Joseph Andrew Stack Revolutionary Hero or Murderer
Joseph Andrew Stack, revolutionary hero or murderer? He used the old terrorist trick of flying a fuelled-up airplane into a building filled with innocent people to make a political point. He gets no credit for creativity. (Stack, mad at the U.S. Government, flew his small plane into an Austin building that housed the Internal Revenue Service).
Most of us sympathize with his anger. The IRS is the ultimate heartless cutthroat agency that will seize your bank account and 401K money without notice and without any regard for your side of the story. You can call them up and explain that they made a mistake and they’ll turn around and say “can you prove it”. In some cases you’re stuck trying to prove something you never did and never happened. Its basic terrorism and it’s not right.
When a government agency treats people like they are not really people, just toads that need to be squashed, then the government becomes like the KGB and people start reacting violently like the original patriots reacted to King George during the original revolution. It is the very thing we revolted against in the first place.
People put up with too much in this country, and there comes a point when we have to take to the streets and demand that heads roll. We are at that point now. It is, after all, our government, our economy, our air waves, our media, and we should not stand by and let what belongs to us be used against us.
But that is exactly what’s happening. Our banking system gambled away our money, crashed the housing market, froze the credit market, and brought the world economy to the brink of a great depression. Corporations charted in this country sent are jobs overseas. Washington now runs trillion dollar deficits when not too long ago a 200 billion deficit was considered frightening.
And in the end, no matter what the problem, the average middle class American is blamed for the problem. We shouldn’t have borrowed from the banks; if we didn’t drive, gas prices wouldn’t be so high; if you were in better shape health care costs wouldn’t be so high; it’s always our fault in the end never those we entrusted to hold positions of power on our behalf.
As for Joseph Stack, we sympathize with the anger but not the killing and injuries. Mostly because he picked the wrong target and hurt the wrong people. There are plenty of people on Wall Street and in Washington who deserve to be tarred and feathered.
Andrew Joseph Stack was nothing but a coward, to his family, to god, to our country. Boo, hoo, hoo, I have money problems and its not my fault, it the big bad government. This domestic (white trailer trash) terrorist who first burned his house and crashed his plane into a building during business hours and killed Vernon Hunter a 27 year Federal employee and 20 year veteran of the US Army with two tours in the Vietnam War.