Long story short, a man who got royally screwed by "the system" decided to crash a plane into the Austin, Texas Internal Revenue Services building(the tax mans base).
Here's a bit of background information, if you're interested: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35460268/ns/us_news-life?GT1=43001#storyContinued (it's not necessary, though...my cole's notes version above is pretty much all you need to know.
He left an amazing suicide note. It's a bit of a read, but a very good one, in my opinion.
Was it justified? Discuss :D
Short post...I know. Don't worry, I'll post again some time this week.
Peace,
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interesting, i heard about this. i'd love to discuss but your link isn't working!
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The link isn't working, no. I searched for it though and found it easily. And to be honest, i wasn't that impressed.
ReplyDeletehe says hes willing to add to the body count otherwise how else will things get changed. well what about all the other people in the usa who dont take the easy way out and actually suffer through there whole lives through the shit he had too. And for god sakes if he had that big of a problem its not that hard to move to canada. Maybe he'd like it here .
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Sorry for the broken link guys...
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"well what about all the other people in the usa who dont take the easy way out and actually suffer through there whole lives through the shit he had too"
Has that really worked out in their favour?
He realizes that lobbying, protesting, none of that is going to solve anything. At the end of the day, all of that gets swept under the rug or hushed by the very people he's trying to fight. It takes a body count before an issue like this gets taken seriously
And he got his point across, no? There are headlines all around the world about a man who crashed a plane into the IRS building, and left a suicide note about how he got royally screwed by the government. He sure got US talking.
This "economic instability" has been brewing for quite some time now...and there are a lot of Americans feeling shafted because of how things are being dealt with, leading to many Americans being able to empathize with him - which could be a very dangerous thing.
Americans feeling shafted? sure. But do they empathize with him? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteSure he got our attention, but they don't print the same headlines twice. In other words, he's in the paper one day, the next, hes just a statistic.
Eventually you either come to terms with reality and the way the world works or you don't and blow your skull to bits or in this case, take out a few other innocent people trying to make an honest living which he clearly tried to get around in almost every way he could. And when it failed he gave up. There's no heroism in what he did.
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