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Austin Killer Becoming a Hero to the Radical Right
In the hours since a man enraged at the government slammed his small plane into an Austin, Tex., IRS building, white supremacists and their fellow travelers have elevated Joseph Andrew Stack into an icon of resistance to tyranny.
“The Guy is a true HERO!!!” wrote “northroad” on Stormfront.org, the largest white supremacist Web forum in the world. “God bless him,” chimed in “Rudyard,” following a comment by “suepeace”: “This was quite heroic. There is a gradual awakening underway. I wonder how racially conscious he was.”
Shortly after Stack slammed his Piper PA-28 into the IRS building Thursday morning, killing himself and one IRS worker and injuring another 13 people, a manifesto the man apparently wrote just before the attack came to light. In it, Stack bitterly railed against a wide variety of targets — big business, corporate executives, unions, the Catholic Church, the recent bailouts of various industries, and more — but he kept coming back to the alleged evils of American government in general and, more specifically, the Internal Revenue Service and tax law. That made him a hero in the eyes of many on the radical right — so-called tax protesters — who have long believed that federal taxes were illegal or simply voluntary. Although many tax protesters who call themselves “sovereign citizens” subscribe to a racist ideology, there was no indication that Stack entertained racist ideas.
Nevertheless, white supremacists were thoroughly excited by his attack. “I can feel the crunch coming,” wrote “Lady Spirit Warrior,” another poster on Stormfront. “This is just the beginning. Prepare for battle!” “Things are heating up in America,” added “Astragoth.” “This man won’t be the last to do something like this.”
“Leshrac,” writing at another radical Web forum, the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network, said: “Only bad I see about this is that he didn’t kill enough.”
A few other white supremacists suggested that lionizing Stack could be a bad thing for the radical right, but they appeared to be in a minority. At the White Revolution website, “stephen3” said that “although Mr. Stack’s reasonings are true and correct, I am not hinting by any means that this is the way to protest against our corrupt government. … Although the time for direct action is here, do not go out and kill yourself to make a point.”
A more common point was made on Stormfront by “berdoofool,” who asked simply: “Are there ANY innocent IRS employees???”
on February 19th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
And? So what? It was a terrorist attack against our government. Perhaps our government should try to please us. Just a thought.
on February 19th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
This guy was a right-wing-tax-dodging extremist. Of course he edited his ‘manifesto’ 27 times as to not expose the group he was associated with – although he did mention Glen Beck!
What I have noticed, anytime someone from the ‘Right’ does something, it is quickly hushed up by the MSM. Example, Mike Huckabee released a black guy from prison (he was serving a 100+ year sentence), the guy killed about 4 or 5 police officers in the state of Washington – they used the Tiger Woods scandal to overshadow this incident.
Mark Sanford cheated on his wife at the expense of taxpayers, the MSM used the Chris Brown domestic violence story to overshadow this incident.
What I did yesterday was see how FOX news would present this story – Bill O’Reilly had the nerve to invite ‘Oath Keepers’ on his show.
And for the extreme right that are trying to scare people into thinking there are “FEMA camps,” hopefully, these FEMA camps will be used to hold these very dangerous, deranged people.
With all the chaos they’re (extremists) causing now, imagine a country without our government. They like to say Africa and Detroit is very dangerous – well, they keep it up, how will we be any different?
on February 19th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
To Kute Kountry Kousin:
You ain’t cute, you ain’t country and you ain’t my cousin: each of those words are spelled with the letter “C,” not “K” — We know you “KKK” folks aren’t fond of revealing your identities, so go buy some more sheets to cover up your shameful face.
on February 19th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
I find it quite sensible that those who are sickened by hate would respond so favorably to an act driven by obvious insanity. Have we not seen this before: a dark, cowering mind finding kinship in another’s darkness?
on February 19th, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Actually last I heard, despite the note, the government decided to declare that this was not an act of terrorism. I’m assuming that is because the perpetrator was an upper-middle class white guy and not some Muslim.
on February 19th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
Further proof the Reich Wingnuts are all Cuckoo Bananas.
on February 20th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Why is the SPLC trying to turn this issue into one of right wing politics when Joseph Stack specifically spoke out against big business and corporate executives? That hardly sounds like a right wing extremist to me.
