printThe Constitution allows the state to count people once every ten years; it does not authorize name or information taking. The Census Bureau counts and collects information about us EVERY YEAR, all year round. There is no constitutional warrant for this intrusion, yet we accept and submit to it.
Jerry Day of the Matrix News Network advises that you ask the snots where did they derive the authority to demand your private data; show them a copy of the Constitution and request that they point to the part that authorizes their intrusion. His YouTube has had 1,237,101 views.
Did you know that virtually every government data base has either been lost, hacked or compromised? Mr. Day’s questions to the fascists who’re in violation of our 4th, and a lot more, are devastating. The bureaucrats don’t have to answer to anyone.
Update: IT HAS ARRIVED. Robert M. Groves, Director, US Census Bureau, informs this household in advance that “About one week from now, you will receive a 2010 Census form. … Please fill it out and mail it in promptly.” And in case you doubt that the welfare and the fascist arms of the state work in tandem: “Without a complete, accurate census, your community may not receive its fair share.”
For those who’ve compared resistance to the Census to tax objectors, there is no reference in the notice to a law enforcing this extraction of information. Taxation, by the way, is legal, if immoral—you flout the law at tremendous risk. But if there is no law behind the Census, perhaps the Constitution can prevail and resistance is worthwhile. Since I must both write a WND column for tomorrow and compete a book, I will leave the research to the clever posters of BAB.
Constitution? We don’t need no stinking Constitution.
This is a tough call. It seems ‘they’ already have your information so ‘they’ know where to come and get you.
Is the battle worth the cost?
I think back to the stories I have read on various occasions where someone has challenged the personal income tax, citing the constitution as the authority, only to read later of their incarceration and/or legal woes.
I guess this is what ‘they’ are counting on to subvert resistance.
For what it’s worth Steven, the power to tax by the Federal Gov has been amended into the Constitution. Most tax protesters seem to rely on saying it was improperly ratified. I feel confident rejecting all parts of the census other than the one question that will ask how many people are in my household.
Besides, depriving the gov’t of money will get a much stronger response than depriving it of information.
I’m afraid I don’t see the point of the Census questionnaire. As Steven says, they know all about anyone who has a job, and any other members of his family, from his income tax return. They know all about everyone receiving government benefits. The only people for whom they don’t have ready information are the “homeless,” and they could easily count all of them by offering each a free bottle of Mad Dog. Of course, I still haven’t figured out why a government that issues a fiat currency needs to collect an income tax, unless it’s just an Orwellian assertion of power.
Anyone remember the famous TV show THE PRISONER about a totalitarian place called “the Village”? There was a memorable opening scene in each episode where they wanted INFORMATION:
http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=prisonerth
Prisoner: Where am I?
Number Two: In The Village.
Prisoner: What do you want?
Number Two: Information.
Prisoner: Which side are you on?
Number Two: That would be telling. We want information, information, information…
Prisoner: You won’t get it.
Number Two: By hook or by crook we will.
Life, of course, imitates art.
And if you’ve been in the service at some point within the past few decades, DoD has a DNA sample.
The rules are as simple as every kid on every playground quickly learns them to be.
The bullies in the biggest gang make the rules and enforce them. Justice is what people will submit to. Nobody wants to be the one they pick from the herd to make an example of, because everybody knows their neighbors will huddle in fear rather than help them, secretly glad it’s not them this time. Enforcement options range from ridicule to physical attack.
People act this way and nations do, too. Exceptions are rare and are brought about by rare individuals being prepared to seize the opportunity when the leading gang overplays its hand.
Did it really say “fare” share? I’ve already thrown mine away. [YES]
George W. Bush:
“If they’re worried about the government intruding into their personal lives, they ought to think about it.”
“We want as accurate a count as possible, but I can understand why people don’t want to give over that information to the government. If I have the long form, I’m not so sure I would do it either.”
Providing any information other than numbers for reapportionment serves the government
(and its partners) in the abdication of its duty to protect the rights of its citizens for its preferred role as social engineer.
Rep. Bachman and even the obtuse (GWB) can see the intrusive nature of the modern census and its ultimate use to mold the ‘kinder’ and build a better ‘garten’.
Not trying to be an ass, but it says “fare” share and not “fair” share? [fixed]