I thought the part where he complained that Austin was "a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance" was rather ironic.
Being only about 15 minutes drive from there, I thought I'd see the smoke, but too many hills. Guy sounds like he had a rough go of things, but also seems to play the victim pretty well, all while trying to find loopholes that if we all as a society tried, the very entitlements he believed in would evaporate. His manifesto is both sad and delusional at points, and glosses over the parts of arguments that could be made against his view. How crashing a plane into a building where there are innocent people is going to help his cause, I'll never understand... and I agree about the irony of who'll be picking up the bill for this. Hopefully the damage he has caused will be limited to 0 casualties.
And the answer to that is attempting to murder your family and crashing a plane into innocent people?
ok - i was watching msnbc whilst cooking up some breakfast and the commentators were talking about it being echelon, the 'intergovernmet spy agency' and discussing what it was. they never called it 'the echelon building' - odd coincidence, especially considering all the other government agencies around there.
Some people really don't set their priorities in their lives right these days. You fly a plane into a public building because you got caught cheating on your taxes? Are you ****ing kidding?
Eh, so wait where exactly is this? I live at an apartment complex on Far West and I got on the bus to head to campus at about 10. Heard some people talking about it in my government class, but I didn't get to look into any details.
No it's not. He obviously became mentally unhinged. He may have very well tried to cheat the system. I have no idea. I don't condone what he did and never said I did. How stupid can you be to not report all your income and then claim it is not your fault. He calls us stupid...but he is obviously the stupid one. Oh but it's the CPA's fault. Doh!
Yeah, I came off strong. I read his psycho-rant with half-assed generalities before reading this thread.
I wouldn't. He's not affiliated with a larger organization that I can be afraid of. He's dead now, so I don't have to worry about him either. I'd call it an attempt at murder-suicide.
b****fest full of good points, but most of his misery was self-wrought. I will guess that the government weasels a way to not label this terrorism as it would make them look silly - even though this is exactly what it should be called.
I consider it terrorism because he chose to perpetrate an act just like 911. He purposely crashes into a building on the low floors. I think he was hoping to inflict mass casualties. He is as big a douche as osama bin laden in my book...generalizing civilians as the enemy. Glad he failed.
how can you not call it a terrorist attack? he wrote a long letter about his tax issues and all the govt bs which he felt was ignored. he felt this was the only way to get attention so he crashed a plane into a building.
