今天的一則小新聞讓我意識到神獸之王-- 河蟹，已經踏上了美利堅的土地。

想必大家都已經看過了 “一架小型飛機 18日撞擊美國得克薩斯州 奧斯汀市國稅局的辦公大樓” 的新聞， 估計也有人看到了“最后的吶喊： 撞擊奧斯汀國稅大樓的飛行員的話”的帖子 (在本篇文章的最后附有這位飛行員所說的部分中文翻譯、以及網友評論節選)。    在這里我所感興趣的是

美國版的河蟹！

這位老兄在駕機撞國稅大樓之前，把遺言放到了http://embeddedart.com/, 現在應FBI的要求，被和諧到了http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html 。 而網站管理員把原站點的內容 從遺言變成下面的內容（紅字是我標注的）：

This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning and in compliance with a request from the FBI. If you want to see the original letter, please see the archived version at thesmokinggun.com:http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html
Regards,
T35 Hosting

上面是第一版，后來又變成第二版（去掉FBI的 字樣）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas this morning.

Regards,
T35 Hosting

現在又變成第三版（加上了鏈接）：
This website has been taken offline due to the sensitive nature of the events that transpired in Texas. Although the customer exceeded their bandwidth limits earlier today, due to numerous requests, we have added credit to this account to keep this site live for informational purposes. To see an archived version of the original letter, please go here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html. Please visit our forum if you wish to discuss anything related to this incident: Texas crash pilot left suicide note on Web site - embeddedart.com (please don't send us emails as we can't respond to all of them).

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我 不知道為什么要轉移網站的內容，宣揚了專制思想、還是張貼了黃色圖片。。。

最后的吶喊：
（節選自：http://www.ccthere.com/article /2728903 及 http://news.backchina.com/2010/2/19/gb2312_77498.html）

。。。 前略。。。
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
我記得讀到過在“大蕭條”前的股市崩潰中，富裕的銀行家和商人們因為生意失敗輸光了一切而跳樓。具有諷刺性的是，這個國家經過了60多年后，富人們終 于學會了怎樣解決這樣的小問題；他們只需要從中產階級（他們沒有發言權，選舉是一個笑話）那里偷來財富彌補自己的損失，然后就可以“照常營業”了。現在富 人們生意失敗的結果是，窮人們因為這些錯誤去死。。。這是多么聰明而有條理的解決方案啊。

I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
我知道我應該不是第一個覺得無法再忍受下去的人。在這個國家，人們從未停止為了自由去戰斗，去死，不僅僅是黑人和貧困的移民們。無數人在我之前曾為自 由而死，以后也一定還會有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命為代價的話，沒有什么會改變。我選擇不再逃避“老大哥”的追蹤，任其撕碎我的尸體。我選擇不再忽 視我身邊發生的（罪惡）。我選擇不再假裝“照常營業”。我已經受夠了。

I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
我只能希望（死亡？）數字會迅速變大到無法被掩蓋和忽視，美國人會醒來和反抗。沒有流血是無法喚醒人民的。我僅僅希望通過刺激敏感的神經，習慣于雙重 標準的政府會反射式地通過更多愚蠢而嚴苛的限制，而人民會醒來并看清這些傲慢的政客和他們渺小把戲的真面目?？杀氖?，雖然我花了一生的時間去相信“暴力 不是答案”，但是事實上暴力不僅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上層的混蛋們早就知道這一點，并且一直暗笑象我這樣的傻瓜。

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.
詞典上把重復做同樣的事情，然后指望會出現不同的結果定義為精神錯亂。我終于準備好結束這種精神錯亂了。好了，國稅局的老大哥們，我們來試一試新的做 法。拿走我的一磅肉（應該是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡個好覺吧。

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
共產主義信條：各盡所能，各取所需。
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
資本主義信條：輕信者盡其勞，貪婪者取其利。

Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010

網友評論節選：
網 友1（http://www.ccthere.com /thread/2728903/1）：
  看來美國的GFW也一點不差啊，比ZXB動作快多了。我在10：50聽到新聞里提到他的這個網站，從樓下的回帖看至遲到11：40就被和諧了。

網 友2（http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military /33357129.html）
  真正應該認真學習和貫徹joe同志思想和精神的是老將們。老將們獲悉joe同志為了維權而英勇壯烈犧牲的事跡后，在緬懷英烈的同時，無不紛紛表示，要 繼承和發揚joe的遺志，跟中國政府對抗到底！

