Radio host and WND columnist Hedgecock: "Dead Census worker: Victim of open borders?"
September 29, 2009 11:26 am ET by Media Matters staff
From Roger Hedgecock's September 28 WorldNetDaily column, headlined, "Dead Census worker: Victim of open borders?"
Two weeks ago, Census taker Bill Sparkman died choking, hands and feet bound, hanging naked from a tree in a remote site in Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, Ky. Someone had scrawled "fed" on his chest with a felt-tipped pen.
Last week, Sparkman's death became fodder for more attacks on "right-wing violence." Bloggers wanted to "send the body to Glenn Beck," and a Time magazine piece speculated that Sparkman was a victim of the culture of another McCain-voting Southern state
Now it looks more like Sparkman was yet another victim of illegal drug operations on national forest land, and possibly also a victim of our still open border with Mexico.
Taking the Census in our national forests is dangerous business. Law enforcement sources say meth labs and marijuana plantations are "prevalent" in the area of Sparkman's death. Did he stumble across a drug operation in the Daniel Boone National Forest? No one is saying for sure, but the locals believe it.
[...]Our open border with Mexico has been changing American society in a number of unpleasant ways. These fires, these destroyed national forest lands, and maybe even Bill Sparkman's death, may just be the latest way.
Previously:
Right-wing blogger wonders if murdered census worker was a pedophile
Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
The Friday Rush: A series of conflicts
Why do they insist on ignoring the fact that most people who are here illegally originally came here legally, and just overstayed their allowed visit?
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And hypocrisy, let's not forget that!
Most likely he would have been shot, not hanged, and his body dumped in his car and burned. This was a crime of hate, not economics.
If it were drug related, the body would never be found. Hanging a body where you have a "grow" operation would be about like a cat pooping in its food bowl.
We don't poop in our food bowls, as a general rule ;)
Beck and Bachman, once they find out who did this, and why (which I'm sure they will), might be held responsible for inciting this kind of hatred of people taking the census, since they've been so conspiracy nut about it.
As I said before, FoxNews has a growing body count.
Why would drug growers/runners, who obviously would want to keep their operations as secret as possible, murder someone and then DISPLAY THE BODY IN THE WAY MOST LIKELY TO GARNER NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION?
Trying to blame "open borders" is ludicrious. Try blaming Michelle Bachmann/Gelnn Beck instead. It makes as much, if not more, sense.
Anybody see that former FBI profiler (Clint Van Zandt?) on the Ed Show/ MSNBC last night speculating on this story? He ended almost every sentence with some version of "There's crazies on the left and the right" or "let's not worry about pro-this or anti-that".I'm not sure what his agenda is, but he seemed to be really frantically trying to avoid any connection to the "Government's the Problem" cult.
Van Zandt was even speculating on the suicide angle, saying the victim's hands were taped apart, not together, and insisting that if he was the killer, he would have carved "fed" with a knife, not used a marking pen.
I agree with others who have mentioned it above,the idea that somebody with an ongoing illegal drug operation would call attention to themselves like this is ridiculous.
From all I've read about this case, the word "FED" was spelled correctly. That let's the birthers, deathers, and teabaggers off the hook.
I have seen many in the media working very hard to downplay right wing anti-fed rhetoric as a possible motivation.
And you're right WK, the perfect spelling does clear a lot of teabaggers. Unless his name had been Fred, and they wanted to make it personal.
Maybe one of them forced their kid to go to school the day the president addressed the kids and that kid may have leaned to spell and came home and taught the parent.
"...Did he stumble across a drug operation in the Daniel Boone National Forest? No one is saying for sure, but the locals believe it..."
We don't know if that is true or not Rodger doesn't quote anyone, and neither does that statement mean that the "locals" whom HE says believed this also believed it was because of open borders.
It's quite a leap to make, it's not like there aren't "American" pot growers or meth labs,but that doesn't fit the racist anti-government picture pus faced Rodger wants to paint. So we go from one unsubstaintiated story that anonomous "locals" believe to this grand racist conclusion:
"Our open border with Mexico has been changing American society in a number of unpleasant ways. These fires, these destroyed national forest lands, and maybe even Bill Sparkman's death, may just be the latest way."
And all done with such civility and without using "illegal alien", or calling for "THEM" to be shot on sight,but with the same underlying misonceptions, lies, and purpose.
Let see the right wing crackpots run with this one.