CHICAGO-(AEAE)-Joseph A Stack, a software engineer, flew his small single-engine Piper Cherokee aircraft into the Echelon building in north Austin, which houses the offices of the Internal Revenue Service — the US tax collection service — shortly before 10am Thursday. In a lengthy manifesto posted on a website he administered, he recounted his numerous struggles with the IRS and concludes: “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.” One writer in response wrote, “Sounds like to me that Joe Stack finally got fed up with all of the thefts and intrusions done to him and many other people by the IRS and he just took matters into his own hands. I think Joe should be remember as a hero not as a criminal. I believe that the real criminals here are the IRS themselves.” “Any government who deprives its citizens of “due process” can expect its citizens to act similarly,” wrote one person. In a lengthy manifesto posted on a website Joseph A. Stack administered, he recounted his numerous struggles with the IRS and concludes: “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.” They are calling Mr. Stack “an IRS martyr.” The only question left is “Whether Mr. Stack is with 78 virgins tonight?”
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