monk immolate himself during the Vietnam war, and I fear the depth of my own emotional response and the memories it might dredge to the surface further magnifying my hatred for what my country has become (or has always been). So I choose to cowardly refrain from watching. Nonetheless, I salute you, my brother in peace, Aaron Bushnell.
No confusion in my mind. Elected or unelected, the government -- and most of its alphabet agencies -- are corrupt as hell (been there -- I've seen it first-hand). But, my friend, it takes individuals, from the rest of "the country" to acquiesce and participate in that corruption. In my opinion, we have reached or are approaching a critical mass of those blubbering self-serving acolytes. Hence, my feelings about "the country" are far from positive. My allegiance is to the biosphere, not bloody America. Got another opinion? Welcome to it.
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. Everyone in power claims to answer to, act on behalf of, and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so.
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here.
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind .
Boy howdee, could I provide examples; but they'd be folks in overfunded DOE programs you never heard of. Your examples are apropos, but the pisser is that there's a herd of them out there (in there?) that most folks will never know about because they manage programs that'll never see the light of day -- because public scrutiny might generate excessive outrage among real journalists with a voice like Greenwald or Taibbi -- or heaven help him, Julian or whoever's got the helm at Wikileaks.
Maybe…. This is my sigline on the blog I call home.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
No it doesn’t matter because the people running our government were never voted in so how can we vote them out? One of many statements Caitlin has made that stuck in my mind.
Until we get money out of politics we will always have bought politicians who do the bidding of those who bought them. How we can do that is the $64 million question.
Lol, and now we know you are dopey. Dual U.S.- Italian citizenship is very doable for someone who can prove they are of Italian descent. Naturalizing in Italy as a non-Italian descended person is open to all people who reside their legally for 10 years under a visa. My guess is you have a criminal record or are a financial mess, cuz they will screen for that kind of thing and exclude you. Or perhaps you just ran your mouth in the interview they way you do here on Substack, giggling. But why stop at Italy? I mean you hate it SO MUCH, there are many nations you can easily emigrate to and renounce your U.S. citizenship. Can you scrape together 250k? You can be a citizen of Antigua in 9 mos if you do. Maybe you should start a GoFundMe? I'd contribute say 50 bucks to the cause of chucking your ass out of this country, no problem. I bet you'd find lots like me who will contribute to fund your exit.
Go find someone else to troll, you pitiful ad hominem wretch. I wouldn't stoop to justify my life to merda like you. Parlo Italiano molto bene. Sono capabile di prosperare dappertutto. Al contrario, lei è cretino della prima qualità. Cazzo-testa. Va fa in culo. Andate al inferno e bruciare per sempre.
Most of your accusations are false and have been proven false. But you believe what you want to believe. The era we live in is post-history and post-truth.
Most of what you wrote has been debunked. But what you do not know or choose not to know is the fact that Palestinians have been brutalized by Israel since the founding of this monstrosity called Israel. Do you expect all Palestinians to quietly submit to this? Israel had its terrorists and some went on to become PM like Menachem Begin. Google Haganah, Lehi, Irgun, Stern and Engels groups. I do not support attacking innocent children for any reason and the Palicide going on in Gaza and the West Bank is on another level of evil. If you can defend this current horrific action you can defend anything.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that a small army of researchers are busily searching Bushnell's history and social media, seeking any pretext with which to discredit him.
"Aha!" the glib courtiers cry out "Aaron Bushnell misgendered someone in 2018. He is An Officially Sanctioned Bad Person and All Right Thinking People must ignore and formally denounce him."
Being in Texas, he could have borrowed my gun for such immolation purposes. Though I would have tried to talk him out of it, persuading him towards an eternally greater mission.
Ahh, having lived through a fellow Marine's funeral after suicide i'd never let anyone inflict that kind of pain on their family and friends left behind...
That's almost exactly what they did: as if it were a "fire":
"Officers with the U.S. Secret Service extinguished the fire outside the embassy, in northwestern Washington, around 1 p.m. on Sunday, said Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman with the city’s fire department. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
No embassy staff members were injured, and all were accounted for, according to Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the embassy."
