My sister lives in Austin, along with about 750,000 other people. So when a report came across CNN that a small plane had flown low,then crashed into an office building alongside the MOPAC highway, I didn't panic. just texted her a, "hey, are you OK?" message, then waited a few minutes for her reply - "Yep".
Then, I started seeing reports on CNN that the crash was quite possibly deliberate - and that the IRS has its local headquarters in the building, located at 9430 Research Park Drive. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe not.
Scouting around the Web for more information, I came across the following...
on Freeperville, this dialogue between "Renegade" and "Vigilante" with respect to the story:
To: Renegade
Maybe they told him they were going to seize his plane in a tax lien and he was just delivering it.
20 posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:29:00 AM by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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So, general approval all around of a possible act of domestic terrorism... and it continues:
To: My Favorite Headache
if you catch an IRS employee in a candid moment over a couple of beers, he or she will tell you that they are amazed that they aren’t on the receiving end of a bomb, an RPG, or the business end of a plane at least once a week.
58 posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:46:39 AM by Buckeye McFrog
Really? Really? It's OK to terrorize federal officials, that they're lucky that they aren't "on the receiving end" more often?
How can Free Republic condone this type of talk? The entire thread is full of joking remarks, chortles, and anti-government sentiment. It's like reading pure sewage.
Considering that there are firefighters still inside, that people are unaccounted for, and that this quite likely could be an act of domestic terrorism - how on earth is this an instance of hilarity and jokes?
UPDATE: And now the RW blogs weigh in - in a blog post titled, "This Is How It Begins - Wanton Violence",
Karl Denninger, author of a conservative economic blog, opines:
I have repeatedly warned about the probable response if the population decides that the government is a felon instead of the cops. Among some of the points I have made:
Should the people come to the conclusion that The Government is in fact a felon - should there be no enforcement at the state level, no real move to "take back" authority vested in The Constitution, returning it to the states and to rein in the crooks, subjecting them to the just desserts for their crimes, there is a very real risk that The People will decide that there is only one way to obtain justice: through the actions of their own hand.
Lest you think this is an unrealistic view, I direct you to Mexico, where the police have become so corrupt that the people are now catching burglars and torturing them on their own. Vigilante justice is swift, certain, and brutal.
But it is the logical and expected outcome when the people reach the breaking point. Those who believe it "can't happen here" are deluded - it both can and will if our government does not stop condoning and in fact conspiring with the crooks that have robbed the people of this nation.