I'm sorry but was does "fed" mean?
Investigators are still trying to determine whether the death was a killing or a suicide, and if a killing, whether the motive was related to his government job or to anti-government sentiment.
I'm sorry but was does "fed" mean?
Federalist, government worker, black Muslim socialist fascist communist Nazi devil, etc.
i wonder how Muse will spin this
Ron Paul is j/o-ing his wrinkle dinkle as we speak
An unidentified young man with red hair wearing a God of War t-shirt was seen fleeing the seen.
Bump for Malek's shameAn unidentified young man with red hair wearing a God of War t-shirt was seen fleeing the seen.
Booyah!
An unidentified young man with red hair wearing a God of War t-shirt was seen fleeing the seen.
Booyah!
"Our job is to determine if there was foul play involved - and that's part of the investigation - and if there was foul play involved, whether that is related to his employment as a census worker," said Beyer.
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So, to add (or subtract) to the lolz, my mom actually knew and worked with the guy. He was also a substitute teacher for Laurel County schools like my mom. My mom was actually going to join the census as well, but not anymore.
Basically, two things caused this death. Number one: the fact that the government in Clay County is so corrupt and has been since the origin of the county. Basically the coal companies raped the county and after they took their government cronies and everything else out of the county, the lesser intelligent citizens had learned. Stuff like ballot stuffing happen around every election. It's ridiculous.
Needless to say that everyone in Clay County didn't trust the government at all. It also doesn't help that most of the people of Clay County have been left completely fucking stupid due to the coal companies and the government wanting to keep them that way. Most of the smart people leave Clay County for good after graduating high school. The majority of the people are also under the poverty line. Basically, people that live in the hills. Evidently there was a rumor going around that the census takers were actually government spies and the government was going to come and steal everyone's shit. Obviously, not likely, but a sad story in many ways since it shows that the Clay County citizens can no longer trust their government.
So, to add (or subtract) to the lolz, my mom actually knew and worked with the guy. He was also a substitute teacher for Laurel County schools like my mom. My mom was actually going to join the census as well, but not anymore.
Basically, two things caused this death. Number one: the fact that the government in Clay County is so corrupt and has been since the origin of the county. Basically the coal companies raped the county and after they took their government cronies and everything else out of the county, the lesser intelligent citizens had learned. Stuff like ballot stuffing happen around every election. It's ridiculous.
Needless to say that everyone in Clay County didn't trust the government at all. It also doesn't help that most of the people of Clay County have been left completely fucking stupid due to the coal companies and the government wanting to keep them that way. Most of the smart people leave Clay County for good after graduating high school. The majority of the people are also under the poverty line. Basically, people that live in the hills. Evidently there was a rumor going around that the census takers were actually government spies and the government was going to come and steal everyone's shit. Obviously, not likely, but a sad story in many ways since it shows that the Clay County citizens can no longer trust their government.
Nah pretty sure one thing caused his death: extremist fucktards
Not extremist. These are probably the people that live in the hills who are tired of being fucked over. Unintelligent and meth-riddled, more than likely.
Are you kidding me? :lol
If "the people" fight back against an FBI investigation, they'll get their worlds rocked. This isn't Rambo. :lol
Slain census worker was warned about area
Anti-government anger eyed after man found with ‘fed’ scrawled on chest
The Associated Press
updated 12:37 p.m. ET Sept. 24, 2009
WASHINGTON - 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.
The Census Bureau has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, until the investigation is complete, an official said.
The law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, did not say what type of instrument was used to write the word on the chest of Sparkman, who was supplementing his income doing Census field work. He was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of Daniel Boone National Forest and an autopsy report is pending.
Manchester, the main hub of the southeastern Kentucky county, is an exit off the highway, with a Walmart, a few hotels, chain restaurants and a couple gas stations. The drive away from town and toward the area where Sparkman's body was found goes through sparsely populated forest with no streetlights, on winding roads that run up and down steep hills.
Dangerous terrain
Manchester Police Chief Jeff Culver, whose agency is not part of the investigation because the death was outside city limits, said the area where Sparkman was found has a history of problems with prescription drug and methamphetamine trading.
"That part of the county, it has its ups and downs. We'll get a lot of complaints of drug activity. They'll whittle away, then flourish back up," Culver said. He said officers last month rounded up 40 drug suspects, mostly dealers, and made several more arrests in subsequent days.
FBI spokesman David Beyer said the bureau is assisting state police and declined to discuss any details of the crime scene. Agents are trying to determine if foul play was involved and whether it had anything to do with Sparkman's job as Census worker, Beyer said. Attacking a federal worker during or because of his federal job is a federal crime.
Lucindia Scurry-Johnson, assistant director of the Census Bureau's southern office in Charlotte, N.C., said law enforcement officers have told the agency the matter is "an apparent homicide" but nothing else.
Census employees were told Sparkman's truck was found nearby, and a computer he was using for work was inside, she said.