EVEN WORSE, they injected a terrorism angle:
"The police also investigated a suspicious vehicle nearby for explosives, but Sean Hickman, a police spokesman, said the scene had been cleared by 4 p.m. Officers with the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had worked with Washington’s explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate the incident."
They also did not name Aaron Bushnell in the article that I read, although they seemed to have everyone else’s name. Classic erasure technique. Effers.
Good. It definitely wasn’t in the version that I read just before I posted that comment. I reread to make sure, as it was a version very late in the game to have that omission. Too late. I’m hoping this means the story is gaining traction.
"The video showed law enforcement officers approaching him shortly before the fire caught. One could be heard off-camera saying: “Can I help you, sir?” The officers then scrambled for more than a minute to put out the flames."
Absolutely insane. Well it's the same for those cargo containers that are safe after they bomb the Yemen people into dust, you know you gotta have your priorities!
Absolutely, Mike. They’ll clean up the steps as though nothing ever happened. And I highly doubt this man’s act of incredible bravery will get so much of a mention in the MSM.
Aaron intended to make the ultimate sacrifice for the people in Gaza.
Rachael was trying to save a families home and continue the struggle for justice, and would be still if the IDF not murdered her. Her government under the bush/CHENEY administration and every administration since refused to do an investigation as requested by her family, friends and witnesses. Now we're enabling a genocide. It's who we are and will continue to be if we stay in our highly restricted lanes.
I am told that the europress is already dutifully bleating that Bushnell was "mentally unstable". No diagnosis or anything needed, nothing here to see.
Ain't it funny how they can determine these things (as well as the cause of Navalnyii's death) without anything like a formal medical diagnosis, but Biden's obvious and worsening dementia of course cannot be confirmed.
Bushnell seems to have been the sane one. “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.”
In a book called 'Jagged Orbit', John Brunner described a world in which futuristic health authorities developed a mental / pschological profile based on average values and behaviours. As the world went crazier ( which many can see happening now ) the profile changed accordingly so that when someone perfectly sane and rational appeared they were declared insane and institutionalised for "treatment".
This might sound cruel, Caitlin, but I’m glad this stupendously brave gentleman has passed on. No one needs to live after being incinerated with the resulting pain and disfigurement. He has gone on to his greater reward and I hope he’s now residing in Shangri-la.
The bravery! The willingness to endure such pain! I personally could shoot myself in the head on the steps of the IsraHelli embassy ( and curse those steps so that my blood never washes off; Gypsy curses are very effective) but I couldn’t do what this incredible martyr has done.
I have actually considered this, but as you mention, Caitlin, the press would just say, Well, she suffered from mental illness (because I medicate for depression). I’m sure something of the like will be said of this brave airman.
It’s still not out of the question. Perhaps enough of such instances might actually draw the attention of the press, who are sure to sweep this one under the rug.
Then there’s the absolute DUMBFUCK cop pointing a gun at him. I swear that’s the America I want to do away with…the moronic fucking idiot White America that I’d like to send into the Sinai along with Netanyahu and his band of Zionists.
When you say "White America"- you are part of the problem. Manufactured racial divisions are a control mechanism of the corrupt "elite" the World over.
I’ll be more specific. White America equals Christian Nationalists (by and large White) who, for some, this is a fulfillment of their Revelation wet dreams; suburbanites who are more worried about their real estate taxes than they are about people living - or dying a horrific death - on the other side of the world (also largely White); and the like who think “Law and Order” is the path to civilization. That’s not manufactured; it’s created by its participants.
No. It is not. These are the pretenders. Did you know Christ set an example of 'dying' so that others may live?' The pretenders want others to die, that they may live. Someday I hope you get the distinction. But you're not the only one deceived. The PSYOP is as old as the Church.
yes, that's the tragedy of it. But the Lord said of many who will approach him in that day, and say 'Lord Lord', he'll reply - "Depart from me all you workers of iniquity - 'I never knew you".
