The Angry White Guy

Rep. Michele Bachmann vows not to complete Census

Posted June 19th 2009 at 11:03 pm by AWG

Minn. lawmaker vows not to complete Census

In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times “America’s Morning News,” Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become “very intricate, very personal” and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau’s door-to-door information collection efforts.

She sent a portion of the U.S. legal code that says anyone over 18 years of age who refuses to answer “any of the questions” on the census can be fined up to $5,000.

You know in 2000 I worked the census as a field leader and I went many places in the south to straighten things out and get them up to speed and while I trust the census in 2000 I’m not so sure I’d trust the 2010 census with ACORN, Obama and the democrats involved and I agree with Michele Bachmann on not telling the census anything more than the number of people in my house. They don’t need to know my race, my DOB and BTW the census worker cannot ASSUME your race or age, if you are so white you disappear in the snow bank and have sky blue eyes you can tell the census worker your African-Chinese and that’s what they have to put down. So I can say “decline to answer” and they have to leave it blank.

But you’re think … you can’t do that you’ll go to jail.
Yeah, right.

First the 5th Amendment entitles you to “liberty” and there is the 4th Amendment which says…

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures…” Now if I think that a census worker is a member of ACORN which is known for hiring convicted felons caught in ID theft rings than I’d say that would cause me not to be secure in my persons, houses, papers, and effects and the census could be considered a “unreasonable search” and therefore I can use the 4th Amendment to refuse to comply and the 5th Amendment to preserve my liberty.

FYI – If you look at old census from the 1800′s the only information they had was the “Head of Household” and the number of people in the home with their general age range and that was it and as a genealogist I can tell you they are valuable information to have, but with the Chicago thugocracy in Washington future family historians might have a hard time getting information from 2010.

Now some good news is that the census is using the short form only for 2010 if you opt to answer all the questions, the long form was the one that caused so much heart ache and head aches in 2000 as I thought even as a census worker it was a tad to intrusive, but if they are going to have ACORN working on it I can see why they need the short form for those from ACORN that rode the short bus.

Anyway I haven’t decided what I’m doing yet, nor have I decided if I’m going to work the census or not. Well see.

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