http://newfourthestate.org/index.php/man-who-self-immolated-may-have-had-a-political-motive/
Like Mohamed Bouazizi, the man whose self-immolation sparked the Tunesian Arab Spring which ousted the corrupt dicator Ben Ali, the man who self immolated on the Mall in the US Capital may have had a political motive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_revolution
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/01/2011126121815985483.html
Posted by a Liberty Union Party member – personal opinion