photo by Scott Beale
The ghost of Paul Addis, the man who attempted to burn down the Burning Man sculpture in 2007, still haunts Burning Man, as evidenced by this stencil art on the ground outside the back entrance Burning Man’s soon-to-be-former offices in San Francisco.
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Free Paul on the playa:
http://civex.smugmug.com/photos/199460298_b2MZz-M.jpg
(Notice the Man is missing in the background; this stencil was up before the Man was replaced. Burners are _fast_!)
Kind of ironic, as BM did try to “free” Paul Addis at the trial. They tried to persuade the judge to send him for psych treatment, as opposed to jail.
I didn’t do it, officer. It was already stenciled when I got here.
So he’s in jail and the people that run Burning man have became a cop calling establishment?
Kinda like the hippies turned yuppies in Berkeley?
They’ve became what they hate?
That’s pathetic…..
“So he’s in jail and the people that run Burning man have became a cop calling establishment?”
I’m inferring that what you might be saying is that the Burning Man organization put Paul Addis in jail. That would be an incorrect assumption. Due to the arson happening on federal land, the BLM Rangers arrested him with out the intervention one way or the other of the LLC.
It’s sad really because Paul does have a medical condition which requires medication. Regardless of who arrested him (the BLM did but some within the BRC Org pointed him out- a cop /helping/ the establishment) he was medically unstable at the time. There was no jailable harm done because of his crime. In fact it breathed life in to the event.
The failure is with the court in that they don’t get people treatment but instead imprison them.
That stencil tag should decorate BMHQs neighborhood –a mocking specter!
Before another eternally long “who’s really guilty” argument thread starts, read this in its entirety first.
http://laughingsquid.com/paul-addis-pleads-guilty-to-burning-man-2007-arson-charges/#comments