超级军网Victory Wu的美国后人终于觉醒了
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原载西西河
http://www.ccthere.com/alist/2728903
2010年2月18日上午10点，美国德州奥斯汀有人对社会不满开飞机撞楼，楼内是美国国内收入署的办公室。
他的遗言，在http://embeddedart.com（原始链接似乎已被FBI和谐了）。
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the 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 corpses and victims they cripple, 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 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.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks 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) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
声明：以下为该文的部分翻译，并不代表我支持其观点。只是为了便于大家看看美国老愤青是怎样看社会的。
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
乔.斯塔克 （1956-2010）
2010年2月18日原载西西河
http://www.ccthere.com/alist/2728903
2010年2月18日上午10点，美国德州奥斯汀有人对社会不满开飞机撞楼，楼内是美国国内收入署的办公室。
他的遗言，在http://embeddedart.com（原始链接似乎已被FBI和谐了）。
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the 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 corpses and victims they cripple, 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 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.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks 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) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
声明：以下为该文的部分翻译，并不代表我支持其观点。只是为了便于大家看看美国老愤青是怎样看社会的。
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
乔.斯塔克 （1956-2010）
2010年2月18日
http://www.ccthere.com/alist/2728903
2010年2月18日上午10点，美国德州奥斯汀有人对社会不满开飞机撞楼，楼内是美国国内收入署的办公室。
他的遗言，在http://embeddedart.com（原始链接似乎已被FBI和谐了）。
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the 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 corpses and victims they cripple, 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 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.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks 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) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
声明：以下为该文的部分翻译，并不代表我支持其观点。只是为了便于大家看看美国老愤青是怎样看社会的。
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
乔.斯塔克 （1956-2010）
2010年2月18日原载西西河
http://www.ccthere.com/alist/2728903
2010年2月18日上午10点，美国德州奥斯汀有人对社会不满开飞机撞楼，楼内是美国国内收入署的办公室。
他的遗言，在http://embeddedart.com（原始链接似乎已被FBI和谐了）。
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
While very few working people would say they haven’t had their fair share of taxes (as can I), in my lifetime I can say with a great degree of certainty that there has never been a politician cast a vote on any matter with the likes of me or my interests in mind. Nor, for that matter, are they the least bit interested in me or anything I have to say.
Why is it that a handful of thugs and plunderers can commit unthinkable atrocities (and in the case of the GM executives, for scores of years) and when it’s time for their gravy train to crash under the weight of their gluttony and overwhelming stupidity, the force of the full federal government has no difficulty coming to their aid within days if not hours? Yet at the same time, the 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 corpses and victims they cripple, 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 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.
And justice? You’ve got to be kidding!
How can any rational individual explain that white elephant conundrum in the middle of our tax system and, indeed, our entire legal system? Here we have a system that is, by far, too complicated for the brightest of the master scholars to understand. Yet, it mercilessly “holds accountable” its victims, claiming that they’re responsible for fully complying with laws not even the experts understand. The law “requires” a signature on the bottom of a tax filing; yet no one can say truthfully that they understand what they are signing; if that’s not “duress” than what is. If this is not the measure of a totalitarian regime, nothing is.
How did I get here?
My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). We took a great deal of care to make it all visible, following all of the rules, exactly the way the law said it was to be done.
The intent of this exercise and our efforts was to bring about a much-needed re-evaluation of the laws that allow the monsters of organized religion to make such a mockery of people who earn an honest living. However, this is where I learned that there are two “interpretations” for every law; one for the very rich, and one for the rest of us… Oh, and the monsters are the very ones making and enforcing the laws; the inquisition is still alive and well today in this country.
That little lesson in patriotism cost me $40,000+, 10 years of my life, and set my retirement plans back to 0. It made me realize for the first time that I live in a country with an ideology that is based on a total and complete lie. It also made me realize, not only how naive I had been, but also the incredible stupidity of the American public; that they buy, hook, line, and sinker, the crap about their “freedom”… and that they continue to do so with eyes closed in the face of overwhelming evidence and all that keeps happening in front of them.
Before even having to make a shaky recovery from the sting of the first lesson on what justice really means in this country (around 1984 after making my way through engineering school and still another five years of “paying my dues”), I felt I finally had to take a chance of launching my dream of becoming an independent engineer.
On the subjects of engineers and dreams of independence, I should digress somewhat to say that I’m sure that I inherited the fascination for creative problem solving from my father. I realized this at a very young age.
The significance of independence, however, came much later during my early years of college; at the age of 18 or 19 when I was living on my own as student in an apartment in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. My neighbor was an elderly retired woman (80+ seemed ancient to me at that age) who was the widowed wife of a retired steel worker. Her husband had worked all his life in the steel mills of central Pennsylvania with promises from big business and the union that, for his 30 years of service, he would have a pension and medical care to look forward to in his retirement. Instead he was one of the thousands who got nothing because the incompetent mill management and corrupt union (not to mention the government) raided their pension funds and stole their retirement. All she had was social security to live on.
