by Roy » Fri 19 Feb 2010, 15:37:10
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou should read his manifesto. It's not that crazy.
I read the whole thing from the smoking gun dot com. Defintitely not crazy, unless you think railing against injustice is crazy.
I've seen this story on other forums and a surprising number of people are coming out of the woodwork to chime in their IRS horror stories and many are even sympathetic. On forums dominated by political partisans and cornucopians no less.
I don't endorse his actions, but he was willing to die for what he believed in. Patriot? Terrorist? I think the gov will equate him and other supporters of the Constitution with terrorists. Hell they already have.
Thomas Jefferson once said: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure."
Mr Stack watered the tree of liberty with his blood.
I think the revolution meme is spreading. This could end being the 'shot heard round the world'. I envision a future of limited and Constitutional government as I have stated here many times. My greatest hope is that it happens through the ballot box and that no suffering, violence, or deaths of innocents would be required to make that change.
Something tells me though, that the ruling class will not easily give up their reigns. The media treatment of the incident will shine a light on their feelings I think. Of course most people will not read his writing, and just think what they are told to think by their telescreens.
It's easier that way. People I talk to generally don't want to talk about what's wrong. It has become accepted social convention in this country to avoid discussions of politics.
That's crazy. We live in country where our thoughts are supposed to matter. If no one wants to talk about it how can there be any meaningful change that is not directed from the top, designed of course, to benefit those at the top?
I don't see it.
Finally I close with another great qoute from one of our founders, Samuel Adams:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better then the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen”
A nations military should only be used in a nations self defense, not to entertain liberal cravings for shaping poor nations into images of themselves by force. -- Eastbay
Shooting the messenger is typical when you are incapable of arguing against them. -- Airline Pilot