Anti-Government Psychos
Last week it was Amy Bishop (faculty page). This week it’s Andrew Stack.
It’s hard for me to sympathize with a guy who ends his Unabomberish screed with “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,” before flying his personal plane into a building. Yep, the guy’s life was ruined by the government but evidently not by enough to prevent him from affording a private plane.
See you in hell, Andy.
UPDATE: Stack’s daughter Samantha Bell calls her father a hero for his actions.
Asked during a phone interview broadcast Monday if she considered her father a hero, she said: “Yes. Because now maybe people will listen.”
The man Stack killed in the office, Vernon Hunter, survived two tours in Vietnam. So let’s see… Vietnam vet on one hand, wealthy whining middle aged guy on the other.
Sorry Samantha, but the man your father murdered is the true hero in this saga. Your father is just a douchebag.
Chad:
Don’t worry, the media is already painting him with the tea bagger brush.
18 February 2010, 10:44 pmScott Kirwin:
That’s because they didn’t read his screed. It was a lot shorter than the Unabomber’s – which I also read after it was released – but Stack’s wasn’t as well-written.
18 February 2010, 11:01 pmHe thought Bush was a puppet and hated him. Sounded a lot like a Keith Olbermann fan to me.
tehag:
The key part of the phrase is “psycho” not “anti-government.” Your post on the global warming fiasco should be enough to make anyone anti-government. The pseudo-science was funded, directed, and encouraged by official government organs whose purpose was to extend their own power regardless of the truth.
While Stark was psycho, as is apparent from his writings, let’s not go too far with it. I don’t find his ravings that qualitatively different from the fin de siecle socialists, proto-fascists, and the like. Their crackpot theories about human nature and economics, adhered to by millions even today, have done far more killing than Stark. And they’re not thought crazy: their thoughts are worthy of academic study.
I hope one effect of the Web will be to reveal the similarities of thought between crazies like Stark and allegedly sane academic and political leaders. (E.g., Gore or Unabomber?)
1 March 2010, 7:35 am