In just a few days you will be receiving your 2010 census questionnaire. Most of us will only have to fill out the short form with its easy 10 questions. Some have the great privelege to receive the long form. Since I am not one of them, I'll stick to the one we all have to work with at a bare minimum or face anywhere from a $100 to $5000 fine. Checking out the .gov website I found that no-one has ever been fined in the history of that law and through the 2000 Census cycle, they were only able to get about 74% co-operation. What do you want to bet this is the year they start fining people for not filling out at least the short form? $5000? Especially considering the Obama administration has moved the management of this program from under the Commerce Dept. to their own control. Think for a moment what abuses could be facilitated by this move. Its not like there aren't any partisan political opportunities to control the power structure here!? Why else would they attempt to involve the criminal organization known as ACORN?
Have you prepared yourself for this little test of your Constitutionally guaranteed rights? Let's examine those questions and the potential they carry for real immediate and eventual consequences.
Here ae ten questions they are bringing this cycle.
1. How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment, or mobile home on April 1, 2010?
2 Were there any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in question 1?
Mark "X" all that apply.
Children, such as newborn babies or foster children
Relatives, such as adult children, cousins, or in-laws
Nonrelatives, such as roommates or live-in baby sitters
People staying here temporarily
No additional people
3 Is this house, apartment, or mobile home ---
Mark "X" ONE box.
Owned by you or someone in this household with a mortgage or loan? Include home equity loans.
Owned by you or someone in this household free and clear (without a mortgage or loan)?
Rented?
Occupied without payment of rent?
4 What is your telephone number? We may call if we don't understand an answer.
Area Code + Number
5 Please provide information for each person living here. Start with a person living here who owns or rents this house, apartment, or mobile home. If the owner or renter lives somewhere else, start with any adult living here. This will be Person 1.
Last Name
First Name MI
6 What is Person 1's sex? Mark "X" ONE box.
Male Female
7 What is Person 1's age and what is Person 1's date of birth?
Please report babies as age 0 when the child is less than 1 year old.
Age on April 1, 2010 Month Day Year of birth
8 Is Person 1 of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?
No, not of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin
Yes, Mexican, Mexican Am., Chicano
Yes, Puerto Rican
Yes, Cuban
Yes, another Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin -- Print origin, for example, Argentinean, Columbian, Dominican Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Spaniard, and so on.
9 What is Person 1's race? Mark "X" one or more boxes.
White
Black, African Am., or Negro
American Indian or Alaska Native -- Print name of enrolled or principal tribe.
Asian Indian Japanese Native Hawaiian
Chinese Korean Guamanian or Chamorro
Filipino Vietnamese Samoan
Other Asian -- Print race, for example, Other Pacific Islander -- Print race, for example, Fijan, Tongan,
Hmong, Laotian, Thai, Pakistani, and so on.
Cambodian, and so on.
Some other race -- Print race.
10 Does Person 1 sometimes live or stay somewhere else?
No Yes -- Mark "X" all that apply.
In college housing For child custody
In the military In jail or prison
At a seasonal or second residence For another reason
If more people were counted in Question 1, continue with Person 2.
These are the questions on the form they want you to fill out but it does not indicate the information the Census takers will be collecting aside from the form. For instance, they will also be collecting global positioning system coordinates for your house.
In the spirit of Glenn Beck's advice to ask hard questions, to make government representatives be accountable to you their constituents and like Jerry Day, at my house it will be the census takers answering the questions. Here is my list of questions they will need to answer before I will tell them anything more than the Constitution prescribes. Namely, "How many people live at this residence?" They don't need to know my race, my income level, my age, my telephone number, where I work and what I do at that job, what are my disabilities, how much my house cost, how many cars I own. All they need to know is how many constituents they are serving. I'm tired of having this information used to increase entitlement programs, to grow big government, and to steal my hard earned wealth only to return with ever more regulation of my behavior.
Questions:
1 I have a copy of the Constitution right here, can you tell me which part authorizes you to demand private information from me?
2 The Constitution authorizes you to count people, but it does not authorize you to take private information or even the names of individuals. From where does the Census Bureau derive authorization to demand our private information?
3 Is there any limit to the amount and type of information the Census Bureau may demand and collect?
4 What is the Census Bureau's authority to collect private information from 250,000 people every month of every year?
5 The Fourth Amendment prohibits the search and seizure of private information without a court warrant based on probable cause. Current Census policies violate that amendment, do they not?
6 By what constitutional authority does the Census Bureau threaten penalties for failing to provide personal information?
7 The Census Bureau claims it maintains privacy of personal information. Are there any circumstances under which law enforcement or spy agencies can access Census information?
8 Presumably, Census data can be subpoenaed by law enforcement, may citizens refuse to answer questions according to the fifth amendment?
9 Why has the Census Bureau decided to collect GPS coordinates for every home?
10 Virtually every government database has either been lost, hacked, or compromised, would the Census Bureau's claim of data security not be an outright lie, or at best, highly improbable?
11 How would the Census Bureau locate, protect, and compensate those individuals who's data becomes compromised?
I think we should all spend the next couple of posts investigating how the census data is used by government to reverse the roles we (representatives and their constituents) were assigned by our Constitution.
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