..and the ministers that preached prosperity and self serving feel good messages - ignoring the godawful events of their day, will be beaten with many stripes. (If they make it into the Kingdom at all)
Yeah, how's Santa Klaus these days? This is nothing but another form of control for milking the poor and getting your poor enemy to fight for your right to kill them. Propaganda for the hopeless.
Then leave "race" out of it, only thing my white skin means is I have an easy time getting a sunburn. If genetics determined ideology then the Nazis would have been right.
We could broaden to Western and/or Eurocentric…but White privilege is how we got here in the first place. Because the Anglos weren’t really comfortable with Jews repopulating to their countries so that’s how they came up with the idea of creating Israel. And now Jews seem more White to Westerners than Palestinians, who btw are not all Muslims - many are Christian - but they still look less White by and large. And because we discard Brown and Black people the world over (there are really horrific things happening in Sudan now, too), we tend to “whitewash” abuses to those populations. So you really can’t leave “White” out of the path of blame.
If there’s one thing you can count on in US foreign policy, it’s blindness. They will not change course. They will pretend this personal sacrifice didn’t happen and stick to the only thing they know how to do: mass-killing oeople for profit.
Todays news:
“…Several Nato and EU members considering sending soldiers to Ukraine, Slovak PM says
Reuters reports that several Nato and European Union members are considering sending soldiers to Ukraine on a bilateral basis, Slovak prime minister Robert Fico said on Monday…….”
Now of course this is because the U.S. government is telling them to send their children to die in Ukraine.
So much for and idea that the this sacrifice will prompt any self reflection or a change of course.
But then again Snowden could have told you that up front, 10 years after he sacrificed the life he knew.
Aaron Bushnell's dedication is humbling. He decided to take on the pain endured by the Palestinians in Gaza and everywhere. Happy travels in that other place.
What a powerful piece. I have been trying to get people to make connections between Germany 1930 and the USA 2024. I ask them why "never again" only means the 6 million Jews who were cremated, not the millions more who looked the other way?
Thanks you got there before I could! I have pictures and the Red Cross documents which clearly show the number was just over 380 thousand. The 6 million came before WW1! and continued to be 6 million all the way on from 1905 onwards to today. Guess who primarily showed the number of 6 million? You guessed it The New York Times!
Everyone chooses sides. Even by not choosing a decision is made. Aaron Bushnell made the ultimate sacrifice for Palestine. Julian Assange is about to be Sacrificed by the evil Genocidal maniacs as well. Martyrs to be treated as the hero's they are. They acted to show the world the evil around us to call our attention to the atrocities. We should never forget Aarons selfless act. We should NOT allow Julian's Persecution. We need to bring the zionist Empires wars to an end NOW.
The fact that a US military person, of all people, would sacrifice his own life in protest is highly significant. While the elites will not care, more ordinary people will start to pay attention.
Let the name and memory of Aaron Bushnell be a rallying cry for peace
Or let it be the death knell for militant-political Colonial Genocidal Zionism, the worst of the worst examples of Western Colonial ideologies.
Young Mr. Bushnell: may you find peace in your principled/ultimate humanity. The Prince of Peace is surely observing "I have noted this act of sacrifice during this Lenten season, and I am pleased by the 'faith with works' spirituality of my child Aaron Bushnell."
Viva Palestine/Falasteen!
Hind
Hind Rajab
I think he's up for a Darwin Award...
If Darwin was a real thing you would not be here to comment
So Charles Darwin wasn't 'a real thing'? Natural selection isn't a real thing? Try harder to be clever, this was so weak.
I guaranty you never read all of Darwin's works if any at all and just go by popular cultural second hand repeated "common phrases" and typical trite opinion on it. The lame and "weak" comes from your own ignorance and sheep mentality to go along with the herd group think
That he could predict you would..no point in bothering to educate such a typical run of the mill drone like you but darawin showed in his own studies that dog eat dog is not a long term survival strategy but cooperation is, and he further warned not to have humans organize society that way..but here you are.
Come on you arrogant ponce, where's the snappy comeback now?
