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in 2010 a lone single engine plane
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crashed into the echelon office complex
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in
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austin texas thoughts the crash may have
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simply been an accident
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gave way to fears that this was a
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terrorist attack and there may
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be more to follow however a lengthy note
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left behind by the plane's pilot
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revealed the true nature of the incident
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it was no accident
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and he had his reasons for the attack
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andrew joseph stack iii or joe stack as
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i'm going to call him
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was born in 1956. growing up in
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pennsylvania stack was orphaned at age
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four that's a sad but promising start to
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a protagonist's life
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following movie logic the more traumatic
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your childhood the greater your
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potential
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that means joe probably developed
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superpowers in his teen years
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and i'll probably never amount to
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anything because my parents provided me
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a stable childhood
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stack studied engineering in college
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before moving out to california to
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pursue a career in software engineering
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this began his illustrious relationship
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with the tax
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authorities a relationship that would
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span decades
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and see the closing down of two of stax
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software companies fines that wiped out
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his retirement savings on numerous
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occasions
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and eventually his death a relationship
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the irs would probably call
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a resounding success or business as
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usual
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in the early 80s stack was introduced to
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a group of people who were studying tax
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code
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they were researching the special tax
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exemptions that religious institutions
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benefit from
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you know the type that make it possible
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for suspect preachers to set up what is
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ostensibly a business free of tax
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to become massively wealthy why do you
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need a mansion to do god's bidding
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anyways
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hiring some of the best tax lawyers in
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the business the group decided to make
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use of these exemptions themselves
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both to avoid tax and as an act of
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protest an attempt to
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force authorities to re-evaluate unfair
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tax laws
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they would be abusing the law in the
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same way corrupt religious figures do
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but making sure they followed all the
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rules and made it all transparent
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in accordance with this jostak began
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claiming his home was a church
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and as such he didn't have to pay taxes
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on any business conducted from it
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despite stack claiming they followed the
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law and didn't do anything the big
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money-making churches don't do
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the irs was less than impressed when
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they found out what was going on it cost
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stack
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forty thousand dollars i learned that
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there are two interpretations for every
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law
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one for the very rich and one for the
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rest of us
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for the rest of the 80s stack worked as
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a contract
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software engineer then in 1986
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a tax reform act was passed that made it
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harder for software engineers to label
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themselves
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private contractors of course a private
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contractor is taxed a little differently
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than
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an employee so this could really disrupt
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your business if
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all of a sudden your tax status had
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changed stack
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couldn't believe it it was almost as if
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they wrote a law just to [聽__聽] with them
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he spent thousands of dollars and months
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of his time trying to raise awareness
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and rally protest
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against this law he spoke and wrote to
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politicians and anyone who would listen
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he attended meetings he organized
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professional groups
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keep in mind that all this time spent
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campaigning was lost
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income for his business but it was
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always the time and money anyways
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the law stuck after losing so much money
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fighting the regulation and now
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having that regulation impact his bottom
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line
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stack was once again in a precarious
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financial position
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he began working 100 hours a week
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however
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by the 1990s his business suffered under
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economic depression
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the dot-com crash and restrictions on
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travel after 9 11
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crippled his business as a contractor
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stack had to regularly fly to meet with
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customers and this was now very
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expensive and impossible in some cases
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with airport security on high
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alert stack then watched the government
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give billions of dollars in aid to
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affected airlines
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while he got nothing ironically the
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government had basically
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shut down an industry he depended on
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which destroyed his business
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and then used his tax dollars to fund
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that same
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industry after losing his business and
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going through a divorce
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stack decided to move to austin texas
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coming from california
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texas was surely a paradise for a man
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struggling with tax
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and a government right not exactly
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stock found that the work for a software
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engineer in texas was not quite as
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plentiful or fruitful
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as it was in california imagine that
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stack toiled away for years
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taking on work when he could find it to
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survive he was forced to dip
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into his savings after one particularly
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bad year
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stack failed to file a tax return why
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because he didn't make a cent no income
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he thought this spared him from filing a
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tax return
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but mercy is not a word in the
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government's lexicon
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unfortunately for stack by the time he
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was notified the government wasn't happy
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with him
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it was too late to file a protest with
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the court so he had to just sit and take
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his ten thousand dollar fine
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by the late 2000s stack had another
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business
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and another marriage he obviously didn't
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learn his lesson the first time
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after his troubles with taxes in the
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past he decided to get an accountant to
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handle his currently
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undocumented income that way no more
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mistakes would be made
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and he could just get on with his life
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unfortunately for joe
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feels like i've said that more than a
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few times now his accountant
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neglected to report his wife's income
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too
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stack had no idea he was under reporting
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income until the government's decided to
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audit him
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disaster by now jostak was completely
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disillusioned with the government
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he believed the freedom the united
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states provided him was a blatant lie
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and that he was nothing more than a
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slave to the system which made him jump
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through hoops just to protect his
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hard-earned savings
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and in the end they could just wipe it
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all out if they felt like it anyway
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throughout his life he was a
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mild-mannered man he was a father
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he was a hobbyist pilot he had a love of
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music
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and played bass in a band but now at 53
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years of
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age joe stack was at the end of his rope
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his anger at his situation grew
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increasingly frightening for his wife
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who took her daughter to a hotel for
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some space on the 17th of february 2010.
