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Thankfully, Self-Immolater Thomas Ball Didn’t Get Child Custody

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Immolating yourself on the courthouse steps to underscore your belief that you were wrongfully separated from your wife and denied custody of your children is the ultimate self-refutation.


Especially if your posthumously published terrorist manifesto incites others to torch police stations and courthouses with Molotov cocktails.

Surely, no reads that a guy burnt himself alive in the public square and thinks, “Those stupid bureaucrats said he was unstable. Shows what they know.”

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