On Andrew Joseph Stack III

During one of my fasts in Austin, Texas, I am very sure that a man fitting Joe Stack's description came to see me, as I sat in a lawn chair outside the Regional IRS Building, day-after-day. He squatted down on the ground next to me and asked, "Do you think non-violence will work against the IRS?" I replied, "Gandhi taught that non-violence is an option, not a command." I went on to explain the matter of how governments that seek to be perceived as moral in the world can be moved by non-violence but that Marxist governments (like the United States) do not seek moral outcomes; rather, they seek efficiency, as they alone understand it. I think this conversation moved Joe over time to a place that he chose to fly his plane into the IRS building that day last year. His violence brought a balance in the war against the IRS that we must respect, but I think we are in a non-violent place now, as I describe in the post below. The Ron Paul and Tea Party movements returned hope to a people I thought were destined to remain enslaved.