A “Tea-Bagger” Lynching in Kentucky
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm by MicheleThis is a truly disturbing story, but it gets more dismaying by the third paragraph.
The FBI is investigating the hanging death of Bill Sparkman, 51, a U.S. Census field worker who was found near a Kentucky cemetery. His body was found Sept. 12th, but what has raised the interest of the FBI is the word “fed” which was scrawled on Sparkman’s chest.
It’s this new information that has raised this case to a national level. Original reports of Sparkman’s death did not note the “fed” scrawling. At this point, it is unclear if the death was a murder or a suicide. Given the “fed” note, one must wonder if indeed this was a murder if the motive was related to anti-government sentiment.
Sept. 12th was the day that tea-baggers took to Washington, D.C. in protest of what they deem as overspending by the government, as well as too much government period.
While authorities seem unclear on the exact reason for Bill Sparkman’s death, Census Bureau Executive Director Dr. Robert Groves, while notifying census employees of the incident by e-mail, seemed quite sure it was a crime.
This was a brutal murder by a deranged person on September 12th. Perhaps he sought to legitimize his psychotic blood lust by cloaking it as political activism du jour, in much the same way Manson did, but this piece of editorializing is an obscene slander. You can almost taste the bile of the journalist when he typed the word “Tea-bagger”.
I predict next week Maureen Dowd tries to pin it on talk radio.
September 23rd, 2009 at 9:36 pm
It’s really pretty strange that in 11 days the police haven’t even announced whether they’ve found fingerprints of another person in the vehicle.
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Given the area his body was found in, this has less to do with Obama and more to do with people thinking he’s a revenuer. Odds are he got too close to someone’s meth lab or still and paid the price.
September 24th, 2009 at 12:50 am
It was so horrifying and police take such a long time in investigating death in a remote area no one secure
September 24th, 2009 at 2:53 am
Associating this death with the right wing is not logical. There is nothing that suggests it was the action of a right wing extremist.
Due to the method of death, location of body, recent history of location of body, and message on his chest indicates to me; he was mistaken for an undercover federal narc or member of the ATF.
September 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
The right-wing crazies in this country are getting scarier by the day.
September 27th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Nice drive-by, phillis…
Do you actually have anything to add to that, or is your libtard pea-brain incapable of anything other than dreaming about fellating your Dear Leader?