Rest in Peace, Mr. Stack
Earlier today, a victim of the largest extortion racket in the
world struck back, giving up his life in the process. The control
freaks, and their propagandists who pretend to be "reporters," will
no doubt spend the next few weeks demonizing the man, or painting
him as crazy. You can decide for yourself if this was the case. As
best I can tell, today Joseph Stack burned down his house, and then
crashed his plane into the Austin, Texas offices of the IRS. We
don't need to ponder the reason, because he told us why, in a
suicide note, which can be read here:
I found reading the note very disturbing, mainly because Mr. Stack
was obviously far more intelligent, and more in touch with reality,
than the vast majority of Americans. In other words, compared to
the deluded masses of conformists, Mr. Stack was the sane one.
Several statements in his suicide note show that he had overcome
the authoritarian statist indoctrination far more than most people
ever will. Does the following sentiment sound familiar?
"We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no
society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this
country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our
dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all.
We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this
place ... I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning
that crap from only a few years of my childhood." [Joseph Stack,
2/18/2010]
A lot of you will find aspects of Mr. Stack's personal story
disturbingly familiar. I see no need to parse every sentence of it,
though I would urge everyone to read it all, carefully. What would
drive a rational, intelligent man to do such a thing? Of course,
the control freaks and their propagandists will paint Mr. Stack as
a nutcase, and will claim that his actions, by themselves, prove
that he was insane.
But they don't. They prove he was desperate, and frustrated, and
that he was willing to GIVE UP HIS LIFE to try to resist injustice.
And THAT is the part the parasite class does NOT want people to
think about. They will paint him as a "mentally unstable" "tax
cheat," or apply to him whatever other labels they think might make
people not want to THINK about what Mr. Stack did, and why.
Now comes the controversial, uncomfortable part. Several people
have already asked me whether I approve of what Mr. Stack did. Any
good, unthinking obedient serf would immediately blurt out, "Of
course not!" In short, though I am saddened that the world had to
lose Mr. Stack in the process, and though there are alternatives I
would have much preferred, yes, generally I have to praise him for
what he did. I'm not about to emulate him, nor would I suggest that
anyone else do so, but he had the courage to do something about the
injustice he saw, and that puts him ahead of 99.99% of the
population.
So far, I have heard about a couple of injuries, and one person
unaccounted for, at the crash site. So at the moment, as far as I
know, Mr. Stack is the only one who died in the crash. I don't know
whether that was his intent or not. In other words, I don't know if
he intended to destroy only property, or to kill people as well. As
far as mere property, if someone found a way to destroy every IRS
computer, every IRS building, every IRS vehicle, firearm, every bit
of property used by the federal extortion racket, without hurting
any people, I would without hesitation cheer, loud and long. (I'd
like it even more if someone took it all, and gave it to the people
who were robbed to pay for it in the first place.)
But the question of taking human life is far more serious. At this
point, most writers would quickly add, "I would NEVER condone
violence against law enforcers!" Not me. Violence is justified when
used in an attempt to stop an aggressor--one who initiates
violence. And the politician scribbles called "laws" have no effect
on that. IRS employees, from CID down to the paper-pushers, are
CONSTANTLY initiating violence, every time they levy a bank
account, or swipe someone's home, or send threatening letters
(i.e., "pay up or we'll do nasty things to you"). It is their job
to use violence, and threats of violence, to take property from
those to whom it rightfully belongs.
Most do it without thinking, and I doubt any of them accept any
personal responsibility for their actions. "Hey, I'm just doing my
job." Yeah, you and the Nazi SS. But this is the problem that the
"authority" myth creates: a bunch of brain-dead authoritarian
jackasses, day after day, terrorize, extort and rob millions and
millions of people. The people are then left with a choice: go
after the unthinking bureaucrats whose main sin is being blindly
obedient, or allow injustice to continue. Neither option is
pleasant. Apparently Mr. Stack chose the former.
I'll have more to say about this later, but today, let me leave you
with two excerpts from "The Iron Web" which are disturbingly
appropriate to what happened today:
Excerpt 1: "Real life isn't like the movies. In the movies, the bad
guy is always so obviously evil that when he dies, in some
spectacular finale, everyone stands up and cheers. That's not how
it works in real life. In real life, the people who have to be
killed to protect the innocent are hardly ever truly evil
themselves. Instead, their sin is usually just being stupid, and
doing what they're told. That's all. ... The state uses violence
for everything it does. Every law is a command, and if anyone
disobeys, force is used to make them comply. And good people don't
want to resist. Even if they don't like the law, even if they think
it's unjust, the last thing they want to do is kill some poor pawn
who is just doing what he was told. It would be so much easier if
only evil people committed evil, but through the belief in
'authority,' otherwise good people routinely become agents of evil.
Even the atrocities of Hitler's regime, Stalin's regime, and all
the others, were the result of a few truly evil people, and
thousands upon thousands of merely obedient people. The real
villains aren't stupid enough to go to the front lines themselves.
That's what compliant subjects are for. But the result is that the
good people of the world are left with a choice: either allow evil
to occur, or kill people who are merely misguided or ignorant. Most
people choose the first option, and mankind has suffered
unspeakable horrors because of it."
Excerpt 2 (from a different character): "You have to understand,
this was bound to happen. The parasites have been making this
monster for decades, and now it's broken free. It's not about
whether I think it's good. I don't. But I think it's inevitable.
It's like some poor dog that's been beaten since it was a puppy.
Mostly it just cowers and whimpers, always in fear. Then one day,
it snaps and rips its master's throat out. Those IRS paper-pushers
have been emptying peoples' bank accounts, taking their homes, and
ruining lives for years and years. The zoning bureaucrats, the
inspectors and regulators--they've all been pushing people around
for decades, and it all adds up. As long as the cogs in the machine
felt comfortable obeying orders, they went right on doing it. Their
victims had no recourse, so they just put up with it. Well, now all
their frustrations are coming out as hatred and a desire for
revenge. When people are oppressed, humiliated and tormented for
all their lives, even if only a little at a time, and even if they
barely notice, it builds up inside them. It's like a poison the
body can't get rid of. It builds up and builds up, until something
breaks."
Today, something broke. Mr. Stack, rest in peace.
