As I said yesterday, the argument over if Joe Stack was a "left-wing or right-wing" terrorist is pointless, petty, and small-minded. It misses the point that Stack was a domestic terrorists, and homegrown at that.
Naturally, Malkinvania and company are too busy spewing righteous indignation to notice. There's no such thing as a right-wing terrorist period, ever, to them, and all politically motivated acts are leftist plots only. They spend so much time justifying why only leftists are terrorists that they forget what terrorism is and why it's effective: it spreads a message of hatred and division that they repeat daily. Group X is not human, not worthy or seeing as anything other than the Enemy.
The irony is lost.
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Back before 9/11, hell even before Bush43, I used to correspond with like-minded people on a service known as Usenet.
And one of the more unsavory and asocial forums there, known as alt.tasteless, used to celebrate acts like Mr Stack's. Not in appreciation of terrorism, nor political violence, nor hatred, and certainly not the death and casualty, just the sheer wanton abandonment of cultural and personal inhibition to commit an act of revenge against those who he felt ruined his life irrepairably.
Also known as 'going Apeshit.'
There was no attempt to excuse or justify one who went Apeshit; indeed it was viewed as a vile act. But in alt.tastleless, the Apeshit was acknowledged as one of the archetypes of tastelessness.
The creatures we now know as 'wingnuts' and 'teabaggers' are blind to the phenomenon of the Apeshit. To them, everything is politically motivated, and/or can be interpreted to support their politics and refute that of their opponents. Nothing is neutral. Apeshits don't happen in their world.
Joe Stack went Apeshit. And rather than use a gun, he used a plane. And the rest of us apes know it, even if some of us apes don't admit it.
I disagree with the consensus. He was an Ayn Randie who tried to get away with a tax dodge and got caught. Then he tried dropping off the radar (this patriot was not registered to vote) with a move to Texas, consulted attorneys, and then -- upon getting the final bill from the IR -- decided that rather than sell his $30,000 PRIVATE PLANE and (quit paying hangar fees) he would set his house on fire WITH HIS FAMILY IN IT and NOT TELL ANYONE before driving to the airport to BUY GAS for his PRIVATE PLANE and fly it into a GOVERNMENT BUILDING to kill TOTAL STRANGERS.
Fuck him. Joe Stack Done Gone Gault. See why I call it the TEABAG TERROR?
meant "IRS"
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