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Austin, TX Crashed Pilot's Suicide Note
Austin Texas pilot Joe Stack's suicide note (h/t Market Ticker).
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. The writing process, started many months
ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that
there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really
broken. Needless to say, this rant
could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it
frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross
inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in
my head. Exactly what is therapeutic
about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would
be no society, only anarchy. 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 principals represented by its
founding fathers. Remember? One of
these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap
from only a few years of my childhood.
These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly
labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
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.
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.
Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving
scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after
year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the
dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant
conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a 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”
than what is. If this is not the
measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in
the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after
more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd,
pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of
people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section
relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar,
corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy.
We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”,
high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do
exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from
our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the
name of God). We took a great deal of
care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the
law said it was to be done.
The intent of this
exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the
laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of
people who earn an honest living.
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… Oh, and the
monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is
still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years
of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country
with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive
I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they
buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they
continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all
that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of
the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984
after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of
“paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream
of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I
should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination
for creative problem solving from my father.
I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later
during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on
my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman
(80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired
steel worker. Her husband had worked
all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big
business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a
pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. 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. All she had was social
security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was
living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to
splurge) for months at a time. When I
got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight
than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of
me). I was genuinely appalled at one
point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our
situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I
would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all
my substance from peanut butter and bread.
I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. 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.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying
start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years
later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of
Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such
calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw
the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section
1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax
purposes. Visit this link for a conference
committee report
(http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding
the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section
530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services
workers and their clients, read our discussion here
(http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL
PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of
the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following
new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This
section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an
arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such
other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems
analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The
amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services
rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
·
"another person" is the client in the
traditional job-shop relationship.
·
"taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency,
or job shop.
·
"individual", "employee", or
"worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what
it is saying but it’s not very complicated.
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.
Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’,
and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any
senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they
universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways
driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who
were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were
being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning
to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I
was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a
futile exercise. The best we could get
for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they
weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the
mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line;
this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them
into idle. If I had any sense, I
clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early
1990s. Our leaders decided that they
didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern
California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled
the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco.
However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all
of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up
houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to
“shore up” their windfall. Again, I
lost my retirement.
Years later, after
weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with
my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some
speed. Then came the .COM bust and the
911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that
all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after
that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for
months. This made access to my
customers prohibitively expensive.
Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of
the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot
and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY
MONEY! After these events, there went
my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a
change. Bye to California, I’ll try
Austin for a while. So I moved, only to
find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance
and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning
before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large
companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and
this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give
a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and
retirement, the last of which was a small IRA.
This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of
income. I filed no return that year
thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they
disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in
time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest
filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because
the time to file ran out. Bend over for
another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business
crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a
boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business
asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be
irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that
they were in order. I had taken all of
the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar
to what I was expecting. Except that he
had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700
worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I
didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident
that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to
defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least
the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue
would ever matter to anyone. The end result
is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the
“great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping
out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60
years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic
problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it,
elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get
to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably
referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. 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. Nothing changes unless there is a body count
(unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top
to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I
can stand. It has always been a myth
that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t
limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants.
I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as
many after. 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.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be
white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will
take nothing less. I would only hope
that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard,
knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian
restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and
their mindless minions for what they are.
Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but
violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks
of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and
using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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 this 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
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Planes like this (either a Cirrus 22 or a Piper Cherokee) ARE ready to take off on a moment's notice. Nothing strange. If it isn't already filled with sufficient gas, it takes but a minute to top off the tanks. A preflight (I doubt he would have bothered) takes a few minutes more. Takeoff clearance after getting ATIS, then full throttle, hit rotation speed, and lift off.
He speaks what a lot of us think...too bad there was no one that could really help this guy. Instead, he got screwed at every turn. This is what the Tea Party is supposed to be all about and why we need to clean out the halls of Congress if it takes the citizenry going up there with pitchforks and torches to get it done. We have become a nation with a ruling class, and we, the suckers, vote to put the same lying, conniving bastards back there. It's time for regular people to stand up and take the country back and put these people where they belong...in the guillotine.
