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[nephron]

An act of domestic terrorism occurs in the USA, and people are supporting this guy because they don't like the IRS either?

Hey, I don't like fundamentalist churches, does that mean I get to fly planes into them?

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[oliverm]

Given my current job I'm quite glad that I don't live in the US, Australia doesn't have anything like the anti-taxation culture (combined with a sense of entitlement in a lot of cases) that exists in America.

I mean apart from all the other reasons.

[loic]

Americans don't see their government as an extension of their society so they see taxation as theft. It's actually a common belief that taxation is immoral. Yeah, the roads really suck, so do the schools and there's no such thing as health care.

[cthulhubitch]

"Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the incident was a single act by a sole individual.

He refused to classify it as terrorism"

I suppose it's not very well *organised* terrorism, but if flying a plane into a building for attention isn't terrorism, what the fuck is?

[kadeton]

I would define terrorism as "systematic violence against a civilian population to further a political agenda". One guy burning down his house and flying a plane into a building isn't terrorism, it's just suicide and attempted mass murder. The manifesto he wrote makes him at best a political martyr - the lack of a wider agenda renders him invalid as a terrorist threat. He can't very well say, "I'm going to keep crashing planes into IRS buildings until the system changes."