Samantha Bell, Joe Stack's daughter, calls Stack a "hero", not for crashing plane

From the "What else do you expect a 38-year-old daughter to say" department, comes the ABC news report that Samantha Bell, Joe Stack's daughter, calls Stack a "hero" but not for crashing his plane into the Austin IRS Building - for taking on the government.



Perhaps someone forgot to tell Samantha Bell that the family of the victim who died, Vernon Hunter, really takes issue with her comment. Samantha Bell appeared on ABC's Good Morning America to say:

"His last actions, the suicide, the catastrophe that caused injuries and death, that was wrong. But if nobody comes out and speaks up on behalf of injustice, then nothing will ever be accomplished. But I do not agree with his last action with what he did. But I do agree about the government."

Then she said Joe Stack was a hero, but ABC News reports she called later to explain that she did not mean what she said, and he was "not a hero". Apparently Samantha Bell had a crisis of conscience, especially as she had to consider that Joe Stack came close to murdering his own wife and 12-year-old daughter.

Stack killed Vietnam vet Vernon Hunter when he crashed his plane into the Austin, Texas IRS Building. Bell says she's mourning his loss.

Still unanswered in all of this is what caused Joe Stack to just snap. It' a question still being tackled at my YouTube video page:



Stay tuned.