In fairness, maybe EVERYONE is a gay child predator

Conservative blogger Dan Rhiel, who may or may not be a a gay child predator, says that Bill Sparkman, the slain census worker, may have been a gay child predator.

But he also may not have been.

Dan writes:

You'd think a moonshiner, or Meth head would have just buried the guy. Why hang him and invite the Feds into it by writing Fed on his chest? Why strip him naked and bind and gag him, which has serious sexual overtones?

Why Dan finds a bound-and-gagged man to be "seriously sexual" is between him and his therapist. As to why a meth-head would take the time to write "fed" on Sparkman's chest, I can't be certain.

For that matter, why would a meth-head disassemble and reassemble their toaster? Why would they clean their oil-filter with a q-tip? Why would the government plant microscopic GPS aphids in their cheeks?

The point is, once you start throwing "whys" at meth-related conduct, you fall down a slippery, paranoid, (if tidy) slope.

Rhiel continues

I have no idea what happened, but from the reporting I've seen, neither does anyone else. If he adopted a boy as a single man, or was married and split with the wife and kids, who knows. But I never assume I know a story or motive until I know it. Right now we don't. I'm simply speculating on one possible alternative, however impolite.

Bolding mine. Rhiel concedes he doesn't know a thing about the story, but neither does anyone else. That said, why not make the leap to gay sex? With children?

The condition of the body and his being naked also seems curious.

I bet it does.

Why strip someone down to their socks only to kill them?

What a waste.

The strangest quote I've seen in all the reporting around apparently murdered Census worker Bill Sparkman is this one from his Mother located in Florida.

“I have my own ideas, but I can't say them out loud. Not at this point,” she said. “Right now, what I'm doing, I'm just waiting on the FBI to come to some conclusion.”

She didn't say she had been advised not to speculate. Being in Florida she has nothing to fear from Kentucky locals, so why the secrecy? Add that to the somewhat mysterious way this case is being revealed by authorities and whatever is behind it, I wouldn't be surprised if there's another surprise in store here.

And for Dan Rhiel, the only conceivable surprise would be of the sex-with-children variety.

This last part is just...bizarre...

Finally Sparkman's bio and work history suggests at the least he was not just your average guy. No teaching degree, no full-time means of employment and no wife or kids so far as I am aware. But he certainly did gravitate towards children. I can't help but wonder if this wasn't a revenge killing disguised to look like something else. If he did have issues in this regard and messed with the wrong kid, it isn't as if something like that can be ruled out until we know more.

Until we know that Sparkman was not a child-predator, we have to assume that he may have been, because we don't know that he isn't.