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Mister Shifter
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Posted 2 years ago # -
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AUSTIN, Texas – A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an office building that houses federal tax employees in Austin, Texas on Thursday, setting off a raging fire that sent workers fleeing as thick plumes of black smoke poured into the air.
A U.S. law official identified the pilot as Joseph Stack and said investigators were looking at an anti-government message on the Web linked to him. The Web site outlines problems with the IRS and says violence "is the only answer."
Federal law enforcement officials have said they were investigating whether the pilot crashed on purpose in an effort to blow up IRS offices. The Web site featured a long note dated Thursday denouncing the government and the IRS in particular and cited the Austin man's problems with the agency.
All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
At least one person who worked in the building was unaccounted for and two people were hospitalized, said Austin Fire Department Division Chief Dawn Clopton. She did not have any information about the pilot. About 190 IRS employees work in the building, and IRS spokesman Richard C. Sanford the agency is trying to account for all employees.Posted 2 years ago # -
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Mister Shifter wrote >>
Woah.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/02/18/texas.plane.crash/index.html?hpt=T1
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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/02/18/internet_note_posted_by_man_li.htmlPosted 2 years ago # -
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Snarf wrote >>
presuming no loss of innocent life, is a smashed up IRS building really all that bad?That suicide letter shows all sorts of tin-hatery to blame for a bunch of poor personal decisions.
And even if nobody dies, there is a little girl who has to forever deal with the fact that daddy tried to kill her in a raging house fire before killing himself.
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dru wrote >>
Snarf wrote >>
presuming no loss of innocent life, is a smashed up IRS building really all that bad?That suicide letter shows all sorts of tin-hatery to blame for a bunch of poor personal decisions.
And even if nobody dies, there is a little girl who has to forever deal with the fact that daddy tried to kill her in a raging house fire before killing himself.Exactly. +1
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Snarf wrote >>
i was merely joking about the irs, wingnuts. pardon the pun.against my better judgment I read too many user comments under the story that put me on edge about light comments on the situation. i would think this was a moment of rare unity where we could all agree that this guy wore a giant silver crown of reynolds foil. apparently not, based on my reading of 'guest' user comments this is somehow a unified plot of the Bush-Beck-Rand-Mao-Obama world order. i know your sense of humor, i just have a feeling too many others aren't joking.
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dru wrote >>
Snarf wrote >>
i was merely joking about the irs, wingnuts. pardon the pun.against my better judgment I read too many user comments under the story that put me on edge about light comments on the situation. i would think this was a moment of rare unity where we could all agree that this guy wore a giant silver crown of reynolds foil. apparently not, based on my reading of 'guest' user comments this is somehow a unified plot of the Bush-Beck-Rand-Mao-Obama world order.
The guy did have the tinfoil a bit tight...
In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions†that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.
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The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
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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.
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Tinfoil, whatever. my overall impression from reading that was that this guy was looking to blame someone else for his bad breaks in life. If the IRS is capable of making you suicidal, something else is really, really wrong. Killing yourself over money.... the whole thing sucks.
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dru
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rus wrote
The guy did have the tinfoil a bit tight...
It was all over the place, and what I liked/hated was that every side was trying to cherry pick quotes to prove that he was John Hinckley Jr. to their pick of either Sarah Palin or Rachel Maddow in the role of Jodie Foster.
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agtw31 wrote >>
i really dont think he wrote that in one sitting,that's probably why the letter seems disjointed.i think 'business insider' where I initially read the note stated it was edited 27 times. How they know that I don't know, unless he had it elsewhere on the website.
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