More Details Emerge In The Census Worker’s Death

Filed in National by on September 26, 2009

The authorities aren’t talking but the death of U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman is looking increasingly like a homicide. We still don’t know the motives of the killer(s) but anti-government sentiment of some kind must be involved. There are some details when you click on the link.

Mr. Sparkman’s body was displayed:

”The only thing he had on was a pair of socks,” Weaver said. ”And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.”

”And they even had duct tape around his neck,” Weaver said. ”And they had like his identification tag on his neck. They had it duct-taped to the side of his neck, on the right side, almost on his right shoulder.”

I think it’s clear that the investigators are being very, very cautious in this case. I hope that the Census bureau reviews how it is using their workers. In some areas they may need to send census workers out with law enforcement officials, for their own protection.

Update: Here’s Rachel on the story:

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  1. Steve Newton says:

    anti-government sentiment of some kind must be involved.

    This may be true, but your must is still unwarranted.

    A drug hit, which is still very much in the realm of possibility, would not be an example of anti-government sentiment, unless every action for any reason against a Federal employee or law enforcement agent automatically conveys that political meaning, along with the idea of getting away with a crime or intimidating law enforcement in a given area.

  2. A. price says:

    “In some areas they may need to send census workers out with law enforcement officials, for their own protection.”

    this is what we have allowed Beck and Rush etc to turn our country into.