According to an ABC article (http://abcnews.go.com/US/census-interviews-suspended-worker-found-hanged-kentucky/story?id=8659585) there is reason to be suspicious as to whether or not this was motivated by such "anti-state" sentiments.
Apparently, the part of Kentucky this guy was doing a census in is known for "meth labs and hidden marijuana fields", meaning that his murder might be related to wrong place wrong time.
My initial reaction is that only the most obscenely unintelligent of organized criminals would so blatantly leave the body of a murdered federal official in plain sight, and meth dealers aren't really in the habit of leaving such "messages" to feds. Also, that the computer he used was still in the truck would seem to indicate that the people who committed the crime were not otherwise criminals, or that they were cautious about tracking devices (though, such criminals would be the last who would leave a federal corpse as a message).
The wikipedia of Clay County mentions nothing of such crime, but does mention that it is a dry county (alcohol is prohibited). It has never been a democrat region, and McCain took it by 75%. According to http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7001 , Clay county has been marred with election rigging. Operation UNITE, and anti-drug program in Kentucky, mentions clay county as having a serious drug problem (http://www.operationunite.org/coalitions/counties/clay.php).
My only thoughts on the drug issue, given how remote the area he was found in, was that he was going to grab, and was outed as a federal employee, and his dealer overreacted. However, there is no evidence of him having any drug habits, and people say he was a very innocent and christian man.
Also:
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.
"Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as 'the government.' I just was afraid that he might meet the wrong character along the way up there," said Acciardo, who directs an after-school program at an elementary school where Sparkman was a frequent substitute teacher.
http://wokv.com/common/ap/2009/09/24/D9ATML480.html
so, maybe premature to say, for sure, that it was anti-government ultra conservatives, but it seems to be the most logical answer, given the incomplete evidence that has thus far been released to the media.
So what's the Fox News response gonna be? Not running the story? Claiming it was all a set up by ACORN coordinated by Obama through the Kenyan Embassy?
Considering this case an how far they've been pushing hate speech on tv and radio, does anyone wanna give a prediction about how soon it'll become acceptable to blame everything on the freemasons and the zionist occupied government? War on Christmas any one?
The site I sourced last, http://wokv.com/common/ap/2009/09/24/D9ATML480.html, or WOKV, is a subsidiary of FOX and was the first to report on the warnings of the retired police officer to the census worker, afaik. I can imagine they will push the drug dealer angle if Fox-proper covers it at all.
Freemasons? Already out there. I'd be willing to bet a good portion of Americans believe in mason/skull & Bones conspiracies, and the Beck stuff I saw about "communist" imagery in New York was all but that. Whether actual antisemitism becomes acceptable, I'd argue the Jewish lobby is too strong for that, but the code words will become more popular. I'm waiting to find a copy of The Protocols lying around campus, lol. I could see a indirect subsidiary of Fox publishing directly antisemitic stuff more than Fox itself, just for the plausible deniability.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jbzG_BlkG2Hfc818EPRRn1bBlP6gD9AT92400Thank you very much Glenn Beck, Michelle Bachmann, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of you morons. I wonder how many more people are going to die before someone shuts you idiots down for inciting people to violence.
“The wagers of this war on Christmas are a cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wracked Christians — not just Jewish people.”
-John Gibson
"If you don't want to hear about it, go back to Israel"
-Bill O'Rielly to a Jewish caller asserting that America is a secular nation.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
Limbaugh has a history of telling black callers he doesn't agree with to "take the bone out of your nose". He must get it from Dad and Uncle Limbaugh, prestigious lawyers who fought racial integration well into the mid-70's.
What's sad is some people love that guy and think he's a god.
I would love to pwn his ass on his ill-conceived ideas on drugs, most especially anabolic steroids.
You think they'd let me on to debate that with him? awesome
I often wonder if this is such an American problem, or if that type of sentiment is echoed in places like Canada, only people don't talk about it.
Either way, I guess in my naivete I had supposed that overt racism was still enough to lose listeners.
What does Limbaugh have to say about McVeigh? LOL, what does Beck say about McVeigh?
Originally posted by inimalist
I often wonder if this is such an American problem, or if that type of sentiment is echoed in places like Canada, only people don't talk about it.Either way, I guess in my naivete I had supposed that overt racism was still enough to lose listeners.
What does Limbaugh have to say about McVeigh? LOL, what does Beck say about McVeigh?
"I admire his service to this country in the first war against the infidels. I deeply regret that he took the blame for what was obviously an attack on America by Osama bin Laden which Clinton covered up by blaming it on noble American patriots who were accusing him of killing Vince Foster."