If someone flew an airplane into a building full of people to protest the Afghan war, it would be called a terrorist incident. However, when Mr. Joe Stack flew his plane into an IRS building and killed people, the news media calls it "the accident," and "the incident." The local Texas prosecutor and even the White House claimed specifically that Mr. Stack was not a terrorist.

But what should you call it when a man pens a manifesto proclaiming: "violence is the only answer," then kills people because they work for the government? Mr. Stack's wife apologized on the news to "everyone affected by the incident," but was careful not to use the term "victim," when referring to the people her husband murdered.

Regardless of the media's politically correct posturing, the simple fact is this: Joe Stack was a suicide bomber, a domestic terrorist. Even though his name was Joe, and not Mohammed, and even though he was protesting taxes, not Israeli foreign policy, Mr. Stack was, a murderer of the innocent.

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