Media, Bloggers Frame Murder of Census Worker as Rightwing Political Crime

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
September 24, 2009

It looks like another government psyop designed to discredit and demonize those opposed to the increasing tyranny of the federal government — a census worker was found hanging from a tree in Kentucky with fed scrawled on his chest two weeks ago.

On the other hand, it might be the work of a lone psycho killer. But it does not matter. Because the corporate media — hours after news of the incident appeared — is using the tragic event to crank up the propaganda machine and demonize millions of people who support the Tea Party and End the Fed movements.

Either way, the FBI has suggested the crime was politically motivated. AP reporter Devlin Barrett, appearing on The Rachel Maddow Show Wednesday, said he did not believe the FBI would be involved if the case werent being investigated as a politically motivated murder, Politics Daily reports.
There are always people who have some sort of paranoia about the federal government and the census, but things might be worse this time around, writes Alex Koppelman for Salon. Theres been a lot of talk on the right about the connection (always very tenuous, and now severed) between the census and ACORN, a group thats been conservatives favorite bogeyman of late. And Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has been spreading her own fears about the census, at one point even suggesting a link between the census and Japanese internment during World War II — a frightening parallel for modern conspiracy theorists who fear that the government is setting up similar camps for them now.

Meanwhile, over at Gawker, Andrew Belonsky blames the opposition directly. We know that the levels of right-wing vitriol have reached psychotic new heights. But could they really be behind the apparent homicide of a Kentucky census worker, William Sparkman? Should we be calling this, as some are, a lynching? Sadly, that appears to be the case. And, if this was in fact murder, the death would seem to be targeted — fed was, after all, carved into the mans chest — and some are calling this a modern day lynching.
An editorial in the New York Magazine tells us Nancy Pelosis fear of political violence has been realized. In addition to this specific case of census-related fearmongering, you can add in the conspiracy theories about FEMA internment camps, long a mainstay of the Internet but recently stoked anew by the likes of conservative website World Net Daily and radio host Michael Savage. Then throw in everyone comparing Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and health-care reform to Hitler and Nazi Germany — like Rush Limbaugh, to take but one example. And death panels, and socialism, and birth certificates, and trampling on the Constitution. Its this toxic stew of fear and anger and paranoia that Nancy Pelosi recently worried could compel someone to lash out. I saw this myself in the late seventies in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening and it gave — it created a climate in which violence took place, she warned, states the op-ed.

The so-called liberal media has engaged in a concerted effort to portray the patriot and constitutionalist movements as rightwing terrorism, beginning with the murder of police in Pittsburgh earlier this year by a man the corporate media and foundation bloggers tried to link to Alex Jones. The media continued its effort after a deranged white supremacist allegedly killed a guard at a Holocaust museum. The suspect, James Von Brunn, was characterized as a birther and member of the patriot movement. Glenn Beck went so far as to declare Von Brunn was a hero of the truth movement. The hysteria reached a fevered pitch in August when Obama attempted to sell his health care plan.

The corporate media went into hyper-drive after Chris Broughton, an Arizona patriot, brought a carbine to an Obama event. Arizona has an open carry law. The media attempted to link Broughton to a supposed militia group. Infowars noted at the time that the group was not an organized militia. The media connected Ernest Hancock to the phantom militia. Hancock, an online radio host, is said to have designed the famous Ron Paul rEVOLution graphic. By mentioning this, the corporate media conflated Ron Paul with fictional domestic terrorists.

The government is sincerely concerned about the growing patriot movement, in particular the end the Federal Reserve and the Tenth Amendment movements.

As of this writing, there is little evidence indicating the census worker in Kentucky was the victim of a psychological operation designed to demonize the patriot movement. However, it is sincerely odd the man was murdered 24 days ago at exactly the same time the massive Tea Party demo in Washington was taking place.

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[Illtype]

It's not about left verses right you morons.

Both sides are controlled by the same interest. The only thing Obama CHANGED was the rhetoric.

[oopsmyrubberbroke]

Wouldnt hurt my feelings if they nepalmed the whole state of Kentucky. The United States average IQ would go up 10%, while the pedophilia and incest rate would go down about 90.

[justonefirefly1]

Yes this man committed suicide. He stipped himslef naked wrapped duct tape to bind his hands and feet and then duct taped his neck and taped his badge to it and then wrote "FED" on his stomach and then hung himself to a tree. All this while playing "Deliverance" - yeh it is just a coincidence that 9/12 fever had been teabagged up by fox and beck and they had posters ready for all those old white people they bussed in - probably they were going to a casino night. Yeh, Kentucky would cover it

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[GovernmentSham912]

it turns out this was suicide

any retraction?

[fedtheend]

woo woo, feds going down yeah baby!

[SUPERPHANTAZM]

More American murder.

[yoggie2]

This unisex left sided lunatic wants right side to take the fault of this crap and it screams of suicide, I'll tell you why we are hearing about it now and agian (because this is old NEWS) Obama needs something that screams HATE/RACISAIM at the left just like the congressman screaming they were called the "N" word and spat on and hundreds of cameras and not 1 shot of it of any kind, could have walked under the building but the have to walk right up the middle trying to provoke these folks..

[survival12345]

@Illtype right on.. im sick of the retards saying 'right wing this, left wing that'... if they just woke up and realized that their getting fked regardless of what 'direction' they vote they might have a chance of changing something... its like saying wacdonnalds is better than boogerking... both suck and will give you colon cancer...(am i talking about restraunts or politics? i dont know)

[billabong24041]

Lol, oh so confident in her psychic ability to read the minds of law enforcement agencies. Too bad her blaming of right wing lunatics was just a smidge off. Better luck next time crackhead

[steveforsane]

This is the reason I am sickand f tired of these supposed Demoncratic spokesman!! I am embaressed with their sloppy reporting and their biased opinionating! As a Dem....i am really questioning this crap..MNBC should be ashamed of their corporate controlled proganda..what is happening to our party, country...They did the same thing during the primaries....ralying against Hillary Clinton..now look at what we are stuck with??? Assholes!

[TranCendenZ]

It was officially ruled a suicide.

The Associated Press stated today, "Kentucky census worker killed himself, police say.

Sparkman had recently taken out two accidental life insurance policies totaling $600,000 that would not pay out for suicide, authorities said. If Sparkman had been killed on the job, his family also would have been eligible for up to $10,000 in death gratuity payments from the government."