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CNN has the full text of the suicide note that Stack left before flying his plane into a Building used by the IRS. It is worth reading.
While Stack had no compassion and his aggressive suicidal self-destruction was completely indefensible, it brings to public view a type of acting out that I have been afraid would start happening. Specifically, many of the more blatant aspects of abuse of citizens by business and the government may be beginning to drive some people over the edge from activism into full-blown violence.
The mayor of Houston calls this an isolated incident. I hope and pray that the mayor is correct, but I fear that there may be others who have decided, or are deciding now to make a final statement that is destructive to others. Once despair is strong enough in groups of people who have nothing to lose, it only takes a small catalyst for them to begin to take action.
The media will quickly stamp a label on Stack's suicide note of "rambling" and "mentally ill." Those labels may be true, but there is also validity in considering that the focus of the government has also become rambling and even mentally ill, with the side effect of destroying workers like Stack.
The rhetoric in the political arena has ramped up the emotions, the techniques of terrorists are increasingly in the public eye and mind, and the disaster of the financial sector, massive loss of jobs and security, and obvious influence-peddling in governments from local to federal levels are all working together to create a disorganized group of home-grown destroyers.
Maybe this is a forewarning of things to come. I hope not, but maybe it really is time to start seriously looking at the issues brought forward by people like Stack (and many who have more sanity) and addressing them in a sane manner, rather than increasing the budget to the TSA and swabbing hands for explosive residue or limiting the flight access of private pilots.
Government OF the people, BY the people, FOR the people. NOT government of the rich, by the influential, and for the stock market.
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