WHAT THE HELL IS A "JOBLESS RECOVERY"??
--taxfree15.com
It's a swank dinner party that jobless people aren't invited to. A clique recovery.
What is a "jobless recovery"?
It's the biggest oxy-moron propagated by the biggest morons.
same as the evolution of war terminology. Used to be shell shock (too literal), then battle fatigue (ah, just need a little sleep or something), then PTSD (oh, hey, dont they just take a vitamin and get right back out there again?).
before long 'jobless recovery' will be turned into 'pre-hiring economic growth' and then it wont be so bad (dont look at the U6 number please).
It's when you finally get over the hangover you ended up with after getting blitzed the day you got fired.
FBI takes down his site but too late... the letter's all over the Web... this could get very ugly!
In a serious comment, I wouldn't want to be spending a lot of time at 55 Broad Street over the next few weeks.
Go to "www.losthorizons.com/Newsletter.htm" and you can find out how only a few americans have to pay income tax according to the law.
For all of us sheep out their with no balls to change the system, listen and enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNQW_Ih-1qY
(Sheep - Pink Floyd)
Wow, a lot of Internet Tough Guys bashing this crushed man. His actions may seem 'cowardly' or 'crazy' to some of you now but just you wait. This is a significant temporal marker of sorts. You will see more of this kind of thing, and the next one might be your neighbor or your brother larry...people you 'know would never do something like that'. The stuff we all see 'over there' is coming home to roost in the lower 48 as the cognitive dissonance and quiet desperation starts to hit critical mass in the US population. People are ashamed at the lack of control they have over their lives, and many of them just can't process it anymore without A) shutting down or B) going down this type of path.
Strap in kids...
Wonder how this will be spun in the no spin zone. How did someone with no money, get a plane?? Wonder if the guy who rented the plane took out insurance to pay for the damage. short "Rent a plane"
Now, step two will be for the Fed to push the S & P futures well over the 50 day MA overnight so we open above in the morning… forcing, or should I say ’suckering’ everyone to buy stocks in Goldman’s Casino.
Is this part of project mayhem?
Seriously, the correct response to this tyranny is starve the spending to death with a national tax revolt. Reduce spending thereby reducing the need for taxes.
Unfortunately for Joe, not enough of us are at the end of their ropes yet to organize en-mass to really make a difference. He did what he thought was the only thing he could do.
The best we can hope for is a "kick the bums out" movement that replaces all the incumbents this November. Having all "junior" members may at least slow down the level of spending and lies.
R.I.P. Joe and the innocents who perished.
I am repeating, with only a minor change, what I wrote after the Athens-JPM bomb. It works here in the same way it did there. Sorry for the duplicate. My sympathies to the man's family.
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While violence may not be the answer, the only other seeming alternative is quiet acceptance. That acceptance comes in the form of blogging and commenting and voting, which in the end are merely a form of catharsis.
I enjoy this site for its intellectual stimulation and I am continually impressed with the energy and passion Tyler et al bring to it. What they are doing is astonishing, but in the end I cannot help but think it is the equivalent of a grad student working feverishly on his or her doctoral thesis.
Two years into this financial debacle and the only thing that has changed is that the ones most responsible and closest to the problem have benefitted the most; in fact many have done far better than they would have had we not had this crisis. Bankers have been well paid for messing up, and have been allowed to keep everything they "earned" that actually turned out to have been false profits.
Punished have been the savers and the debt free, or at least the financially responsible. Rewarded have been the spendthrifts, the heavily indebted, the incompetent, the corrupt, and those who threw gas on the fire.
How many arrests have we seen? Is there not a single act that should at least merit a real investigation, save for some Russian immigrant's purloining of source code that "has the potential to manipulate markets in an unfair way", but which is supposedly the legal property of a firm We the People are required to save at any and all cost?
