Shannon Love of the Chicago Boyz takes exactly the right tact in discussing the motives of this morning’s suicide bomber of the IRS in Austin, Texas. She concludes:
These people are the very definition of evil. They often reflect some part of every political belief because every political belief has some piece that can be used to justify being selfish and evil. They take only the bad and none of the good from every ideology.
That is why they become a Rorschach test in which everyone sees evidence of some ideology they despise. Instead of trying to pin them on our political competitors, we might instead take these events as times for personal reflection. We shouldn’t just see those we dislike in the faces of these evil people…
… we should see ourselves as well.
Patrick Cahalan 
Cornelius 
wardsmith 
Tod Kelly 
Tom Van Dyke 
Murali 
James Hanley 
Jaybird 
Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt,
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” At every juncture, he chooses the political view that is the most individually selfish. When he must contribute to the collective via taxes he creates a rationale for why he personally doesn’t have to pay taxes. When he wants help from the collective, he whines that the collective does not take tax money from others and give it to him. He wants the government to leave him alone in business but then he wants the government to protect him from competition. On every issue, it’s always about what he needs right then and there.”
I dunno, that sounds like one particular ideology to me.
By which I mean, that is a pretty good description of corporations. By design.
I dunno, sounded like something from ACORN…hey, the dude quoted Bro Marx correctly!
He sounded like a statist to me!
Kind of had a laugh this morning with one of my friends of how it had to be an accident and that no sane terrorist would ever attack us here in Austin…oops.
What an odd little manifesto. It’s really more of a ranty blog post. Perhaps the next crazy person will do it via twitter.
Well, at least it will be brief. To paraphrase E. B. White for that titular occasion, the hallmark of good manifesto writing.
More seriously, it reads like an anarcho-socialist rant.
People who are opposed to libertarians/anarchists will find stuff worth mining in there, people who are opposed to socialism/communism will find stuff worth mining in there.
That was my first impression as well.
Just for the record, Shannon Love is a man, not a woman.
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