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Joe Stack - An Ordinary Citizen Driven to a Final Deadly Solution
On February 18, 2010, Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack flew his single engine Cherokee Piper PA-28 into the Internal Revenue (IRS) offices, located at the Echelon 1 Building in Austin, Texas. During his apparent planned suicide, Stack killed at least one worker besides himself and injured thirteen others who were employed there.
Leaving behind what appears to be an online suicide note, Stack had spent weeks writing about his frustration, disappointments, and dissatisfaction with how his business life had progressed from the early 1980's. He wrote of business ventures that failed and the loss of income and personal savings because of current tax laws and based partially on the economy in general. Not just a single loss or failure, but multiple events over the years, even as Joe Stack continued to press forward, all the while attempting to realize the "American Dream".
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