Wow

Feb. 18th, 2010 01:06 pm
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So most of you have probably seen, by now, the news of a small plane crash into a building in Austin, Texas. That building that, as it turns out not coincidentally, contained the Austin IRS offices. The minute I heard that, I had a bad feeling I knew exactly what happened.

Minutes later, via Twitter, Joe Stack's manifesto / suicide letter surfaced. First on the homepage of his self-owned company, then reprinted in the Statesman. And it contained pretty much exactly what I was expecting.
"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
I may or may not have more to say about this later, but for now, I'll leave my thoughts at this: dude made a lot of poor economic decisions in his life, blamed everyone else for it, and thought that by getting a high enough "body count" he could get the "American zombies" to "wake up and revolt."

Probably what Timothy McVeigh thought too.
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