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I guess you didn't see the footage from that region featuring these
creatures during the election making threats of violence if the Barack
Obama was elected. It is much easier to suggest that the census taker
was murdered because he stumbled upon an illegal drug operation, than
to admit the calls to violence by Limbaugh and Beck, among others,
have resonance among these semi-literate buffoons.
Admitting these things are the Republican base must be a pretty bitter
pill to swallow, huh?
John
On Sep 27, 2009, at 6:26 AM, Vera Crowell wrote:
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> John, I don't think these people want anything to do with the gov't
> at all. They probably don't vote & I would hazard a guess & say that
> even extreme right-wingers aren't growing pot & making crystal meth.
> The base? Honestly, John. You don't really believe that, do you?
>
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> On Sep 26, 2009, at 10:31 AM, John Stafford Anderson <[log in to unmask]
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>> Right? And where is the mention of the calls to violence towards
>> the government by certain rightist talking heads? These people
>> truly represent "the base:" those who could benefit most from a
>> public health care option, but are most vehemently against it.
>>
>> John
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>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 12:49 PM, VERA R CROWELL wrote:
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>>> How exactly can one accidentally put a rope around one's neck and
>>> hang oneself from a tree after accidentally writing 'fed' on one's
>>> chest? They don't 'know' if it's murder????
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>>> "In the days before volcanoes were invented, lava had to be hand
>>> carried down from the mountains and poured on the sleeping
>>> villagers.
>>> This took a great deal of time."
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Aggo Akyea <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Friday, September 25, 2009 12:28 pm
>>> Subject: Changing World Status Quo & Violence
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>>>>
>>>> Area Where Census Worker Died Has Troubled History
>>>>
>>>> Associated Press Writers Jeffrey McMurray And Allen G. Breed
>>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_us/us_census_worker_hanged
>>>>
>>>> BIG CREEK, Ky. – A census worker found hanged from a tree with the
>>>> word "fed" scrawled on his chest met his end in a corner of
>>>> Appalachia
>>>> with an abundance of meth labs and marijuana fields — and a
>>>> reputation
>>>> for mistrusting government that dates back to the days of
>>>> moonshiners
>>>> and "revenuers."
>>>>
>>>> But the investigation has yet to determine whether the death of the
>>>> 51-year-old part-time schoolteacher represents real anti-government
>>>> sentiment. At this point, police cannot say whether Bill Sparkman's
>>>> death was a homicide, an accident or even a suicide.
>>>>
>>>> "We are not downplaying the significance of his position with the
>>>> U.S.
>>>> Census bureau," said Capt. Lisa Rudzinski, commander of the
>>>> Kentucky
>>>> State Police post in London . "We can assure the public we are
>>>> looking
>>>> at every possible aspect of Mr. Sparkman's death."
>>>>
>>>> But locals are already bracing for suggestions that the killing was
>>>> the result of anti-government sentiment in the mountains. It does
>>>> not
>>>> help that the death occurred in impoverished Clay County , one of
>>>> the
>>>> poorest in the country with an unemployment rate of 14.5 percent
>>>> and
>>>> an overall poverty rate more than three times the national average.
>>>>
>>>> Sparkman, a Boy Scout leader and substitute teacher who was
>>>> supplementing his income as a part-time census field worker, was
>>>> found
>>>> Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest .
>>>>
>>>> Police said Thursday that the preliminary cause of death was
>>>> asphyxiation. Authorities said Sparkman, who a friend said had been
>>>> treated for cancer, was found with a rope around his neck that was
>>>> tied to a tree, but that he was "in contact with the ground."
>>>>
>>>> The word "fed" had been scrawled on his chest, according to a law
>>>> enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity
>>>> because
>>>> the official was not authorized to discuss the case.
>>>>
>>>> Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies in nearby
>>>> Whitesburg, said the federal government has done "precious
>>>> little" in
>>>> Clay County other than building a federal prison in Manchester in
>>>> the
>>>> 1990s. But he is not aware of any deep-seated hatred of the
>>>> government.
>>>>
>>>> "Government is not seen as the enemy, except for people who might
>>>> fear
>>>> getting caught for what they're doing," he said.
