Plane hits a building in Austin
 

Holy shit, this is less than a mile from my office. I can see the smoke.

Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas - CNN.com

I was driving from Leander on 183-S and drove by the building. Didn't know a plane had hit it until I got back to my office. Very sad

Word is that this was deliberate. Evidently, it is an IRS building.

CNN:

12:42 p.m.: The pilot of the plane had set his house on fire beforehand, stole the plane and crashed it intentionally, a federal official told CNN.

Tea Partier?

:D

Certainly a better option than paying taxes.

One of my buddies works for Gemalto, which is in the building right next to this one. He's heading home, they've shut off power to the area so that rescue crews can safely get to some parts of the building that was hit.

Now CNN is saying it's next door to an FBI building but the building itself may not be an IRS building.

I was working a few blocks from there yesterday.

There is a huge IRS campus in south Austin. If this was done intentionally, he must have known his target worked in that building, rather than just picking an IRS target at random.

Apparently the guy posted a lengthy diatribe this morning:

Austin news, sports, weather, Longhorns, business | Statesman.com

Dear Joe,

tl;dr

Signed,

Sane People

Wow. Just read that (most of it, anyway).

Yeah, he was going after the IRS all right.

Sheesh.

Weird.

The Department of Homeland Security has made multiple statements about this and keep saying "This is not terrorism." So, um... It was (by all accounts) someone deliberately flying a plane into government offices as a response to our government's policies.

If not that, WTF is terrorism?

He's a white guy, expressing his patriotism in his own unique way.

I work right across the freeway from this disaster two of my coworkers saw this as it happened. If I was here a bit earlier, I would have witnessed it myself, but luckily I didn't.

One of my co-workers saw the plane as he drove past the building on his way to work, heard the crash and drove back around to take pics:

:(

Ya, it is terrorism pretty plain and clear.

Man, just how many of you people live and work around this building?

I never realized how much FOFC revolved around Austin, TX.

To be honest, neither did I. I know of cartman and no one else.

I was chatting with Bill Harris about this situation. He works a couple hundred yards from this building. I'm sure he'll post about his experience on his blog in the coming days.

Ummmm where do all these nutbags come from. Yeesh.

Well the creepy thing is that he burned his house which is less than half a mile from where I live and he crashed a plane less than half a mile from where I work. Sad and disturbing to know how many lives he just turned upside down. In fact reports say that his wife and daughter left the house to stay at a hotel because he was going on a tirade yesterday. They returned in the morning to see their house burned down and would soon learn of the crash. Geez.

Asshole.

Surprising that the world doesn't revolve around the West Coast I see... :)

Heh...if anyone out here was under that delusion, it would be quickly removed by turning on ESPN. ;)

Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

Apparently this is the guy who crashed into the buildings manifest.

Just read his internet screed. Damn... seemed to be anti-government and anti-corporation - kind of the government and corporations are screwing over the middle class, so I'll show them type of terrorist action.

Just can't tell who is the terrorist nowadays.

Yeah, the Internet Time Masheen shows that website as being for his programming company, before he changed the front page.

seriously - you guys could have an epic fucking meetup

When I read this part of the screed:


It immediately brought to mind this:



No, I don't have a South Park problem. I can stop watching anytime I want.

Texas? ;)

Bingo.

SI

Scary thing is that I agree with a lot of what the guy writes in his rant. It's pretty non-partisan, taking whacks at everyone out there on a variety of issues. And, frankly, it's a lot of the same stuff I know I talk about at work all the time and probably a lot of others do as well.

Not planning on flying a plane into a building any time soon to prove a point, tho.

SI

or setting your house on fire, right??? RIGHT???

Well, I have no house to set on fire so that'd be a tough one. I do have an apartment but that probably voids my security deposit, I'm guessing.

SI

Are there IRS people inside his house at the time?

This is absolutely disgusting in this day and age...who still gets their damn picture taking finger in the way when they shoot pics????

+1

Seriously - I think my mother must have taken that picture.

So I just skimmed this guy's "manifesto" - he's basically just a tax cheat that blames everyone else for his crimes. No different than a lot of criminals (except that he can fly an airplane)

There is no terrorism in the Obama-led US. Just a bunch of people who may beefs with us but who aren't actual terrorists. That word is just too scary.

:lol:

:confused:

Do you really believe that, or are you just trying to be intentionally asshattish?

With regards to the "manifesto": they're cogent, rational thoughts with a reasonably complex thought process behind them. I just don't agree with what he did with said thoughts. And I'm sure there's probably a story that will come out with them.

SI

I find it hard to sympathize with the words of a guy who implies that he is in money trouble, and yet owns a private plane. (And one of his admitted issues is his recent purchase of a piano.)

False flag to discredit the anti-government movement?

i thought he stole the plane?

Wait. You think dude flew the plane into the building to smear the teabaggers?

This must be the new Godwin.

Well actually, the guy is a Cali transplant, just like me.