Needlenose

Another reactionary terror attack! At least they only kill Confederates.

Don’t bother sending us any more airplane suicide bombers, Osama Bin Laden, American Reactionaries are just dying to kill us themselves – case in point, an anti-tax wing-nut just Kamikaze’d his private plane into an IRS building in Texas.  You can read his twisted rantings here if you want to go to the trouble – it’s nothing you wouldn’t find on any other stupid wing-nut blog.

One thing I don’t understand – the guy was so anti-tax that he was driven to kill himself and various random bureaucrats – but he had his own private plane for fucks’ sake!  I can’t afford a fucking private plane!  We didn’t tax him enough! Texas doesn’t even have a state income tax for Christ’s sake!

Typical whiny reactionary terrorist putz.  America wake up – the Enemy is Within!

* Update 2-22-10* Like father like daughter?  Joe Stack’s daughter considers her father a hero! Only in the topsy-turvy world of the wing-nuts are people who attack government offices heroes!  Just like a decorated veteran like Kerry gets swift-boated so his draft-dodging, war criminal opponent can get another 4 years, or abortion-doctor killer is aided and abetted and kept out of the hands of justice for several years.

*Update 2 2-22-10* It’s not just the guy’s daughter casting our domestic wing-nut terrorist as a hero – Repug Rep. Steve King calls on fellow reactionaries to implode their local IRS offices!

Now that the Rush Limbaugh era is past, what’s a right-wing loonie to do? Take over Montana!During the ’90s you couldn’t get away from them. The lunatic fringe of the right wing were everywhere. Rush Limbaugh’s reedy voice and fat, smirking face filled the airwaves, bravely defending the perquisites of white men. Numerous Limbaugh “mini-mes” crowded the AM dial, spewing vitrolic about jack-booted thugs killing innocents at Waco and Ruby Ridge.

Tracts circulated about mysterious, night-flying black helicopters filled with U.N. storm troopers preparing to take over the country. Charlton Heston proudly boasted that Federal agents would have to pry his gun out of his cold, dead fingers to disarm him. Weekend militias crawled through the hills. Even stranger groups, like the Montana Freemen declared themselves independent of the U.S., financing their movement through check-kiting and printing their very own currency. They declared that U.S. law didn’t apply to them, and that the only legitimate law rested in the Magna Carta and Admirality Law (of all things).

I think the wave crested with Timothy McVeigh’s home-grown terrorist assault on a Federal building in Oklahoma that left 168 men, women and children dead. It finally broke with his conviction. I remember tuning in that day to local “hot air” radio host Mike Savage and hearing the resignation tinged with regret in the voices of his callers. It was the end of an era.

So where are they now?