>>>>
>>>> Army retiree George Robinson did door-to-door census work in Clay
>>>> County in 2000. No one ever threatened him, but some people
>>>> questioned
>>>> why the government needed to know some of the information,
>>>> especially
>>>> income, requested on the census form.
>>>>
>>>> "You meet some strange people," he said. "Nothing is a surprise in
>>>> Clay County ."
>>>>
>>>> Appalachia — particularly eastern Kentucky — has long had an
>>>> image of
>>>> being wary of and sometimes hostile toward strangers. Incidents
>>>> such
>>>> as the September 1967 shooting of Canadian filmmaker Hugh
>>>> O'Connor —
>>>> who was gunned down by an enraged landowner while making a
>>>> documentary
>>>> on poverty in nearby Letcher County — have done nothing to dispel
>>>> such
>>>> notions.
>>>>
>>>> O'Connor was killed as President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty
>>>> highlighted the region's destitution. Many locals, such as
>>>> confessed
>>>> shooter Hobart Ison, had long since grown tired of outsiders
>>>> exploiting the region's natural resources.
>>>>
>>>> University of Pittsburgh sociologist Kathleen Blee, co-author of a
>>>> book about Clay County , says that when she heard of Sparkman's
>>>> death,
>>>> she initially wondered whether he had stumbled across a marijuana
>>>> plot.
>>>>
>>>> Pot growers seeking to avoid federal forfeiture statutes often
>>>> plant
>>>> their crops on national forest land and have even been known to
>>>> booby-trap plots with explosives and rattlesnakes.
>>>>
>>>> "Like any poor county, people are engaged in a variety of revenue
>>>> sources," she said. "Not all of them legal."
>>>>
>>>> Davis acknowledged Clay's "pretty wild history of a black market
>>>> economy, a drug economy." He noted that Sparkman's death occurred
>>>> at a
>>>> time when marijuana producers are typically harvesting their crop.
>>>>
>>>> "And so you have to be careful when you send some unsuspecting guy
>>>> who's just trying to earn a buck to feed his family," he said.
>>>> "Things
>>>> can go bad really quickly."
>>>>
>>>> Although the Census Bureau could not immediately offer statistics
>>>> on
>>>> violence against its workers, such incidents are not unheard of.
>>>>
>>>> In 2000, a Milwaukee-area man was charged with battery for
>>>> allegedly
>>>> trying to shove a 74-year-old census worker down a flight of
>>>> stairs.
>>>> And in 2002, a Sacramento businessman was sentenced to a year in
>>>> prison for violently dragging a 68-year-old widow off his
>>>> property as
>>>> she tried to explain the count's importance.
>>>>
>>>> After Sparkman's body was found, the Census Bureau suspended
>>>> door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County until the
>>>> investigation
>>>> is complete.
>>>>
>>>> The bureau has yet to begin canvassing for the 2010 head count, but
>>>> thousands of field workers like Sparkman are doing smaller
>>>> surveys on
>>>> various demographic topics on behalf of federal agencies.
>>>>
>>>> Mary Hibbard, a teacher at an adult learning center in Manchester ,
>>>> said Sparkman visited her house this summer. He asked basic
>>>> information, like the size of her house, how many rooms it had
>>>> and how
>>>> much she paid monthly on her electric bill.
>>>>
>>>> She seized the opportunity to ask him about his faith.
>>>>
>>>> "You come to my house, we're going to talk religion," she said.
>>>>
>>>> Eastern Kentucky is a region of many churches, and Hibbard thinks
>>>> most
>>>> people in the area would be shocked if it turns out Sparkman was
>>>> murdered.
>>>>
>>>> "I think the negative publicity of it is a stigma on our county,"
>>>> she
>>>> said. "It makes people think less of us, even though this is an
>>>> isolated incident. When it happens here, it seems like it's
>>>> emphasized."
>>>>
>>>> ___
>>>>
>>>> Breed reported from Raleigh, N.C. Associated Press writers Joe
>>>> Biesk
>>>> in Frankfort , Roger Alford in London , Ky. , and Bruce Schreiner
>>>> in
>>>> Louisville also contributed to this report.
>>>>
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