- Just before you forwarded me the note from Robert, I
received the e-mail below. It links to the same note, but with a preceding
explanation and with commentary from Larken Rose. Larken spend 13 months
in federal prison for the crime of reading the income tax law and making
sense of it, and his wife Tessa spent 30 days in prison also. He emerged
from prison with a book about his trial, Kicking the Dragon: Confessions
of a Tax Heretic, and has since published the novel The Iron Web,
from which he quote, below.
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- Let us be on the lookout for how the main-stream media
treats Joseph Stack.
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- David
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- Rest in Peace, Mr. Stack
- By Larken Rose
- 2-19-20
- A victim of the largest extortion racket in the world
struck back, giving up his life in the process. The control freaks, and
their propagandists who pretend to be "reporters," will no doubt
spend the next few weeks demonizing the man, or painting him as crazy.
You can decide for yourself if this was the case. As best I can tell, today
Joseph Stack burned down his house, and then crashed his plane into the
Austin, Texas offices of the IRS. We don't need to ponder the reason, because
he told us why, in a suicide note, which can be read here:
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- I found reading the note very disturbing, mainly because
Mr. Stack was obviously far more intelligent, and more in touch with reality,
than the vast majority of Americans. In other words, compared to the deluded
masses of conformists, Mr. Stack was the sane one. Several statements in
his suicide note show that he had overcome the authoritarian statist indoctrination
far more than most people ever will. Does the following sentiment sound
familiar?
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- "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
... I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from
only a few years of my childhood." [Joseph Stack, 2/18/2010]
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- A lot of you will find aspects of Mr. Stack's personal
story disturbingly familiar. I see no need to parse every sentence of it,
though I would urge everyone to read it all, carefully. What would drive
a rational, intelligent man to do such a thing? Of course, the control
freaks and their propagandists will paint Mr. Stack as a nutcase, and will
claim that his actions, by themselves, prove that he was insane.
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- But they don't. They prove he was desperate, and frustrated,
and that he was willing to GIVE UP HIS LIFE to try to resist injustice.
And THAT is the part the parasite class does NOT want people to think about.
They will paint him as a "mentally unstable" "tax cheat,"
or apply to him whatever other labels they think might make people not
want to THINK about what Mr. Stack did, and why.
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- Now comes the controversial, uncomfortable part. Several
people have already asked me whether I approve of what Mr. Stack did. Any
good, unthinking obedient serf would immediately blurt out, "Of course
not!" In short, though I am saddened that the world had to lose Mr.
Stack in the process, and though there are alternatives I would have much
preferred, yes, generally I have to praise him for what he did. I'm not
about to emulate him, nor would I suggest that anyone else do so, but he
had the courage to do something about the injustice he saw, and that puts
him ahead of 99.99% of the population.
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- So far, I have heard about a couple of injuries, and
one person unaccounted for, at the crash site. So at the moment, as far
as I know, Mr. Stack is the only one who died in the crash. I don't know
whether that was his intent or not. In other words, I don't know if he
intended to destroy only property, or to kill people as well. As far as
mere property, if someone found a way to destroy every IRS computer, every
IRS building, every IRS vehicle, firearm, every bit of property used by
the federal extortion racket, without hurting any people, I would without
hesitation cheer, loud and long. (I'd like it even more if someone took
it all, and gave it to the people who were robbed to pay for it in the
first place.)
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- But the question of taking human life is far more serious.
At this point, most writers would quickly add, "I would NEVER condone
violence against law enforcers!" Not me. Violence is justified when
used in an attempt to stop an aggressor--one who initiates violence. And
the politician scribbles called "laws" have no effect on that.
IRS employees, from CID down to the paper-pushers, are CONSTANTLY initiating
violence, every time they levy a bank account, or swipe someone's home,
or send threatening letters (i.e., "pay up or we'll do nasty things
to you"). It is their job to use violence, and threats of violence,
to take property from those to whom it rightfully belongs.
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- Most do it without thinking, and I doubt any of them
accept any personal responsibility for their actions. "Hey, I'm just
doing my job." Yeah, you and the Nazi SS. But this is the problem
that the "authority" myth creates: a bunch of brain-dead authoritarian
jackasses, day after day, terrorize, extort and rob millions and millions
of people. The people are then left with a choice: go after the unthinking
bureaucrats whose main sin is being blindly obedient, or allow injustice
to continue. Neither option is pleasant. Apparently Mr. Stack chose the
former.
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- I'll have more to say about this later, but today, let
me leave you with two excerpts from "The Iron Web" which are
disturbingly appropriate to what happened today:
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- Excerpt 1: "Real life isn't like the movies. In
the movies, the bad guy is always so obviously evil that when he dies,
in some spectacular finale, everyone stands up and cheers. That's not how
it works in real life. In real life, the people who have to be killed to
protect the innocent are hardly ever truly evil themselves. Instead, their
sin is usually just being stupid, and doing what they're told. That's all.
... The state uses violence for everything it does. Every law is a command,
and if anyone disobeys, force is used to make them comply. And good people
don't want to resist. Even if they don't like the law, even if they think
it's unjust, the last thing they want to do is kill some poor pawn who
is just doing what he was told. It would be so much easier if only evil
people committed evil, but through the belief in 'authority,' otherwise
good people routinely become agents of evil. Even the atrocities of Hitler's
regime, Stalin's regime, and all the others, were the result of a few truly
evil people, and thousands upon thousands of merely obedient people. The
real villains aren't stupid enough to go to the front lines themselves.
That's what compliant subjects are for. But the result is that the good
people of the world are left with a choice: either allow evil to occur,
or kill people who are merely misguided or ignorant. Most people choose
the first option, and mankind has suffered unspeakable horrors because
of it."
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- Excerpt 2 (from a different character): "You have
to understand, this was bound to happen. The parasites have been making
this monster for decades, and now it's broken free. It's not about whether
I think it's good. I don't. But I think it's inevitable. It's like some
poor dog that's been beaten since it was a puppy. Mostly it just cowers
and whimpers, always in fear. Then one day, it snaps and rips its master's
throat out. Those IRS paper-pushers have been emptying peoples' bank accounts,
taking their homes, and ruining lives for years and years. The zoning bureaucrats,
the inspectors and regulators--they've all been pushing people around for
decades, and it all adds up. As long as the cogs in the machine felt comfortable
obeying orders, they went right on doing it. Their victims had no recourse,
so they just put up with it. Well, now all their frustrations are coming
out as hatred and a desire for revenge. When people are oppressed, humiliated
and tormented for all their lives, even if only a little at a time, and
even if they barely notice, it builds up inside them. It's like a poison
the body can't get rid of. It builds up and builds up, until something
breaks."
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- Today, something broke. Mr. Stack, rest in peace.
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- http://www.larkenrose.com/blogs/tmds-blog/1980.html
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