New regulation was gutted and emasculated, all at the behest of lobbyists. Accounting rules have been altered so as to make accounting meaningless other than to be used as a means to hide, rather than reveal truths. Senior government officials have blocked the release of pertinent shareholder information and have altered the pecking order in the bankruptcy laws that used to be at the heart of the capitalist system. An accountable-to-no-one Central Bank has taken on untold burdens for the US Taxpayer that not even this supposed democracy's elected officials are privy to know, much less the citizens. Efforts to uncover what we will be taxed to pay for---directly or via orchestrated inflation---are forever held up in the courts. Records relating to the most significant taxpayer bill to date have been marked "Secret for Reasons of National Security" and locked away until 2018.
Democracy is the answer? As in 99% of the American people being against TARP? There is far more chance of real democracy on American Idol.
Have any rules been changed in a way to obviate the possibility of a similar debacle recurring in the future? Is "the System" safer or less safe than it was in 2006? The fact is that anything that might have immunized the system in any way from the disease that afflicted it has been carefully and painstakingly removed, so that in all future instances---WHEN they occur---the burden will again fall on the innocent. We have almost constitutionalized Too Big to Fail and Moral Hazard. We have certainly funded it.
We have come as close to Taxation without Representation as we were in 1775, yet we are told to work within a system that has most assuredly failed us and is far too broken to offer a real solution.
So we write. We blog. We call attention to a sleeping SEC and FINRA and Justice Department. We call and write our Congresspeople, just as some of us did BEFORE the collapse. We are ignored now as we were ignored then. I'll make a bet and say we will be ignored tomorrow, too, no matter how many great articles we write, no matter how loud a second rate cable TV station allows us to scream, no matter how often we protest, and no matter whom we choose to vote for.
We live in a system fine tuned to ignore us, but which allows us an outlet or two from which we can let off steam. We are patronized by those who have the audacity to say they are doing things we could not possibly understand but which are for our own good, because the system---whose system?---was just so close to collapse.
We are treated as children and fools. And we are fools if we think that anything we do can make this system change. Our vote is a drug that is useless, because the cancer has metasticized beyond the point of cure.
Like many here I will not go quietly into the night. I will not go down without a battle. I will vote for anyone who has not been a part of this charade, and demand to know the leanings of anyone seeking office who wants my vote. I will (have) pull my wealth away from those who abused the trust of the people and who used my money only to enrich themselves. I will not suffer the fools who have bought the party line and are naive enough to believe our elected officials are working in the interests of the majority.
In the end, though, I hold out little hope. If there is a real solution, other than passion and energy, I have not found it.
A few days ago in Athens, and today in Texas, maybe someone thought they found another solution. Probably there are more people who will try the same solutions. I do not condone it, but I understand the frustration. I feel it myself from time to time. I fear that whatever self restraint I may possess---and I do not know how deep it goes---may not be possessed by all of my fellow citizens.
There is a breaking point, and we may well be there. Those who caused the problem and those who have benefitted from the inequitable solution are just as blind and deaf and self-serving as they were in 2002-2007, yet I fear they may have remained so a day too long.
Those who have control and authority have very little time left to act. They have very little time left to show contrition, to share the burden, to make the system more fair, to make the system more transparent and accountable, and to make the system less vulnerable to a repeat. Or they can continue to obstruct, to hide, to transfer wealth from the innocent to the guilty and/or powerful, and loot all they want believing they can get away a day ahead of the coming maelstrom. Maybe this small and violent act today is a clarion call. Maybe it is a harbinger of things to come.
Whatever it is, it is ignored at EVERYONE's peril.
?
"There is far more chance of real democracy on American Idol."
solid.
We live in a system fine tuned to ignore us,
Yes, but one only capable of ignoring us at the federal level. At the state and local level, things are a mite different. Think nationally, act locally. I'll say it again: Virginia has abundant natural resources for domestic and export markets, something of a diverse manufacturing base, productive farmland, hardworking and mostly honest people, oil offshore, and deepwater ports. All we need is a sound currency; shall we make them from silver and call them Silver Ginnies?
Richmond, the once and future capitol.
Thanks again Chindit13, excellent post, should be posted on every single thread !!
Comments are being scrubbed, what is going on?
This isn't the first time, and likely won't be the last time... Who's do you think will go first?
Could be worse...
