Post by RS Davis on Aug 2, 2004 9:43:02 GMT -5
"Invasion of the Privacy Snatchers"
by Garry Reed
That Rascal Republican Representative Ron Paul from the Republic of Texas is at it again. This time he's warning us about a brain-sucking mindcrawler known as the American Community Survey. For those too young or too new to libertarianism to know, Dr. Paul was the Libertarian Party's presidential pick in 1988. Before and since then he's been a libertarian in Republican clothing. He's known as "Dr. No" in Congress because he's a card-carrying Constitutionalist.
The American Community Survey is the FedGov's workaround for the deeply despised Boston Tea Party inspiring long form that some citizens were saddled with during the last Great Invasion of the Census Snoopers.
Only worse.
Rep Ron, who tried to fight off its funding, describes this 24-page monstrosity as a multimillion dollar marketing research rip-off, conducted coercively by Congress on behalf of big business at the expense of you and me.
The questions on this cross-exam are ludicrous, insulting, intrusive and, as Rep Ron puts it so rightly (and much more politely than I), "is none of the government’s business."
Which will not, of course, dissuade the Department of Domestic Spying from fining us up to $1,000 for every unanswered query. I don't know how many solicitations of private particulars there are per page, but at 24 pages per pop very few of us can afford to shove this sheaf of grief into the craw of our personal shredders like all the other junk mail that trespasses our portals.
There's no shame in shirking from a skirmish that can't be won. There's also no shame in dishing a little civil disobedience. If they want to treat us like children, we ought to oblige them by acting out.
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by Garry Reed
That Rascal Republican Representative Ron Paul from the Republic of Texas is at it again. This time he's warning us about a brain-sucking mindcrawler known as the American Community Survey. For those too young or too new to libertarianism to know, Dr. Paul was the Libertarian Party's presidential pick in 1988. Before and since then he's been a libertarian in Republican clothing. He's known as "Dr. No" in Congress because he's a card-carrying Constitutionalist.
The American Community Survey is the FedGov's workaround for the deeply despised Boston Tea Party inspiring long form that some citizens were saddled with during the last Great Invasion of the Census Snoopers.
Only worse.
Rep Ron, who tried to fight off its funding, describes this 24-page monstrosity as a multimillion dollar marketing research rip-off, conducted coercively by Congress on behalf of big business at the expense of you and me.
The questions on this cross-exam are ludicrous, insulting, intrusive and, as Rep Ron puts it so rightly (and much more politely than I), "is none of the government’s business."
Which will not, of course, dissuade the Department of Domestic Spying from fining us up to $1,000 for every unanswered query. I don't know how many solicitations of private particulars there are per page, but at 24 pages per pop very few of us can afford to shove this sheaf of grief into the craw of our personal shredders like all the other junk mail that trespasses our portals.
There's no shame in shirking from a skirmish that can't be won. There's also no shame in dishing a little civil disobedience. If they want to treat us like children, we ought to oblige them by acting out.
Click here for more...
