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If you had told the average person that an anarchist or an airman had set himself on fire to protest Israel’s campaign against Islamic terrorists, you would get two very different reactions.
Unsurprisingly the media led with the data point most likely to produce a favorable reaction. And Aaron Bushnell cynically played the same game, wearing (the wrong) uniform to his Hamas suicide attempt rather than the Antifa red in which he had been previously photographed.
The Washington Post gets around to admitting that Bushnell was an “anarchist”.
Less than two weeks before Aaron Bushnell walked toward the gates of the Israeli Embassy on Sunday, he and a friend talked by phone about their shared identities as anarchists and what kinds of risks and sacrifices were needed to be effective…
Lupe Barboza, 32, said she met Bushnell in San Antonio in 2022 at an event for a socialist organization. She said they bonded over their politics …
“He was outraged, and he knew that no one who is in charge is listening to the protesters out there every week,” Barboza said. “He knows that he has privilege as a White man and a member of the military.”
But the Washington Post then misleadingly suggests he was raised in a Christian cult.
Bushnell was raised in a religious compound in Orleans, Mass., on Cape Cod, according to Susan Wilkins, 59, who said she was a member of the group from 1970 to 2005. She said that she knew Bushnell and his family on the compound and that he was still a member when she left in 2005. Wilkins said she heard through members of Bushnell’s family that he eventually left the group.
The group, called the Community of Jesus, has faced allegations of inappropriate behavior, which it has publicly disputed. In a lawsuit against an Ontario school, where many officials were alleged to be members of the U.S.-based religious group, former students called the Community of Jesus a “charismatic sect” and alleged that it “created an environment of control, intimidation and humiliation that fostered and inflicted enduring harms on its students.” The school, now defunct, disputed the allegations…
Wilkins also said it is common for members of the Community of Jesus to join the military, describing the transition as moving from “one high-control group to another high-control group.”
All of this prompts WaPo readers to think that the Community of Jesus is some conservative group. The reality is COJ was a leftist cult that appealed to high-flying liberals.
They were two overweight boozing housewives who hid their drinking, their harridan brawling and their lesbian affair from all but a few obeisant servants. They lived like royalty with a private plane at their command, a Jaguar, a Bermuda estate and a flat in England…
And having founded an ultra-authoritarian Christian community that attracted the wealthy, the successful and often the mind-bruised to their compound on Massachusetts’s Cape Cod peninsula…
As word of the community’s formation spread through New England and across the United States, a handful of single women became the first to join, followed by young academics and professionals, people from business and government, and the socialite elite, refugees from the drug culture and hippiedom, many carrying the wounds of troubled and unhappy childhoods and looking for certainty in life, for rules, structure and something to belong to…
A 1985 article in Boston magazine characterized the C of J members as a “roll call €¦ from the Social Register and Who’s Who” — executives or children of executives of major corporations, an ex-chairman of the global accounting firm that is now Ernst & Young and former president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, an ex-assistant defence secretary, a former senior editor from Doubleday, family scions of Texas oil and agriculture money, the daughter of a former president of the New York Stock Exchange, a Rockefeller heiress (Isabel Lincoln Elmer, self-styled Cinderella Rockefeller), celebrity Christians such as Jeff and Carrie Buddington, former hippie drug dealers featured in Life magazine…
COJ’s leading ladies appropriated Christianity to found an otherwise generic cult. They were not religious per se until they started to run a faith-healing operation. If you doubt their politics, look at the laudatory New York Times orbit and the fact that most of the critical stories about COJ have come from conservative media outlets like The Boston Herald and Canada’s Globe and Mail.
Who’s the sort of person who would commit suicide in a graphic public way for his politics? Aaron Bushnell was a former leftist cult member who hooked up with anarchist and socialist groups in search of an identity and then killed himself for their approval.
He graduated from a cult to a death cult.
Thanks Daniel, for finding that info and setting the record straight. Contradicting the misleading MSM narrative.
Amazing how many lost souls like this have no clue of reality outside their self-induced psychosis.
