Posted on 02/21/2010 4:57:23 PM PST by U.S. Army Retired
In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an Austin, Tex., IRS building, white supremacists and their fellow travelers have elevated Joseph Andrew Stack into an icon of resistance to tyranny. “The Guy is a true HERO!!!” wrote “northroad” on Stormfront.org, the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world. “God bless him,” chimed in “Rudyard,” following a comment by “suepeace”: “This was quite heroic. There is a gradual awakening underway. I wonder how racially conscious he was.”
Shortly after Stack slammed his Piper PA-28 into the IRS building Thursday morning, killing himself and one IRS worker and injuring another 13 people, a manifesto the man apparently wrote just before the attack came to light. In it, Stack bitterly railed against a wide variety of targets — big business, corporate executives, unions, the Catholic Church, the recent bailouts of various industries, and more — but he kept coming back to the alleged evils of American government in general and, more specifically, the Internal Revenue Service and tax law.
That made him a hero in the eyes of many on the radical right — so-called tax protesters — who have long believed that federal taxes were illegal or simply voluntary. Although many tax protesters who call themselves “sovereign citizens” subscribe to a racist ideology, there was no indication that Stack entertained racist ideas.
More at link:
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What gives this organization the right to keep files on law abiding US citizens? Is this Legal for the Southern Poverty Law Center to do this?
Who did not seeing this coming? =.=
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This doesn’t do much for their credibility. Didn’t they read his anarchist manifesto?
Of course they do.
They’re a liberal organization.
Watch for them to be helped by a bunch of people in our Congress and White House.
Who is going to stop them? Obama? A fellow communist?
...SPLC has got a problem...they’re running out of Klansmen...all the old KKK from the Civil Rights era are dead or dying...consequently they’ve got to find new targets of opportunity.
Southern Poverty Law Center is, and always has been a communist outfit.
I suppose anyone could keep a file on anyone, with any legally obtained information, and political organizations probably do keep tabs on “enemies.”
Since an anti-tax activist is anti-big government, it stands to reason that he’s a member of the radical right.
There’s some odd theories out there about taxes and artificial personas and the validity of the Sixteenth amendment and the Social Security Act but it’s not clear to me from Stack’s manifesto that he’d signed onto those in particular.
My files tell me that Morris Dees is a latent racist and a turd burgler.
Robble robble robble
SPLC has never had credibility. They were formed as a Communist front group with Tax Exempt Status.
Have you ever seen this clown Potok? He was on BOR and some other show last week. A real fruit loop with a bad haircut. But hey, working for the so-called Southern Poverty Law Center beats having to go out and find a real job.
Marxist? Leninist? Maoist? Trotskyite? Or all of the above?
all of the above, plus BIG obami supporters.
Marxist views. But capitalist instincts.
Morris Dees really liked contributions. And geared his policies to attract the highest amount.
I assume Potok is similarly inclined.
White people have “completely and utterly lost the battle” to keep our nation White.
The creep needs to take a bath and wash his hair.
We can tie him to the Huffington Post!
USA TODAY describes him this way...
'civil rights expert Mark Potok , Southern Poverty Law' Center
Focusing on the Stormfront angle here, how in the world is that site and its adherents associated with ``the right''? The White Nationalist movement traces its roots to National Socialism, which by its very definition is leftist.
Consequently, if the SPLC were to be accurate and honest, any Klansman, White Nationalist or Stormfront partisan would in fact be affiliated with the far left. One can only surmise that logic is simply not a strong point of J. Richard Cohen and Morris Dees.
By the looks of his picture there seems to be an unusual amount of pressure in that crainium. He looks to be in distress. WARNING DO NOT GO NEAR THIS GUY WITH POINTY OBJECTS!
He looks like the character actor back in the 60’s.....always played the wimp with glasses....can’t remember his name.
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