Media Smears U.S. Airman's Cry: 'Free Palestine!'

Contrast to coverage of Tibetan immolations exposes rank hypocrisy

• Aaron Bushnell appears calm before carrying out his ‘extreme protest’

• First time serving military has immolated self like this

• His last words and immolation have the power to shatter complacency

• The death of a Vietnamese monk was spread across the world’s front pages

• The BBC gave full publicity to 160 Tibetan monks who did same over 20 years

• The media’s response is very different; aligns with propaganda objective

• His act has a long history of colonial protest abroad and upon American shores

• Alice Herz, Norman Morrison and Roger LaPorte among many

• Dismissing it as suicide is to silence his voice, along with 2.3 million others

• Do not be quick to judge, less we tar a person’s most profound decision

• Globalists are seeking ‘one think’ where the slightest protest is not possible

• Everything about Gaza is proving to be a test case for Western society

(2,500 words or about 12 minutes in remembrance).

On June 11, 1963 Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese monk burned to death at a crossroads in Saigon.

Feb 26, 2024

The media is censoring Aaron Bushnell’s death by immolation — unlike the 160 Tibetan monks and nuns that the BBC has reported in the past decade.

He barely made the headlines; most newspapers do not even show his face; and in less than 24 hours he has lost column inches to Alexei Navalny.

Some reports omit that he was serving military; others suggest he was mentally ill Trolls dismiss his act as senseless.

It raises a question: what is a sense-full act? No-one promotes suicide but he was military and he was prepared to give his life for a cause: he simply re-evaluated which cause was worth dying for.

Bushnell clearly refused to comply. Does that make him insane — and what exactly is the accusation leveled against him?

This is a profound question that demands answer in the face of silence from the Zionist-controlled discourse in politics and media.

Media ignores him; social media sock puppets ridicule his death; politicians are desperate to avert his legacy.

Extreme protest

Aaron Bushnell is Gen Z, he is military. His refusal to comply, even in uniform, sends a powerful message that will not be lost on the youth.

Bushnell knew that. He is thought to have a wife and child — hard to confirm since the media is silent. He expressed his love to his family before his final act.

The trolls reaching for every inanity cannot smother this. We are seeing massive censorship as expected.

Long history

In March of 1965 a German-Jewish woman, Alice Herz protested against the use of Agent Orange to burn civilians in Vietnam.

She was the sister-in-law of a prominent Suffragette, Margarete Herz.

Alice had been born in Hamburg in 1882 and had lived through WWI already in her thirties, becoming an activist for the democratisation of Germany.

When things went the other way, she left Germany in 1933 for Switzerland and in 1942 arrived in the United States, settling in Detroit.

She continued her activism and in 1965 wrote an open letter to president Lyndon B. Johnson saying he was using military power "to wipe out whole countries of his choosing.”

By then she was aged 82.

On March 16, she set fire to herself on a Detroit street, dying 10 days later. She had told friends beforehand that she had used every method, demonstrating, marching, protesting and writing numerous letters and articles to no avail. In 2003 a square in Berlin was named, Alice Herz Platz.

On Nov 2, 1965 Norman Morrison, a Quaker, walked to the Pentagon, below the office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

He took with him his one year-old daughter Emily, whom he handed over to a person nearby.

Morrison's wife Anne later recalled, "Whether he thought of it that way or not, I think having Emily with him was a final and great comfort to Norman... She was a powerful symbol of the children we were killing with our bombs and Napalm, who didn't have parents to hold them in their arms.”

Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu, known as the revolutionary voice of Vietnam, would compose, “Emily, My Child” in which Morrison would explain his act to his daughter. The family would later visit Vietnam to meet the poet. [1]

A week after Morrison, a member of the Catholic Workers, Roger Laporte, who once had trained to be a monk, would set fire to himself in front of the United Nations building in New York. He died the next day.

A Jew, a Protestant and a Catholic had given their lives in order to reject the murders committed in their name.

Aaron Bushnell’s family agreed to share the video of his immolation. Though it is painful to watch, it is not as painful as it was for Aaron, who soon succumbed to his injuries.

