You’d think with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, the day of Commies being a threat would be over. Well, guess again. One just slammed a Cessna into an office building in Austin, Texas. And why? Because he was pissed off at the IRS. Go figure… a guy who opposes capitalism and extolls communism was upset that the government was takign his money.
The pilot, Joseph Andrew Stack, had himself a website. It makes for entertaining schizo-looneytune reading.
Since the website will probably get yanked fairly soon, here’s a text file of it:
well-mr_-big-brother-irs-man___-take-my-pound-of-flesh-and-sleep-well.txt
Shameless stolen from Fark:
Also shamelessly stolen from Fark: “What’s the bets the same leftists that blamed the United States for 9/11 won’t blame the United States for confiscatory taxation causing this event?”
25 Responses to “Commie tries low-rent 9/11 attack”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
My Russian history professor noted that the USSR changed its constitution to read differently: “From each according to his ability, to each according to
his PRODUCTIVITY.” The change was made in 1936, when it was clear that the old way wasn’t working.
Stack’s version (The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.) seems spot on. One major responsibility for anyone living in any market is to avoid being gullible through education and reason. Mr Stack seems to have missed that.
Darwin in action. The worst part is that took others with him.
> The worst part is that took others with him.
Second worst is that he took an airplane with him… which will probably lead to an erosion of general aviation. Every time some jackass performs some dumbassery with a light aircraft, it gives the bureaucrats another excuse to chip away at the industry.
Who, WHO, I ASK YOU, in the 1930’s would have thought that in 2010 flying would be such a damned rarity?
Right up to the last lines, the note wasn’t reading Commie, it was reading Teabagger.
Blowing up the IRS is bound to be popular in Texas, and a lot of other places too. 😉
Anyway, this is bound to bring some real loons out of the woodwork down in Texas… I wonder if this will become something like that first secessionist cannonball hitting Fort Sumter back in 1861?
>Right up to the last lines, the note wasn’t reading Commie, it was reading Teabagger.
Yes, that’s how the left is going to try to spin this. Of course, it’s dead wrong.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable
atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years)…
…the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple…
…the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities)…
… pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages…
Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes…
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).
All traditional leftist talking points.
Small Business Owner (caps theirs) who moves from California to Texas to avoid property taxes, has multiple hilarious failures to set up tax havens, owns (with the bank, naturally) a quarter million dollar house and a (heavily depreciated) airplane is a pretty poor example of a communist.
Dude was a crazy and a tax-protester. Trying to jam him into the teabag/obamunist continuum is either silly, or deliberately dishonest.
> a pretty poor example of a communist
Actually, a pretty standard example of an *American* communist. The entertainment and academic industries are chock-full-o rich-ass commies. Hell, Obama has had quite a number of communists and socialists as mentors and advisors, and they all seem to be raking in the dough quite nicely. If the IRS suddenly decided to drop the hammer on any one of them, you can bet your ass that they’d scream every bit as much as this aprticualr moron.
>Dude was a crazy and a tax-protester.
True, and neither is exclusive to being a commie. “Crazy” is pretty much mandatory in this day and age.
> Trying to jam him into the teabag/obamunist continuum is either silly, or deliberately dishonest.
What’s *Time’s* excuse?
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1966476,00.html
Starts off with:
“The long, rambling rant posted on a website eerily reflected the angry populist sentiments that have swept the country in the past year.”
And in about the middle, out of nowhere there’s a link to: “(See the making of the Tea Party movement.)”
Yeah, but there’s also enough there about evil government and evil taxes that the twisting isn’t all that hard to do. Frankly I think this is just a run-of-the-mill crazy person, not connected to any established stance. Some people really are just kooks, after all.
There’s anti-business stuff, but there’s also anti-tax and anti-government stuff. Personally I don’t think this has much to do with either the Left or the Right; this guy is just nuts. You don’t have to be political to go bonkers.
When’s the last time you heard of a leftist that was pissed off over too high of taxes? 🙂
His main target in his suicide note (and in reality) was the IRS and the government that runs it, no matter his other complaints.
I’m keen to see what his wife and daughter have to say about him and where he was coming from in doing this.
Whether he was more left or right can be argued, but he obviously was very pissed off about the state of things in general, and that’s what’s driving the Populist/Tea Party movement these days, even if no two members can agree about what the Tea Party stands for exactly.
Don’t be at all surprised if parts of the Tea Party embrace what he did without the left having to put any spin on it at all.
Just for going after the IRS he’s going to be a hero to a lot of people out on the fringes who won’t give a hoot in hell about what he wrote before he did it.
When’s the last time you heard of a right-winger ranting about the evil corporations? This guy’s said stuff that was both left-wing and right-wing. Personally I think he was just a loon; not all crazies are crazy because of politics.
