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“Fed Up” Austin Man Intentionally Steers Airplane Into IRS Building



Feb 18, 2010 72 Comments ›› Erik Wong

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FOX News:

Officials are investigating whether a small plane that crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, Thursday morning was an intentional act, an NTSB official told Fox News.

An NTSB spokesman, however, told FoxNews.com that “we can’t confirm any of that.”

Authorities said they have identified the pilot as Joseph Andrew Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer who lived in Texas.

The small single-engine plane crashed into a seven-story office building in Austin around 10 a.m. local time Thursday.

The FAA said a Piper Cherokee took off from an airport in Georgetown, Texas, at 9:40 a.m. and crashed into the building in Austin shortly thereafter. Officials are investigating whether Stack owned the plane.

The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday it does not believe the crash was an act of terrorism.

Stuart Newberg, who was in the area right before the crash, said the plane was flying low and fast, according to The Statesman.com.

“It was flying low and fast and I did a double take,” Newberg said, according to the Web site.

“I thought it was a play remote control plane. Then I saw the smoke.”

He told the paper he thought the plane seemed “very controlled.”

Harry Evans, an assistant chief with the Austin Fire Department, said one person from the building was unaccounted for. He said two have been taken to a hospital.

“There may be other injuries, we are unsure at this time,” Evans said during a news conference Thursday.

An Internal Revenue Service office is located inside the building.

IRS Agent William Winnie said he was on the third floor of the building when he saw a light-colored, single engine plane coming towards the building, TheStatesman.com reported.

“It looked like it was coming right in my window,” Winnie said, according to the Web site.

Winnie said the plane veered down and smashed into the lower floors. “I didn’t lose my footing, but it was enough to knock people who were sitting to the floor.”

The Austin American-Statesman newspaper reported several “walking wounded” at the scene of the crash. Paramedics have set up a triage center at the scene.

Heavy smoke could be seen coming from the building at 9420 Research Boulevard. Several local witnesses on Twitter reported seeing flames coming out of the building and lots of broken glass.

Dozens of fire trucks were on scene and the building was evacuated.

Early reports that the building housed the FBI field office in Austin later turned out not to be true. An FBI spokesman told Fox News that the FBI office in Austin is near where the plane crashed, but not in the same building. There are some federal offices in the building, though authorities couldn’t identify which ones.

The NTSB is sending staff out of Dallas and DC to the scene.

MyFoxAustin.com reported earlier Thursday that Austin firefighters responded to a house fire at a home believed to be Stack’s. Firefighters reported that the entire house was engulfed in flames, including the fence, when they arrived on the scene.

An Internet user with the name “Joe Stack” posted a suicide note to a social media Web site, ranting against the IRS, according to TheStatesman.com.

“If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?’” the note reportedly read. “The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time.”


  • USMCTANKS

    Well the article is right about one thing….this is not an “act of terrorism”…..this was the last desperate act of an American citizen screaming to be heard. This is just one of the first visible acts of a frustrated population at the end of their ropes with this out of control Nationalist government. Well…he got their attention and oshithead is brainstorming with his jackbooted thugs trying to spin this to their advantage. He’ll be found to have right extremist ties and they’ll line up the “assault weapons” outside whats left of his home. Time to man up folks…..Brass,lead and steel…it’s starting. Sempher Fi!

    • Bobby E

      Yep, you got that right! :beer:

    • Heinz

      This government is so not Nationalist its Internationalist Marxist Communist. Your equating Nationalist with Police State and Control.

      If we had Economic Nationalism you would have a great job instead of having to work for the Government

      Join John Birch Society

      Henry Ford was a great businessman and Nationalist

      I really must give lectures down at Parris Island

    • http://militias.ning.com/group/MILITIAO Rosie

      :beer: Absolutely right.

      But wouldn’t put it past the wannabe in the White House, who can’t bring himself to call a blatant act of Islamic terrorism “terrorism”, to attempt to pin that label on this poor victim of federal abuse. :gun: :gun:

    • falconfixer

      They won’t even be his weapons, just some random AK’s and AR’s dragged out of who knows where to put in front of the cameras.

  • EL GONZO

    The first Patriot, the first salvo, the first act, the second Civil Conflict…… And USMCTANKS, I agree with your assessment. The people are fed up with a system that keeps taxing us till death and beyond… People out here are pissed, more than many care to measure…..