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Not that I approve of his actions but I would bring to question.... The folks who threw the tea in Boston harbor... would you consider them just deranged vandels? Or how about the destruction of Government offices and officials by the militia members... were they murderers? I'm not saying, I'm just saying..... You guys say you want revolution and change but this Government has been oppressive for over one hundred years, what do you expect it will actually take to change things?
plot thickens
Every day in every city in America the newspapers are full of people who have snapped and taken lives or given up their lives because they can no longer cope with their status quo. It is unfortunate that these people cannot find a more constructive way out or find help. We are not in a position to judge whether this man is a true victim or a victim of circumstances he created for himself. It is a tragedy in either case.
Killing or trying to kill people to make a point does get headlines and will stimulate debate, but in this country we have a system that requires you to play by the rules while you endeavor to change them. We have an opportunity to do so every time there is an election and every day in how we conduct our lives. Individuals have made great changes in our society without resorting to violence.
In case you haven't noticed lately, that methodology is not doing much good. I'm not saying we should become killers, but let's just say the powers that be have set themselves up for a big mess. More is coming, and martial law is looming on the horizon.
And let's stop fooling ourselves. The government initiated violence against the people. I'm not even talking about CIA conspiracy theories, which may or may not be true. I'm talking about systematic theft, degradation of rights, and creeping authority delimiting almost every aspect of our lives. This isn't freedom, and voting will only matter when there's more people pissed off about freedom than about 'how can government take care of me'.
The system is broken, and these kinds of episodes are the hairline fractures.
So THATS why brokers have all the software contract jobs.
eradication of our posts . Didnt think it would happen on zerohedge, but yes there are missing posts. At this point i dont think it matters as so many of us are now aware and the only way the government can win now is to kill us all. I would not be surprised
When not dabbling on ZH I'm a psychiatrist. A couple of observations. First, the individual was paranoid. Perhaps not psychotic, or schizophrenic, but Paranoid Personality Disorder.
These folks tend to be highly contentious and suspicious. Their thoughts are somewhat scrambled. I gave his note only a quick read, but look at how much time and energy he spent trying to rationalize not paying his taxes. The tax code as commonly applied is fairly simple, but this fellow felt the tax code did not apply to him, and he felt he was being treated unfairly versus other people or groups. Perhaps so.
But instead of investing hundreds of hours trying to rationalize not following the tax code or trying to change the tax code, he could have just paid his taxes or filed an extension like everyone else. He felt he was too "special" for that. He deserved to be treated differently, or better than most of us common folk. He was entitled to not pay his taxes. Paranoid, perhaps delusional.
And he wasn't going to suffer in silence. He was going to make others pay for the wreck that his life became. Mental Illness is a bitch.
I sincerely appreciate your post.
I would ask how many cases of mental illness had the 16th Amendment as a contributing factor?
Best comment on this thread. Thank you.
Why are you psychiatrists such weak people who have to always defend yourself with supposed "diagnosis" of personality traits. Why do you feel the need to be so "special" that you alone are able to determine who gets to be right and who gets to be wrong. How much would you charge for helping him spend hundreds of hours to rationalize him being wrong for not spending hundreds of hours and all his resources to fight the 'tax code'.
Why isn't timothy geitner removed from power since he is also delusional and feels himself entitled to not pay taxes on his fake side job as IMF agent.
How much time and energy have you spent in your life trying "rationalize" your very career choice. I mean you drug people to change thier brain chemistry to give you a window of opportunity to "rationalize" them back into some sort of agreement with authority and repsonibility for actions taken against it. Isn't psychology really a natural thing. We structure sentences correctly for thousands of years yet today we have english teachers. We penetrate each others psychology for thousands of years but yet today we have psychiatrists. What makes you so "special" that you don't have to follow the evolutionary rules. Would you mind if i drugged you for disagreeing with me because I'd like to take a more authoriative approach with you to give you the oppprtunity to work out of your inner child and so that you can revert to a time when you were young and impressionable. Then I can impress and imprint my authority onto you.
