“I work for the air force and would also have no right to complain about violent resistance.”
When Aaron Bushnell, an Antifa member and Air Force Airman, set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington D.C., Hamas supporters in this country made him into a martyr.
Cornel West praised Bushnell’s “extraordinary courage and commitment,” Roger Waters celebrated him as an “All-American Hero” and the media emphasized his military role.
In reality, Aaron Bushnell was a member of radical anarchist groups on social media, he wanted to leave the Air Force and cheered the killings of members of the U.S. military.
When three black Army soldiers were murdered in an Iranian-backed Islamic terror attack back in January, Aaron Bushnell posted it to the Antifa ACAB (All Cops are Bastards) Reddit group with a mocking “OhNoAnyway.jpg” meme.
“The cops are the domestic military and the military is the international police. They are bad for the exact same reasons,” Aaron Bushnell posted in the ensuing debate.
Bushnell believed that Islamic terrorists killing U.S. military personnel was justified, arguing that, “I work for the air force and would also have no right to complain about violent resistance against my actions.”
In a previous exchange he warned another user against joining the military and argued again that the murder of Americans was justified. “The US DoD is one of the most powerfully evil institutions to ever disgrace the face of this planet. You will have blood on your hands that you will never be able to wash off. There are many people who suffer under the imperial boot who would have every reason to wish you dead, and they would be justified. Don’t do it.”
When asked by another anarchist as to whether joining the military would provide him with the skills to conduct domestic terrorism, Bushnell appeared skeptical. “
It’s very unlikely that you get any kind of ‘proper training’ that would be useful in a revolutionary context,” he suggested. The military was “a neo-feudal institution plugged into the broader neoliberal system. It runs on nothing but coercion, toxic masculinity, and brainwashing.”
Aaron Bushnell’s comments reveal that he wanted out of the Air Force and believed it was evil.
“I joined thinking I was doing my part to make the world a better place. Then I realized we’re the baddies, and the only way to make the world a better place is to get out,”
Bushnell, who died in support of the Hamas war against Israel, not only supported the Islamic terror group, but also justified the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.
“Israel is a white supremacist, ethnonationalist, settler-colonial apartheid state….It has no right to exist,” Bushnell argued. He claimed that all the Jews could be killed because “there are no Israeli ‘civilians’” and that Israel was “the closest thing the world has to the Nazis”. Exterminating Israelis “wouldn’t be genocidal but actually perfectly reasonable, as Israelis are settler-colonizers” and described Hamas as an “anti-colonial resistance organization”.
“Israel’s existence can’t be justified in the first place, it’s a colony of the US and UK. It has imposed apartheid, displacement, and extermination on the Palestinian people since its inception. No aggression against the Israeli colony can be condemned by non-Palestinians.”
The murdered Israeli families in nearby towns had it coming because they were “colonizers” and “I don’t get to claim it’s a violation of my human rights if some of those people come and kick me back out of that house or throw a molotov at it or kidnap me.”
Aaron Bushnell compared Hamas to the “diverse coalition in Star Wars” and dismissed people “clutching their pearls over” the killing and rape of young Israelis at the Nova music festival because there “are no innocent civilians in seller colonialism”.
“That music festival was happening just three miles from Gaza,” Bushnell contended. “Imagine a similar event happening in the early days of the colonization of North America. Can you or I really say that Indigenous people are wrong for retaliating against colonizers who are rubbing their domination in their face?”
Aaron Bushnell believed that the destruction of America was as justified as that of Israel.
How extreme were Bushnell’s views? We know that he was a member of multiple anarchist groups including those advocating violence. He at varying times defended Communism as an ideal and in a reply to “Are there any Marxist-Leninist here?”, commented, “I highly recommend The Bolsheviks and Worker’s Control to anyone interested in the history of Lenin’s praxis”.
���Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society, so whatever society you’re talking about clearly isn’t communist,” he argued. True Communism had never been tried.
In comments on a user’s celebration of his 99-year-old father’s military service in the Korean War, Bushnell argued that American pilots were war criminals and colonizers. He claimed that North Korea’s offensive was spurred by resistance to American colonialism.
Aaron Bushnell had started out as a radical leftist and, like many in anarchist spaces, had come around to viewing Islamic terrorists as resistance movements against American colonialism. When defending the Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, he sneered, “as if a poor country committing piracy against imperial trade would be bad”.
Beyond geopolitics, Bushnell had adopted every possible radical belief from legitimizing crime to animal liberation. His Antifa associations led him to declare everyone else a fascist.
“Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds,” he wrote.
America was inherently bad and the only redemption for it was a violent revolution.
