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Top LGBT rights lawyer sets himself on fire at Brooklyn park in protest suicide
The Hill ^ | 4/14/2018 | John Bowden

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: brooklyn; davidbuckel; envirowhackos; globalwarminghoax; goodriddance; homosexualagenda; lgbt; liberalparanoia; newyork; prospectpark; suicide
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To: Hadean

Marshmallows?


41 posted on 04/15/2018 6:30:58 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: ontap

Including their partners and adopted children per The Hart Family.....


42 posted on 04/15/2018 6:34:43 AM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: Hadean

“Flamer flames self in fiery public protest”

Meh.


43 posted on 04/15/2018 6:42:10 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Hadean

I guess he really wasn’t a “top” activist.


44 posted on 04/15/2018 6:43:02 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Hadean

Insane. And I assume the accelerant he used in his self-immolation was... a fossil fuel?


45 posted on 04/15/2018 6:56:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Hadean

Wait, he set himself on fire. With what? Fossil fuel?? But, but, he objects to fossil fuels!!


46 posted on 04/15/2018 6:59:44 AM PDT by jch10 (Media: prostitutes for the Democrat Party.)
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To: Geronimo

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.


47 posted on 04/15/2018 7:12:05 AM PDT by Meadow Muffin
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To: Hadean

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?


48 posted on 04/15/2018 7:13:38 AM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (`)
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To: Hadean

ok, this will land me in time-out, but here goes.

This is the best use of liberal carbon credits I have seen yet!


49 posted on 04/15/2018 7:18:41 AM PDT by j_guru
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To: Hadean

his family should sue the global warming hucksters for driving this man to suicide over a scam.


50 posted on 04/15/2018 7:28:33 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Hadean

More evidence that homosexuals are mentally sick.


51 posted on 04/15/2018 7:49:40 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: Geronimo

LOL.


52 posted on 04/15/2018 7:50:16 AM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: Hadean

If he wanted to protect the air he should have hung himself over a lime pit.


53 posted on 04/15/2018 8:00:28 AM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: Hadean

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.”


54 posted on 04/15/2018 8:03:45 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Leftism is an elaborate system for hiding shame behind a cheap mash of virtue. -Klavan.)
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To: Hadean

Well, at least he wasn’t the usual liberal hypocrite wanting other people to die to save the planet. He did his part.


55 posted on 04/15/2018 8:04:35 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
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To: Hadean

Setting a good example for other undesirables.

I wonder if he was already dying of AIDS and didn’t want to stay around waiting?


56 posted on 04/15/2018 8:13:22 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Hadean

Good riddance to bad rubbish.


57 posted on 04/15/2018 8:22:09 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Hadean

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.


58 posted on 04/15/2018 9:39:34 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Getready
People who commit suicide dont normally convince others of the correctness of their cause.

Jonestown being an exception.

59 posted on 04/15/2018 9:40:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Geronimo

That, sir, was downright funny.


60 posted on 04/15/2018 9:57:12 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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