Small plane is crashed into tax offices in Austin Texas

Yahoo News

AUSTIN (Reuters) – An apparently disgruntled man crashed a small plane into a federal building housing U.S. tax offices in Austin, Texas on Thursday in what local officials said was likely a deliberate attack.

Two people were taken to the hospital after the crash that set ablaze the seven-story building, Austin fire officials said. The pilot, identified by law enforcement sources as Joseph Andrew Stack, was found dead.

The incident renewed fears of domestic terrorism and gaps in security for private aircraft. The White House said it had no reason to believe there was a link to foreign terrorism and that President Barack Obama was briefed on the situation.

It was probably "a deliberate attack by one individual acting alone," Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said, downplaying the threat of more attacks.

U.S. Representative Michael McCaul of Texas called it "a deliberate and intentional attack against a federal building."

A rambling note posted on the Internet and signed "Joe Stack" spelled out problems he had with the Internal Revenue Service tax agency. A law enforcement source said authorities were investigating the note.

"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," the note said. It was not possible to independently determine the authenticity of the note, dated February 18, or its authorship.



Here is my take on it.

So a small plane hit a smaller sized building today. The obvious observation is that it cause more damage to the building, then the damage that building 7 took in the September 11 attacks (that no plane hit). But this building is still standing and building 7 is not. There is no evidence of molten metal in or under this building either.

While I write this I have CNN on the TV. Anderson Cooper is speaking with some other lady discussing that they have "evidence" that this man worked on his online post over several days, and there must be some way that they can watch for things like this online. So they can Identify these people before they do these kind of actions.
Hmmmm hinting towards Internet censorship a little? Using this event to filter online communications to keep us safe??

Times online has even starting to link this to the tea party movement. In this article (that mentions nothing about the tea party) they explain the events that happened in Austin today. Right in the middle of 2 paragraphs explaining who this man was there is a link: (See the making of the Tea Party movement.). coincidence?? I think not!!

I am also seeing reports that there was hazmat teams, and the local fire department right across the street from the building. Maybe they were doing a training program but I doubt it.

With things like this being so evident already. We will be feeling the effect from this somehow. It is hard to pin point how yet, but we will have are eyes wide open watching for it!