Very, very sad that things are at the point where he was moved to do this:
A 79-year-old retired minister in Texas killed himself via self-immolation in an effort to protest what he described as lingering racism in his childhood home — his final effort in a career marked by social activism, the Dallas Morning News reported.
“I would much prefer to go on living and enjoy my beloved wife and grandchildren and others,” Rev. Charles Moore wrote in a note left for authorities. “But I have come to believe that only my self-immolation will get the attention of anybody and perhaps inspire some to higher service.”
Authorities in Grand Saline, about 70 miles east of Dallas, said Moore drove there from his home in Allen on June 23 and pulled into a Dollar General parking lot before puring gasoline on himself and setting himself on fire. After a witness put out the flames with a fire extinguisher, Moore was hospitalized in Dallas, but died as a result of his injuries.
“I have never seen anything like this in my entire career in law enforcement, which includes my years as an arson investigator for the Mesquite Fire Department,” police chief Larry Compton told the Tyler Morning Telegraph, which posted a photo of Moore’s suicide note.
The American people aren’t that into self-immolation. They think that it’s a nutty thing to do. They also believe that whoever does it is crazy and has nothing sane to tell anyone. This incident happened 3 weeks ago and has been buried deep in the news. Self-immolation is shocking, it is not informative. The good Reverend would have helped us (99%) more had he not given up and then given in. The oligarchy (1%) doesn’t fear dead people. Live people are the one’s that they end up assassinating.