Within the same week, two men in two different cities tried to light themselves on fire (one succeeded), and an unarmed woman with postpartum psychosis and a child in her car, rammed her car into a Capitol Hill fence and was summarily shot to death by a crowd of armed officers. "The man who stood to attention, saluted and lit himself in front of the White House, Friday is out of the news, gone, no stories all day. Unlike the man in Tunisia, credited with initiating Arab Spring, we are getting nothing from the government or the media. This has been shut down. No news story speculated on the powerful wave of frustration which has rolled over the underclasses in this country, including veterans and blacks. This unnamed man was probably both. You know that the Secret Service must know who he is. This message has been buried, other than the obvious frustration at government, the same protest that self-immolation has always been. This is a protest against being murdered, fast or slow, just like it was for the Buddhist monks in Vietnam." ~ John Day, MD, Austin Texas politicalblindspot/two-men-lit-themselves-on-fire-in-protest-last-week-in-two-separate-cities/
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:45:27 +0000
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