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? Yet at the same time, 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, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
In his online rantings, Andrew Joseph Stack railed against the “exemptions,” Stack putting the word in quotes, “that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.”
Leaving behind a rant against the government, big business and particularly the tax system, a computer engineer smashed a small aircraft into an office building where nearly 200 employees of the Internal Revenue Service were starting their workday Thursday morning, the authorities said. [...]
But in recent weeks Mrs. Stack complained to her parents of an increasingly frightening anger in her husband, straining the marriage, Mr. Cook said. On Wednesday night, Mrs. Stack took her 12-year-old daughter, Margaux, to a hotel to get away from her husband.
They returned on Thursday morning to find their house ablaze, their belongings destroyed. Officials said the house fire was deliberately set, casting Mr. Stack as the primary suspect. But by that point he was gone, airborne. …
Somebody needs to explain why the feds are not calling this domestic terrorism.
As the Department of Homeland Security opened an investigation and President Obama received a briefing from his counterterrorism adviser, John O. Brennan, federal officials emphasized the same message, describing the case as a criminal inquiry.
It can be a lone wolf case, but that doesn’t change the reality. One extremist in a plane can be a terrorist, so it’s clear Stack was, too, on domestic soil.
Timothy McVeigh comes to mind.
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). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
Some conservatives seem awfully defensive that there are charges that Stack resembles the extremes of the Tea Partiers. That’s a problem for them. Enthusiasm runs in many directions.
But for me this is domestic terrorism from a man whose anger had been building for days, enough for his wife to flee the house, fearing for her own safety, as well as that of their daughter. I want to hear what she has to say. I bet there were warnings, like there always are in these instances. Clearly, Stack’s wife is a victim, but it will be interesting if there were others who saw this coming.
However, the federal gov. calling this a “criminal inquiry” alone seems very strange. It’s a domestic terrorist attack on a federal building in order to cause damage to the IRS. Extremists come in all creeds and colors and Stack was a far right extremist not only intending to sew terror in the hearts and minds of the IRS, but actually pulled it off.
Right. I keep wondering about any political motivation for not admitting this is terrorism. Does the administration want to keep it from being an example of terrorism on their watch? Do conservatives want to avoid comparisons to Tea Baggers? This denial does not make sense.
As I’ve said many times before – I love ‘words’, and the way each of us assumes those words mean exactly the same thing to you as they do to me – is amazing. One of my best quotes: “Words can certainly clutter up a sentence”.
While this act certainly fits the dictionary definition of terrorism (attempting to manipulate the government with violent acts) – I think this may be more closely described as one man driven to the point of insanity. Consider that the person normally accepted as a “terrorist” – does not start by destroying his own home. The fact he set his own possessions on fire, first, lends itself to the idea of a person who met the edge – and jumped off.
This occurred pretty much in my neighborhood in NW Austin. Drove by it today…it’s hard to imagine that the damage occurred without extra explosives, but who knows at this point. It looked half-destroyed with a massive hole in the side.
It’s certainly was a sad attempt at domestic terror. The main difference was the level of casualties and the mental state of the perpetrator. But it fits the bill.
pmichael makes a good point about ‘words’ and I would like to add the rush or need to ‘label’ or ‘categorize’ something for one’s own view or advantage.
Remember the rush to label the Kentucky census worker’s death. The involvement of extremists, a certain ‘group’ or ‘individual’ probably based more on geographical location (after all it was Kentucky) than anything else. —- It was a suicide.
Reading his entire manifesto (link below) there are elements that goes to the entire political spectrum depending on one’s interpretation.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html
From what I know of the census workers death(and this is based on what I read in MSM) his death was a suicide like when they find someone shot 6 times in the back of the head and call it suicide. I suppose it’s POSSIBLE…..
Can’t WAIT to see an interview with his wife. Will anyone ask her if he was a Beck, Hannity, ORielly or limpwithnoballs fan?
Oh yeah, WHAT “news” station did he get his “news” from? Wanna bet on whether it’s faux notnews?
I wish some one would do a study on how right wing rhetoric affects people who are unstable and on the edge. It would seem that total emersion in this poison could send someone over the edge.
Heya Scott, I wondered if it was close to you.
Guyski, I’ve got a link to it in my post.
It was domestic terrorism.
Mincing words is ridiculous, with Janet Napolitano & HS once again picking gnat crap out of pepper.
I also think no one should dismiss that his anger was rooted in something real. Terrorism is fanatical by definition, with some viewing suicide bombers as disturbed, as well as religiously obsessed. However, they’re still terrorists.
It’s FOX news, Beck, Limberger, Hannity, CPAC, AIPAC, the T-baggers, and the rest of the right wing warmongers who “terrorize” the Joseph Andrew Stack’s of this world into action. Although Stack had his own personal issues with the IRS, he morphed into a suicide bomber because he felt that he was ‘helping’ the rest of us. His Messianic mindset was egged on by the crazy people who spew their right wing propaganda 24-7 for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murduch on TV, on radio and in newsprint. These fear-mongers are the real terrorists. Joseph Andrew Stack, the people he killed and “we the people” are their victims. Peace
I believe he had only despair to guide his life.
His act is nothing less than a Domestic Terror attack.
What is his motive to destroy his property, and then crash to his death, into an IRS office? What other than despondency and despair could be the cause?
There is much advertising on the right to solve problems without involving civil discourse. They have become impatient and afraid.
There is pretend journalism, full of puffery and sensationalism.
Unfortunately they only focus on entertainment, excitement and ratings. Caveat emptor. That BECK/LIMBAUGH/CHENEY/PALIN bunch feed verbal junk food to a hungry mob. They remain empty but feel full.
I called my Representative(Cantor, VA 7th) yesterday and asked that he stop prevaricating please, and that I expected my Representative to, at the very leas, tell the truth. Good luck with that.