Also, did the SPLC bother to check out the leftist websites which supported Mr. Stack?
http://www.revleft.com/vb/texa.....l?t=129524
It seems to me like the far left is praising him just as much as the far right, in fact, even more.
Shame on the SPLC for employing such an underhanded tactic as to attempt to associate everything bad with “white supremacy”. Even most people on stormfront do not feel white people are superior, they simply have no other place to discuss these issues at all since organizations like the SPLC are going out of their way to shut down learned scholars from discussing things as neutral as genetics and IQ and the effects of immigration policy. Exactly what venue does the SPLC approve of for white people to speak about these issues? Not that permission from the SPLC is necessary, but I am curious as to what the SPLC expects racially conscious people of European descent who have been unfairly discriminated against to do.
on February 20th, 2010 at 4:11 am
Thank you for quoting me :-)
It’s a real pleasure to help fill your meaningless days with “radical extremist hating neo-nazi tax protestation” rhetoric.
You obviously have way too much free time on your hands to qualify for the “useful to society” category, mr “spending my days keeping track of extremism on every forum that doesn’t agree with me”…
on February 20th, 2010 at 6:25 am
@ Kute
The problem with that is that there is no such thing as an action that the federal government could take that will please everyone. Any big or little thing the government does will only please either a lot of people, a few people, or no one (which I don’t think has ever happened).
Unless if when you said “us” you meant your personal demographics, that would still be near-impossible as you may belong to far too many different groups to possibly be monolithically (spl) pleased by a governmental action.
Learned all this playing a PC game called “Democracy 2″.
on February 20th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
No wonder those who hide behind the cloak of “patriotism” and “True Americanism” to conceal what may be serious mental problems excusing their bigotry have such warped ideas of Heroes and Role-Models as they do.
Especially when it comes to children and others deemed “vulnerable.”
on February 20th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
LOL. a hero for the right?
1. he used a quote from the communist manifesto to highlight the greed of capitalism.
2. he railed against those opposed to health care reform, insurance companies and politicians:
“Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies.”
if anything he seemed like a left-wing libertarian, like a more anti-tax version of noam chomsky.
on February 20th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Hey Kute Kountry,
The U.S. government doesn’t negotiate with terrorists. Just a thought.
on February 20th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
What is this world coming to?
Let me guess what will happen next….They will try and claim that all the attacks on the Palestinians were a terrorist act, and that AIPAC has way too much influence in the American political system.
I don’t believe in hate at all, but I think it’s ok when it is directed at these crazies.
on February 20th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
How pitiful. Not only are they praising domestic terrorism. But they are technically supporting a cowardly and atrocious acts directed towards the White man. Since the White man controls the government, so therefore they’re praising White on White KKKrime. And i say that is a shame. And if they are making assertions that more attacks are to come, then it looks like to me, the Feds have got to start KKKracking down on White Supremacist activiity where ever they are. One effective method in KKKombating White Supremacy is using the law enforcement and its resources. Since White Supremacists have a long history of cop shoot outs and violence directed at LEOs. The Feds have got to use this power. The enforcement of laws on these un-AmeriKKKan KKKriminals. Albiet, I’m no fan of “Big Government”, but these White Supremacists are a grave and gathering threat and must be dealt with accordlnly.
on February 20th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
You guys read Stormfront too much. My advice is to turn off your PC and go out and enjoy life.
on February 21st, 2010 at 6:24 am
When Bill Ayers rails against government, he is a terrorist. When someone kills governent workers, he is a hero to the right wing. If you follow the logic, you can understand how people in other countries might feel that the 9/11 terrorists were also heros.
One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, but either view leads to the killing of innocents. Funny how people that claim Judeo-Christian values could think like that.
