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河蟹，已经踏上了美利坚的土地。
想必大家都已经看过了 “一架小型飞机 18日撞击美国得克萨斯州 奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼” 的新闻， 估计也有人看到了“最后的呐喊： 撞击奥斯汀国税大楼的飞行员的话”的帖子 (在本篇文章的最后附有这位飞行员所说的部分中文翻译、以及网友评论节选)。 在这里我所感兴趣的是
美国版的河蟹！
这位老兄在驾机撞国税大楼之前，把遗言放到了http://embeddedart.com/, 现在应FBI的要求，被和谐到了http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html 。 而网站管理员把原站点的内容 从遗言变成下面的内容（红字是我标注的）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI. If you want to see the original letter, please see the archived version at thesmokinggun.com:http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
Regards,
T35 Hosting
上面是第一版，后来又变成第二版（去掉FBI的 字样）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning.
Regards,
T35 Hosting
现在又变成第三版（加上了链接）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas. Although the customer exceeded their bandwidth limits earlier today, due to numerous requests, we have added credit to this account to keep this site live for informational purposes. To see an archived version of the original letter, please go here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html. Please visit our forum if you wish to discuss anything related to this incident: Texas crash pilot left suicide note on Web site - embeddedart.com (please don\'t send us emails as we can\'t respond to all of them).
Regards,
T35 Hosting - www.T35.com
我 不知道为什么要转移网站的内容，宣扬了专制思想、还是张贴了黄色图片。。。
最后的呐喊：
（节选自：http://www.ccthere.com/article /2728903 及 http://news./2010/2/19/gb2312_77498.html）
。。。 前略。。。
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终 于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富 人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自 由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽 视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重 标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力 不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
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.
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做 法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：轻信者尽其劳，贪婪者取其利。
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
网友评论节选：
网 友1（http://www.ccthere.com /thread/2728903/1）：
看来美国的GFW也一点不差啊，比ZXB动作快多了。我在10：50听到新闻里提到他的这个网站，从楼下的回帖看至迟到11：40就被和谐了。
网 友2（http://www./article_t/Military /33357129.html）
真正应该认真学习和贯彻joe同志思想和精神的是老将们。老将们获悉joe同志为了维权而英勇壮烈牺牲的事迹后，在缅怀英烈的同时，无不纷纷表示，要 继承和发扬joe的遗志，跟中国政府对抗到底！
网友3（同上）
基本上就是什么倒霉事都给他碰上了。。最早想钻tax code的空子，结果没成功把养老金亏光了。。然后遇到什么针对it员工的税改这段没怎么看懂估计又吃亏了。。然后又遇上洛杉矶的大萧条政府关闭南加州的 空军基地，他的养老金又亏光了。。接着遇到。com泡沫和911，对航空公司的严加管理造成他的软件公司效益很不好。。最后搬到德州来发现这里薪水很低是 被几个大公司垄断控制着的结果。。然后好像那年是因为没找到工作没报税还是怎么的。结果政府不同意。最后花费了他很高昂的律师费。。在最后他大概混的还不 错。。于是就去找专业的财务人士帮他去保税。。结果他们故意少报了10000多的收入，结果就被IRSaudit。。所以愤怒达到极点了就破罐子破摔了
网 友4（http://www./article_t/Detective /47797.html）
Joe Stack这事应该算官逼民反，逼上梁山，为了共产主义理想赴汤蹈火吧。人家可不是瞎胡闹，讨伐檄文中对资本主义的本质有着清醒地认识，瞧人家最后那两句 总结得多精辟。该同志绝对算一反资义士，这里的小将老将怎么也没人出头替他讨个说法，这事要是发生在中国，估计美国国会会通过一个Joe Stack法案强烈谴责社会主义的邪恶。所以我觉得中国也应该发个声明或发篇喉舌报社论悼念一下：伟大的共产主义战士，Joe Stack同志，怀着对共产主义的坚定信念和对资本主义社会人吃人的无比憎恶，为了揭露美帝国主义的虚伪贪婪和无耻，决定赴汤蹈火，舍身取义，于２月１８ 日驾机起义，与资本主义的代理人IRS同归于尽，终年５４岁。伟大的Joe Stack同志永垂不朽！
网友5（http://www./article_t/Military /33359945.html）
还 是美帝心狠手辣啊，人都死了还追封个恐怖分子的称号。
杨佳死了，还允许同情他的讨论
这个joe估计谁要表示同情谁就变恐怖分子同党了
附文：
最后的呐喊：撞击奥斯汀国税大楼的飞行员的话
MND has obtained a copy of the letter left by Joe Stack, the pilot who this morning flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. We have reproduced it here in full…
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy.
Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse. While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in. And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed reevaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer. On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-theears’ contract software engineer… and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL. (a) IN GENERAL – Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: (d) EXCEPTION. – This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. – The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
! “another person” is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
! “taxpayer” is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
! “individual”, “employee”, or “worker” is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients. After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect. Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.
If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back. Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a {EXPLETIVE DELETED} about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
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.
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
美得克萨斯州一架小飞机撞楼疑是飞行员蓄意所为
2010年02月19日 国际在线
国际在线报道(记者 韩曙)：一架小型飞机18日撞击美国得克萨斯州奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼，导致多人受伤并引发爆炸和大火。执法部门初步认为是该机驾驶员蓄意制造了这起事件。
当地时间18日上午10点钟左右，一架低空飞行的小型飞机突然向7层高的得克萨斯州奥斯汀市税务大楼撞去，现场立刻发生爆炸并燃起大火。这幢有200多名职员工作的大楼顿时一片混乱。税务局工作人员佩吉·沃克尔回忆说：“事情发生时，我觉得就像炸弹掉了下来，天花板穿了一个大洞，窗户玻璃碎片也四处乱飞。”税务大楼附近的一名目击者看到飞机撞向大楼之后，“消失在一团火球中”。
事件发生后，奥斯汀市政府紧急出动消防队员和警察前往现场展开救援。美国国防部也从休斯顿紧急调派2架F16战斗机在奥斯汀市巡逻。根据当地消防局提供的最新情况，税务大楼损伤最为严重的是二层和三层，目前大楼里至少有1名工作人员失踪，另外有13人被送往医院治疗，其中2人伤势严重。经过将近一天的努力，目前税务大楼里的大火已经被扑灭，消防员正展开仔细的搜索工作，以便确定在这一事件中是否有更多的死伤者。
事件发生后，当地警方立刻开始了调查工作，目前查明驾驶飞机撞击税务局大楼的是一名男子，名叫约瑟夫·斯塔克，今年53岁，曾经是一名软件工程师。他撞击大楼的原因很可能是自杀性报复。警方找到了斯塔克当天早上在网上发布的一篇类似遗言的文章。斯塔克在文章中称，他与奥斯汀市税务部门曾经发生过几次口角。他还在这篇文章中指责税务部门、美国政府的金融救援计划和美国大公司是在对普通民众进行“谋杀和抢掠”。他说，他不能让这些“大哥大”们一边把自己“抢”个精光，一边还监视自己。警方还发现，斯塔克当天早上还放火烧毁了自己的房屋，随后从距离奥斯汀市30英里的乔治敦机场驾驶着小型飞机飞向税务大楼。大概是由于下定了自杀的决心，斯塔克连飞行日志都没有向机场方面提交。而一名目击者表示，斯塔克驾驶的飞机没有任何失去控制的迹象，以至于他最开始以为斯塔克的低空飞行是为了炫耀自己的技术，“没想到他做出这么疯狂的行为”。
在当天下午的新闻发布会上，奥斯汀市警方表示，从目前掌握的线索看，这起撞击税务局大楼是“个人导致的独立事件”，与恐怖袭击无关。
事实上，小型飞机撞楼事件近年在美国时有发生。2002年1月，在佛罗里达州坦帕市，一名年仅15岁的飞行学校学生驾驶小型飞机撞击坦帕市中心大厦自杀，所幸当时正值周末，大厦人去楼空，并未引起严重后果。2006年10月，纽约一架小型飞机也撞上曼哈顿一幢大楼，有2人在事件中丧生。当地警方认为事件可能是由于飞行员驾驶技术不过硬而发生的意外。
在去年圣诞节炸机未遂事件发生之后，美国加强了航空安全，对国内航班的乘客采取了严格的安检措施，但许多专家表示，美国国家运输安全委员会似乎忽略了对小型飞机驾驶员的管控。以这起事件为例，斯塔克在驾驶飞机起飞前没有严格按照机场规定提交飞行日志，此外他早些时候还在网上发布了威胁性言论，然而没有人阻止他驾机起飞。也有专家指出，在飞行员申请飞行执照时没有严格的精神健康检查，也是导致这一悲剧的原因之一。对此，美国前国家运输安全委员会副主席彼得·戈尔兹表示，美国小型飞机为数众多，航线也不像大型客机那样固定，有飞行驾照的人更是林林总总，管理起来很困难，改进管理措施还需要相当长的时间。
1 楼【juyyao】 于 2010-2-19 17:38:03 评论说
统治阶级也全球化了?
