Officials: Pilot upset with IRS, may have intentionally crashed aircraft
AUSTIN, Texas - A man apparently upset with the Internal Revenue Service set fire to his home, got into a small plane and crashed it Thursday into a multistory office building, authorities said.
At least two people were injured and a third was unaccounted for. The crash caused a fire and sent black smoke billowing from the seven-story Echelon Building.
Officials told The Associated Press that authorities were trying to determine if the pilot intentionally targeted nearby office space of the IRS. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was continuing.
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Give him a medal, anybody that reduces the irs is a hero.
smoking gun has his blog post on their site. He was definately upset with the IRS and it does appear this was intentional.
The FBI ordered his blog taken down!
How can they do that? Is that a civil rights violation or a freedom of speech violation? Just doesn't seem right to me for them to be able to order it off the web.
I have to say that I'm surprised really that stuff like this doesn't happen more often with the IRS.
Just the other day on the news they were talking about how many MILLIONS of dollars in taxes have not been paid to the State of Delaware. I looked at my boss as we both said "and if they owe that much to the state, how much more do they owe to the federal gov't"?
They know who these people are apparently so why don't they go get the money owed and leave the honest people who might make a simple mistake alone!?
I've been through an IRS audit myself due to the accountant's error. After the IRS was done with us, the state of MD came in for their share. It cost us our home because we had to do a quick sale on it just for enough profit to pay the IRS and probably was the final nail in the coffin as far as the marriage went.
It's a nightmare dealing with them and I certainly hope I never have to deal with them again!
Ever since, I purposely don't take deductions I'm entitled to so IF there is an error, I have other stuff I can then bring up to cover it. I'd rather pay a little more and keep them out of my life than to ever have to deal with them again!
The IRS is the American form of the SS in Germany.
They are the law, they own the courts, and your defense lawyer is in bed with them.
I too am quite surprised that this doesn't happen more often, I believe that's what the IRS relys on.
Sooner or later there will be a tipping point, and the politicians better hide when it happens.
Let's not let anyone call this terrorism or some people will be asking questions like "what country should we bomb?"
This was a crime. Get it? The man was not a Muslim.
And let's not make a hero out of him or they'll start profiling angry white men and we'll all end up in those FEMA camps.
Seems like you guys don't mind attacks on the homeland as long as the perpetrator is an angry white man.
The fact is innocent people's live were put at risk. Yet all you see from the comments is "the IRS sucks, down with government!". Makes you wonder.....
7:52 it doesn't make me wonder. What does it make you wonder?
Wow. You crazies are really defending what this guy did? Really? That is how you show you love this country more than me?
You are scared of Obama and the socialists for what Glenn Beck told you they would do. This guy flew his plane into a building with the intention of killing Americans, and you are COOL with it because they work for the government?
Screw you all. Get out of this country before you tear it to peices. You should be ashamed.
I assume if someone were to go after the Federal Offices in the Downtown Plaza you guys would hold a celebratory party?
Wow. Don't insult us by saying you love this country. You love yourselves and those exactly like you.
Wow.
Violent insurrection shrouded in Patriotism is a dangerous form of Treason.
The Founders, powerless to seek redress for their grievances against the government, used violent insurrection as a last resort to defend against a tyrannical monarchy.
Free from tyranny, they founded the first
Federal Constitutional Republic, incorporating innovative checks and balances, separations of powers, and articulated inalienable individual rights as limitations on the government's power over citizens.
In this commenters personal opinion, I think the Founders would be ashamed of modern-day false "Patriots" using violence as redress for their grievances against the government, rather than employing the democratic processes the Founders sacrificed so greatly to install.
so the gietners and everyone else in the obama administration who didn't pay huge tax bills get a pass. but the irs comes down heavy on the average citizen. this is how our government works. to bad the guy didn't know what he was doing, he could have taken alot more with himself!
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