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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, hour one.

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We got to begin with Aaron Bushnell

If you get my morning email I wrote about Aaron Bushnell this morning if you don't know the name, consider yourself lucky. He was 25 years old. He was an airman in the U.S.

Air Force, originally from Cape Cod, grew up in a cult-like environment, according to the Washington Post, some extremely religious group on a compound,

some sort of Jesus group, they said, community of Jesus. I'd never heard of it.

Join the Air Force was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, and traveled to the Israeli embassy

in Washington, D.C. and lit himself on fire.

His last words were free Palestine.

Now, I want to talk about this in a broader issue, although you do need to know,

perversely enough that Time Magazine has done a piece on Aaron Bushnell and the history,

they actually call it the history of self-immolation as political protest.

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