While the left is accused by the right of wanting Sparkman’s death to be because of wingnut anti-government behavior, it’s the right which developed agenda-driven theories. One winger wanted to know if Sparkman was a child predator. Conservative talk show host and former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgcock supposed Sparkman’s death was the result of open borders, the act of some errant illegal immigrant.
Yet questions remain. One original story made it quite clear it was murder.
"The only thing he had on was a pair of socks," Weaver said. "And they had duct-taped his hands, his wrists. He had duct tape over his eyes, and they gagged him with a red rag or something.
"He was murdered," Weaver said. "There's no doubt."
Weaver said the body was about 50 yards from a 2003 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck.
What's your opinion? Is it possible that it really was a murder and it's now being covered up? That shouldn't be too hard to imagine given what happened on these days in 1963. Or do you believe the latest reports from the coroner that it was an elaborately staged suicide?
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"Original news accounts" are often wrong.
ReplyDeleteDon't you remember the Fort Hood shooting.
Original accounts said multiple attackers and Hasan was dead. Then they recanted and said single attacker and Hasan is alive. They even mixed up which cop actually shot him.
I would favor the evidence gleaned from a thorough investigation over some reporters' knee-jerk interpretation of events in order to get a timely "scoop" on other news stations.
But I know how mush you disdain things like truth, facts and research. It's much better to simply run with your gut feeling and report it as fact, right?
No, not report it as fact, report it as conjecture.
ReplyDeleteEvery single one of those libs who danced in the blood of this dead man blaming "The Right" for his death, i'd love to personally stuff the crow down each one of their throats.
ReplyDelete"We discussed the gruesome hanging death of the Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman when it happened."
ReplyDeleteInteresting you brought up that post of yours regarding Sparkman's death, rather than this one, in which you accused several right wing media personalities and a congresswoman of inciting murder--a murder that never happened. Embarrassed?
Zorro, You've got that eagle eye. I can't put anything over on you.
ReplyDeleteI will say this though, regardless of how Sparkman died, and it does still seem to be in doubt based on the first eye witness, Glenn Beck and company are partly responsible for what goes on in the gun-nut-turns-murderer arena. There was even a case in which it was documented.
Mikeb says: " . . . and it does still seem to be in doubt based on the first eye witness . . . "
ReplyDeletePerhaps you define "eye witness" differently from . . . well, everyone else in the world, but to most of us, to be an "eye witness" to an incident, one must have, you know . . . witnessed the incident, rather than just have been the first to happen on the scene afterward. Your "eye witness" never claims to have seen a murder--only to have found what he was positive was a murder scene. I haven't seen anything to indicate that he was a trained homicide investigator, though, so I have no difficulty believing that he could have been fooled by a suicide made to look like a homicide.
As for a government cover-up--I have a great deal less trust in government than you do (I after all, strongly support citizens' right to kill would-be tyrants and their agents), but the "cover up" idea doesn't make any sense here. What government agency would benefit? If anything, the government would want a big anti-government bogeyman to fight, requiring massive funding, and oh--a few more liberties to be sacrificed, "for the good of everyone."
Zorro, You're right that guy was not an "eye witness" in the normal sense of the phrase.
ReplyDeleteBut in your taking me to task for the misuse of that expression, did you want to just overlook what the "witness" said, wrists taped together and all that.
I agree with you that there's no obvious reason for a government cover up, but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
"But in your taking me to task for the misuse of that expression, did you want to just overlook what the 'witness' said, wrists taped together and all that."
ReplyDeleteSorry to have missed this until now, and no--I don't need to overlook that at all. Perhaps it's you who are overlooking things, such as the fact that although his wrists were secured by tape, the taping was done so loosely that he could separate them by about a foot. How about the fact that there would be no reason for murderers to tape his glasses to his face, but if he needed them to see what he was doing, there would be?
Zorro, You knew very well what I meant by "eye witness." I find your trick of picking on every and any little thing and treating it as if it were important extremely tedious.
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