The Austin Suicide Pilot: Legal Linkages

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How many manifestos-cum-suicide-notes contain citations to the Internal Revenue Code?
As it turns out, Joseph Stack — the man who allegedly crashed a plane into an Austin building housing the IRS — had some issues with the Code. And he expressed them in his rambling manifesto, replete with statutory citations (although not in Bluebook form).
For anyone who might be interested — perhaps the tax lawyers among you? — we’ve collected some links, after the jump.


The Full Text of Joseph Stack’s Insane Manifesto: It Details His Struggles With IRS [Going Concern]
Joseph Stack Was Not the First Futile Violent Tax Protester…and He Won’t Be the Last [Going Concern]
Pilot Deliberately Crashes Into IRS Office Building in Austin, Blames Tax Reform Act of 1986 [TaxProf Blog]
More on the Austin Pilot’s Tax Dispute With the IRS [TaxProf Blog]
Suicide Pilot Was Angry About Tax Law Affecting IT Professionals [ABA Journal]

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