“If facism coes to America, it will be wraped in the flag and carrying the Bible.” — Sinclair Lewis
on February 21st, 2010 at 6:36 am
Using a plane to deliver lethal force is wrong and unjust to those killed and injured. Just remember Dresden Nagasaki Hiroshima Vietnam to see how bombing kills women children and men in painful unjust way. Pray for IRS workers as well as all others injured and killed by planes made in America and flown by Americans paid for with tax dollars. Americans and American planes have killed far more with aircraft than any other country. A holocost from the air . Napalm as hot as any oven.It evil and wrong.
on February 21st, 2010 at 7:28 am
Perhaps the Reich Wingnuts should stop being terrorists. Just a thought.
on February 21st, 2010 at 11:23 am
Perhaps the government should stop raising our taxes to ridiculous levels and STILL being unable to pay the national debt.
Here’s the best solution: CUT IMMIGRATION, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL! Nothing raises our taxes more than having to pay illegal immigrants’ medical bills, and nothing causes Americans to lose jobs more than having to compete with immigrants. But of course, that’s somehow “racist”, despite the fact that I myself am Hispanic and cannot find a job anywhere due to having to compete with “my own kind”. I don’t go work in Mexico; likewise they should stop coming to work in the United States.
on February 22nd, 2010 at 6:01 pm
A very disturbed suicidal Catholic hating sociopath attempts to kill in order to bring a message that “taxation without representation is tyranny”.
Wow – did that guy put the wrong nut and bolt together!
To do something of that nature is evil. The depth of the depravity is delineated in the very anonymity of those who suffer….THEY didn’t make those laws of many many not have even been instrumental in enforcing them. He may have murdered those who were so perfectly innocent, they may have wanted to see the end of such taxation themselves!
AND THAT is the very stupidity of terror. I often wonder where pathology leaves off and plain stupidity begins…..
on February 23rd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Kute Kountry Kousin (although you’re likely not very cute, or from the country), domestic terrorism is terrorism nonetheless. Please don’t read SPLC articles unless you fully understand what a hate crime is. Furthermore, if it weren’t for hardworking Americans who pay our way into being a true citizen, you wouldn’t have the internet available to you to make your comment. You don’t have to like the government (many of us don’t), but you certainly don’t need to kill people because of it. That is a crime, sort of like marrying your “Kousin.” Please infringe on the rights of those upon who wish to be infringed, not non-profit, peace-supporting groups like this one.
on February 23rd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Re: “government should try to please”
Why don’t you get a job at the Citgo and fill your truck up for free? Oh! You fucked up!
on February 23rd, 2010 at 5:25 pm
Stack was just a plane and simple lunatic. He hated big business, corporate executives, unions, the Catholic Church, the recent bailouts of various industries. That is a mixed bag. I’m not sure hatred of the IRS is limited to right or left. If they have you in their grasp pretty much anyone could hate them.
SPLC is jumping to an unwarranted conclusion calling Stack an ultra right winger.
Stick to the facts.
on February 23rd, 2010 at 6:21 pm
The definition of terrorism is to try to get someone to do something out of fear.
After all the post 9/11 patriotic chest pounding, we do the very thing we (supposedly) despise to ourselves?
How can a country advance itself when it’s population is filled with idiots….especially when it is the power elite white citizens that are so bloody ignorant?!
on February 23rd, 2010 at 7:09 pm
I’m generally not an apologist for the federal government. That said, the government is the only institution I’m aware of that we citizens have some control over and the only institution which has the capacity to provide a check on the out of control greed and arrogance of some large corporations. To me the founding fathers were astute about the need for checks and balances, thus deregulation is not always a positive.
on February 23rd, 2010 at 8:44 pm
As a long time supporter of SPLC, I want to thank you for all your work.
And congratulations on winning the lawsuit!
on February 23rd, 2010 at 9:42 pm
People don’t want size down, this man owed the Government, how many years did he evade this?
He owned his own plane, a home which he torched with his wife and child inside.
The very rich crooks are killing themselves rather than owning up to their obligations and serving time. Its not the Governments fault they owe, stole, and lived beyond their means. He had no conscience if he can do this to his family…..how dare his very own daughter who lives in another country call him a HERO.
Why is our Government allowing people from Europe and other countries come into the U.S. to lead these organizations such as the AMREN…..this is where they need to concentrate on, the Foreigners!
CM
This man torched his own house with his wife and child inside….
on February 23rd, 2010 at 9:44 pm
The guy considered himself so poor that he blew up his paid for house, got into his paid for aircraft, and flew it into a building. According to his last statement, his last thoughts were not of his wife and child, but of his money.
