It sounds like the war on terror just burned him up!
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To: Chi-townChief
"May he find peace now"
A nice sentiment, but given that Roeper has tried to put Buddhist fatalism with Christian hope on the same level, I think that the man in question now finds his circumstances have not cooled off.
2 posted on
11/09/2006 4:07:41 AM PST by
BelegStrongbow
(www.stjosephssanford.org: Ecce Pactum, id cape aut id relinque)
To: Chi-townChief
Silly bugger.
Any chance of this catching on? (Perhaps mention to Sindy a similar act will get her on TV???)
3 posted on
11/09/2006 4:08:31 AM PST by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: All
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"Ritscher describes an incident in 2002 in which he claims to have had a knife as he passed within close range of Donald Rumsfeld. To his "deep shame," he didn't attack. There is also discussion of God's role in the universe, the two-party system, and the Bush administration. Throughout he comes across as intelligent, passionate, bitter, angry, disoriented -- and disturbed. Brendan Burke was a friend of Ritscher's. "Malachi was an incredible and gentle soul," Burke said in an e-mail to me."
4 posted on
11/09/2006 4:08:50 AM PST by
Cindy
To: Chi-townChief
Crazed vanity, to suppose that anyone is going to take a look at his burning corpse and say, "Oh, this has just inspired me: let's stop all that icky fighting over there in Iraq and instead pursue Peace Studies."
5 posted on
11/09/2006 4:09:11 AM PST by
Fairview
To: Chi-townChief
My sincere sympathies to all who knew Ritscher. But with all great respect, if he thought setting himself on fire and ending his life in Chicago would change anyone's mind about the war in Iraq, his last gesture on this planet was his saddest and his most futile. Er, with the shift of political wind, something like this could be, excuse the pun, fanned into the flame of an icon.
To: Chi-townChief
It wasn't the heat, it was the stupidity, that killed him...
7 posted on
11/09/2006 4:11:13 AM PST by
FDNYRHEROES
(Always bring a liberal to a gunfight)
To: Chi-townChief
"Do you remember the Buddhist monks who publicly burned themselves in Saigon to make an anti-war statement during the Vietnam War?" he wrote. Um thanks for all that but the monk that burned himself was protesting the treatment of the monks by the south vietnamese government. They were not treated as well as the christians.
8 posted on
11/09/2006 4:14:37 AM PST by
bad company
([link:www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006J.shtml | The Path to 9/11])
To: Chi-townChief
Let me get this straight. He's an anti-war activist. The anti-war party just won a major election. His reaction to that victory is to BBQ himself.
Maybe his friends didn't know him as well as they thought they did. Maybe he was a PRO-war activist, upset that Pelosi and Reid were now in charge of congress.
9 posted on
11/09/2006 4:16:14 AM PST by
samtheman
To: Chi-townChief
I wonder if he voted first.......
To: Chi-townChief
17 posted on
11/09/2006 4:24:25 AM PST by
Toby06
(jon carry is a piece of s#it)
To: Chi-townChief
It was also done right outside
Robert McNamara's Pentagon office in 1965...
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18 posted on
11/09/2006 4:25:54 AM PST by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Chi-townChief
If only he had the courage to "come out of the closet" he would not have killed himself.
19 posted on
11/09/2006 4:31:12 AM PST by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 88-89)
To: Chi-townChief
Hey, maybe it will catch on.
20 posted on
11/09/2006 4:33:48 AM PST by
TADSLOS
(Mohammed was the L. Ron Hubbard of his time.)
To: Chi-townChief
"The man who doused himself with gasoline and lit himself near a 25-foot-tall sculpture titled "Flame of the Millennium" was Malachi Ritscher, 52, a local musician and anti-war activist."Well, that's one less Demo vote next election.
I encourage other Lefties to follow Malachi's lead.
21 posted on
11/09/2006 4:37:44 AM PST by
albee
(The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
To: Chi-townChief
Red Foreman had a name for people like this, DUMBASS!!!
23 posted on
11/09/2006 4:40:45 AM PST by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: Chi-townChief
24 posted on
11/09/2006 4:42:02 AM PST by
YOUGOTIT
To: Chi-townChief
who are sent off to war in the name of God and country, and who give up their lives for no rational cause at all, my heart is crushed.
How ironic!
25 posted on
11/09/2006 4:51:40 AM PST by
loboinok
(Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
To: Chi-townChief
26 posted on
11/09/2006 4:53:05 AM PST by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
To: Chi-townChief
"Malachi Ritscher, 52, a local musician and anti-war activist" as well as a flaming asshole.
27 posted on
11/09/2006 4:56:16 AM PST by
verity
(Muhammed is a Dirt Bag)
To: Chi-townChief
Just DARN!
Somebody had a barbecue, and didn't invite me! :)
28 posted on
11/09/2006 4:59:14 AM PST by
TexConfederate1861
("Having a picture of John Wayne doesn't make you a Texan :) ")
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