Is it Solvable? Census Worker/Bill Sparkman; Found Hanged With Words “FED” Scrawled Across His Chest:

Is it Solvable? Census Worker/Bill Sparkman; Found Hanged With Words “FED” Scrawled Across His Chest:
By Marc Chamot

UPDATED September 25th 2009: A possible third scenario now in the works. This case is getting stranger by the minute, according to an unnamed source close to the investigation, suggests Bill Sparkman could have committed suicide, it's not definitive yet.

The spot where he was found, his feet were still touching the ground, and the word “Fed” was marked with a felt tip pen, which….any one, including himself could have done. There were no visible ground markings of other people in His immediate area. And NO one witnessed any thorough police investigations around where Bill's body was found at the cemetery. Source: Examiner.com

Naw, I don’t believe this? Do you? Was Bill out to make a mockery out of our political system with his death? I just don’t believe it...Don't be surprised by the coroner's ruling.

There are now two scenarios with census worker Bill Sparkman’s vicious murder at play here.

First, it might be very difficult for the FBI to ever solve this crime, because of the nature of folks who live in the area. But it’s imperative that the bureau does what ever it can, including not leaving a single rock unturned, and presumably checking the areas that Mr. Sparkman had gone on his assignments that day.

We’re going to have a big problem with this heinous crime, if it remains unsolved, it could become an argument for the left vs. the right about existing anti-government extremists.

And there will be some that will believe that Mr. Sparkman’s murder was anti-government related, and politically motivated against President Obama. And then there will be those, who will believe that the killing was because of Mr. Sparkman’s bad luck, because of his stumbling into someone’s illegal meth labs and hidden marijuana plantations somewhere along his census route.

It’s imperative that the FBI go door to door, with warrants and looks for these perpetrators, regardless as to what the reason is, an innocent U.S. Census worker doesn’t deserve this.

Some cowardly imbeciles just murdered an innocent part-time census worker, and actually, they hanged him and scrawled “fed” across his chest.

What did Bill Sparkman ever do to you?

If his killing was about someone’s anti-fed retributions, they did nothing more than bring scorn onto themselves, from me and the rest of the nation. I don’t see the killing of an innocent 51year old school teacher, an Eagle Scout and local director of the boy scouts, has anything to do with anyone’s beef against the feds.

Bill Sparkman had nothing to do with the way the country is being run amuck, Bill was just like any other American these days, he needed more work and he worked as a census worker to make ends meet.

This is an OUTRAGEOUS murder. The REAL imbeciles who have made a big mess of this country are in Washington DC, not in some backwoods county. Those people in Washington we get rid of them through VOTES, like in the 2010 midterms, if that don’t work, then we go through state rights, state secessions and civil wars you morons.

But my gut feeling, and knowing how ignorant some backwoods people are. Bill Sparkman being an educator, and possibly a liberal, I truly believe that the hanging of Bill Sparkman was retributions against Liberals, ACORN and the Obama administration, for wanting to have control of the Census Bureau within his administration.

Regardless of the reasons, this attack was on an American civilian, an innocent victim who had nothing to do with the feds and the U.S. government. People can believe what they want, but it’s not anybody’s right to harm someone else, just because they don’t agree with their politics.

By the same token, Democrats should also realize that screwing around with our First Amendment, “Freedom of Speech” over the healthcare Fiascos, doesn’t help one bit for their cause.

Just pure and simply said, what they did to Bill Sparkman was wrong. Those kinds of things should not be tolerated. I certainly hope that the perpetrators are caught and sentenced fully.

Eye Opener: Census Worker Found Hanged

A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky Sept. 12 with the word "fed" scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source. Bill Sparkman, 51, who was white, was found at the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky, the Associated Press first reported Wednesday night.

The FBI is assisting state and local police with their investigation, the law enforcement source told The Post's Spencer S. Hsu. The source was unsure of the cause of death.

It is a federal crime to attack a federal worker during or because of his federal job.

"It’s a tragedy. Our hearts and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of this worker," Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry said Thursday morning. He has spoken frequently about the denigration of federal employees.

"I’m going to be closely following this law enforcement action. If this is an attack on a federal employee, I can assure you that no resources will be spared to find the perpetrators," Berry said. "We cannot tolerate essentially domestic terrorism, if that is what this is. But until we understand the law enforcement investigation, we don’t know."

Threats are more common than actual attacks on federal employees, Berry said. He noted that people regularly threaten federal judges and their families, IRS agents and federal law enforcement officers.

"It’s also a reality for many categories of federal workers so we take any threat of violence seriously," he said.

Sparkman, an Eagle scout, moved to southeast Kentucky to be a local director for the Boy Scouts of America, his mother told the AP. He most recently served as a substitute teacher in Laurel County and earned extra money as a Census field worker.

The Census Bureau has suspended operations in Clay County, Ky. where the slaying occurred pending the investigation. Hundreds of thousands of temporary workers across the country walk door-to-door conducting various demographic surveys.


The Census will hire more than 1 million temporary workers to conduct follow-up interviews for next year's 2010 decennial Census.

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker, and our thoughts and prayers are with William Sparkman’s son, other family and friends. We are monitoring the developments closely," Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in a statement Wednesday night. The Census Bureau is part of the Commerce Department.

“Mr. Sparkman was a shining example of the hard-working men and women employed by the Census Bureau. The work they do on a daily basis is not easy but is a great and important service to our nation.” There was no immediate comment from Census Director Robert M. Groves.

The apparent killing of a Census employee comes during an already busy period for the Census Bureau. Groves told a Congressional panel on Tuesday that he fears next year's headcount will be impaired by the recession and continuing concerns about immigration. The agency also recently cut ties to the controversial community organizing group ACORN, one of more than 10,000 civic organizations, churches and corporations recruited to help increase participation in next year's Census.