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upon reflection for the past few days is that there aren't MORE cases such as the Sparkman Incident in this country. And yet...
Who knows how many unreported silent deaths there are: people abducted surreptitiously on back roads of quiet country areas, or Interstate Highway breakdowns or those who take a chance at a rest stop and never are seen again. Or those who are 'runaways' in cities or elsewhere where sociopathic individuals recognize that no family will come looking to claim the person soon after or possibly ever. Or 'unwanted' infants and children of people whose circumstances are such that homicidal tendencies overshadow normal altruistic species-continuing behaviors.
And others.
In this case, we FINALLY heard about this after many days of local reportage only, and if the individual had not been an employee of the Federal Government, we might never know about this occurrence. For the sake of argument alone, suppose the victim here were simply a citizen who had, again for the sake of argument, had an Obama/Biden bumper sticker and ran into the wrong group of hostile folk. Suppose the gentleman and his auto simply disappeared into the wilderness of Daniel Boone, and some months later, say the car was found. Would any of us ever be aware of this? Would the local law enforcement publicize this type of case, knowing the far-ranging implications of such a release of information...and there isn't even a corpse to prove that there was a homicide, that body having been buried in some Godforsaken place and probably decomposed/eaten by wildlife?
The fact that this man was left this way sense a message...yes I know the investigation is not complete, but again, say for the sake of argument, someone utilized this method in order to throw authorities off the track and steer them in the direction of hate groups or at the very least, casual Limbaugh-listeners. The fact that we can easily accept the existence of such hate OF A CENSUS WORKER speaks volumes, as they say.
This case has been brought to the fore by the MSM because it possesses certain elements of interest for potential viewers and also, perhaps more importantly, because it was shoved in their faces by 'alternative' media and Internet. No matter the outcome, this is a terrible, frightening circumstance involving torture and eventual death of a man. On a higher level, it is a terrible and frightening circumstance involving the torture and death of what many Americans considered their inherent safety and well-being. Mass-media stories such as "Psycho", "Deliverance", "Breakdown", "Switchback" and the magnificent NBC mini-series "Chiefs" have shown that such things may occur in someone else's backyard. (Please note that all these stories' titles consist of one word, and one word only. This is a testimony of the horror beneath.) Americans should realize that this may occur on their very own block, and may well emanate from the vicious hated being stoked by the Right wing and their apologists in the Press.
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