June 20, 2003

Up in Smoke

What should we think about these left wing Iranian crazies in Europe setting themselves on fire? Does government or society have a responsibility to prevent this exercise of free speech? Immolation certainly attracts attention and these burnings are dutifully covered by the media, but do they help the protesters' cause?

My view is let them do what they will as long as they cause no damage to others or to property not their own. We certainly don't want this to become a new form of arson as the Palestinian 'homocide bombers' have become a form of murder.

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