TagsTagsThis should come as no surprise after the deranged anti-census agitation from people like Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson (who publicly threatened to use a shotgun on census workers): threats and violence against census workers this year have more than doubled compared to 2000. So far, ...
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ACORN sting filmmaker and admitted felon James O’Keefe is trying to peddle another undercover video, this time targeting another enemy of the right wing: the Census Bureau. And once again, he’s editing his videos to make census workers look as bad as possible. Video This is just pathetic. Not even Fox News is ...
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A member of the far right sovereign citizen movement (and quack mortgage adviser) and his son were shot to death yesterday in Memphis in a gun battle with police, in which two police officers were also killed: Relatives ID West Memphis suspects. A background search using the information from the ...
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Rep. Patrick McHenry (R) has written a post for wingnut site Redstate.com, trying to convince conservatives to return their census forms; McHenry claims that early census returns are showing that conservatives are less likely than liberals to return their census forms. According to Politifact, however, this claim is false.
Speaking of RedState.com blogger Erick Erickson, he said yesterday on his radio show that if anyone tried to get him to fill out the American Community Survey, he would pull out his wife’s shotgun. ERICKSON: This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often ...
In a bizarre twist, authorities in Kentucky have announced that census worker Bill Sparkman committed suicide and staged it to look like murder, possibly so that his family could collect on two life insurance policies. The Associated Press previously reported, citing law enforcement officials who spoke anonymously, that investigators were ...
Here’s the latest Republican/Fox News attempt to scare people out of cooperating with the census: Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says “tens of thousands” of census takers may be rapists and child molesters. [Video]
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls. What a pathetic, sick little human being ...
Dan Riehl continues spinning off his weird, creepy fantasies about murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. He’s actually had an email exchange with a trained investigator who agrees with him that Sparkman just might have been a child predator — and may not even have been hanged at all: Riehl World View: ...
Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is speculating that Bill Sparkman, the census worker found murdered in Kentucky, was a child predator. Yes, really. His evidence? He don’t got to show you no steenking evidence! All he knows is that the murder wasn’t committed by anyone on his side — so why not ...
This pretty much rules out the “suicide” hypothesis: Hanged Census Worker Found Naked, Bound. BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with duct tape, said an Ohio man who discovered the ...
There’s not enough information yet to say for sure what was behind this killing, so let’s not jump to conclusions. But the description of the circumstances and the timing (around the time of the Washington DC tea party) raises a strong suspicion that anti-government sentiment may have been the motivation: ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) goes on the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour, and repeats her contention that the government might use census data to round people up and put them in internment camps. Beck closes his eyes and shakes his head when she says this, and almost immediately cuts her off — ...
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In an interview on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s taking a stand against the US census because it was used to round up Japanese Americans and put them in internment camps during World War II. [Video]
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Rep. Michele Bachmann says her family plans not to answer some of the questions on the 2010 census form, because ACORN is involved. She may be fined $5000. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times that she and her family will not be fully filling out the 2010 census ...