Man angry at IRS crashes plane into building

AP ^

[jedi150]

AUSTIN, Texas – A software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service launched a suicide attack on the agency Thursday by crashing his small plane into an office building containing nearly 200 IRS employees, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing for their lives.

At least one person in the building was missing.

The FBI tentatively identified the pilot as Joseph Stack. A federal law official said investigators were looking at a long anti-government screed and farewell note that he apparently posted on the Web earlier in the day as an explanation for what he was about to do.

In it, the author cited run-ins he had with the IRS and ranted about the tax agency, government bailouts and corporate America's "thugs and plunderers."

"I have had all I can stand," he wrote in the note, dated Thursday, adding: "I choose not to keep looking over my shoulder at `big brother' while he strips my carcass."

[Crooked Constituent]

Per savage, the left wing has red meat to attack the tea party and the right with this. A reichstag fire equivalent. Meanwhile the media sweeps the Obama fanatic university shooting under the rug.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

He also ranted against capitalism, in favor of Obamacare and in favor of communism.

Seems that didn’t make it into the AP story. Surprise.

[pandoraou812]

Prayers for the victims.

[Nervous Tick]

You should see the way the Austin teevee stations are spinning it. Emphasizing all the quotes with the word “patriot” in them... giving us that mock look of fear and disgust. Yet they’re ignoring the left-wing parts of his rant — and there are many of those.

[Secret Agent Man]

Too bad he couldn’t figure out that COMMUNISM IS THE VEHICLE THAT BIG BROTHER USES TO STRIP YOUR CARCASS!!!

“FROM EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR MEANS, TO EACH ACCORDING TO THEIR NEEDS.” Communism.

Ignorant.

Not entirely unhappy he hit an IRS office however. At least he aimed at the right people. Many of those folks there truly get off at flexing their power over ‘the little people’.

[cripplecreek]

He was angry at more than the IRS.

[Engineer_Soldier]

This guy was a total communist that was mixed up by the very big government he once supported. Not knowing what to do or where to go because the same big government he advocated came back to haunt him (as it always haunts the supporters of communism when they unmask its ugly head but are too brainwashed to unmask the confusion of their decades of belief in it as a religion), he acted out. Here's his suicide letter:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html?mep

[McGavin999]

Well then Savage is an idiot because the guys was a Bush hating leftist.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Unfolding before our eyes is a prime example of how the media deliberately picks and chooses facts, or invents “facts” so that the story comes out the way they want.

[1st I.D Vet]

Breaking news: brady gun ban scrapped in favor or 50 states flying ban.

Opponents of Cessna’s say that too many people are hurt or injured by planes and must be banned to prevent future violence.

I guess this guy didn’t realize what the tea parties were all about...

[Uncle Miltie]

Who was the guy in Atlas Shrugged who just went off like this?

[cripplecreek]

We need a ban on assault cessnas.

[The Duke]

Night of the Long Knives, Part II - coming soon it seems?

[jedi150]

A useful idiot figures out he was wrong in his supporting Socialistic causes and can't live with the consequences that he himself helped to propagate.

[pyx]

From a copy of Joseph Andrew Stack's manifesto, he concludes;

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Stack was obviously, from the LEFT. And the LEFT will attempt to distance themselves from him.

[HIDEK6]

At least one person in the building was missing.

If it was a building full of government "workers" this is not surprising.

[dr_who]

Yes, so it goes. But it’s a battle of words, not gunpowder. We know what Democrats and the media will do in just about every situation now. In many ways, they’re kind of pathetic but also ruthless. The way to react is not to panic and not to let anger get the better of you or to be like many republicans and retreat. Conservative leaders need to calmly and persistently get their message out. The way things are now, Democrats aren’t going to be able to destract the public by pinning the blame on conservatives for these sorts of occurences any more than another loony professor going postal is a reason for gun control.

[dljordan]

“Opponents of Cessna’s say that too many people are hurt or injured by planes and must be banned to prevent future violence.”

Just wait, there are legions of authoritarian bureaucrats that will be thinking this is an opportunity to further restrict freedom.

[jedi150]

Not entirely unhappy he hit an IRS office however. At least he aimed at the right people. Many of those folks there truly get off at flexing their power over ‘the little people’.

There are a few in the IRS that care but cannot do squat when it comes down to helping the Tax Payer.

I know cause it happened to me and a IRS agent was damn near in tears trying to help me with a problem with taxes and the collapse of my health. Then again there are MANY who get nothing but shear joy out of making a person squirm and make coffee break jokes about them.

He should have flown it into the House of Representitive's who are responsible for writing the Tax code.