In retrospect, the situation was laughable because here I was living on peanut butter and bread (or Ritz crackers when I could afford to splurge) for months at a time. When I got to know this poor figure and heard her story I felt worse for her plight than for my own (I, after all, I thought I had everything to in front of me). I was genuinely appalled at one point, as we exchanged stories and commiserated with each other over our situations, when she in her grandmotherly fashion tried to convince me that I would be “healthier” eating cat food (like her) rather than trying to get all my substance from peanut butter and bread. I couldn’t quite go there, but the impression was made. I decided that I didn’t trust big business to take care of me, and that I would take responsibility for my own future and myself.
Return to the early ‘80s, and here I was off to a terrifying start as a ‘wet-behind-the-ears’ contract software engineer... and two years later, thanks 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) and an equally sleazy New York Senator (Patrick Moynihan), we saw the passage of 1986 tax reform act with its section 1706.
For you who are unfamiliar, here is the core text of the IRS Section 1706, defining the treatment of workers (such as contract engineers) for tax purposes. Visit this link for a conference committee report (http://www.synergistech.com/1706.shtml#ConferenceCommitteeReport) regarding the intended interpretation of Section 1706 and the relevant parts of Section 530, as amended. For information on how these laws affect technical services workers and their clients, read our discussion here (http://www.synergistech.com/ic-taxlaw.shtml).
SEC. 1706. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL PERSONNEL.
(a) IN GENERAL - Section 530 of the Revenue Act of 1978 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:
(d) EXCEPTION. - This section shall not apply in the case of an individual who pursuant to an arrangement between the taxpayer and another person, provides services for such other person as an engineer, designer, drafter, computer programmer, systems analyst, or other similarly skilled worker engaged in a similar line of work.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE. - The amendment made by this section shall apply to remuneration paid and services rendered after December 31, 1986.
Note:
· "another person" is the client in the traditional job-shop relationship.
· "taxpayer" is the recruiter, broker, agency, or job shop.
· "individual", "employee", or "worker" is you.
Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it’s not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can’t believe my eyes.
During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change’, and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their “freedom”. Oh, and don’t forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn’t bill clients.
After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren’t going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.
Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.
Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn’t need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to “shore up” their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.
Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special’ facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.
By this time, I’m thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I’ll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I’ve never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn’t give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.
To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn’t have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn’t notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.
So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I’d never enter another accountant’s office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.
When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl’s unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn’t have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.
This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.
I remember reading about the stock market crash before the “great” depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn’t it ironic how far we’ve come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn’t have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it’s “business-as-usual”. Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn’t that a clever, tidy solution.
As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.
I know I’m hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn’t limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at “big brother” while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won’t continue; I have just had enough.
I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn’t so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.
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.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
声明：以下为该文的部分翻译，并不代表我支持其观点。只是为了便于大家看看美国老愤青是怎样看社会的。
我记得读到过在“大萧条”前的股市崩溃中，富裕的银行家和商人们因为生意失败输光了一切而跳楼。具有讽刺性的是，这个国家经过了60多年后，富人们终于学会了怎样解决这样的小问题；他们只需要从中产阶级（他们没有发言权，选举是一个笑话）那里偷来财富弥补自己的损失，然后就可以“照常营业”了。现在富人们生意失败的结果是，穷人们因为这些错误去死。。。这是多么聪明而有条理的解决方案啊。
我知道我应该不是第一个觉得无法再忍受下去的人。在这个国家，人们从未停止为了自由去战斗，去死，不仅仅是黑人和贫困的移民们。无数人在我之前曾为自由而死，以后也一定还会有很多。我知道如果不付出我的生命为代价的话，没有什么会改变。我选择不再逃避“老大哥”的追踪，任其撕碎我的尸体。我选择不再忽视我身边发生的（罪恶）。我选择不再假装“照常营业”。我已经受够了。
我只能希望（死亡？）数字会迅速变大到无法被掩盖和忽视，美国人会醒来和反抗。没有流血是无法唤醒人民的。我仅仅希望通过刺激敏感的神经，习惯于双重标准的政府会反射式地通过更多愚蠢而严苛的限制，而人民会醒来并看清这些傲慢的政客和他们渺小把戏的真面目。可悲的是，虽然我花了一生的时间去相信“暴力不是答案”，但是事实上暴力不仅是答案，而且是唯一的答案。上层的混蛋们早就知道这一点，并且一直暗笑象我这样的傻瓜。
词典上把重复做同样的事情，然后指望会出现不同的结果定义为精神错乱。我终于准备好结束这种精神错乱了。好了，国税局的老大哥们，我们来试一试新的做法。拿走我的一磅肉（应该是《威尼斯商人》中的典故）睡个好觉吧。
共产主义信条：各尽所能，各取所需。
资本主义信条：骗轻信人之财，填贪婪者之欲。
乔.斯塔克 （1956-2010）
2010年2月18日
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共产主义在美国的萌芽…同志，走好！
broad wu? Victory chen?
只可惜这年头是枪杆子里出政权,再想用两把菜刀闹革命.=.=!
只可惜这年头是枪杆子里出政权,再想用两把菜刀闹革命.=.=!
