Southern trees are bearing strange fruit again:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/census-worker-hanged-with_n_297114.html

This, my friends, is what calling the census an attempt to brainwash children and implying the all-powerful US government is a direct threat to your precious bodily fluids reaps.

I hope Bachmann is happy now, as she's getting her wish. This poor man is a victim of the fearmongering the Radicals have sown. There's a certain quote by a certain man that's worth quoting here: "If you say for years that the Jews are not even human and that Russians are subhuman, such an explosion is inevitable." It is in that sense that Bachmann's fearmongering is directly responsible for this man's death. Shame on the Radical Right.

Comments

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

"...a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky"

It could possibly mean he accidently came across a still. Not unheard of.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Carving "Fed" on the census worker after women like Bachmann have been raising fear of the Census as the evil government come to corrupt us for Negro Communism is not likely to be a co-incidence. Any more than the caning of Brooks by Sumner.

[existentme.livejournal.com]

I seriously do not think this is any further out of the realm than the idea that this was done in reaction to "evil census talk," frankly.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

wouldn't that have resulted in "revnooor" carved into his face?

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

If that were the case, I think he would have most likely been shot and the body would have been hidden. At least that's what I was told would happen to me if I got too close to anybody's marijuana patch in northern CA.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

It's the logic behind terrorism. We lynch the bad guy, the evil government will be put in its place. This has worse overtones with a black man in the White House.

[debergerac.livejournal.com]

you've jumped to a few unsupported conclusions.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, just a few.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

yeah maybe by FED they meant they gave him a full meal before lynching him and wanted to tell the world they're cordial sociopaths.

[existentme.livejournal.com]

Has anyone claimed credit/responsibility for the act?

[404.livejournal.com]

It's sad that people like the OP are trying to use this senseless act to push their own agenda, especially when all the details have not come out.

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

Jumping to conclusions before the facts is media driven, the left just does it better. Being left means never having to say you are sorry, and it seems they are embarrassed by nothing.

[devil-ad-vocate.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's why I mentioned the illegal still possibility; or he could have been too close to somebody's marijuana patch. The 'fed' message could have been a warning to others.

Any number of possibilities...

[sgiffy.livejournal.com]

While I don;t think you can pin this on one person(well the murder, but you know what I mean), I do think its fair to put some blame on those that spread nonsense conspiracy theories whether they are Alex Jones or Glen Beck.

I worked for the last census when I was in high school and the nonsense I would here was pretty funny. Its like, we're just counting people and gathering some statistics, this is not a big deal.

I get normal disagreements over matters of policy, but I don't get the OMG the government is coming to get me and put me in a FEMA camp, take away my Bible, control the weather, blah blah blah.

[mahnmut.livejournal.com]

So you're just a deluded brainwashed puppet of the eevul reptilian regime which is using you as a mindless tool to achieve world domination? Traitor of the human race!

/sorry, I had to say it/

/hides in a cave from the approaching Feds/

[robert-johnson.livejournal.com]

I think we ought to wait a bit and get a few more details before putting the dog in front of the sprinkler. Could we get a few cat macros or lesbian motivational posters, while we wait for an actual investigation?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

I think we ought to wait a bit and get a few more details before putting the dog in front of the sprinkler.

Somewhere, ACORN is laughing.

[prisoner--24601.livejournal.com]

Yes because jumping to conclusions about how this man died and blaming it on the radical right before the investigation is even finished is totally not fearmongering on your part. You're so much better than those evil right wingers.

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

No group advocates that, to be sure. But when the talking heads on TV normalize "violent" rhetoric, there are always whack jobs who will listen. If it enters the national media enough times from enough different sources... Well, that seems a bit irresponsible doesn't it? And of course, no one actually wanted this to happen.

But it happened, and there's symmetry. So while this is not anyone's fault but the person responsible for the death, i would argue that pointing out influence and responsibility is fair game.

Let me give you an example. A popular children's show has one of it's characters smoking marijuana on an episode. Parents are all up in arms about it. But the show's creators argue: We weren't telling the children to do it! That would be raving lunacy! We were just depicting the reality. and yet... there is some responsibility there. They are exposing kids to the idea of smoking weed. even if they are not explicitly condoning it. Now multiply that by seeing that message every night for several weeks from different sources.

some people go ahead and hit that joint.

[hunterkirk.livejournal.com]

How do you know it was a right wing person who did this?

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

People like Bachmann really need to STFU. Their insensical, and sometimes just damned insane claims drown out reputable and responsible criticisms of the government and its administration. Her rhetoric leads to all critics of the government being labeled as "loonies," helps to distort the debate, and then, of course, leads to stupid shit like this.

What Bachmann and her ilk are doing is turning the Republican Party from a fiscal conservative party to a radical right-wing populist party. Well, you know what, we already have enough radicals, ones who want to nationalize entire sectors of industry, mandate what we buy, and greatly enlarge government control. (And not all are Democrats, mind you.) What she is doing is going to rip this entire fucking country apart.

Seriously--people like her need to leave the Republican Party sooner rather than later. Either that, or just create a new party, without those loonies, to act as an opposition party in Congress. We can't allow this country to be run by people who don't know their ass from the moon.

EDIT: Actually, now that I've gone through and read some other comments, I probably shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. It could have been anyone at this point. However, I maintain that Bachmann is a fucking idiot and that she and her ilk really need to stop talking soon.

[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

I blame it on it(Clay County, Kentucky) being a prohibition county. What else are people going to do for kicks?

Also, did you know it's the poorest majority-white county in the U.S.? It also has voted republican by over 60% for the last 16 years.


But, a) A police trooper in the area told him to be careful because the area had a strong anti-government sentiment, and he had 'fed' written across his chest.


It was the libertarians! Zomg!