My head is seriously ready to explode.
I can not honestly see how ANYONE would think that this guy was courageous. As far as I am concerned, he took the easy way out. He carried out a very heinous, very public and very calculated suicide, nothing more. If he truly wanted to “fight” against the government, there are so many better, and more effective ways to go about it.
It was fortunate that he did not harm more people. That building housed far many more than the 200 or so the IRS employed. He may have “targeted the government”, but what he actually did was target a group of people holding down jobs in a shitty economy to feed their families.
His business lost it’s California license no less than 3 different times for non payment of taxes, or not filing them at all. By his own admission, he got together with friends to figure out ways to get around paying/filing his taxes. He took a gamble and he lost.
So, instead of standing up and working out a way to pay what he owed, he folded. He set his house (in a very nice suburb of Austin) on fire, drove his car to the municipal airport, got in HIS PRIVATE PLANE and flew it into a building full of people trying to make ends meet and take care of their responsibilities.
Yeah, that’s going to have a HUGE effect on the way the IRS does business.
Maybe now there will be further restrictions on who can own/operate private planes. I’m SURE that was the intent. <insert sarcasm and eye roll here>
Now his family has to deal with the fall out. How unfortunate for them, truly.
And please don’t throw the “fighting the government” rhetoric at me. I am proud to have been a US Army Soldier that fought for my country. And now I am a US Army Veteran fighting for my rights, and those of others, against the system.
We’re not perfect, and never will be. We are human. But there are far better ways of dealing with injustice, perceived or not, than flying a plane into a building of unarmed and unsuspecting people.
I guess I found my words.
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