Man Kills Himself Holding 'Tax The 1%' in Front of Capitol—and Nobody Hears About It

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20. Since the 1st guy was from Mt. Laurel, there was plenty of coverage here in the Philly area

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Man_who_set_self_on_fire_on_National_Mall_identified_as_Mount_Laurel_man.html

http://6abc.com/archive/9274901/

http://www.nj.com/burlington/index.ssf/2013/10/family_mount_laurel_man_who_set_self_on_fire_was_mentally_ill.html

And it was even on NPR and in the Washington Post -

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/08/230405023/family-of-man-who-set-himself-on-fire-says-act-wasnt-political

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/new-jersey-man-identified-as-mall-fire-victim/2013/10/08/02e2a734-2fcb-11e3-bbed-a8a60c601153_story.html

I hate to see some of our progressive/left sites take a sad event like this to stoke outrage for an agenda that already has plenty of outrage associated with it to go around. In the case of the Mt. Laurel veteran, the family refused to engage the media (as is their right) and for the article's author to insist that some "lack" of coverage was purposeful, is a bit idiotic here.

And in the case of this latest situation, the man was identified as a 22-year old from suburban Chicago. According to the Chicago Tribune, the parents said he had Asperger's syndrome and they had filed a missing person's report for him -

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lincolnwood/news/chi-capitol-suicide-lincolnwood-20150413-story.html

IMHO, more needs to be done about getting people to the polls to try to change the situation rather than hijack stories of 2 very troubled men in order to continue to rail against what has become a nebulous "concept". Without actively working to provide practical means to address the ratcheting up of unfairness in the system, the rant is just a rant that the amen corner may like but changes nothing. It may seem fruitless but as MLK once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”