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.

The law enforcement official, who was not authorized to discuss the case and requested anonymity, did not say what type of instrument was used to write the word on the chest of Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher. He was found Sept. 12 in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeast Kentucky.

The Census has suspended door-to-door interviews in rural Clay County, where the body was found, pending the outcome of the investigation. An autopsy report is pending.

Christ almighty.   He was a census worker.  He wasn’t going to raise your damn taxes.  He wasn’t going to implement universal health care.  He was a teacher who in his spare time worked for his country in a very humble way: he counted citizens.  Simple, unoffensive, harming nobody, and he was killed for it.  And to make sure we knew he was killed for it, they wrote “fed” on his body.

But, of course, loyal small-government conservative Americans are never domestic terrorists.  Not even when they commit acts of domestic terror against American citizens.