AUSTIN, Texas – The ******** of a man who crashed his small plane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service called her ****** a hero for his anti-government views but said his actions, which ****** an IRS employee, were "inappropriate."
Joe Stack's adult ********, Samantha Bell, spoke to ABC's "Good Morning America" from her home in Norway. Asked during a phone interview broadcast Monday if she considered her ****** a hero, she said: "Yes. Because now maybe people will listen."
Authorities say Stack, 53, targeted the IRS office building in Austin on Thursday, ******* employee Vernon Hunter and himself, after posting a ranting manifesto against the agency and the government. He apparently set fire to his home before flying his plane into the office building.
Hunter's ***, Ken Hunter, said he's alarmed by comments that the pilot was a hero.
"How can you call someone a hero who after he burns down his house, he gets into his plane ... and flies it into a building to **** people?" Hunter told ABC." "My *** Vernon did two tours of duty in Vietnam. My ***'s a hero."
