By Scott W. Winchell
GCC/Staff
Feb. 22, 2010

That did not take long. After the horrendous Austin Texas incident, the left is labeling him a “Tea Party fanatic” or a “Tea Bag Terrorist”. Maybe he was a Tea Party supporter, by why the knee jerk reaction to label him as such?

Michelle Malkin called it the “Not Me” Syndrome as a knee jerk reaction of the left to such incidents:

“Remember “Not Me?” He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper cartoon strip “Family Circus.” Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the cartoon pointed their fingers at “Not Me.” Today, “Tea Party” is the juvenile Left’s new “Not Me” – an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.”

 

Take a peak at a few instances:

From Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post

“Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal Revenue Service, and he took his rage out on it by slamming his single-engine plane into the Echelon Building in Austin, Texas. We now know this thanks to the rather clear (as rants go) suicide note Stack left behind.

There’s no information yet on whether he was involved in any anti-government groups or whether he was a lone wolf. But after reading his 34-paragraph screed, I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.”

 

By McJoan at the Daily Kos:

“Obviously Stack was not a mentally healthy person, and he was embittered at capitalism, including crony capitalism, and health insurance companies and the government.

Reading larger political motives into this action would be preliminary, until more information emerges about whether he actually has been involved in any political movement like the teabaggers. But it should inject a bit of caution into the anti-government flame-throwers on the right.”

 

From Celebrifi

“A blog on Austin’s The Statesman website says that the guy who this morning crashed a plane into a cluster of federal offices in Austin (including an IRS office) had posted an online diatribe, and that the site is registered to one Joe Stack of San Marcos, Texas.

If Joe is/was the Suicide pilot, he seems towould seem to fit the profile of a Tea Party wingnutter . Or…you know, some variation of this psychosis. Leave the good people alone, Ayn Rand without the intellectual…”

 

A Tweet from a David Neiwert at the Crooks and Liars site:

“UPDATE: The pilot has been identified as a Joseph Andrew Stack, who appears to have left the following suicide note on the Web, titled “Well Mr. Big Brother IRS Man … take my pound of flesh and sleep well”.”

“It’s a classic right-wing extremist rant.”

He later back-stepped by Tweeting:

 

“UPDATE2: I’m amending this. Upon giving this a more careful reading, it’s clear this is actually much more complex than your typical right-wing rant; it has a lot of standard right-wing features, particularly the fetish about the IRS and the notion that taxes are inimical to freedom; but there’s obviously a lot more going on there as well. I’ll post more on this later.”

But the damage was done, he showed his knee-jerk reaction.

Just Google the newest rant term: “Teabag Terrorist” Its amazing how quickly the left has labeled this as a nut job terrorist act akin to the nut job tea baggers.

Headlines at sites include the term:

Another Day, Another Teabag Terrorist from the ePluribus Media site.

There are even attempts to see if anyone saw Stark at any Tea Party events

You decide for yourself.

 

 

Source: Stand Up America  

  

Editor’s Note: We would like to know what you think. dan@goldcoastchronicle.com