2 楼【cheetah】 于 2010-2-19 17:59:00 评论说
老美在第一时间就否认这是恐怖行动，但什么是恐怖行为哪？恐怕以后老美要定义国内和国际两个方面的行为了。
从这个事件看，美国内的问题经过这次经济危机已经暴露了一角，统治阶级对小老百姓的压迫手段是万变不离其宗，利益集团从来都是与政府统一一体的。如果不是被逼走头无路，谁会抛家舍业走上绝路？!
应该警惕啊。
3 楼【千百惠33】 于 2010-2-19 18:21:11 评论说
哪个国家没有阶级对立?
好好回顾初中学的社会发展简史下册
4 楼【张宾】 于 2010-2-19 18:21:27 评论说
我认识的美国朋友跟JOE STACK几乎一样的观点。毛泽东的话：团结美国人民，反对美国资产阶级。
5 楼【张宾】 于 2010-2-19 18:27:54 评论说
支持JOE STACK .
6 楼【野火春风】 于 2010-2-19 19:36:33 评论说
斯塔克绝对是一位无产阶级的英雄，但他是一个人在战斗，他没有读过毛主席的书，死的虽然壮烈，但却十分可惜！我希望美国的无产者联合起来，为实现你们所说的“另一种制度”而奋斗！
7 楼【绣红旗】 于 2010-2-19 20:08:49 评论说
全世界无产者联合起来! 消灭剥削、吃人的资本主义社会!
8 楼【毛主席是正确的】 于 2010-2-19 20:12:33 评论说
“我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。”
“没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。”
“可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。”
这就是真理，这就是觉悟的证明。正与主席对革命的定义一致。
“革命是暴动，是一个阶级推翻另一个阶级的暴烈的行动。”在这里，暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。
9 楼【gengsangchu】 于 2010-2-19 20:39:45 评论说
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：以轻信者之财，填贪婪者之欲。
想必大家都已经看过了 “一架小型飞机 18日撞击美国得克萨斯州 奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼” 的新闻， 估计也有人看到了“最后的呐喊： 撞击奥斯汀国税大楼的飞行员的话”的帖子 (在本篇文章的最后附有这位飞行员所说的部分中文翻译、以及网友评论节选)。 在这里我所感兴趣的是
美国版的河蟹！
这位老兄在驾机撞国税大楼之前，把遗言放到了http://embeddedart.com/, 现在应FBI的要求，被和谐到了http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html 。 而网站管理员把原站点的内容 从遗言变成下面的内容（红字是我标注的）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI. If you want to see the original letter, please see the archived version at thesmokinggun.com:http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
Regards,
T35 Hosting
上面是第一版，后来又变成第二版（去掉FBI的 字样）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning.
Regards,
T35 Hosting
现在又变成第三版（加上了链接）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas. Although the customer exceeded their bandwidth limits earlier today, due to numerous requests, we have added credit to this account to keep this site live for informational purposes. To see an archived version of the original letter, please go here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html. Please visit our forum if you wish to discuss anything related to this incident: Texas crash pilot left suicide note on Web site - embeddedart.com (please don\'t send us emails as we can\'t respond to all of them).
Regards,
T35 Hosting - www.T35.com
我 不知道为什么要转移网站的内容，宣扬了专制思想、还是张贴了黄色图片。。。
最后的呐喊：
（节选自：http://www.ccthere.com/article /2728903 及 http://news./2010/2/19/gb2312_77498.html）
。。。 前略。。。
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终 于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富 人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自 由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽 视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重 标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力 不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
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.
