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Prominent gay rights lawyer sets himself on fire in protest suicide
CNN is fake news ^

Posted on 04/15/2018 4:03:04 PM PDT by MNDude

A prominent gay rights attorney who led lawsuits legalizing same-sex marriage set himself on fire in Brooklyn on Saturday morning in a fatal plea for action on issues related to the environment. The body of David S. Buckel, 60, was found near Prospect Park's baseball fields about 6:30 a.m. on Saturday after a passerby reported a severely burned individual, the New York Police Department said. "I am David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide," read a handwritten suicide note, according to the New York Daily News. "I apologize to you for the mess." Another note found near his body, which was also emailed to local news outlets, said his self-immolation was a call to action, according to The New York Times

"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," he wrote in an email, according to the Times. "Most humans on the planet now breathe air made unhealthy by fossil fuels, and many die early deaths as a result — my early death by fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to ourselves."

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To: MNDude

My guess is he didn’t leave a vacancy in the human race.


21 posted on 04/15/2018 4:30:54 PM PDT by stevem
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To: MNDude

That’ll show ‘em.


22 posted on 04/15/2018 4:31:18 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: MrEdd

“He took up cases for the NAMBLA crowd twenty-five years ago.”

Well he better get used to burning because its just getting started.


23 posted on 04/15/2018 4:33:47 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: MNDude

Give a man a fire and he’s warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he’s warm for the rest of his life.


24 posted on 04/15/2018 4:34:16 PM PDT by JusPasenThru (We have a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem.)
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To: MNDude

Begs the question, maybe he had psychological issues that were never addressed because he was gay.

After all, “being gay is not a mental issue.” Well maybe being molested at a young age might cause mental issues AND predispose a person to homosexuality. But we are not allowed to discuss this and isn’t even illegal now to suggest that it might be a mental problem in California?


25 posted on 04/15/2018 4:35:43 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: MNDude

Mission Accomplished.


26 posted on 04/15/2018 4:37:31 PM PDT by wmileo
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To: Penelope Dreadful; EvilCapitalist

Post of the Day winners.


27 posted on 04/15/2018 4:37:37 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: MrEdd

He took up cases for the NAMBLA crowd twenty-five years ago.
I have zero empathy for any pain he felt while killing himself.

I agree


28 posted on 04/15/2018 4:41:03 PM PDT by samtheman (LetÂ’s elect as many Republicans as possible in 2018)
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To: dfwgator

11 what?


29 posted on 04/15/2018 4:44:01 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: MNDude

Good. One less psycho totalitarian leftist whack job. Not to mention all the CO2 we’ve been spared now that he’s stopped breathing.


30 posted on 04/15/2018 4:44:29 PM PDT by Maceman (We need a temporary ban on Muslims just until churches and synagogues can be built in Mecca.)
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To: MNDude

Suicide is significantly higher among those with his mental disorder along with very high risk behaviors.


31 posted on 04/15/2018 4:45:28 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Chickensoup

11 Threads about this guy.


32 posted on 04/15/2018 4:46:36 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

well that’s impressive...


33 posted on 04/15/2018 4:49:50 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: MNDude

committing suicide to protest suicide...ayep. that ought to work


34 posted on 04/15/2018 4:59:46 PM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: MNDude
So what is the carbon footprint of a self-immolation, anyway?
35 posted on 04/15/2018 5:00:25 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: MNDude

Wonder how much CO2 was released when he burned himself.


36 posted on 04/15/2018 5:00:26 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: Penelope Dreadful

POST OF THE DAY!


37 posted on 04/15/2018 5:02:38 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: JusPasenThru

I was really trying not to laugh while perusing comments. You ruined that for me.


38 posted on 04/15/2018 5:10:10 PM PDT by LadyShires
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I’d bet he didn’t sit through it trance-like as footage of Buddhist monks has shown.


39 posted on 04/15/2018 5:16:36 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

I’d say very few of us could.


40 posted on 04/15/2018 5:18:23 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("Married with children.")
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