'Such an innocent person'
Sparkman's mother, Henrie Sparkman of Inverness, Fla., told The Associated Press her son was an Eagle scout who moved to Kentucky to direct the local Boy Scouts of America. He later became a substitute teacher in Laurel County, adjacent to the county where his body was found.
She said investigators have given her few details about her son's death. They did tell her his body was decomposed and haven't yet released it for burial.
"I was told it would be better for him to be cremated," she said.
Acciardo said he became suspicious and went to police when Sparkman didn't show up for work at the after-school program in Laurel County for two days. Authorities immediately investigated, he said.
"He was such an innocent person," Acciardo said. "I hate to say that he was naive, but he saw the world as all good, and there's a lot of bad in the world."
'Saddened'
Sparkman had worked for the Census since 2003 in five counties in the surrounding area, conducting interviews once or twice a month. Much of his recent work had been in Clay County, officials said.
The Census Bureau has yet to begin door-to-door canvassing for the 2010 head count, but thousands of field workers are doing smaller surveys on various demographic topics on behalf of federal agencies. Next year, the Census Bureau will dispatch up to 1.2 million temporary employees to locate hard-to-find residents.
Mary Hibbard, a teacher in Manchester, said she recognized Sparkman on the news as the census worker who visited her house this summer for about 10 minutes. Hibbard said he asked some basic questions including the size of her house, how many rooms it had and how much she paid monthly for electricity.
"I know he has a Christian background," she said. "You come to my house, we're going to talk religion."
Hibbard said she thinks most people in the area were shocked by the death.
"I think the negative publicity of it is a stigma on our county. It makes people think less of us even though this is an isolated incident."
The Census Bureau is overseen by the Commerce Department.
'A shining example'
"We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement.
Locke called him "a shining example of the hardworking men and women employed by the Census Bureau."
Kelsee Brown, a waitress at Huddle House, a 24-hour chain restaurant in Manchester, when asked about the death, said she thinks the government sometimes has the wrong priorities.
"Sometimes I think the government should stick their nose out of people's business and stick their nose in their business at the same time. They care too much about the wrong things," she said.
Appalachia scholar Roy Silver, a New York City native now living in Harlan County, Ky., said he doesn't sense an outpouring of anti-government sentiment in the region as has been exhibited in town hall meetings in other parts of the country.
"I don't think distrust of government is any more or less here than anywhere else in the country," said Silver, a sociology professor at Southeast Community College.
The most deadly attack on federal workers came in 1995 when the federal building in Oklahoma City was devastated by a truck bomb, killing 168 and injuring more than 680. Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for the bombing, carried literature by ultra-right-wing, anti-government authors.
Sparkman's mother is simply waiting for answers.
"I have my own ideas, but I can't say them out loud. Not at this point," she said. "Right now, what I'm doing, I'm just waiting on the FBI to come to some conclusion."
was this guy black?
no 51 year old black guy would possibly hang himself. Not that I doubt this is suicide, but I'm just wondering if he was lynched because of plain old fashioned racism or other factors.
'Such an innocent person'
Sparkman's mother, Henrie Sparkman of Inverness, Fla., told The Associated Press her son was an Eagle scout who moved to Kentucky to direct the local Boy Scouts of America. He later became a substitute teacher in Laurel County, adjacent to the county where his body was found.
Acciardo said he became suspicious and went to police when Sparkman didn't show up for work at the after-school program in Laurel County for two days. Authorities immediately investigated, he said.
"He was such an innocent person," Acciardo said. "I hate to say that he was naive, but he saw the world as all good, and there's a lot of bad in the world."
It wouldn't surprise me at all if a few federal agents wound up dead while investigating this, and the FBI dropped it completely to avoid further deaths.
I'll take the Vietcong over some barely literate, backwater rednecks any day of the week.
I'll take the Vietcong over some barely literate, backwater rednecks any day of the week.
Kentucky would have the home court advantage and in infinite amount of guns. Most likely the FBI would enter this terrain with no knowledge of the danger ahead. We can assume they'd be moderately armed, perhaps with one (1) support vehicle.
The first thing that would happen is that all the FBI agents' cellphones would lose service, meaning they'd be stuck behind enemy lines with no backup for at least 24 hours. Let's assume the FBI agents would then move their equipment into an abandoned farm shack, heavily surrounded by trees and bushes. It wouldn't take long for Kentuckians to surround the perimeter without being detected. The first victim would most likely be an African American agent sent out to gather sticks for the house's fireplace. His decapitated body probably wouldn't be found until an hour later, when two agents go deep into the woods for sexual intercourse.
Three down, the FBI would be no match as the Kentuckians find a way into the house basement and kill their way upstairs.
The New York Times
September 25, 2009
Witness Says Census Worker Was Naked, Bound
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) -- A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the body two weeks ago.
The word ''fed'' was written in felt-tip pen on 51-year-old Bill Sparkman's chest, but authorities have released very few other details in the case, such as whether they think it was an accident, suicide or homicide.
Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio, told The Associated Press on Friday that he was certain from the gruesome scene that someone killed Sparkman.
