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

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.”