So call me. We'll get some drugs in you and get you started on all the work and effort it will require of you to change how you are treated. You can't DIS-EASE someone without making it rough on them so we'll get you comfortable with various levels of struggle and fight and discomfort. Then we'll keep raising the bar until snap and then we'll make you wrong again and rinse and repeat. It sounds horrible but you'll become accustomed to it. Once you get used to always being wrong we'll have an easier more comfortable time being a know it all with the answers to every situation.
You're father didn't love you, did he?
(I tried to reply to your last comment, but when I hit 'save', I was told that your comment no longer exists. You can accuse me if you like, but only if it makes you feel better, sunshine :-)
I like to feed the squid a bit of strange php from time to time.
Do you ever get the feeling that your structure is entirely revealed. That you're a stupid moth flying round and round a lightbulb thinking it's the north star. Well you will get that feeling.
Do I ever feel like a stupid moth flying round and round a light bulb thinking it's the north star? Nope. However, I am CONSTANTLY feeling like Luke Wilson in Idiocracy (especially when reading content-sensitive posts on ZH, like this one).
No doubt that you'll never understand what that's like, though. But keep watering those crops, brau.
I think we've found a mole.
"The tax code as commonly applied is fairly simple"
Are you kidding? The tax code is over 67,000 pages long. What the hell is "fairly simple" about that?? And pray tell, how is it "commonly" applied when no two persons who file taxes has the exact same income information to compute their liability?
But you being a "psychiatrist" could have saved him from himself and others by prescribing him some psychotropic drugs that would have cleared up his thinking. Much like the thinking of the Columbine shooters, the Virginia Tech shooter or the Northern Illinois University shooter who all had prescriptions for these types of meds.
You probably think that this would also have the ancillary benefit of clearing up his "scrambled thoughts" so that he might have a clearer understanding of the "fairly simple" tax code.
If you are a psychiatrist (which I highly doubt) perhaps you should seek an opinion from one of your peers concerning your delusions of grandeur!
@IK
Being a psychiatrist and all I would guess that you have a formal understanding of the brain and how it works? No? Just ideas that seem to fit conveniently with your hypothesis?
It's interesting to note that in the effort to develop Artificial Intelligence, real scientists have discovered that the brain works so much better than a computer (and with much less heat) because it is pure chaos in the brain (see quantum physics). I find it humorous that you think your pseudoscience is anything other than another oppression technique.
You should take a pill that will cure you of your oppressionist ways.
There goes the ballot box. Guess the ammo box is the only one left.
WTF ever happened to sitting in your car, in the closed garage, with the motor running, drinking Crown, smoking weed, listening to Bob Dylan?
If it is going to be your 15 minutes of fame, you might as well enjoy it.
This whole 230 year experiment has been one of balancing individual liberty against the common good. The seed of destruction was planted in the 1913 Federal Reserve Act and grew into a monstrous liberty-eating plant in FDR's time. Now the USG uses the interstate commerce to justify any usurpation of power that TPTB desire. The states grab whatever they can get, leaving the municipalities to suck dry the husk. We have not yet hit bottom. You will know when you're no longer reading conjectures about what it will be like. You will be living it and trying to keep outlaws and desperadoes from taking your sh*t.-13
Geez---Go over to Huffingtonpost.com They have video of the damaged seven story building. The damage is unbelieveable. A miracle no one died. Thank God for fire suppression systems and strict American building codes.
'A miracle no one died.'
So far 3 died, and indeed it is miraculous, almost as miraculous as how many people, I wont name names, didn't show up to work at WT 1 & 2 on 9 1 1.
This doesn't add up:
1. EMBEDDEDART.COM (Joseph Stack’s business site):
Registrant:
Embedded Art
925 E Hwy 80
287
San Marcos, TX 78666
US
Domain name: EMBEDDEDART.COM
Record created on 05-Jun-2003.
2. EMBEDEDART.COM (the domain of
site w/supposed manifesto):
Registrant:
Nathan Mallamace (not Joseph
Stack)
PO BOX 153
Aptos, California 95001
United States
Domain Name: EMBEDEDART.COM
Created on: 18-Feb-10
Notice that the first domain was created in 2003 and the second one was created today!!!
For more info follow the forum at t35.com ( the hosting company )
http://www.helpingwebmasters.com/announcements/texas-crash-pilot-left-su...
google "typosquatting"
Domain squatter. . .
