Joseph Stack: Terrorist or Patriot?

[JScullin]

Do you think the man, who wrote a rather good diatribe about today's Government and treatment of the working class before crashing his plane into a Texas IRS building, was a terrorist or more likened to the early patriots who stood up to the British?

[specko]

how about a guy who's more interested in buying a nice house and plane than paying taxes?

[sonza68]

Neither. I lump him with other murder suicides.

[B3NN3TT]

Neither. He was a nutjob.

[JScullin]

Neither. I lump him with other murder suicides.

Neither. He was a nutjob.

Some news outlets would say otherwise and try to dance around labeling him as a patriot to an extent.

[sonza68]

I put little stock in what news outlets think.

[skater]

how about a guy who's more interested in buying a nice house and plane than paying taxes?

...and then blaming everyone else for his problems.

I don't think he's a "terrorist" though - more of a nut job like others said.

[elraido]

The man owned a 1/4 of a million dollar house and an airplane and not pay his taxes....sounds like he was a hypocrit to me for blasting the politicians he was trying to emulate

[BBOX]

Why is it when brown people fly airplanes in to buildings as a message against the US government they're terrorists but when white folk do it they're nutjobs?

[B3NN3TT]

Why is it when brown people fly airplanes in to buildings as a message against the US government they're terrorists but when white folk do it they're nutjobs?

Stack's attack was not motivated by religious, racial, or nationalistic reasons. If it had been, I'd surely consider it terrorism.

He lashed out for financial reasons, which is distinctly American, and the last swan-song of the nut-job.