By FITSNews || Two people were injured in Austin, Texas on Thursday when a disgruntled software engineer who was pissed off at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) flew his airplane into a government building.
Joseph Stack, 53, wrote a long anti-government manifesto on his website shortly before flying his plane – a Piper PA-28 – into the Echelon office complex building, which housed nearly 200 IRS employees.
Stack was the only person aboard the plane, which took off at 9:40 a.m. (CT) from a local airport.
Prior to his apparent suicide, Stack set his home on fire with his wife and family still inside. They were rescued later by neighbors.
“Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well,” Stack’s online missive said.
Stack had been audited by the IRS, according to the Wall Street Journal – which cost him $10,000.
Stack’s letter was removed from the web at the FBI’s request, but a copy is available below …
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Joseph Stack’s Letter
By Genomic Repairman February 18, 2010 at 8:10 pm
Dude that shit was messed up, I drove by the building on my way home from work today. They guy literally lost his fucking mind. I’m sure media are going to try like hell to link this guy to the Tea party.
By Soft Sigh From Hell February 18, 2010 at 8:34 pm
The new patron saint of Teabaggers?
By Cooter Brown February 18, 2010 at 10:28 pm
I caint think ov anie thang to say nice heer, so I will hold my ol’ fool tongue!
By CNChapin February 18, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I can’t think of ANY reason for someone to be enraged at the IRS, can you?
By sid February 18, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Sounds like a Barry guy who snapped. Didn’t like Bush or capitalism, wanted health care reform, and seemed sympathetic to the problems faced by blacks and immigrants. Hardly what you’d call the Tea Party stereotype.
By madcock February 18, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Who knew the Tea Party had an air force.
By sysylala February 19, 2010 at 11:01 am
What a load of crap. He spent a lot of energy blaming others for his misfortunes. It doesn’t appear that he took responsibility for his accounting methods or his income management. Geez..the guy was a software engineer and he couldn’t see that his wife’s income was left off of the form? Attention to details is a typical requirement for software engineer. My guess…he wasn’t very good at that and blamed others for his crappy work issues.
By They call me Mr. Sinister February 19, 2010 at 12:14 pm
I can hear the liberal elitist even now saying this is a perfect example of why the IRS needs a stronger enforcement arm, or more screenings for people before they can fly planes (note they will be sure to play on the fact the guy was white). Yes they will probably try and tie him to the tea party/tax protest wheather there are ties or not. Some one on left side of the aisle will say this is a good example of why we need restrictions on the 2nd amendment (even though no guns were involved) out of fear for further violence. There will be cries for stronger/tougher enforcement of laws or new laws need to be made to protect the goverment from the citizens.
But the short of the story is a US citizen was wiped out not once but twice by the goverment and snapped. He left behind a wife and daughter who will probably lose anything they may have had left and at the end of the day no one will really care…
By CNChapin February 20, 2010 at 12:18 am
I just wish he would have been flying a MUCH larger plane.
The IRS is the epitome of tyranny and anyone who thinks otherwise is not paying attention. If you don’t give in to their looting tactics, they WILL send men with guns to your house to collect you and YOUR property all because you did not allow them to steal more from you. It’s not their money. They’re not entitled to it in any way. It is not a matter of “You screw-up on your tax return, you deserve what is coming to you.” That’s insanity. They are looting thieves like pigs at a trough stealing what rightfully belongs to the citizens of this once great nation. To say that someone is blaming others for their misfortune because the IRS wiped them out is such mind boggling insane that I can not wrap my mind around it. It is NOT THEIR DAMNED MONEY TO TAKE!
The government assumes your salary/wage/income is a zero sum game. They call it “income” as though it is a gain. People give up their work and time to earn that money and the government just comes along and says, “If you don’t give into our demands, we’ll send armed thugs to cart you off and take your property to get what we want.” That is plain mafia activity and if ANYONE in the private sector did ANYTHING even remotely similar, they’d go to jail… but it is ok for the government to do it and anyone who does not comply is a deadbeat!?!?! Have someone grease your neck and pull on your shoulders and maybe your head will pop out of your ass.