Aaron Bushnell burned as “bonzo” in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC, because for sure he could feel what so many can not.
He felt the carnage of the childrens and women of Gaza in his own consciusness, unbearable.
Clearly he expressed in a last social media message, his determination: he wanted to do something to stop the genocide in Gaza, to stop the massacres there and in the whole Palestine, to set a clear message for justice denuncing the murderous aberration and the impunity of the criminal perpetrators seeking for normalizing the slaughter.
He abandoned the rethorical discussions and selfish auto-idealizations, and burning inside of pain and shame, he set his body in fire …
And he did set on flames all the falacies and manipulations and verbal acrobatics of the psychopaths of the western regimes, all of them are in fire, as well as the mask of “civilization”.
He incarnate our collective consciusness and collective suffering.
He build a burning bridge of bonzos between this genocide and the other in Vietnam1, both at the hands of the same criminals, other persons, but the same project.
The imperial project was in the last time exposed and on trial: he put now inextinguishable flames on it.
To all the miserable pundits in the washington postesses alike: you can´t level with your stupid lackeyish smearings the highest of his sacrifice for the palestinian people.
He was atune and in control of his life and of his death: he offered the most precious gift you had, life itself, to a cause simply expressed, as his last words on earth in middle of the flames, as an angel in pure light: FREE PALESTINE
FREE PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE FREE PALESTINE
This day he wrote on facebook: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”
In his video before self-immolation: “My name is Aaron Bushnell, I am an active-duty member of the United States Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m 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. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal,”
He was 25 years old.