The Austin Suicide Pilot: Legal Linkages

February 19th, 2010 admin

How many manifestos-cum-suicide-notes contain citations to the Internal Revenue Code? As it turns out, Joseph Stack — the man who allegedly crashed a plane into an Austin building housing the IRS — had some issues with the Code. And he expressed them in his rambling manifesto, replete with statutory citations (although not in Bluebook form). For anyone who might be interested — perhaps the tax lawyers among you? — we’ve collected some links, after …


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