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...
So was TARP...I hate to say it, but I am beginning to believe we were duped by him too.
Ah, that explains what they were doing in my neighborhood a couple weeks ago. I wondered. Creepy.
Well then, you will deja vu when they actually start doing the census next year.
How do you figure? They’re obviously doing it. Several dozen FReepers have confirmed it right on this thread, and there are links above to government websites that make it clear this is what they’re doing.
Got painted yesterday morning. A middle aged Black woman walked halfway up our driveway, stopped, told us she was from the census bureau and was just checking addresses. After she left my wife looked at me and said ACORN and your stimulus package at work.
ping M1A
WTF? For sealing off escape routes I guess.
LOL! Good for the Sheriff! Sounds like when a neighbor came in my yard and kicked my dog and hubby decked him. The guy tried to file a complaint and the Sheriff laughed at him.
That may be why I am getting a lot more concerned looks from residents when I am out working. One of my jobs is to do drive-by property inspections and valuations for the banks, including (usually) several exterior photos of the homes. Some individuals flip out when they see me taking the pictures.
I’ve also had a carload of young thugs turn their car around, block my path and demand to know why I had taken their picture (they had driven by as I was stopped and photographing a house). At times like that being unarmed would be uncomfortable, to say the least!
Thanks, New Jersey, for your “may issue but hardly ever do to the unconnected” policy.
Thanks for posting, scary stuff.
I asked that question also, and was told that they needed their own information.
Yes, someone came here too, had a palm pilot of some kind.
Think about during the depression, when hobos and tramps were traveling the land, they would often leave messages
chalked up about the property owners, who were kind, who were mean etc. This Administration is gathering tOO much
information about the people.
We should demand to see the information contained on these
files. Addresses? Political affiliations? Cross referenced
to gun owners? This is more than the government should know.
prepping for future Predator strikes on 912’ers......
Live in a trailer, moving frequently? Don’t tempt me. I could SO do that...
Those links show that George Bush started this GPS thing back in 2006. It was very clever of Obama to get this program started even before he decided to run for president.
Do we still have to answer questions to the acorn workers, if we pay the $500 fine?
I’m pretty sure his comment was directed at the article and the links it was trying to make, not the Census GPS part of it.
Chill, people. Haven’t you heard of Google Maps? Your house’s GPS coordinates have been known for years. This, like most Federal busywork, is duplicative and wasteful and pointless, that’s all.
They want to know exactly who lives where. They can’t track your exact position all the time, but they can know exactly where you call “home”.
“Why” isn’t particularly relevant. It opens up vast new frontiers to prospective tyrants.
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