I think this takes a lot of commitment, but like the article says.. it's easy to mistake this for an act of someone who is mentally ill. I think he was genuinely trying to get a point across.

What are your thoughts on this??
I think suicide is the definition of mental illness. This does not make the message any less pertinent. The shocking thing I saw in the article was the medias lack of coverage on this. Does this mean our media is biased. Well, our media, for the most part, is owned by huge conglomerates that are the powers weilding the hammer over our politicians, so this message, would definently be counterproductive for them. The war (any war) is big business in full swing. Sending out the serfs to do battle, while building and selling to us (the US taxpayer), all sorts of munitions and services. Any disturbing visual such as a man setting himself on fire to protest the golden goose of war would cost someone big money, and that's not about to happen. When (if ever) the American public figures out the program of big business, and how its tentacles grasp politicians in a death defying grip, forcing them to do their bidding under threat of cutting off the almighty funds for re-election, maybe then some common sense will be let into the picture, if not, then total dictatorship is only a few years away!