Posted on 09/24/2009 4:48:35 AM PDT by mentor2k
I’m guessing that this guy stumbled into somebody’s meth lab or something.
Who, knows, but coming from Appalachia myself, I know for a fact that there are some really rough and mean people in Clay County. After this murder, I can’t imagine how the Census Bureau’s going to get any more employees to go there and do the work.
My first guess is that it was a suicide, and the guy wanted to make sure his family got the insurance money. Most Life Insurance does not pay suicide claims.
This is rich!
Druggies. Bet on it!
The immediate impression is an anti-gov’t act. Only STUPID people will make the leap without evidence. It’s too late for the liberals now to convince the fence sitters. Independents know Obama and his cronies in congress are trying to take America and capitalism down, regardless of what conservatives and American’s alike yell at townhall meetings.
Where I work, they are about to fire several hundred of us, and we have few prospects for jobs. One woman who is quite desperate applied for a job with the Census Bureau, doing just this sort of thing. She was overjoyed when they accepted her—until, that is, she found out she was going to be assigned to some backwoods areas in West Virginia. She withdrew her name from consideration. She said, “I know those people. If I go up to strange houses and knock on the door sooner or later I’m either going to get a gutfull of buckshot or get raped. No thanks.”
He either walked into a pot house or he saw something criminal.
This is a case of covering up a discovery of a crime.
Just a gut feeling.
Don’t go snooping around up on Copperhead Road.
More probably a marijuana patch, meth isn’t big in east KY, that’s oxycontin territory.
Clay County is one of the most corrupt areas in the whole country so it really could be a lot of things, but I’d put my money on him stumbling onto a marijuana harvest, it is that time of year.
Appalachians have always wanted to be left alone. Our media really stinks.
Sparkman ‘victim of apparent crime’
http://www.thetimestribune.com/local/local_story_260084514.html
He was undergoing treatment for cancer.
That’s true, mountain-folk are notorious for wanting to be left alone. They’re not mentioning how the word “Fed” was scrawled onto his chest.
My very first thought.
Maybe this would be a good area for ACORN workers to utilized in Census collecting?
Beware of any "keyboard commando", on FR or elsewhere, who advocates violent resistance.
“You watch, before long, this story will have morphed into how the perpatrators of this crime were typical conservative activists.”
Yup, and they’ll blame Rush for stirring them up.
Sure they do, after the contractual exclusion period, which is two years (by state law) in most states.
Kentucky is second to California for marijuana production, much of it hidden in the Daniel Boone National Forest, where this person was killed.
He probably was thought to be a DEA Agent when he started asking too many questions of some grower’s household.
The growers play a vicious game in the hills using booby traps and even poisonous snakes to protect their “crop”.
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