Posted on 02/20/2010 4:55:50 PM PST by myknowledge
WASHINGTON—The federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of IRS employees said it has seen an uptick in the past several years in threats against agency personnel.
In the past four years, there appears to have been a "steady, upward trend" in the number of threats against IRS employees, said an official with the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration. That assessment, offered in response to an inquiry from Dow Jones Newswires, is based on preliminary data, the official cautioned.
On Thursday, 53-year old Andrew Joseph Stack crashed his private plane into an Austin, Texas, office building that housed IRS workers, killing himself and one IRS employee and injuring 13 others.
Following the attack, Inspector General J. Russell George said his agency will consider whether changes to security policies are necessary to improve safety.
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The IRS and the Fed are both unconstitutional anyways, and they are ripe for looting.
I wonder if the fact that some IRS employees are total scumbags has anything to do with this.
Hey - what happened to the web design course? I see you’re on a Business Administration course now?
I’m not sure the IRS is actually unconstitutional, but certainly most of its current reach is.
People need to be kinder to the IRS employees. Once Bammie sneaks ObamaCare through, the IRS is going to be making all of your healthcare decisions for you. I imagine the CIA and NASA will also be involved in your healthcare decisions too.
Awwwwww...and how long have IRS threats against the citizens been going on???
Thousands of new IRS agents are being hired.
This brings to mind the "chicken or egg" argument. Maybe the people woulkd be less outraged if the IRS was less outrageous.
Hating the IRS is as American as apple pie.
That means 14 out of 200 fed employees showed up for work that day. Most of the building was in flames.
***Russell George said his agency will consider whether changes to security policies are necessary to improve safety.***
Anti-Aircraft guns on the roof?
Oerlikon twin 30mm.
FIM-92 Stinger Block II
Only from airborne threats.
Personal threats: A different matter.
Prior to the revolution, they tarred and feathered the King’s tax men....Hmmmm.....
Libtard media will spin it as right wing extremism....heads up....
It is a shame about that. There have been IRS abuses of citizens though. But, the IRS doesn’t make the laws, they just enforce them, sometimes a little to vigorously. People should be ticked at congress who made all of these insane tax laws.
In reality, there is nothing ‘right-wing’ about flying a stolen Piper Cherokee into the Austin IRS building.
Bet things would improve with changes in other policies. But just a guess...
Yep,, because the rest were out on annual leave, of which Fed employees get about 100 days per year not counting holidays. So they show up at an address, (can't call it work) about 200 days a year. Must be nice.......
Oh, yeah sure. It’s hard enough for me to work up any sympathy for the IRS when somebody plane-bombs them. If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the IRS.
I do feel sorry for the victim, Mr. Hunter. He was just trying to get his last year of employment in so he could retire with a fatter pension. Wrong place, wrong time.
My supervisor theorizes that Stack's big mistake was hitting the building at 10 a.m. when most federal employees are outside on their smoke break.
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