The C of J isn’t a C of Jesus. It’s satanic.
thats why the psychosis works and so much of that surrounds religion.
You’re FOS as an outhouse!
An outhouse outside a Mexican restaurant.
A much greater proportion of atheists suffer from psychoses than Christians and probably all other religious adherents, considering how fanatically they try to suppress and harm Christianity (but not genocidal islam.) Moslems are the world leaders for psychoses but islam is a cult, not a religion.
Yes, good job.
I’m sick of the fake news media always trying to pretend nut jobs like Bushnell and typical mass shooters are conservatives when they’re the exact opposite.
I’m sure the fake news media will promptly correct their “mistake.”
Aaaron bushnell – Yemach Shemo.
He joins rachel corrie AKA Saint Pancake
and kayla mueller, another dead useful idiot, who assumed room temperature courtesy of isis
Sitting in front of an open D8 with a 6ft+ blade is incredibly stupid, much less an armored one. I wonder if she ever realized the driver couldn’t see her, so wasn’t going to stop. Oh well, one less flag burning anti-American terrorist supporter.
As a Christian, I realize I’m supposed to care for an Antifa anarchist who would self-immolate, but it’s too late for that care now…and the thing about freewill is that each of us are free to make bad decisions, just as this misguided young man did. The eternal consequences of that freewill come after.
Hamas and Antifa should be listed as Enemies of America and the American People
And enemies of the human race.
Along with Soros, Gates, Schwabe Radical Envromentalists and the United Nations
And the Beijing Biden administration and most Dirtbagocrats, although some of the dumbest ones mean well.
SOCIALISTS are also Enemies of America and the American People
They are the warring tribes, and cannot live in a civilized world, so therefore they make trouble whenever they can by creating conflict.
Antifa and BLM are both terrorist groups. The people like Yahya Brennan who claim Hamas isn’t a jihad terrorist group are liars who spew “kitman,” the lies to protect and strengthen islam.
Love Yahya Brennan, I call him Mullah B but yours goes that bit further. 😉
“Mullah B.” That’s a good one!
I mean seriously, who does he think he’s fooling with his identity and anti Trump calumny?
What angers me most are the tributes from those that, to borrow phrasing from another prominent leftist cult, “drank the Flavor-Aid” (For the record, Jim Jones served his followers Flavor-Aid, not Kool-Aid.) I’ve been seeing all sorts of tributes to this delusional fool on social media calling him a “martyr” for the cause of “freeing Palestine”. These Palestine cultists couldn’t care less whether he came from some leftist cult or not; he just feeds the narrative of “Israel bad, Palestine good.” As far as I’m concerned, he’s no more of a martyr than Timothy McVeigh.
He was going to take himself out somehow at some time in his life. Better he do it this way rather than shooting or blowing up other people. If only all Antifa/anarchists had the same thought process…
Now all he needs is barbecue sauce – and he will be well done
These marshmallows taste funny…
Hah! I only had the gut-wrench-settling idea that the guy was a complete jerk to go on when I first read the news — nice to know my gut reaction was so spot-on! More seriously, thanks for the history/explanation. Poor fellow was a complete mess, or as I learned to describe it earlier today, that in his case there was no “there” there.
He had to be a complete mess to immolate himself. As soon as he felt the agony I’m sure he regretted his decision.
It would be nice if all hamas supporters protested Israel that way. Do it for Palestine! Ya morons…
Yes, we can pass out lighter fluid and matches at college and university campuses to help them go out in a blaze of gory.
How did the town bike put it? One down….
