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The “Airman” Who Set Himself on Fire for Hamas was Antifa Ex-Cult Member
Front Page magazine ^ | Feb. 27, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 02/27/2024 6:59:31 PM PST by chickenlips

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....SNIP>>>

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2022; 202402; aaronbushnell; airman; anarchists; antifa; barboza; bushnell; capecod; communityofjesus; cult; domesticenemies; hamas; incel; israeliembassy; lupebarboza; massachusetts; massachussetts; orleans; sanantonio; socialist; socialists; suicide; texas; usaf
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"A former leftist cult member who hooked up with anarchist and socialist groups and then killed himself for their approval."
1 posted on 02/27/2024 6:59:31 PM PST by chickenlips
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Poor stupid sucker....that has to be the worst way to go.


2 posted on 02/27/2024 7:01:11 PM PST by Aria
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To: chickenlips

Now it makes sense.

Also shows how the military may not come to our rescue as we once safely took for granted.


3 posted on 02/27/2024 7:01:25 PM PST by Phoenix8
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To: chickenlips

More here:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4220374/posts

🔥


4 posted on 02/27/2024 7:02:55 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Aria

A high strung red-head, you never know what they will do.


5 posted on 02/27/2024 7:03:31 PM PST by JJBookman (Democrats = Party of flaming hypocrisy)
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To: chickenlips

As I said elsewhere, it’s lucky for us he didn’t choose to take off on a bombing run over his imagined enemies and refuse to listen to commands over the radio to come back.


6 posted on 02/27/2024 7:04:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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I hope when he met the good Lord he was given a nice lesson about the ‘Palestinian's’
7 posted on 02/27/2024 7:06:43 PM PST by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: chickenlips

The military, as well as the world, is a better place without him.


8 posted on 02/27/2024 7:13:49 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: chickenlips

And the military is looking for extremists I. Their ranks and could not find this guy. Oh, that’s right only conservatives are extremists.


9 posted on 02/27/2024 7:14:55 PM PST by gunnut
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To: chickenlips

My gaydar was pinned too.


10 posted on 02/27/2024 7:16:26 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: chickenlips

Being an Antifa member did not come up on their background check? Oh, that’s right. Traitor Christopher Wray does not consider them terrorists. Duh.


11 posted on 02/27/2024 7:20:39 PM PST by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: chickenlips

He was a member of the cult Community of Jesus, which has as little to do with Jesus as Planned Parenthood has with parenting.


12 posted on 02/27/2024 7:26:31 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Indeed.


13 posted on 02/27/2024 7:38:33 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Bullish

He was, not to worry.


14 posted on 02/27/2024 7:39:01 PM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Dogbert41

He didn’t just hold a regular clearance....cyber geek in a intel organization...held a TS, which means a complete review of background. So the cult didn’t come up on their radar. He left the cult in 2019...enlisted in 2020.

I sat and thought about the normal questions (I’ve been through the clearance stuff on several occasions). I don’t recall a single question on religious affiliation or asking if I were a cult member. They were always hyper about your debt, financial situation, personal relationships, memberships....not religion.


15 posted on 02/27/2024 7:47:33 PM PST by pepsionice
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ANTIFA cult?

A human torch?

At least he provided the world with a spark of light rather than antifa fascistic darkness.

Who converted him?(sarc.)


16 posted on 02/27/2024 7:53:02 PM PST by Candor7 (Ask not for whom Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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Anyone else see a problem with our military, or any military for that matter, having an anarchist in its ranks? That just seems like asking for trouble by definition.


17 posted on 02/27/2024 7:53:34 PM PST by EnderWiggin1970
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“A former leftist cult member who hooked up with anarchist and socialist groups and then killed himself for their approval.”

Have they approved?


18 posted on 02/27/2024 7:55:40 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: chickenlips

ANTI-FA
BKMK


19 posted on 02/27/2024 8:00:01 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: chickenlips

He was a fire looking for a cause


20 posted on 02/27/2024 8:36:56 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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