A Pound of Flesh

911 Weather: We’ve had amazingly (stunningly even) gorgeous weather here in Seattle this week (too bad for the Olympics), and today another plane flew into another building.

From Twilight Language:

In response to the crash, the Department of Homeland Security became involved in the investigation of the crash, stating that it did not appear to be linked to terrorism.

Huh. I guess Mr. Stack doesn’t fit the mass market profile, even though he openly stated his hatred of the government, bankers, capitalism, corporations and organized Western religion on his website, and then literally hijacked an airplane into a symbolic target on a suicide mission, fully intending murder and fomenting radical and revolutionary political change:

I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

I mean, what does it take? I guess he should have grown a beard and worn a turban. I imagine the gov knows damn well what this is: for once, an actual act of citizen terrorism, and where there is one Mr. Stack, there are legion.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs reaffirmed what Homeland Security said, and that President Barack Obama was being briefed of the incident.

No doubt. See also: Waking Up the Hard Way

Notes:

“A pound of flesh” is a line from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, which is the tale of an outrageous penalty, or “tax” demanded by a Jewish money lender on a Gentile.

Mr. Stack flew a Piper ("paying the piper") CHEROKEE into the tax collectors. I sh*t you not, I had a dream last night that featured "Cherokee People" by Paul Revere and the Raiders!? WTF?

They took the whole Cherokee Nation
And put us on this reservation
Took away our ways of life
The tomahawk and the bow and knife
They took away our native tongue
And taught their English to our young
And all the beads we made by hand
Are nowadays made in Japan China

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe So proud to live, so proud to die

They took the whole Indian Nation
And locked us on this reservation
And though I wear a shirt and tie
I’m still a red man deep inside

Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe
So proud to live, so proud to die

But maybe someday when they learn
Cherokee Nation will return
Will return
Will return
Will return
Will return...

President George W. Bush and his Skull and Bones Fraternity were infamous for allegedly stealing the skull of Geronimo for use in their frat boy initiation ceremony. Geronimo was Cherokee.

ADMIRE has lots of red men this week.