FBI
乍一看这Victory Wu还以为咱吴胜利司令员出啥事了，一看帖原来说那二位啊{:3_82:}
美国人不一定会觉醒，但中国人肯定会入睡
我觉得美国佬准备要打仗转移国内视线了
这位WU同志该算为MD中的左粪一类，可惜了
那么做为Victory Chen和Broad Wu后人的中国淫民呢
真是傻米田共一箩筐
真是傻米田共一箩筐
smileskyshy 发表于 2010-2-19 10:14 
这不广大淫民都等着您老登高一呼揭竿而起呢.
这不广大淫民都等着您老登高一呼揭竿而起呢.
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太牛了啊
希望这样的人越来越多
美国人开始革命吧{:jian:}
美国人开始革命吧{:jian:}
Victory应该姓Chen
这栋楼太结实了，好像到现在只死了一个员工，还有两个危重病人。
美国多闹点这个事情也是件好事。
美国多闹点这个事情也是件好事。
“真相终会大白”——美国版“你不给我一个说法，我就给你一个说法！”之一
美国：枪手大闹市议会 6人死亡
2008年02月10日 07:53:31
来源：新华网http://news.xinhuanet.com/newsce ... content_7583776.htm
一名男子７日晚在美国密苏里州城市柯克伍德制造一起枪击案。这名男子闯入柯克伍德市议会会议现场，开枪打死２名警察和３名市政官员，重伤市长，后遭警方击毙。
美国媒体８日报道，这名男子名为查尔斯·李·“曲奇”·桑顿。
柯克伍德市议会７日的一次会议开始后不久，桑顿闯入会场。他先是在市政
厅外打死一名官员，接着进入会场，不时高喊“向市长开枪”。
桑顿数次开枪，击中多名市政官员，包括市长迈克·斯沃博达。一名市政官员情急之下用椅子砸向桑顿，桑顿随后躲在一张桌子后，又连开数枪。最终，赶至会场内的警察击毙桑顿。
市长斯沃博达目前生命垂危，正在接受抢救。一名媒体记者也在枪击案中受伤。
桑顿的家人和朋友说，桑顿一直对市政官员心存怨恨，称遭到市政官员骚扰和遏制，多次与官员对薄公堂。他先前抱怨说，因停车问题，他受到市政管理部门开出的约１５０张罚单，这些罚单“就要吃了”他。
当地官员说，桑顿制造枪击案前已多次到政府部门闹事，因此两次受到指控。
桑顿的一名家人说，桑顿前往市政厅前，在家中床上留下一张字条。字条上写：“真相终会大白。”
柯克伍德位于圣路易斯市西南方向约３２公里处。（新华社电）
美国：枪手大闹市议会 6人死亡
2008年02月10日 07:53:31
来源：新华网http://news.xinhuanet.com/newsce ... content_7583776.htm
一名男子７日晚在美国密苏里州城市柯克伍德制造一起枪击案。这名男子闯入柯克伍德市议会会议现场，开枪打死２名警察和３名市政官员，重伤市长，后遭警方击毙。
美国媒体８日报道，这名男子名为查尔斯·李·“曲奇”·桑顿。
柯克伍德市议会７日的一次会议开始后不久，桑顿闯入会场。他先是在市政
厅外打死一名官员，接着进入会场，不时高喊“向市长开枪”。
桑顿数次开枪，击中多名市政官员，包括市长迈克·斯沃博达。一名市政官员情急之下用椅子砸向桑顿，桑顿随后躲在一张桌子后，又连开数枪。最终，赶至会场内的警察击毙桑顿。
市长斯沃博达目前生命垂危，正在接受抢救。一名媒体记者也在枪击案中受伤。
桑顿的家人和朋友说，桑顿一直对市政官员心存怨恨，称遭到市政官员骚扰和遏制，多次与官员对薄公堂。他先前抱怨说，因停车问题，他受到市政管理部门开出的约１５０张罚单，这些罚单“就要吃了”他。
当地官员说，桑顿制造枪击案前已多次到政府部门闹事，因此两次受到指控。
桑顿的一名家人说，桑顿前往市政厅前，在家中床上留下一张字条。字条上写：“真相终会大白。”
柯克伍德位于圣路易斯市西南方向约３２公里处。（新华社电）
炸了 烧了？
你不给我一个说法，我就给你一个说法 之二 2008年11月27日
美阿拉斯加医院发生枪击案 被炒职员射杀上司(后被警察当场"和谐"而就义于红十字圣地)
凤凰资讯
11月27日电 综合报道，美国阿拉斯加州一家医院26日发生枪击案，一名被解雇的职员开枪射杀多名上司，造成1死1伤，伤者情况危殆。
据悉，这名48岁的职员可能因遭解雇而感到不忿，翌日持枪返回医院进行报复。但枪手最终被警方开枪击毙。
另外，美国近日因感恩节将至，安保格外严密，美国联邦调查局(FBI)和国土安全部日前警告，基地恐怖分子可能于感恩节假期期间，对纽约地区地铁和客运铁路系统进行恐怖攻击。因而警方严阵以待，防止恐怖事件发生。
http://news.ifeng.com/world/3/200811/1127_2592_897986.shtml
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Former Alaska hospital employee shoots supervisors
NCHORAGE, Alaska — A worker returned to an Alaska hospital a day after being fired and unleashed a shooting spree that left one of his ex-supervisors dead and another critically wounded before he was fatally shot by state police.
