The media, main stream and alternative, are abuzz over the 9/11 style bomber of the IRS office in Austin, Texas, Joe Stack.  Interest groups with agendas from all over the political spectrum, no matter what their brand, are trying to label Stack as a loyal member of groups of their opposition.   Leftists bloogers and activist groups where quick to label Stack as a “Teabagger,” while conservative groups pointed out that Stack quoted Marx in his manifesto, and loathed capitalism.   So who was the real Joe Stack?  And what was the ideology that drove him to such an act of massive hatred and violence?

There is no question the man was driven to vicious anger, and had a personal score to settle.  He  believed he was unfairly treated by the IRS, the laws of Congress, and by the entire system, “given  my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm ragin in my head,” said Stack in his suicide note.  But beyond that, what was the man’s personal ideology that could have led him to such an abaominable act?  Let’s examine his manifesto carefully.

First, Stack was clearly anti-capitalist, referring to the “thugs and plunderers [who] commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years)…”  Stack also made reference to “the fine backroom, midnight effort by the sleazy executives of Arthur Andersen (the very same folks who later brought us Enron and other such calamities)…”

Stack was unapoligetically a proponent of universal health care.  “[T]he joke we call the American medical System, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpes and victims they cripple…”  And Stack went on to rail against the United States government, “and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies.  Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless a time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the ‘terrible health care problem.’  It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.”

The accusation that Stack was a conservative is even more absurd when we look at his views toward the Christian religion and the Catholic church, when he referred to the IRS code “section relating to the wonderful ‘exemptions’ that make instititutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly weatlthy.”

According to John Gawker, Stack doesn’t seem to align too well with the reactionary gun-toting revanchist types that show up at Tea Party rallies. He sounds a little like a hippie.  Hardly the profile of anyone who would show up at a Tea Party protest.

Stack closes his manifesto with a quote from Karl Marx:  “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”  To further send home his point, Stack rewrites the passage to an even darker context: “The Capitalist Creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”

Taking Stack’s manifesto as a whole, it appears that while anti-capitalist, he was also anti-government,  anti-religion, and a big supporter of universal health care.  What group does Stack fit in that context? So in what group does Stack’s profile fit?  With any thoughful analysis of Stacks carefully chosen words, Stack hardly fits the profile of anyone who would show up at a Tea Party protest.  Quite the contrary, Stack quite clearly fits the profile of a left-leaning Anarchist.  And more importantly, he fits the violent variety of anarchists who start riots at G-8 and Global Warming summits.

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