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"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well," someone named Joe Stack wrote. The Web page signed today as his death date. It was created Feb. 16 and last modified this morning at 6:42 a.m. according the page's source code. The FBI said they believe it is real.
http://www.ou.org/torah/frankel/5764/behar64.htmThe "Pound of Flesh"In Shakespeare's play, "The Merchant of Venice," the plot revolves around a Jewish money-lender named Shylock. In this work, Shakespeare betrays his ambivalent feelings about Jews. On one hand, he puts in Shylock's mouth numerous arguments designed to show that the Jew is also (sic) a feeling human being, "Doth not a Jew bleed?, etc" But in the end, his role in the play is essentially that of a villain, concerned only with extracting his "pound of flesh" as interest.