He is not a hero.
on February 24th, 2010 at 2:27 am
You Can Keep That Thought , The Corporations Run The Government and They Are Not Trying To Please Anyone But There Pockets ! At Will ?
on February 24th, 2010 at 3:37 am
A person who worked for the IRS was killed, not the IRS itself. There is a difference between attacking government (which can only be done diplomatically to get any real results), and attacking people. I am a wife and mother of two children and although, I, like many others don’t like paying taxes, if I needed a job and the IRS was hiring, I would gladly take the job because regular people,like the one killed in the IRS office need to make a living and they don’t expect that a plane will kill them during their work day. Not to mention, the man who was killed was elderly and a veteran of the armed services for 22 years he served to protect this country and he was killed by a fellow American, how dispicable.
on February 24th, 2010 at 9:47 am
Until we pull ourselves out of the bush depression, there is going to be a lot of people going over the edge. This is going to be a very hard year for most of us. It is going to take a lot of time and work to get out of this mess brought on by the 8 years of shame and disgraces. We are all partly responsible for the mess we are in and we all have to pull together to straiten it out. I don’t think flying an airplane into the IRS building is the answer. Common sense, hard work and resolve are what is called for. Extremism is not the answer whether it is the satanic right wing extremist or the bumbling lunatic left.
on February 24th, 2010 at 11:58 am
It appears my comment didn’t get through. Perhaps I was being too hard on them, but the point stands:
If you think the government deserves this just because you don’t like them, then what makes you better than any foreign terrorists? When we call you teabagging folk ‘terrorists’, we have a valid point, and your uneducated comments about “liberal fascism” only further prove that point.
on February 24th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
QUOTE: “A more common point was made on Stormfront by “berdoofool,” who asked simply: “Are there ANY innocent IRS employees???” ”
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I believe this question can be best answered by Jews in asking ‘Were there ANY innocent NAZIS?’ And if so, where are the payment exemption documents related to them of billions upon billions of euros in reparations over the past 65 years.
But perhaps this question has already been answered by Jews in the recent attempt to arrest and try an 80+ year old man as a ‘NAZI war criminal’ for having been a mere caretaker at a concentration camp kennel for the guard dogs.
As every aspect of our American existance is controlled and dominated by the Jews, the IRS is but a de facto extortion arm of Zion. It would appear then that there is one standard for for the persecutors of Jews and another for Jewish persecutors.
on February 24th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
Actually Lee, leftists are hateful too.
on February 24th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Lalo, you said: “Here’s the best solution: CUT IMMIGRATION, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL! Nothing raises our taxes more than having to pay illegal immigrants’ medical bills, and nothing causes Americans to lose jobs more than having to compete with immigrants.”
Actually if you looked at real statistics you would see that over the years immigrants have actually put more into the economy than they took out. If you are wondering where your tax money is going, take a look at the bailout, in addition to dozens of corporate welfare schemes which have been passed over the years. Oh, that and the Pentagon. Find out how much money is being thrown into the incinerator that is the Defense Department and then you’ll really be angry.
As for immigrants taking your jobs, just remember that they are not “your” jobs. The job belongs to the guy who owns the company; he just gives it to you temporarily if you accept wages to his liking.
Now, I already wrote this in another thread, but this guy’s rhetoric is not “left-wing” but populist, and at times like these right-wing populists might seem more to the left as they rail against “fat-cats”. Still, populism tends to follow the right.
on February 25th, 2010 at 12:04 am
It might surprise you, James W., to learn that the Nazis were charged with war crimes not simply for the killing of Jews, but all their crimes against other European countries, the worst of them occurring on the territory of Poland and the USSR.
As for your statement that Jews control every aspect of American existence, well- prove it.
on February 25th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
Leftists are worse than the far right!
We all know who are the far lefts don’t we? SPLC
on February 25th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
The radical right, like Islamic extremists, are quick to assume a single terrorist act actually ‘terrorizes’ the country. Oh, you may kill a few innocent people and it is undoubtedly terrible for them at the time, but, like Israel and the European Union, the incidents are simply noted, reported on in the media and within a few days or weeks, forgotten.