Joseph Marchetti, armed with a rifle and handgun, fired multiple shots just before 10 a.m. Wednesday inside Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, a small community southwest of Anchorage, authorities said.
The gunfire sent people scattering, hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Nichols said.
"People were running for their lives," she said.
The two hospital employees shot by Marchetti had been his former supervisors.
Mike Webb, 55, died two hours after the shooting, Nichols said. Margaret Stroup, 57, shot multiple times in the chest, was listed in critical condition and was to be flown to a hospital in Anchorage, she said.
Webb was the hospital's information services director and Stroup is the imaging services director.
Marchetti, 48, had worked in the hospital's imaging department until he was fired Tuesday, Nichols said. She had no information on why he was fired.
Nichols said Marchetti was shooting randomly through the main corridor before he left the hospital.
The hospital's chief financial officer, Jason Paret, heard the first shot and went around a corner to see what was going on, encountering the gunman, Nichols said.
"Marchetti started running after him, but he managed to get away," she said. "As he ran, he was yelling at co-workers that a gunman was on the loose."
Marchetti was shot in the hospital's parking lot in a standoff with troopers who had set up a perimeter outside the facility.
Three troopers fired their weapons, Alaska State Police spokeswoman Megan Peters said. Under department policy, the officers will be placed on administrative leave for three days.
Marchetti moved to Alaska a year ago. He previously worked at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nichols said.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Nov27/0,4670,HospitalShootingAlaska,00.html
美阿拉斯加医院发生枪击案 被炒职员射杀上司(后被警察当场"和谐"而就义于红十字圣地)
凤凰资讯
11月27日电 综合报道，美国阿拉斯加州一家医院26日发生枪击案，一名被解雇的职员开枪射杀多名上司，造成1死1伤，伤者情况危殆。
据悉，这名48岁的职员可能因遭解雇而感到不忿，翌日持枪返回医院进行报复。但枪手最终被警方开枪击毙。
另外，美国近日因感恩节将至，安保格外严密，美国联邦调查局(FBI)和国土安全部日前警告，基地恐怖分子可能于感恩节假期期间，对纽约地区地铁和客运铁路系统进行恐怖攻击。因而警方严阵以待，防止恐怖事件发生。
http://news.ifeng.com/world/3/200811/1127_2592_897986.shtml
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Former Alaska hospital employee shoots supervisors
NCHORAGE, Alaska — A worker returned to an Alaska hospital a day after being fired and unleashed a shooting spree that left one of his ex-supervisors dead and another critically wounded before he was fatally shot by state police.
Joseph Marchetti, armed with a rifle and handgun, fired multiple shots just before 10 a.m. Wednesday inside Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, a small community southwest of Anchorage, authorities said.
The gunfire sent people scattering, hospital spokeswoman Bonnie Nichols said.
"People were running for their lives," she said.
The two hospital employees shot by Marchetti had been his former supervisors.
Mike Webb, 55, died two hours after the shooting, Nichols said. Margaret Stroup, 57, shot multiple times in the chest, was listed in critical condition and was to be flown to a hospital in Anchorage, she said.
Webb was the hospital's information services director and Stroup is the imaging services director.
Marchetti, 48, had worked in the hospital's imaging department until he was fired Tuesday, Nichols said. She had no information on why he was fired.
Nichols said Marchetti was shooting randomly through the main corridor before he left the hospital.
The hospital's chief financial officer, Jason Paret, heard the first shot and went around a corner to see what was going on, encountering the gunman, Nichols said.
"Marchetti started running after him, but he managed to get away," she said. "As he ran, he was yelling at co-workers that a gunman was on the loose."
Marchetti was shot in the hospital's parking lot in a standoff with troopers who had set up a perimeter outside the facility.
Three troopers fired their weapons, Alaska State Police spokeswoman Megan Peters said. Under department policy, the officers will be placed on administrative leave for three days.
Marchetti moved to Alaska a year ago. He previously worked at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nichols said.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Nov27/0,4670,HospitalShootingAlaska,00.html
你不给我一个说法，我就给你一个说法 之三 2008年11月15日
美国硅谷华裔男子遭解雇后枪杀公司CEO及其他两位同事
新浪科技讯 北京时间11月15日消息，据国外媒体报道，美国硅谷14日下午(美国东部时间)发生一起恶性枪杀案，半导体公司Siport的一名华裔员工在遭到解雇后，持枪射杀了公司的CEO及其他两位同事并驾车逃逸。
枪杀案发生在美国加州圣塔克拉拉市，该市是硅谷的重要组成城市之一。据当地警方称，枪杀发生的具体地点在Office Park史考特大道3255号的第7办公楼里，时间是11月14日下午4点。警方是在当天下午3:53接到报案，报案者称SiPort公司的停车场传出多响枪声。
据悉，嫌疑犯为华裔男子，名叫吴京华(Jing Hua Wu，音译)，现年47岁，曾是半导体公司Siport的产品测试工程师，最近刚刚遭到公司解雇。
目前已证实，被害人为两男一女，其中两名男子分别为Siport公司CEO希德·阿格瓦尔(Sid Agrawal)和业务副总裁布莱恩·皮尤(Brian Pugh)，另外一位被害女性尚未确认身份。
枪杀案发生后，警方随即封锁公司及附近建筑物调查，并搜索嫌疑犯下落。警方称，目前还不清楚嫌疑犯的行凶动机，但表示不排除和他最近遭解雇一事有关。
SiPort是一家创建仅4年的半导体公司，2005年曾获得首轮风险投资。SiPort所在的科技园区共有七栋办公楼，大约有十九家高科技公司。
经济危机正在席卷硅谷，目前已有多家知名美国IT企业宣布裁员。枪杀案发生当天，Sun公司宣布，为应对全球经济的衰退，将在全球范围内裁员5000至6000人，约占员工总数的15%至18%。
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2008-11-16/09232582514.shtml
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Man who lost job at Santa Clara startup killed 3, including CEO and another top executive
By Sandra Gonzales Posted: 11/14/2008
A recently laid-off tech employee Friday opened fire inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, police said, killing three people, including the CEO and another top executive — and sparking a massive dragnet throughout the Bay Area.
