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Is this the begining?
plane crash at IRS Building in Austin Texas. by Levi S.
(centrist)
Friday, February 19, 2010
Feb. 18, 2010, Andrew Joseph Stack, a 53 year old resident of north Austin Texas, climbs aboard a single engine Piper Cherokee plane. His intentions with the plane; to crash into the Federal IRS Building in Austin. This attack was apparently showing disapproval to the Federal Taxes. Why did he do it? Lets review.
Stack used to live in California, where he owned his own business, and made good money. But the IRS insisted that he owed them a large amount of money; money he claimed he did not owe them. After going broke because of taxes, Stack moved to Austin Texas. After living in Austin for some time, he was notified that the IRS was going to repossess his house.
Feb. 17, 2010, Stack posts a letter on a website connected to his wife. In this letter he points out every flaw he can think of in the Government, everything from big business to taxes. In this letter, he also points out many reasons why American citizens should stand up and revolt against the Federal Government. Later that night, Stack sets fire to his house so that the IRS could not repossess it.
The next day, around 10:00 AM, Stack takes off from an airport in Georgetown, about 30 miles away from Austin. He dose not file a flight plan. He flies over Austin before smashing into the 7 story, black glass IRS Building, injuring 13 office workers.
Art Acevedo, Austin Police Chief, says to reporters: "this was an isolated incident; there is no cause for alarm." Isn't there? Dose the Government seriously believe that people will not be influenced by Stacks words about the faults of the Government? Dose the Federal Government seriously think it can continue to rob its people with Taxation without provoking uprisings and revolts of its citizens? I don't. Could this be the beginning to a revolution? Could it be compared to the firing upon Fort Sumter in 1860 that started the War for Southern Independence? I see many resemblances
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Joseph Stack is not a hero or a marter but most likely a killer of at least on inocent perosn in Austin. Also, If this is the begining of something like the first shots at on Fort Sumter, please rember that, that whole incident did not go so well for the south.
Furthermore we need to stop blaming the "goverment" for high taxes as we still live in a representitive democracy and in the end we tax our selevs.
Posted By: Walt Thiessen
Date: 2010-02-19 14:56:39
John Hensey: you have a peculiar and perhaps craven notion of "taxing ourselves", given the fact that the minority ultimately have no say in the matter. The only ones with any real say are the majority. The frustrated minority can vote against taxes all they want, but it does no good. Given this fact, saying that we tax ourselves is ludicrous at best, despicable at worst.
"Dose the Government seriously believe that people will not be influenced by Stacks words about the faults of the Government?"
Employed Americans are too busy watching American Idol and reading People magazine to read and digest some random suicide note on the net. Those that even noticed the act will have newspeak spoon fed to them via the mainstream media in overdose quantities.
"Dose the Federal Government seriously think it can continue to rob its people with Taxation without provoking uprisings and revolts of its citizens? I don't. "
They've been collecting the 'voluntary' income tax for nearly a century-- what has changed recently? Taxes were higher under Reagan. Fifty percent of Americans don't even pay any income tax (seeing that they are nearly legally indigent). One in six Americans gets a gov't check-- those guys surely aren't going to revolt against their state and federal benefactors.
"Could this be the beginning to a revolution?"
It will make a great excuse for Homeland Security to draw up more watchlists of potentially 'threatening' citizens. You know, competent, solvent individuals who may not want to fund further expansion of the public sector at the expense of the private sector and who make noise outside of political events to which they can't gain entry.
"Could it be compared to the firing upon Fort Sumter in 1860 that started the War for Southern Independence?"
More like the beginning of deer season. And you're the buck.
I find your trust and dependence in the U.S. Federal Government funny. I will love to see the looks on your faces when the Feds rob you of all your freedom.
I am not a conspiritist, I just donot trust the Government in any way.
I rather doubt that I trust or depend on the federal or state government any more or less than you. While sarcasm isn't easy to convey over the 'net in written form, perhaps you could reread what I wrote above keeping in mind that you now know it was written with sarcastic, or at least ironic, intent.
Even though you've taken a rough stock of those who responded to the question you beg in the title of your little agitprop piece, doesn't mean your judgment is anywhere near base. Let us analyze AJ's missive, such that we might bother to have a rational civil discourse.
After carefully reading his screed, I'm almost certain I've paid *orders of magnitude* more in income taxes than AJ Stack ever did, and so have a few million other people. Rather doubt any of us enjoyed it or think these funds were anything but completely squandered. Strangely however, only AJ Stack decided he should pilot a perfectly airworthy plane into the side of an IRS building.
In the beginning, AJ Stack admits that he was conned (yes, conned) into believing somehow he was special and didn't have to pay all of the same taxes as all the stupid sheeple, and that he was broke by the time he learned otherwise. What AJ Stack didn't learn, however, was how to look in the mirror afterward and laugh at his own naivete and move onward. Instead, he began to nurse the ugliest form of self-pity, a tight little grudge against the entity that had shown him his insignificant place in the universe.
Next, AJ Stack whined (yes, whined) about how independent contractor status affected his business opportunities. Having been in the same business as he, I can in good faith say he could have avoided all of his ersatz marketing difficulties for less than a grand by setting up, at the start, the proper legal structure for his undertakings. Obviously AJ Stack had always felt that working within the law was an annoyance to be dealt with by *other* *stupider* people.
So apparently AJ Stack moved to Texas either intransigently dragging along his old problems or eventually making new waves with the IRS. Outside of purportedly being in the industry of pushing bits, he sure doesn't come across as a very logical businessman. Maybe he was one of those idiot-savants that could whip up a spreadsheet program, but not figure out how to employ it, like, to track his income, or prepare his taxes. In any event, instead of thinking about his wife or daughter or any good thing about the world, AJ Stack decides he's going to simultaneously escape this reality while making as big a scene as possible. However, that's not how he wanted to be remembered, so he had to justify his actions to the world by wrapping them up in a flag of violent rebellion against an absurdly ludicrous, corrupt, and unfair system. AJ Stack was apparently not very familiar with history of the sorts of episodes he apparently aspired to foment: Shay's Regulators, The Whiskey Insurrection, Fries's Rebellion; all violent tax protest movements, violently quashed.
It is at this point AJ Stack's own 'ineloquent' absurdity reaches its pinnacle. Grabbing at strawmen, engaging in tautologies, rambling in near incoherency about the subjective utility of squandering taxpayer money on one folly versus another, stating ipso facto that might is right (unless used against AJ Stack), AJ Stack swipes causes celebres from every aisle of political thought into his ideological basketcase and proceeds to sum *himself* up in one sardonic statement at checkout--
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO HIS GULLIBILITY, TO EACH ACCORDING TO HIS GREED.
I'd gladly pay to have that chiseled on his tombstone. In granite. AJ Stack had an unquenchable obsession to inflict violence on the entity he perceived would not let him escape the reality, responsibility, and self-loathing of his own life full of self-inflicted follies. In short, far from being a hero, a martyr, or some paragon of resistance, it's apparent that AJ Stack was sadly nothing more than an incalcitrant loser and his very own worst enemy.
Do you see any outpourings of grief in the streets for the IRS? I don't. While many people take the politically correct route and condemn Joe Stack's sacrifice, privately, I have heard nothing but praise for the man and condemnation for the IRS. There is something simmering underneath and I don't doubt as more of our rights are taken away, you will see more of this heroic sacrifice.
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