02-18-2010, 11:44 AM
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#21
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Do we have a casualty count yet? What a sick bugger!
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02-18-2010, 11:54 AM
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#22
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Originally Posted by COGENT
How do they know his name already? I'm thinking he warned someone and that someone did nothing about it.
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Maybe because he left a suicide note that said he was going to fly into a building and the person who found it called in?
But carry on jumping to unfounded conclusions.
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02-18-2010, 11:54 AM
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#23
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Austin, Tx
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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Do we have a casualty count yet? What a sick bugger!
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So far they say only one person is unaccounted for. It would be awesome if no one died.
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02-18-2010, 11:55 AM
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#24
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Kalispell, Montana
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Glad they said it wasn't terrorism, but that IS terrorism. It's just not the Islamo-fascist terrorism that has redefined the word.
Have a good friend who is an attorney for the state of Texas and he has let me know he and his family are fine. Glad to hear Sowa wasn't having his tax audit hearing today.
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02-18-2010, 12:04 PM
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#25
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Victoria, BC
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Domestic terrorism is becoming a serious problem in the US.
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02-18-2010, 12:11 PM
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#26
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan
Glad they said it wasn't terrorism, but that IS terrorism. It's just not the Islamo-fascist terrorism that has redefined the word.
Have a good friend who is an attorney for the state of Texas and he has let me know he and his family are fine. Glad to hear Sowa wasn't having his tax audit hearing today.
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If I were sitting in a room with IRS Auditors and I saw a plane coming with every intention of ruining their asses I wouldnt even warn them.
I'd casually sit there. Arms folded. Laughing maniacally. Yeah, I'm going too, but it would be WORTH it! 
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02-18-2010, 12:11 PM
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#27
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Found this link in the Fark.com thread related to the news story. Apparently it's the manifesto of Joseph Stack, text copied from his blog: http://embeddedart.com/.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454242/posts
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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.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. 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.
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02-18-2010, 12:26 PM
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#28
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Calgary
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In Texas, it's terrism.
Thanks George W Bush!
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02-18-2010, 12:36 PM
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In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: compton
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Anti Christian Communist Terrorist? LMFAO. Oh my god the far right in america is hilarious sometimes. Well it would be funny if they weren't so frighteningly divisive and dogmatic.
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02-18-2010, 12:39 PM
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Had an idea!
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Careful guys, don't call it terrorism or the US will go to an even higher alert level.
No more shoes on airplanes!
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02-18-2010, 12:41 PM
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#31
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Wow, so it was a beef with the IRS.
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(CNN) -- An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.
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In life, much like in microwaves, one must be careful whom one screws, for it may be their final screw....
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02-18-2010, 12:42 PM
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Had an idea!
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Someone had a beef with the IRS?
Surely that couldn't at ALL be possible.
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02-18-2010, 12:45 PM
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#33
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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.
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I think Tower had been talking to this guy.
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02-18-2010, 12:51 PM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Originally Posted by icecube
Anti Christian Communist Terrorist? LMFAO. Oh my god the far right in america is hilarious sometimes. Well it would be funny if they weren't so frighteningly divisive and dogmatic.
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Yeah that's a bit over the top, but he clearly has disdain for the Catholic Church and does quote a communist "creed" line at the end of his manifesto. i can see where the paranoia in them would lead them to such a conclusion.
That being said...if he really believes that flying his plane at a building full of regular everyday people just going on about their jobs will change something, he is clearly not just insane but a monster.
Good riddance donkey...and I hope his wife and child can find a way to go on without the guilt and bewilderment thay are surely to find themselves facing.
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02-18-2010, 12:53 PM
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Had an idea!
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If he really wanted to make a point he should have flown his plane into the IRS building in Washington.
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02-18-2010, 12:54 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: DC
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His suicide note is the most conflicting thing I've almost ever read. Half of it is right wing anti-government rhetoric, the other half is left wing ant-corporate material. I just can't really place it.
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02-18-2010, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: DC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
If he really wanted to make a point he should have flown his plane into the IRS building in Washington.
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Not funny. Some of us here work for US federal agencies, so being a target kind of sucks.
I know you weren't trying to be mean, just wanted to point that out.
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02-18-2010, 12:58 PM
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Had an idea!
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Originally Posted by tripin_billie
Not funny. Some of us here work for US federal agencies, so being a target kind of sucks.
I know you weren't trying to be mean, just wanted to point that out.
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Well I was being sarcastic.
I'm just saying that flying a plane into the IRS building in Texas isn't accomplishing a hell of a lot from his point of view.
Targeting accountants. Not a very bright idea. Right Locke?
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02-18-2010, 01:04 PM
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#40
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Azure
Well I was being sarcastic.
I'm just saying that flying a plane into the IRS building in Texas isn't accomplishing a hell of a lot from his point of view.
Targeting accountants. Not a very bright idea. Right Locke? |
Damn rights, we had nothing to do with it, besides, no one ever thinks about the Bank of Norway, what did they do to deserve being a part of this madness. Huh? WHAT?
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