Small plane crashes into building in Texas

[Locutus of Bored]

I hope that's satire...

Anyway, note the original post--it immediately attacks what the OP referred to as "teabaggers" as though the tea-party protesters must be backing this sort of attack. Like I said, if this were an Islamist terror attack, we'd see people immediately pointing out that Islam does not condone this, etc., and we can't paint all Muslims with the same brush. But the OP does the same thing to the tea-party protesters and is not called on it. That's where I make the observation of a double standard.

1) Since when does bigdaddy speak for everyone? His calling card is making over-the-top statements about, well, everything. Seriously, go check out his posts in GTV&M.

2) Many of the things the guy said in his manifesto are indicative of the same misguided, aimless goals of the Tea Party movement, which basically amounts to an angry ranting of "Taxes are baaaaaaaaaaad!" without any indication of an alternative, why they are suddenly mad and protesting now as opposed to any other time in history, or how they are personally being taxed more (the vast majority of them aren't).

3) Trying to compare a fringe political movement in one country to a religion practiced by more than a billion adherents in the height of ridiculousness.

4) Nowhere did anyone say all Tea Baggers are potential terrorists or that this was a normal result of being involved in that movement. People do say that when it comes to Islamic extremism every time.

5) You would absolutely freak if anyone dared blame all of Christianity for the actions of the alleged kidnappers in Haiti or those who murder abortion doctors, yet here you are essentially saying the opposite is okay in the case of Islamic extremism by bringing it up in a completely unrelated and unfair comparison.

6) You're way too damned offended by everything and frequently make assumptions about what people are thinking.

There, does that cover all the bases, or is there anything else?

 

[gturner]

2) Many of the things the guy said in his manifesto are indicative of the same misguided, aimless goals of the Tea Party movement, which basically amounts to an angry ranting of "Taxes are baaaaaaaaaaad!" without any indication of an alternative, why they are suddenly mad and protesting now as opposed to any other time in history, or how they are personally being taxed more (the vast majority of them aren't).

I don't know of any tea party members who would end a diatribe by quoting the communist manifesto and trashing capitalism.

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)

He also attacks our broken health care system - run by greed and insurance companies. Heck, it sounds like an Obama campaign speech! Well, aside from all the rambling about his tax problems.

Anyway, just how safe are we going to feel when Obama's tax-the-rich schemes start hitting airline pilots? They'll be cruising along at 35,000 feet, filling out their 1040 and flirting with a stewardess, when all of the sudden they see the number in box B14 or something. Then whamo! They flip the plane around and fly directly to their accountants office, landing on a major highway, leaving the passengers bewildered. A month later they land a flight at the IRS office. Then two weeks after than they're back at their accountant's office. This will soon become a frequent occurance, with air travel becoming completely unreliable, our air traffic control system breaking down, and our highways clogged with Boeings abandoned by irate, over-taxed pilots.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

2) Many of the things the guy said in his manifesto are indicative of the same misguided, aimless goals of the Tea Party movement, which basically amounts to an angry ranting of "Taxes are baaaaaaaaaaad!" without any indication of an alternative, why they are suddenly mad and protesting now as opposed to any other time in history, or how they are personally being taxed more (the vast majority of them aren't).

I don't know of any tea party members who would end a diatribe by quoting the communist manifesto and trashing capitalism.

Did you miss the "Many of the things the guy said..." part of my post? Many, as in "not all." As in it was one example out of six things I mentioned to say that the comparison was not that off-base.

I must admit though that I am absolutely shocked that some suicidal nut with a grudge against the IRS who then sets out to kill innocent employees would have anything less than a consistent basis for his anger. That's unheard of.

Well, aside from all the rambling about his tax problems.

Right, so what are you arguing with me about, again?

 

[bigdaddy]

1) Since when does bigdaddy speak for everyone? His calling card is making over-the-top statements about, well, everything. Seriously, go check out his posts in GTV&M.

2) Many of the things the guy said in his manifesto are indicative of the same misguided, aimless goals of the Tea Party movement, which basically amounts to an angry ranting of "Taxes are baaaaaaaaaaad!" without any indication of an alternative, why they are suddenly mad and protesting now as opposed to any other time in history, or how they are personally being taxed more (the vast majority of them aren't).

I only speak for myself, and never pretend otherwise, this is a forum after all. Seems to me the guy was a tea bagging wacko, which you seem to agree with though, but that's your call.

Someone did crash a plane into the White House when Clinton was in office, but it wasn't terrorism; it was suicide.

Well according to other people here it is terrorism because it's against the government, which is was. I have a low standard for terror. If a guy goes around shooting in a mall, not terrorism? Yet if a cafe is blown up in Israel it is an attack. You make people afraid and try to change the way they act and what they do (which could be shop less in a mall) it's terror to me.

Sadly it seems one person is missing, earlier they made it seem that was the sicko, but it seems one worker is missing. Hopefully he went on a hike and just isn't home yet.

Where did I say it was all the tea bagging nuts? No where! When I wrote that they were talking about how this was an IRS office building. The first thing that came to mind was "This is a wacko tea bagger!" Hey look! He was!

So if you are going to call me out on being wrong maybe you should check to see if I'm wrong.

 

[Rii]

Well according to other people here it is terrorism because it's against the government, which is was. I have a low standard for terror. If a guy goes around shooting in a mall, not terrorism? Yet if a cafe is blown up in Israel it is an attack. You make people afraid and try to change the way they act and what they do (which could be shop less in a mall) it's terror to me.

So you would agree, then, that the use of nuclear weapons against Japan was an act of terrorism?

 

[Lindley]

What I'm worried about is how this is going to affect General Aviation in general. The TSA has been just looking for an excuse to impose impractical "security measures" at GA airfields.....

 

[gturner]

Well obviously the safest response is just grant all GA pilots tax exempt status.

 

[Rii]

Well obviously the safest response is just grant all GA pilots tax exempt status.

You'd only encourage the bus drivers.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

I think the IRS building was decorated provacatively and was pretty much asking for it.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Two bodies were found in the building.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Damn.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

I had really hoped that person had gone home in shock and wasn't checking in. Or sleeping in like I did today, or out fishing.

 

[JRS]

Horrible incident
Its sad to hear that people died.
Its horrible, even though it does happens too often these days, to see people resolve to violence to solve their problems
Clearly the guy took inspiration from 9/11.
I was suprised when I saw the news footage and photos of the crash. The damage was much more severe than I expected it to be

 

[RJDiogenes]

Damn, I was hoping we'd get through this one with no fatalities.

 

[Emher]

Well damn it. I hate it when people decide to kill themselves in these kinds of ways. Suicide is almost always a a cowardly way out but when you do it like this, or say like jumping in front of a train, it causes both mental and physical harm to others.

My heart goes out to the family and friends of the dead

 

[TheBrew]

This would have never happened if those people were armed.

Okay, that was a little flippant.

 

[bigdaddy]

I had really hoped that person had gone home in shock and wasn't checking in. Or sleeping in like I did today, or out fishing.

Me too, it was a nice day, the guy or gal went for a hike without her cell phone. Damn fucker killed someone.

 

[Rii]

This would have never happened if those people were armed.

Okay, that was a little flippant.

When MANPADS are outlawed, only outlaws will have MANPADS.