Speaking of Texas and taxes...

[crokett]

All that I can get here are Johnsonville and the like. OTOH, a few times a year I get sausage from the pigs my parents raise. That is some tasty eating.

Back on topic, in this article, there is a mother and daughter who are now homless:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...l/6873794.html

Plus he wasn't doing too badly, he had a plane and a quarter-million dollar house.

[BrazosJake]

I don't recall the title, but I am pretty sure I recall a made for TV movie about Jeffery Dahmer...

Yeah, but was it titled "The Wisconsin Cannibal"??

[dbhost]

Yeah, but was it titled "The Wisconsin Cannibal"??

Doubt it... Brings a new meaning to the term "Cheese Head" though doesn't it?

Back to the original subject though. How much of an egomaniac does a guy have to be to think that will all the wealth he obviously enjoyed, that having some financial trouble was an excuse to commit suicide and try (and possibly succeed) in taking others out with him...

I somewhat wonder if there is a special place for people like that...

[BobSch]

That is really sad. I was following that on the news. I surely hope he did not have a family. If he did, he left them homeless and without a father.

I just heard a wife and 12-year-old daughter.

If there's a H*ll, I hope they have a level just for him.

[scmhogg]

JR,

His screed says he was originally in CA.

Steve

[germdoc]

I read his suicide "essay" and was struck by the fact that I agreed with 80% of what he was saying! He is expressing a lot of populist outrage at big business, tax laws, etc.

I disagree with some of his conclusions. Moreover, he seems to have gotten himself in trouble with some bad tax advice, and he certainly had some bad luck being an engineering contractor during an era of downsizing, outsourcing, etc.

What I really can't understand or agree with is his assertion that "the only answer is violence". That is the unforgiveable part.

[Pappy]

Working in Austin, I was getting updates on local radio all day. When he set fire to his house his wife and daughter were inside. I haven't heard anything else about them so I have to assume they both got out.

There were 2 victims transported to the hospital. One is in a hospital in Austin, the other was medivaced to Brooks Army Medical Center in San Antonio. They have one of the top rated burn centers in the world. Although the pilot's death is assumed, as of about 5 PM official word is still unconfirmed because the body hasn't been recovered. One other person is still missing. A name hasn't been realeased and the only statement was that the family was notified and hope was fading. Considering the physical damage to the building it is a miricle the body count wasn't high.

The building was privately owned but a large portion was leased by the IRS and the FBI. (The IRS had some 190 employees that work in the building.)

[LCHIEN]

must be a different texas than the one i am from.

And beside the assumed suicidal pilot was originally from California.

[Kristofor]

I read his suicide "essay" and was struck by the fact that I agreed with 80% of what he was saying! He is expressing a lot of populist outrage at big business, tax laws, etc.

One of the other recent murder/suicide guys also left a public note and that one was just one giant misogynistic and paranoid rant. Reading that one it was clear that the guy had mental problems.

That said, I'm right with you on this one... When I was reading it, it felt pretty odd actually agreeing with the guy on so much of it, at least the sentiment if not the degree.

What I really can't understand or agree with is his assertion that "the only answer is violence". That is the unforgiveable part.

No doubt. I don't see how this logically flows from any of his previous statements...

Now, burning his house, if it was empty (on the radio this morning they said the wife and kid were at a hotel at the time and came home to a burning house), and crashing his plane (if financed) could be seen as a way to "get back" at the big banks/insurance companies if indirectly. I'm clearly not condoning his actions, but I can see how that could have played that way in his mind...

[MilDoc]

This guy attended "tax sessions" with "experts" who I assume told him how to "save" on his taxes - until he got caught that is. He also griped about a change in the tax code that required companies to withhold taxes on some contract software folks, etc. Shoot. I'm a contractor too. I WISH they did withholding! I HATE writing the big check every quarter!

He spent 10 years in jail for his idiotic belief in "tax avoidance advice," and in addition railed against religious exemptions etc.

Gee, tough. And yes, he had a wife and daughter.

Luckily the idiot crashed his plane into the basically unoccupied 1st floor. Guess he didn't know the hated IRS was on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor.

[cabinetman]

Luckily the idiot crashed his plane into the basically unoccupied 1st floor. Guess he didn't know the hated IRS was on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floor.

He was either a bad pilot, or there was a guiding force.
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