Jazz musician Malachi Ritscher burned himself to death on November 7th alongside a Chicago expressway to protest the Iraq War. Why? Read his thoughts here.
I have had one previous opportunity to serve my country in a meaningful way – at 8:05 one morning in 2002 I passed Donald Rumsfeld on Delaware Avenue and I was acutely aware that slashing his throat would spare the lives of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent people. I had a knife clenched in my hand, and there were no bodyguards visible; to my deep shame I hesitated, and the moment was past.
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Here is the statement I want to make: if I am required to pay for your barbaric war, I choose not to live in your world. I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent civilians, who did nothing to threaten our country. I will not participate in your charade – my conscience will not allow me to be a part of your crusade.
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[...] suffice as a thoroughly inadequate goodbye note on the 8% (est) probability that dog & I will burn alive [...]