Calling me an arogant person while ranting away in unhindered arogance as a "come back"? yup you definetly fully suffer from higharch fallacy thinking ..climb your little ladders and hide behind "polite" society like you all do and puff up like a peacock all you like..it won't change your circumstances
My understanding of the theory of natural selection is mostly based on Daniel Dennett's penetrating work, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. It's a challenging but still accessible walk through the science available for a non-scientist. Here's what's stupid about you, Chaz. You presume I don't understand evolution or natural selection based on nothing. We've had no conversation. Note you immediately mount your steed of intellectual superiority - based on nothing.
Indeed, eusociality is the 'special sauce' of human social evolution, as E. O. Wilson confirmed in his work. Group selection is quite fascinating as well. Also, you vapid troll, I never stated 'survival of the fittest' is the best model for a society. I was merely weighing in one what a moron this guy who virtue signaled himself into flames and death was. That triggered you to presume a whole bunch of stuff about me that isn't true.
In the real world that's called bias and bigotry. Get that, Chaz - you are highly biased and bigoted in your thinking and speech. That's what you've revealed here. You are a rhetorical thug. Move along, son, you've got nothing to teach anyone other than how to be an arrogant fool.
The other highly reviealing thing about you type that is so telling is you all start with that same phrase calling people "son" as a derogatory tactic to lessen them in your own mind so YOU can take the superior position ..anyone that does that right off the bat is clearly stuck in the psycology of the hiarchy fallacy you all suffer from and I was spot on about you in that too.
Your own words belie you..
Talk about a "thug" your little ego got bruised so you turned into one and then did the typical cry out in pain as you are striking people.. I'm guessing you suffer the ziopathology of defenders of Israel.
High probability you are the one assumed a fool and supremacist ...and you just acted that out yourself ...
Oh I get your type right off.
Not getting why Aron might have done it then saying he got a Darwin award denonstared your bias and bigotry in one paragraph right from the start..you are full of shit and now we both know it.. No empathy no compasion no integrity,,just a "study" and skewed perception ..
Zionist trolls like you are a dime a dozen.. You might read but you fail to understand . I'm sure you consume copious amounts of Jim Jones main stream fruit punch too..no I'm not wrong about you at all..
But no mention of the woman who burned herself to death outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta? Dec 1st? Down the memory hole so soon? Or just not important cuz she’s a woman?
Perhaps how he did it and the fact he was a service man was why it got this much coverage ..
I've reiterated numerous times in the past month, in this space and others, to friends, political foes, Israel apologists, America-first sheeple, and others that I absolutely reject my identity as an American citizen -- with deep embarrassment and with cold entendre toward the criminal US government . But no amount of my verbiage could possibly express that rejection like this singular act by Aaron Bushnell. While I know I should watch Aaron's sacrifice as a tribute to his bravery, I also recall my profound distress watching that Buddhist monk immolate himself during the Vietnam war, and I fear the depth of my own emotional response and the memories it might dredge to the surface further magnifying my hatred for what my country has become (or has always been). So I choose to cowardly refrain from watching. Nonetheless, I salute you, my brother in peace, Aaron Bushnell.
Don't confuse the largely unelected Government with the country.
No confusion in my mind. Elected or unelected, the government -- and most of its alphabet agencies -- are corrupt as hell (been there -- I've seen it first-hand). But, my friend, it takes individuals, from the rest of "the country" to acquiesce and participate in that corruption. In my opinion, we have reached or are approaching a critical mass of those blubbering self-serving acolytes. Hence, my feelings about "the country" are far from positive. My allegiance is to the biosphere, not bloody America. Got another opinion? Welcome to it.
Democracy, as a practical matter, is basically an exercise in passing the buck, in avoiding responsibility. Everyone in power claims to answer to, act on behalf of, and derive their authority from someone else, going ultimately back to "the people" who themselves do not directly exercise power, and who would find it difficult to exercise as a collective action problem, even if they had the formal authority to do so.
What this means is that real power is often in the hands of unelected bureaucrats, who typically don't even want to stand for election because they don't want the voters to know what their programs are, much less to exercise any oversight. Robert Moses is the classic example here.