Ultimately though, it doesn’t matter. Once you start blowing buildings up, you’re no longer a part of the debate. No “admire the motives and condemn the methods,” no “I don’t agree with what he did but I understand why he did it.” Unequivocal, universal condemnation. Period.
> When’s the last time you heard of a leftist that was pissed off over too high of taxes?
When the leftist himself has to pay it.
True. The majority of the left is on the dole or don’t pay their taxes.
“When the leftist himself has to pay it.”
*laughs* True. Sorry about the double-comment; my comments weren’t appearing promptly and I thought there was some kind of malfunction, so I reposted.
For some reason your posts got marked as spam by the autofilter. Things have been a tad screwy since WordPress had it’s last little “episode.”
Well, the “Joe Stack-Hero” online stuff has happened, as I predicted; and it’s coming from both the far right and far left:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021904450.html?hpid=topnews
As far as Brianna’s comment:
“When’s the last time you heard of a right-winger ranting about the evil corporations?”
What he was pissed off about was GM and the big banks getting government bailouts:
“Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable
atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours?”
And this sounds a bit familiar:
“We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my
adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.”
That could have come, word-for-word, out of Glenn Beck’s mouth.
Although the news media is describing his letter as a incoherent rant, actually it’s a lot better written than a lot of what I read on some political blogs, and he put at least some thought into it and how to arrange his arguments and choose his wording of them.
Pat
If Mr. Stack was a Commie, then three-quarters of the adults I interact with are commies, despite the fact that they mostly voted for the Republican candidates in the last four or seven elections. They all talk just like him! Just not quite as convinced that powerful people want personally to suck their blood. I’m not sure, as a registered Democrat, where that puts me on your political spectrum…General Secretary of the Super Ultra Mega Communist Party?
By the way, I’m going to purchase the fine-looking McDonnell F3H-G drawings. I’ll be passing them along to the S.U.M.C.P. Military Intelligence Commissariat.
>three-quarters of the adults I interact with are commies
Sadly, the “progressives” have managed to convince most people that they are owed, that they have a right to, the product of other peoples labor.
>Sadly, the “progressives” have managed to convince most people that they are owed, that they have a right to, the product of other peoples labor.
I get no sense of entitlement from Mr Stack’s document–only an immense sense of personal grievance. Indeed, that’s the mood of the country, although people are all over the map about whom to blame.
> I get no sense of entitlement from Mr Stack’s document
Quoting commielit is a first-class indicator.
> although people are all over the map about whom to blame
There are really two groups to blame for the current mess:
1) Politicians who have grown the government… Frank, Pelosi, Bush, Obama, etc.
2) The voting public that has not held candidates to a simple test: “are you going to follow the Constitution, and get rid of any programs not mandated therein?”
Pat – your comments about this guy’s political orientation:
It is true that a tea partier would be pissed about the bailouts. But he wouldn’t call corporations a “handful of thugs and plunderers” and he wouldn’t get particularly mad at the corporations; he would get mad at the government for bailing them out. Tea partiers may get annoyed with certain corporations, but their main anger is directed at the government, not the businesses themselves.
Similarly, a tea partier would be pissed about the disappearance of freedom. But he would not accuse society of having “brainwashed [us] to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers.” On the contrary, a tea partier would attribute the disappearance of freedom to the fact that we weren’t following the principles of the Founders, and would emphasize the need to be willing to die for the principles represented by them. Saying that what the Founders left us wasn’t freedom is an example of pure leftist cant (and if you don’t believe me, read Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States).
I honestly don’t think this guy is anything in particular. Not every nutjob is nuts about politics. Some people are really just plain nuts.
Russian Marvin Heemeyer fansite:
http://heemeyer.lenin.ru/index.htm
Not sure if this is OT but;
Friend of mines mom was/is a very vocal tea-party-er and has been espousing various issues associated with same for months now. She had embraced the tag “tea-bagger” and was more than a bit incencesed when my friend and I began to snicker a bit at this. The look on her face ensured howls of laughter when we fully explained to her what the term “tea-bagger” meant in general usage and WHY her “party” was avoiding its usage for self termeniology….
Randy
Sadly, sometimes enthusiasm for “this is a great idea for a political movement” trumps “what naughty nicknames will our opponents come up with to mock us with.” This is a game that those on the Right do not play as well as those on the Left. Recall how the “Contract With America” got turned into “Contract On America” in about 2.2 milliseconds.
This country is far from beaten. What the brit hasn’t seen is the sleeping anger that american citizens build just before they put their boots on and go to kicking. Our government has foolishly tested those lines this time and it won’t be forgotten.