> From: The Extremist <the_extremist@mindspring.com>
>
> The U.S. Constitution calls for a census of the population in:
> Article 1: Section 2: Clause 3:
> The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first
> Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every
> subsequent Term of ten Years, Representatives and direct Taxes shall
> be apportioned among the several States which may be included
> within this Union, according to their respective Numbers,...
>
> A head count to determine the make-up of the House of Representatives is
> all that is required by the Constitution.....All the rest of the questions
> on the Census are intrusive, racist, un-Constitutional and none of their
> business.  They are questions that would provide the socialists with
> information to further their welfare state.  If you feel it's your duty to
> aid the government in this census, then answer the head count and ignore
> all the other questions. Otherwise boycott it completely.
> applying what Patrick Henry said:
> "The constitution is not an instrument for government to restrain the
> people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government
> -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
> In other words, the Constitution requires the government take a Census, it
> does NOT require the people to cooperate.  Live Free or Die.
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> -begin article-
> Boycotting the Census
> by William Cooper
>
> VNS Exclusive - March 10, 2000 - The Constitution mandates that
> the federal government conduct a census of the population every 10
> years. A census is a head count. Over the years it has been corrupted
> into something else altogether. Most of the questions asked on the
> census form are much more than intrusive. Most of the questions have
> absolutely nothing to do with counting our population. Instead it
> appears that someone is building a gigantic database on each
> American Citizen. And the advertising campaign supposedly designed
> to solicit cooperation with census takers is actually an appeal to
> participate in Marxist socialism on a grande scale.
>
> Most Americans have willingly participated in the census in past
> years. Well... all that seems to have changed. Americans, angry at the
> emergence of a police-state, and fed up generally with all the
> government intrusion into their lives, are actively boycotting this
> census. Even those we would call sheople are refusing to participate.
>
> In the area where I live so many People have slammed doors in
> census-takers faces that they have given up. Now they move down
> the street estimating the answers to questions, and filling out each
> form, for each house they pass, themselves. Sometimes they leave a
> bag of material attached to a doorknob, but face to face interaction
> with the People of this valley just isn't happening anymore.
>
> There is nothing wrong with the attitude and action, or lack thereof, of
> those who do not wish to participate. The constitutional mandate is
> that the federal government conduct a census. The federal government
> must do that to the best of its ability. But, lacking jurisdiction within
> the territorial boundaries of the several States, the federal government
> has no power to demand that any Citizen of any State participate in
> helping them complete their task. Laws requiring participation would
> have to be passed by State's legislatures in order to force
> participation.
>
> Are you going to help them complete the census, including answering
> all those big-brother intrusive questions? I will be happy to tell the
> census-taker how many People live in this house, but nothing more. I
> will not give them any names, and I will not answer any other
> question. Like so many others I became fed up with the
> unconstitutional actions and unconscionable intrusion of the federal
> government into my life a long time ago.
>
> I don't know what all this means, but if it's what it appears... the
> pendulum may be starting to swing. Throughout history extreme social
> moves to the so-called left or right have always produced a backlash
> with a corresponding swing in the opposite direction. The Marxist
> big-brother, police-state trend of the last two decades may have
> reached a peak. The boycott of the census may be the first major
> indication that a backlash is underway. Of course it could also be an
> indication that another social engineering project along the lines of
> Oklahoma City may be on the horizon. Only time will tell.
> -end article-