Protesting the War... Is this guy right? Americans, Would you do This?
By jota176
@jota176 (696)
United States
November 24, 2006 11:55am CST
On Friday, November 3- four days before the national election, Malachi Ritcher doused his body with gasoline and set himself on fire to send a message to Americans" "I protest the war in Iraq".
The story was censored and his message was never received.
We think people need to know how the war in Iraq is affecting people at home. Go to www.iheardyoumalachi.org and say you heard him!This was a stupid “note” that I found on Facebook one day when I was getting caught up on the minified that gets updated every second to know what my friends are doing. I like to keep a constant watch on them to make sure I am still tight with them. Well anyways, look at what I found, It is really sad but I mean this is so ridiculous. There were other ways to go about this. So just check this out…
Here are my thoughts on it... you dont have to read them, just post what you think about this.
Wow… So there you have it. I hope you check out the site and pick it a part piece by piece. I can find loops in every paragraph about him and how he was mentally ill. If someone is mentally ill and kills someone they might not get convicted because THEY ARE MENTALY ILL. The same thing has to do with Malachi. People say he was mentally ill but what he did still has the same meaning no matter if he was mentally ill or not. If someone is not in their right mind in the court room they are legally protected by the government because “they did not know what they were doing”. So does that mean that Malachi did not know what he was doing? I do not think so. If someone is as sick as killing someone or killing themselves there is something seriously wrong with them. There have been others who have killed themselves, so you say… but they were oppressed or their families or people were being enslaved by someone else. Those are the deaths that should be on the media. I think why this was not shown on the media was because there were so many ways out of it. He could have gone about this so many different ways. I am sad when anyone kills themselves for any cause but I think there is always alternative ways out of it. One reason why his message was never received was that there are so many deaths in such a big city in Chicago that should they blow up every death or shooting? Every time there is a gang shoot off? Every time there is a hate crime? Every time there is a riot? Every time someone dies from a car accident?So there are some of my thoughts on this. What are your thoughts on this?
5 responses
@Withoutwings (6992)
• United States
28 Nov 06
I am against war, but lighting yourself on fire is a stupid way to say it. Nobody cares. I wonder if he copied this from that scene in "Waking Life".
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@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
29 Nov 06
good discussion Jota. Richter certainly was in his rights to do what he did and I think, for once, the media did the right thing to censor it.I don't think that anyone in his right mind is for war....but unfortunately it goes on and on and on. I also don't like the IDEA that our boys and girls are in harm's way in a foreign land where the people themselves are at war among themselves. But I feel that if the US goes back the isolationism that FDR invoked then there will be even more wars. I am all in favor of lending a helping hand to bring some kind of stable government in those countries that have been under the fist of an egomaniac who thinks that he is God's (Allah's) gift to the universe. It has to stop sometime somewhere and many countries just cannot do it on their own. In Iraq Sadaam had his people living in fear....some of it justified when he anhailated thousands of his own people. We must, I think, do something, preferably without loss of life on either side.
@spateo (182)
• United States
29 Nov 06
I heard about this on Facebook as well. The incident itself is sad, but I'm more disgusted by the fact that it wasn't covered by the media AT ALL. Someone SET THEMSELF ON FIRE to protest the war and that didn't make the news? That freaks me out and makes me sick.
@jota176 (696)
• United States
29 Nov 06
if the media covered it, then more people would set themselves on fire because then they would know they would get the attention. I think there are other ways out there to spread your voice other than killing yourself. Just think, if he would have not killed himself, he could have kept living for the next 20 years and had such a greater impact on people and the United States.
