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An unfortunate tragedy will likely give Anti Government groups and Right Wing Conservatives a black eye. 51 year old Bill Sparkman, a part time census worker, was found dead, hanging from a tree near a cemetery in rural Kentucky with the word 'fed' scrawled across his chest in some type of felt marker. Sparkman, a Boy Scouts of America Leader and substitute teacher worked as a part time US Census worker just once or twice a month for a little extra income.
Clay county, where the body was found is one of the poorest in the country with high unemployment and a poverty rate several times the national average is rife with methamphetamine labs and marijuana fields and a historical distrust of the government going back to the moonshine days.
While the word 'fed' being scrawled across the man's chest leads definate credence to a notion that there may have been an anti government motive to the slaying it is unfortunate that the original AP news story had to make a point of mentioning that the Oklahoma Bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was in posession of 'literature by ultra-right-wing, anti-government authors". So I guess now this horrible tragedy will likely become another finger to point at the 'angry mobs' that have been showing up for the tea party events and town hall meetings to protest the Health Care Reform Bill.
I don't know why it always has to be conservatives that are called extremists or anti government(more like limited government). What about the left wing extremists who were responsible for a full three fourths of officially designated terrorist attacks against the US government during the 1980s. How about drug dealers protecting their labs and pot fields, you might think they would be a little anti government. Personally I think most reasonable people in this day are a little leary of the government and with good cause. I hope that I am wrong and and this trad=gedy will get the attention it deserves as a murder investigation and not some excuse for a political witch hunt.
Links
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554760,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,555623,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9236/
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/census/
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It really is unfortunate that this man met this fate, I myself am a Marxist and thus I am very much Anti-Government, but what must be realized is that the life of a single human being is worth more than all the property of the richest man in the world, that people are motivated to kill, merely because they are angered by something they hear from Glenn Beck, or Rush Limbaugh sickens me.
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