WTO Protester kills himself (good idea alert)

yahoo.com/news ^ | 9/10/03 | drew

[cksharks]

I hope this behavior is catching!

[Vladivostok]

Nobody dies for free. Nobody

I wonder how he got the knife on the plane, or did he buy it there? Luckily it wasn't in the US or we'd all have register our kitchen knives at myknifecollection.gov

[FreePaul]

... was carried away and treated for his injuries but later died in hospital.

I hope that he wasn't thinking that getting to a Mexican hospital was going to help him. Anyway, maybe he will be a role model for other protesters.

[motzman]

There, someone has to be paid to pick him up then cremate or plant him. Maybe make a headstone or whatnot too.

Flowers. Don't forget the flowers. Big money there...

[Porterville]

Cool, I love lemmings that I hate.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

The NYT ran a globalist, need for world communism mega piece about this in their BUSINESS section today. It was 99% political.

Opened with starving farmers, exposed rich US farmers who shouldn't get any subsidies, and implicitly advocated for the US to either subsidize poor sub Saharan Africans or cut off American aid. They found that a sovereign state supporting its own citizens was immoral.

American farmers should suffer equally with farmers from 3rd world nation.

Maybe the NYT should give their tax breaks to struggling 3rd world newspapers. Their people are starving too.


http://www.iht.com/

[Nataku X]

That would be the ultimate irony. Sell souvenir knives & shirts to commerate for a guy who killed himself to protest against capitalism.

[eleni121]

Robert Reicccccchhhhh - Clinton's former Labor dwarf ran a piece on Marketplace, a left wing radio show broadcast on NPR today. Reich ranted about how the US and other rich countries subsidize their farmers and apply tariffs on foreign agricultural products leaving poor farmers in 3rd world countries out in the cold.

He ended his radio broadcast by saying: "Shameful"

[jrushing]

That would be the ultimate irony

Would you like burgers & fries with that?? For only .99 cents, you can Supersize it!!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Hitlery and Fourth Reich believe in this global Robin Hood philosophy for others. Tax income and redistribute globally, For G S ! Only they should be millionaires. They should redistribute their book prophets to African writers who cannot get published. They do not believe in redistibution of WEALTH, however, so their huge bank accts cannot be touched, and their families will be rich for generations, while the middle class struggles for generations.

[railsplitter]

I saw a news clip of the man stabbing himself... it appeared to be a homemade shank... possibly wooden... akin to a tent stake... no more than 6" in length... he struck it vigorously into the left side of his chest with his right hand... then he doubled up his right hand into a fist and struck the object a second time... all the while bracing the object with his left hand... thus delivering a fatal blow... he slumped from his perch atop the security fence... I did a double take and marveled at what I had just seen... for the cause man... for the cause... this dude will no doubt be the topic of the night... as the bongs and pipes and joints get passed around... if we could only get some kool aid to the masses...

[Monte Smith]

Oh why he couldn't have been French? I admire the South Koreans.

[Windcatcher]

CHEATER!!!!!

You can't win a Darwin award that way!!! >:)

[ChadGore]

Re: WTO Protester kills himself

Do the non-GM plants in his garden morn him ?

[longshot1980]

I'm willing to hand out free sporks for attendees of the 9/28 A.N.S.W.E.R. protest in Hollywood who want to emulate our S. Korean friend. Anyone with me?

Seriously, though... wanna bet that the organizers of the protest will file a lawsuit against the law enforcement agencies of Cancun for not providing sufficient protection to keep the wackaloon from offing himself?

I'm not a WTO fan (for the exact opposite reason most lefties are anti-WTO), but I couldn't help but chuckle a bit when I saw the headline. Next time they ought to light themselves on fire, maybe it'll catch. :-)

[cricket]

"Workers of the World UniiiiiiieeeeeeeeAAAAAAAAAA -- !" :)

a yee-hAAAAAA bump for your eeeeeAAAAAAA!

[Moonman62]

Reporters saw the man climb up onto a high security fence and wave a banner that read "WTO Kills Farmers."

I don't know, but his banner reads like a lot of posts around here.