Aaron Bushnell and Hamas Flambé
Aaron Bushnell had to be suffering from mental issues. At least, that is the first reaction. The 25-year-old U.S. Airman from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, traveled from San Antonio, Texas, where he was stationed, to the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and lit himself on fire to protest Israel’s actions in Gaza. He died from his injuries. The left is celebrating him as brave. Hamas has cheered his actions.
Yes, one has to be brave and/or crazy to pour gas on oneself and light up.
The reaction from normal people is that Bushnell is another young man suffering from mental issues. But, dive in, and Bushnell appears to be a committed communist partisan who railed against colonizers, etc. Cornell West praises him for showing “extraordinary courage and commitment.”
Regardless of his state of mind, Aaron Bushnell committed suicide by self-immolation to support the cause of an evil group that blows up themselves and others. Now, contemplating the state of mind of a white guy in the Air Force who’d light himself on fire while screaming “Free Palestine,” consider how the left is cheering this behavior on as a courageous stand. They’ve already roped a bunch of fragile white kids into believing they can undergo chopadickectomies and addadickectomies as normal, routine medical procedures. Now, they want to add self-immolation into the mix. The left is a suicidal cult now heralding a suicide as heroic.
Notice how all progressive policies ultimately end in the elimination of people.
Having gone from eating tide pods to choking on cinnamon to chopping off breasts and penises, the next TikTok craze will be setting yourself on fire.
This sordid situation with the Airman reminds me of people on the right who lionized Ashli Babbitt, a veteran whom a Capitol police officer shot and killed on January 6, 2021. Babbitt, according to security camera footage, tried climbing through a window to open the door to a mob as members of Congress were fleeing in the background. A Capitol police officer did his job and held back the mob by stopping Ashli Babbitt. She died thinking she was on the right side of history, as did Aaron Bushnell. To this day, revisions on the right refuse to grapple honestly with what Babbitt was doing and complicit in.
Both were provoked to action by lies. Babbitt was convinced she was saving the country. Bushnell thought he was on the side of the victims.
The reality, in Bushnell’s case, is no one in Gaza would be affected by Israel except for Hamas deciding to cut off the heads of babies, rape women, and kill over 1000 Israeli citizens. But Bushnell’s perverted view of the situation justifies all of Hamas’s acts. Israel, the supposed colonizer, has all the agency and Hamas is the victim with no agency.
The communists are celebrating Aaron Bushell. The rest of us should, frankly, welcome the death of another communist who decided to take his own life rather than the lives of others — something communists tend to do. He could have engaged in a mass shooting but lit himself on fire instead. It is sad, tragic, and far preferable to the violence the left tends to unleash.
The history of paganism finds them usually lighting Christians on fire. Instead, he lit himself on fire. We can call it a tragedy. The left thinks of him as a courageous warrior for truth and justice.
People have been lecturing me that Aaron Bushnell was suffering from mental illness, and their proof is that he lit himself on fire to protest Israel. Who, after all, would do that except for someone suffering from mental illness? It’s far easier to believe that than to accept he embraced a profoundly evil cause and sacrificed himself on Baʿal Zebub’s altar to advance that cause — a cause that excuses the decapitation of Jewish children, the rape of Jewish women, and the slaughter of Israeli citizens while condemning the quest for justice that slaughter provoked.
Perhaps Aaron Bushnell was both — crazy and committed to a cause. That would encapsulate the progressive left, which now chops off the genitals of children as sane and cheers on Hamas flambé as courageous.
Behold the healing power of and. Crazy. And evil.
By the way, and I am not making this up, some progressives are upset because others have used the phrase “Rest in Power” to mourn Aaron Bushnell’s death, and these upset progressives think it is disrespectful to use that phrase for a white guy, more so a white guy in the military even though he was a progressive. No, I am not making this up.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. 24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25 because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Ro 1:21–25). (2016). Crossway Bibles.
Good analysis, though you pass over an important point about Ashli Babbitt. It’s far from clear that she went to the Capitol that day with the deliberate intent to cause chaos and disruption. It seems more likely that she was foolish and carried away by the mob mindset. Perhaps not, but I think she lacked the commitment to an evil cause that this young man clearly demonstrated.
By next week Aaron Bushnell will be a forgotten footnote to the war in Israel. His protest will be vaguely recalled. The only people left to mourn his passing will be his family. And in Israel the war to stop Hamas will still go on. He will have accomplished nothing. What a foolish waste on his part.