<h2>From James Edwards' Blog</h2>
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/2010/02/18/glenn-beck-barks-like-a-dog/
<h2>
</span>I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself!</h2>
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Chuck Baldwin has been a guest on the TPC radio show many
times, and I thought readers would appreciate reading this column he
wrote on the Austin man who flew his plane into an IRS building.
I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself!
By Chuck Baldwin February 19, 2010
All of us are now aware of the Texas man who yesterday flew his
private plane into a 7-story Austin office building. Apparently, he
intentionally crashed his plane into the building to target the IRS
offices that were housed inside the facility.
As I am writing this column just hours after the event took place,
there has not yet been a lot of time for the major news media talking
heads to spin the story. By the time this column is released on Friday,
however, I'm sure we will all have been inundated with copious
references to this man, Joe Stack, as being "off his rocker,"Â or similar
assertions. Perhaps our friends at DHS will label Stack a "right-wing
domestic terrorist."Â However, Mr. Stack apparently left behind a
"suicide manifesto"Â explaining his actions. After carefully reading
Stack's manifesto, I am quite convinced that he was not crazy, and he
was not a "terrorist."Â However, he was angry.
A lot of us are angryâ€"and for many of the same reasons that Mr. Stack
was angry! While I would certainly take exception to some of the things
Stack says in his manifesto, he said things that many of us are
feeling.
Stack began his manifesto by saying, "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."Â
He goes on to say, "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 [principles]
represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was ‘no
taxation without representation' . . . These days anyone who really
stands up for that [principle] is promptly labeled a ‘crackpot,' traitor
and worse."Â
For the most part, he's right about that, of course. It has been a
long time since the average hardworking American has been represented in
Washington, D.C. By and large, the politicians in DC represent only Big
Money interests. Just try talking with your congressman or senator and
see how much personal interest he or she takes in anything you have to
say. As for emails, letters, and faxes, unless they number in the tens
of thousands, they are mostly used as kindling for the fireplace.
Obviously, Mr. Stack had long felt the frustration of being ignored
by these pimps in Washington that we know as congressmen. He wrote,
"While very few working people would say they haven't had their fair
share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree
of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any
matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that
matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to
say."Â
I suppose that just about every American could say the same thing.
Then, regarding our current tax system, Stack wrote, "Here we have a
[tax] system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the
master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly ‘holds accountable'
its victims, claiming that they're responsible for fully complying with
laws not even the experts understand. The law ‘requires' a signature on
the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they
understand what they are signing; if that's not ‘duress' [then] what is.
If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is."Â
He also wrote, "However, this is where I learned that there are two
‘interpretations' for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the
rest of us."Â
However, I think a better way of putting his statement would have
been, "There are two interpretations for every law; one for the
GOVERNMENT, and one for the rest of us." And only the most naïve among
us would not understand that statement.
According to Stack's manifesto, he earned an engineering degree with
the goal of becoming an "independent engineer."Â He said this about
working his way through college: "I was living on peanut butter and
bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a
time."Â
I know that feeling! My wife and I married between my sophomore and
junior years of college, and for months we had a grand total of $15 a
week to spend on groceries. And believe me: that did not go very farâ€"not
even in 1974. How many politicians on Capitol Hill do you think could
even remotely relate to Mr. Stack?
Stack later said, "I decided that I didn't trust big business to take
care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and
myself."Â
Wow! What a revolutionary idea: taking responsibility for yourself!
Now I know that practically no one on Capitol Hill can relate to Mr.
Stack!
After quoting a portion of the tax law relating to Section 1706
(Treatment of Certain Technical Personnel), Stack wrote, "The bottom
line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of
section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they
would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen
slave."Â
His manifesto clearly reveals bitterness and resentment toward the
IRS, the tax system, the banker and Big Business government bailouts,
and the emergence of police-state attitudes and actions in the aftermath
of 9/11. He expressed disdain for "the monsters of organized religion."Â
He talked about his move from California to Texas. He referred to a
divorce and the way his savings and retirement had been wiped out after a
career of working "100-hour workweeks."Â
Stack also noted, "The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his
cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that
this criticism rings equally true for all of the government."Â I can say
"Amen"Â to that.
Stack's conclusion: "I have had all I can stand."Â
In what was obviously a reference to what he was about to do, he
wrote, "Nothing changes unless there is a body count."Â
Then, later he said, "But I also know that by not adding my body to the
count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over
my shoulder at ‘big brother' while he strips my carcass, I choose not to
ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that
business as usual won't continue; I have just had enough."Â
Stack wrapped up his manifesto by saying, "Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS
man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep
well."Â
See Joe Stack's manifesto at:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html
My heart goes out to Joe Stack! The sentiments expressed above are
shared by millions of Americans who are also fed up with Big Brother. We
are fed up with our country being turned into a burgeoning police
state, under the rubric of "national security."Â We are fed up with the
harassments of the IRS. We know the "war on drugs"Â is merely the
government's way of cutting out the competition (this is exactly what
more than one retired federal law enforcement agentâ€"employed in the drug
warâ€"told me). We know the "war on terror" is nothing but an excuse to
trample our constitutional liberties. We are fed up with the voracious
vampires known as the Federal Reserve sucking the lifeblood out of the
veins of America's hardworking Middle Class. We are tired of the CFR,
CIA, and America's State Department manufacturing perpetual wars that
cost trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives for the
benefit of the global elite. We are fed up with an arrogant and
oppressive federal government that is strangling the life and freedom
out of our states. We all share Joe Stack's pain!
I really wish Joe Stack had not killed himself, however. We need each
other. By taking his life, he reduced our strength. The global elites
delight in our demise. As we grow weaker, they grow stronger.
But the fight is not over; the battle is not lost! Rumblings of
freedom's revival can be felt across the length and breadth of this
nation. The clanging of liberty's resolve can be heard in hamlets and
villages from Montana to South Carolina. There are still millions of
usâ€"from virtually every walk of lifeâ€"who will not surrender our
liberties without a fight! And we have not yet begun to fight!
So, to the rest of us Joe Stacks out there: let's not fly our planes
into buildings. Let's not end our lives prematurely. Instead, get mad;
get organized; get educated; start equipping your heart, mind, and body
for the battle ahead. Let's fight; let's study; let's prepare; let's
make every would-be tyrant on Capitol Hill and Wall Street know that we
are not going to sit back and let them steal our country. Let's send a
message, in no uncertain terms, that if they want our pound of flesh,
they are going to have to come and get itâ€"and if they do, it's going to
cost them a whole lot more than a pound of theirs!
Oh, Joe! I wish you had not killed yourself.
R people trying to connect him with the teaparty movement.Edited by: Menelik 
