ZOMG CENSUS IS GOING TO END AMERICA AND FREEDOM AND STUFF

ib1yysguy

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APnfPnqwv9c"]YouTube - Bachmann Warns Of Link Between Census, Japanese Internment[/ame]

The right has totally gone off the deep end.
 
i have to actually agree with her. the government doesn't need to know any damn thing about my family and home other than how many live there.
 
So you are aginast capatilistic businesses using that information to make money and boost the economy?

What have you got to hide? If you have nothing to hide. Kind of reminds me of the fatherland security supporters.

Although the results may be a bit dismal considering the recession.
 
i have to actually agree with her. the government doesn't need to know any damn thing about my family and home other than how many live there.

The government doesn't know any thing about you specifically. The census is anonymous. You can refuse to file it if you want. It asks those other questions because good statistics on economy, population etc... are needed to form public policy, and are useful in other situations as well. You don't have to answer them, but they're never traced back to you anyway, so you're just hurting America by refusing to do so.
 
All they need to know is how many people live in my household, and that is all they are going to get...I live alone, but I think I will tell the Acorn worker, 15 people live here...just to give them a thrill...
 
All they need to know is how many people live in my household, and that is all they are going to get...

No, they don't need to no that. They don't "need" to know anything. Is the information useful in making government policy? Yes. You're not getting back at anyone but the American people for refusing to give answers to the other completely anonymous questions.

I don't think I'm going to file a census this time around, because it means Mississippi counts as having one less person for congressional redistricting purposes.
 
I don't know what you're talking about.

Oh, that's right, ib1, you have no idea what he's talking about do you?

Does [ame="http://forum.vgcats.com//showthread.php?t=8814"]THIS[/ame] look familiar to you at all?

Yes, deny it if you like but there is the proof that you, sir, are nothing but a pale imitation of 'Roger RS' from the 'VG Cats forum'.
 
Oh, that's right, ib1, you have no idea what he's talking about do you?

Does THIS look familiar to you at all?

Yes, deny it if you like but there is the proof that you, sir, are nothing but a pale imitation of 'Roger RS' from the 'VG Cats forum'.

Damo, I demand that you ban Charver for revealing my secret identity.
 
It's true that Hoover's FBI abused the Census system and seized data in between 1939 and 1941 because of wartime paranoia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census#Historical_FBI_abuses_of_census_data

However,

In 1980 FBI agents went to the Census Bureau's Colorado Springs office with warrants to seize Census documents, but were forced to leave with nothing. Courts upheld that no agency, including the FBI, has access to Census data.


Yeah right, try putting down you main income as selling child porn and see how long before they kick your door down.
 
If you put that down on your tax records there would be an investigation. If you put it down on the census form they couldn't do anything about it because census is not something you can use to investigate people with; and rightly so. If someone wrote down "selling child porn" on their census and the government kicked their door down it would be an unbelievable violation of privacy, and whoever ordered the warrant and allowed access to the forms should be fired, fined, and prohibited from public service ever again.

do you actually believe that is how it would work out?
 
The Census is a catch 22.

You are not allowed to lie on it under penalty of law, but it cannot be used for anything but census purposes.
 
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