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做 法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：轻信者尽其劳，贪婪者取其利。
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
网友评论节选：
网 友1（http://www.ccthere.com /thread/2728903/1）：
看来美国的GFW也一点不差啊，比ZXB动作快多了。我在10：50听到新闻里提到他的这个网站，从楼下的回帖看至迟到11：40就被和谐了。
网 友2（http://www./article_t/Military /33357129.html）
真正应该认真学习和贯彻joe同志思想和精神的是老将们。老将们获悉joe同志为了维权而英勇壮烈牺牲的事迹后，在缅怀英烈的同时，无不纷纷表示，要 继承和发扬joe的遗志，跟中国政府对抗到底！
网友3（同上）
基本上就是什么倒霉事都给他碰上了。。最早想钻tax code的空子，结果没成功把养老金亏光了。。然后遇到什么针对it员工的税改这段没怎么看懂估计又吃亏了。。然后又遇上洛杉矶的大萧条政府关闭南加州的 空军基地，他的养老金又亏光了。。接着遇到。com泡沫和911，对航空公司的严加管理造成他的软件公司效益很不好。。最后搬到德州来发现这里薪水很低是 被几个大公司垄断控制着的结果。。然后好像那年是因为没找到工作没报税还是怎么的。结果政府不同意。最后花费了他很高昂的律师费。。在最后他大概混的还不 错。。于是就去找专业的财务人士帮他去保税。。结果他们故意少报了10000多的收入，结果就被IRSaudit。。所以愤怒达到极点了就破罐子破摔了
网 友4（http://www./article_t/Detective /47797.html）
Joe Stack这事应该算官逼民反，逼上梁山，为了共产主义理想赴汤蹈火吧。人家可不是瞎胡闹，讨伐檄文中对资本主义的本质有着清醒地认识，瞧人家最后那两句 总结得多精辟。该同志绝对算一反资义士，这里的小将老将怎么也没人出头替他讨个说法，这事要是发生在中国，估计美国国会会通过一个Joe Stack法案强烈谴责社会主义的邪恶。所以我觉得中国也应该发个声明或发篇喉舌报社论悼念一下：伟大的共产主义战士，Joe Stack同志，怀着对共产主义的坚定信念和对资本主义社会人吃人的无比憎恶，为了揭露美帝国主义的虚伪贪婪和无耻，决定赴汤蹈火，舍身取义，于２月１８ 日驾机起义，与资本主义的代理人IRS同归于尽，终年５４岁。伟大的Joe Stack同志永垂不朽！
网友5（http://www./article_t/Military /33359945.html）
还 是美帝心狠手辣啊，人都死了还追封个恐怖分子的称号。
杨佳死了，还允许同情他的讨论
这个joe估计谁要表示同情谁就变恐怖分子同党了
附文：
最后的呐喊：撞击奥斯汀国税大楼的飞行员的话
MND has obtained a copy of the letter left by Joe Stack, the pilot who this morning flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. We have reproduced it here in full…
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy.
Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse. While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in. And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed reevaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer. On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-theears’ contract software engineer… and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL. (a) IN GENERAL – Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: (d) EXCEPTION. – This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. – The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
! “another person” is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
! “taxpayer” is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
! “individual”, “employee”, or “worker” is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients. After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect. Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.
If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back. Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a {EXPLETIVE DELETED} about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
