Media, Bloggers Frame Murder of Census Worker as “Rightwing” Political Crime

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Media, Bloggers Frame Murder of Census Worker as “Rightwing” Political Crime
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
September 24, 2009

It looks like another government psyop designed to discredit and demonize those opposed to the increasing tyranny of the federal government — a census worker was found hanging from a tree in Kentucky with “fed” scrawled on his chest two weeks ago.
On the other hand, it might be the work of a lone psycho killer. But it does not matter. Because the corporate media — hours after news of the incident appeared — is using the tragic event to crank up the propaganda machine and demonize millions of people who support the Tea Party and End the Fed movements.
Either way, the FBI has suggested the crime was politically motivated. AP reporter Devlin Barrett, appearing on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday, said he did not believe the FBI would be involved if the case weren’t being investigated as a politically motivated murder, Politics Daily reports.
AP reporter Devlin Barrett tells Maddow the FBI is investigating the crime for its political aspect.

“There are always people who have some sort of paranoia about the federal government and the census, but things might be worse this time around,” writes Alex Koppelman for Salon. “There’s been a lot of talk on the right about the connection (always very tenuous, and now severed) between the census and ACORN, a group that’s been conservatives’ favorite bogeyman of late. And Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has been spreading her own fears about the census, at one point even suggesting a link between the census and Japanese internment during World War II — a frightening parallel for modern conspiracy theorists who fear that the government is setting up similar camps for them now.”
Meanwhile, over at Gawker, Andrew Belonsky blames the opposition directly. “We know that the levels of right-wing vitriol have reached psychotic new heights. But could they really be behind the ‘apparent homicide’ of a Kentucky census worker, William Sparkman? Should we be calling this, as some are, a ‘lynching?’… Sadly, that appears to be the case. And, if this was in fact murder, the death would seem to be targeted — ‘fed’ was, after all, carved into the man’s chest — and some are calling this a modern day lynching.”
A d v e r t i s e m e n t

An editorial in the New York Magazine tells us Nancy Pelosi’s “fear of political violence” has been realized. “In addition to this specific case of census-related fearmongering, you can add in the conspiracy theories about FEMA internment camps, long a mainstay of the Internet but recently stoked anew by the likes of conservative website World Net Daily and radio host Michael Savage. Then throw in everyone comparing Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and health-care reform to Hitler and Nazi Germany — like Rush Limbaugh, to take but one example. And death panels, and socialism, and birth certificates, and ‘trampling on the Constitution.’ It’s this toxic stew of fear and anger and paranoia that Nancy Pelosi recently worried could compel someone to lash out. ‘I saw this myself in the late seventies in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening and it gave — it created a climate in which violence took place,’ she warned,” states the op-ed.
The so-called liberal media has engaged in a concerted effort to portray the patriot and constitutionalist movements as “rightwing” terrorism, beginning with the murder of police in Pittsburgh earlier this year by a man the corporate media and foundation bloggers tried to link to Alex Jones. The media continued its effort after a deranged white supremacist allegedly killed a guard at a Holocaust museum. The suspect, James Von Brunn, was characterized as a “birther” and member of the patriot movement. Glenn Beck went so far as to declare Von Brunn was a “hero” of the truth movement. The hysteria reached a fevered pitch in August when Obama attempted to sell his health care plan.
The corporate media went into hyper-drive after Chris Broughton, an Arizona patriot, brought a carbine to an Obama event. Arizona has an open carry law. The media attempted to link Broughton to a supposed “militia” group. Infowars noted at the time that the group was not an organized militia. The media connected Ernest Hancock to the phantom militia. Hancock, an online radio host, is said to have designed the famous “Ron Paul rEVOLution” graphic. By mentioning this, the corporate media conflated Ron Paul with fictional domestic terrorists.
The government is sincerely concerned about the growing patriot movement, in particular the end the Federal Reserve and the Tenth Amendment movements.

As of this writing, there is little evidence indicating the census worker in Kentucky was the victim of a psychological operation designed to demonize the patriot movement. However, it is sincerely odd the man was murdered 24 days ago at exactly the same time the massive Tea Party demo in Washington was taking place.