Samantha Bell Lauds Father, Joe Stack

By James Sheldon on February 22nd, 2010

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Remember the guy who flew his plane into the IRS offices in Austin, Texas, last week? Joe Stack?

I was quite disturbed after trying to push the headline that more research was leading me to find a rapid-building fan base for Joseph Stack and his radical actions: blogs, blog comments, quickly banned Facebook groups, and so on, all calling him a “hero.” Most recently his daughter, Samantha Bell, has added her personal take on the tragic event, lauding her father for speaking out against injustice.

“I think too many people lay around and wait for things to happen. But if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished. I have many cases of people I know that are suffering in the hands of the government and people literally dying because they are not getting the help they need.”

Continuing on, “His last actions, the suicide, the catastrophe that caused injuries and death, that was wrong. He may have been somewhat frustrated, but he was a very quiet man. The father I knew was a loving, caring, devoted man who cherished every moment with me and my three children, his grandchildren… This man who did this was not my father. He must’ve kept this bottled up all these years.”

While I have no issue with people sympathizing, or being able to empathize with Joseph Stack and his issues with the IRS and big government (I’m one of them, and personally subscribe to the Ron Paul philosophy on the IRS, and like Stack, I couldn’t stand the George W. Bush regime), let’s get one thing straight. Nothing about his actions were heroic. Nothing. Heroes stand tall in the face of adversity, and walk boldly with their manifest of social justice. They fight their battles face to face–not with guerrilla war tactics. Martin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Joseph Stack…?

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