Comments | the_recession: Shit's Ramping Up

nebris in the_recession

Shit's Ramping Up

Feb 18, 2010 11:14

Plane crashes into building in Austin, Texas
(CNN) -- The latest news as it comes in to CNN from the scene of the crash of a small plane in Austin, Texas. (All times are ET, one hour ahead of local Austin time ( Read more... )

societal breakdown, global financial trainwreck of 2007-?, 50 state slump, texas, civil unrest, taxes

Comments 30

be4u February 18 2010, 19:29:45 UTC

Even mentally ill people can have "an agenda." That "manifesto" was not written by a person who fits the legal definition of sane.

nebris February 18 2010, 19:45:00 UTC

He sounds angry and frustrated and overwhelmed, but not certainly not 'legally insane'. Sometimes suicide is a positive act. The Japanese believe that to be true. As I said, this was a 'revolutionary act.'

~M~

be4u February 18 2010, 20:25:03 UTC

I agree that he was clearly angry and frustrated, but I also think the man was suffering from some form of mental illness, based on what he wrote, the way he wrote it, and his actions.

You could say Ted Kaczynski was a "revolutionary", and that might be true, but it was also mentally ill. The two don't need to be mutually exclusive.

cieldumort February 18 2010, 21:09:57 UTC

He was clearly -not- sane.

On a side note, I was in an office building just about a mile away when he crashed his plane, and I really don't care if he was sane or insane at the moment.

Thread 7

underlankers February 18 2010, 21:29:08 UTC

Holy shit....O.o

Wonder if this will end up being forgotten like the JP Morgan car bombing?

rhonan February 19 2010, 05:10:22 UTC

What J.P. Morgan car bombing?

cieldumort February 19 2010, 09:52:10 UTC

Or the Enron mass suicide.

sophiaserpentia February 19 2010, 00:27:28 UTC

I would call it an act of rebellion, but I am not one of those who believes the revolution can be violent. IMO (and I know I'm probably in the minority on this) the revolution requires nothing less than certain changes in human nature.

sophiaserpentia February 19 2010, 00:28:10 UTC

As for whether he's a leftist, I think a leftist terrorist would have hit a bank building rather than the IRS. I could be wrong.

capthek February 19 2010, 01:18:35 UTC

Plenty of right wingers would also go for a bank though. Perhaps a military contractor or went after the mansion of a big business type.

But this guy also blew up his families home so what does that add to the equation?

underlankers February 19 2010, 01:28:45 UTC

Since he was an anarcho-communist, I think it's fairly safe to say that instruments of state power would be hit either way.

Thread 20