In all of this has anybody thought to ask whether the tactics employed by the IRS qualify it as a terrorist organization?
Ask your neighbor. Ask the person on the street. Any small business man. Overwhelmingly, terror of the IRS is their response. The IRS has the power to destroy and does. The common people are powerless against such a powerful federally sanctioned predator!
Stack is not justified for fighting terror with terror.
Using evil to combat evil complicates and confuses the issues. In this day and time we need less complication and more clear minded, determined heads to resolve the issues that face us, especially as regards the IRS and our out of control federal spending.
But somehow, we Americans must get something more from this than whether Stack may or may not be a terrorist.
It takes two to tango. Fist fights occur between two polarized parties – one seeking to oppress, another desperately seeking freedom from oppression. Polarization is the IRS. It is the tool the feds use to get funds from the public. Most people don’t mind paying reasonable taxes. But they do mind being bulldogged by an organization that has grown fat and unreasonably greedy.
Obviously, Stack in desperation sought freedom from an oppressive IRS. Did he do it the right way? Not in Hud’s opinion.
Fighting evil with evil may produce results, but never peaceably. It only raises the feds fear of disgruntled people and typically a more oppressive response. Then a people’s rebellion and subsequently a bloody mess!
Stack was a desperate man driven to rage against an oppressor. He fought his oppressor the only way he knew how.
Does that make him a terrorist?
Right now there are some people and some groups that would like to think so, including some of our government officials like U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, who finance their “pork” with IRS begotten funds.
But history will provide the final answer for that question. And history is typically written by the victor.
The big question is whether the victor will be the federal government for whom the IRS works or the common people who comprise the electorate in this country.
Can the electorate force the feds to bridle the IRS?
Hud repeats, “Only History will tell!”
Stack was obviously ”mad as hell” and would not take it any more. Let’s hope the electorate chooses the vote. A “mad as hell” electorate provokes images that are terrifying and chaotic, something the feds would fear and find necessary to suppress. As we all know, the bigger the man the the bigger the whopping.
And as Hud sees it, this would be a very bad thing.
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