February 18, 2010 6:45 PM

Joe Stack Plane Crash Austin Aftermath: 13 Injured, Two Critically

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Carlin DeGuerin Miller
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AUSTIN, Texas (CBS/AP) Joseph Andrew Stack, a Texas man with a serious grudge against the Internal Revenue Service, has left a lot of innocent people in his wake, according to Austin authorities.

Photo: Echelon Building in Austin, Texas Feb. 18, 2010.

PICTURES: Austin Plane Crash

Authorities said Thursday that 13 people were hurt - two critically - after Stack deliberately flew a small plane into a building where the Internal Revenue Service had about 200 workers.

"It felt like a bomb blew off," said Peggy Walker, an IRS revenue officer who was sitting at her desk. "The ceiling caved in and windows blew in. We got up and ran."

Photo: Joe Stack.

PICTURES: Austin Plane Crash

Firefighters worked Thursday afternoon to put out the blaze at the Echelon Building located on the side of a major Austin thoroughfare.

Authorities said that Stack worked alone. He was presumed dead, and police said they had not recovered his body.

The FBI believes that Stack left a twisted suicide note / bomber's manifesto on the Web two days before the crash in which he ranted against the IRS, the Catholic Church, tax loopholes, bailouts and his own sorry state of affairs.

"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," the page read.

He talked about the "storm raging in my head" and railed against taxation without representation. "Anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a 'crackpot', traitor and worse," the page said.

Stack was angered by a "handful of thugs and plunderers (that) can commit unthinkable atrocities" including bailed out GM executives and the drug and insurance companies who "are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple."
He hoped that the "the American zombies wake up and revolt," and at times expressed that he was at a breaking point.


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PICTURES: Joe Stack
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by fuzzywzhe February 19, 2010 11:58 PM EST
I find it funny that most stories omit the fact that the building that was attacked, housed the IRS.

The media treats it as if Stack was angry, and hit a random office building after ranting about the IRS.
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by jennysanders February 19, 2010 4:45 PM EST
Wow - and the T-shirts are already out:

http://www.zazzle.com/revolution2010*
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by avalanche1856 February 19, 2010 4:13 PM EST
Spare us all the partisan crap thebob-bob. Nowhere in his letter did he mention any political parties. He only made distinction between the super-rich and the rest of us. Perhaps you need to wake up to the fact that the democraps are just as criminally insane as the repugs. Your boy-toy Obama seems to be turning out to be a dandy, what with his failure to keep good on his promise to close Guantanamo, his recent decision on cell-phone tracking, and so on. But you keep the horse blinders on and stick with the group-think mentality, sunshine.
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by mwdabose February 19, 2010 7:11 PM EST
Joe Stack is a hero 110%. The free people know the facts, the truth is relative.
by wildbillkelso February 19, 2010 12:19 PM EST
Joe Stack is a hero. Joe Stack will be labeled a criminal, but free people know the truth.
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by thebob-bob February 19, 2010 1:42 AM EST
Quick, what Political Party do you think of when you say, "They hate The Government"???

Fear, Hatred, Distortion, Distraction and Division. It's all Republicans have to offer.
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by jsmithiiii February 18, 2010 9:21 PM EST
I have also found a magazine titled "The last words of Joe Stack", there you can find some interesting aspects: magazine.joomag.com/The_last_words_of_Joe_Stack/327
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