Who killed Bill Sparkman?.....

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 6:31 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 06:31

Feds probe US Census worker hanging in Kentucky

When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drew on years of experience for a warning: "Be careful."

The 51-year-old Sparkman was found this month hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

I spent some time in that part of Kentucky back in the 1960's working for the Federal government's anti-poverty program begun under JFK and continued by Lyndon Johnson. And from what I've read, there has been little change in the poverty levels in that area.

The people in this part of the country are insular, clannish, suspicious of "outsiders" of any stripe, and fearful of all things governmental. They are NOT bad people. They are people who have for decades been the most disadvantaged and neglected citizens in the greatest and wealthiest nation on Earth. They are also deeply fundamentalist in their beliefs. If one of them is found to have caused this man's horrible death, he should not stand alone in a court of law.

The real murderers of this man are the Glenn Beck's, and Rush Limbaugh's, and Michele Bachmann's who have spread the deadly poison of hate and fear of our government and the Obama administration across the land. And Bachman should be front and center as the most culpable because she is supposedly an elected member of Congress who has sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this land. But instead, she has rallied the gullible and the ignorant in a war against the government and more to the point against the census process as being symbolic of the evil government's infringement on our "God-given" rights.

She should be expelled from the House.

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