Stratfor, an Austin-based global intelligence firm specializing in international risk management, said the rhetoric in Stack's rant clearly matches the USA Patriot Act's definition of terrorism: a criminal act that is intended to "intimidate or coerce a civilian population to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping." "When you fly an airplane into a federal building to kill people, that's how you define terrorism," said Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican whose district includes Austin. "It sounds like it to me."

I can't picture anyone raised American thinking that Stack's chosen course of action could do anything more than draw peoples attention to his manifesto, and he says as much in the manifesto ... Essentially, by doing a splashy suicide, he writes what would otherwise be a digital manifesto in blood ...