    • EL GONZO

      Oh, and this act will begin the benchmark for such measurement…..

  • ghostie alix
  • mike3481
    • mike3481

      http://www.embeddedart.com‘s servers are overloaded, their site won’t load.

    • mike3481

      Actually, the site’s been taken off-line. The smoking gun has an archived copy. :arrow:

      http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      It would be very useful to follow the media trail here. I heard only the last paragraph from NPR this afternoon.

      Who ‘releases’ what and to whom is going to be very ‘telling’.

      Was he a ‘lone wolf’ or a ‘straw man’?

    • Bobby E

      Just read Joe Stack’s note … wow!

      Above, the FOX news story starts: “Officials are investigating whether a small plane that crashed into an office building in Austin, Texas, Thursday morning was an intentional act … ” – duh, do you think?

    • mike3481

      Been thinking about this…

      Joe Stack didn’t need a CPA, he needed to hire a Tax Attorney, take him out to the range and spend some “quality” time with him so the Attorney would know what kind of man he’s got for a client. (not implying anything :wink: :shock: )

      I’ve got a CPA in the family and he’s always recommended a Tax Attorney if there’s any hinky or if there’s risk that the IRS is going to get pissy and not just go through the audit and then dispose of the matter in one or two meetings and that you should
      know what’s coming at you after the first meeting.

      Also an Tax Attorney can say his entire firm has signed-off on his findings, then the IRS guy has to take into account the Attorney’s an Officer of the Court, then if the Auditor pursues the matter further he’s opening a can of worms for his boss, not good.

      I know this is 20/20 hindsight, but damn, the guy’s dead.

  • cold soldier

    Look for alot more of this before things get any better.

    I love the fact he burned his house beforehand…so the bastards could get nothing from his death :twisted:

    Godspeed Joe Stack, you could be any one of us :cry: :beer:

    • http://militias.ning.com/group/MILITIAO Rosie

      :beer: :beer: for the house burning.

    • ground wizard

      ummmmm, did you know his wife and young daughter were in the house?

  • http://patdollard.com Average Joe

    THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THE 2010 HARPER’S FERRY RAID, AND WE SHOULD DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO STOP THE OBAMABOT GOVERNMENT OF IRS SHITS LIKE THIS AND THE REST OF THEM PROGRESSIVES!!!!!!!

    • jaybear

      I don’t know about this….I mean….crashing a plane into a building just doesn’t sit right with me, too many memories there and there will be too many insinuations and comparisons made in the media about this.

      Killing yourself makes no statement at all,doing something like this makes no sensible statement….

      I would prefer that this act by a lone lunatic not be the first shot in the new revolution…..any successful revolution needs to be waged better and smarter than this.

    • jaybear

      Average Joe,

      I made a mistake and posted this as a reply to your post….sorry about that.

      meant it to be a standalone post

  • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

    It has been my contention that the Junta behind Obama expected that a little bit of red flag waving infront of the Republican Nose would cause the sort of actions Napolitano suggested in that infamous security assessment.

    When, instead, real Americans woke up and began joining Tea Party events, raising their voices at ‘town halls’ and electing people like Scott Brown.

    This is not what the machine behind this Socialist/Marxist take over of America expected so they have other potential ‘crisis’ causers…

    1. ‘controlled’ terrorism
    2. ‘right wing nut’ excuse

    I think this is one of the first shots…question is…was he pushed or did he jump? Is he a useful idiot or the first victim?

    • MinneSoCold

      If it starts getting painted as “tea partier”, “townhaller”, “republican”, “conservative”, “right-wing extremist” or “angry white male”…. THEN you’ll know where this is going and have to question NOT why this happened, but HOW this happen and WHO made it happen. Not terrorism, rather desperate political warfare.

      By the way, this “manifesto” was up on the site for 2 day prior and was edited 27 times according to one source, if that means anything.

      Didn’t Clinton and Carville just say they are looking to somehow destroy the tea party/republican surge? Hmmm.

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      Can we confirm that, Minnie?

      This is what I meant.

      Who is this guy, really?

      If my theory has even a hint of validity, look for number three. These things seem to go in sets of three.

      How easy would it be to create an army of ‘useful idiots’?