Even that minimal level of scrutiny is too much for some, and real power is often exercised by people not formally part of any government structure. Corporate lobbyists or Robert Kagan come to mind .
Boy howdee, could I provide examples; but they'd be folks in overfunded DOE programs you never heard of. Your examples are apropos, but the pisser is that there's a herd of them out there (in there?) that most folks will never know about because they manage programs that'll never see the light of day -- because public scrutiny might generate excessive outrage among real journalists with a voice like Greenwald or Taibbi -- or heaven help him, Julian or whoever's got the helm at Wikileaks.
No argument, there. It's not like "all we gotta do is root out the Clinton Crime Family(R) and we got the problem licked!" or whatever.
That's for sure!
End secrecey and censorship, then "We the People" will fix the problems. You can't have ignorance and self-governance.
100% correct.
THE PEOPLE: Education in the US is one of the worst in the world so how do we expect 'the people' to even know: How their Govt. works?
Yeah, but who are we supposed to vote for this time? (grammar intentional, bill wolfe, take note)
I heard vote blue no matter who. I like the color.
PS: "color" reference borrowed from this hilarious "what the fuck's the yemen?" short: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RVggjugBoh4
Does it matter?
NO. It doesn't matter! It seems to me that the people in control (ZIONISTS) will not allow any other party to even exist!
Democrats are the worst. Vote blue! The DNC will not allow anyone other than their pick.
the people don't even know who they are voting for and why!
Maybe…. This is my sigline on the blog I call home.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
No it doesn’t matter because the people running our government were never voted in so how can we vote them out? One of many statements Caitlin has made that stuck in my mind.
Until we get money out of politics we will always have bought politicians who do the bidding of those who bought them. How we can do that is the $64 million question.
Whom to vote for? I heard about Something Horrible 2025™ and I thought it meant must go blue.
The 'country' is half dead!
Only too late when the other half joins the grave.
Statistically speaking most of the USA is populated with the brain washed and brain dead propaganda soaked sheeple.
I couldn’t agree more with you, Vin.
When I attend the local rodeo this summer ( I don’t attend a lot of events) I’ll be taking the knee during the Star Spangled Fucking Banner.
thanks for the laugh.
Cool, have you renounced your citizenship and left yet? Don't let the door hit you in the ass on thee way out, we are glad to be rid of you.
No, I tried that a bunch of years ago, but Italy was too smart. They didn't want any part of fucking cretin Americans. Like yourself.
Lol, and now we know you are dopey. Dual U.S.- Italian citizenship is very doable for someone who can prove they are of Italian descent. Naturalizing in Italy as a non-Italian descended person is open to all people who reside their legally for 10 years under a visa. My guess is you have a criminal record or are a financial mess, cuz they will screen for that kind of thing and exclude you. Or perhaps you just ran your mouth in the interview they way you do here on Substack, giggling. But why stop at Italy? I mean you hate it SO MUCH, there are many nations you can easily emigrate to and renounce your U.S. citizenship. Can you scrape together 250k? You can be a citizen of Antigua in 9 mos if you do. Maybe you should start a GoFundMe? I'd contribute say 50 bucks to the cause of chucking your ass out of this country, no problem. I bet you'd find lots like me who will contribute to fund your exit.
Go find someone else to troll, you pitiful ad hominem wretch. I wouldn't stoop to justify my life to merda like you. Parlo Italiano molto bene. Sono capabile di prosperare dappertutto. Al contrario, lei è cretino della prima qualità. Cazzo-testa. Va fa in culo. Andate al inferno e bruciare per sempre.
Ah, so you do have a criminal record or are a deadbeat, got it.
YOU MAKE A STAND ... resend your citizenship.... and then LEAVE
Do you not understand the Hamas terrorists BAKED A BABY IN AN OVEN
They've RAPED women over and over in front of their family members
They KILLED young men and women at a concert in the beautiful sunrise of the day
And they refuse to allow Palestinian mothers and children to leave and use them as shields
Worse than your lies is that the truth, according to the UN, is the opposite: 'Detained "Palestinian women and girls subjected to forms of sexual assault" - https://mikehampton.substack.com/p/detained-palestinian-women-and-girls
you mean the UN ... the SAME UN that was actually PART of the attacks .. yeah, that's a great source
Most of your accusations are false and have been proven false. But you believe what you want to believe. The era we live in is post-history and post-truth.
