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Update on Census Worker death

by smkovalinsky | September 26, 2009 at 10:32 am

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Found naked and bound in the Daniel Boone National Forest of Kentucky, Census worker Bill Sparkman's death has been ruled a homicide by FBI.

Although it has been contended that the area is somewhat of a hotbed for marijuana fields and meth amphetamine labs, further reflection will reveal that no drug dealer worth his salt would seek to draw further Federal scrutiny to his territory.

Just take a moment to think about it: IF Sparkman had wandered into a marijuana field or a meth lab, it is almost certain that the turf man would have killed him to prevent disclosure to police. BUT the body would have been hidden, deep underground or in a body of water, to ensure that no police or Federal agents would find the area. Sparkmen would have been added to the missing person's list, and stayed on it for years.

As the word "Fed" was scrawled on Sparkman's chest, and the body was left as though intending to "make a statement", it is far more likely and much more reasonable that Michelle Bachmann et al , upping the ante about Obama's Census and the grave dangers of pending internment camps - hogwash if I ever heard it - provoked such a blantant anti-Federal government act.

(CBS/AP) It was a bizarre and gruesome discovery in a remote section of eastern Kentucky: Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old teacher and part-time worker for the United States Census, was found two weeks ago hanging from a tree with the word "Fed" scrawled on his chest in felt tip pen.

A man who said he was among those who found the body told tells the Associated Press that Sparkman was naked, bound at the hands and feet with duct tape and gagged - details that have not yet been confirmed by authorities.

Jerry Weaver of Ohio told the Associated Press he was visiting a cemetery in rural Kentucky with family members on Sept. 12 when he, his wife and daughter saw the body.

"The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver said. "And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.

"He was murdered," Weaver said. "There's no doubt."

(*For an interesting analysis of just why it is that Michele Bachmann is coming into the minds of so many liberals with regard to Sparkman's death, see: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/25/bill-sparkman-hate-crime/ , and for an analysis on the very real and serious concern that the death was politically and not merely criminally motivated, see:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/24/census-worker-death-very_n_298433.html )

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Roy C

at 10:46 on September 26th, 2009

Speculation. No proof.

In the fifties and sixties, Jewish cemeteries were vandalized with Swastikas on the tombstones. Everyone was sure that the culprits were right-wing extremists.

In fact, after the fall of the Soviet Union, researchers were able to verify that Soviet agents did the vandalizing in an attempt to create paranoia about the right.

OK, he was a census worker. Now, what idiot of the right would want to create a major investigation into his activities by killing a federal worker and labeling the crime.

We can and should wait to see what and how this was all about.

a211423

at 12:32 on September 26th, 2009

The nature of how his body was bound and gagged and desecrated, I would lean towards a hate crime of some kind. And I heard a report that there was some kind of tag taped to his neck. Also, why would they tape his eyes? This would be done to someone to prevent them identifying the attackers and suggests that murder might not have been intended.

The fact that he was a census worker could be incidental, and not have anything to do with the murder.

I think Cynic mentioned on another thread that he was a single Dad raising a son. My heart goes out to his son, and I hope he is getting the help he needs to cope with this, and is being protected from media reports.