Posted on 02/27/2010 8:47:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit that generated all the ink and 24/7 cable chatter in Washington. I’d put my money instead on the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen.
What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it. Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner.
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It is not glib or inaccurate to invoke Oklahoma City in this context, because the acrid stench of 1995 is back in the air. Two days before Stack’s suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow’s chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. The Patriot movement. “The New World Order,” with its shadowy conspiracies hatched by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Sandpoint, Idaho. White supremacists. Militias.(continued)
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Screw you Frank Rich. This pole smoker was a theater critic for The Slimes at one time. Now he’s a political pundit. What a crock.
Come on Frankie boy. You can do better than that! You left out his ANTI-CAPITALIST rage. Doesn't sound like a Tea Party type to me.
God, what a hack..
Agree. Total joke.
Austin is a bunker of liberals in a conservative state. Guy played in a band in Austin? Likely a liberal. Mostly just a nut.
Good though if the left dismisses the anger of the average American. Just like Obama they are politically tone deaf.
Frank Rich is to truthful journalism as Al Gore it to weather science.
Both are frauds, and legends in their own minds.
Nobody really gives a damn about Rich. Al Gore just might go to jail for his crap.
And a hell of a lot more that overlaps with Ralph Nader, 90% of the college professors in the country, and the editorial board of the New York Times.
Joe Stack was a typical liberal. He’s all for taxing eeeevil corporations, but when HE had a run-in with the IRS all of a sudden he becomes a “teabagger”. Right. Liberals are all about the other guy getting screwed but exempting themselves.
Awwwwwwwww... Widdle Fwankie has-ums lil drawsies all in a knotty-whotty.
Theater critics are the lowest form of human existence. So he's come up a notch.
There have been so many goofballs trying to paint this guy as a Tea Party.
They seem to dismiss the mans own writing which decries Capitialism, big business and other leftist thoughts.
Like when they try to call Neo Nazis “right wing”, they resort to name calling. A good tatic when you have the mental process of a ten year old.
After all, NAZI means national SOCIALIST Party...it right in the name for goodness sake.
Yes, and that says a lot for The Slimes.
Seriously do you really think “ManBearPig’’ will face a court of law over this? Be still my foolish heart!
Frank Rich: The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged
He wrote an autobiography ?
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