Rachel on Bill Sparkman (Census worker killed in KY) reporting new details:

[Ruby the Liberal]

The person who came across the body reported:

1. Sparkman was naked
2. Sparkman had FED written on his chest in felt-tip pen
3. Sparkman's hands ans feet were bound with duct-tape
4. Sparkman's Census ID was duct-taped to his head/neck

Yep - classic suicide...

[tekisui]

1. Census ID. That points to Beck heads over Meth heads,

unless of course the natural crossover occurred.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. That would be my bet

He is inflaming people who need to stay in Mom's basement but are finding their way into daylight.

Christ, it is 2009.

[Kievan Rus]

2. Could still be a jilted lover

Please, let's not jump to premature conclusions. There's still a lot we do not know.

[tekisui]

4. Series?

[Kievan Rus]

5. What do you mean?

[Treo]

7. I think he meant serious NT

[Kievan Rus]

9. Answering that...we still don't know motive.

It's possible that a wingnut murdered him, but I don't want to jump to any conclusions.

[Treo]

11. IMO

He found a meth lab or a still and got killed this is just a way to hide the body and keep the cops from looking for the aforementioned still/meth lab. What really scares me is the whack jobs right here on DU that are ready to start a war over it. This is IMO a wonderful time for everyone to step back, take a very deep breath and remember that WWI started over one murder.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. World War One did not start "over one murder." It started

because Wilhelmine Germany gave the Austro-Hungarian empire a "blank check" to attack Serbia.

No blank check, no World War One.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. You run with that

I have a soft spot for the glass-half-full types. Don't give y'all much credibility on this at this point given reported 'facts', but respect you none the less.

:hi:

[Kievan Rus]

8. All we know is that he was murdered...nobody knows anything else as of yet

Look, I hate Beck, Bachmann and Limpballs as much as anybody else on here...but let's not jump to any conclusions just yet. All we know is he was murdered. We do not yet know why he was murdered or who did it. I do not discount that he was murdered by a wingnut, and I even think there's a good possibility of it...but we just don't know at this point.

After all, it's not like Beck and his ilk haven't incited people before...look at the murder of three police officers in Pittsburgh in April, or the assassination of Dr. George Tiller...but we just don't know enough yet to lump it with those crimes.

When George Sodini shot up the gym in Pittsburgh, I erroneously attributed that sexist attack to wingnuts when he was just a loner who hated women but had no real political affiliations either way. Jumping to conclusions to suit an agenda is bad.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Where did I assign motive?

I just added a thread noting what Rachel reported tonight based on the interview with the Ohio man who found the body.

Step back and re-read please.

[nashville_brook]

12. totally auto-erotic asphyxiation -- no question about it!!

well deserved and pointed :sarcasm: