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.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know I'm nitpicking here, but let's leave her gender out of this.

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

i especially liked the line in the article: we are trying to determine if there was foul play involved...

go FBI!

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Written in marker, not carved.

[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?

[existentme.livejournal.com]

or T-man!
win at revnoor though.

[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.

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

lol

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

<-- Dailyquot'd OMGZLOL! :D

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

I don't see the humor. It was a scary time. Is it funny because I said hidden? I meant to say buried.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

No, my dear. I just meant your line has earned its place in the List of Daily Quotes (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/22287.html). It doesnt necessarily have to be a funny line, to achieve that. Only... memorable.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I still don't get it. But anyway, my point is that usually when people kill in order to protect their illicit livelihood, they are pretty discreet about it. Maybe pot growers are more brazen in that part of the country, but hanging a body from a tree and writing on it does have undeniable political overtones.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

Pot growers are not a celebrated group of people with a long history of rebel attitudes like illicit whiskey distillers are, so it's not that comparable.

they are exactly that, as a matter of fact.

[bebopmonkey.livejournal.com]

oh really? and what hole have you been living in?

Re: they are exactly that, as a matter of fact.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

I've lived in a major city in California for almost 20 years, and while smoking pot is glorified, growers are not.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see! That makes it perfectly alright then. I mean, they'd be risking their fine reputation if they didn't find somebody to lynch now and then.

[gunslnger.livejournal.com]

That whooshing sound was the point going over your head.

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

I know I sidestepped your point. I do not know as much as exiledv2 down thread (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/241131.html?thread=15013099#t15013099). I just thought your turn of phrase was funny. :)

[allhatnocattle.livejournal.com]

Any serious grow-op is done indoors, under strictly controlled conditions, which produce maximum results, and more to your point, safely away from "stumble-upons"

[majortom-thecat.livejournal.com]

Maybe in Canada.

http://www.orovillemr.com/news/ci_13321237

[geezer-also.livejournal.com]

They go for quantity in Calif :D
Heck, the fire fighters here are always in danger of contact highs. Seriously, I couldn't see the link, but it is a serious problem both in Northern and Southern California.