On September 12, 2009 Bill Sparkman a 51 year old teacher and part-time Census worker was found hung from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery with a word carved on his chest and that word was, “fed.” They hung Bill in a secluded part of Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky. Mr. Sparkman’s body was severely in the state of decay. Bill Sparkman was a Eagle Scout that decided his services would be best served in this area as a Boy Scout Director, in which he later became a substitute teacher. Laurel county had a lot of possibilities for Bill and his future. Henrie Sparkman has ideas regarding her sons passing but she wouldn’t share them with us at this moment. She feels it is best to sit and wait for the FBI to come up with their own conclusion regarding her sons untimely demise. Gilbert Acciardo, a retired Kentucky state trooper who is now the director of an after school program. He stated several times that, “Based on my years in the state police, becareful because people are going to perceive you different than they do elsewhere,” Acciado stated again, “Even though he was the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as, “The government.” Mr. Accaido goes on to describe Bill Sparkman as a, “innocent.”
It reminded me of the 50”s and 60’s where they hung blacks , not for doing any wrong just for the color of their skin. Upon my first reading of this article at www.foxnew.com my jaw hit the floor and the first thing that came rushing to my mind is what era are we in? How old are we? Better yet what country is this? Liggett questions huh?
The horrific conception of someone torturing this poor gentleman for trying to make a living, trying to make ends meet, where is this a crime? Barbarians? Savages? Cave Men? Which label are we? Not compassion, Christian. This brings me to tears and utterly nausiation. “Even though he was with the Census Bureau, sometimes people can view someone with any government agency as , “The Government.” Labels, funny how you get a lot of that in school and just as much in the real world. I have surmised, to live as Mr. Sparkman, as much as possible and do what is necessary not that we have any choice in today’s society.
I have always viewed the Kentucky state to be gorgeous and the people who reside there to be as beautiful, but I am afraid my outlook has changed unexpectedly. As stated, the Census Bureau has yet to allow it’s employees to start resuming their jobs from door to door in Clay County pending the invstigation. The quantity of government officials will have grown by leaps and bounds next year to 1.2 million temporary employees to find these hard to find people. Secretary Gary Locke stated, “ We are deeply saddened by the loss of our co-worker, he was a shining example of hard working men and women employed by the Census Bureau.”
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I knew the census workers were probably going to be ill treated this year as no one like's government in their face or business, but never would I imagine anyone to do this horrific crime to such an individual. He must have stumbled upon something illegal possibly. It may not have had to do anything with him being a census worker even though the article said some form of ID was taped to his shoulder and the "Fed" written on his chest. I bet doing his job which is to find every one and make an account of them, he ran into some very bad people that did not want to be found. Seems like a horrible scene you'd find in a movie or something...only this is too real. Sad.
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