A Facebook fan page praising the Austin man who flew his plane into an IRS office, killing a Vietnam vet who worked inside, has been shut down by the social networking site.
Conservative talk show host Jon Alvarez of WFBM-AM 1390 in Syracuse created the group just hours after Andrew Joseph Stack carried out his crazed suicide mission Thursday to express his anger at the IRS.
Facebook removed the site within a day of its creation and e-mailed Alvarez to tell him that it bans posts that are hateful or threatening.
"This guy was making a sacrifice to others who were having problems with the IRS," Alvarez told Syracuse's Post-Standard newspaper. "We at least owed it to him to make note of his thoughts."
The tribute page included Stack's ranting manifesto that spelled out his bitter hatred of the IRS, Wall Street bailouts, and the Catholic Church.
The 53-year-old set his own house on fire before his airborne suicide, but his wife and her 12-year-old daughter were not inside the North Austin home at the time.
Alvarez devoted his Friday broadcast to Stack's plane crash and defended the pilot's actions, even though there were nearly 200 people at work inside the seven-story Echelon Building at the time.
He thinks news organizations were simply out to "label [Stack] a loon."
"I'm surprised more people haven't done something like this," Alvarez said. "There's a lot of frustration out there. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg."
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