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MANCHESTER, Ky. (AP) — When Bill Sparkman told retired trooper Gilbert Acciardo that he was going door-to-door collecting census data in rural Kentucky, the former cop drew on years of experience for a warning: "Be careful."

The 51-year-old Sparkman was found this month hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment.

"Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as 'the government.' I just was afraid that he might meet the wrong character along the way up there," said Acciardo, who directs an after-school program at an elementary school where Sparkman was a frequent substitute teacher.

Dude

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I worked door-to-door for the Census Bureau during the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. I can't tell you how many times I was threatened. The right-wingers called me a Communist and the lefties called me a Nazi. Many times people were glad "someone from the government" finally showed up to solve all their problems. I was freaking 17 years old and these sad, stupid people thought I had the power to make them less stupid and their lives less sad. They were disappointed when I only wanted to know the number of people and toilets in their houses. I learned a lot about the average American that summer and none of what I learned was encouraging.

CitadelGrad wrote:I worked door-to-door for the Census Bureau during the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. I can't tell you how many times I was threatened. The right-wingers called me a Communist and the lefties called me a Nazi. Many times people were glad "someone from the government" finally showed up to solve all their problems. I was freaking 17 years old and these sad, stupid people thought I had the power to make them less stupid and their lives less sad. They were disappointed when I only wanted to know the number of people and toilets in their houses. I learned a lot about the average American that summer and none of what I learned was encouraging.

Scary, ain't it?

CitadelGrad wrote:I worked door-to-door for the Census Bureau during the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. I can't tell you how many times I was threatened. The right-wingers called me a Communist and the lefties called me a Nazi. Many times people were glad "someone from the government" finally showed up to solve all their problems. I was freaking 17 years old and these sad, stupid people thought I had the power to make them less stupid and their lives less sad. They were disappointed when I only wanted to know the number of people and toilets in their houses. I learned a lot about the average American that summer and none of what I learned was encouraging.

And the vast majority of those people are voters.

Did the authorities check to see if his liver was missing? Did they check to see who was buying fava beans?

AZGrizFan wrote:

CitadelGrad wrote:I worked door-to-door for the Census Bureau during the summer between my senior year of high school and freshman year of college. I can't tell you how many times I was threatened. The right-wingers called me a Communist and the lefties called me a Nazi. Many times people were glad "someone from the government" finally showed up to solve all their problems. I was freaking 17 years old and these sad, stupid people thought I had the power to make them less stupid and their lives less sad. They were disappointed when I only wanted to know the number of people and toilets in their houses. I learned a lot about the average American that summer and none of what I learned was encouraging.

And the vast majority of those people are voters.

That is what scares me.

Obviously these people have no value for the life of an innocent man. SAD.