Does Joe Stack define the TEA PARTY movement? Does Joe Stack have ANYTHING to do with the TEA PARTY?

[PHILIP SCHNEIDER]

Joe Stack - Austin ,Texas plane crash suicide; Why?

The reasons for the actions aside, Joe Stack left 13 injured, 2 dead in Thursday's Austin, Texas crash suicide. The question everyone is
asking is why? But unlike Amy Bishop, who left no note and is alive in
jail, Joe Stack left a long note, and is dead.

By now, the pattern emerges of a person who was angry with the IRS, unhappy with Austin, Texas, and sad because of his own misfortunes
in life. But that doesn't explain what set Joe Stack to aim an airplane
into an Austin, Texas building. While Joe Stack was angry with the IRS,

[there's no hard evidence that Stack was formally involved with the Tea Party Movement.]

A more rounded, human picture of Joe Stack is emerging. Stack was a guitarist who played in the Billy Eil Band, and while photos of his
association with the group have been removed, the action was done after
they were posted online and clues about him remain.

"Joe Stack – Bass, Vocals, Accordion on Spook Lights of Marfa" appear on the website. That means whatever ills Joe Stack carried around with him, he used music to help him cope with life.

Joe Stack was by all appearances a normal person getting along in life. He was married, had friends, was employed, and played more
than one band...and by accounts not badly.

The recollections that appear from those acquainted with Stack were that "He seemed incredibly decent and mild-mannered" as Patrick Beach
wrote in The Austin American Stateman.

Pat Beach was shocked and Billy Eli couldn't believe it. According to Beach, Eli said:

"He was the most sort of even-keeled and sane person I ever played with. I know everybody says that, but it's true. He was just a
normal-seeming guy. I never heard him raise his voice."

Eli's band wasn't the only one Joe Stack played in. Stack was also a member of an Austin-based band called The Last Straw. On their MySpace page, the band wrote "We found a great keyboardist named Joe Stack."

It's hard to find any example of anyone who had anything bad to say about Joe Stack. Michael Cerza, who talked to Pat Beach for his
column, said this:

"My impression of Joe was a kind, quiet, not at all brooding or taciturn person," Cerza said. "I didn't sense anything boiling under
the surface. He was very pleased to get married again, I know that.
There was no indication in his actions or his words that he would harm
anyone. And then he crashes into a building full of strangers, innocent
people. I can't make those ends meet in my mind. The madness of the
times, maybe."

Just exactly what made Joe Stack reach that boiling point, that edge he wrote of being close to where he set his home on fire with his wife and daughter in it, and crashed a plane into a building,

. . . . . . . is not known as of this writing.

Joe Stack seemed normal. But then so did George Sodoni, who, last August 2009, went into a fitness club and shot women, after
writing a web-based rant on his inability to get laid. And so did Dr.
Amy Bishop, who , last Friday, got up and shot three of her University
of Alabama-Huntsville colleagues in cold blood, then seemed to deny it
ever happened.

Something is really wrong.

[P. Miller]

Since when does anyone need to be a member of anything to do something like this. In my lifetime, I have seen a parade of people who are always described as perfectly normal folks and they were well liked by all. But suddenly they just snapped! Each and every one of us has the potential within us to just flip out given the right set of circumstances. When pressure is brought to bear and the pressure keeps increasing, some just can't handle any more and some little switch in their brain turns on and they do things that perhaps in thier entire life up to now, we just never could picture them doing. It doesn't take a certian mindset or an association with a particular organization to cause that to happen. Sometimes it's just unfortunate circumstnces and when some people have reached their limit, rather than stepping aside and calming themselves down or sorting out their emotions, they continue into a world that perhaps they had never ventured before. To me, this guy had nothing to do with any one group or organization. His rantings made little sense except to tell us, he was in way over his head with finaces and the IRS. We all know the IRS is relentless when it comes to collecting their due. Sure he owed back taxes or whatever problems he was having. But he let it get the best of him. the vast majority of us would suffer through it and just get past it. But there is always that one in one hundred thousand that just can't make it. And they end up doing something desperate and despicable. They end up taking innocent people with them. You can't blame anyone else for what this guy did. He did it....and that's all there is to it. Why does society today always have to point the finger of blame at someone else? Isn't it possible some things happen for which there is no reasonable explanation and for which there is nobody we can blame but the person responsible? In this case it was Mr. Stack. Next week it may be someone else. We live in a pressure cooker world. We are told and promised we can have it all and many people have gone after it all only to be disappointed and learn they can't sustain the lifestyle like Mr. Stack apparently found out. I can't see anyone to blame here but Mr. Stack. Since this a free country (so far) we are all free to choose the path we will take in life. It's somewhat of a crap shoot whether or not we choose the right path. There are many things in this world we may want, but are they things we really need? We are all free to decide for ourselves and then hope and pray we can live with our choices. Most can, but occasionally there are those who can't. They are the ones who end up doing despicable things like Mr. Stack just did. It was his choice and unfortunately the wrong one for those innocents who got in his way.

[Kathryn Ball]

The media and the 'progressives' will do anything, SAY anything to make this sad soul into a right wing lunatic, TEA Party member.
Bill Clinton tried to blame the bombing of the Murrah building in Oklahoma City on Rush Limbaugh for heaven's sake.
The 24/7 news cycle encourages anchors and commentators to keep babbling and rely on conjecture rather than facts.
The only thing we pretty much know for sure is that he was a taxpayer who was frustrated by the confiscatory tax system in this country.
Frankly, I know alot MORE people who feel the same way but would never even THINK of harming innocent people going about their daily lives.

[Marjorie McEntee]

I can't see any connection to the TeaParty movement, we are going out legally and trying to make a difference in what is happening in Washington D.C. Putting front and center, good ideas to turn the tide in this land that we love.