Glenn Beck on Joe Stack

Say what you will about Glenn Beck, but there is no doubt to anyone that the man is one hell of a communicator.  As he breaks down the actions and motives of Joe Stack, the man who flew a plane into the building that held the Austin, TX offices of the Internal Revenue Service.

The one thing as you hear his monolouge that it does not matter what your ideology is or his.  He killed innocent people and that is wrong.



What is interesting to me is that, he says that "you don't want 'these kind of people' around you..."  Then explain this....



Not only were you around them last weekend, Mr. Beck, but you were their keynote speaker.

But let's stay with the first part of Beck's screed, which was right on.  THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR KILLING PEOPLE. This morning on Good Morning America, Stack's daughter said this:

AUSTIN, Texas -- The daughter of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her father a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which killed an IRS employee, were "inappropriate."




Joe Stack's adult daughter, Samantha Bell, spoke to ABC's "Good Morning America" from her home in Norway. Asked during a phone interview broadcast Monday if she considered her father a hero, she said: "Yes. Because now maybe people will listen."



Authorities say Stack, 53, targeted the IRS office building in Austin on Thursday, killing employee Vernon Hunter and himself, after posting a ranting manifesto against the agency and the government. He apparently set fire to his home before flying his plane into the office building.



Hunter's son, Ken Hunter, said he's alarmed by comments that the pilot was a hero.



"How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane ... and flies it into a building to kill people?" Hunter told ABC." "My dad Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My dad's a hero."



Bell said she offered her deepest condolences to Hunter's family. She said her father's last actions were wrong.



"But if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished," she told ABC. "But I do not agree with his last action with what he did. But I do agree about the government...."
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/02/22/1493371/daughter-says-pilot-in-texas-irs.html 

Now there are people of midsets left and right who have called Samantha Bell  out on this.  Actress Marlee Matlin, for instance (from her Twitter account)

@MarleeMatlin About the Joe Stack ordeal, I completely agree with you. I think his daughter is really brainwashed to be calling him a hero.www.twitter.com/MarleeMatlin
But then, there is this:

In the note, signed "Joe Stack (1956-2010)" and dated Thursday, he said he slowly came to the conclusion that "violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer."




And some people on Facebook couldn't agree more.



"Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the Constitution," wrote Emily Walters of Louisville, Ky.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/02/19/crimesider/entry6223132.shtml

The problem I am having is that there are people who are now at the end of their incdividual and collective ropes.  There are some who are seeing the lifestyle they have lived for so long change.  The President is different, the government is different.  Traditions thay have held on to for centuries, some right...many wrong, are changing.  Nothing seems to make sense.  People find themselves out of date, or not compatable with the world around them.

Then there are others who have never fit in....wanting what the majority have, but what the majority say that can never have, believing if certain things are accepted, the Wrath Of God would decend upon them (though in many cases, some of those same members of the Majority are actually misfits in stealth).

They have done the things that people have said they should do.  They voted.  They got involved. They were good citizens. 

All for nothing.

When people get desparate, they do desparate things.

Joe Stack was not the first.  I fear he will not be the last.

THIS. IS. TERRORISM.

There is no other way to say it.

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Ignore Uncle Chuckles....at your own risk!

I would be really easy to have fun with the latest statment from 700 Club Major Domo M.G. "Pat" Robertson. Every year he come out with some sort of major "prediction." And this year, it's a doozy.

In what has become an annual tradition of prognostications, religious
broadcaster Pat Robertson said Tuesday God has told him that a terrorist attack
on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.

"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during
his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting
Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something
like that."

Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major
cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which
should take place sometime after September.

Robertson said God also told him that the U.S. only feigns friendship
with Israel and that U.S. policies are pushing Israel toward "national suicide."

Robertson suggested in January 2006 that God punished then-Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stroke for ceding Israeli-controlled land to
the Palestinians. http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5884601&nav=1TjD

Wow!

Pat has been kinda right before. He DID say that Bush would win the election easily. I wonder if easily meant the bullshit we went through with the Supremes over those not-so-well hung chads.

And he mentioned the country would be hit by a big tsunami. But maybe he was confused, either he thought that the heavr rains in New England last year was the tsunami, or that the Cartoon Network dialy block of anime called Toonami would be a big hit (actually, if he predicted the latter, he would be dead on!).

So it would be at this time the earnest blogger would make some snide remark about taking what Pat said with a grain of salt. Or maybe the whole damn box of Mortons. Or you can make a snarky like snarkrette Wonketter made:

The criminal
Jesus Freak who praised the 9/11 attacks as being just what the USA deserved
(due to homosexuals and feminists) is now promising his own terror attack on
America — and this time, it’s Nuclear. http://www.wonkette.com/politics/god/pat-robertson-plotting-nuclear-attack-on-america-225762.php

Hold the snark wonkee.....you may not be far from the mark.

We keep forgetting who runs the White House, and who has the Commander-in-Chimp on a string. The very same neo-Xian nutjobs who are attached to uncle Chuckles. The very same people who engineered the aftermath of 9/11. The very same people who may have even had a hand in it for thier own misguided purposes.

Think about it.....the neo had a rather bad November, ceding control of the Senate and the House to those Satanic liberals. The fear that these people have used to control the masses is ebbing. They definatly need a fresh dose of scardy to regain thier edge.

L.A. or Chicago wiped out should do that.

So maybe Uncle Chuckles might have inside information, though the source maybe lower than he mentioned.

Ok. This is a blog. My feelings. Nothing here's substanciated. And, if he is as.....let's say, mistaken, as he has been in the past, we can joke about him as we have since, say forever.

But, I gotta tell ya......after about 6 years of waiting for the other shoe to drop, I'll feel easy once the drip the ball in an intact Times Square on December 31, 2006.