Most of what you wrote has been debunked. But what you do not know or choose not to know is the fact that Palestinians have been brutalized by Israel since the founding of this monstrosity called Israel. Do you expect all Palestinians to quietly submit to this? Israel had its terrorists and some went on to become PM like Menachem Begin. Google Haganah, Lehi, Irgun, Stern and Engels groups. I do not support attacking innocent children for any reason and the Palicide going on in Gaza and the West Bank is on another level of evil. If you can defend this current horrific action you can defend anything.
I’m on the opposite side of the political spectrum as you but we agree on this! The folks on this thread are insane.
Thank you for those beautiful words.
A beautiful article, Caitlin. The ending is magnificent.
"This is who we are."
And you can bet your bottom dollar that a small army of researchers are busily searching Bushnell's history and social media, seeking any pretext with which to discredit him.
"Aha!" the glib courtiers cry out "Aaron Bushnell misgendered someone in 2018. He is An Officially Sanctioned Bad Person and All Right Thinking People must ignore and formally denounce him."
NY Times reports he was stationed in "Texas" - that's enough for the NYT crowd to dismiss him.
"Aha! You know what *that* means!"
Seriously, that's a dogwhistle so clear that a cat can recognize it.
He didn't look like a steer to me, lol.
How tall are you, private?
Five-foot-nine, I didn't know they stacked shit that high!
Ha! Good one.
Being in Texas, he could have borrowed my gun for such immolation purposes. Though I would have tried to talk him out of it, persuading him towards an eternally greater mission.
Ahh, having lived through a fellow Marine's funeral after suicide i'd never let anyone inflict that kind of pain on their family and friends left behind...
And wait for the chorus of simps and simpletons, declaring that protesting Israeli atrocities is "inherently antisemitic".
n.b. I truly hate my autocorrect.
I’m guessing that the New York Times will report with relief, that no damage was done to the Israeli embassy during this attempted arson.
They’ll do their best to disappear this brave humanitarian.
That's almost exactly what they did: as if it were a "fire":
"Officers with the U.S. Secret Service extinguished the fire outside the embassy, in northwestern Washington, around 1 p.m. on Sunday, said Vito Maggiolo, a spokesman with the city’s fire department. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries.
No embassy staff members were injured, and all were accounted for, according to Tal Naim, a spokeswoman for the embassy."
EVEN WORSE, they injected a terrorism angle:
"The police also investigated a suspicious vehicle nearby for explosives, but Sean Hickman, a police spokesman, said the scene had been cleared by 4 p.m. Officers with the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had worked with Washington’s explosive ordnance disposal unit to investigate the incident."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/middleeast/israel-embassy-man-on-fire.html
They also did not name Aaron Bushnell in the article that I read, although they seemed to have everyone else’s name. Classic erasure technique. Effers.
The story was updated at lest twice - the latest 10:08 am EST version includes his name - I think the earlier version I read had his name.
Good. It definitely wasn’t in the version that I read just before I posted that comment. I reread to make sure, as it was a version very late in the game to have that omission. Too late. I’m hoping this means the story is gaining traction.
Washington Post..............didn't allow comments?
and they did NOT report the cop - gun response:
"The video showed law enforcement officers approaching him shortly before the fire caught. One could be heard off-camera saying: “Can I help you, sir?” The officers then scrambled for more than a minute to put out the flames."
👏👏👏
Absolutely insane. Well it's the same for those cargo containers that are safe after they bomb the Yemen people into dust, you know you gotta have your priorities!
Any ideas why the Secret Service were the first responders? That seems odd.
Absolutely, Mike. They’ll clean up the steps as though nothing ever happened. And I highly doubt this man’s act of incredible bravery will get so much of a mention in the MSM.
I can’t unsee what I’ve seen.
