Was the Austin Plane Crash Domestic Terrorism?

The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act.

this guy wasn't a terrorist. he wasn't trying to inflict terror on anyone, he was pissed off at a specific target (the IRS) and took out his anger on that specific target.

He founded his company in California but moved to Austin to take advantage of the growing high tech industry in Texas.

Here is a copy of his online posting just before he did this:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0218102stack...

Austin is so nice and crime free something like this is crazy.