 Bill Sparkman at work as a teacher |
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…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 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…
Census work wasn’t Sparkman’s full-time job. He also was a substitute teacher and an Eagle Scout who volunteered for the Boy Scouts.
Obviously part of the Socialist Conspiracy.
Eideard, you’re a coward too, ditching my last post. Easy to sleep knowing you have no balls?
#41, headache,
While you might have a headache, you don’t have much in the way of intelligence. I guess that helps you sleep.
Eideard is an editor here. He is not the administrator or IT person. If your post got deleted there are any number of reasons, but he is way down the list.
I’ll bet this would have received a lot more press coverage if he were a an ACORN member. Oh well, maybe later.
The FBI now says he was “not hanging from a tree, he was in contact with the ground”. Well that certainly clears that up.
Actually, it makes it sound more mysterious.
No doubt somebody was carrying on an old family tradition that may date back a couple of hundred years or even more.
In some locations it is best not visit without an invitation first and then you’d better be able to abide by the local rules and this isn’t limited to rural rubes.
Many neighborhoods in major urban centers are the same way.
Now it’s being reported that he had his hands and feet duck taped with dusk tape over his eyes. He was also naked. Wonder why they would think it was suicide?