網友3（同上）
  基本上就是什么倒霉事都給他碰上了。。最早想鉆tax code的空子，結果沒成功把養老金虧光了。。然后遇到什么針對it員工的稅改這段沒怎么看懂估計又吃虧了。。然后又遇上洛杉磯的大蕭條政府關閉南加州的 空軍基地，他的養老金又虧光了。。接著遇到。com泡沫和911，對航空公司的嚴加管理造成他的軟件公司效益很不好。。最后搬到德州來發現這里薪水很低是 被幾個大公司壟斷控制著的結果。。然后好像那年是因為沒找到工作沒報稅還是怎么的。結果政府不同意。最后花費了他很高昂的律師費。。在最后他大概混的還不 錯。。于是就去找專業的財務人士幫他去保稅。。結果他們故意少報了10000多的收入，結果就被IRSaudit。。所以憤怒達到極點了就破罐子破摔了

網 友4（http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Detective /47797.html）
Joe Stack這事應該算官逼民反，逼上梁山，為了共產主義理想赴湯蹈火吧。人家可不是瞎胡鬧，討伐檄文中對資本主義的本質有著清醒地認識，瞧人家最后那兩句 總結得多精辟。該同志絕對算一反資義士，這里的小將老將怎么也沒人出頭替他討個說法，這事要是發生在中國，估計美國國會會通過一個Joe Stack法案強烈譴責社會主義的邪惡。所以我覺得中國也應該發個聲明或發篇喉舌報社論悼念一下：偉大的共產主義戰士，Joe Stack同志，懷著對共產主義的堅定信念和對資本主義社會人吃人的無比憎惡，為了揭露美帝國主義的虛偽貪婪和無恥，決定赴湯蹈火，舍身取義，于２月１８ 日駕機起義，與資本主義的代理人IRS同歸于盡，終年５４歲。偉大的Joe Stack同志永垂不朽！

網友5（http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/Military /33359945.html）
還 是美帝心狠手辣啊，人都死了還追封個恐怖分子的稱號。
楊佳死了，還允許同情他的討論
這個joe估計誰要表示同情誰就變恐怖分子同黨了

附文：

最后的吶喊：撞擊奧斯汀國稅大樓的飛行員的話
　　MND has obtained a copy of the letter left by Joe Stack, the pilot who this morning flew his plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas. We have reproduced it here in full…

　　If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures. We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy.

　　Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse. While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.

　　Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in. And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!

　　How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.

　　How did I get here?

　　My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.

　　The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed reevaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.

　　That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.

　　Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer. On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.

　　The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.

　　In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.

　　Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-theears’ contract software engineer… and two years later, thanks to the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.

　　For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).

　　SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL. (a) IN GENERAL – Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: (d) EXCEPTION. – This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work. (b) EFFECTIVE DATE. – The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.

　　Note:

　　! “another person” is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.

　　! “taxpayer” is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.

　　! “individual”, “employee”, or “worker” is you.

　　Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.

　　During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients. After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect. Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle.

　　If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back. Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.

　　Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.

　　By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a {EXPLETIVE DELETED}  about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.

　　To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.

　　So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.

　　When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.

　　This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around. I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy {EXPLETIVE DELETED} up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution. As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.

　　我記得讀到過在“大蕭條”前的股市崩潰中，富裕的銀行家和商人們因為生意失敗輸光了一切而跳樓。具有諷刺性的是，這個國家經過了60多年后，富人們終于學會了怎樣解決這樣的小問題；他們只需要從中產階級（他們沒有發言權，選舉是一個笑話）那里偷來財富彌補自己的損失，然后就可以“照常營業”了?，F在富人們生意失敗的結果是，窮人們因為這些錯誤去死。。。這是多么聰明而有條理的解決方案啊。

　　I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.

　　我知道我應該不是第一個覺得無法再忍受下去的人。在這個國家，人們從未停止為了自由去戰斗，去死，不僅僅是黑人和貧困的移民們。無數人在我之前曾為自由而死，以后也一定還會有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命為代價的話，沒有什么會改變。我選擇不再逃避“老大哥”的追蹤，任其撕碎我的尸體。我選擇不再忽視我身邊發生的（罪惡）。我選擇不再假裝“照常營業”。我已經受夠了。

　　I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.

　　我只能希望（死亡？）數字會迅速變大到無法被掩蓋和忽視，美國人會醒來和反抗。沒有流血是無法喚醒人民的。我僅僅希望通過刺激敏感的神經，習慣于雙重標準的政府會反射式地通過更多愚蠢而嚴苛的限制，而人民會醒來并看清這些傲慢的政客和他們渺小把戲的真面目?？杀氖?，雖然我花了一生的時間去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事實上暴力不僅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上層的混蛋們早就知道這一點，并且一直暗笑象我這樣的傻瓜。

　　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.

