Domestic Terrorism

When nuts fly planes into buildings to make a political statement it's terrorism plain and simple. Is that clear enough? Websters defines terrorism as "the practice of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets." I believe that Joe Stack was trying to coerce the government by his actions. Anyone disagree?

There is one thing this lowlife forgot, you've got to pay your taxes. Now, I think I pay too much to my Uncle in Washington every year as well as to the state, but until the tax code is reworked, I'm stuck. So is everyone else. I don't mind paying some tax and neither should anyone else. We need an infrastructure, a military and our elected officials should make a decent living, but when our money is mismanaged and our government does not live within it's means, then we should all be a bit peeved. But destroying buildings and killing people is not the answer.

Did Joey think that he was starting a revolution? Did he think that the people would rise up en masse and refuse to pay their taxes? If he did then he was crazier than anybody could ever know. According to his "manifesto", as the media calls it, he thought that this was his only way out. He refused to live up to his responsibility and now the way to get around it is to commit suicide. What a nut.

So now we have a family in mourning for the loss of a loved one who did nothing more than go to work that morning and plenty of people injured due to the actions of this amoral lunatic. I hope he rots in Hell. Joe Stack is no different than any of the Jihadist that have killed themselves for what is ultimately a political reason.

I guess Andy Warhol was right, everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. Maybe Andy should have included infamy as well.

The US tax code is too complicated. No one can understand it all. If the tax code was simplified so that most could understand it, including the director, I doubt the IRS would be so reviled. This has needed to happen for quite some time and I hope that someday soon an administration will get around to it.

We don't need the events in Austin to be repeated.