At 02:22 PM 03/20/2000 -0600, Tracey Levin wrote:
>The Constitution empowers the government to count the number of
>Americans, but it does not give it the power to ask any number of
>questions and threaten the citizens if they do not answer them. That is
>typical of the wacko left that is in power only for a few more months.
This census is about the same as the Reagan/Bush Presidency's census.
The differences between then and now are primarily which racial
and ethnic groups are being targeted for "enhanced collection"
and what the politically correct terms are to describe them with,
though you get to pick more than one ethnic group for them to
discriminate against you for. ("Oh, he's a Cuban/Jamaican -
we can deport him _twice_, and maybe drug-profile him also!")
I don't know if the Long Even More Intrusive Version asks about
Internet access or cable TV as well as how many bathrooms and telephones
you've got, but the 2010 version will unless it gets stomped
(or unless they can collect that information more easily from Doubleclick.)
>Though we are not being told much about the number of complaints being
>sent to D.C., one congressman recently stated that in one day, the White
>House had received over 600,000 complaints. Keep those fones ringing!
Some buron was just on CSPAN whining that the Congresscritters have had
2-3 years with the exact text of the questionnaires available to them,
so why are they complaining about it NOW, a week before the forms are due?
"Eternal Vigilance Is The Price Of Liberty" was supposed to be about
_us_ watching the _government_, not the other way around.
Thanks!
Bill
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