A pilot hit the Echelon building in Austin, which houses IRS offices. He’s been identified as Joseph Andrew Stack.

An Austin, Texas, resident with an apparent grudge against the Internal Revenue Service set his house on fire Thursday and then crashed a small plane into a building housing an IRS office with nearly 200 employees, officials said.

Federal authorities identified the pilot of the Piper Cherokee PA-28 as Joseph Andrew Stack, 53.

Two people were injured and one person was missing, local officials said. There were no reported deaths.

A message on a Web site registered to Stack appears to be a suicide note.

… The building into which the airplane crashed is a federal IRS center with 199 employees.

Before taking off in the plane, he set fire to his own house with his wife and stepdaughter still inside.

Federal officials are reporting to CNN that the plane’s pilot set his own house on fire in Northwest Austin, and then crashed the into the building.

The fire, which happened around 9:15 a.m. in the Scofield Farms neighborhood, destroyed the $236k home that belonged to Stack. Stack is a registered pilot of a Piper PA 28-236.

A 12-year-old girl and a woman – identified as Stack’s wife and stepdaughter – were rescued from the burning house. The two had moved into a hotel on Wednesday evening, friends said.

People were apparently trapped on the second floor, hanging out the windows screaming for help.

He posted a suicide note on his website which has now been taken down at the FBI’s request. Mediaite has the letter. Apparently, he had a beef with the IRS and was in some real trouble with backtaxes. Here’s how he ended the screed:

I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Well, at least there’s no doubt that it’s not a crazy right-winger, although I’m sure it’s how liberals will try to paint the picture.

UPDATE: Well, color me unsurprised. The Kossacks have chimed in. And what do they have to say? Some of them say that this is just a lone wackjob who went crazy. Others… well, they’re blaming it on Bush, Reagan, and the right. How original! (Or not.)

• primarydoc: blame the Bush Lost Decade?
• Dave From Oregon: hell, blame Reagan, Bush I and II. This stuff started in the 80s.
• ditsylilg: One of our biggest problems in this country is that we have no real access to comprehensive mental health care. Thank Reagan for that. Americans can no longer be made to feel as if they are not respected. The last 30 years have been hard for many of us. To not have any concern for one’s fellow citizens is why we are in this mess.
• hesiod: He’s a teabagger through and through. That could have been written by just about any freeper or teabagger in America.
• cardshark: That’s NOT the point. The point is to SPIN this as a Teabagger act to discredit them and the Republicans because the Republicans are meeting at this moment to figure out how to spin this against Obama.
• DavidHeart: Rovian, but I like it. You’re right. This isn’t the time to play “on the other hand” equanimities. This should be used to go after the GOP / Teabagger jugular.
• healthy: No. Rather an insane independant. He does not like government to take his money, but he wants governement to fix his problems (e.g. health care). Therefore he cannot be for Democrats – who supposedly are pro-tax, but he can’t be for Republicans who don’t care about social programs. What he has in common with the teabaggers is the anti-tax, less-government stance and most of all, the insanity.

The DUmmies took it even farther, calling this another 9-11 and saying tea partiers were defending the terrorist.

• EFerrari: So, how can the tea baggers defend this guy when he did a rerun of 9/11? I don’t get it. It’s okay to fly planes into buildings if they agree with your issue?
• donco6: Thus it has ever been. One man’s patriotism is another man’s terrorism.
• HiFructosePronSyrup: Because now that the president’s a democrat and black, they hate America.
• Sebastian Doyle: If 9/11 had been done by white rednecks with confederate flags on their planes they would have defended that too.
• lapfog_1: The Teabaggers want an armed revolution. They just don’t have the cojones to actually start the war. They applaud anyone who preaches succession or who physically attacks their enemies (us godless commies). It’s not clear that Stack even shares their beliefs other than his hatred of the IRS and government bailouts of the auto industry. But they are ready to award him some sort of accolade for “standing up to the government” (never mind the act of attempted mass murder of people who actually have very little power to shape policy or anything else, but they need a job so they work for the IRS and become targets of the hate of the wacko right).
• arcadian: If Glenn Beck flew a plane into the Sears Tower it would kick off a national trend.
• rcrush: They don’t seem to realize that this guy just screwed them over big time. What do they think is gonna happen when someone who claims to be a part of your group decides to suicide bomb a building in your groups name? Just gives people an excuse to come after you. Good job moran!

Who can really say they’re surprised here? Others in the MSM are starting to follow the “teabagger” meme, and Allah’s got the examples to prove it. I haven’t seen one person defending this man on the left OR on the right, yet because this man’s rambling suicide note complained about taxes, it automatically means that he must be a “teabagger”. And apparently, if he was a teabagger, then all teabaggers must agree with him.

Isn’t liberal logic fun??

Oh well. It really was only a matter of time.

Cross-posted at Stop the ACLU.

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