“Electoral politics is letting the fascists win,” he claimed. When responding to Biden’s senility, he posted, “I couldn’t care less about this ableist bullshit. He’s bad because he’s the President of the United States. That’s that.” Anticipating a violent civil war, he posted, “Our choices are not Biden or Trump. Our choices are genocide or revolution.”
He anticipated the day when “the power of the bourgeoisie will dissolve because they made the fatal blunder of profiting off of the working class.”
Despite being white, he loathed white people, declaring that, “whiteness needs to be abolished” and denounced “transphobia” and “TERFS” or women who oppose transgender men.
Aaron Bushnell claimed that “marriage is also mutually exploitative and coercive” and condemned “human supremacy which is destroying humans, non-humans, and the entire planet”.
“The idea of crime was invented by rich people to describe behavior they didn’t like,” he contended, and argued that “defrauding” a company is “morally superior to giving it money.“
Finally the man who set himself on fire to support Islamic terrorists who would have cheerfully killed him, with his consent, posted that, “sanity is a myth constructed to justify brainwashing and marginalization of people who cannot or will not conform.”
What happened to Aaron Bushnell to turn him into this? Like a lot of directionless but clever young men, he went down a rabbit hole of extremism that eventually led to violence. A review of his social media shows little in his life except radical politics and video games. Bushnell had grown up in an abusive leftist cult that wrongly described itself as “Christian”.
The experience appeared to have left him with a hatred of Christianity, so that he posted, “the Real Jesus™️ only looks like a half-decent role model compared to the monstrosity that his followers created… Jesus can fuck off with his demagoguery.”
Searching for some structure and direction, Bushnell joined the Air Force, but then was indoctrinated into anarchist leftist groups which provided him with his sense of identity. While pictures often show him in the uniform he wore when he killed himself, off-duty pictures commonly show him wearing red. And he began taking part in Antifa protests.
The Air Force under Biden had launched a campaign to root out “extremism”, but that meant extremists that the leadership and the administration disagreed with. Bushnell was one of a number of personnel who openly supported terrorism and hated America who stayed on.
Bushnell had been preparing to leave the Air Force and transition to civilian employment, and yet he decided to exploit his uniform by turning himself into a martyr against America.
Narcissism and emotional instability were certainly in the mix. But Bushnell had also been failed by his family, which raised him in an abusive elite liberal cult, by a society and a government which mainstreamed extreme leftist views and by a military which failed to intervene.
In the end, Aaron Bushnell spun out of control. Like other Islamic terrorist supporters, he might have opened fire at a military facility, instead he chose to martyr himself for Hamas.
His death will be used by Islamic terrorists and Antifa to recruit more young men like him.
The Bushnell case is a wake-up call about actual extremism within the military. Someone recruited him and someone encouraged him to kill himself. National security begins with finding and exposing the Islamic terrorists and extremists inside the United States Air Force.
SKA says
While the death of any person, and particularly a death by suicide, is an occasion for sorrow the life and death of Aaron Bushnell amounted to a Reductio Ad Ash-surdem of his morally twisted beliefs.
Marian says
Awareness of muslim extremism in the military always brings to mind the Fort Hood shooter. Major Nidal Hassan, MD. Why haven’t our armed forces learned from that experience to be more proactive about rooting them out?
gravenimage says
Good question, Marian.
tharmon says
What a scumbag. Slaughtering families in their homes is not resistance. It is murder. Good riddance to that POS.
maria says
yes good riddance may he roast in hell
SKA says
I think suicide is a despicable and cowardly act that inflicts terrible undeserved mental anguish and suffering on one’s family and friends.
While Greenfield mocked Bushnrlk’s family as members of a lefty Christian cult I feel nothing but sorrow for his poor mother and the rest of his family.
I was very shocked that this guy said “F U” to Jesus. Although I myself do not believe in Jesus I thought this was a horrible thing for a person with a Christian background to say. Weirdly it never crossed his mind that this would also be perceived by Muslims as blasphemy because they revere Jesus as one of their prophets.
The fact that this incongruity between Bushnell’s anti-Islamic blasphemy and his supposed solidarity with Palestinian Muslims never crossed the minds of Cornel West or Roger Waters exposes their shallowness and insincerity. It also exposes the religious hypocrisy of all Arabs or Muslims who are expressing fake grief over his death.
gravenimage says
SKA wrote:
Weirdly it never crossed his mind that this would also be perceived by Muslims as blasphemy because they revere Jesus as one of their prophets.
