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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 12:45 PM
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Kick CNN from the press pool until it steps back from Erickson's provocation:

The average door-to-door census worker is a short-term hire, who does grunt work helping collect useful statistical information needed to improve policy

It is simply unacceptable for a major media company to use mass communication tools to advocate violence against these workers -- and a company that's doing that really isn't a news organization: it's a hate group

Don't treat CNN like legitimate media when they behave this way
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existentialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 12:49 PM
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1. especially where one census worker
has already died this year under suspicious circumstances.

OK, the official coroner's inquest ruled that it was suicide--but it was a hanging, and there was no suicide note.

I'm not so sure.
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 03:02 PM
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3. got a link by chance?
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Eric Condon Donating Member (761 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 03:52 PM
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5. Here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/census_worker_death_suicide_ke.html

The authorities contend it was a suicide, and hey, if them and the MSM say it, it must be true, right?

I just started my Census job last week. I don't worry anything's going to happen to me or anything, but I'm not naive, I know there are some crazy people out there, especially now that they're being egged on by TWO major news networks apparently.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 03:53 PM
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6. Google "Bill Sparkman" -- census worker founded hanged last year
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Qutzupalotl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 03:53 PM
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7. Here's a link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/census-worker-hanged-with_n_297114.html

Some officials were calling it a suicide, but it's kind of odd to scrawl "FED" on your own body, then duct tape your hands before hanging yourself.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/2009/11/census_worker_killing_probe_ne.html
Officials: Census worker hanged himself
By Ed O'Keefe and Carol Morello
The Census Bureau employee found dead in September killed himself and staged his death to look like a homicide, state and federal law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

William E. Sparkman Jr. died of asphyxiation and was found with hands, feet and mouth bound with duct tape, a rope around his neck and the word "FED" written on his chest, investigators concluded. Passersby spotted his body on Sept. 12 in a remote area of the Daniel Boone National Forest.
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Really, why use duct tape if it's a suicide?
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 02:36 PM
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2. k&r
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-05-10 03:24 PM
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4. Recommended. But don't hold your breath.
Insanity has gone main stream so expect to see more of it coming.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-09-10 10:47 PM
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8. KICK
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