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2 Monday, February 22, 2010 BULLETIN www.dailyutahchronicle.com '114 22 Monday 23 Tuesday Decreasing clouds 38/28 Mostly sunny •Love Your Body Week 2010: All week @ Campus •Banff Film Festival: 7 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall •Gender Performance: Body Experiences, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. @ College of Social Work •The Continuing Allure: Painters of Utah's Red Rock: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts 24 Wednesday 43/28 Increasing clouds 44/29 •Jazz Big Bands: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall •The Last of the Silence: Wildlife Studies in the World's Wilderness: 7 p.m. @ Salt Lake City Main Library •UPC Gallery Stroll: UnUsual, Abstract Student Art: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. @ Union Student Lounge •Twelve Angry Men: 7:30 p.m. @ Pioneer Theatre •Women's Chorus: 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall •Love Your Body Week Film Screening: America The Beautiful: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. @ Salt Lake City Main Library •Banff Film Festival: 7 p.m. @ Kingsbury Hall Weather from the department of atmospheric sciences: http://forecastutah.edu All stories and photos from The Associated Press Stack's hatred for tax system had been simmering for years AUSTIN, Texas—In the California where Joe Stack started out as a fresh-fromcollege software engineer, fighting the tax man was, quite literally, a religion. Back in the 1970s and '8os, California was not just the center of the "silicon revolution." The Golden State was also a teeming hive of anti-government activity, much of it aimed at the federal income tax code and the agency that enforced it—the Internal Revenue Service. Tax protesters and self-styled patriots railed against exemptions granted to religious organizations, the Catholic Church in particular. They formed their own "churches" and invited others to join. "It sounds like he went down that same path and ran into the same brick wall," said Dennis Riness, who did time in federal prison for running a church-styled tax shelter. Riness and most others gave up the fight. It seems Joe Stack could not, unable to let go of his hatred for a system that he felt enslaved him. After two decades of financial setbacks and professional disappointments, facing an audit in a down economy, Stack decided to strike back. In an angry letter that rambles on for 3,000 words, the 53-year-old Stack set out his grievances, attributing his failures to everything from the dot-com bust to the "911 nightmare." He traced the beginnings of his problems with the government back 24 years and an obscure change in the Internal Revenue Code affecting software professionals. "It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn't limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants," Stack wrote. "I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure (sic) nothing will change." He posted his manifesto on the website of his business Thursday morning. A short time later, his house 20 minutes north of the Two firemen are seen at the home belonging to Joseph Stack after Stack apparently set it on fire Thursday in Austin, Texas. Stack, a software engineer furious with the Internal Revenue Service, plowed his small plane into an office building housing nearly 200 federal tax employees the same day, officials said. Texas Capitol was ablaze. He was behind the controls of his single-engine Piper PA-28: "Going southbound, sir," he radioed the airport tower. "Have a great day." Impact with the blackglass office building that houses offices of the IRS came moments later. Miraculously, the crash that consumed Stack killed only one other victim— Vernon Hunter, 68, a Vietnam veteran and father of six who worked for nearly 3o years at the IRS. Ken Hunter said if Stack had come in and talked to his father, he would have done his best to help. "My dad didn't write the tax law," he said. "Nobody in that building wrote the tax law." But Stack wasn't looking for help. Like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, he hoped his suicidal flight would become "a catalyst" for fundamental change, said JJ MacNab, who has studied tax protesters for a decade. services, he said. More than 120 other people were injured and an unknown number were missing, possibly swept away or smothered, authorities said, adding that the death toll could still rise. Of 248 people who were forced to flee their homes for temporary shelters, 85 have been allowed to return home, Ramos said. Late Sunday, a spokeswoman for the British Foreign office confirmed that a British national had died, but declined to give further details. The spokeswoman spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department policy. The Foreign Office also said a small number of Britons had been hospitalized on Madeira. The island is popular with British tourists, who for centuries have regarded wines made in Madeira as a luxury product. The worst storm to hit Madeira since 1993 lashed the south of the Atlantic Ocean island, including the capital, Funchal, Saturday, turning some streets into torrents of mud, water and rolling debris. "We heard a very loud noise, like rolling thunder, the ground shook and then we realized it was water coming down," said Simon Burgbage, of Britain. Lawmakers to press military on fate of gay ban WASHINGTON—Lawmakers this week will press the military's top uniformed officers for the first time on whether they think repealing "don't ask, don't tell" makes sense or would be too disruptive. The testimony from each of the service chiefs on Capitol Hill will be crucial to the debate in Congress on whether to repeal the 17-year-old law, which bans gays from serving openly in the military. President Barack Obama says the policy unfairly punishes patriots who want to serve their country Defense Secretary Robert Gates agrees and has begun a yearlong study on how to mitigate the impact of lifting