    • MinneSoCold

      It’s all over the place, CNN has it. He wrote it in MS Word which tracks all kinds of file stats. He had started it 2 days ago and saved/edited 27 times.

      I’m still not sure if it really was on the web for 2 days though. From what I’ve read, he was editing it in Word, but doesn’t say if was also on the web while editing.

      The libtards are all giddy and have already painted him among other labels, a “Tea Bigot” and “Palin Supporter”.

  • http://www.dirtydozensbunker.com Sanders

    Dang…

    That’s hella more committed than dressing up like Indians and throwing tea in the harbor.

  • http://www.bootparkergriffith.com The Sentinel at the Gate

    I can certainly sympathize with him on the IRS – I too took a butt fucking from this godless, evil monstrosity a while back. Over on Hannity, almost all the postings about his guy are labeling him as a terrorist, but I really don’t know. In some ways, I feel for this guy because he seems to have been the recipient of all the corrupt things that our government has been doing under several presidents and a whole lot of Congressional slime for quite some time. I just hope the elections of 2010 will bring about some REAL CHANGE instead of more of the same corruption, just different crooks. If not, I’ll be with Joe on taking these bastards apart body piece by body piece, burning the remnants and then depositing the ashes outside the 12 mile limit.

    Tonight I’m going to pray the 35th Psalm – David’s request to God for help to destroy his enemies. I think all of America needs to pray for the destruction of our enemies, both foreign and domestic.

  • RexRedbone

    If he would have filled the plane up with extra gas cans it would have been a fire bomb A boss I had a few years ago killed himself over IRS problems so they don`t care if your gonna go it better be big

  • ATTILA

    Hat tip to poli pundit. Sounds like a lefty to me.

    Mad As Hell. At Everyone!
    By PoliPundit ~ February 18th, 2010 @ 2:32 pm
    That Austin plane crasher was mad at everyone. In his suicide screed, he heaps scorn on:

    – GM executives (“commit unthinkable atrocities”)

    – The American medical system (“murdering tens of thousands of people a year”)

    – Politicians (“thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags”)

    – The Catholic Church (“vulgar, corrupt”)

    – Organized religion (“monsters”)

    – The American public (“incredible stupidity”)

    – Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (“sleazy”)

    – The airlines (“rich, incompetent cronies”)

    – Austin, TX (“a highly inflated sense of self-importance”)

    – The Justice Department (“on the take”)

    – The FAA (“a tombstone agency”)

    – George W. Bush (“presidential puppet”)

    – The IRS (“Big Brother”)

    – Communism (“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”)

    – Capitalism (“From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”)

    This was one angry man!

    • mike3481

      You know what’s got me really curious?

      Where the software programmers/engineers working as independent contractors the only ones targeted like that in the 1986 tax reform legislation?

      I imagine not, but who knows.

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      I think we are going to see more of this. ‘Right wing nuts’ aren’t supplying enough cannon fodder so they need to put libs into leading roles.

      Amy Bishop – Joe Stack (as in blow his?) – ?

      There’s something going on here.

      Where will number three be?

  • Nanny

    :arrow: All

    There are reports starting to come to light that he started two businesses in California and they were suspended by the authorities for reasons yet known. By the sounds of his manifesto he was railing against big business and yet he himself had failed at two businesses. He sounds mentally unstable to me. I am no fan of the IRS but if he started two businesses and did not follow the rules and the businesses were shuttered that makes him a piss poor businessman. Although the libtards are painting him as a “tea bagger” he sounds more like an embittered liberal that didn’t get his own way. Think Amy Bishop who just cut down some fellow professors in Alabama as well as her own brother.

    • mike3481

      Agreed.

      This entire event is going to get very interesting in the upcoming days and weeks.

  • mike3481

    Glass Worker Turns Hero After Plane Crashes Into Texas Building :arrow:

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586682,00.html

  • Sully

    Oh the humanity!
    Would our all-powerful Central Planning Commitee PLEASE stop worrying about jobs for stoopid people and ban assault Piper aircraft?!
    /Bill Maher

    • Nanny

      Bill Maher also claims he was targeting stupid supporters of Sarah Palin and those like her who have Down Syndrome babies inside the building proving therefore this was completely justified and the progressives should just keep up this type attack to get their agenda thru. /sarc

  • http://deleted ground wizard

    i don’t give a shit, i guarantee he was a Ron Paul supporter. we will never know that, but that allows me to make this statement b/c the last 8 yrs i had to either hear it or read it. IT WAS A INSIDE JOB.