Bushnell is calm and discusses his act for several minutes as he walks to the Israeli embassy.

“I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared with what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all.”

"This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."

This is exactly the point I and others have been making: that the events in Gaza are intended to normalise the violence meted upon women and children.

Bushnell, wearing his Air Force fatigues, placed his phone so that it would film him, expressed his love for his family and, after struggling with the lighter for a moment, was engulfed in flames.

The NYT reports: "Standing in front of the embassy gates, he set his phone down to film dousing himself in a clear liquid from a metal bottle. He then lit himself on fire while yelling “Free Palestine!” until he fell to the ground."

See the use of the word "yelling" — the Daily Mail said he “shrieked.” Why not cried out, since that would accurately describe his pain if you listen to his last words?

There is no empathy in the words of these reporters. They would clinically and coldly delete the story if ordered.

He was able to shout "free Palestine" five times before his screams became indistinct and he collapsed.

Despite standing at the main gate of the Israeli embassy, no-one came out immediately with a fire extinguisher. There was a long delay — the first act of an Israeli embassy security officer was to point a gun at Bushnell as he flailed in the flames. A passing police patrol tried to put out the flames.

One mind

Bushnell’s death is a push back against the trend in society towards bridled complacence.

For decades we have seen education replaced by schooling in ideology, not how but what to think.

We have seen for four years how the truth can have little impact once a person has committed themselves, or been locked in, to "their truth" which may be nothing more than attitudes adopted wholesale from the media.

The problem we face is not to describe reality more accurately, for minds have already been made up.

The testing ground was Britain with its class system, where people are raised to fear that their position in society is determined by what others think of them. The Tavistock Institute found fertile ground and many unwilling test subjects (the British government last year banned the Tavistock’s transgender experiments).

The press dangles the straw man that you may be deemed a "conspiracy theorist" who believes everything: that the Coof shot is poison, and therefore must be a Flat Earther, who thinks the Moon landings were faked, but that Elvis is there.

An example just from today: An infuriated Navalny supporter told Australian media today that anti-vaxxers & Putin supporters are ‘dangerous’.

Who’s mad?

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” - Frank Herbert.

The pathological seek to twist society to their benefit.

Israel is an example, in which the political window is now right, far-right and militarist. A commentator said that while mature individuals in their 50s and 60s were more holistic in their outlook, perspectives became more narrow and extreme as you go younger. The youth are the most militaristic cohort in society. [2]

The Israeli commentator Gideon Levy said in his column in Haaretz, that there is no realistic alternative or opposition to prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Israel is a state with one voice, one view and one opinion, that repeats: ‘Together we will prevail’.” [3]

The reader might say this has its parallels in American society where declining economic opportunities have produced fiscally conservative shift in Millennials and Gen Z - but it is a different case.

Israeli youth are simply a more insulated example of ideology-as-education. First the population has been propagandised and terrorised, from the Birthright "tour" of concentration camps, in which fear drives patriotism to neurosis; then as a laboratory for Pfizer, as prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasted.

Israel is being manipulated in order to normalise the treatment of people in Gaza. Naturally, Israelis can't see that for they have been traumatised. But I just don't understand how people with the benefit of distance cannot see it.

Once united in this way Israel became the wedge or pivot with which to try to shift international morality, to normalise ethnic cleansing and land grabs on a much bigger scale than Paradise, California, or Lahaina in Maui, Hawaii.

American children are on the same production line, unless their parents lift them off. Super Bowl in the middle of Feb explicitly targeted young voters, using Taylor Swift as the arrow to reach an impressionable audience: students who are told they are the worlds best-ever educated, the digital natives, while being the most indebted and indoctrinated in history.

The objective seems to be “one think” - not compliance, which involves assent, but reflexive responses.

Science is being changed in schools to Earth Sciences (managed outcomes); and textbooks now promote "empathy" — the goal is to get the “correct” response on a range of approved views: abortion, end of family or worship. [4]

Enterprising educators even have facial expression monitors which can infiltrate children's notebook cameras to add another level of "scoring" as the pupil reads the text.