Any decent human being, on site at the time, has to be profoundly effected.
I’ve “shared” a “link” to the unedited version with some “acquaintances”.
They’ll probably hate me for it.
Tough shit.
If this kid can do this much, tell me I can’t do more.
Heroes-super?
My dynamic duo-
Aaron Bushnell
Rachael Corrie
The world changed today, at my house.
Nice seein’ ya.
What interests me is the 'calling him mad.
I posit that Aaron was in the Air Force at this time.
IF the AF considered him fit to do his job how come he is now 'mad.?'
Aaron intended to make the ultimate sacrifice for the people in Gaza.
Rachael was trying to save a families home and continue the struggle for justice, and would be still if the IDF not murdered her. Her government under the bush/CHENEY administration and every administration since refused to do an investigation as requested by her family, friends and witnesses. Now we're enabling a genocide. It's who we are and will continue to be if we stay in our highly restricted lanes.
Write-in Rashida Tlaib for president, be better.
I am told that the europress is already dutifully bleating that Bushnell was "mentally unstable". No diagnosis or anything needed, nothing here to see.
Ain't it funny how they can determine these things (as well as the cause of Navalnyii's death) without anything like a formal medical diagnosis, but Biden's obvious and worsening dementia of course cannot be confirmed.
HE was in the f...ing Air Force! Do they employ madmen and women?
All the time, why?
Bushnell seems to have been the sane one. “A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.”
― St. Antony the Great
In a book called 'Jagged Orbit', John Brunner described a world in which futuristic health authorities developed a mental / pschological profile based on average values and behaviours. As the world went crazier ( which many can see happening now ) the profile changed accordingly so that when someone perfectly sane and rational appeared they were declared insane and institutionalised for "treatment".
Sounds like "precrime" as found in 1984. Supposedly, the Nazis were researching a comparable concept.
Are you, by chance, *the* famous Mr. Fish?
I must not be.
I’m not famous.
Locally infamous.
The famous Mr. Fish that I know, has his ink (artistry) on my left arm.
I hope that answers your question.
Aaron Bushnell* :(
I wondered that too, Feral.
It's working. He is already forgotten.
Seen at a local cemetery:
The man who created autocorrect has died.
Restaurant in pieces.
This might sound cruel, Caitlin, but I’m glad this stupendously brave gentleman has passed on. No one needs to live after being incinerated with the resulting pain and disfigurement. He has gone on to his greater reward and I hope he’s now residing in Shangri-la.
The bravery! The willingness to endure such pain! I personally could shoot myself in the head on the steps of the IsraHelli embassy ( and curse those steps so that my blood never washes off; Gypsy curses are very effective) but I couldn’t do what this incredible martyr has done.
I have actually considered this, but as you mention, Caitlin, the press would just say, Well, she suffered from mental illness (because I medicate for depression). I’m sure something of the like will be said of this brave airman.
It’s still not out of the question. Perhaps enough of such instances might actually draw the attention of the press, who are sure to sweep this one under the rug.
May this incredible soul rest in eternal peace.
You're not cruel. Ever seen someone badly burned? Ever SMELLED them? I have. Death was a mercy.
Then there’s the absolute DUMBFUCK cop pointing a gun at him. I swear that’s the America I want to do away with…the moronic fucking idiot White America that I’d like to send into the Sinai along with Netanyahu and his band of Zionists.
When you say "White America"- you are part of the problem. Manufactured racial divisions are a control mechanism of the corrupt "elite" the World over.
I’ll be more specific. White America equals Christian Nationalists (by and large White) who, for some, this is a fulfillment of their Revelation wet dreams; suburbanites who are more worried about their real estate taxes than they are about people living - or dying a horrific death - on the other side of the world (also largely White); and the like who think “Law and Order” is the path to civilization. That’s not manufactured; it’s created by its participants.
..the people who support genoicide, no matter who is carrying it out, are not Christians.
Right! Are you fucking kidding me! This is standard "Christian" behaviour since the beginning of Christianity.
