what the joe stack manifesto shows is a man frustrated with the american free enterprise system. the american dream eludes him. he is bedeviled by a tax code that he sees as selectively enforced/interpreted to favor large interests and squeeze small ones. he sees politicians not as working for him, but for the wealthy and powerful.
how exactly are these sentiments "conservative" or "liberal"?
joe is correct--we have lost our democracy to the wealthy and powerful. look no further than the banksters bailout, done at the expense of the common man. look at corporate lobbying run amok. and now we have the citizens united supreme court decision, putting the final nail in the democracy coffin.
joe stack clearly wanted to believe in the american free enterprise system, but was disgusted with its corruption and how the scales were so badly tilted against the little guy.
true conservatives and true liberals agree on these points, and should fight TOGETHER to get our democracy back. partisans, on the other hand have a different agenda, as we can see from this yahoo post:
http://answers.yahoo.com/...
Let's settle this once and for all: Austin Kamikaze, Liberal or Conservative?
The Austin Kamikaze sounds like a Liberal to me...
Here's his suicide manifesto:
http://www.oliverwillis.com/...
"corrupt Catholic Church..."
"...organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living"
"sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen"
"Presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies "
"violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer"
"The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need."
He quotes Communist Liberal hero Karl Marx...
This guy is Liberal through and through!
this "question" is disgusting, as are the equivalent posted here, and plays right into the hands of the powerful who would continue to subvert rule by the people by dividing us. the genius of the joe stack manifesto is that there is no obvious partisan bent.
we can all agree that what joe stack did was awful, but we should also agree that he spoke some truths about our utterly broken system. truth is non-partisan. could we for once learn something from a tragedy and come together to make some fundamental changes?
yeah, i thought not.