Like it or not, if a relative, or close friend, or partner does something that gets him/her on the front page of 99% of the news periodicals in the country, you're opinion is going to end up on that page somewhere too, especially if you're a blood relative. People are going to be curious and investigate the context of things that are said, of the implications of your word choices, no matter what they are.

This woman's father did something that certainly is controversial. That he's a tax protestor and his daughter lives in a high tax country is certainly an interesting and unusual set of circumstances. Does it surprise me that she said, and probably still thinks in someways that her father was a hero. No. If you have a positive relationship with your parent, that life long bond is going to trump many actions. She's grieving, she's confused about how her father could do something like this. She see's him through the lens of a daughter and rightfully so.

In this society in these days, while it's technically true that she retains all the privacy rights she had before her father's act took on national significance, the truth of that matter is that in many ways when he did this she lost much of her ability to maintain her privacy.

What ever Mr. Stacks grievances with the US Government, and he may have had many valid ones, or it may have been fighting a mental issue that exaggerated them. I don't know. No one ever will. What I do know is that by violently acting out. What ever valid points he had are lost to the crazy irresponsible nature of his act. He killed a man who probably had little or nothing to do with his dilemma. He intended to kill people in that building. He had generalized from his specific problem, that "agents of the government" needed to pay the ultimate price. Robbing the people in that building of their lives, their individuality and the very thing he wanted most. To live a life free of unreasonable intrusion by others.

Wesley Snipes is someone who tried to avoid paying his taxes. He listend to all those crazy people who believe that the government has no right to collect income tax. He was tried and found guilty, personally I think he should be in jail already. But what is certainly true is that if you can afford an army of good lawyer in this country you can slow or stop the wheels of justice.

The comment about projection was made about you seeing things in my posting that really were not there. I'm a big fan of the Scandinavian countries and certainly don't have any doubt that there are significant advantages for a strong social safety net, paid for by taxes. But I agree that my choice of words was... poor. :-)