No. It is not. These are the pretenders. Did you know Christ set an example of 'dying' so that others may live?' The pretenders want others to die, that they may live. Someday I hope you get the distinction. But you're not the only one deceived. The PSYOP is as old as the Church.
but some of them claim that they are Christians
yes, that's the tragedy of it. But the Lord said of many who will approach him in that day, and say 'Lord Lord', he'll reply - "Depart from me all you workers of iniquity - 'I never knew you".
..and the ministers that preached prosperity and self serving feel good messages - ignoring the godawful events of their day, will be beaten with many stripes. (If they make it into the Kingdom at all)
Yeah, how's Santa Klaus these days? This is nothing but another form of control for milking the poor and getting your poor enemy to fight for your right to kill them. Propaganda for the hopeless.
Then leave "race" out of it, only thing my white skin means is I have an easy time getting a sunburn. If genetics determined ideology then the Nazis would have been right.
We could broaden to Western and/or Eurocentric…but White privilege is how we got here in the first place. Because the Anglos weren’t really comfortable with Jews repopulating to their countries so that’s how they came up with the idea of creating Israel. And now Jews seem more White to Westerners than Palestinians, who btw are not all Muslims - many are Christian - but they still look less White by and large. And because we discard Brown and Black people the world over (there are really horrific things happening in Sudan now, too), we tend to “whitewash” abuses to those populations. So you really can’t leave “White” out of the path of blame.
Well said, K Miller.
“White” is what led to the near-extermination of the indigenous peoples of North Amerikkka.
Your comment breaks heart. It makes me think, this poor young martyr died for nothing. People still don’t get it.
“Dumb fuck cop” is right on. Whatta bunch of retarded skinheads. Hate ‘em.
If there’s one thing you can count on in US foreign policy, it’s blindness. They will not change course. They will pretend this personal sacrifice didn’t happen and stick to the only thing they know how to do: mass-killing oeople for profit.
Todays news:
“…Several Nato and EU members considering sending soldiers to Ukraine, Slovak PM says
Reuters reports that several Nato and European Union members are considering sending soldiers to Ukraine on a bilateral basis, Slovak prime minister Robert Fico said on Monday…….”
Now of course this is because the U.S. government is telling them to send their children to die in Ukraine.
So much for and idea that the this sacrifice will prompt any self reflection or a change of course.
But then again Snowden could have told you that up front, 10 years after he sacrificed the life he knew.
They are stating that Ukraine is now being put into NATO! The fucking Nazi bastard in charge of NATO just said so. WW3 is on the way.
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Powerful and sensitively written Caitlin
Yes. A fearless prayer for humanity…if it still exists in those who witness genocide and do nothing.
YES
I hope people pay attention to the message he was so desperate to convey. Free Palestine!
Aaron Bushnell's dedication is humbling. He decided to take on the pain endured by the Palestinians in Gaza and everywhere. Happy travels in that other place.
What a powerful piece. I have been trying to get people to make connections between Germany 1930 and the USA 2024. I ask them why "never again" only means the 6 million Jews who were cremated, not the millions more who looked the other way?
Excellent point.
Thanks you got there before I could! I have pictures and the Red Cross documents which clearly show the number was just over 380 thousand. The 6 million came before WW1! and continued to be 6 million all the way on from 1905 onwards to today. Guess who primarily showed the number of 6 million? You guessed it The New York Times!
I agree, but there is a time and place for this.
Everyone chooses sides. Even by not choosing a decision is made. Aaron Bushnell made the ultimate sacrifice for Palestine. Julian Assange is about to be Sacrificed by the evil Genocidal maniacs as well. Martyrs to be treated as the hero's they are. They acted to show the world the evil around us to call our attention to the atrocities. We should never forget Aarons selfless act. We should NOT allow Julian's Persecution. We need to bring the zionist Empires wars to an end NOW.
Thank you Caitlin🙏
The fact that a US military person, of all people, would sacrifice his own life in protest is highly significant. While the elites will not care, more ordinary people will start to pay attention.
I could not bare to watch after he lifted the canister, and I cried. “And is happening again”
Stop the Genocide end apartheid!