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September 23, 2009
It Was Only A Matter of Time
I hope the Republicans (I'm looking at you, Michele Bachmann) are proud of their demagoguery of the U.S. Census. Horrible:
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.The body of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and occasional teacher, was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation.
I'm speechless.
Adding... I hope I'm just jumping to conclusions on this. But officials are now confirming that this appears to have been a homicide.
Adding, too... Eric Cantor and John Boehner today:
We wanted to respond to your letter to us last week and to assure you that regardless of what inside-the-beltway media writes or what unnamed “sources” it quotes, we are proud to serve with Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.
Just saying.
Filed under: Census || Michele Bachmann || Right Wing Extremists || Wingnuts
Posted By Bob Cesca | September 23, 2009 6:37 PM
Comments
As am I. And the first person who popped into my head when I heard this tragic news was that dangerous idiot, Bachmann.
The hate speech must stop...........
Posted by: Curly Lasagna
at September 23, 2009 6:53 PM
I can't wait to hear the right wing shit-birds try and explain how such things are the result of left wing ideology!
The insanity never ends!
Posted by: kansasdem
at September 23, 2009 7:04 PM
Well Kansas, don't hold your breath. The media would have to report it before the right wingatics start lying about it.
Hmmmm, murdered on 9/12 you say? Interesting.
If this guy was murdered by white folks you know they'll be the non-racist hard working patriot type that don't need healthcare. In other words NO HATE CRIME HERE!
Posted by: scribblechic
at September 23, 2009 7:27 PM
"
"A private group called PEER, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, tracks violence against employees who enforce environmental regulations, but the group's executive director, Jeff Ruch, said it's hard to know about all of the cases because some agencies don't share data on instances of violence against employees.
"From 1996 to 2006, according to the group's most recent data, violent incidents against federal Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service workers soared from 55 to 290.
"Ruch said that after the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, "we kept getting reports from employees that attacks and intimidation against federal employees had not diminished, and that's why we've been tracking them."
""Even as illustrated in town hall meetings today, there is a distinct hostility in a large segment of the population toward people who work for their government," Ruch said."
From:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090923/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged_8
But DHS had to apologize????????????
Posted by: kansasdem
at September 23, 2009 7:41 PM
This is so horrifying and so heartbreaking. I cannot stand what the insane wingnuts are doing to this country.
Posted by: eve
at September 23, 2009 8:06 PM
While this is truely very sad, it was predicted.....by NANCY PELOSI! I'M LOOKING AT YOU JOE SCARBOROUGH AND EVERYONE AT FOX NEWS! WHAT DO YOU FOLKS THINK OF MADEM SPEAKER NOW? SHE'S A PROFIT!
Posted by: roxsteady
at September 23, 2009 8:14 PM
I actually wonder if Pelosi had been briefed about it prior to her making the comments last week. So sad. I almost hope it is not what it appears to be because I'm not sure this country could handle it.
Posted by: EGB
at September 23, 2009 8:25 PM
Seriously. When will someone (Glenn Beck, Bachman) be held accountable for this shit? How dare these c*ck suckers act offended by being called "Right Wing Extremists" and being labeled a danger.
Stay tuned to your favorite MSM to hear more f'ing false equivalencies and how really this isn't so bad..
Posted by: emPulse
at September 23, 2009 8:32 PM
And this will probably be disputed as the left's fault for instigating "socialism" and threatening our "freedom". I wouldn't be surprised if eventually some try to rationalize this the way pro-life nutjobs rationalize killing abortion doctors.
Posted by: Alex00
at September 23, 2009 8:59 PM
they will all blame Nancy, they already have. when the MSM says anything, they will blame Obama and the dems for creating the fear. goddamn idiots
I hope for our sake, as a nation, someone in their party stands up and says to stop. I am not holding out hope after a Member of Congress said an admitted "right wing terrorist" was a "good American". this was before the idiot who disrespected the institution of Congress. if you aren't smart enough to respect the House floor, you have no business having a seat in that great room.
goddamn idiot fuckers, I want the country I was promised when I was born, not the one I was born into.
Posted by: veralynn
at September 23, 2009 9:05 PM
Just in case, I have been arming myself. We know the cons aren't very educated, but we also know they like guns. So, I am prepared, just in case.
Posted by: Saiga 12
at September 23, 2009 9:15 PM
My uneducated ignorant conversative shitstain of a state just cant seem to stay out of the news. And its all bad news.
Posted by: J M Ashby
at September 23, 2009 10:36 PM
My heart and prayers go out to the family of this murdered man and my undying hatred and venom go out to the GOP and Bachmann for their undeniable complicity in this man's death. Who will rid us of this troublesome politician?
Posted by: ZIRGAR
at September 23, 2009 10:52 PM
I damn well better see the MSM headlining this and investigating the hate speech that led to it. I'm sure they won't. And as many of you also said, I'm sure the GOP will try to blame the dems somehow. Look for their crazy circular/blame the victim logic...."well if he wasn't working for the Feds, the locals wouldn't have killed him because he worked for the Feds"...like the Nazi's said....'well, we wouldn't have killed them if they hadn't been Jewish (homosexual, Polish, fill in the blank here)'
Posted by: Irish Girl
at September 24, 2009 12:36 PM



