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Glenn Greenwald at Salon also argues that Joseph Andrew Stack can't be slotted into left or right, and that the note/manifesto he left behind is in no way crazy.

Greenwald goes on to make very strongly the point that Stack was a terrorist, in any objective, unpoliticized sense of the word. Government and mainstream media are currently invested in not recognizing Stack's as a terrorist act, because "terrorist acts" can only be performed by a THEM, not an US.

If and when (I suspect it's when) gov and media start using the phrases "American terrorists" or "domestic terrorists," or some euphemism for such, that's the tipping point. That's when the arsenal of unconstitutional, unAmerican, extra-legal acts promoted by Bush/Cheney and excused or embraced by the Obama/Democratic administration will come to bear on the formerly US.

Don't dismiss Stack as insane, either, unless you're willing to posit that if he had survived his attack he would be unprosecuted or found not guilty by reason of insanity.

To see what your fellow citizens are saying about Stack, I recommend avoiding the politically identified websites, right or left, and reading the comments posted at ostensibly neutral sites, like CNN.com or USA Today. Lots of people identifying with Stark or defending the points made in his suicide manifesto.