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Worker’s Death A Suicide—Not “Hate”. Where Are The MSM
Apologies?
By
Robert de Brus
[Previously
by Robert de Brus:
A Newsman’s Thoughts
On The Buffalo Beheading And Other Atrocities
]
So it turns out that Bill Sparkman, the
Census Bureau worker
found hanged in the Daniel Boone National Forest in
Kentucky,
committed suicide as part of an insurance scam
to help his son.
That’s the official judgment of the
authorities. It raises the question of whether all the
moonbats who blamed Sparkman’s
“murder” on the
“climate of fear” and “anti-government hate”
spread by the
“right-wing noise machine” will apologize for jumping to
conclusions.
Recall the scene: Sparkman’s naked
corpse was
found in Kentucky, hanging by the neck with his
government ID badge pasted to his forehead and the word
“Fed” scrawled on
his chest.
The Nutocrats quickly began their work.
ABC News
wondered, rather tamely,
whether Sparkman was a
“a victim of
anti-government rage” or an
“anti-government hate
crime”. Some of us didn’t know the law recognized
“anti-government hate crimes”, as Diane Sawyer termed it, but in any
event, CBS chimed in with this headline:
“Terror
in Kentucky: Census Worker's Murder/Body Found Naked,
Hanging From Tree in Cemetery; Had Been Gagged, Duct Taped,
‘Fed’ Scrawled on Chest.” [September 26, 2009]
The story didn’t jump to any
conclusions, but you got the idea from the headline, which
was so unlike the headlines we saw when Major
Nidal Hasan, a real terrorist, really killed people
because of his hatred for the this country, its government
and soldiers.
Andrew Cohen, the
“legal analyst”
for the network, contributed a story to
Vanity Fair
flatly declaring Sparkman’s demise
“murder most foul”:
“Sparkman’s death may be the single most important murder in America
this year. A Census worker is murdered for being a Census
worker while some elected officials in Washington are in
open revolt of the census? A federal agent is defiled for
being a federal agent while the airwaves simmer with talk of
hatred for our current political leaders?
“It’s
To Kill a
Mockingbird
meets Mr. Smith
Goes to Washington meets The Turner Diaries, the
anti-Semitic screed which begat the
Oklahoma City bombing. It
is easy to see how the dastardly crime against Sparkman has
the potential to explode into an enormously important
political and legal story about the documented rise in
extremism in America. And at the same time, sadly, it’s not
hard to understand why the relentless media drumbeat which
always seems to accompany high-profile murders —
Annie Le,
Chandra Levy, and
JonBenet Ramsey— is
absent here.
“In spite of the initial reports, let’s hope then that the Sparkman
murder turns out to be a random act of violence, or at least
one having nothing to do with rampant anti-government
violence. Because the alternative would mean not only that
dark forces indeed have been unleashed in America but that
we cannot necessarily trust our best news organizations to
tell us in a timely fashion that this is so.”[Kentucky Census Bureau Worker Death: Murder
Most Foul,
September 28, 2009]
Not to be outdone, one of the usual
suspects over at Daily Kos
contributed this:
“The
real murderers of
this man are
the Glenn Beck’s, and Rush Limbaugh’s, and Michele
Bachmann’s [apostrophes in original] who have spread the deadly poison of hate and fear of our government
and the Obama administration across the land. And Bachman
should be front and center as the most culpable because she
is supposedly an elected member of Congress who has sworn to
uphold the Constitution and the laws of this land. But
instead, she has rallied the gullible and the ignorant in a
war against the government and more to the point against the
census process as being symbolic of the evil government's
infringement on our ‘God-given’ rights.”
And here is
Andrew Sullivan, the
professional homosexual who writes the
“Daily Dish” blog
for The Atlantic:
“But the most worrying possibility—that this is Southern populist
terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio
cohorts—remains real. We’ll see.”[No
Suicide]
Over at
The Huffington Post, someone you’ve never heard of named
Allison Kilkenny was more measured than Cohen and the Daily
Kos contributor, but
the meme was the same—with the added bonus of her
claiming that the murder was directed at
The Messiah:
“Setting aside the fact that this would be the mother of all bizarre
suicides, [assistant director of the Census Bureau's
southern office Linda Scurry-Johnson]
seems oddly confident that this was not a political killing,
considering the word ‘Fed’— short for ‘Federal’ — is a
loaded label that usually indicates anti-government
sentiment. ‘Federal’ means ‘Big Government’, and the word
has taken on a derogatory meaning in right-wing circles
where fear and paranoia reign supreme. I agree with Johnson
that this seems like an apparent homicide, but it's not
“nothing else”. By utilizing the branding “Fed,” the killers
were clearly trying to make a political statement, namely
‘Obama: Stay Out.’
“The word definitely packs an ideological punch, but not only is it
anti-government, it's
anti-Obama. Let's
remember that most of the fringe now screaming about the
dangers of Big Brother never made a peep
[Vdare.com note:
Ha!]
during eight years of
Bush's ballooning executive branch.
Suddenly, big government is a big problem, and the ‘Feds’ are to
blame.”[
Discussion Of Dead Census Worker Highlights Right-Wing
[!]Paranoia, September 24, 2009]
Actually, big government
is a big problem,
and the Feds are
to blame for this country’s woes, not least of which are two
unwinnable wars, a
collapsed dollar, deficits and
debt zooming to the outer reaches of the cosmos, and a
campaign to alter the ethnic and cultural composition of the
country against the will of the people who make most of the
money and
pay
most of the taxes.
So Sparkman’s death wasn’t
“the most important murder in America this year” and was, indeed,
“the mother of all
suicides”.
Apologies now being accepted.
Robert de
Brus
[Email
him] is a newspaper editor
somewhere in America.
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