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Small plane crashes into building housing IRS

hypocritexposer

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Small plane crashes into building housing IRS

By JIM VERTUNO (AP) – 27 minutes ago

AUSTIN, Texas — A low-flying small plane crashed into an office building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Texas on Thursday, and at least one person was missing, witnesses and officials said.

Assistant Austin Fire Chief Harry Evans said two people have also been taken to a hospital. Their conditions were not immediately known.

A law enforcement official said the crash did not initially appear to be the result of a crime or terrorism. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the crash.

Thick black and gray smoke was billowing out of the second and third stories of the building Thursday as fire crews using ladder trucks and hoses battled the fire. Dozens of windows were blown out of the hulking black building, and vehicles traveling on a nearby highway paused to look.

Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who works in the building said she was sitting at her desk when the plane crashed.

"It felt like a bomb blew off. The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran," she said.

Matt Farney, 39, who was in the parking lot of a nearby Home Depot, said he saw a low-flying private plane near some apartments and the office building just before it crashed.

"I figured he was going to buzz the apartments or he was showing off," Farney said, adding that the plane dipped down. "It was a ball of flames that was high or higher than the apartments. It was surreal. It was insane. ... It didn't look like he was out of control or anything."

Sitting at her desk about a half-mile from the crash, Michelle Santibanez said she felt vibrations. She and her co-workers ran to the windows, where they saw a scene that reminded them of the 2001 terrorist attacks, she said.

"It was the same kind of scenario with window panels falling out and desks falling out and paperwork flying," said Santibanez, an accountant.

Fire crews were inside the building battling the blaze and looking for survivors, Evans said.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Lynn Lunsford said the agency was investigating but had no immediate information on the type of plane or how many people were on board.
 

Tam

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There was also a passanger plane emergency landed in Utah after a bomb threat. There was a note found in the gallery saying abomb was on board. All passangers were taken off and are OK.

As to your story
They are now saying it might have been a suicide flight and the pilot had a beef with the IRS and flew his plane into the building after he started his house on fire.
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
There was also a passanger plane emergency landed in Utah after a bomb threat. There was a note found in the gallery saying abomb was on board. All passangers were taken off and are OK.

As to your story
They are now saying it might have been a suicide flight and the pilot had a beef with the IRS and flew his plane into the building after he started his house on fire.

I watching an online report from the area, and what the weather man said was :shock:

They had just returned to the studio after an on scene report and the weather guy says "clear skies, it's a beautiful day for flying" " :eek:

and it wasn't like the guy didn't know what was going on

he continued "...that's the weather, now back to the scene of that horrible plane crash"

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hypocritexposer

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The guy left a manifesto. It's quite long, but I'll post the beginning paragraph and the ending. All his problems with the IRS are outlined in the manifesto at the link.

If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.

I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of **** at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.

I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.



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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hypocritexposer

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Wow, that didn't take long

This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI.
If you want to see the original letter, please see the archived version at thesmokinggun.com: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html

Regards,
T35 Hosting
 

Tam

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Liveoak said:
They probably didn't want the guy to gain a following!

ps Quick research on your part Hypo!!

Problem is he was one of many that are mad about "taxation without representation". He took things into his own hands which was dead wrong and it's by pure luck the only life he took was his own. I hope and pray others do not follow his lead, but if the US government keeps up the big spending, bailout, don't have to listen to the tax payers attitude I fear there will be more of the same if not worse. Those wanting things to change need to get out, be heard and vote for somebody that will make a different. Don't allow elected officials to get away with lying and breaking promises year after year just because they have a D or R behind their name. They work for the tax payer it's not the other way around so if they break a campaign promise, break their contract to represent you!!!
 

hypocritexposer

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Tam said:
Liveoak said:
They probably didn't want the guy to gain a following!

ps Quick research on your part Hypo!!

Problem is he was one of many that are mad about "taxation without representation". He took things into his own hands which was dead wrong and it's by pure luck the only life he took was his own. I hope and pray others do not follow his lead, but if the US government keeps up the big spending, bailout, don't have to listen to the tax payers attitude I fear there will be more of the same if not worse. Those wanting things to change need to get out, be heard and vote for somebody that will make a different. Don't allow elected officials to get away with lying and breaking promises year after year just because they have a D or R behind their name. They work for the tax payer it's not the other way around so if they break a campaign promise, break their contract to represent you!!!