So – what exactly have you accomplished?
on February 25th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
The best thing about this incident is that the perpetrator is dead. One less wingnut to make life miserable for others.
on February 25th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Suffice it to say that no one here knows for sure who JS was or what the real source of his motivations were. What is obvious is that once again Americans have found another pointless argument over which to further divide themselves. Hatred is always cones as a proverbial two sided coin. Niether side is of any more value than the other.
The enemy is hatred in any form not the form in which that hatred is packaged. When viewing a perpetrator of hatred the first and most vital question should be: “am I engaging in hate in my life?” Change begins with what is seen in the mirror. Because what one hates is quite often the reflection of one’s own potential as seen in another. God Bless
on February 25th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
This is what the Republican Party is today. This is all that’s left of the GOP.
on February 25th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
@CCNv
The United States is awash with citizens who suffer from the depradations of religious occultism, a populace overwhelmingly willfully ignorant, thinking there are gods which want people to do things, don’t do things, or want people to pretend that demonstrably observed phenomena (evolution, gravity, thermodynamics et al.) some how does not happen.
This latest right wing Republican terrorist’s acts are merely the continuing progress of the consequences of religion. The *Republicanism* expressed by the terrorist is also merely an artifact of the loon’s religious occultism.
Atheists don’t commit terrorist acts.
on February 25th, 2010 at 3:23 pm
@Woroble
“As every aspect of our American existance is controlled and dominated by the Jews”
Have any evidence for that insane Republican right wing domestic terrorist loon claim? Any at all?
Right. Debunked.
on February 25th, 2010 at 6:45 pm
The issue of hate is not a partisan one. Clearly this and any violent act stems not from a political position but the condition of a heart.
Love covers a multitude of sins, but before it can there’s got to be forgiveness of the wrongs of others and acceptance of responsibility for ourselves. Both of these are heart issues.
We can all agree with these above statements and apply them to our enemy. Let us be courageous enough to apply them to ourselves first.
on February 25th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
This man is no hero. He was more of a coward if anything. He lived high while working people paid. He was weak minded to think money, was the answer to all. Taxes have been around for decades. Yet this selfish person would kill others, than die by himself. Kill people who had nothing to do with this.
on February 25th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
This act was not terrorism in the actual sense of “terrorism”. This guy’s history was one of stewing in his own hate of the IRS and whatever else until he lost any construct of reality in his own mind. He was obsessed for years with his imagined problems…all cause by others of course…until the only solution he could find in his sick mind was to take the action he did.
He was not out to terrorize, he was out to kill the phantoms of his mind and the only way to do that was to wreak destruction on his phantoms. His act was a terrible violation of law and humanity, homicide in the First Degree, thoroughly premeditated, but directed at his phantom and the people whou he believed were responsible for it.
Terrorism no…homicide yes.
on February 25th, 2010 at 7:33 pm
The longer I live away from my fellow Americans the happier I am. Is there such a thing as national insanity? If there is it is defined by the USA.
Where did the country go wrong? I don’t ever remember a time when such hatred and divisiveness spewed forth. It is scary outside your borders; I suspect that is even more so within your borders..Brrrr.
on February 25th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
I LOVE THIS SITE… ONCE AGAIN SOMEONE SNAPS ME BACK TO REALITY…
COMMENT: Semper Fi said,
*** Hatred is always comes as a proverbial two sided coin.
The enemy is hatred in any form, not the form in which that hatred is packaged.
When viewing a perpetrator of hatred, the first and most vital question should be: “am I engaging in hate in my life?”
Change begins with what is seen in the mirror. Because what one hates is quite often the reflection of one’s own potential as seen in another. ***
Thank You Semper Fi
on February 25th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I don’t fault the Mexicans… and I don’t fault the KKK.
Both groups are uninformed about the real problems our country faces… and that is, Corporate America collapsing our financial system through GREED, and moving jobs overseas to take “advantage” of cheaper labor. Note, I said, “take advantage of”.
Personally I think the O’bama administration is going to turn that around.
