Breaking: Small Plane Crashes into Austin Building

[sunny]

Time for a distraction!

Breaking news on CNN: IAEA report issues warning: Iran now working on nuclear warhead for a missile.

[sunny]

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[elfismiles]

This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI. If you want to see the original letter, please see the archived version at thesmokinggun.com: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/ye ... tack1.html

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[psynapz]

So... it's really called the Echelon building?

[DoYouEverWonder]

Oh-oh, the teabaggers are starting to go off the deep end. But no one could ever imagine a white guy turning an airplane into a missile and flying it into a government building. Is Texas harboring terrorists? I mean George Bush lives there....

And btw, what time is this building suppose to collapse?

[barracuda]

Barracuda, are we reading the same thing? I can barely follow the guy save to say that I gather he's been a tax agitator with a middle-of-the-road populist bend for about three decades now and having gotten hit with back taxes for the final time, decided to killed himself. He'd fit the standard "profile" for most suicides, too: middle-aged educated male with some degree of success at some point in life.

I gave the IRS my last payment this year to cover $65,000 in taxes that they insisted upon collecting for the years 1994 - 1996, during which time I had made $18,000 per year as a contractor. Granted, I had skipped my filings at the time, mostly due to my lifestyle as a fairly hardcore drug addict and part-time correctional facility resident, but really - did they need to essentially ruin me financially for the next ten or fifteen years? Twice they swooped on my bank accounts, emptying them entirely without notice (the first time causing my eviction), and once they garnished 100% of my wages for three months, so that I lost a perfectly good job and couldn't pay them a thing while the interest and penalties continued to accrue mercilessly. Had I filed originally, I would have owed them nothing.

All this as a way of saying that there is very little you could do in the way of tax protesting that I would find unreasonable.

[JackRiddler]

A suicide attack is a show of force, and by the Faux Brownshirt manual, "liberals" can't do that. So they're going to have to recoup him as either a repressed homosexual or a madman, though i imagine they've got an intern digging through internet records to find links to Al Qaeda or at least having been friends or neighbors with a Muslim.

I suspect you're about right.

However, if they find one (1) video relating to 9/11 skepticism, or one (1) indication that he visited a 9/11 truth site in the last eight years, that will likely become the narrative: Truther Crash-Bombs IRS!

[norton ash]

Cuda wrote:

All this as a way of saying that there is very little you could do in the way of tax protesting that I would find unreasonable.

C'mon, this angry guy's lil' 9/11 show is a reasonable protest?

[elfismiles]

The Austin Texas Bombing Is A HUGE Image Blow To The "Tea Party" Right
Joe Weisenthal | Feb. 18, 2010, 1:47 PM | 2,484 | 51
PrintTags: Planes, Transportation, Terrorism


Source: Wikipedia

It's not clear who the Austin, TX plane crash pilot Joe Stack hung out with, but let's just put it out there and stop playing pretend: this is not good publicity for the "Tea Party" right, and no, we're not saying Stack was a tea partier.

But in his insane manifesto he rails against the IRS, bailouts, and, well, all of the right wing's typical enemies.

Is this fair to the right? No. Will some of the media use this as a chance to smear the "tea partiers"? Sure.

But we're not talking about what's fair, we're just talking about what happens.

The bottom line is that this event is to Obama what Oklahoma City was to Bill Clinton, and Oklahoma City helped Clinton a lot in the dark days after the 1994 election.



http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aust ... ght-2010-2

[barracuda]

C'mon, this angry guy's lil' 9/11 show is a reasonable protest?

Hmm. I thought some of us had been moping around town because we figured the U.S. population would never get angry enough to grab the pitchforks. Well, this is what it looks like when they do.

[Nordic]

I gave the IRS my last payment this year to cover $65,000 in taxes that they insisted upon collecting for the years 1994 - 1996, during which time I had made $18,000 per year as a contractor. Granted, I had skipped my filings at the time, mostly due to my lifestyle as a fairly hardcore drug addict and part-time correctional facility resident, but really - did they need to essentially ruin me financially for the next ten or fifteen years? Twice they swooped on my bank accounts, emptying them entirely without notice (the first time causing my eviction), and once they garnished 100% of my wages for three months, so that I lost a perfectly good job and couldn't pay them a thing while the interest and penalties continued to accrue mercilessly. Had I filed originally, I would have owed them nothing.

I never cease to be amazed at the things I learn about you. There goes my image of you, up in smoke, AGAIN. Reformulate, reformulate ..... FAIL FAIL FAIL

I think if I ever were to meet you I would be surprised, no matter how much I learned about you.

(all said with affection)

[Wombaticus Rex]

Very "troubling" in the academic sense -- which is to say fascinating, centrally important, challenging and too complicated for single sentence summary.

I do know Adbusters will have a fucking field day with this. I'm guessing at least a 20 page spread, a page from Zizek, an obituary by Derrick Jensen, and lots of edgy graphic design.

[JackRiddler]

The Austin Texas Bombing Is A HUGE Image Blow To The "Tea Party" Right
Joe Weisenthal | Feb. 18, 2010, 1:47 PM | 2,484 | 51
PrintTags: Planes, Transportation, Terrorism


Source: Wikipedia

It's not clear who the Austin, TX plane crash pilot Joe Stack hung out with, but let's just put it out there and stop playing pretend: this is not good publicity for the "Tea Party" right, and no, we're not saying Stack was a tea partier.

But in his insane manifesto he rails against the IRS, bailouts, and, well, all of the right wing's typical enemies.

