what do you think about this war protester's suicide note??

Question

Malachi Ritscher's Suicide Note

[link to www.savagesound.com]


mission statement


My actions should be self-explanatory, and since in our self-obsessed culture words seldom match the deed, writing a mission statement would seem questionable. So judge me by my actions. Maybe some will be scared enough to wake from their walking dream state - am I therefore a martyr or terrorist? I would prefer to be thought of as a 'spiritual warrior'. Our so-called leaders are the real terrorists in the world today, responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden.

I have had a wonderful life, both full and full of wonder. I have experienced love and the joy and heartache of raising a child. I have jumped out of an airplane, and escaped a burning building. I have spent the night in jail, and dropped acid during the sixties. I have been privileged to have met many supremely talented musicians and writers, most of whom were extremely generous and gracious. Even during the hard times, I felt charmed. Even the difficult lessons have been like blessed gifts. When I hear about our young men and women who are sent off to war in the name of God and Country, and who give up their lives for no rational cause at all, my heart is crushed. What has happened to my country? we have become worse than the imagined enemy - killing civilians and calling it 'collateral damage', torturing and trampling human rights inside and outside our own borders, violating our own Constitution whenever it seems convenient, lying and stealing right and left, more concerned with sports on television and ring-tones on cell-phones than the future of the world.... half the population is taking medication because they cannot face the daily stress of living in the richest nation in the world.

Answer 1

"Ritscher's son, who shares his father's name, described his father as a former alcoholic who had had issues with mental illness."

I think this really explains it all. It was mental illness, not martyrdom.

Answer 2

one million. a. Icon of the united statesgirl participation interior the conflict 2. d. The bobming of Pearl Harbor 3. c. Germany lost as Allies pushed into Berlin. Japan became into bombed by using two atom bombs and Emperor Hirohito surrendered 4. d. Liberation of Europe and the Pacific 5. a. Genocide of over 6 million Jews and others (technically, 13 million have been killed, 6 million of those have been Jews--the others have been Polish human beings, Ukrainians, Gypsies, the mentally unwell, Catholics, Russians and others).

Answer 3

I would suggest that this guy has some serious depression, with possible manic and psychotic tendencies. I think a diet of Zoloft and Depakote would have been appropriate.

Answer 4

I think he's a quitter. And a selfish, gutless one at that. What a cop-out. Taking the coward's way out instead of fighting injustice.

Answer 5

What a totally weak and selfish individual. His self-imposed uniqueness done him in. He chose to die rather than implement change.

Answer 6

He has died for a purpose that does not exist, he has died in vain, and he has died because of his beliefs, not because he knows something. And there are many who die for the exact same reason. Sad, really.

Answer 7

notin dude's a looney there are so many other ways to let your message know and this isn't one them is not like america is that bad and if he hated this country so much he could have left