http://nytimes.com/aponline/2009/09/23/us/politics/AP-US-Census-Worker-Hanged.html

I Hope Michele Bachmann is proud of herself. remember her spreading lies and fear about the Census. (Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment | TPMDC)

Don't leave Glenn Beck and his anti government rants out of the picture.

Or the GOP leadership who have spent 30 years promoting fear of the government based upon lies ( i.e. addled ronnie rayguns "gov. is the problem") 

Now this cynical destructive political; strategy is leading to more and more deaths.

If Rush Limbaugh can claim that Obama led to a fight on a school bus incited by shoving the "victim" shoving the other students books onto the floor then we can safely lay this resurgence of "Strange Fruit" (Strange Fruit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) in the so called Bible Belt best known for murder ( 355 Lynchings between 1865 and 1940), bigotry, ignorance (Home of the Creation "Museum"), and home to at least 11 hate groups ( SPLC) plus several self styled "militias"  on the hate mongers that are the G.O.P. , Faux news and right wing bloviators.

In this rancid stew of ignorance and hate it should be of no surprise that the anti government paranoia has been ratcheted up to level of murdering Government workers in response to the delusions promoted by the G.O.P., Faux news and associated nutcases. (i.e. Beck, Limbaugh, OLielly)

One has to wonder if lynching of Government workers is one of the principles promoted in private discussions at the recent "Value Voters Summit" with subjects such as "THUGOCRACY - FIGHTING THE VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY" or maybe this was just  an expression of the "New Masculinity" promoted at that recent hatefest.

Either way the paranoia based upon lies feeding ignorance and appealing to bigotry is coming home to roost with the ambush of Police by people worried about the loss of weapons they were obviously to stupid to own, the murder of Doctors by nutcases with Operation Rescue phone numbers on their dashboard, and now Census workers.

Thank You Michele Bachmann. I'm sure you'll send flowers.