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Man Who Lit Himself On Fire On National Mall, Has Died
In a tragic development, the unidentified man who set himself on fire on the National Mall at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday in between the Air and Space Museum and the National Gallery, and who sustained burns to 80% of his body, has died. AP reports: "A District of Columbia police spokesman says a man who set himself on fire on the National Mall has died his injuries. Officer Araz Alali says the man died Friday night at a hospital where he had been airlifted. He says the man was so badly burned that he will need to be through DNA and dental records. The man poured a can of gasoline on himself in the center portion of the mall Friday afternoon. He then set himself on fire, with passing joggers taking off their shirts to help douse the flames."
Oddly enough, the deceased self-immolator was conscious and coherent enough in the aftermath of the incident to thank passers by for putting out the flames before being taken to hospital:
The man reportedly thanked the joggers before he was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center by a U.S. Park Police helicopter that landed on the Mall.
Fire department spokesman Tim Wilson said the man suffered life-threatening injuries, but was conscious and breathing at the scene.
Authorities are now investigating the man's motives.
As AP adds, Police are investigating the man's possible motives for doing so. They will hardly find any, as the last thing the Obama administration needs right now is to start explaining why D.C. has become ground zero for America's own Arab Spring. Especially, if in a country in which fomenting class and social hatred once again boils down to racial characteristics.
Some more recollections by observers:
"I saw like a spark," she said. "Then he just went completely up in flames."
"Some heads up joggers put out the flames," she said. "A guy took his shirt off, ran over, you know, start trying to beat the flames out. A couple other joggers also stopped to help."
"It's very shocking," she said. "It's horrifying. Literally watching this guy go up in flames. There was not really anything anybody could do."
A question has emerged: was it an act meant to be documented, and if so why:
Katy Scheflen, a furloughed civil rights attorney in the Justice Department, said she stopped because she saw "a guy with a tripod set up."
Scheflen said another man, who she thought the tripod with a camera was filming, then took a red can of gasoline, poured it over his head.
"At that point we didn't know what was going, maybe it was some sort of stage protest," Scheflen said. "And then he set himself on fire and went up in flames," she said. "Whoosh."
Scheflen said the presence of a mounted camera gave her the impression "he was aware something was about to happen. Otherwise he was filming nothing but a guy standing there."
"It was obviously an intentional act," she said. "Somebody has a video of the whole thing."
Scheflen said the man may have said something beforehand “but it was nothing intelligible.”
And speaking of the seasons, in Tunisia it was Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation on December 17, 2010 (and subsequent death 18 days later) that sparked the Arab Spring reaching as far as Saudi Arabia and China. One wonders: will the death of the so far unidentified man lead to anything more than even more vocal and relentless fingerpointing at assorted highly politicized media echo chambers.
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Blame it on the sequester or shutdown.... then call one party or the other murderer... or is that the Obomber legacy?
"What’s past is prologue"
“I call them legislative arsonists,” she added. “They’re there to burn down what we should be building up…"
“Legislative arsonists are at work when they start using the debt limit for their own agenda,” Pelosi said.
RIP, and condolences to his family and friends. Meanwhile...Al, Jesse, the black caucus and the mainstream media, why so quiet all of a sudden? Fat cats got your tongue?
Another field slave just killed himself by self-immolation in a symbolic way associated with protest, in a symbolic place, right on your front lawn. But you House slaves are impervious to his suffering, so long as your comfortable life continues, apparently. Your hired guns executed a confused mother in front of her child, and you join the approving claque.
A man should be judged by the content of his character, not the color of his skin, said Martin Luther King. And not the content of his bank balance, status, nor private belief system, I would add, in keeping with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
By that definition, the House slaves are venal, willing to sacrifice the field slaves, rather than oppose the dominant power structure which is crushing the spirit out of the majority - with your help. Traitors to your ancestors, and your countrymen of every creed, color and religion or none.
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Where's the video which the eye witness said was set up to record this self-immolation? I'm getting more suspicious about some aspects of these recent events in DC. It turns out that Alhurra TV which had the only clean tape of the moment when the CT woman evaded police is funded by a grant from... the U.S. State Department, according to some reports in the alternative media.
Venerable American journalist Seymour Hersch is right to expose media collusion and government lies in his interview this week in Britain:
http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/sep/27/seymour-hersh-ob...
Finally someone with some balls, I doubt his video of himself will ever surface. Too bad a bystander did not grab the camera and run so we could all know why he did it!
I'll bet bg money Obummer is mentioned on the video clip.
Just like James Carville commented when Barry was elected, called it the "apparthide" effect just like South Africa's blacks, thought with a new black leadership things would change for the better, the sad reality was, it got worse for both blacks and whites when the blacks took control.
At least there is one black man (or should I say was) wth the brass balls to do himself with fire for a statement!!
The smell of burnt flesh , oh man, smell like.............victory!