''He was murdered,'' Weaver said. ''There's no doubt.''
Weaver said he was in the rural Kentucky county for a family reunion and was visiting some family graves at the cemetery on Sept. 12 along with his wife and daughter when they saw the body.
''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.''
Two people briefed on the investigation said various details of Weaver's account matched the details of the crime scene, though both people said they were not informed who found the body. The two spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
''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.''
Authorities have refused to say if Sparkman was at work going to door-to-door for census surveys before he died.
Both of the people briefed on the investigation confirmed Sparkman's Census Bureau ID was found taped to his head and shoulder area. Weaver said he couldn't tell if the tag was a Census ID because he didn't get close enough to read it. He could see writing on Sparkman's chest, and could read that it said ''fed.''
Authorities said Thursday that a preliminary cause of death was asphyxiation, pending a full medical examination. Even the details behind that were murky. According to a Kentucky State Police statement, the body was hanging from a tree with a rope around the neck, yet it was in contact with the ground.
Weaver, who works for a family topsoil business in Fairfield, said the body was about 50 yards from a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck. He said Sparkman's clothes were in the bed of the truck.
''His tailgate was down,'' Weaver said. ''I thought he could have been killed somewhere else and brought there and hanged up for display, or they actually could have killed him right there. It was a bad, bad scene.
''It took me three or four good nights to sleep. My 20-year-old daughter ended up sleeping in the floor in our bedroom.'' he said.
Clay County Sheriff Kevin Johnson declined to comment on the investigation because the department is only playing a supporting role but said patrols have increased in the Daniel Boone National Forest since the body was found.
The Census Bureau has suspended door-to-door interviews in the rural county pending the investigation.
State Trooper Don Trosper said it was clear this wasn't a natural death but said all other possibilities were being considered.
''This case has many facets,'' he said. ''To investigate cases, you have to rule out different scenarios. We are not able to rule out many scenarios at this time, and that's what makes this a difficult case.''
Although anti-government sentiment was one possibility in the death, some in law enforcement also cited the prevalence of drug activity in the area -- including meth labs and marijuana fields -- although they had no reason to believe there was a link to Sparkman's death.
''Now they're taking their meth lab operations into the rural, secluded areas,'' the sheriff said. ''We've had complaints in the area, but not that particular location.''
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Associated Press Writer Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report. Alford reported from Frankfort.
With over a third of the people there under the poverty line (a little less than half for those under 18), this area is almost like a third world country. Even Detroit is better off than Clay County. Detroit.
Investigators: Ky. census worker committed suicide
By BRUCE SCHREINER and ROGER ALFORD (AP) – 28 minutes ago
FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.
Bill Sparkman, 51, was found Sept. 12 with a rope around his neck near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of the Daniel Boone National Forest in southeastern Kentucky. Authorities said his wrists were loosely bound, his glasses were taped to his head and he was gagged.
Kentucky State Police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said an analysis found that "fed" was written "from the bottom up." He was touching the ground, and to survive "all Mr. Sparkman had to do at any time was stand up," she said.
"Our investigation, based on evidence and witness testimony, has concluded that Mr. Sparkman died during an intentional, self-inflicted act that was staged to appear as a homicide," Rudzinski said.
Authorities said Sparkman alone manipulated the suicide scene. Rudzinski said he "told a credible witness that he planned to commit suicide and provided details on how and when."
Authorities wouldn't say who Sparkman told of his plan, but said Sparkman talked about it a week before his suicide and the person did not take him seriously.
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 be eligible for up to $10,000 in death gratuity payments from the government.
Definitely not the ending to the story that any of us envisioned, that's for sure.
What details pointed to him being murdered? None, other than the imaginations of liberals across the globe furiously fapping over the idea.
What details pointed to him being murdered? None, other than the imaginations of liberals across the globe furiously fapping over the idea.Yes or no: Two months ago, did you believe that his death was MOST LIKELY a suicide?
uh... people in this thread were speculating suicide.
uh... people in this thread were speculating suicide.
bullshit, just went back over it and NO ONE was speculating suicide you fucking mouth breathing disgrace.
Not to defend FOC, since God knows he doesn't deserve it, but there were people in this thread actively shaking their heads that the police were still pursuing the possibility of his death being a suicide.well obviously ruling out suicide is a normal part of the police investigation so it was wrong for anybody to criticize the police for investigating that. But still, EVERYBODY suspected murder. Nobody suspected Sparksman of committing a suicide designed to look like a murder and a political statement against the government. Especially when you have posters like bloodwake and tehjaybo talking about how Sparksman was a great guy who was really involved in his community and everything.
BTW, sorry about all of this for you two who actually knew him. Do you know how his family is right now?
It wouldn't surprise me at all if a few federal agents wound up dead while investigating this, and the FBI dropped it completely to avoid further deaths.
:lol
Are you kidding? If some inbred fuck is distinguished mentally-challenged enough to murder a single agent, the bureau will level the entire state of Kentucky.
We're talking scorched earth, motherfucker.