Joe Stack - Patriot or Terrorist?

An Austin, Texas building, which evidently housed an IRS office has, apparently, been intentionally struck by a small airplance, piloted, again apparently, by an individual by the name of Joe Stack.  One headline on the story, linked via Drudge, reads Texas Small Plane Crash Might Be Intentional Act, Officials Say.

This is not unlike the events of 9/11.

The Smoking Gun (TSG) is following this story, and notes that Joe Stack left an online letter addressed to the IRS, and posted it on their website.  TSG titles their posting of this letter Plane Crash Suspect’s Online Diatribe.

I’ve read through Mr. Stack’s letter to the IRS, and it does appear that this letter would self indict Mr. Stack as the pilot crashing the small airplane into the Austin, TX building.  I find Mr. Stack’s letter far less than a diatribe, unless one considers diatribe’s archaic meaning as the most accurate description for Mr. Stack’s letter, rather than the more common meanings associated with the word.  Mr. Stack’s letter is for the most part rational, and it expresses, quiet eloquently I think, many of the frustrations freedom loving individual Americans, who desire autonomy and relief from crushing taxation, internally harbor.

Now, as an individual I eschew violence, random destruction of property which is not my own, and the unprovoked killing of individuals.  With that said, how should Americans be viewing Mr. Stack?  Of course Mr. Stack will be portrayed by the press and the State as a scoundrel, a potential Timothy McVeigh or some other manifestation of evil.  But is he?  Is Mr. Stack a patriot, or a terrorist?

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