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...
They came to our house last week. My husband told her to leave and she said she was taking the census. He told her we could do that on our own and to leave. She was offended and threw her arms up like he was holding her up. We are sure we are marked now! I was disturbed. My husband was pissed!
BS, they have no business marking anything.
I DON’T TRUST THIS GOVERNMENT.
Come and take it!
Shall I expect a missile next visit? I don’t think this is right for this Government to be trusted with GPS coordinates of the citizens, a street address for taxes is enough
But, why bother with all of the manual work? There are already plats, deeds, title records etc., plus plenty of high res satellite photos. This is taking accuracy to a ridiculous level. I wonder what other data they're correlating to the GPS point?
OK, here is what I think it is. The census takers inputs to his hand held device can be correlated to existing databases generated by satellite imagery of every structure in the country. This will improve the accuracy of the census by verifying that more residences have been visited and that the census taker is not overlooking places or making up results.
The census is Constitutionally mandated for the essential purpose of apportionment. I therefore support and cooperate with it for that purpose only. I will not voluntarily supply any of my governments with any other sociological data. They get the numbers of people living in my household from me and that is all. I don't care if they take a GPS reading. Good for them if they are trying to be more accurate.
And why employ additional census workers when equipping the local mail delivery person would cost less in additional man hours.
I wonder how they would like it if someone decides to publish the Lat/Lon for donors to the democratic party as well as media personalities as a collection of place marks for the Google Earth Viewer
It would be an interesting graphic to see where their homes and places of business or employment are. It would also connect the dots...like William Ayers.
Google Earth can be a friend or enemy.
vob
The link you posted to is the US Census website. The logo at the bottom of the page is
Notice that some letters are light blue. Pull those out and you get "SEURA". Wiktionary defines "seura" as:
Finnish
Noun
seura
1. company (visitors, companionship)
pitää seuraa = to keep company
2. society, association
I'm not seeing a coincidence here. (Not seeing an evil conspiracy either, but is interestingly deliberate.)
Damn scary scenario playing out here!!
This info is then down loaded into a data base that is govt. controlled.
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and where they leave the laptops is anyone’s guess
They are NOT, I repeat, NOT marking anything. They are recording the location of residences.
George Soros' office?
I will queu up my dog to mark its teritory on the ACORN volunteer’s shoes.
That’s essentially it. Addresses are horrible. Your house address is being replaced with a GPS market.
I hate to say this, but to me, this makes a lot of sense.
Donning my flame suit. . .
It’s a more precise indicator of your address than the current one. Moreover, if an emergency is reported, the marker can be downloaded to emergency vehicles and they can find it faster.
Here’s the thing about using it against you. Every call 911? How long, and how many units responded?
If the $hit hits the fan, and Obama, or anyone else, decides to turn the place into a police state, it will be because we’ll have will it to be.
The country is too big, with too many people, to control by force of arms. Holding prisoners, even holding ONE prisoner, is so labor, time, and money intensive that it isn’t practical to do without loads of dedicated voluteers.
In essence, what I’m saying is that the US won’t need the GPS marker to find your house - your neighbor will have reported the exact location and tactical details of your house anyway.
The time for outrage passed awhile back. In the last 30 years they have managed to link your health records and your financial information together using your SSN.
My house can’t get up and walk away. I can. I’ll panic when they ask me to put a chip in my hand or my forehead.
Guess we’re going to have to move into the RV and hit the road. Let the bastards record our coordinates all they want. When they come back for confirmation, we’ll be long gone.
I shouldn’t have written, we don’t have to answer as an official reply. But here’s what’s on the census website.
Census Bureau Submits Questions for 2010 Census and American Community Survey to Congress
MARCH 31, 2008 – The U.S. Census Bureau submitted to Congress the questions it will ask for the 2010 Census.
The questions on gender, age, race, ethnicity, relationship and whether you own or rent your home are essentially the same as those asked in 2000, with some improvements designed to help reduce respondent confusion.
Estimated to take less than 10 minutes to complete, the 2010 Census will be one of the shortest and easiest to complete since the nation’s first census in 1790.
The Census Bureau also submitted the questions for the American Community Survey (ACS) — the new yearly survey that eliminates the need for a decennial long-form questionnaire and provides key socioeconomic and housing data about the nation’s changing population every year rather than once a decade.
Three new questions in the 2008 ACS gather data about health insurance coverage, marital history, and military service-related disability status.
How much is this costing us?
It would have come in very handy in Iraq for pinpointing insurgents. (Their address system in the mahalas borders between confusing to non-existent.)
In America, with a database of everyone's home location, I could, in theory, take a person and his known associates, and map out their locations for a variety of purposes.
With a bit of Google Earth mapping, I could equip a poorly trained mob with clear pictures of their target house.
With access to law enforcement databases, I could get you far more detailed information for detailed surveillance. Make, model and license of car, for instance.
With the right air dropped munition, I could kill everyone inside your house and not scratch your neighbor's paint.
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