AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on body

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment....

By DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY

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One goddamned thing is for certain ... suicide or murder, this is going to be seized on by the left to paint all Americans concerned with government growth, and especially all Americans who are opposed to our intrusive census, as homicidal maniacs.

This is the way the left works.

They'll find some bizarre and isolated incident - like the possible lynching of a census worker - and from that point on every person who isn't willing or, in fact, eager to answer in excruciating detail every question on the long census form is a threat to all mankind.

If this Kentucky incident is, in fact, a homicide ... then let's hope the murder is caught and eventually executed ... by hanging. Remember, I'm so warped that I believe murderers ought to die the way they killed their victims.

 

Can't do it, RO. If the convicted murderer were put to death in the same manner as his victims died, it would be considered cruel and inhuman punishment.

 

Hanging was an accepted form of execution at one point in time.