Yeah, other than naming Arthur Anderson and Enron, the health insurance companies and the failure of the reform, and quoting approvingly from the Communist Manifesto. For a start.

Next few days you're going to see a lot of jostling to Pin the Stack on the Other Side. Variably defined.

Paradoxically this will also be accompanied by those taking inspiration on behalf of teabaggers or perhaps leftist propaganda of the deed.

I predict sometimes you will see both of these tendencies combined. It's a confused landscape out there.

[nathan28]

Barracuda, are we reading the same thing? I can barely follow the guy save to say that I gather he's been a tax agitator with a middle-of-the-road populist bend for about three decades now and having gotten hit with back taxes for the final time, decided to killed himself. He'd fit the standard "profile" for most suicides, too: middle-aged educated male with some degree of success at some point in life.

I gave the IRS my last payment this year to cover $65,000 in taxes that they insisted upon collecting for the years 1994 - 1996, during which time I had made $18,000 per year as a contractor. Granted, I had skipped my filings at the time, mostly due to my lifestyle as a fairly hardcore drug addict and part-time correctional facility resident, but really - did they need to essentially ruin me financially for the next ten or fifteen years? Twice they swooped on my bank accounts, emptying them entirely without notice (the first time causing my eviction), and once they garnished 100% of my wages for three months, so that I lost a perfectly good job and couldn't pay them a thing while the interest and penalties continued to accrue mercilessly. Had I filed originally, I would have owed them nothing.

All this as a way of saying that there is very little you could do in the way of tax protesting that I would find unreasonable.

No, that's fair, your complaint, that is--it's just that Joe Stack has (had) the rhetorical abilities of an engineer.


http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=1Ht&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=bank+austin&fb=1&gl=us&hq=bank&hnear=austin&view=text&ei=Oal9S57XNsKVtge1hP2wBQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=more-results&resnum=2&ved=0CCEQtQMwAQ


I'd be surprised if this doesn't get ugly. I'm sure David Brooks and Thomas Friedman are three-quarters of the way through articles about the dangers of non-mainstream thought, like, you know, taxing the rich first.

taxagitator.jpg

[dbcooper41]

anybody recognize any of his clients?

http://www.businessinsider.com/joseph-a ... d-work-for

Joseph Andrew Stack Did Software Work For Hughes Aircraft, Warner Bros Studios Stores, More
Gillian Reagan | Feb. 18, 2010, 2:37 PM | 1,494 | 3
PrintTags: News, Planes, Transportation, Terrorism, Media, Airline Industry


Source: http://twitpic.com/13yxsb
Software engineer Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot who intentionally crashed a plane in Texas this morning, did contract work for several companies including Hughes Aircraft, Equinox Industries/Warner Brothers Studio Stores, Sorrento Electronics, according to his business website.

He ran a firmware/software development service company called Embedded Art. Here's a description of his business, from his homepage:

Embedded Art is a small independent software house, specializing in process control and automation. In its current form it represents the culmination of 20 years of experience in the software development consulting business. Founded by Joe Stack in 1983 (under the name of Prowess Engineering) in Southern California, the company thrived for 15 years until shifting focus to the Sacramento area to take advantage of growth in the Silicon Valley.

Now, 5 years later, the expertise of Embedded Art has landed in the Austin Area expecting to lend a hand to the growing high technology industry in South-Central Texas.

The concept behind the success of Embedded Art is that we provide the experience and muscle for addressing complex software engineering development tasks. Much of today's programming is a step-wise refinement of previous development projects. With 20 years of experience, we provide the expertise that can effectively navigate around many of the pitfalls that snare the unseasoned engineer (indeed, we've seen many of the same mistakes made again and again by the inexperienced).

Here's his list of clients and the description of his projects, according to the site:

Cylink Corporation
Project: The Cylink CY8300 IPSec high-performance security processor

DMC Stratex Networks
Project: The Spectrum and Altium product lines, high-capacity wireless communication platforms (i.e., microwave radios)

Western Digital Corporation
Project: A high-performance multi-function ESDI/SCSI/Floppy controller for the Apollo networked workstations and high-end PCs.

Equinox Industries/Warner Brothers Studio Stores
Project: Distribution Center Processing Automation

Interstate Electronics Corporation
Project: IEC 9002 GPS-based Flight Management System
Project: The IEC 9002 Navigation Database Update Processor, a Windows-based, off-line data reduction tool
Project: IEC 9002 MCDU, an ARINC-739 compatible Multi-purpose Control and Display Unit
Project: GPS Satellite Simulator (Military & Commercial unit)
Project: IEC Military Plasma Display, an 80186/82720-based "intelligent" terminal boasting multi-mode text graphics display, ANSI Standard compatibility, multiple virtual screens, and downloadable display generation capabilityEverett Charles Technologies
Project: ECT 9090(tm) Bare Board Tester

MOST, Inc.
Project: 2.6GB SCSI II read/write CD-ROM (Magneto/Optical) drive

Emulex Corporation
Project: SCSI/ATA(IDE) chipset firmware base (early C++)
Design and implement hardware interface library components

Cable & Computer Technology, Inc.
Project: An AMD-2900 based bit-slice magnetic tape controller

Taradactyl Technovation, Inc.
Project: The Mileage Elephant (vehicle usage tracker)

Teledyne Systems Corporation
Project: An AMD-2900 based bit-slice emulation/simulation of IBM's 32-bit AP101-F floating-point processor

Hughes Aircraft, Fullerton
Project: A multi-processor control system composed of six 68000 processors, twenty-two 8085

Sorrento Electronics, Inc.
Project: Process Control System