Posted on 04/29/2009 11:05:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Republican Senator Judd Gregg was Obama’s first choice for the Secretary of Commerce post, and Gregg was actually considering joining the Obama team, until he found out that control of the US Census was being stripped from the Commerce Department and placed under the direct control of White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Then, the same week that Americans learned that they were “domestic terrorists” -- at least according to Obama’s new DHS (Department of Homeland Security), -- if they own a bible, a pocket Constitution or guns, and still believe in Life, Liberty and Freedom, - they also learned that Obama’s Census Bureau had hired thousands of new temporary employees, equipped each with a handheld GPS computer and sent them out to mark GPS coordinates for every residential front door in America.
Oddly, it was this same period that news was breaking of an international flu pandemic, suspected of being a weaponized strain of the virus never before seen, - and that Obama’s team still sees no need to close the US-Mexican border, despite the cross continental spread of a deadly illness now claiming American lives.
Now, if any one of these events happened alone, one might not get too excited. But when a string of such events happen all at once, one begins to question the string of freedom and life threatening coincidences...
I can’t resist the urge to question the authority and purpose behind such a BIG BROTHER initiative, when the official Census itself is not due to be taken until 2010...
No imagination is required to think up a whole laundry list of evil that could be done with a nationwide GPS grid of coordinate’s markers painted on every private home across the country. But I was having trouble thinking up one good reason for it, even one legitimate use that would justify what must be a very expensive undertaking.
According to one of the Census workers, who spoke with me on condition of anonymity, they must GPS mark the coordinates “within 40 ft of every front door” in America and they are supposed to complete that mission nation wide, within 90 days, by the end of July 2009.
The workers were not told why they were GPS marking every front door. But a supervisor is sent out to follow them door-to-door, to make certain that no door is left unmarked. Every door will be marked by one employee, and then checked by a follow-up supervisor.
So, I had to ask, why?
Why does the Obama administration need or want the latitude and longitude coordinates for every home in America ? Why the rush to GPS paint every home in the next 90 days? Why must the marker be within 40 ft of every front door? For what possible purpose does the Fed need GPS coordinates for every home, and under what authority do they have the right? Census workers, whom I asked, had the same holy-crap look on their faces that I had by then...
Make sure your 2nd Amendment hardware is among those possessions.
... The Census Bureau will launch a massive operation on March 30 to verify and update more than 145 million addresses as it prepares to conduct the 2010 Census...
Doesn't the US Postal Service verify addresses? Why not talk to them?
Couple this data with voter registration lists (esp. party affiliation) and you could gerrymander some very useful district maps.
Couple this data with web-forum postings, handles, and IP address data, and you could easily correlate a pretty effective “who needs indoctrination” list.
“The snot nosed kid said he was a government employee and didn’t have to observe signs. The sheriff informed him otherwise.”
Nice. First thing that made me smile on this thread. Can you press charges?
Same here. Not really sticks, rural with farmlands and a few developments.
I saw the census person when she pulled into the driveway. She told me they had to mark every persons address onto the GPS device; not exactly sure why other than something to do with the general census.
This does not seem like relevant issue to me. I can type my address into google maps and get the lat/long for my front door without GPS. So whats the big deal!?!?!
Maybe it’s folks finally putting two and two together.
The only legit reason I can think of is so the GPS in our cars can deliver us to the proper destination.
Funny story.. :) Glad it was your friend the last time. I’m not going to worry about it. I remember my dad being forced to answer a lot of personal questions by some lady in HIS livingroom back in the 70’s. I distinctly remember him asking her if he has to answer that question.. she nodded her head “yes”. He was livid. They should be truthful..we don’t have to really answer.
Thanks for the info!
You can already do that by simply typing in an address.
That website contains a lot between the lines. Will take a while to figure out what...
If you use Google Earth and try to see our home all you can see is two old potato sheds since replaced and lots of old trees which act as perfect camouflage to our very small, modest 80+ year old farm house. At this point, I am too tired and hurting to even care.
The Google Maps address results are frequently wrong (my home included), having been derived from whatever public data could be used.
This operation makes your coordinates exact and official.
They were here about 2 weeks ago, and yes they held a PDA type device and handed me a(2010)Census notification. I know/knew nothing about this GPS information at the time or I would have questioned them.
It may not be worthy of a tin-foil type conspiracy theory...but it's not bullsh*t either....THEY LIVE!(heh)
I know, so there is really no legit reason now.
Yep, demand an Id, and take their information, my front step was GPSed, and next few days a group of census takers in training stopped by
They are not marking anything on anyone’s house. The are merely coordinating home addresses with GPS locations. The idea being that in the future they can use sat imagery to compare what they have listed for addresses with what shows up in the pictures. One of the reasons why this is important is to determine what community a particular home is in.
This article is way over the top.
Just curious ... do you know what we DO have to answer? Constitutionally mandated census ... it is just number of people in the house? I assume ages, etc., is more than is strictly necessary?
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