Santa Clara police identified Jing Hua Wu, 47, of Mountain View as the man who shot to death two men and one woman with a handgun before driving off in a silver sport-utility vehicle, believed to be a rented Mercury Mariner.
Wu remained at large late Friday, and police warned he should be considered armed and "extremely dangerous."
Friday's violent scene erupted just before 4 p.m., when police say Wu arrived at SiPort, a small semiconductor company at 3255-7 Scott Blvd. and opened fire. Wu, an engineer, had apparently lost his job either Friday morning or Thursday, Santa Clara police Lt. Mike Sellers said.
When police arrived, the gunman already had escaped and was initially believed to be on his way to Mountain View, where police had staked out his home into the night. Other reports indicated he may have been headed to an airport.
Late Tuesday, police identified the two men killed as Sid Agrawal, the company's chief executive, and Brian Pugh, vice president of operations for the company. The identity of the third victim had not been released as of early today.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10987100
美国硅谷华裔男子遭解雇后枪杀公司CEO及其他两位同事
新浪科技讯 北京时间11月15日消息，据国外媒体报道，美国硅谷14日下午(美国东部时间)发生一起恶性枪杀案，半导体公司Siport的一名华裔员工在遭到解雇后，持枪射杀了公司的CEO及其他两位同事并驾车逃逸。
枪杀案发生在美国加州圣塔克拉拉市，该市是硅谷的重要组成城市之一。据当地警方称，枪杀发生的具体地点在Office Park史考特大道3255号的第7办公楼里，时间是11月14日下午4点。警方是在当天下午3:53接到报案，报案者称SiPort公司的停车场传出多响枪声。
据悉，嫌疑犯为华裔男子，名叫吴京华(Jing Hua Wu，音译)，现年47岁，曾是半导体公司Siport的产品测试工程师，最近刚刚遭到公司解雇。
目前已证实，被害人为两男一女，其中两名男子分别为Siport公司CEO希德·阿格瓦尔(Sid Agrawal)和业务副总裁布莱恩·皮尤(Brian Pugh)，另外一位被害女性尚未确认身份。
枪杀案发生后，警方随即封锁公司及附近建筑物调查，并搜索嫌疑犯下落。警方称，目前还不清楚嫌疑犯的行凶动机，但表示不排除和他最近遭解雇一事有关。
SiPort是一家创建仅4年的半导体公司，2005年曾获得首轮风险投资。SiPort所在的科技园区共有七栋办公楼，大约有十九家高科技公司。
经济危机正在席卷硅谷，目前已有多家知名美国IT企业宣布裁员。枪杀案发生当天，Sun公司宣布，为应对全球经济的衰退，将在全球范围内裁员5000至6000人，约占员工总数的15%至18%。
http://tech.sina.com.cn/it/2008-11-16/09232582514.shtml
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Man who lost job at Santa Clara startup killed 3, including CEO and another top executive
By Sandra Gonzales Posted: 11/14/2008
A recently laid-off tech employee Friday opened fire inside the Santa Clara office where he used to work, police said, killing three people, including the CEO and another top executive — and sparking a massive dragnet throughout the Bay Area.
Santa Clara police identified Jing Hua Wu, 47, of Mountain View as the man who shot to death two men and one woman with a handgun before driving off in a silver sport-utility vehicle, believed to be a rented Mercury Mariner.
Wu remained at large late Friday, and police warned he should be considered armed and "extremely dangerous."
Friday's violent scene erupted just before 4 p.m., when police say Wu arrived at SiPort, a small semiconductor company at 3255-7 Scott Blvd. and opened fire. Wu, an engineer, had apparently lost his job either Friday morning or Thursday, Santa Clara police Lt. Mike Sellers said.
When police arrived, the gunman already had escaped and was initially believed to be on his way to Mountain View, where police had staked out his home into the night. Other reports indicated he may have been headed to an airport.
Late Tuesday, police identified the two men killed as Sid Agrawal, the company's chief executive, and Brian Pugh, vice president of operations for the company. The identity of the third victim had not been released as of early today.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_10987100
你不给我一个说法，我就给你一个说法 之四
被解雇家禽副食品企业职员闯入办公室开枪射击2位公司主管人,再取自己性命---华盛顿邮报
Former Employee Shoots 2 At Office
By Ray Rivera and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 24, 2005;
An angry former employee of an Anne Arundel County business walked into his old office yesterday and shot two people, including the man who had fired him, county police said.
