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Austin Plane Crash – The Wrong Way to Protest

Published on February 19, 2010 in Life and News. 3 Comments Tags: , .

Yesterday, a Texas man crashed his small plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas.

A pilot slammed his small plane into a seven-story building that housed the local office of the Internal Revenue Service Thursday, apparently killing himself and one agency employee, in what federal officials described as a deliberate suicide attack amid a long-running tax dispute.

He left a note on his website which isn’t worth the time to read or repeating here. Needless to say, we all have feelings about paying taxes and politics, this just isn’t the right way to deal with that. Sadly, one IRS employee lost their life. Hopefully, his/her family will hold strong even after this senseless crime.

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  1. Adam posted the following on February 19, 2010 at 5:43 am.

    I don’t believe that any Texan’s life could be so taxing as to warrant doing this to themself or others.

    ..sorry. Had to.

  2. spencerb posted the following on February 19, 2010 at 8:55 am.

    Puns aside (as well done as that one was)…I don’t think anyone’s life is in a state that it warrants killing innocent people.

  3. Tony Schwab posted the following on February 21, 2010 at 2:59 pm.

    I agree that nobody has this right, that there is never a justification for doing what this guy did. I read his note and sympathized with his situation, however. Psychologists have agreed the man wasn’t insane. Given this information, something broke him down to the point where he felt his only recourse was to fly a plane into an IRS building. Something is wrong with our country when situations like this occur, because no human being is pre-disposed to committing such an atrocity.

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