Posted on 04/15/2018 5:31:51 AM PDT by Hadean
A prominent LGBTQ rights lawyer died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn's Prospect Park on Saturday. David Buckel, 60, killed himself after sending messages to multiple news outlets including The New York Times claiming his intentions to set himself on fire to protest the world's usage of fossil fuels at the expense of the environment.
"Pollution ravages our planet, oozing inhabitability via air, soil, water and weather," Buckel wrote the Times in an email. "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."
"A life of privilege requires actions to balance the harm caused, and the greater the privilege, the greater the responsibility," Buckel added.
"For if one does not leave behind a world better for having lived in it, all that remains are selfish ends, sometimes wrapped in family or nation."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Marshmallows?
Including their partners and adopted children per The Hart Family.....
“Flamer flames self in fiery public protest”
Meh.
I guess he really wasn’t a “top” activist.
Insane. And I assume the accelerant he used in his self-immolation was... a fossil fuel?
Wait, he set himself on fire. With what? Fossil fuel?? But, but, he objects to fossil fuels!!
Whew...when I started to read this article, at first I thought it was about some one important...man am I relieved....
We can all help....hand out gallon cans of gas and a book of matches to everyone leaving the gay bars at closing time. That way, there will be no delay in their self immolation plans.
Oh, the horror! I wonder how many other LGBT and environmental whackos will follow his lead and go full Saigon Buddhist. After all, wouldn’t it be a better world if all of them followed his lead?
ok, this will land me in time-out, but here goes.
This is the best use of liberal carbon credits I have seen yet!
his family should sue the global warming hucksters for driving this man to suicide over a scam.
More evidence that homosexuals are mentally sick.
LOL.
If he wanted to protect the air he should have hung himself over a lime pit.
So now he’s dead, and will never know if the world suddenly stopped, read his mainfesto, and stopped using fossil fuels once and for all and named a solar power field in his honor.
Or if it said “Just another self-loathing insane man acting against human nature and his self-interests.”
Well, at least he wasn’t the usual liberal hypocrite wanting other people to die to save the planet. He did his part.
Setting a good example for other undesirables.
I wonder if he was already dying of AIDS and didn’t want to stay around waiting?
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
People who commit suicide dont normally convince others of the correctness of their cause. They appear to be irrational and their cause is generally not considered as a position to be examined.
Jonestown being an exception.
That, sir, was downright funny.
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