Austin Pilot Joe Stack
The pilot who crashed into an Austin, Texas building this morning reportedly set his home on fire before hitting the IRS complex. His manifesto can be read here. (Warning: weird, disturbing, and tl; dr.) BuzzFeed user Lefty rightly points out that he's basically a “teabagger terrorist.”
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Photos of Stack’s burned-out home in Waco.
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1. He is a software engineer. 2. He started off the morning by burning down his own house. 3. He then went to Georgetown Municipal Airport north of Austin at about 9:40 a.m. and took off in the Piper. He did not file a flight plan because the weather was clear enough for one not to be required.
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Screenshot of the Joseph Andrew Stack Facebook Support Group
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Will Austin terrorist attack impact SXSW attendance?
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Update: read the manifesto here (the FBI pulled the original).
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A 53-year-old man crashed a small plane Thursday morning into a seven-story office building in Austin, Tex., that houses offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the authorities said. The pilot was killed. Two people were hospitalized, and one person was still unaccounted for on Thursday afternoon.
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An HTML analysis of the changes made to Stack’s manifesto
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The manifesto is dated today, and it even anticipated his death.
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Alleged letter here.
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Letter via Soup.
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- Ethan thinks Austin Pilot Joe Stack is OMG
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THERE WAS a HERO THERE, by the name of ROBIN DE HAVEN
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Jeez. Flying into buildings is SO 2001.
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Joe Stack jokes from CPAC!!!
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- Brandon D. Austin Pilot Joe Stack and thinks it’s OMG & WTF
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It's All the Tea Party's Fault
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To label this guy as either left or right teabagger or liberal is disgusting.. he was mentally unstable and from the looks of his manifesto held no coherent political philosophy whatsoever.
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Check out this Facebook page “celebrating” him.
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I think the PTB should take a hard look at Joe's screed because there is a very common sentiment that permeates it. There are a ton of people in the US that feel exactly like Joe, but won't kill themselves to call attention to it. This guy is no tea-bagger. He's an otherwise normal guy that got shafted several times and couldn't take it anymore. Even the most gentle yellow dog will bite you if you hurt him bad enough.
- Ratnacage thinks Austin Pilot Joe Stack is WTF
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Guess what Mr. Pilot, it's going to cost us tax dollars to repair that building.
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Honestly, after reading it, I really don't think this man's a teabagger at all. He's a man that hit a string of bad luck, seemingly, for many years in a row and cracked. But of course nothing in the world could justify trying to light your family on fire and kill innocents.
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Scott Brown Claims Austin Pilot as a Teabagger
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I'm not sure how, but Sarah Palin is pretty obviously responsible for all this. Or those evil teabaggers. If not them, it's Glenn Beck. My brain can handle no other explanation.
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Hey Amanda, why do you hate America so much?
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While healthy debate is healthy (says the budding tautologist), I hesitate to offer my own opinion because the level of drama has already convinced me it's not worth it. It's not necessary to take potshots at other Buzzfeeders, guys. If you disagree, you disagree (there's the tautology again!) but I can't see why it can't be done nicely.
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Sounds like a left-wing extremist to me
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So, let's see. We have at least one person (possibly with an eponymous user handle) who thinks this guy was right wing. We have some who think he was neither. Let's examine the things at which he was angry: George Bush, the Catholic Church, capitalism, the medical system, corporate profits, the rich, insurance and drug companies, GM executives, and the American dream. Tough luck folks, the things this guy hated line up awfully well with things hated by those who are pretty left of center (i.e. business as usual at Buzzfeed).
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At least he didn't hit Emo's, that place has some kickass shows.
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Don't be silly. Terrorists can't be white!
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omg teabagger terrorist lol
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These people are like addicts who have to blame their problems on someone else. YOU spent 40k on exploiting a tax loophole and it didn't work. YOU misspent your savings and retirement. YOU hired a crack accountant. YOU HAD A MOTHERFUCKING AIRPLANE AND LAST TIME I CHECKED, THAT AIN'T CHEAP. But no, it's all the big, bad governments fault for having taxes. The only good that can come out of this is that we may be going back to the old-fashioned home grown terrorists of the 90's, which might get us out of that endless clusterfuck in the Middle East.































