Austin Texas Suicide Plane Crash: Pilot Joe Stack Plans Crash into IRS Bldg; Suicide Letter Explains

February 18, 2010. Joe Stack (1956-2010) died for his cause today. In kamikaze style, he crashed his single-engine Piper Cherokee aircraft into the seven-story Echelon Building in Austin Texas at about 11 am EST. Echelon housed 199 Infernal- or rather Internal- Revenue Service (IRS) employees. Stack viewed the IRS as infernal- a point demonstrated by his violent deed. As a raging inferno burned the Echelon, massive black smoke clouds rose into spacious skies signaling the physical end of Joseph Andrew Stack, III- software engineer, reluctant taxpayer, and human being.

Even the building name of Echelon must have signified to Stack the elite echelon who coldly claim riches while the average human masses struggle to survive the reddening amber tides of shining seas of financial disaster in the form of majestic mountainous debts borne from the planes of fruitless employment where the good are crowned not with brotherhood but with Big Brotherhood.

Of the 199 employees whose lives Stack directly impacted today, thirteen were hurt- two of them are in critical condition- and two persons are dead. They are the unfortunate casualties of a tragic statement from a man who could no longer face living in a country that is held up to the world as 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'. Because to Stack, IRS shackles bound his freedom and lemming taxpayers portrayed cowardice rather than bravery. And mercy became an extinct word.

To explain his vehement deed today, Joe Stack left behind a six-page missive that he had begun as a therapeutic release regarding his dearth of freedom and wealth. But then it became his suicide letter- which he uploaded to his website embeddedart.com today at 10:12 AM, about 45 minutes before his death. The site was disabled by the webhost's owner Alex Melen in compliance with the FBI's request.

Here forthwith are three samplings from the missive that lives on beyond its writer.

Page 1 Sampling. "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."

Page 2 Sampling. "Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having 'tax code' readings and discussions. In particular, [they] zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful 'exemptions' that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy."

Page 3 Sampling. Stack wrote of a widow whose late husband who had worked for thirty years 'in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises' of retiring with 'a pension and medical care'. 'Instead, he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement'. The widow was with his Social Security alone.

Stack also wrote about Section 1706 of Ronald Reagan's 1986 Tax Reform Act and how it ruined his business. It 'revoked Safe Harbor provisions exclusively for technology industry workers rendering services through a third party'. Stack said the IRS told him and others that the provision would not be enforced. But it was.

Stack ended his suicide note with: 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 the insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed. Joe Stack (1956-2010) 02/18/2010. _{California state records show that Stack twice started software companies in California that were eventually suspended by the State's tax board, in 2000 and then in 2004. Before leaving on his suicide mission, Stack set fire to his home. Facebook deleted four anti-IRS groups that sprang up in support of Joe Stack.^{To read Stack's letter and to see YouTube videos of the crash, click here. Sources: woai; thesmokinggun; cnn; geekosystem; wikinews; cbsnews.}}