It’s great that communities who seldom get much representation are stepping up to embrace the census. I hear Michele Bachman and her conspiracy pals have had such a big impact on the tea-baggers in Texas that they aren’t returning their census forms in droves; which means they run the risk of losing some Republican seats to re-districting! Pity.
Can we start rumors…?
-Completing the census means the Gov Ops team will come and take your guns!
Completing the census means that you will be enrolled in Socialist, government-run ObamaCare!
-Completing the census indicates that you support gay marriage! (clearly, after this PSA)
-Completing the ethnicity part of the census means that you can be easily identified when the illegal aliens take over
-Completing the census means you can be easily identified when the aliens take over
That should lose Texas some seats.
It is a fact that authoritarian governments like to make lists of the people under their control. History shows this to be true.
The only CONSTITUTIONAL basis for the census is a headcount to determine governmental representation. That doesn’t mean the rest of the questions are illegal …
BUT
The fourth amendment to our federal constitution reads:
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.
Requiring I submit to what is literally a search of my personal information does, in my opinion, violate constitutional premise. The reality that the US courts have upheld the constitutionality of the modern census doesn’t change my view … after all our own US Supreme Court literally appointed dumbya bush to the presidency in direct violation of constitutional directives.
The census is not a take it all or leave it all situation. We need to restrain our governments, and one way to restrain them is keep that constitutional barrier between us.
It’s great that communities who seldom get much representation are stepping up to embrace the census. I hear Michele Bachman and her conspiracy pals have had such a big impact on the tea-baggers in Texas that they aren’t returning their census forms in droves; which means they run the risk of losing some Republican seats to re-districting! Pity.
Can we start rumors…?
-Completing the census means the Gov Ops team will come and take your guns!
Completing the census means that you will be enrolled in Socialist, government-run ObamaCare!
-Completing the census indicates that you support gay marriage! (clearly, after this PSA)
-Completing the ethnicity part of the census means that you can be easily identified when the illegal aliens take over
-Completing the census means you can be easily identified when the aliens take over
That should lose Texas some seats.
It is a fact that authoritarian governments like to make lists of the people under their control. History shows this to be true.
The only CONSTITUTIONAL basis for the census is a headcount to determine governmental representation. That doesn’t mean the rest of the questions are illegal …
BUT
The fourth amendment to our federal constitution reads:
Requiring I submit to what is literally a search of my personal information does, in my opinion, violate constitutional premise. The reality that the US courts have upheld the constitutionality of the modern census doesn’t change my view … after all our own US Supreme Court literally appointed dumbya bush to the presidency in direct violation of constitutional directives.
The census is not a take it all or leave it all situation. We need to restrain our governments, and one way to restrain them is keep that constitutional barrier between us.