the ban. Providing much-needed political cover is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, EMISSIONS continued from Page 1 Gibson, backed by Kimball Rasmussen, CEO of Deseret Power, and Sterling Brown, vice president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation, told the committee that the EPA has no right to tell Utah to curb its carbon emissions until the science about climate change is proven. Gibson said the whole thing is a conspiracy, possibly as a means to increase taxes. "I don't have a lot of letters behind my name," Gibson said. "I live at and operate a six-generation dairy and crop farm in western Weber County. To some people, that disqualifies me from entering into an issue like this. To me, I think it gives me all of the knowledge I need." But students, bothered by Gibson's SAO PAULO The Brazilian navy defended its response to a shipwreck that left dozens of teenage students from around the world adrift on the ocean for two nights. The navy deployed a search aircraft about 19 hours after it received a distress signal from the SV Concordia on Wednesday, which officials say is in line with standard procedure. All 48 students and 16 crew members were safely rescued Friday, nearly 4o hours after the sailing ship capsized in the Atlantic several hundred miles off the Brazilian coast. FBI investigating cruise ship death Portugal floods kill 42, some feared buried FUNCHAL, Madeira Islands— Rescue workers in Madeira dug through heaps of mud, boulders and debris Sunday, searching for victims buried by floods and mudslides that have killed at least 42 people on the popular Portuguese island. Residents looking for missing loved ones were directed by local authorities to the resort's international airport, where a makeshift morgue has been set up. Social services spokesman Francisco Jardim Ramos said not all the bodies had been identified. The center is equipped with psychiatric, psychological and social counseling Brazil defends its search efforts in shipwreck who has said he thinks the law unfairly forces gay troops to compromise their integrity by lying about who they are. But lawmakers, who are divided on whether to end the ban, say they want to hear from the service chiefs. They are the ones who would be in charge of putting any changes in place and responding to any fallout. "The armed forces have always placed military effectiveness above individual needs," said Rep. Gene Taylor, a conservative Democrat from Mississippi who said he is unconvinced that the ban should be lifted. "This is one of the core concepts that has made the U.S. military one of the most effective combat forces in history," he said. attitude, compared anyone who denies climate change as a dangerous reality to Holocaust deniers and people who still think the Earth is flat. In the end, only two lawmakers on the committee sided with the students and professors. Sen. Gene Davis, D-Salt Lake City, concluded his nay vote by telling Gibson his attitude was disrespectful. The rest applauded the students' passion but agreed with Gibson that the government has no right to tell Utah what to do with its carbon emissions until scientists can better prove climate change is real. "What if it's a big hoax and we created a better world for nothing?" said Sen. Dennis Stowell, R-Parowan, quoting a political cartoon Gibson passed out before the hearing. But it's not for nothing—it costs millions and billions of dollars, mon- Although Mullen said he believes the ban should be lifted, he has said he can't speak for the service chiefs other than to say they support Gates' yearlong assessment. The service chiefs are scheduled to testify separately throughout the week, with the Army's Gen. George Casey and the Air Force's Gen. Norton Schwartz going first Tuesday. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway, who is said to oppose changes to the policy, will testify Wednesday. "We believe that any implementation plan for a policy permitting gays and lesbians to serve openly in the armed forces must be carefully derived, sufficiently thorough and thoughtfully executed," Mullen told a Senate panel last month. ey no one has right now, he said. If U students are serious, they should be willing to cut their university's funding to pay for it, he said. It always comes down to money whenever the merits of science are put on the back burner, "and as long as it's about money, nothing will get done," said Steven Paulus, a senior in environmental studies. The resolution passed the House 56-17 earlier this month after lawmakers removed language from it that called climate change data a "conspiracy." Anderson, who mumbled "it's to be expected" moments after the committee passed Gibson's resolution, said he expects the full Senate will pass it as well and do harm to "the greatest moral issue facing mankind today." [e-mail] GALVESTON, Texas—The FBI is investigating the death of a 32-year-old woman found in her room on a cruise ship. FBI special agent Shauna Dunlap told The Associated Press on Saturday night that authorities are trying to determine whether the woman's death aboard the Carnival Ecstasy was the result of foul play. She declined to identify the woman. Dunlap says an autopsy is being conducted and that investigators expect to have the results within the week. College student rescued from climbing fall OGDEN—A Utah college student has survived a harrowing fall near Ogden, where he was out climbing the Wasatch mountains alone. Officials say the 27-year-old student at Weber State University was recovering at McKay-Dee Hospital from a broken leg, a broken wrist and a cut to his right leg. Rescue crews carried Mario Westbroek 4000 feet down a mountain after he called for help on his cell phone. He spent four hours late Thursday huddled on a boulder where he fell about 20 feet. It took until early Friday to get him out. Corrections and Clarifications The policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 801-581-8317. 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