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Heads up!
They have already been GPSing in our neighborhood here in Charlotte, NC. One pulled into a cul de sac up in the Lincolnton area and started asking a friend of mine what he kept in his storage building. My friend ran him off!
Someone should post what info the constitution requires us to tell the census bozos. I believe we only have to say how many people live at our residence. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
Lock and load.
Anyone on the exact rights one has when being questioned for the Census?
It’s required for the constitution but I believe only to establish the exact count of the people at a residence.
Do you have to give them access to your property?
Do you have to answer all their questions?
Can you throw them off your property?
What is their ability to retaliate?
Anyone?
So I’ll say it for you. We will never see another free election until after the next American civil War. It will require defiance and revolution: swift, brutal and final. No quarter, no prisoners. No mercy. No remorse.
We’re headed for a historical fork in the road that once taken, cannot be reversed.
One fork leads to a restored American Republic and generations of healing and reconcilation for the terrible things that must be done to achieve that restoration. Those whose freedom restored and guaranteed will in time come to understand us, forgive us, and grant us our place in history.
The other fork leads to a new Dark Ages. A total crash of Western civilization. These monsters would rather rule as barbarians on top of a stinking pile of ruins and corpses than let us alone to live in peace.
I told them I was NOT a US citizen, the broad said anyone in the USA that was asked, had to give census information...
Who's there?
ACORN
Get the f*ck off my porch!
They show up at my door and...well, to paraphrase Lynyrd Skynyrd: I'll give them three steps towards the property line. After that, I'm coming for them as trespassers who have been warned off. If they don't immediately proceed off my property without question or hesitation, I'll assume they have hostile intent towards me and/or my family, and take appropriate action.
And it helps to bear in mind how the Great Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified Japanese for internment after Pearl Harbor. By Executive Order, he made the confidential, personal information from the then-current Census available to the FBI who scrutinized it for Japanese surnames.
The precedent is there for abuse.
Today, the controlling law for the U.S. Census is Title 13 of the U.S. Code. There is a lot of census data collected in the United States today, such as economic figures, sales and production figures, and agricultural statistics. Still, the head count is the only part of the census that is called for by the Constitution. The code for the enumeration can be found in 13 USC 141. In this code, the census is directed to be taken in 1980 and every ten years thereafter, and that the count is to be taken on April 1. The returns must be completed within nine months for use in apportionment of representatives. The code also specifies a mid-decade census be taken in 1985 and every ten years thereafter. This count need not be a head count (sampling may be used) though the data cannot be used for apportionment.
The code, at §141(g), notes that "As used in this section, 'census of population' means a census of population, housing, and matters relating to population and housing."
There are fines for non-response and for false response as well, though the amount has risen from the 1790's $20. Today failure to respond can result in a $100 fine; providing false answers is a more severe offense, and carries a $500 fine. Recent news reports, however, indicate that punishment for failure to respond is not usually enforced. The controlling section of the Code is 13 USC 221.
Today, all persons are counted as whole persons - the original census counted "other persons" (slaves) as three-fifths persons for the purposes of apportionment. This fractionalization was removed by the 14th Amendment. The Attorney General ruled, in 1940, that there were no longer any Indians in the United States who could be classified as "not taxed." In the Constitution, non-taxed Indians are not counted.
In 2000, a group of citizens are suing the Census over the questions on the long form - a form sent to one out of every six households. Though the 2000 log form is 18 questions shorter than the long form in 1990, and the shortest since the 1940 census, distrust of the Census Bureau's ability to keep the data private have many people up in arms about the questions. The suit challenges the ability of the census to ask all of the questions asked. The biggest problem for the suit is the Constitution itself: "[The Census] shall be made ... in such Manner as [Congress] shall by Law direct."
The questions on the long form are there because of legislation duly enacted into law by the Congress and signed by the President. Though the ire of citizens is being directed at the Bureau, the Bureau itself says that the Congress is to blame. The Census Bureau is looking to find ways to collect the data on the long form in other manners, such as polling and sampling. Though there is a possible $100 fine for failing to file with the Census, the Bureau also notes that no one has been penalized for failing to file in the past. The fine is more of a psychological reminder of the importance of the census than a source of income for the government.
Advice to leave the form blank or to fail to fill it in may actually bring more of the government into your life than you want - unfiled and incomplete forms will be followed-up upon by actual census workers, either in person or by telephone.
The U.S. Census Bureau has a web site at Census.gov and also has lots of data about the 2000 Census.
The 2000 census data, along with data from other sources, has been compiled into a user-friendly web-based database by LocalCensus.com.
I’m not telling them sh*t. All you have to answer is how many people live in your home. Answer that and tell them to get lost.
Obama— if anything —is nothing short of brilliant.
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LOL LOL. He is far from brilliant. He follows orders well, PERIOD.
He is anything but brilliant. People need to understand obama and his minions,are not intellectually superior! They are brain washed,ignorant,desperate LOOSERS! We all have options. We sold our home 3 years ago and made the decision to rent. Therefore,we can always move! We will move if we feel targeted.
BTTT
We ALL have much to fear with the Dems in power, but let's read everything with a grain of salt. There already are GPS coordinates for our homes now. I use a GPS to drive; all I'd have to do is punch in your address for directions. If you'd want a closer look at a house, all you'd have to do is check the satellite picture available to anyone online.
So, I don't see why the feds have to go through the trouble of obtaining information already available to everyone...?
We shouldn't trust the census without questioning it; and I'm angry that the gov't is spending money on unnecessary GPS handhelds for census workers. But, we shouldn't trust these types of articles without question, either.