Got to agree with two of your points, Stud Duck: putting a black face on the tin may sell the rotten goods more than a white one; perhaps they'll try to put a woman's face on the tin next time. Also, that video is dynamite - either for the reason I stated or yours: the tape will go missing if it is politically embarrassing for the Administration.
This is the allegation regarding Al Hurra TV: "...Alhurra TV, the only outlet capturing raw footage of the incident, also happens to be a propaganda machine paid for by the US government as well as an illuminating presence with regard to foreign policy with correspondents in key factions of the federal government. This “broadcasting network” happens to be run by the Secretary of State, the CEO of NBC, a member of the CFR and US ambassador to Afghanistan...".
I would like to know who set up the video camera to record the self-immolation? We'll get no honest investigation by the mainstream media, owned by the same 'globalists' who urge the U.S. to make war at home, and abroad, for their profits.They're not going to run this 24/7 (nor Miriam's murder), so it's the real thing. If it were Propaganda stunt CNNFOXNBCABC-NPR would run the stories 24/7.
Fair point, but I'm not suggesting that it is a propaganda stunt for domestic consumption. Legitimate questions should be asked about many aspects of these two events, and that used to be the job of journalists. You might enjoy reading Mr Hersch's latest contribution to this urgent debate in the link provided earlier.
Also, the case of Israeli Mordechai Vanunu, the son of a rabbi, who revealed Israel's illegal nuclear program to a British newspaper might interest you. He was later kidnapped by Mossad in Paris, and remains a prisoner of the state, long after his original prison sentence. He gave the details to the Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, an arch zionist, without realising that he was handing a noose for his own neck to his adversaries. The days of journalists protecting their sources instead of ratting on them is long gone in many places.
The fact that both the shooting nor the self-immolation were apparently "random" events and not staged shows how much control they're starting to lose.
The oncoming Chaos is going to suck for awhile but it will pass. Make no mistake. It's coming.
correct. the incidents are not part of the script
Dead men don't talk...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z7SEf-9D4s
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F87AZ40EwQ
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Amazing grace Aaron Neville
Mainstream media is burying this story BIG-TIME...
And you're suprised Barry lobbed the PC Redskins hand grenade into the crowded market?
This happens on the watch of the Red fascists running the show and it's nonstop BS from now till the 2014 elections on red fascists driving people to kill themselves because there's no hope as long as the red fascists have a seat at the blue fascist table of power.
Well they lost total control of the Miriam Carey killing, ... so they brought this story out, ... but lost control of this one as well,
It's like no false-flag goes UN-punished these days,
My gripe about this story is EVERYBODY keeps saying "He lit himself on fire",
No he fucking didn't, eyewitnesses saw other men tossing gasoline over his head and recording the even on their tripod camera, ... yet the media keeps reporting it as a solo event,
This was state sanctioned MURDER.
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Even the TYLERS report the same bullshit LINE? Why? WHy in the fucking hell does even ZH report the same bullshit line, when in fact witnesses saw him being doused with gasoline?
Until we know, we can hope it was a Wall Street banker or treasonous politician whose conscience forced him to do the right thing.
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C49H3aWdiK8
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Superfake. Hyper-Realism Coming to an Event Near You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoL7nKl3q9I
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reversion and the past; that is the only
viable future for this fucking mess or the blind
can follow the blind into oblivion.
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Autopoiesis - Naming the Universe(s)
http://verbewarp.blogspot.com.au/2006/09/autopoiesis-naming-universes.html
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..."Self-organization is a process in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source. Self-organizing systems typically (though not always) display emergent properties."...pjb
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Damn that Bush. How long will he go on killing black people?
No budget resolution, massive out of control spending and debt, and now citizens self immolating in dispair. It's official, we are now Greece.
It appeared to be a setup deal with his aquantance set up to do the filming. Apparently not so good a friend as we have heard of no film.
If this guy wanted to publically end his life and got his firend to film it as part of some protest, his friend didn't do too much to get the word out...
OOOOppps sorry buddy, out of film, can we do a retake?
It would really be something if oBUMMER weasels minions did our dirty work for us. Cool, I'm going cruising.
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The most regrettable thing about this is that it wasn't Obama
This is the true American Horror Story. I think that this article names it properly. Racial hatred is on the rise. This guy probably wanted to leave a clear statement. In my opinion, there is a possibility that he left some death note, but the Washington police just censored it. The last thing our politicians need right now is a series of people burning in the streets. Burning can be considered as one of the most cruel ways to die, but it has a long history. Buddhism is probably the best example, because many followers decided to burn themselves in order to show their despise with their body and physical world. Others just decided to burn their hands or legs, and continued to live afterwards. China in particular had a lot of problems with Buddhism in this regard - lots of young people were burning themselves, which was something such a powerful state could not tolerate. My way to change the world is focused on building a better and greener lifestyle, but I have a profound respect to this guy or the others who did this throughout the history.