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...
Fair enough.
It just struck me the wrong way.
My apologies for over reaction, but this bullshit with the stinking government that I gave 20 years, 3 months and 8 days of my life to, is really beginning to piss me off.
I just hope I don't have to turn around and fight it, someday, as opposed to fighting for it.
I did 20 and 1/4 years too. I’m also within an RCH of 4 years under God’s oceans pointing the big ones at the bad guys. Thanks for your service and when Rham Emanuels ACORN dickheads knock on my door, they’ll get the number of people that live here. Not a single datapoint beyond that.
...yes, they came to my door and gave me promotional literature on the census, they marked down my address, but I’m not they took GPS coordinates...not sure why they would either, seems like a huge amount of unnecessary info. Why bother?
Thanks for your clarity on the census.
It is hard to tell tin foil around here from fact since the first 100 days of obama.
It is as though so many conservatives here at have became like paranoid libs in the Bush era.
Obama comes off like a High School boy jerk and his views on abortions ect are horribly wrong but I am not sure he is Simon Says evil but rather a tool of evil and oppressing spiritual factors.
And the rest of his minions too.
I am sure Obama's people will find a way to abuse many powers which were assumed by the Bush Administration.
I have always thought the people whould look at any Government power as if it were to be diabolically abused, and write in safeguards from there or just not grant it.
I hope not because I am in ingnorance of your point.
Do you agree with me or disagree with me?
GPS of every voter in the country? My guess for the first use of such information is a very accurate gerrymandering process to be done state by state.
I asked the wife and sure enough... two weeks ago a guy was here ,, sigh...
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They simply enter your address in the device and push a button. The hand held computer then uses GPS signals from numerous satellites overhead to estimate the number of meters on the X, Y and Z axis' from the geocentric center of the earth to the computer and it records those three numbers next to your address. You are "marked" (poor choice of words) inside the computer. Later they can compare the location stored in the hand held computer to a main database to verify that you were visited and counted. The UPS and the FedEx guys do it all the time and probably the meter reader for your utilities too. I use it to find my deer stand in the dark, and then to find my way back to the vehicle when I'm done.
Good grief! In the play for what?
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
No, they have whether a person votes but not what a person votes (except in the aggregate). Do you realize that saying things like that may suppress conservative votes?
They list what party a person voted for.
Oh that would be even less economical than the bailouts. Why use a tomahawk when a .22 bullet or two could do the same thing?
no they don’t! they list what party you are registered with.
Ok. Party and last year voted.
ping to why the census people were on our street last week.
Should we ask if they have yellow armbands to distribute as well?
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