American history is filled with unlikely heroes.
People like Henry Ford, whose automobile and raging anti-Semitism would inspire the nation for decades to come. And Jesus (an honorary American), who first popularized magic.
Recently, a new patriot has come into our social periphery. A man whose name you probably won't recognize, but will undoubtedly go down in history a great American hero.
Picture the kitchen scene from "Fight Club" where Meatloaf just got half his brain shot off (spoiler alert). Now repeat after me: His name is Andrew Joseph Stack III. His name is Andrew Joseph Stack III.
Stack, disgruntled at the IRS and seeming to blame this bureaucratic entity for his failed marriage, did what any great American would do. He crashed a small plane into the building, martyring himself and one other person, for his cause.
It takes a lot of guts to do what Stack did. Not everyone can completely lose his or her sense of rationality and find it morally acceptable to smash an aircraft into a building and kill people. But as true, good ‘ol hearty Americans, we know that flying planes into buildings is the only real way to prove that you love America and hate the government.
Forget that Stack's final diatribe was somewhat leftist and completely insane. That the man was obviously emotionally fragile and unable to make logical decisions. That his manifesto borrows from just about every political ideology simultaneously.
No, forget all of that. This here is a true American. A regular David and Goliath where the little guy finally stood up for true American values.
Like killing people in a suicide attack.
In the wake of the crash, numerous groups have lavished praise on this pushed too far man. Facebook groups dedicated to his memory have cropped up. Tea Party Patriots posted a Tweet titled "God Bless Joe Stack, an American hero." Bloggers have condoned his actions as just the result of a government run amok.
But as my tax-hating, small-government self has been masturbating to the thought of plane crashes and Adderall-inspired suicide manifestos, I couldn't help but wonder something. Aren't we forgetting another Patriot, lost amongst the fervor of "political correctness?" Wasn't there someone else out there who did just as much to champion the cause of fighting back against the machine of totalitarian American government? Fortunately, there was.
Rewind back to that kitchen scene and repeat after me again. His name is Timothy McVeigh. His name is Timothy McVeigh. A man who Glenn Beck obviously thinks about when having sex with his wife, McVeigh set the gold standard for anarchist pushback against unfair government oppression. Upset with taxes, enraged over gun control regulations, afraid of socialists (insert a million other prototypical small-government bitches here) he undertook one of the most heroic acts in American history.
On April 19, 1995, McVeigh parked a truck filled with ammonium nitrate and nitromethane in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and ignited its contents. One-hundred and sixty-eight people were killed, 19 of which were children in a day care center.
Truly, a great man.
And yet, history has been astonishingly unkind to Mr. McVeigh. Labels like "domestic terrorist" and "murderer" have dogged him and his legacy ever since he purposefully and maliciously cut the threads on American lives in a symbolic protest against governmental authority.
But what did McVeigh do that Stack didn't? If anything, McVeigh's act was so much more badass than Stack's. Sure, flying a plane into a building sounds cool, but such a small plane with such a small body count just doesn't compare to the stats put up in Oklahoma.
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And that "Tea Party supporters seemed particularly aggrieved at the suggestion the anti-tax, anti-big government movement might have created a climate that encouraged Stack's alleged actions. "He is a terrorist. End of story," the leader of the Waco, Tex., chapter of the Tea Party, Toby Marie Walker, told conservative Web site InfoWars. The site is run by Alex Jones, a conservative Austin-based radio host."
"After reading Mr. Stack's February 18, 2010 statement, it is evident he supported anarchy," said Heather Liggett of the Austin Tea Party in a statement to InfoWars. "The Tea Party movement does not advocate anarchy. The Tea Party movement believes in our founding principles so eloquently written in our Constitution."
If you consider magic as: (an extraordinary power or influence seemingly from a supernatural source) than I imagine Citta is right.
In his ignorance Citta seems to find many things to be magical such as: truth, honesty, electricity, adding two plus two and the ability to write a coherent intelligent composition. All of these things seem to be beyond his ability to understand, grasp, or achieve. To him they are magic: (the use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces; a process of sleight of hand.)
Actually only
General Lafayette, Sir Winston Churchill, Raoul Wallenberg, William Penn, Hannah Callowhill, Mother Teresa, and
Kazimierz Pułaski, are honorary Americans. Apparently Jesus is a citizen of the world.
Here's the truth:
McVeigh claimed that the bombing was revenge for "what the U.S. government did at Waco and Ruby Ridge." McVeigh visited Waco during the standoff, where he spoke to a news reporter about his anger over what was happening there.McVeigh frequently quoted and alluded to the white supremacist novel The Turner Diaries. It described acts of terrorism similar to the one he carried out. While McVeigh openly rejected the book's racism (a roommate said that McVeigh was not a racist and was basically indifferent to racist matters), he claimed to appreciate its interest in firearms. Photocopies of pages sixty-one and sixty-two of The Turner Diaries were found in an envelope inside McVeigh's car. These pages depicted a fictitious mortar attack upon the U.S. Capitol in Washington.In interviews before his execution, documented in American Terrorist, McVeigh stated he decapitated an Iraqi soldier with cannon fire on his first day in the war and celebrated. But he said he later was shocked to be ordered to execute surrendering prisoners and to see carnage on the road leaving Kuwait City after U.S. troops routed the Iraqi army. In interviews following the Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh said he began harboring anti-government feelings during the Gulf War. In 1998, while in prison, McVeigh wrote an essay that criticized US foreign policy towards Iraq as being hypocritical:
“ The administration has said that Iraq has no right to stockpile chemical or biological weapons (“weapons of mass destruction”) – mainly because they have used them in the past.""Well, if that’s the standard by which these matters are decided, then the U.S. is the nation that set the precedent. The U.S. has stockpiled these same weapons (and more) for over 40 years. The U.S. claims that this was done for deterrent purposes during the “Cold War” with the Soviet Union. Why, then is it invalid for Iraq to claim the same reason (deterrence) — with respect to Iraq’s (real) war with and the continued threat of, its neighbor Iran?""If Saddam is such a demon and people are calling for war crimes charges and trials against him and his nation, why do we not hear the same cry for blood directed at those responsible for even greater amounts of “mass destruction” — like those responsible and involved in dropping bombs on the cities mentioned above.""The truth is, the U.S. has set the standard when it comes to the stockpiling and use of weapons of mass destruction."
Citta's a disgusting little dirt bag and the DN is a joke for publishing his garbage.
"OK, I admit. These are actually quotes taken from a Tea Party platform blog"
This is suppose to be a Tea Party comment? Funny I did a google search and the only person I found who said this was Kyle Citta.
That fictitious quote sounds more like the rantings of Lefty extremists or some of Citta's own insane gibberish. Either way its another tribute the level of dishonesty and incompetent ineptitude that Citta will stoop to in order to represent the point of view of melon heads everywhere.
Maybe he got confused, Maybe he just made it all up. Maybe he just admires terrorists
"Well done. (For a semi-literate) Simply reading some of the lame comments(Hey we do the best with what were provided with. If you want better comments than ask Citta to write better columns. Maybe he should take a writing class. Better yet maybe he should take some English classes) is proof enough of the effectiveness of the article in pointing out the hypocrisy and absurdity of (Kyle Citta). Getting them to reduce themselves to name-calling(We already reduced ourselves to reading Citta, what do you expect? and really anonymous how could any one hope to insult Citta as well as he does every time he writes one of these bilge feasts. I mean this one was a three barf bagger.) is another feather in your cap (dunce cap). Again I say well done (Since I probably forgot what I was saying in the first place).