Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Census is Getting Personal



This five-minute video explains that, under the Constitution, the government may only count how many live in a particular place. Today's census, however, asks a lot of personal questions for which they have no constitutional authority. Can you refuse to share personal information? So far, the government has no answer for that question.

4 comments:

  1. Mr. Caruba, it has been my plan all along for the Census, is to answer nothing but this: Pursuant to Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, we are hereby informing you there are three people in our household, two of whom are voting age.
    That is all I plan on saying or writing. Anything else is non Constitutional and NONE of their business! God Bless! :-)

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  2. That's all they're getting from me, too.

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  3. Hey Alan! I am actually considering an act of civil disobedience on the whole census thing. I'm not going to fill anything out and when the ACORN guy shows up at my door, I plan to burn the census form in front of him. It seems to me that the whole thing is all about compliance, do it because "they" say so. I guess I don't do too well being bossed around ;)

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  4. MM: Just tell them how many people live in the house/apartment with you and that is all the Constitution requires.

    After that, wave a copy of it in front of them and ask them to tell you where they get the authority to ask you anything else.

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