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Why I Don't Hate the IRS -- and Neither Should You
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyIf there is a more hated government agency than the IRS, I don't know what it is. Last year, irate taxpayers threatened more than 1,000 IRS employees with violence, and sometimes they acted on those threats, as we saw last month, when Andrew Joseph Stack III flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, killing himself and a 68-year-old Internal Revenue Service employee, Vernon Hunter. To many people who read about the tragedy, Hunter was just another government bureaucrat. But there was much more to the man. Hunter was a Vietnam veteran, an usher at the Mount Zion Baptist ...
Joseph Stack's Daughter Considers Her Dad a Hero
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Feb. 22) -- The daughter of Joseph Stack, who flew a small plane into a federal building in Austin to protest the IRS on Thursday, answered "Yes" on "Good Morning America" when asked if her father was a hero, saying "now maybe people will listen." Samantha Bell, Stack's 38-year-old daughter from his first marriage, told "Good Morning America" that her father's suicide mission was "wrong" but said she agrees with his anti-government message. "I think too many people lay around and wait for things to happen, but if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice then nothing will ever ...
Daughter of Pilot in Austin Crash Says Her Dad Was a Hero
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe daughter of Joseph Stack, the man who flew an airplane into the Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas, last Thursday, said her father's suicide mission was an act of heroism, Talking Points Memo reports. Samantha Bell, who lives in Norway, said the plane crash was "inappropriate," but praised her father because he "stood up to the system." "I think too many people lay around and wait for things to happen," Bell told "Good Morning America." "But if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished." Bell speculated that Stack set ...
Experts Fear Suicide Crash Could Inspire More Attacks
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 19) -- To most Americans, Joe Stack's decision to crash a plane into an IRS office in Austin, Texas, Thursday morning was a mix of desperation and lunacy. But another portion of the nation greeted Stack's murderous act as a romantic and patriotic gesture -- a reaction that concerns experts. "The very fact of what he did might energize somebody else on the borderline and might tip them in favor of going ahead and doing something similar," said Mark Pitcavage, who tracks anti-government groups as director of investigative research for the Anti-Defamation League. "The fact that there is ...
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