Very perceptive take, Daniel. I was wondering how long it would take for people to suss out the fact that 50% of the pro-Pali protests are staged by islamist nutjobs and the other 50% are the usual suspects from the Antifa/BLM/woke crowd who simply like to get out and muck about. It seems that it didn’t take quite as long as I thought it might, given the rather ho-hum, too-bad-so-sad reaction to this self-imolating loser. The support for the Pali/Hamas crew is sorely lacking among normal people here in America who have long ago lost any sense of pity or sympathy for the always demanding Palis, who resemble nothing more than spoiled brats in the family of man. Yes, I get it, some of their ancestors got a bum deal back when the Brits decided it was a good idea to carve out a sliver of Arab territory and let the Jews settle in. The effect was sort of like what Biden’s cabal is doing to America now, bringing in a bunch of aliens and outsiders to disrupt the normal tranquility of American life so they can create their socialist utopia after it all crashes and burns. But life goes on, and three generations of Palis have done nothing to improve their own lot in life. Even their Arab “brothers” in Jordan and Egypt don’t want anything to do with them. They are like a virus that, once established in the body gradually takes over and destroys the host organism. You might not like Jews, but as a general rule they make somewhat better neighbors than the allahu akbar crowd. Frankly, I wish a pox on both their houses. Sort of the same way I feel about the Ukies and the Russkies.
The Jews were already there, and not just the Mizrahim. Look up Theodor Herzl and Zionism. Most of the motley crew of Arabs, Druzes, Circassians, Berbers and other ethnicities emigrated to the region because of the prosperity the Zionist Jews created in a formerly barren place, as Joan Peters chronicled in her unmatched book on the subject, “From Time Immemorial.”
And the overwhelming amount of people who’re now called “Palestinians” when there is no such ethnicity left at the urging of the invading Arab armies that came in to wipe out the Jews on their independence in 1948. They were told they could come back and take everything after the Jews were dead and the cowardly fiends were glad to do it. They forced a bum deal on THEMSELVES.
Absolutely right, Jeff. Samuel Clemmens’ observations on his trip through there back it up as well. They bought that near worthless land from the Ottomans, and made something of it. Much of the land had been granted to absentee landlords by the Ottomans, and was only inhabited by the few squatters it would support. The Ottomans were happy to sell (though legally it was also a grant) it to Jews, who would still be dhimmis under Imperial law. When they developed it, the Ottomans got revenue, and when the land would support more people, they came from neighboring areas in the empire.
Exactly.
“ …[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse….A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action….We never saw a human being on the whole route….There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”
– 1867 (Quoted in Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. London: 1881)
Not exactly a glowing endorsement. Occupied Palestine, my ass.
Zealots of different stripe and hue still have commonalities. But short of lobotomy or chemicals, how do you DE-program somebody. I have a feeling that counseling, by itself, won’t get the job done. The Force has great power over weak minds. Maybe media can help by doing some general information warnings to the public so they and their families can be protected from online zealots etc. Some people are also just weak in the head and end up getting used no matter what you do. And there are users out there, people with a practical knowledge of psychology/psychiatry that are masters at pushing buttons and manipulation and persuasion…religion and politics…
The worldview is generally hardwired into the brain, very hard to deprogram. Psychedelics can scramble the brain, but that is very risky.
A frontal lobotomy wouldn’t have cured Bushnell but it would’ve prevented his self immolation. He was obviously insane on top of having been manipulated.
It’s a sad day in the US when the US Air Force is so desperate to find recruits that it has to resort to accepting the mentally ill.
How did Bushnell get into Intel work in the Air Force? Could he have had a security clearance? This is but a very small indication of how our military is weak and feckless.
Same way Stanley Dunham did. He enlisted.
Stanley always wanted to be 007. So did LH Oswald.
I guess I did a poor job trying to show that our military doesn’t do any vetting for critical positions. As an aside I have occasion to go to the commissary. I shake my head at the condition of many of those that are in uniform. They won’t be defending anybody. Its frightening.
Good enough job for me. Your commissary observation is shared by enough others I know, that it’s frightning to me. I haven’t been to a commissary since ’92, myself..
A bunch of disgusting fat bodies like Private Pyle.
All that changed under Clinton. Glad I was gone by then.
The very dangerous part of all this theater is the potential for a new suicide tik tok challenge propagated by idiots on the left. If you really want to make yourself sick read this and other posts by this author on substack. This woman is enabling and encouraging more johnny flame suicides. She describes this suicide as the most profound act of sincerity ever?
https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/a-profound-act-of-sincerity?r=2q71a9&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post