  • Noway2no

    Don’t believe any of it.

    Why would they release the “screed” from this guy (?) moments after the “investigation” starts?

    It’s all bull—t as far as I can tell, I don’t believe anything from the MSN and hardly anything from the rest of the media.

    I’m just saying.

  • FrontierJustice

    It’s already starting. :arrow: Fox is reporting that “A U.S. law official said investigators were looking at a lengthy, anti-government “manifesto” Stack is believed to have written on his Web site. The message outlines problems with the IRS and says violence “is the only answer.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586581,00.html

    • EL GONZO

      In reference to the Manifesto—Violence was the result of conditions set forth by our early Revolutionaries to be free, other wise we would still be a British Colony……………What other answer is there when dealing with the IRS? Pay more and higher taxes? ….. This was not anti-government, this was anti-tyranny. the same tyranny that grows each day with the mother fucker Obongo, the Nostriled-One….. This is the same IRS that has been buying weapons for over a year now, wonder why?????? Except that this time, someone struck before they did……

    • FrontierJustice

      I completely agree. That was my point. The media is already up to their bullshit – calling the guy’s suicide note “anti-government” and singling out his call to arms to get all the little chickenshit sheople to cluck their tongues and talk about how “violence is never the answer.”

      My only problem with what the man did was he decided to target a building with innocent people inside with a suicide attack like some gutter terrorist instead of taking a stand and defending himself when the time came. He just fucked things up for everybody.

    • CPLViper

      I hate to bring this up but the IRS doesn’t set the taxation levels or laws, they are only the service that enforces them. The tax laws are written by the cocksuckers in Congress who don’t understand them and then evade them. This stupid fucker tried to kill the messenger.

      In other words, if he thought about it without so much rage, he would have crashed his plane into the Capitol Building and not some IRS office.

      And … reading his ‘manfesto’, I can’t really tell if he was on the right or the left because he seemed to hate (and blame) everything and everyone.

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      Let’s go all pseudo intellectual here…

      Tim’s prediction:

      There will be third, antigovernment, politically non specific ‘nut case’ attacking something in the next week or so.

      What Obama and the machine behind him needs are Marinus van der Lubbe’s.

      Think Reichstag Fire…

  • Chelle

    Something does not smell right here. The plane hit the building around 10 am central time, Fox started reporting on it around 10:30 am, Fox talked to a man that said that the building didn’t have many people in it (at that time in the morning?) and Fox reported that they couldn’t understand how the fire department had responded to so quickly. Then they release this so called manifesto just 4 hours later? Since when does the FBI release or allowed to be released anything that quickly? Is it not days before the public finds out about things such as this. Something stinks to HIGH heaven.

    • Tim Roesch – pseudo intellectual

      That’s what I’m talking about.
      In many of these ‘Whackoes go whacko’ stories the ‘media’ seems to get too much information too fast.
      Stuff seems ‘preplanted’ sometimes.

  • rightangle

    Clinton attacked “right wing “hate radio” aka Rush Limbaugh after McVeigh blew up the Murrah Fed. Building. Some of the heroic first responders like the iconic fireman cradling the lifeless(?)toddler defended Limbaugh and claimed to be part of his audience when interviewed.

    I wonder where obama and his script writers will take this. Stack mentions the LA depression of the early ’90s brought on by the base closures. That is similar plot line to the movie “Falling Down” (laid of white defense worker goes crazy with a GUN <—right winger) in 1994- easy to be played up for those looking to brand this vigilante. So I look for the left to play that theme here.

    One omission in my mind, since he mentions Bush directly, is no calling out of Geithner. I think Stack and Geithner both have had over $ 40k in “issues” with the IRS.

  • 3e

    Clarity brought forth by idiot for Democratic governmental understanding. Upset with Democratic regulations, Thanks Barry Soetoro.

    One of their own attacks a IRS building after Obama/Soetoro, Pelosi and Reid’s first wave of destructive financial laws.

    The communist/Marxist/democrats will have hundreds of nut jobs attacking government buildings before it is over. They will do everything to call martial law and troops on the ground. Remember that they control the cities and the nuttiest SOB on the planet. They want to point the finger at the T party. No go.