Where is the empathy for Aaron Bushnell in the sewage that poured today from journalists?

Psychol-ia-trists have taken over schools. Counsellors are as prominent as teachers. The "mental health" of children takes priority over education. School results are replaced with screening.

Compliance will be enforced with digital passports, linked to online rights and injectables.

See Ursula’s Digital Wallet Is A Sow’s Ear (Dec 28, 2023)

We are compliant in this. Remember the image of New Year’s Eve, as Paris welcomed 2024... not a person using their eyes.

1. The fact that almost every single person is recording on their phone, there is no apparent collective joy, as if almost nobody is truly living in or cherishing the moment.

2. Then in the center of the crowd are a small group of people trying to bring attention to the slaughter in Palestine, waving the flag.

Is this not evidence that the mass has been disconnected from real life, while “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers” in centre of the crowd cry out: “What can’t you see?”

This was Aaron Bushnell’s cry. His last words: “Free Palestine.” And if the NYT says he “yelled” or the Daily Mail says he “shrieked” it does nothing to diminish the power of his words, and the tossed Kleenex of theirs.

[1] Emily, Child, by Tố Hữu.

Emily, come with me

Later you'll grow up you'll know the streets, no longer feel lost
- Where are we going, dad?
- To the banks of the Potomac
- To see what, dad?
Nothing my child, there's just the Pentagon.
Oh my child, your round eyes
Oh my child, your locks so golden
Don't ask your father so many questions, dear!
I'll carry you out, this evening you go home with your mother...

Washington
Twilight
Oh, those souls
That remain or are lost
Blaze, blaze the Truth!
Johnson!
You fucker, your crimes accumulate
All humanity detests
The yellow demon upon this earth.

You cannot borrow the crimson waters
Of God, and Buddha's yellow.
McNamara
Where are you hiding, asshole? In the burial yard
Of a five corner building
Each corner a continent
You still squeeze your head
Inside hot flames
Like the ostrich buries its head in the scorching sands

Look over here!
Look at me right now!
Oh it's not only me with my little daughter in my arms
I am Today
And my daughter, oh Emily, you are forever!
I stand awake,
With the great heart
Of a hundred million
Americans.

To flame, light up the horizon
A light
Of Justice.

Hey all you fuckers, pack of devils
In whose name?
You bring B52s
Napalm, poison gas
From the White House
From Guam

To Vietnam
To liquidate peace and national freedom
To incinerate hospitals and schools
Murder people who only know love
Murder kids who only know going to school
Murder green fields, four seasons of leaves and blossoms
And even murder rivers of poetry, music and art!

In whose name?
You bury the bloom of our youth in coffins

Oh, those strong, handsome sons
Who can transform nature to into electricity, steel
For people's happiness today!

In whose name?
You bring me to dense jungles
Spiked pits, muddy fields of resistance
Villages that become fortress that disperse to reappear
Nights and days where the heavens and earth shake and jolt
Oh Vietnam, a strange land

To the children who become heroes
To the wild bees who train to be warriors
And the trees and flowers become weapons!

Go ahead and die, die
All you jerks, a pack of demons
And I ask that you listen, my America!
To the voices of pain, of eternal hatred
Of a child. Of a person of this century

Emily, oh child!

It's beginning to get dark...
I can carry you no further
When I ignite, light up as a flame
Tonight, your mother will come find you
You'll hug her and kiss
Her for me
And tell your mother this for me:
I left happy, mother don't be sad!
Washington

Twilight
Remains or is lost?
It's come, the moment when my heart's brightest
I set fire to myself
So the flames dazzle
Truth.

[2] Daily Beast, 2022 - Israel’s Rising Far-Right Can Thank the Youth Vote

[3] Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Feb 25, 2024: Israel Has No Real Alternative To Netanyahu

[4] Springer, 2023 - Optimizing Empathetic Response by Generating and Integrating Emotion Feedback and Topic Discussion