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US small plane crash not terrorism
Published: 19 February, 2010, 01:25
Edited: 20 February, 2010, 08:04
A small plane has crashed into an building in Austin, Texas, housing offices of the CIA and the IRS, but the act seems the work of a disgruntled US citizen rather than terrorism.
A computer programmer and amateur pilot frustrated with the government has crashed his plane into a building in Austin, Texas housing offices of the IRS and the CIA. Joseph Andrew Stack published a manifesto on his Web site and set his house on fire before heading to the airport. In the rambling document some are now calling a suicide note, Stack railed against the US government in general and the IRS in particular.
“This doesn’t fit Department of Justice guidelines for an act of terrorism,” said Fred Burton, vice president for counterterrorism at global intelligence consultancy Stratfor. “The thing that would be key is if he [Stack] belonged to a group on the domestic terrorism watchlist.”
Stack’s anti-government rant has raised concerns that such acts are the natural outgrowth of the current anti-government mood in the United States. While most Americans have focused on international terrorists as a threat, the Obama Administration has long considered the possibility of domestic terrorism.
“For [Department of Homeland Security Secretary] Janet Napolitano and the rest of the administration, the idea of white supremacists or right-wing anti-government terrorism is something they have focused on,” said Chris Stirewalt, political analyst for The Washington Times.
However, Stack was not a part of any domestic terror groups and did not seem to be active even in anti-government political movements such as the Tea Party, so his act may indeed have been the disparate act of a desperate man.
“This guy feels that he’s a victim and he sees the IRS as the vehicle for the government’s persecution of him,” said Stirewalt. “He’s not left wing or right wing – he’s just out on a wing.”
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This could be the beginning of a new type of kamikaze. So many peoples, not only in the USA are discussed with those to whom they give their confidence for guiding them correctly. For instance, in France, we have not seen a decent honest Head of State since the General De Gaulle. In 2007, we have even reached the paroxysm of mediocrity. Our society is sick, not from the bottom to the top but from the top to the bottom. Consequently the bad example given by the elites has gangrened the whole French society. This analyse is identical in Great-Britain, Italy, Spain and most of Western-Europe. Peoples are fed-up with their governments and their economic leaders. This suicide could become a new protest's fashion, a way to die for a purpose and for some a way to be recognized after a life of misery. The media who have forgotten their investigating missions could help by going back to their original duty and expose all those abuses of power. In my country I call them: France's grave-diggers. Sorry Future Generations...Sincerely. Jean-Claude Meslin
It was only matter of time before someone decided to take a desperate measure like this in the land of the safe and vigilant. America may have been democratic and free in the first 10-20 years of its existence, the Framers were idealist and i personally have nothing but utmost respect and admiration for their revolution against the colonial rule of the British. Today's America is far cry from those days. This desperate act is one of the many more to come as time goes by and Military Industrial complex of Terror remains in charge, INMHO.
This is so unfortunate and sad for both the pilot, the pilot"s family and relatives and the people inside the building. It is terrible when things like this occur. As a country, we need to learn to be more forgiving and caring for our fellow citizens. I don't know what drove this poor soul over the edge, but our government needs to learn to be a little more citizen friendly. After all, it is the individual citizen's taxes that pay the salaries of the people who are on the government's pay roll. Every government worker, from the top to the bottom, should understand this and have the utmost respect for all American citizens. At this time, American families are being torn apart and destroyed by the terrible unemployment and lack of effective government. America should cease all FOREIGN AID until it gets it's own house in order. It is the American tax payers money that is being given away around the world. This is obscene, with the bad conditions that plague America.