by Leah Sellers

Created on: February 24, 2010

Every Living creature has the Energetic capacity to Internally Combust.
 
Apply the right (or adverse) amount of pressure to any creature - any thing, and it can or will fracture, splinter, implode (and possibly explode) into a period of Energetic violence and Chaos.
  
Joe Stack.  A Decent man. A Nice man by all accounts from his neighbors and friends.  I know that my sisters and I thought Joe to be so when he smilingly introduced himself to us as ‘the bass player’ at a party/jamboree we were performing at four years ago in Austin, Texas.  I remember thinking then.  He’s a Nice Joe.  An intelligent, likable computer geek who had a gift for giving the bass guitar some hot licks.  He appreciated Music, and enjoyed making Music with Others.   Joe Stack.  The Decent Man.  The Nice Guy computer geek, bass player Internally (and externally) Combusted on 2/19/2010.  Joe deliberately, literally and symbolically flew his small airplane into the side of a Dark Looking Glass building housing the Internal Revenue Service and its Workers in Austin, Texas.  And incinerated into a Fireball.   His Goal ?  To make a Statement to the outside World that would strike a Chord within the American (and Hopefully, Global) Psyche.  A good Bass Player striking his last Chord in Life.  A Vibration of Discontent to shake, rattle and roll the Souls of Humankind.  A Discordant Eulogy.  A Fiery Swan’s Song.   So angry - so full of Rage was Joe at the Injustices he felt were brought down upon him by the primarily brutalizing, uncaring and inhumane Bureaucratic/Corporate System (the IRS - just one of many similar Bureaucratic/Corporate Systems) that he set fire to his House (leaving his Wife and Daughter homeless), and rammed his Soul felt Rage - his Internal Combustion right down the throats of the IRS, the state of Texas, and Washington D.C..  Instead of spitting, Joe exploded right into the posturing, arrogant, unrelenting Faces of the Internal Revenue Service and the legislative, judicial, business and banking scoundrels and money-changers who daily skirt their way around the very penalties inescapably heaped upon Joe.  The Decent Man.  The Nice Guy.   “Take my Rage and shove it”, appears to be Joe’s answer to years of considered abuses and misuses of his Life’s precious Resources and Time.  His disgust and Rage

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