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November 9, 2006
Moonbat Dies For the Sins of America
Posted by Dave Blount at November 9, 2006 1:56 PM
Remember the Sorry Everybody project, which entailed moonbats holding up hand-scrawled signs apologizing to the world for the sins of America in the wake of the 2004 election? A moonbat by the name of Malachi Ritscher has taken his misguided penance on behalf of the USA a little further. Ostensibly to protest our defense of Iraq's fledgling democracy from totalitarian terrorists, he publicly set himself on fire.
The desperate bid for attention was carried out along the Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, near a 25-foot-high sculpture entitled "Flame of the Millennium."
Instead of a suicide note, Ritscher left a homemade sign reading "Thou Salt Not Kill" and a "mission statement" that distills moonbattery to its purest essence. It includes this rather dramatic attempt at a sentence:
If one death can atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my country.
Despite obvious delusions of grandeur, if the guy was trying to be moonbattery's answer to Jesus, he fell short. Here's another tidbit from his mission statement:
[A]t 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.
Ritscher maintained a website called KILLTHEPRESIDENT.NET.
There's nothing quite as pathetic as the life of an aging hippie who never outgrows moonbattery, as detailed in a wretched obituary he wrote for himself. At the end of it Ritscher made plans to immigrate to Canada, so as to escape the taint of America's evil. But then he decided it would be easier just to pour gas on his head and strike a match.
Hat tip: BelchSpeak