The assailant then walked out of H&M Wagner and Sons restaurant supply firm in Glen Burnie and shot and killed himself, police said.
The company supervisors who were wounded were identified as Raymond R. Himes Jr., 37, of Baltimore, and Jack N. Helms, 49, of Pasadena. Neither suffered life-threatening wounds, police said. Both were in stable condition at a hospital, authorities said.
The former employee, described as a driver by George Wagner, the company's owner, was identified by police as Joseph Allen Cobb, 54, of Dublin Drive in Point Pleasant.
Police said it appeared that Helms was Cobb's former supervisor and had discharged him several weeks ago. Neither police nor Wagner gave the reason for the termination. Wagner said Cobb worked there for about four years.
Police released this account:
Cobb went into the H&M Wagner offices at 7204 May Wagner Lane about 2:20 p.m. Upon entering, he confronted Himes, who was described by authorities as a manager or supervisor.
After shouting a profanity at Himes, Cobb fired a single shot from a .38-caliber handgun. Himes was struck once, in the left arm. Then Cobb walked down a hallway and entered Helms's office. He fired three times, hitting Helms twice in the stomach。
Afterward, Cobb walked out and, standing just outside the business, fired a bullet into his head.
No one else was shot.
An assistant sales manager who was nearby when the former employee entered told a reporter last night that she heard gunshots fired in rapid succession.
Cindy Matuszewski said she "thought it was balloons popping." When she went to look, she said, she saw someone in a struggle with the former employee.
She said she "turned around and dialed 911."
The two employees were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, police said.
Cobb also was taken there. He was pronounced dead at 5 p.m., police said.
"Thankfully, they're going to be okay," Wagner said of the two wounded employees in an interview last night.
"This is a tragedy, especially on a holiday," he said. "My concern is for the two employees and their families."
The incident appeared to highlight the issue of workplace violence, which began to attract national attention about 20 years ago. It has become a major concern for advocates of worker safety.
H&M Wagner has been in business since 1963. It started by delivering poultry and eggs in Baltimore and Anne Arundel County and has grown to provide about 8,000 items, according to the company's Web site. It employs about 175 people. May Wagner Lane, on which the company warehouse is located, is named for one of the firm's founders. The warehouse is just east of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and about 30 miles northeast of the District.
被解雇家禽副食品企业职员闯入办公室开枪射击2位公司主管人,再取自己性命---华盛顿邮报
Former Employee Shoots 2 At Office
By Ray Rivera and Martin Weil Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, November 24, 2005;
An angry former employee of an Anne Arundel County business walked into his old office yesterday and shot two people, including the man who had fired him, county police said.
The assailant then walked out of H&M Wagner and Sons restaurant supply firm in Glen Burnie and shot and killed himself, police said.
The company supervisors who were wounded were identified as Raymond R. Himes Jr., 37, of Baltimore, and Jack N. Helms, 49, of Pasadena. Neither suffered life-threatening wounds, police said. Both were in stable condition at a hospital, authorities said.
The former employee, described as a driver by George Wagner, the company's owner, was identified by police as Joseph Allen Cobb, 54, of Dublin Drive in Point Pleasant.
Police said it appeared that Helms was Cobb's former supervisor and had discharged him several weeks ago. Neither police nor Wagner gave the reason for the termination. Wagner said Cobb worked there for about four years.
Police released this account:
Cobb went into the H&M Wagner offices at 7204 May Wagner Lane about 2:20 p.m. Upon entering, he confronted Himes, who was described by authorities as a manager or supervisor.
After shouting a profanity at Himes, Cobb fired a single shot from a .38-caliber handgun. Himes was struck once, in the left arm. Then Cobb walked down a hallway and entered Helms's office. He fired three times, hitting Helms twice in the stomach。
Afterward, Cobb walked out and, standing just outside the business, fired a bullet into his head.
No one else was shot.
An assistant sales manager who was nearby when the former employee entered told a reporter last night that she heard gunshots fired in rapid succession.
Cindy Matuszewski said she "thought it was balloons popping." When she went to look, she said, she saw someone in a struggle with the former employee.
She said she "turned around and dialed 911."
The two employees were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, police said.
Cobb also was taken there. He was pronounced dead at 5 p.m., police said.
"Thankfully, they're going to be okay," Wagner said of the two wounded employees in an interview last night.
"This is a tragedy, especially on a holiday," he said. "My concern is for the two employees and their families."
The incident appeared to highlight the issue of workplace violence, which began to attract national attention about 20 years ago. It has become a major concern for advocates of worker safety.
H&M Wagner has been in business since 1963. It started by delivering poultry and eggs in Baltimore and Anne Arundel County and has grown to provide about 8,000 items, according to the company's Web site. It employs about 175 people. May Wagner Lane, on which the company warehouse is located, is named for one of the firm's founders. The warehouse is just east of Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport and about 30 miles northeast of the District.