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the very next day joe stack would act on
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his frustrations
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in an attempt to defy those who had
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wronged him
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oh yeah that's right you spent all this
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time listening to me drawn on about
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finances
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you're ready to get to the action admit
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it you didn't click on this video to
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hear about taxes
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in all honesty i didn't choose this
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topic to talk about them either
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take it away mr stack on the morning of
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february 18
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2010 joe stack posted a manifesto
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suicide note to the internet in it he
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details his lifetime struggle with the
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irs
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and his growing cynicism with the
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american system
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i would only hope that by striking a
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nerve that stimulates the inevitable
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double-standard
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knee-jerk government reaction that
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results in more
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stupid draconian restrictions people
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wake up
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and begin to see the pompous political
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thugs and their mindless minions for
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what they are
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sadly though i spent my entire life
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trying to believe it wasn't so
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but violence not only is the answer it
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is
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the only answer the cruel joke is that
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the really big
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chunks of [聽__聽] at the top have known
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this all along and they have been
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laughing at
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and using this awareness against fools
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like me
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all along i saw it written once that the
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definition of insanity is repeating the
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same process
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over and over and expecting the outcome
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to suddenly be different
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i am finally ready to stop this insanity
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well mr big brother irs man
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let's try something different take my
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pound of flesh
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and sleep well joe stack then set his
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house on fire
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and left for the airport where he rented
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a hangar for his piper dakota aircraft
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at 9 45 am he took off
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his last words to the control tower were
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thanks for your help
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have a great day around 10 minutes later
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the same aircraft
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traveled at full speed into echelon 1 a
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business complex which housed
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irs offices
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the craft exploded on impact causing
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much damage to the building
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and starting a fire joe stack was killed
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on impact irs manager vernon hunter
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was also killed 13 others were injured
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too critically though they were able to
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eventually resume
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operations at echelon 1 between the loss
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of documents and man hours of work
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the attack cost the irs millions they
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spent further millions on improving
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security at their offices all across the
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us
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most of that just went into employing
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more security guards though so
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unless they came equipped with
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anti-aircraft weaponry wouldn't do much
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to stop
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a similar attack this is the us we're
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talking about though so you never know
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in all the irs reportedly spent 38.6
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million dollars so did anything change
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no not that i'm aware of you know how
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you sometimes hear people call a
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regrettable expenditure a tax write-off
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well this is basically the equivalent
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thing for the tax man
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business is good enough that they can
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foot the bill for the occasional suicide
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attack
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as long as their business makes more
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money than suicide attacks
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they're doing all right joe stack was
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well aware of this of course
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in his manifesto he admits he knew
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business would continue as usual after
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his attack
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he just hoped enough people would take
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notice and maybe one day
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there'd be too many people done with the
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irs to ignore
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maybe this video has elicited some
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admiration from you
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maybe even some inspiration but i would
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advise you
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not to [聽__聽] around with the irs or your
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country's equivalent
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because one thing is universally certain
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the tax man
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does not [聽__聽] around think back to any
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of my previous videos where i mentioned
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someone was having trouble with their
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taxes
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how did that end for almost every single
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one of them
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but hey if you want me to do a video on
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your tragic demise
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be my guest and if you want to hear a
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similar tale of a man
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taking all he could stands until he
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couldn't stands no more
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why not check out my video on the
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killdozer where a man
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made a tank out of a bulldozer and went
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on a rampage
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or my video on sean nelson who made a
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tank out of a tank and went on a rampage
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i even have another video of a pilot
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flying a small aircraft into a building
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over perceived wrongs
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yeah i have so many videos now it's like
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i have one for every occasion and if
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you've already seen all of those videos
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well firstly
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thank you for the support and secondly
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subscribe you miserable bastard
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