    I would suppose that they would “Let the nut jobs kill governmental employees.”

    Can you imagine the confusion in the Whitehouse tonight?

  • daytonsux

    He’s probably a leftie, cause if he had been conservative this would have been labeled a terrorist attack.

    He sure liked the idea of communism, but he sure didn’t like it when Big Brother stole from him to redistribute to everyone else.

  • Joe Mudd

    I don’t know, this could be “face value” and if so
    our Govt. had better take note and back down because
    there are a lot more where he came from, like my neighbor who had his house foreclosed on.
    Life where every car is a weapon, every plane, every
    citizen. Take away freedom and suddenly there’s not much
    to live for but a whole lot to die for.
    Interesting times for sure.

    • kim clift

      we haven’t seen anything yet

  • MarkF

    TAKING INNOCENT LIFE IS NEVER JUSTIFIED, IF HE HAD BALLS HE WOULD HAV SET HIMSELF ON FIRE ON THE CAPITOL STEPS. PUSSY TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT.

  • odin2012

    One man’s terrorist is another man’s patriot. All this is, is a man who just had enough and a government who chose to not listen to the people.

  • Mike from the Republic of Texas

    WTF are we talking about. Let me school some of you asshole posting out of your ass. He lit his house on fire with his wife and son inside. Leaves to go kamikaze some fucking accountant because he sucks at life. No, as a member of the Atlanta Tea Party I will not let stupid dipshits be painted as part of my grass roots revolution. Fuck him and may he burn in hell. Besides, WTF kind of member of the Tea Party movement is anti-religion and anti-capitalism.

    • Jim D

      I have to agree with ya Mike. This guy although I can sympathize with his pain and anger smells of a progressive lefty.He seems to hate everything american and became rather pissed when after playing the game of life and losing! Most would change careers,move to drugs or sit on their ass and draw SSI, disability or welfare. I would also bet $$$ he is a registered Dem also because if he was an R that would have been on the tv screen by his name before his picture showed up!

    • Joe Mudd

      I am not for him in any way but his actions do not surprise me one bit. I have not read anything that said he killed his son and wife in his house but two dead at the crash site.
      What we are “talking about” is what happened today and trying to make sense of it and looking for “the comment”
      that sums it up best. It’s truly a sad day but the school yard chant of “told you so” is ringing in my head.
      I am glad you put religion and capitalism in the same sentence, because the greed is good crowd needs to be weeded out of every party. To hell with separation of church and state we need separation of business and state. the moral restraint of religion is a needed tool to keep capitalism honest and fair.
      I think more than one founding father expressed this.

    • bacongreasenapalm

      :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

    • CPLViper

      Mike … :beer:

    • Tom in CO

      Yeah, even though there are plenty of the radical tea partiers that DO approve of his act of terrorism. Glad you’re not one of them.

    • Lock and Load

      :arrow: Mike
      AMEN :beer: :beer:
      This clown sounds a lot more like a crybaby liberal who didn’t get the perfect life he thought he was entitled to, and decided to take it out on someone.
      All sorts of people have hard times in life – those of good character fight on and adjust – obviously he did not fit in that category :evil: :???:

    • Molly

      Going back to what Nanny said earlier, there have been reports that this guy had two business that were forced to cease operations by the authorities for reasons unknown. Stack was pissed off at the IRS but he could have brought his problems on himself. Nobody knows for sure at this point. That being said, his actions were certainly misdirected.

      It was his wife and daughter that were supposedly in the house Mike, but according to some witnesses they were not thank goodness.

    • ground wizard

      Mike “BALLS” from the Republic of Texas!!!
      thanks b/c i was even starting to say WTF is the matter with some of these people.
      To-JOE MUDD, yes his wife and child were reported to be in the house but luckily were able to escape.

  • http://patdollard.com Average Joe

    Death to Obamabots-OFA & whomever!

  • MinneSoCold

    :beer: Mike
    I agree. It’s a very deep, dark and evil place one can get pushed to to carry-out such acts. BUT only someone of weak moral fiber would ever do this…. this asshole deserves to burn in hell. I think people relate to his frustrations with the IRS and government, but that’s where it ends. The ends are not justified, the means are not justified. And I have serious doubts that he is either republican or aligned with the tea party. The MSM and libtard new-media are trying very hard to spin it that he was, but his manifesto says otherwise.