There's not a day that goes by that my mates and I are suprised things like this don't happen more often. What will it take for the insanity to end?
I feel bad for this individual in that he felt that this was the only option available to him. A loss of hope is the end of the individual. This is just the beginning too...
Wow, how close the spelling of his name is to "Joe Sixpack"....Hmmmm
I told you Babylon was going to burn, and you just laughed...
His name was Joseph Andrew Stack. He died serving project mayhem. In death we are all Joseph Stack.
>>Why are you psychiatrists such weak people who have to always defend yourself with supposed "diagnosis" of personality traits. Why do you feel the need to be so "special" that you alone are able to determine who gets to be right and who gets to be wrong. How much would you charge for helping him spend hundreds of hours to rationalize him being wrong for not spending hundreds of hours and all his resources to fight the 'tax code'.<<
I wouldn't have charged him anything. I work for a non-profit treating patients with no money. It doesn't take a pschiatrist to conclude that a married man with a house and an airplane, who lights his house on fire with his wife and child inside, then flies his explosives laden plane into the side of a buiding filled with innocent people, is mentally ill. Most likely paranoid. Fits the profile of someone who had an above average intelligence, can seem normal, but you scratch below the surface and they're just irrationally angry and their thoughts are scrambled.
What's irrational about it. He wanted his wife and child to be with him in the after life. He's OBVIOUSLY not violent and states in his article that he wanted to try a violent approach. I'm sure the world is willing to offer a million different non-violent approaches that all end in failure and some sort of blame laid at the persons feet for it. When the crash occured you saw a string of people killing their families because they simply refused to go through the whole homeless process. The universe does just stare blankly and inadequately at millions of lives. It's got no way to solve their problems and any words of consolation are going to be half hearted and untrue.
Have you ever watched the call in portion of FOX news where people call in and just scream obsenities at the host. That's the kind of irrational anger you are speaking of but that isn't irrational. It's caused by a group of people "ganging" up on person that is psychologically unable to defend against it they make them feel powerless to defend against it. It's extremely abusive. It's akin to taking a dog that has been chained and beaten several times and then chaining him and 'pretending' or playing out the beating.
You suck at psychiatry. This is focused, extremely rational, extremely disciplined anger. I'm not saying the limitations of action placed on him were ENTIRELY unwarranted. But things OBVIOUSLY went to far. Someone screwed up. The greater force is ALWAYS responsible as they bring the most power to bear.
You're joking, right? Seriously, you really can't be that fucking dumb, can you?
What's irrational about it? Well, right off the top of my head, how about (1) his wife and step-daughter did NOT want to accompany him on his journey towards death; and (2) the inherent contradiction that exists when a "non-violent" person acts in a violent manner. Seems to me that anyone who commits arson, attempted murder, and destroys two buildings is doing a bit more than simply having a bad day. But, of course, let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story, right?
- FBI Special Agent Unscarred
But killing for oil is perfectly rational? What about killing just to keep the charade going that there is a war? How about killing because you don't like what the "other" country has to say? How about killing to save lives?
All perfectly rational excuses to kill?
Everything is rationalized, everything is justified. Every use of power is rationalized. EVERY USE OF AUTHORITY is justified or attempted justification.
Just admit it. The fucking IRS leaned too hard on the guy and he snapped.
You don't want to understand anyones rationality but your own because you're rationality makes you right and makes you authority. Admit what you have done on these boards in this thread. I saw you manipulating peoples perceptions of things. You're not fucking law enforcement. You're fucking perception molding ADMITTED sympathy judge/manipulator. You want to know what a lawyer is in this country. A lawyer is a sympathy magician. Molding facts and circumstances to create sympathy for one form of right verses another form of right.
What do you know about law Special Agent Unscarred. You just do the shit without any conciousness. It's like an automated protection/attack program buried in your skull.
