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To: mnehring
Joseph Stack has a unique knowledge of literature to make this quote

Not necessarily. A Google search of the phrase reveals that it has showed up from time to time on various discussion boards. Who knows where he picked it up from.

8 posted on 02/18/2010 12:19:30 PM PST by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

It is now, but if you remove all of today’s references, it becomes more obscure. Also, his whole train of thought seems to follow Fairlie.


11 posted on 02/18/2010 12:24:04 PM PST by mnehring
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

People will read what they want to into this guy’s last screed. Does he mention a Communist rule? He must be a Communist! Does he hate taxes? He must be a Paulite! Does he mention the Catholic Church? He must be an anti-PapistI Does he mention Big Capital? He must be a Libertarian!

One thing is certain: he hated the IRS.

All the rest - trying to pigeonhole him into various categories - is contradicted by his statement. He was anti-everything, aggrieved and insanely furious. He killed himself and someone else. He left a family behind - though apparently he was mad at them as well.

The people here who think he’s a Communist will not be swayed by any argument or close reading of his own writing. He probably would have been happy to take a poke in the nose at them on that point and found lots to agree with them on other opinions.

His ideas were a mishmash of stuff he picked up from a variety of places, and which he subscribed to because they matched his pre-conceived grievances. That’s very common.


49 posted on 02/19/2010 1:28:51 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

People will read what they want to into this guy’s last screed. Does he mention a Communist rule? He must be a Communist! Does he hate taxes? He must be a Paulite! Does he mention the Catholic Church? He must be an anti-PapistI Does he mention Big Capital? He must be a Libertarian!

One thing is certain: he hated the IRS.

All the rest - trying to pigeonhole him into various categories - is contradicted by his statement. He was anti-everything, aggrieved and insanely furious. He killed himself and someone else. He left a family behind - though apparently he was mad at them as well.

The people here who think he’s a Communist will not be swayed by any argument or close reading of his own writing. He probably would have been happy to take a poke in the nose at them on that point and found lots to agree with them on other opinions.

His ideas were a mishmash of stuff he picked up from a variety of places, and which he subscribed to because they matched his pre-conceived grievances. That’s very common.


50 posted on 02/19/2010 1:30:35 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

People will read what they want to into this guy’s last screed. Does he mention a Communist rule? He must be a Communist! Does he hate taxes? He must be a Paulite! Does he mention the Catholic Church? He must be an anti-PapistI Does he mention Big Capital? He must be a Libertarian!

One thing is certain: he hated the IRS.

All the rest - trying to pigeonhole him into various categories - is contradicted by his statement. He was anti-everything, aggrieved and insanely furious. He killed himself and someone else. He left a family behind - though apparently he was mad at them as well.

The people here who think he’s a Communist will not be swayed by any argument or close reading of his own writing. He probably would have been happy to take a poke in the nose at them on that point and found lots to agree with them on other opinions.

His ideas were a mishmash of stuff he picked up from a variety of places, and which he subscribed to because they matched his pre-conceived grievances. That’s very common.


51 posted on 02/19/2010 1:31:09 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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