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Yes and no, SKA. Much as Muslims like to tell Infidels how much they “respect” Jesus, in reality Musims often sneer at Jesus and Mary and other Christian figures. This is probably because the “prophet Isa” is *nothing* like the Jesus of the Gospels.
Greyhound Fancier says
It’s the flip side of when Jesus said, “Abraham rejoiced when he saw my day”. In Islam, Jesus rejoices to see Muhammad’s day. Jesus is definitely subordinate to Muhammad in Islam. One reason I deplore Islam is that nonsense about Jesus is taught to Muslims, consequently Muslims do not think that they need to correct their thinking about a Jesus and learn of Him.
gravenimage says
“Prophet Isa” is subordinate to Muhammed, Greyhound Fancier–but Jesus is often excoriated outright.
gravenimage says
Aaron Bushnell, Who Burned Himself Alive, Cheered Murder of U.S. Soldiers
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I hate to see anyone take their own lives–but I have to say I don’t think that Bushnell will be much missed.
OLD GUY says
Whats terribly sad here is this man should have been in a mental health facility of which our country stopped supporting 50 to 60 years ago. Mental health is a major problem on the streets of America, because we lack mental health institutions, and fail to treat and protect these individuals and society.
WPM says
Foolish man whose self hate ,following blindly cult practices ,and traitorous weak will lead to him killing himself. He hated himself(white man) hate the arms service he belong to ,hated the country he swore an oath to protect .His narcissism need for attention and infantile self centered belief system he believed in lead to his stupid death .He was a clear and dangerous man to all other people he serviced with in the arms service ,so at least other did not kill others ..
FYI says
you mean..”Scratch an antifaman , a fascist bleeds”
Remarks calling for the extermination of Jews come either from a Nazi or a..Bolshevik.
antifa claim to be anti fascist but they support the religious fascism of hamas.
antifa are far left bolsheviks.Fascists and bolsheviks are both sides of the same coin.
Like muslims they just never seem to get how ironic their position is.
islam is THE religion of peace,antifa are anti fascists.Sure whatever.
And as the koran teaches “the moon was split in two” koran 54:1-2
Ok sure…no foolin’…
gravenimage says
So true, FYI.
Kuffar says
Air Force guys will do anything to get out of doing PT’
martin walden says
Too funny!
FYI says
Cornel West should read koran 3:106-107
Enjoy..
hamas believe in the koran.
Jerry says
Misguided burning ambition.
tgusa says
Ho goody. The lunatics are off the grass and in the US military. I heard they had lowered the standards but my gosh. Also, the ABU he is wearing is flame resistant so he failed in that regard as well. Must have been painful.
It is said that life is hard and it is even harder when you are stupid. These days we can add painful to that saying.
James Lincoln says
tgusa,
Military uniform likely made of Nomex.
James Lincoln says
According to the feature article:
“Despite being white, he loathed white people, declaring that, “whiteness needs to be abolished”
Apparently, he hated himself.
tgusa says
“Despite being white, he loathed white people, declaring that, “whiteness needs to be abolished”
I would have said, you first, but he already did us that favor. My only complaint is he didn’t notify us whites of his self-immolation so we could have stopped by and roasted some marshmallows. What a selfish guy.
bob millington says
islam.. sons of the prince of the power of the air.
FYI says
How a self loathing white leftie shaves
{looking in the mirror}you talking to me?Cos I don’t see anyone else here do you?Who the hell do you think you are talking to?Travis Bickle?Look at you with your white privilege. weirdo. cuck-oo
It’s all your fault whitey![punches mirror}come on,come on tough guy let’s see what you got?Oh yeah?
C’mon c’mon let’s do this whitey.
Namer says
The only good thing this guy accomplished was improving the gene pool by taking himself out of it.
RG says
What does Secretary of Defense Austin and Mark Milley have to say about this “extremism “?
WPM says
Austin was missing from his job for over a month for elective surgery(December 2023),his back up was missing on Vacation in Puerto Rico for that month ,if you want an answer leave a message on his phone I guess. He is now answering questions before Congress of his AWOL for the month of December 2023 ,by the way his “boss” Biden was not aware no one was in charge in his absents. .Mark meal time Milley retired he is most likely working for a lobby firm to make the new gay rainbow flag the official new flag of America arms service with new uni-sex uniforms and sex changes monitory for all new recruits .
Ben says
Good riddance.
Jerry says
Misguided burning ambition.
Richard Edward Dillon says
>>> Bushnell was insane. He could have wound up in a hospital like Western Psyck. Some insane people can piece together a rant like the one in the article. It’s when they never stop ranting, that they are on a tape loop, going around in circles, that they are recognized to be cut off or cut out of human community. <<<