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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Danged revenuers!
Don’t forget that LaVoisier was well on his way to identifying the periodic table when he was enlisted to collect taxes for the French government to escape penury; he was a very early example of the efficiency of the newly perfected guillotine for his troubles.
http://www.govexec.com/features/1203/1203s2s1.htm
While California is experiencing the greatest threat, drug production on public land is increasing across the country.
1. Most domestic marijuana is grown on public land in California by Mexican cartels.
2. Major drug-smuggling routes along the Mexican border run through federal and tribal lands.
3. Ingredients for methamphetamine production are mainly smuggled from Canada to Mexican-run labs in California’s Central Valley.
4. Most of the methamphetamine labs and dumpsites seized in national forests are found in Missouri’s Mark Twain National Forest.
5. The Daniel Boone National Forest has led all National Forests in marijuana cultivation for 10 of the last 11 years.
During every census, a couple of workers get shot by disgruntled paranoid people.
Hanging is very unusual.
Census takers—be careful; pack heat.
Rocky Top is in TN, not KY.
Actually, I wouldn’t be very surprised if it did turn out to be a right-wing whackadoodle.
It IS dangerous. I used to date a guy who worked as a ‘repo man’. You can just imagine what he had to deal with on a daily basis.
You really need to work on your people skills.
The actual census is a huge, complex project and requires a lot of preparatory work.
By law the actual count will take place 2010 but you can't just go out the morning of the census and start counting people that walk by. You have to know where the people live beforehand and there is no single, up to date data base available with accurate and complete information. The data that is available from other sources is often partial, incomplete and in dissimilar formats.
Remember, people who must be counted live in a variety of places other than houses and apartments; dorms, church annexes, boats, dorms, tents, remote mountain cabins, forest camps, RV's and travel trailers, 18 wheelers, utility sheds, abandoned and condemned buildings, hobo jungles, etc. The only way to know if you have made the most accurate and complete count practical is to build your own data base, structure by structure, street by street, down every dirt road and forest path.
Once you have a data base of the locations where people live you are ready to perform an actual count at those locations.
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This is so obvious, I can't believe it's not more widely known. We must both be from the sticks!
Suicide?
If this guy was black, and if he was left hanging from a southern tree, pretty soon we’ll be hearing a revival of “Strange Fruit” on Air America.
Just about two years ago (and during pot harvest season, like right now) but still pertinent:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-09-30-kentucky_N.htm
Kentucky goes after ‘Marijuana Belt’ growers
Posted 9/30/2007 12:01 AM
[snip]
The remote and rugged terrain, including the 700,000 acres of the Daniel Boone National Forest, is a pot-grower’s paradise — its perfect soil and climate give it a key place in America’s “Marijuana Belt.”
But the reasons go beyond the landscape.
Many of the small towns of Eastern Kentucky, steeped in a tradition of bootlegging moonshine, also have high rates of unemployment and poverty and in some cases, public corruption, according to federal drug officials. People can make as much as $2,000 from a single plant, an often irresistible draw when good-paying jobs are scarce. Much of what is harvested is carried in car trunks to such cities as Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, authorities say.
The estimated worth of seized plants alone far outstrips Kentucky’s other crops. Federal statistics from the Department of Agriculture for 2005 show state receipts for tobacco were $342 million and corn was $336 million, compared with close to $1 billion of pot eradicated last year by HIDTA.
PS -- "Reichstag" is spelled with one "g".
Is it 2010 already?
Too bad about the guy, though. Sounds like he stumbled upon some nefarious doings in the woods.
an unmedicated paranoid schizoprenic who thinks the government is spying on him through his electrical outlets and his television.
Well, how else are they going to do it?
Thank god Al Coa invented tinfoil.
Can you imagine walking through a front yard guarded by five or six pitbulls?
My college age daughter got a job with the census this spring and did the two week training. Then she was assigned to the rural sections of our county which is most of it instead of the urban counting teams.
She asked if she could take her dog and carry a gun and they said no. She promptly resigned the job.
Sounds like they did not like him!
Kentucky, huh? “Hey, Clem, we got us a revenooer”
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