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...
Thanks for the info. Was just trying to catch up on the thread.
Perhaps Obama just wants our GPS addys, so he can have Chicago pizza delivered to every home in America. You know he is such a cool dude and all.
They were saying on Daily KOS that Obama is working with Santa Claus to make sure all of our presents arrive on time from now on.
The mark of the “beast” will need to be on YOU. Remember, you can always sell a home or leave it. You can’t leave yourself. Also, you can cut your hand off, it will on the forehead. You MUST refuse it. If your a Christian you will not, and I mean NOT, have to face that choice. YOu will be raptured before then. God Help those left behind. May many folk come to Christ now!! CO
Everyone should keep a digital camera handy, and a fingerprint pad, make whoever comes to your door submit to a couple of photos and then take thier prints. Just tell them they are on your property, and you need to know who they are and be able to ID them.
I believe that I would have had to kick his lying ass.
Ignorance KILLS!! CO
I don’t know what GPS marking means. How do they do it?
I’m wondering about that myself.
Addresses work just as well, with stuff like Tom-Tom, which cross referance GPS coordinates to addresses, although they can be off a bit. In fact I just went to maps.live.com, centered on my house and it gave me an address about 1/2 block off. Alternately I put in my address and it highlighted a spot about 8 houses off. It's never done that before. Street level Google maps off about the same amount. Strange.
People die from some kind of flu every damn year. IMHO, this is a scare tactic.
Why? Nefarious perhaps, but only unconstitutional because it doesn't seem to fit into one the delegated powers of the FedGuv. Power to take the Census only authorizes an "enumeration", that is a count, not collecting detailed information, like how many loos (or guns) you've got.
However they do need to know about where those people they count live, although addresses would work as well as GPS coordinates, so that Congressional districts can be reapportioned so as to get (about) the same number of people in each district.
Yeah, I feel the same way. Spooky. 666 comes to mind.
The federal government (for better or worse) doles out money to local governments. Much of this money is population based.
In the 2000 census the census people inadvertently recorded several of the dormitories at the University of Vermont as being in South Burlington instead of Burlington. This was millions of dollars in aid that would be moved from one city to another. Burlington squawked about it right away and it was corrected. I think this is what they are trying to avoid.
Is that “precise and exact” enough for you?
I hate to be the one to do it, but this is “much ado about nothing.” By now, every city in the US has aerial photos of every property with geodetic coordinates on the corners of each frame.
All O has to do is get copies of the photos.
They were here last week and when my husband went out to ask them what they were doing they handed him a paper about next year’s census.
That’s what I am saying basically. All of the personal questions and GPS stuff seems unconstitutional.
Are we bound by law to answer all of the questions? What are our rights?
Only the next time it will say “Christian”.
What difference does it make? We’re all broke now anyway.
Only if Selective Availability is turn ON. I don't believe it is now. I know that it was turned off in 2000 in part because so many military units, down to squads, were using commerical hand held GPS units. In fact a picture taken from a British helicopter of the Iranians grabbing one of their ships, had a GPS unit in the photo identical to mine, documenting the position of the ship at the time. (It was in international waters, but close to Iranian waters)
This actually has nothing to do with Obama. This plan had been announced in 2006.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5590541
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