Posted on 09/23/2009 2:17:35 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery. A law enforcement official says the word "fed" was scrawled on his chest.
The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky.
Investigators have said little about the case.
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uh oh
If I had to guess, it sounds like the work of an unmedicated paranoid schizoprenic who thinks the government is spying on him through his electrical outlets and his television. A census worker showing up on such a person’s doorstep would be in a dangerous situation.
The 2010 Census?
I understand this area - the Daniel Boone Forest - is a large producer of marijuana, very much on the order of the old moonshine still operations and not a place that anyone connected to the federal government would be real safe going into or around alone and unarmed.
That was my first thought.
I fully expect the fringe media will try to pin it on Glenn Beck and (as they like to defame them), “the teabaggers”.
Well, he does have them “Yankee-blue” clothes.
Is it 2010 yet? Why are they starting the census early?
Absolutely.
The boots on the ground people are just harmless, everyday people trying to earn a few dollars.
Someone is trying to push public sentiment.
Where was Nancy Pelosi at the time?
Perhaps unrelated, but I recall reading that Daniel Boone NF was one of the biggest pot growing locales east of the Mississippi.
And aren’t those guys harvesting their “crop” about now?
Looks like the census bureau is gonna have a rough time in Kentucky...
I understand this area - the Daniel Boone Forest - is a large producer of marijuana, very much on the order of the old moonshine still operations and not a place that anyone connected to the federal government would be real safe going into or around alone and unarmed.
That sounds pretty reasonable. If it's the case, it would be appropriate for the wrath of the Feds to descend on that area and destroy every patch of weed in the entire forest. And if a few cultivators get stepped on, boo-hoo.
More’n likely tried to count the people runnin a meth lab. Lotza chemists in those parts.
“most of them are retired people on a pension and college students.....
My 84 year old father, retired Air Force, is working for the census again this year, as he did the last time around. He is a solid Regan conservative, deeply troubled with the direction Obama is taking this country. But....he needs the money and, with his past experience, they grabbed him when he applied again this year.
We are all wondering how long he will last on the job, primarily because of his age. We all think he should be taking it easy, but he always has needed to be BUSY. I don’t think anyone, talking with him, would ever mistake him for an Acorn or Obama minion. I hope.
pattyjo
My thought as well.
Was Fed written upside down and backwards? Inquiring minds want to know.
“college students” = chemists
Hmmm. Will census takers now be armed?
Oh, yeah. Count on it. They’ve got to find that ‘stereotype pigeonhole’. They feel better that way. /s
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