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.
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
美得克萨斯州一架小飞机撞楼疑是飞行员蓄意所为
2010年02月19日 国际在线
国际在线报道(记者 韩曙)：一架小型飞机18日撞击美国得克萨斯州奥斯汀市国税局的办公大楼，导致多人受伤并引发爆炸和大火。执法部门初步认为是该机驾驶员蓄意制造了这起事件。
当地时间18日上午10点钟左右，一架低空飞行的小型飞机突然向7层高的得克萨斯州奥斯汀市税务大楼撞去，现场立刻发生爆炸并燃起大火。这幢有200多名职员工作的大楼顿时一片混乱。税务局工作人员佩吉·沃克尔回忆说：“事情发生时，我觉得就像炸弹掉了下来，天花板穿了一个大洞，窗户玻璃碎片也四处乱飞。”税务大楼附近的一名目击者看到飞机撞向大楼之后，“消失在一团火球中”。
事件发生后，奥斯汀市政府紧急出动消防队员和警察前往现场展开救援。美国国防部也从休斯顿紧急调派2架F16战斗机在奥斯汀市巡逻。根据当地消防局提供的最新情况，税务大楼损伤最为严重的是二层和三层，目前大楼里至少有1名工作人员失踪，另外有13人被送往医院治疗，其中2人伤势严重。经过将近一天的努力，目前税务大楼里的大火已经被扑灭，消防员正展开仔细的搜索工作，以便确定在这一事件中是否有更多的死伤者。
事件发生后，当地警方立刻开始了调查工作，目前查明驾驶飞机撞击税务局大楼的是一名男子，名叫约瑟夫·斯塔克，今年53岁，曾经是一名软件工程师。他撞击大楼的原因很可能是自杀性报复。警方找到了斯塔克当天早上在网上发布的一篇类似遗言的文章。斯塔克在文章中称，他与奥斯汀市税务部门曾经发生过几次口角。他还在这篇文章中指责税务部门、美国政府的金融救援计划和美国大公司是在对普通民众进行“谋杀和抢掠”。他说，他不能让这些“大哥大”们一边把自己“抢”个精光，一边还监视自己。警方还发现，斯塔克当天早上还放火烧毁了自己的房屋，随后从距离奥斯汀市30英里的乔治敦机场驾驶着小型飞机飞向税务大楼。大概是由于下定了自杀的决心，斯塔克连飞行日志都没有向机场方面提交。而一名目击者表示，斯塔克驾驶的飞机没有任何失去控制的迹象，以至于他最开始以为斯塔克的低空飞行是为了炫耀自己的技术，“没想到他做出这么疯狂的行为”。
在当天下午的新闻发布会上，奥斯汀市警方表示，从目前掌握的线索看，这起撞击税务局大楼是“个人导致的独立事件”，与恐怖袭击无关。
事实上，小型飞机撞楼事件近年在美国时有发生。2002年1月，在佛罗里达州坦帕市，一名年仅15岁的飞行学校学生驾驶小型飞机撞击坦帕市中心大厦自杀，所幸当时正值周末，大厦人去楼空，并未引起严重后果。2006年10月，纽约一架小型飞机也撞上曼哈顿一幢大楼，有2人在事件中丧生。当地警方认为事件可能是由于飞行员驾驶技术不过硬而发生的意外。
在去年圣诞节炸机未遂事件发生之后，美国加强了航空安全，对国内航班的乘客采取了严格的安检措施，但许多专家表示，美国国家运输安全委员会似乎忽略了对小型飞机驾驶员的管控。以这起事件为例，斯塔克在驾驶飞机起飞前没有严格按照机场规定提交飞行日志，此外他早些时候还在网上发布了威胁性言论，然而没有人阻止他驾机起飞。也有专家指出，在飞行员申请飞行执照时没有严格的精神健康检查，也是导致这一悲剧的原因之一。对此，美国前国家运输安全委员会副主席彼得·戈尔兹表示，美国小型飞机为数众多，航线也不像大型客机那样固定，有飞行驾照的人更是林林总总，管理起来很困难，改进管理措施还需要相当长的时间。
1 楼【juyyao】 于 2010-2-19 17:38:03 评论说
统治阶级也全球化了?
2 楼【cheetah】 于 2010-2-19 17:59:00 评论说
老美在第一时间就否认这是恐怖行动，但什么是恐怖行为哪？恐怕以后老美要定义国内和国际两个方面的行为了。
从这个事件看，美国内的问题经过这次经济危机已经暴露了一角，统治阶级对小老百姓的压迫手段是万变不离其宗，利益集团从来都是与政府统一一体的。如果不是被逼走头无路，谁会抛家舍业走上绝路？!
应该警惕啊。
3 楼【千百惠33】 于 2010-2-19 18:21:11 评论说
哪个国家没有阶级对立?
好好回顾初中学的社会发展简史下册
4 楼【张宾】 于 2010-2-19 18:21:27 评论说
我认识的美国朋友跟JOE STACK几乎一样的观点。毛泽东的话：团结美国人民，反对美国资产阶级。
5 楼【张宾】 于 2010-2-19 18:27:54 评论说
支持JOE STACK .
6 楼【野火春风】 于 2010-2-19 19:36:33 评论说
斯塔克绝对是一位无产阶级的英雄，但他是一个人在战斗，他没有读过毛主席的书，死的虽然壮烈，但却十分可惜！我希望美国的无产者联合起来，为实现你们所说的“另一种制度”而奋斗！
7 楼【绣红旗】 于 2010-2-19 20:08:49 评论说
全世界无产者联合起来! 消灭剥削、吃人的资本主义社会!
8 楼【毛主席是正确的】 于 2010-2-19 20:12:33 评论说
“我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。”
“没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。”
“可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。”
这就是真理，这就是觉悟的证明。正与主席对革命的定义一致。
“革命是暴动，是一个阶级推翻另一个阶级的暴烈的行动。”在这里，暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。
9 楼【gengsangchu】 于 2010-2-19 20:39:45 评论说
The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
资本主义信条：以轻信者之财，填贪婪者之欲。
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