    This is just another example of how the left automatically label and classify these homegrown, violent whackjobs are right-wing extremists that represent your average white male republican. We always find out that the opposite is true but never corrected by the MSM.

  • FrontierJustice

    Just as most of us thought. And of course now those communist assholes at the SPLC are spewing their bullshit. Like I said, this fucking idiot has only made things worse.

    :arrow: Radical Anti-tax Groups Growing Threat, Say Law Enforcement: “Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who crashed his small plane into a seven-story office building in Austin, Texas, was part of a growing, violent anti-tax and anti-government movement that has become increasingly alarming to law enforcement agencies. … Experts are pointing to the incident as further evidence of what they say is a proliferation of anti-government militia groups.”

    “There is a real rage out there, and this terrible attack may be a reflection of that,” Mark Potok, the director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said in a statement to FOXNews.com. The SPLC has been studying the resurgence in anti-government militias and groups, which it attributes to a perfect storm of economic, political and social factors.

    “There’s been an explosive growth of anti-government militias and so-called Patriot groups over the past year, and the central idea of many of them is that taxes are completely illegitimate,” Potok said.”

    “In the 1990s, the combustible mix of rising antigovernment anger and the growth in militias was a recipe for disaster that ultimately resulted in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building by Timothy McVeigh, who was motivated by antigovernment hatred,” read a blog post on SPLC’s Web site after Stack’s attack.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586904,00.html

    • http://patdollard.com Average Joe

      THE REAL FUCKING BULLSHIT IS THE CONTINUED LIE BY THE LEFT ABOUT OKLAHOMA CITY…….

      JOHN DOE#2 WAS JOSE PADILLA(NY DIRTY BOMB GUY) AND JOHN DOE’S #4 & #5 WERE “MIDDLE-EASTERN MEN IN BLUE JOGGING SUITS” AS REPORTED BY AT LEAST 30 WITNESSES!!!!!!!!!

      THERE IS A BIG CONNECTION TO THE FORMER CITY OF DALLAS CIVIL ENGINEER ISLAMIC THAT JUST DISAPPEARED WITHOUT A TRACE RIGHT AFTER…..

      THE CLINTON’S KNEW ABOUT IT, AND THE CLINTONS HELPED IN IT!!!!!!

  • FrontierJustice

    By the way, this is going to cause even more rifts within the movement, as we’re already seeing. As I made clear in my post above, I stand with those who condemn this as a cowardly act of terrorism.

    Where the split comes in is that, unlike many in the movement, I wholeheartedly believe that violence is not only justified, but is our duty as Americans, if necessary, in restoring the Law of the Land and reclaiming the Republic. However, whatever actions are undertaken must be done in the correct manner, after all we are not criminals or terrorists, this is not a game and all of our futures and the futures of millions yet unborn hangs in the balance.

    It is tragic that being loyal to the Constitution has somehow become anti-government. The Constitution IS the government. If you don’t believe in that document it is YOU who are anti-government and many of us will fight you to our last breath.

  • Jett

    I thought Stack’s manifesto was rather lucid; though tragic that innocent people lost their lives.

    If a terrorist label can be applied to Stack, then what label applies when our own gov’t intentionally hides a cancer-causing chemical in the water at Camp Legeune for 20+ years?
    http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100218/D9DUR4V80.html

    How about the Ohio ‘terrorist’ who bulldozed his house prior to foreclosure (sarc). It appears the bank was trying to screw this guy; bank wouldn’t accept payoff on the loan. Like Stack, the Ohio guy said enough is enough!http://www.wlwt.com/news/22600154/detail.html

    Look for more ‘terrorists’ (sarc) in the news as our economy crumbles at the greedy hands of gov’t & big business…

    • Lone Wolf

      The well with high benzene levels (#602) was shut down in November 1984:
      http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/SITES/LEJEUNE/faq_water.html

    • Jett

      Got that well #602 Hadnot Pt closed Nov-84. The problem I have is:
      * A 1984 report had well #602 with benzene at 380 parts per billion. The final report issued in 1994, that # changed > 38 parts per billion (???)
      * The Tarawa water system (contaminated), remained in service from ’57 to ’87.
      * Why so little information on the contamination until recently?