你不给我一个说法，我就给你一个说法 之五
芝加哥市被解雇老员工进入公司厂房大开杀戒
1名被解雇的66岁老员工返回位于伊利诺伊州芝加哥市纳维斯塔国际公司所属的发动机工厂,使用携带的AK-47步枪与左轮手枪对现场工作人员致以最热烈的问候,打死4人,打伤4人.然后毅然就义.
Sacked factory worker kills four in revenge rampage.
By Tammy Webber, AP
A man who was fired from a factory after he got caught stealing from his employer forced his way into the engine plant and opened fire a day before he was to report to prison. He killed five people, including himself, and wounded four others.
A man who was fired from a factory after he got caught stealing from his employer forced his way into the engine plant and opened fire a day before he was to report to prison. He killed five people, including himself, and wounded four others.
William D Baker, 66, showed up at the plant in suburban Chicago yesterday with an arsenal of weapons in a golf bag and made his way through the vast building, blasting away with an AK-47 assault rifle, police said.
Employees scattered in terror during the rampage that lasted about 10 to 15 minutes at the plant, run by Navistar International, a major truck and engine maker.
Baker shot seven people, three of them fatally, in an engineering area, then went into an office, where he killed one more person and then shot himself, police said.
Baker had been scheduled to surrender today to serve a five-month federal sentence for conspiracy to commit theft from an interstate shipment. He pleaded guilty last June, six years after he was fired.
Martin Reutimann, a 24-year-old engineer, was sitting at his desk when he heard gunfire about 10am.
"I heard somebody yell, 'There's a guy in the center aisle with a gun!"' Reutimann said, referring to the long hallway where engines are tested. Reutimann said he saw people running past him, then fled and called the police.
Police said Baker showed up at the plant with his weapons. When a security guard tried to stop him, Baker put a .38-caliber revolver to her side and forced his way into the plant, police said.
Once inside, Baker fired the assault rifle, police said. He also carried a shotgun and a .30-caliber hunting rifle, police said. They were not sure whether those weapons were used.
The plant, about 25 miles from company headquarters in downtown Chicago, employs about 1,400 people.
Navistar identified three of the dead as Baker; Daniel Dorsch, 52, a supervisor in the engine lab; and Robert Wehrheim, 47, a lab technician. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the two others killed as Michael Brus, 48, and William Garcia, 44.
Of the wounded, one was in critical condition: Carl Swanson, 45, who was shot in the abdomen.
Baker was a tool room attendant from Carol Stream, Illinois, who had worked at the plant for 39 years before he was fired in 1994.
According to his plea agreement, Baker admitted helping a fellow plant employee steal diesel engines and components worth US$195,400. He used his forklift to hoist the engines onto a truck driven by the other employee.
The thefts began in the fall of 1993 and stopped the next spring. Federal prosecutor William Hogan said Baker was part of a ring that included three Navistar employee, two former employees and another person. All have pleaded guilty.
Baker was sentenced November 7. He had faced five months of house arrest after his prison term and had been ordered to repay the US$195,400.
The US Attorney's office also said Baker pleaded guilty in 1998 to a sex charge involving a family member under 17. He was placed on probation.
The shooting comes six weeks after seven people were shot to death at Edgewater Technology Inc, an Internet consulting company at Wakefield, Massachusetts. Software tester Michael McDermott is charged with murder in the December 26 rampage. Authorities said the shooting may have stemmed from an Internal Revenue Service order to seize part of his wages to repay back taxes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new ... rampage-690519.html
芝加哥市被解雇老员工进入公司厂房大开杀戒
1名被解雇的66岁老员工返回位于伊利诺伊州芝加哥市纳维斯塔国际公司所属的发动机工厂,使用携带的AK-47步枪与左轮手枪对现场工作人员致以最热烈的问候,打死4人,打伤4人.然后毅然就义.
Sacked factory worker kills four in revenge rampage.
By Tammy Webber, AP
A man who was fired from a factory after he got caught stealing from his employer forced his way into the engine plant and opened fire a day before he was to report to prison. He killed five people, including himself, and wounded four others.
A man who was fired from a factory after he got caught stealing from his employer forced his way into the engine plant and opened fire a day before he was to report to prison. He killed five people, including himself, and wounded four others.
William D Baker, 66, showed up at the plant in suburban Chicago yesterday with an arsenal of weapons in a golf bag and made his way through the vast building, blasting away with an AK-47 assault rifle, police said.
Employees scattered in terror during the rampage that lasted about 10 to 15 minutes at the plant, run by Navistar International, a major truck and engine maker.
Baker shot seven people, three of them fatally, in an engineering area, then went into an office, where he killed one more person and then shot himself, police said.
Baker had been scheduled to surrender today to serve a five-month federal sentence for conspiracy to commit theft from an interstate shipment. He pleaded guilty last June, six years after he was fired.
Martin Reutimann, a 24-year-old engineer, was sitting at his desk when he heard gunfire about 10am.
"I heard somebody yell, 'There's a guy in the center aisle with a gun!"' Reutimann said, referring to the long hallway where engines are tested. Reutimann said he saw people running past him, then fled and called the police.
Police said Baker showed up at the plant with his weapons. When a security guard tried to stop him, Baker put a .38-caliber revolver to her side and forced his way into the plant, police said.
