Man angry with IRS flys personal Plane into IRS Building TX

[disneyboy20022]

This...is truly tragic.....just read the artcile...now doubt some of you have heard about this via the internet or news or paper or somwhere..and I guess the silver Lining in it is...that people could have been hurt more than they were.....and not that many people got hurt with only 13 being insured including two IRS Employees who are in Crtical condition and one person was found dead.....

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[Maerj]

His six page message was quite a read, I think. The media wants to paint him as a loon but if you read that I think that it proves that he wasn't insane at all. I don't condone what he did but after reading that I can understand why he did it. I think he should have stayed and fought for what he believed rather than pulling a Michael Douglas in Falling Down type of thing. I wonder if this is only the beginning of this sort of thing?

[IagoZazu]

This was wrong, but the IRS can be a real beast when it comes to your taxes. They were messing with a man that they shouldn't have messed apparently.

[Siren]

I agree about him NOT being insane. He lost everything. Living like that would likely have driven him to insanity. I mean, no matter what, ANY violent act, IMO, it does mean you aren't completely there, but certainly not clinically insane either. I feel bad for him. What he did was unimaginable and he had to know he was risking many many lives other than his own, but he wanted to do something to make a statement and he did. I am VERY thankful he didn't take people with him. That is some kind of miracle right there. But his intention was to not be forgotten and pushed aside. If he just shot himself in the head or jumped off a bridge, he would barely be a blurb on the "In the Brief" in his local news. He wanted people to know the IRS treated him and others. It was a disgusting act of selfishness because of the other lives he risked. He probably could have got the same effect going into the building, and blowing his brains out with a gun in front of 100s of people. IF he had an inkling of care for the mothers and fathers, sons and daughters....who really have little or nothing to do with his troubles with the IRS (secretaries, janitors, etc) least it would have meant he would have traumatized a lot of people mentally, not physically. Again, I have no doubt in my mind, the man was an intelligent competent man, he wasn't insane. He was just beyond a point of stress he could not return from.