He also made a online threat through his manifesto. Was the FBI investigating this before he carried out his plan?

Seeing as the threat was still online, after the fact, I doubt they were. So it means another incidence that the intelligence community missed.


What's really sad is people are already trying to profit off this deal.

Ebay ad.(selling picture of IRS building burning)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Joe-Stack-com-Austin-TX-Pilot-IRS_W0QQitemZ180471114399QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDomain_Names?hash=item2a04eaaa9f
 

hypocritexposer

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remember all the fuss about Right Wing Extremism?

There is an interesting quote at the end of Joseph Stack's suicide note: The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.. This quote is from a book by Henry Fairlie titled Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations


The Amazon.com description of this book is:

A native British wit expresses an adopted American ebullience in this sparkling collection of political journalism and commentary. Fairlie (1924–1990) migrated from London to the U.S. in the 1960s, where his writings in the Washington Post, the New Republic and elsewhere both celebrated and pilloried the American scene. The unstuffy Brit applauds America's informality, its gadgetry, its abundance and vastness, and its personification in a cowboy-poet named Hooter he meets in a Mankato, Minn., bar, but he's appalled by its politics. An avowed Tory in Britain, he discovers conservatism's Reaganite version to be narrow-minded and selfish and mean-spirited; he duly eulogizes FDR, attacks George F. Will and denounces government bashing as the sneer of patronizing and vaulting privilege at the needs of ordinary people that can be served only by government. Whether stomping on the dangerous insects in the Washington media corps or defending his beloved Scotch whiskey against the Perrier water fad that prompted the abandonment of... a wholesome and convivial liquor for a suspect Gallic product, Fairlie's elegantly pugilistic prose still feels fresh—and surprisingly relevant to today's politics.


Don't be surprised if the MSM tries to portray this guy as a Tea Partier, anti tax, Right Wing Extremist.

He was also anti church, and anti big business.
 

Tam

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Well by the sounds of it they were not so lucky as a second body has been found. They said earlier there was one person not accounted for but they weren't sure he was even in the building. Now it turns out he was there and has been found dead.
 

hypocritexposer

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hypocritexposer said:
remember all the fuss about Right Wing Extremism?

There is an interesting quote at the end of Joseph Stack's suicide note: The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.. This quote is from a book by Henry Fairlie titled Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations


The Amazon.com description of this book is:

A native British wit expresses an adopted American ebullience in this sparkling collection of political journalism and commentary. Fairlie (1924–1990) migrated from London to the U.S. in the 1960s, where his writings in the Washington Post, the New Republic and elsewhere both celebrated and pilloried the American scene. The unstuffy Brit applauds America's informality, its gadgetry, its abundance and vastness, and its personification in a cowboy-poet named Hooter he meets in a Mankato, Minn., bar, but he's appalled by its politics. An avowed Tory in Britain, he discovers conservatism's Reaganite version to be narrow-minded and selfish and mean-spirited; he duly eulogizes FDR, attacks George F. Will and denounces government bashing as the sneer of patronizing and vaulting privilege at the needs of ordinary people that can be served only by government. Whether stomping on the dangerous insects in the Washington media corps or defending his beloved Scotch whiskey against the Perrier water fad that prompted the abandonment of... a wholesome and convivial liquor for a suspect Gallic product, Fairlie's elegantly pugilistic prose still feels fresh—and surprisingly relevant to today's politics.


Don't be surprised if the MSM tries to portray this guy as a Tea Partier, anti tax, Right Wing Extremist.

He was also anti church, and anti big business.

Well, that didn't take long.





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linky: TIME article

more links:


Matthews' Southern Poverty Guest Ties Stack To 'Radical Right'


WaPo's Capehart: Austin Suicide Pilot's 'Alienation Similar To Extreme Elements of Tea Party Movement


NY Mag Jumps on Liberal Bandwagon, Ties Joe Stack to Tea Parties
 
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