I’m telling you NOW… don’t buy stock in foreign countries, foreign economies are rising solely because American Corporations are there pouring US dollars into those economies.
All of that is going to STOP. The world is in a financial “war”… I don’t think Corporate America is going to let us loose.
Jobs and revenue will return to the US as soon as we knock these shot-sighted, self-serving fascist executives (currently in control of American Corporations) off of their mounds… and this process is in progress.
DOWN with Bullies… UP with Intellectuals.
Intellectuals use to run our corporations… but the demand for a more “taskmaster” style of management was necessary to maintain tight control over foreign labor.
As American Corporations return to the use of American labor… they will find that their Military Style of Management is no longer effective.
You will once again see the Intellectuals over-take… the Bullies. Once again restoring ‘ration and logic’ to our own financial system and stabilizing our economy.
Buy Stock in American corporations… don’t be left behind AGAIN.
Stop hating because you… don’t know how to make FULL USE of our financial system… Invest your money in America by buying Stock in American Businesses and Corporations … it’s the only way for you to TRULY own a peace of America.
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Catch up with me… I have over 35,000 shares of stock in American Corporations… when America wins… I win… …FOR REAL..!
It’s the only “fight” really worth spending your time on.
…and you’d better hurry, because we will soon be doing away with… the CURRENCY SYSTEM.
on February 25th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
Hey Mark, when was the last far-left domestic terrorist act in the US?
on February 26th, 2010 at 8:38 am
“Leftists are worse than the far right!” – by Mark
The left isn’t dragging blacks behind pickup trucks or blowing up a federal office building.
The far right includes murderous domestic terrorists. The left has nothing anywhere close to that.
Your dry cleaners called, Mark. Your white robe and hood with the eyeholes are ready, but they can’t get the blood stains out of your brown shirt.
on February 26th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
All this KKK bs is amusing. The only thing the KKK and skinheads can do is help fill the coffers for the SPLC.
The SPLC must have its boogeymen or their hundreds of millions in their endowment account would not grow.
The KKK and skinheads are nowhere near powerful enough to warrant all the hand wringing about them.
But as far as the IRS goes, once the government no longer governs in a constitutional manner they are no longer a legitimate government.
To Snorlax:
Surely Amy Bishop could not have left your memory already? She’s a left wing kook.
on February 26th, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Did this dude blow his stack? Did he imagine himself to be the Hindenburg? Robert Stack traveled on the Hindenburg when he was a boy. Why attack Elliot Ness?
Was this man sacrificed by sinister authority to make a point? Was sinister authority resting comfortably while the suicidal fellow ordealed himself and others? What do we say to sinister and spineless authority? Do we sacrifice ourselves to benefit worthless parasites or find out who they are and get rid of them? How do doctors get rid of tapeworms?
on March 1st, 2010 at 1:22 am
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Snorlax said,
on February 26th, 2010 at 8:38 am
“Leftists are worse than the far right!” – by Mark
The left isn’t dragging blacks behind pickup trucks or blowing up a federal office building.
The far right includes murderous domestic terrorists. The left has nothing anywhere close to that.
Your dry cleaners called, Mark. Your white robe and hood with the eyeholes are ready, but they can’t get the blood stains out of your brown shirt.”
Amen, Snorlax!
on March 1st, 2010 at 8:21 pm
It is hard for me to attempt to understand why those things have not yet learned to read. All they have to do is pick up a copy of the Constitution and READ Amendment 16: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration. Nowhere does it say that it is voluntary, nowhere does it say the IRS is the enemy of the people. CONGRESS has the power to lay and collect taxes on INCOME. CONGRESS appointed the Internal Revenue to do the collecting.
The “government” is us, the people who live next door to us, our friends; they are not “the enemy.” But then again, I am not mentally imbalanced; I do not fear our government, I have broken no laws. I am not a racist. I prefer not to vote because in my state the radical right has taken over and I see nobody worth voting for. However, I DO register to vote so when someone worth voting for comes along I can cast my ballot.
Calling an out–and-out cowardly murderer a “hero” makes the word itself meaningless. Any person who can do what that unmentionable coward did and any person who can think what he did are mentally unstable, okay, they’re nothing more than craven cowards.