NEW YORK (CBS) Joseph Andrew Stack, the man the FBI believes crashed a small plane into an Austin office complex out of anger at the IRS, may have left a disturbing online manifesto in which he ranted against the IRS, the Catholic Church, tax loopholes, bailouts and his own sorry state of affairs.
Here’s what Joe Stack wrote on the website this morning at 6:42am:
“Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well,”
EmbeddedArt.com was created Feb. 16 and last modified this morning at 6:42 a.m. according the page’s source code. The FBI claim that the site, and message, are both real.
The FBI have forced the website offline, and if you visit it now, here’s what you get:
“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. To see an archived version of the original letter, please go here: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack1.html.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.
Regards,
T35 Hosting – www.T35.com”
Here are videos from the right outside the IRS building: