Someone has self-immolated in the protest area outside the courthouse. No clear motive. The fire was put out and they were taken away on a stretcher, no word on condition.
I read his manifesto and substack. He had his own brand of crazy, mixing Russian misinformation and personal delusions half-and-half.
His gist is “climate change and resource scarcity will destroy society, the elites know it and created cryptocurrency to collapse global finance, which will fix things while making them untouchable rulers.”
I mean… Technically speaking the guy didn’t really hurt anyone else… I don’t know that I’d call him a terrorist over this. Stupid? Maybe. Misguided? Most definitely. But if the only person he hurt is himself I don’t think that’s grounds to be called terrorism. Frankly I think a person should have the right to set themselves on fire if they want to. Same way they have the right, technically, to eat a bullet in the garage or take a long fall with a short rope. Nobody wants to see it happen, and it is “illegal” in such a fashion that emergency services can come legally enter your home without permission to prevent a suicide in progress, but the right to self harm should be covered under bodily autonomy. I’m not going to idolize this guy but I don’t think his name should be stricken from history as though this was some heinous act of terrorism. He aimed to sacrifice his own life and no one else’s to bring visibility to his protest. I may not agree with it but I think you should be allowed that.
Someone has self-immolated in the protest area outside the courthouse. No clear motive. The fire was put out and they were taken away on a stretcher, no word on condition.
It’s a Q-anon nutbag.
I read his manifesto and substack. He had his own brand of crazy, mixing Russian misinformation and personal delusions half-and-half.
His gist is “climate change and resource scarcity will destroy society, the elites know it and created cryptocurrency to collapse global finance, which will fix things while making them untouchable rulers.”
Can we have a little bit more tact? He is a human being, and that kind if rhetoric is not helpful in any way.
Terrorists don’t deserve tact.
I mean… Technically speaking the guy didn’t really hurt anyone else… I don’t know that I’d call him a terrorist over this. Stupid? Maybe. Misguided? Most definitely. But if the only person he hurt is himself I don’t think that’s grounds to be called terrorism. Frankly I think a person should have the right to set themselves on fire if they want to. Same way they have the right, technically, to eat a bullet in the garage or take a long fall with a short rope. Nobody wants to see it happen, and it is “illegal” in such a fashion that emergency services can come legally enter your home without permission to prevent a suicide in progress, but the right to self harm should be covered under bodily autonomy. I’m not going to idolize this guy but I don’t think his name should be stricken from history as though this was some heinous act of terrorism. He aimed to sacrifice his own life and no one else’s to bring visibility to his protest. I may not agree with it but I think you should be allowed that.
Willingly tying up emergency responders with a voluntary act of violence (so they are less able to respond to other emergencies) is terrorism.
Big reach but still no.
There is nobody in the world who we can more justifiably say “he did this to himself” about.
*was a human being
When I made the comment, my knowledge was that he is alive. Regardless of tense, it doesn’t change the point of my comment.
Kind of worrying how downvoted this comment is.
Man was from Florida, at time of comment is alive in critical condition. His family did not know he had traveled to New York.
How can they deny that this is a cult?