Once inside, Baker fired the assault rifle, police said. He also carried a shotgun and a .30-caliber hunting rifle, police said. They were not sure whether those weapons were used.
The plant, about 25 miles from company headquarters in downtown Chicago, employs about 1,400 people.
Navistar identified three of the dead as Baker; Daniel Dorsch, 52, a supervisor in the engine lab; and Robert Wehrheim, 47, a lab technician. The Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the two others killed as Michael Brus, 48, and William Garcia, 44.
Of the wounded, one was in critical condition: Carl Swanson, 45, who was shot in the abdomen.
Baker was a tool room attendant from Carol Stream, Illinois, who had worked at the plant for 39 years before he was fired in 1994.
According to his plea agreement, Baker admitted helping a fellow plant employee steal diesel engines and components worth US$195,400. He used his forklift to hoist the engines onto a truck driven by the other employee.
The thefts began in the fall of 1993 and stopped the next spring. Federal prosecutor William Hogan said Baker was part of a ring that included three Navistar employee, two former employees and another person. All have pleaded guilty.
Baker was sentenced November 7. He had faced five months of house arrest after his prison term and had been ordered to repay the US$195,400.
The US Attorney's office also said Baker pleaded guilty in 1998 to a sex charge involving a family member under 17. He was placed on probation.
The shooting comes six weeks after seven people were shot to death at Edgewater Technology Inc, an Internet consulting company at Wakefield, Massachusetts. Software tester Michael McDermott is charged with murder in the December 26 rampage. Authorities said the shooting may have stemmed from an Internal Revenue Service order to seize part of his wages to repay back taxes.
http://www.independent.co.uk/new ... rampage-690519.html
基本上就是什么倒霉事都给他碰上了。。最早想钻tax code的空子，结果没成功把养老
金亏光了。。然后遇到什么针对it员工的税改这段没怎么看懂估计又吃亏了。。然后又
遇上洛杉矶的大萧条政府关闭南加州的空军基地，他的养老金又亏光了。。接着遇到。
com泡沫和911，对航空公司的严加管理造成他的软件公司效益很不好。。最后搬到德州
来发现这里薪水很低是被几个大公司垄断控制着的结果。。然后好像那年是因为没找到
工作没报税还是怎么的。结果政府不同意。最后花费了他很高昂的律师费。。在最后他
大概混的还不错。。于是就去找专业的财务人士帮他去保税。。结果他们故意少报了
10000多的收入，结果就被IRSaudit。。所以愤怒达到极点了就破罐子破摔了
金亏光了。。然后遇到什么针对it员工的税改这段没怎么看懂估计又吃亏了。。然后又
遇上洛杉矶的大萧条政府关闭南加州的空军基地，他的养老金又亏光了。。接着遇到。
com泡沫和911，对航空公司的严加管理造成他的软件公司效益很不好。。最后搬到德州
来发现这里薪水很低是被几个大公司垄断控制着的结果。。然后好像那年是因为没找到
工作没报税还是怎么的。结果政府不同意。最后花费了他很高昂的律师费。。在最后他
大概混的还不错。。于是就去找专业的财务人士帮他去保税。。结果他们故意少报了
10000多的收入，结果就被IRSaudit。。所以愤怒达到极点了就破罐子破摔了
可惜那飞机小了点，不知道有没有在飞机上再装几桶汽油啥的？{:jian:}
从照片看，估计是装了不少东西
racher 发表于 2010-2-19 11:54
这算不算是自己吧自己折腾得没活路了？:D
PS，赞一下米狼桑的英语水平啊[:a15:]
这算不算是自己吧自己折腾得没活路了？:D
PS，赞一下米狼桑的英语水平啊[:a15:]
我刚数了下，照片上美国国税局是个6角大楼，看来国税局要比五角大楼牛的。上回儿五角大楼还死了人吧，这会儿就没死人。
canghaiyijing 发表于 2010-2-19 12:19
这些资料要感谢本坛和SC的chinesefox提供，我的英语水平很烂
这些资料要感谢本坛和SC的chinesefox提供，我的英语水平很烂
原来FBI也河蟹网站啊
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以为什麽叫民煮鼓油 ? 只是河蟹的对象不同而巳. 但天朝自己说了不干涉别国内政, 不能象美帝那样大模斯样地在背後支持别国反对势力搞搞震.;P
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以为什麽叫民煮鼓油 ? 只是河蟹的对象不同而巳. 但天朝自己说了不干涉别国内政, 不能象美帝那样大模斯样地在背後支持别国反对势力搞搞震.;P
什么飞机撞这么猛。。。
happywar 发表于 2010-2-19 10:03
内贾德先生予以肯定。:D
内贾德先生予以肯定。:D
人家民煮脂油国，人民拥有当义士的自由，杀官的人权{:jian:},所以这是很平常的事情
美国版的杨佳。:D
到底是自由社会的，义士都开飞机，强过杨佳拿菜刀。
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.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
helanmouse 发表于 2010-2-19 08:49
看来FBI兼职GFW呀。。。
看来FBI兼职GFW呀。。。
开飞机的“穷人”[:a9:]