Online sources put man's war suicide protest in focus (STIIL BEATING THIS DEAD "ANTI-WAR" HORSE)

Star Newspapers - Chicago ^ | December 17, 2006 | Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

[Chi-townChief]

"On the CD cover is the photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, going up in flames. He burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection in 1963. It was his way of protesting the Vietnam War."

If I recall, this monk was protesting religious oppression and his image was co-opted later by the "anti-war" psychos.

[BenLurkin]

If the "anti-war" creeps want to self immolate . . . they need serious psychological assistance.

[rjp2005]

What a deluded moron!! "War is horrible, don't kill people, etc" and he suicides.

By that "logic", he was a half-step away from being a terrorist suicide bomber.

[Slings and Arrows]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=crispycritter

[SteveMcKing]

"You know the kind of emails that your friends forward you because they are either funny, bizarre, irritating or, as in this case, thought provoking and disturbing?"

Actually, no.... I don't know "those kind of emails".

I have a fricking life, and my friends and family are not neurotic creeps who take their values from weird s--t like that.

[desertsolitaire]

sad thing is, he will continue to vote democrat in cook county.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I find it a little strange that he didn't set himself on fire after 9/11. I guess that terrorist attack and the murder of 3000 innocent people really didn't upset him that much. Hippies are weird.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Mr. Ritscher,

Thank you for contributing to the Social Security Trust Fund for all those years and never collecting.

With my share of your loot, I'll buy a gallon of gas in your name.

[Calusa]

Did anybody look into his mental health? I'm supposed to be concerned because a complete stranger performed an absurd act of self-immolation terrorism. Sorry, not.
In the inimitable style of the denizens of the Greater Chicagoland area:'I don't care!'.

[Chi-townChief]

LOL

[IronJack]

Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu

Buy a vowel.

[Kewlhand`tek]

btw they didnt get the url right for the site. lol

[shooter223]

"From what people said about him and what I read about him, he seemed like a pretty normal well-balanced guy." ......... normal well bananced guys set themselves on fire all the time

[SIDENET]

In contrast, Ritscher's protest was practically ignored, getting only minimal media coverage by major media outlets when it happened.

OOPS!

[NickatNite2003]

That's "normal" as in the
Democrat/Leftist/Anarchist/
socialist/gay way...

[shooter223]

silly me........ I was thinking "normal" as in normal

[Dallas59]

His choice, he's dead, who cares.

[Erasmus]

If the "anti-war" creeps want to self immolate . . . they need serious psychological pyrotechnic assistance.

[hinckley buzzard]

If I recall, this monk was protesting religious oppression and his image was co-opted later by the "anti-war" psychos.

I believe he was protesting oppressions by the regime of the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem, as a matter of fact.

[Mr. Silverback]

If I recall, this monk was protesting religious oppression and his image was co-opted later by the "anti-war" psychos.

You remember correctly.