Yesterday, February 18th, Joe blew his stack. He was mad at the I.R.S. He was mad at Wall Street and the government's bureaucracies. He was mad at the farce of health care, most certainly mental health care as much as physical health care. He was mad at the way pensions for ordinary people were destroyed while conniving lawyers and accountants flourished. He was mad, period. As in crazy.
Which is why Andrew Joseph Stack left his wife and daughter and flew a small plane into an Austin office building that housed some offices for the local I.R.S. Instead of becoming a hero and martyr, he was almost instantly written off as a babbling lunatic...and news reports focused, as they should, on his reckless act that created havoc for a lot of innocent people.
"Joe Stack (1956-2010)" (that's how he ended his last "rant") has gone down in flames.
But take a moment from damning his insane act to read some of his last words. The FBI was quick to take down the tax scofflaw's website but thesmokinggun has it all:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack6.html
And here, some choice excerpts from an obviously troubled, paranoid and bitter man who nevertheless, had some very truthful points to make about the government, the fat cats of Wall Street, the corrupt and do-nothing politicians (of whom Sen/ Evan Bayh just divorced himself) and most of all, the Internal Revenue Service, aka TAXMAN.
"...no taxation without representation...These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a crackpot, traitor or worse...
"...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 comint to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system...are murdering tens of thousand of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple...
"...political "representatives" (thieves, liars and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around...and debate the state of the "terrible health care problem." It's clear they see no crisis as long as...corporate profits roll in...
"How can any rational individual explain...our tax system...
"...he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement...incompetent management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement..
"...The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies...have certainly reinforced it for all of us...nothing changes unless there is a body count...I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country...by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change...
"...I have just had enough...
"...I can only hope that...the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less...violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing...
"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."
Ugly crash. Terrible story. Stack was a crazy man who refused to pay his taxes some years, and who, for all his bitching and moaning, did have enough money to muck around with a private plane any time he felt like it, and had a $232,000 home in a pleasant neighborhood. Many people are in worse shape financially than he was. Mentally, perhaps not. Maybe some members of the I.R.S. will not "sleep well" over the next few days...but his wife and daughter will be suffering worse nightmares.
Joe Stack's favorite way of blowing off steam was walking the bass in local Texas bands. When "Nightline" and other programs showed a picture of the mad aviator, it was often a shot of the 50-something with his guitar.
And now, Black Oak Arkansas swamp-rockin' through "Taxman." It's live, unlike Joe Stack.
TAXMAN, for all sufferers of Mr. Big Brother IRS man, politicians, bankers and million dollar corporations that never listen
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