Comments on: “If you were really green, you would have walked here” http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/10755 A project of the International Society for Individual Liberty Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:13:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.3 by: Ron Franscell http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/10755#comment-163178 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:33:44 +0000 http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/10755#comment-163178 In a festival famous for its lack of rules, how can anybody get mad at a guy for <a href="http://underthenews.blogspot.com/2007/08/still-burning-man.html" rel="nofollow">expressing himself by setting a fire</a> that they themselves were going to set a few days later? How ironic is it that somebody is charged with arson at a gathering of people who come to see ... a fire? And a suicide is nothing if not the ultimate form of self-expression. <a href="http://www.ronfranscell.com/press/burningman.htm" rel="nofollow">I covered BM in 2001</a> and I have a warm place in my heart for the event, but I'll be interested to see how the anything-goes Burners spin this one. Ron Franscell <a href="http://underthenews.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Under The News</a> In a festival famous for its lack of rules, how can anybody get mad at a guy for expressing himself by setting a fire that they themselves were going to set a few days later? How ironic is it that somebody is charged with arson at a gathering of people who come to see … a fire? And a suicide is nothing if not the ultimate form of self-expression.

I covered BM in 2001 and I have a warm place in my heart for the event, but I’ll be interested to see how the anything-goes Burners spin this one.

Ron Franscell
Under The News

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