This was recovered by the Chicago Reader (article here), but was buried in the Sun Times (article here) and was not really covered as a serious act of protest. Merely a suicide, except he set himself on fire on the side of the Kennedy Expressway during rush hour and even videotaped himself doing it (supposedly).
Also here is the link to his website with the mission statement (so his website says) or suicide note (as it was called in the papers) and obituary... that he wrote himself.
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Ryan. This was a crazy person. He just forgot to take his pills that morning. Maby now that he is DEAD he wont be walking around the streets of New York with a knife in his hand (see mission statement).
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
-- John Stuart Mill
hay did i tell you guys i am a republican now?
Good luck with that, Bob.
This has more to do, I think, with this man being stymied by his own insignifigance, and less to do with the war protest he believed he was carrying out.
This guy had the right to opt out of society in the way he chose. He didn't hurt anyone. I, myself, would have moved to a cabin in a remote country to brew beer.
Doesn't suicide seem a strange way to protest a disregard for the sanctity of life, though?
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