Plane Attack Victim's son speaks out

[dave29]

http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Plane-Attack-Victims-son-speaks-84823732.html

"I was watching T.V. and they kept saying it was the F.B.I. building. I've been in that building before so I looked up and I was like oh that's the I.R.S. building!", said Ken Hunter, the son of Vernon Hunter an I.R.S. employee who worked inside of the Echelon Building in north Austin, the same building attacked by 53-year old Joseph Stack who federal investigators believe intentionally flew his plane into the building killing one and injuring a dozen others.
"They kept saying one person was unaccounted for and she called me about one o'clock yesterday saying my dad was missing so I pretty much knew that my dad had lost his life in that building.", said Ken Hunter.


As far as Joseph Stack, the 53-year old man accused of intentionally crashing his small-engine plane into the Eschelon building because he was upset with the I.R.S., Ken Hunter says "Part of being an American, whether you agree with what's going on in the government or not is you pay your taxes. This isn't someone who couldn't afford to pay his taxes. He had an airplane and an almost $300,000 dollar house, and we're talking about what, three or four thousand dollars that he didn't want to pay? That's ridiculous.", said Hunter.


Vernon Hunter's job at the I.R.S. was to help arrange payment plans for people who couldn't afford to pay their taxes.
Ken Hunter says his father would have gladly helped Stack make the needed arrangements.

[Tumbulu]

1. how very sad (nt)

[Cha]

2. Wow..I would be so

crushed if it had happened to any of my loved ones.

And, all those teabaggers celebrating murder(terrorism?) and others like scott brown excusing it bc we all get frustrated about taxes?

Thank you for this, dave.

[flyarm]

3. My heartfelt condolences to the Hunter family..May Vernon Hunter rest in peace..he was taken from

his family and this earth in a horrific and cruel way ..


I hope his family can find some kind of comfort ..in whatever way they can.

What a tragic, unnessary loss.

My heart aches for them.

fly

[4lbs]

4. If Joe Stack was in debt, couldn't he have sold his plane to pay it off? (n/t)

n/t

[NoSheep]

5. The man wanted to commit suicide and did so successfully. Isn't that enough evidence

to tell everyone hashing this out that he was disturbed; depressed; apparently for a long time by his own admission. You don't kill yourself for any other reason than what depression or insanity does to you. It is physically painful. A prideful, capitalist, attention seeking son-of-a-bitch like Stack would do it in a way to get the maximum attention and take a bunch of other folks with him. Like you do when you are a prideful, capitalist son-of-a-bitch who is seriously depressed or mentally ill in some other way.

[upi402]

6. What Hunter said...

"Part of being an American, whether you agree with what's going on in the government or not is you pay your taxes. This isn't someone who couldn't afford to pay his taxes. He had an airplane and an almost $300,000 dollar house, and we're talking about what, three or four thousand dollars that he didn't want to pay? That's ridiculous."

That says a lot. If you're rational.

[ChicagoSuz219]

7. Heartbreaking...

I'm so sorry for your loss...