    • Lone Wolf

      I don’t know – it will require more investigation to figure out what brought this to the forefront. Could be a whistleblower, someone with an ax to grind, a reporter trying to make a name for himself… or someone at EPA finally retired and they found the report had been laying on their desk for 16 years. It’s hard to know. One of the worst polluters in the whole country is the Federal government, and there is essentially no accountability in the bureaucracy. They can’t even go out of business.

  • Xavier

    I read his manifesto,

    IMO, the pilot was a failure at life & business. He failed to learn to correctly report & pay his taxes (or seek assistance to do so) in the states of California & Texas as well as to the Feds. He failed to take personal responsibility and accountability for his short comings and instead built a hatred of a government agency for which his suicide actions will not change…another failure in his life.

    Obviously his ability to problem solve was lacking, maybe that had something to do with him being underpaid as a software engineer.

    But who am I say, I’m just an observer.

  • Steve

    Stack is a piece of shit terrorist, no better than the islamofacist cocksuckers who planned/executed the 9/11 attacks. Some of these posts portraying him as some uber patriot, or some righteous victim sound EXACTLY the same as those who refer to the 9/11 hijackers as the “blessed 19″ and call them martyr’s when they where actually soulless cowards who killed innocent people. I am glad that many on here aren’t afraid to call bullshit and call Stack what he is, a terrorist. So, whatever his beef with IRS was, what about the other offices, the damn security guard or the janitor, or someones child in the office with mom or dad. Not to mention the Police, Fire EMS personnel that could have been killed in the line of duty trying to rescue his victims, do they have it coming too? No they fucking do not, just like all the FDNY and NYPD who perished on 9/11 should still be here today. Part of America died on 9/11, the departed can not come back, here some of you are congratulating this sack of shit. Fucking weak, those of you who find this terrorist act somehow patriotic or noble, I am ashamed to call you countrymen, there were infinite other ways for this man to express whatever outrage he was feeling. To see Stack’s sickening terror attack and or some of the cheerleading found on this thread in any way tied to the TEA Party movement will be the end of the only “grassroots” movement that has ever given me hope. Whatever Stack’s motivations, beliefs were, if you support what he did, please keep looking for things in 3′s and stay away from the one movement that has a slim chance, a glimmer of hope, of restoring our republic. It’s no reflection on the site, open forum and all that, but until this I thought I had a lot in common with many who post here. Conservative, anti illegal immigration, gutting entitlements, and most importantly I ascribe to the “from my cold dead hands” theory about gun control. Our republic could collapse overnight, if certain “perfect storm” events take place. Massive inflation, a CBRNE attack or multiple terror attacks such as ieds or a Mumbai style attack on one or more major cities. If such a collapse were to take place, or we are forced to stare true tyranny in the face through confiscation of legally owned weapons then only action will do, but carefully orchestrated and for a purpose the restoration of our republic, not to settle a beef with the IRS. Wanton death and destruction are the realm of the islamofacist baby rapers, we are much better than that, well some of us are and if the time comes, and I still believe our goals can be achieved through a ballot box. I am ashamed of some of what I have read here, I have to believe its just a stupid minority of posters or else, we are fucked, plain and simple as that.

  • redneckbaron

    To Joe Stack
    I read your diatribe, and It reads as if you were a truly mindless piece of shit.FUCK YOU, the world has never seen a shit covered asshole as you before. Even in death your a worthless, self important, spineless goddamn coward. Your pound of flesh doesnt even come close to value of a milligram of rat shit. The troubles you whine and bitch about were self-inflicted and if you had had 1/100th of a retarded brain cell you would have heeded your own misinformed words, “insanity,trying the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome” You were a fucking worthless wannabe tax cheat that didnt have the mental fortitude to learn how to properly play the game ASSHOLE. So because you were a failure at fucking the middleclass taxpayer out of their hard earned contributions you pick the most cowardly way of committing suicide. A real man would have at least faced his intended victims before he punks out and kills them before killing himself.

    You son of bitch if life had been so bad I really dont think you would have had the expansive house you torched or the fucking airplane you flew into the building you words tell the story of a twink that has sucked too much cock . maybe you should have killed you family after you torched the house your DNA is an abomination to human genome. and everything you have touched or liked should also be destroyed

    I own you mother fucker and If you think you knew misery just wait prick I have something very special for you. It is likely I will see you and Ill show you what a man is you piece of shit. REST IN NO PEACE YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE