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Protester immolation virtually unnoticed (What if you set yourself on fire for Iraq & nobody cared?)
Associated Press ^ | 11/27/06

Posted on 11/28/2006 7:29:50 AM PST by presidio9

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Malachi Ritscher holds up a sign during an antiwar protest in Chicago in this photo from April 2003. On Nov. 3, 2006, Ritscher set up a video camera, doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire on expressway off-ramp in downtown Chicago. War protesters are hailing him as a martyr. (AP Photo/Joeff Davis)

1 posted on 11/28/2006 7:29:55 AM PST by presidio9
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What a dink.


2 posted on 11/28/2006 7:31:29 AM PST by Spruce
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Fine his estate for polluting the air.


3 posted on 11/28/2006 7:32:13 AM PST by Mr. Brightside
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Ritscher set up a video camera...

Sounds like he would've garnered more attention if he set out sticks and a bag of marshmallows.

4 posted on 11/28/2006 7:32:57 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places

Absolute fruitbat.

5 posted on 11/28/2006 7:33:08 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: presidio9; All

Please.
I noticed,
....and shook my head for this crispy critter who became the ultimate Hot Pocket.
Stuffed chock full of bullcrap and done to a turn.
Yum.

What a schmuck.


6 posted on 11/28/2006 7:34:24 AM PST by Gideon Reader ("The quiet gentleman sitting in the corner sipping Kenya AA and enjoying his Stan Getz CD's".)
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To: wideawake

I guess I'd be depressed, too, if my claim to fame was something so utterly useless...


7 posted on 11/28/2006 7:35:31 AM PST by Hegemony Cricket (I'm Hegemony Cricket, and I improvised this message.)
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8 posted on 11/28/2006 7:35:39 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ( <h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
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The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage.
9 posted on 11/28/2006 7:35:59 AM PST by Constitution Day ("Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." — Aldous Huxley)
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>the 52-year-old experimental musician


10 posted on 11/28/2006 7:36:52 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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"...experimental musician..."
??????


11 posted on 11/28/2006 7:36:54 AM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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Was that regular or hi-test?


12 posted on 11/28/2006 7:36:58 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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Sounds like a waste of perfectly good gasoline if you ask me.


13 posted on 11/28/2006 7:37:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places

Big deal. I know all the lines from Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

14 posted on 11/28/2006 7:37:12 AM PST by presidio9 (Tagline Censored)
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He sounds like the father of the Dr Evil character... "He accused chestnuts of being lazy and claimed to have invented the questionmark.."

I bet people were pissed that their commutes were delayed because some nutjob decided to light himself on fire..

Martyr?? Maybe they should follow in his footsteps.


15 posted on 11/28/2006 7:38:03 AM PST by newnhdad (They'll raise your taxes, grab your guns, look out wallet, here they come..)
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A member of Mensa ... It does tend to discredit IQ as a reliable measure of intelligence, doesn't it?
16 posted on 11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST by SargeK
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Self-fulfilling Darwinian. But sad that this victim of the mainstream media (and probably of academia as well) decided to take it to the logical extreme.


17 posted on 11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST by 3AngelaD (ic.)
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Malachi's position on the IQ chart....

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18 posted on 11/28/2006 7:38:09 AM PST by AdvisorB
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War protesters are hailing him as a martyr.

Using the broadest possible definition of a martyr, one can only be a martyr if someone else kills you for your beliefs.

Ritscher was a lunatic who succumbed to mental illness.

19 posted on 11/28/2006 7:38:21 AM PST by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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A member of Mensa who claimed to be able to recite the infinite number Pi to more than 1,000 decimal places

Wouldn't you think an experimental musician would find some way to play Pi on the sitar?

20 posted on 11/28/2006 7:39:13 AM PST by HIDEK6
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