Now get off your worthless fucking authoritative law making ass and find me something excessively violent that this man has EVER done in his life other than trying to find out if special treatment was just a few or if it was for all. The man never built prisons. The man never trained guards. The man never threw anyone who he deemed had wronged him in a prison to learn to survive by GANG violence along racial lines. Because that's all you are is gang violence that hasn't been twisted and distorted into meaninglessness. You hold your focus. You are right and everybody else is wrong. When you hurt someone it's the right thing to do. When someone else hurts someone it's wrong. When you throw a person in prison with NO PLAN, NO IDEA how to fix the individual social integration dynamics of it you are simply revealing your own rational irrationality. Follow laws follow rules or you will be indescriminately damaged and put into powerless situations which can only be solved by violence. Then its simply a matter of pushing your buttons to get you to do what we want you to do. Not so irrational after all.
Does it piss you off that I can sit here and be so horribly disrepectful to a member of the FBI. That I can say fuck the CIA they are all scum. That I can so EASILY out your behavior. That I can so easily penetrate to the root of your entire sense of justice and show you how rule of law is not about rules but about ruling.
Fuck you -FBI Special Agent Motherfucker
What you know about sympathy, what you know about justice, what you know about perception, what you know about getting outside your own ego skank juice you try to dribble all over everyones face. Now go abuse your authority while you still have it, cause word on the street is it's gonna become passe'. Everyone who has it seems to be fucking up right and left.
I completely agree with this statement. But you still haven't answered how that justifies him trying to kill his wife and step-daughter. You're obviously young, so I'll forgive your ignorance and lack of perspective.
He didn't try and kill his wife and daughter, they weren't inside, get YOUR facts straight.
You're absolutely right. The first report that I read was incorrect. I'll raise my glass along side you and Hephasteus to toast this truly great American hero. [clink]
Wow what a horrible event. I think it was the economy that drove this guy to do what he did. If your an educated and trained professional and you have zero job prospects it's quite likely that you're going to lose your mind.
Unfortunately without job creation people will become increasing desperate as was the case here. Most people will go out without a fight but this man obviously chose to express his frustrations in a very public way.
This was an act of sheer desperation. Unfortunately if the economy deteriorates I think these sort things will become increasing common.
Interesting. Comments deleted by Zerohedge. My deleted comment was in response to someone who chastised the dead man for cheating on his taxes, while I reminded that our sitting Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Internal Revenue Service shares that trait in common.
Funny, huh? Read here and here for a bit of background.
I read a few that ended up getting deleted, and honestly, I'm not sure that I blame them.
FALSE FLAG!!!!! His actions have "patsie" written all over them.
The letter...they always do this....make Stack look crazy and with some commie spit....like it would be a ZHer in that plane. Trust me, we don't do that. We would march, and we would shout, but we do not resort to violence....this is a FALSE FLAG.
"ideas worth killing for" :
oil and power - That's why we're in the Middle East - and don't forget it.
One thing's for sure - there are no virtuous players in the game. That's not the nature of the game.
It appears to me that Joe Stack decided to play the game by the real rules as he perceived them. Others share this view, whether or not they choose to act on the view. I don't defend or condemn him - it's just a fact. But whose crazier, Joe Stack or Dick Cheney?
Let's define "power" as the ability to influence outcome. Most people have none. GS, as an example, has lots.
Given this definition whether the act of Mr. Stack proves to be an act of "power", i.e. one that influences outcome, has yet to be determined.
Time will tell - - -
Revolution--by John Lennon
You say you want a revolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
You tell me that it's evolution
Well, you know
We all want to change the world
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
You say you got a real solution
Well, you know
We'd all love to see the plan
You ask me for a contribution
Well, you know
We're doing what we can
But when you want money
for people with minds that hate
All I can tell is brother you have to wait
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
Ah
ah, ah, ah, ah, ah...
You say you'll change the constitution
Well, you know
We all want to change your head
You tell me it's the institution
Well, you know
You better free you mind instead
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow
Don't you know it's gonna be all right
all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
all right, all right, all right
diebold voting machines will save us.
and more wars for israhell.
and scoutmasters.
http://leejohnbarnes.blogspot.com/2009/01/holocaust-and-abu-ghraib.html
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.french/browse_thread/thread/d...
http://www.rense.com/general86/realholo.htm
http://neithercorp.us/npress/?p=255
Damn, that was epic. This website is sooooo being watched.
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