Now, there's making a statement and "making a statement", I think in the general scheme of things, you'd have to be pretty fuckin pissed to set fire to yourself and go out in flames in the middle of the street like Thich Quang Duc. Kudos to him. Interestingly, I'd always thought this was an anti-war type thing, but turns out it wasn't nuttin to do w that whatsoever.