US pilot crash into federal building was 'deliberate'
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The kamikaze plunge of a small plane into an Internal Revenue Service building in Austin, Texas on Thursday has been described an act of deliberation.
The pilot Andrew Joseph Stack, 53, left a suicide note on the Internet before going to a Georgetown airport to take off with a single-engine plane aiming to hit the seven-story IRS building. The incident killed two and injured 13 others.
"Violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer," wrote Stack, a software engineer, in his post.
"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well."
Police have declined to confirm whether the pilot, who also torched his own house before going for the federal building, is among those reported dead.
In his suicide memo posted on the internet, Stack also mentions his financial problems, his difficulty finding a job in Austin, and at least two disputes with the IRS, one of them after he filed no return because, he said, he had no income, and the other after he failed to report his wife's income.
The California State records suggest that Stack had a troubled business history, twice starting software companies in California that ultimately were suspended by the state's tax board, one in 2000 and the other in 2004.
Furthermore, Stack's first wife had filed for bankruptcy in 1999, listing a debt to the IRS of nearly $126,000.