中国人还在欢度春节，美国却忙了起来。一个人未经允许，临时起意，恶意自杀，驾驶小飞机非法进入美国某市国税局，导致该局大楼窗户纷纷粉碎，一小撮天花板塌陷，个别人员伤亡。事件发生后，美国当局高度重视，个别官员纷纷到达现场，直升飞机空中支援，控制局面。目前大楼情绪稳定，警方已控制了作乱者尸体。
相信不过几天，美国人一定会宣布这是个案，不能宣布美国遇到了大规模战争，不能承认它的组织性质，尤其在拉登的组织下。作为“个案”的证据，会有一封遗书被公开，乃至医院的精神病记录等秘密被公开，最好还能够扯上主义，给人一个“信仰共产主义者=暴力者”的印象就最好了。例如“该男子恶意自杀前，已纵火烧家。”例如，该男子站在共产主义一边，反对资本主义：“共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。”
其实，拉登在发动“911袭击”时发布了宣言：这只是开始，我们警告美国，我们将使用一切手段，经济的手段，暴力的手段，法律的手段，为摧毁美国而奋斗！“911袭击”后，果然，美国连续出现了财务丑闻，“板块型经济崩溃”接二连三，连世界经济也受到拖累，各种暴力事件纷纷被掩盖。
种种情形看，“天佑拉登”。美国最好还是承认这些都是拉登的布局、作为、成绩，不能把持话语权在那里自说自话，控制舆论掩盖真相，才可以面对种种的问题，找到答案。实在不必拿这样事情攻击共产主义，制造信“仰共产主义者=暴力者”的一种印象贻笑大方。——野猪 16:35 2010-2-19 云山塔院
驾机撞美国税局大楼的Joe Stack讨罚资本主义的长篇檄文
[ 新糊涂虫 ] 于2010-02-19 13:44:47 上帖
一架低空飞行的小型飞机18日撞入美国德克萨斯州奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼
中新社纽约2月18日电 一架低空飞行的小型飞机18日撞入德克萨斯州奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼，当地官员表示这可能是一件蓄谋事件。
美国有线电视新闻网(CNN)的报道称，飞行员是名叫约瑟夫?安德鲁?斯泰克的男子，在撞机事件前曾在网上留下自杀遗言。
报道称，这名飞行员在驾机撞楼之前，已先纵火将自己的家烧了。消息人士说，他显然是蓄意制造这起撞楼事件。
当地消防局局长助理奥斯汀哈里埃文斯说，至少有1人失踪，两人被送往医院。
撞机事件导致大楼一面的几十扇窗户粉碎，一些楼层天花板塌陷，通过电视画面，可以看到大楼二三楼层浓烟滚滚，黑烟中不时有窜出的火焰。
作为预警，美军派出两架F16战斗机在撞机发生地上空执行空中巡视任务。
美国联邦航空管理局发言人林恩?伦斯福特表示，飞行员没有获准相关飞行计划。
在大楼工作的员工佩吉?沃克表示，撞机事件发生时，她正在办公室工作，“当时的感觉就像炸弹爆炸，一下子天花板塌陷，窗户粉碎，我和其他人都跑了出来。”
美国国家运输安全委员会发言人彼得?努森说，调查员已被派往事故现场展开调查。
开飞机撞国税局大楼的乔.斯塔克的遗书！
[ 新糊涂虫 ] 于2010-02-19 14:18:40 上帖
2010年2月18日上午10点，美国德州奥斯汀有人对社会不满开飞机撞楼，楼内是美国国内收入署（IRS，相当于中国国税局）的办公室。
他的遗言，在http://embeddedart.com链接出处。
声明：以下为该文的部分翻译，并不代表我支持其观点。
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
乔.斯塔克 （1956-2010）
2010年2月18日
Joe Stack讨罚资本主义的长篇檄文
'Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well': Statement by Austin pilot Joe Stack
Joe Stack
EmbeddedArt.com
Posted: 02/18/2010
If you're reading this, you're no doubt asking yourself, "Why did this have to happen?" The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn't enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I'm not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
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, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was "no taxation without representation". I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a "crackpot", traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven't had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it's time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country's leaders don't see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political "representatives" (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the "terrible health care problem". It's clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don't get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.
And justice? You've got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly "holds accountable" its victims, claiming that they're responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law "requires" a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that's not "duress" than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early '80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having 'tax code' readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful "exemptions" that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the "best", high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the "big boys" were doing (except that we weren't steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two "interpretations" for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their "freedom" and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of "paying my dues"), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I'm sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be "healthier" eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn't quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn't trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early '80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a 'wet-behind-the-ears' contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: (d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note: · "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship. · "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop. · "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it's not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can't believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my 'pocket change', and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their "freedom". Oh, and don't forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn't bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren't going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn't need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to "shore up" their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, 'special' facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I'm thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I'll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I've never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn't give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn't have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn't notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I'd never enter another accountant's office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl's unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn't have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the "great" depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's "business-as-usual". Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes isn't that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I'm hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn't limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. 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 can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn't so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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. 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 communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
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