{"id":2247,"date":"2010-02-19T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2010-02-19T04:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:00:59","slug":"austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2247","title":{"rendered":"Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Stack burned down his house and then flew his small plane into the local IRS office building, after having left a &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/blotter\/entries\/2010\/02\/18\/internet_note_posted_by_man_li.html\" target=\"browser\">manifesto<\/a>&#8216; which is really an incoherent cry of rage.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hearing things from reliable sources that suggest that what we&#8217;re seeing is more the fallout from the collapse of a life &#8211; a broken marriage, failed businesses &#8211; than a passionate blow by some antigovernment ideologue. I&#8217;d carefully watch the news tomorrow on this before taking a position&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and this ties into David Niewert, who is anxious to tie this into his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/race_in_the_21st_century_-_another_inconvenient_truth.html\" target=\"browser\">big truth<\/a>&#8221; about <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/huh-when-attempting-blow-federal-bui\" target=\"browser\">Angry White People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because we have a problem; we are growing muckers, who individually may just decide to go shoot someone, or a cop or four, or people in an airport. Or they may get together with a few others &#8211; in a kind of crazy underground cell &#8211; and blow up a building.<\/p>\n<p>Or fly their small plane into one.<\/p>\n<p>And some of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/omaha_nebraska.html\" target=\"browser\">muckers<\/a> are bound by ideology&#8230;white nationalist, black nationalist, salafist&#8230;and they tend to find each other (the Internet is very good for that).<\/p>\n<p>And so we have a problem in our society &#8211; in our world.<\/p>\n<p>It goes back to the roots of what I&#8217;ve talked about for some time &#8211; my big idea, I guess &#8211; about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/003229.html\" target=\"browser\">Bad Philosophy<\/a>. Until we find beliefs that can mend hearts, I fear that we are in for a lot of this&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy in Austin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}