[mewzilla]

And FWIW....

Opinion: The Myth of Census Data Confidentiality

[ctdonath2]

The “confidentiality” is a matter of a simple majority.
Took Congress 4 days to go from Pearl Harbor to using Census data to round up citizens for incarceration based on race.
“Stroke of a pen, law of the land. Pretty cool.”

[La Enchiladita]

There was a 1976 Senate Report which slated 26,000 Americans for being rounded up by the FBI in the event of a national emergency at the height of the cold war.

Unlike other assertions made by Bill Lindner, the author of the blog entry, no link or documentation is provided for this. Also, looking through Lindner's info and biblio, he seems like an Art-Bell-Coast-to-Coast kind of guy: conspiracies everywhere!!!!