Update to this post: Already, the person in this story is being described as a madman. Well yeah, of course he was. But his ravings against the insanity of our government are honest enough. There’s truth in what he said, so of course the focus will be entirely on his disconnect with personal survival. Read on….

This guy paid back the IRS. Boy, did he ever:

Joseph Stack flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 light aircraft at full throttle into a building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas, and pretty much wiped out the entire 7-storey building, from the looks of it on TV. Why did he do this? Do you really have to ask?

Here’s some of what he had to say about it…

“I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at ‘big brother’ while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.”

“I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different,” Stack wrote. “I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

The IRS is a terrorist organization. There’s no getting away from that. When a government bureau turns into such a band of thugs that they can take away your home, your business, your car, your clothing, and virtually anything else you had thought that you owned, and not only leave you in abject poverty but have you thrown into debtors prison, which is supposedly abolished under our constitution, with an eternally interest-bearing debt that you can never pay off, thats’ terrorism.

Often as not, the IRS acts reasonably and responsibly in collecting taxes due, but on far too many occasions they have gone completely overboard in literally persecuting people into suicide. They did it here, only this guy took a cue from the Muslims and gave them a little pay-back terrorism for their persecution and terrorizing of him.

This man felt that the IRS had destroyed his life and ruined his chances of any personal happiness to the point where he felt his life had no value except as an instrument of revenge. IRS agents are trained to be implacable and remorseless in exacting the taxes they believe are owed, regardless of whom they’re squeezing dry, regardless of individual circumstances and regardless of whether they’re right or wrong.

This puts them pretty much in the same league as District Attorneys, who are re-elected based on their conviction rate and who will prosecute people they know are innocent and withhold exculpatory evidence in order to keep their high-paying jobs.

It’s all just different forms of prostitution, although some of these white-collar whores have no morals to sell off to begin with.

I have no sympathy for the IRS in this current event, only the hope that those at the top will look more closely at their agents methods and operating attitudes and make some effort to humanize themselves, for, regardless of all the excuses and blame they’re about to heap on anyone and anything except themselves, the reality remains that it was them who drove this man over the brink.

When those we elect keep showing themselves as the two-faced, snake-tongued, self-serving scoundrels they really are, and spend our hard-earned dollars as if they were nothing, and then demand more, and more, and more from us, why should we not feel rage over this, and even more rage at the heavy-handed tactics of their IRS thugs who come to our doors to strike terror in our households and impoverish our lives?

No doubt this mans suicide attack will ultimately prove to be worse than a waste of his life, as it’s we taxpayers who still live to be squeezed who will pay for that wrecked building. It would take hundreds of such attacks to finally force a change and that’s not the way we do things in this country. Besides, the change might not be what the attackers had in mind. Things could get even worse.

What’s needed is for the IRS to be abolished. This is an old idea and put forth repeatedly by people in positions to be heard, but so far there’s no sign of it ever happening because the scoundrels we keep electing want to keep squeezing us dry.

Our government flat out does not need all the money that it takes from us. A modest government with 1000′s of employees instead of the 2,000,000 civilian employees it now has, that provides far less services and allows the states to provide those they see fit, that gets its primary income from import/export taxes and levies, corporate taxes, licenses and etcetera, would have no need at all to tax us citizens. IN FACT, only 31% of total government income is from personal income taxes. If those we elect would stop pissing our money away and exercise reasonable fiscal responsibility instead, personal income taxes would easily become a thing of the past.