I'm so angry--the guy that crashed the plane in the Austin IRS building..  

I'm not sure what you're saying the media is missing. Should Stack be glorified as some kind of "everyman" for bringing attention to how "normal" citizens feel? I'm sorry but I don't consider him to be "normal" at all! Our government certainly has lots of faults but nobody from the government caused this man's death or his insane actions today!

He set fire to his house with his wife and daughter inside! He injured 13 people and apparently killed someone other than himself according to the latest report I heard. The nearly 200 IRS workers who worked in that building didn't write the tax laws, they were only there doing their jobs.

I don't think the media should turn this into an "anti-Tea Party/Independent Party thing" at all but if they embrace this idiot as some kind of hero perhaps they should!

Annie

Violence is never the answer to the problem,this man took at least two innocent life's and three others are very badly burnt because he had a problem.
The man set fire to the home he lived in many Americans would kill to have a home such as he set fire to,he had a private air plane in which he used as his choice of weapon to murder innocent people.
This guy was better off them many millions of Americans that live in what ever they can afford and live hand to mouth,month to month.
With out question the man was mentally ill,he very likely is just the tip of the ice burg compared to what is coming.
Yesterday a father or so called father throw his 3 month old child in to a river from a bride,I think it happen in New Jersey.
Marilyn two father's murdered their wife and children then killed them self both leaving note they was no longer able to make ends meet,all of this is just since Obama has taken office.
Many Americans are feeling fearful,helpless and hopeless looking to man for the answers putting their trust in man
and give up when they see they was tricked yet again.
Many of these people do not believe in God and when their luck runs out they do these horrible things feeling trapped and see they are loosing all they had worked for in their life's.
No one can blame this government it is what it is,most American knows are government is corrupted and greedy,it has been working in this direction for a very long time.
What this guy did to day left behind a whole lot of hurting people,he was a very disturbed and with out question he was insane.
He hurt every day hard working people who are up every day making a living to support their family and pay their bills,this man hurt innocent people because he had a beef with the IRS and this greedy government,he put the American people at even more risk of losing our freedom because he had a beef with this government.

I totally understand what Mr. Stack said in the suicide note because we don't really have any type of freedom at all. We are used and abused as far as government is concerned. They care only about themselves and could care less about we the people. However, what he did was totally horrible and acceptable. If you are that angry at what is happening in the world speak up and be heard. Don't go out killing others and yourself. Instead of going out like this he should have taking it to the press. Explaining his complaint to the Government and how he wanted change like so many of us also want. However, thankfully the majority of us wouldn't think of going out like this.

Maybe the fact that Mr. Stack made some poor decisions and had some bad luck shouldn't have ruined his life, but it damn sure didn't give him the right to ruin other people's lives either. It's one thing to tell 'Mr. Big Brother IRS man' to take his 'pound of flesh', but he donated others' flesh too, who, I seriously doubt, were as willing as Mr. Stack to give it up.

So, poor Joe, he decides to 'stop this insanity' with his action because 'violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer'. Unfortunately, he negated the whole point about tax oppression with murder.

You've got me confused now. This guy appears to have had a grievance against the IRS and chose a lunatic way of ending his own life and potentially the innocent lives of people in the organisation that he had issues with. I don't see how this is in any way a party political thing. Taxes and death are the two certainties in our lives. That the two should come together in this way is simply the tragic result of an unsound mind. I think even the most rabidly anti-Republican will struggle to blame this on the Government.............. except that this is America and you guys seem to love conspiracy theories.

Well, dragon, it seems to me that it would be very irresponsible for any news organization to make a connection between the actions of this deranged man and the frustrations that normal folks are experiencing. I read his ramblings...he blamed everyone and everything for his problems and his failures, even the events on 9/11 because they impacted HIM and made things difficult for HIM. What ruined Stack's life wasn't the government or the tax code...what ruined Stack's life was Stack. He was an angry man with a persecution complex. I don't think it would be a good idea to encourage others to feel persecuted, too.

We have only ourselves to blame since we keep voting for Repubocrats term after term. I learned by my third presidential vote in the 80's that they are no good, and have been working and voting for third party since. The only exception was in 2004 in an attempt to prevent a certain person to remain at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and you know how successful that was.

So I'm back to my sane mode, vainly voting for people who usually get no more than 5% of the vote because all you people think a different Repubocrat is going to do different. And it will happen after the next election as well, during the run for the 2016 office, your whining and complaining about our horrible politicians doing such a horrid job. There's only one sane way to solve the problem.

Vote them out. All Repubocrats. Now THAT would be change I can believe in.

I don't see how they can associate this guy as a tea party member, he was an out and out anarchist, and a loon ta boot. Have you read that manifesto?? He railed everyone, communists AND capitolists. The manifesto I read was the words of a very mentaly disturbed man. It was all over the place, intelectual at some points, rambling at others, legalese babble at others, etc. It was truly bizzarre.

As you said, dragon, "For almost a century..." How would voting the present encumbants out do any good whatsoever? The new ones will be just as bad. We need a full government reform but we all know that's not going to happen.

The Republicans love to stab the Democrats in the back. The Democrats love to stab the Republicans in the back. The Independents love to stab everyone in the back. The thing is, whether Republicans or Democrats have controlled things, the result has been, and will continue to be, the same.

I have my own beef against the government but I'm dealing with it in a totally different way. There would be no way that I would ever harm, with actions or only words, a government worker. They need their jobs as much as we need ours. (I'm referring to the lower echelon here.)

One thing I've noticed is that so many people love to blame the current government on the recession we're having. That is ludicrous. The entire world is in a recession; Obama is not to blame for that. This recession began during the last administration and was on an incredible downward spiral just as Bush stepped aside. Even with that being so, I do not blame Bush for the recession. It is a world-wide problem that we need to deal with on a global level.

I refuse to support any candidate for government office until they learn to deal with the same things we all have to deal with, such as retiring on a pension that is NOT 100% of their salary, having to use Medicare for their medical needs, no bodyguards for life, no "special" privileges simply because they used to be in the government, etc.

As a matter of fact, in the pension area, the majority of American workers need to work 20 years in order to qualify for any pention whatsoever, while these upper-eschelon government retirees only work for 4 or 8 years to qualify for a pension equal to 100% of the salary they make at the end of their tenure. This is neither a Republic or a Democratic thing, either.

Isn't it a sad state of this country when we talk about "Republic" and "Democrat" the way some talk about "Black" and "White"? Can't we all just be "Americans" and deal with this problem together instead of standing on one side or the other of that HUGE line drawn in the sand?

I agree in some points with you, here the middle class is the one that pays for everybody, because if you think about it, people with a lot of money don't care to pay high taxes and high deductibles in medical insurance, because they anyways have a lot of money, and the people that lives from the government, of course those ones are not even going to pay taxes because we as a society make them believe that as they are poor they deserve everything. This is a horrible frustration even for me, but I do think that this guy make a really wrong decision because that federal building probably have people that like him are suffering the same. The employees are not guilty for that. It is true that politicians work for themselves and not for us. It is our responsibility as people to pick better next times.