Was Andrew Joseph Stack crazy???

Remember, this is the man who, completely pissed off at the Internal Revenue Service, flew a plane into the office building where it was located.

The media, predictably, are going bananas over this one. Labels of "disgruntled", "angry", "disturbed", "narcissist", "DOMESTIC TERRORIST" (another name for US born and raised white man who went nuts) abound. His suicide note? "Anti government screed." "Anti-tax protest". "Extreme right wing conservative rant." The most chilling label of all: MANIFESTO. They are already painting him to be another Timothy McVeigh, or another Theodore Kazcinski (sic?) And getting ready to dismiss his complaint, his final word addressing to the conditions surrounding his decision to commit this terrible act, out of hand.

Big brother certainly is an all wise and all loving parent, isn't he? "There's no problems with the way we are doing things, he was just a pathological narcissist who kept his true face hidden until the day of his death. Go back to sleep."

I'm not so ready to accept their explanation.

Do you remember (and those of you who have children will know what I am talking about) when your four year old would wake you up out of a sound sleep, where you were having a good dream about possibly making love to your favorite movie star or rock singer, and tell you there was a monster in her closet and it was staring at her. You get up, and go check it out. If you were like me, you'd flat out state there was no monster and go back to sleep. If you were a better parent, you would maybe get the plant mister, spray off a few blasts of "Monster Off" in the general direction of the monster infested closet, and then tell the child that the monster has departed, pat her on her back, give her a drink of water and then send her to bed. (Keep the little one happy. If she's not happy, nobody's happy!)

It's a lot like that. Maybe Stack was seeing monsters in his "closet" where none existed. Or his own skeletons maybe. (We all have them)

But what if there really WAS a monster in the closet? Something that had the power to rip open your chest, munch on your heart, and utter a loud belch as your eyesight faded and your ability to hear it went with it? What if those conditions really DO exist?

If indeed the government is now an out of control monster (replete with blue fur, googly eyes, and a stark raving mad appetite for confectionary cylindrical baked goods that it must have regardless of who it belonged to) do you reason with it that it is scaring the kids or do you beat it to death with a Jose Canseco baseball bat? Or do you just give the child psychotropic drugs and hope that the problem will go away? Keep us happy and it will all go away.

PuhLEASE.

I realize this is a very sloppy analogy and I apologize but I stand by what I say. I took the time to actually read Stack's blog post. What I saw was a normal man who had run afoul of the tax law which incredibly, continues to multiply and change at a pace staggering to even the most educated, brilliant, knowledgeable CPA who could find many a loophole out there. And kept running into that wall time and time again. And was eventually driven to the most heinous of acts. (Thankfully his family was NOT in the home when he burned it.)

And who owns this brick wall of legislation? WASHINGTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If anyone could write a book on the utter frustration of dealing with bureaucracy time and time again, only to be told "No", or "Not until..." or "Get this and that and a letter from the Pope" it is I. To lose one's family, and one's livelihood, and eventually even one's sanity, is a pain that might drive even the best of us to the grave, and to have to listen to "BEWARE OF THE CRAZY PEOPLE" when you know full well that they mean YOU is a downright insult... no, spit in the face.

I just can't believe that it's gotten that bad. That a man with a family would think to commit suicide over the far reaching overregulated tax law tripe put out by Congressional "leaders" is bad enough but he intended to take people with him. Crazy act? Yes. Crazy set of circumstances that drove him to do it? Absolutely. Crazy man?

I will be honest. I simply don't know. The only one who knew for sure what was going on in Andrew Joseph Stack's cranium was... Andrew Joseph Stack. And we will never know for sure, because he has been forever silenced by his own commission.

As for his "anti-government screed"? Sorry to say it, but that little piece of literature had all the markings of a man telling the truth. Which I will continue to do... but don't look at me to sacrifice myself to take my second revolution to the streets. I plan to be a thorn in your sides for a long time to come.

You see, media, politicians, bureaucrats, etc... I don't like you. You are fat, wealthy, think you understand pain... think you can cope with life's uncertainties, and you sit on your thrones with the Wall Street Journal in one hand and a sledge hammer in the other, ready to put it to everyone who disagrees with you. Until you are forced out of your foreclosed homes driving with all of your belongings across several counties with no idea where you are going to go next, you will never have a singular fucking clue. You are so blinded by your own self-importance that you have no right to label another as self-important, or pathological narcissist, or ANYTHING for that matter.

Live my life for a week. Then we'll see who runs around in a blind panic. You see, I have already learned to live on nothing. And I will be laughing at you until the cows come home.