Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Protesting the War

Response to a facebook post on a homeless man's body found a year after he died.

Reminds me of the story of the man who burned himself alive to protest the Invasion of Iraq in 2003. He lit himself on fire at 8:00 AM right on a freeway access ramp in Chicago Illinois. This was at the height of rush hour traffic and hundreds of drivers were witnesses. Nobody called the authorities and the body was found a week later by a city street cleaning crew. After the body was identified, they found a note in his apartment that indicated his intentions.

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William Schaeffer

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