　　詞典上把重復做同樣的事情，然后指望會出現不同的結果定義為精神錯亂。我終于準備好結束這種精神錯亂了。好了，國稅局的老大哥們，我們來試一試新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（應該是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡個好覺吧。

　　The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

　　共產主義信條：各盡所能，各取所需。

　　The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

　　資本主義信條：騙輕信人之財，填貪婪者之欲。

　　Joe Stack (1956-2010)

　　02/18/2010

美得克薩斯州一架小飛機撞樓疑是飛行員蓄意所為

2010年02月19日 國際在線

　　國際在線報道(記者 韓曙)：一架小型飛機18日撞擊美國得克薩斯州奧斯汀市國稅局的辦公大樓，導致多人受傷并引發爆炸和大火。執法部門初步認為是該機駕駛員蓄意制造了這起事件。

　　當地時間18日上午10點鐘左右，一架低空飛行的小型飛機突然向7層高的得克薩斯州奧斯汀市稅務大樓撞去，現場立刻發生爆炸并燃起大火。這幢有200多名職員工作的大樓頓時一片混亂。稅務局工作人員佩吉·沃克爾回憶說：“事情發生時，我覺得就像炸彈掉了下來，天花板穿了一個大洞，窗戶玻璃碎片也四處亂飛。”稅務大樓附近的一名目擊者看到飛機撞向大樓之后，“消失在一團火球中”。

　　事件發生后，奧斯汀市政府緊急出動消防隊員和警察前往現場展開救援。美國國防部也從休斯頓緊急調派2架F16戰斗機在奧斯汀市巡邏。根據當地消防局提供的最新情況，稅務大樓損傷最為嚴重的是二層和三層，目前大樓里至少有1名工作人員失蹤，另外有13人被送往醫院治療，其中2人傷勢嚴重。經過將近一天的努力，目前稅務大樓里的大火已經被撲滅，消防員正展開仔細的搜索工作，以便確定在這一事件中是否有更多的死傷者。

　　事件發生后，當地警方立刻開始了調查工作，目前查明駕駛飛機撞擊稅務局大樓的是一名男子，名叫約瑟夫·斯塔克，今年53歲，曾經是一名軟件工程師。他撞擊大樓的原因很可能是自殺性報復。警方找到了斯塔克當天早上在網上發布的一篇類似遺言的文章。斯塔克在文章中稱，他與奧斯汀市稅務部門曾經發生過幾次口角。他還在這篇文章中指責稅務部門、美國政府的金融救援計劃和美國大公司是在對普通民眾進行“謀殺和搶掠”。他說，他不能讓這些“大哥大”們一邊把自己“搶”個精光，一邊還監視自己。警方還發現，斯塔克當天早上還放火燒毀了自己的房屋，隨后從距離奧斯汀市30英里的喬治敦機場駕駛著小型飛機飛向稅務大樓。大概是由于下定了自殺的決心，斯塔克連飛行日志都沒有向機場方面提交。而一名目擊者表示，斯塔克駕駛的飛機沒有任何失去控制的跡象，以至于他最開始以為斯塔克的低空飛行是為了炫耀自己的技術，“沒想到他做出這么瘋狂的行為”。

　　在當天下午的新聞發布會上，奧斯汀市警方表示，從目前掌握的線索看，這起撞擊稅務局大樓是“個人導致的獨立事件”，與恐怖襲擊無關。

　　事實上，小型飛機撞樓事件近年在美國時有發生。2002年1月，在佛羅里達州坦帕市，一名年僅15歲的飛行學校學生駕駛小型飛機撞擊坦帕市中心大廈自殺，所幸當時正值周末，大廈人去樓空，并未引起嚴重后果。2006年10月，紐約一架小型飛機也撞上曼哈頓一幢大樓，有2人在事件中喪生。當地警方認為事件可能是由于飛行員駕駛技術不過硬而發生的意外。

　　在去年圣誕節炸機未遂事件發生之后，美國加強了航空安全，對國內航班的乘客采取了嚴格的安檢措施，但許多專家表示，美國國家運輸安全委員會似乎忽略了對小型飛機駕駛員的管控。以這起事件為例，斯塔克在駕駛飛機起飛前沒有嚴格按照機場規定提交飛行日志，此外他早些時候還在網上發布了威脅性言論，然而沒有人阻止他駕機起飛。也有專家指出，在飛行員申請飛行執照時沒有嚴格的精神健康檢查，也是導致這一悲劇的原因之一。對此，美國前國家運輸安全委員會副主席彼得·戈爾茲表示，美國小型飛機為數眾多，航線也不像大型客機那樣固定，有飛行駕照的人更是林林總總，管理起來很困難，改進管理措施還需要相當長的時間。