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You Have the Right to Remain Silent

by Kerry Thomas

March 18, 2010

How much of your private information are you going to give to a total stranger this year?

Your government is spending millions of your tax dollars trying to convince you to voluntarily reveal all sorts of otherwise private information about yourself and everyone who lives in your home, all as part of the census.

You do have to tell these government bureaucrats how many people live in your home. But that’s all. The Constitution requires an enumeration, nothing more. And the reason for such an enumeration is to apportion seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution requires “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, in such manner as they shall by law direct.”

Yes, Congress has the power to direct the manner in which the enumeration is taken. But they are only Constitutionally empowered to take an enumeration. Any other questions are extraneous.

Under our Constitution, you don’t have to answer any question about your mortgage. You don’t have to answer any questions about your name, your age, your sex, your race, or your employment. You don’t have to answer any questions about your income, your employer, or what time you leave for work each day.

The Census Bureau has a catchy little Obama-esque slogan for their multi-million dollar ad campaign about “We can’t move forward until you mail it back.” Move forward? With what? The fundamental transformation of America?

The Census Bureau is also sending out what they’re calling an American Community Survey, which asks even more invasive questions about you and your lifestyle. They say they need this information in order to plan future community projects and to ensure adequate government services.

If you do answer any of these extraneous questions, you had better get them all right. You can be charged with perjury if you give false answers. It’s unfortunate, but most of this information is already in a public database somewhere, be it your local zoning office, voter registration rolls, or even the phone book.

Ironically, one salient question that is not on any of the census forms is whether or not you are a U.S. citizen.

The bureaucratic peons who come to your door asking these invasive questions will tell you that refusing to answer these questions could result in a $5,000 fine. They will cite a federal law that compels you answer these questions.

In 2000, I placed a note on my front door for the census takers, in which I disclosed the number of persons living in my house. When the census takers knocked on my door, they asked if the note was for them. I answered, “Yes.” They asked if I refused to answer any more of their questions. I answered, “Yes.” They thanked me and walked away. So I can truthfully say I answered every question the census takers asked of me.

In the entire 220 year history of the U.S. census, there has been exactly one person charged in connection with refusing to cooperate with the census. It was in the 1960’s and he was charged not with refusing to answer the questions but with perjury for giving false answers.

You see, there’s a little thing called the Fifth Amendment, which ensures your right to due process and says you can’t be compelled to testify against yourself. Every trained law enforcement officer knows you have the right to remain silent. Even terrorists are given Miranda rights.

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VILAS COUNTY REPUBLICANS MOVIE NIGHT

The Vilas County Republicans will be holding their monthly meeting
Monday, March 22nd at the Wild Eagle Lodge
Chain o’ Lakes Road in Eagle River
6:30 P.M.

We’re trying something different–MOVIE NITE–
We will be showing the film “THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE RADICALS.”

This movie will examine some of the unelected czars and their influence on our country. Every conservative who cares about the US Constitution will want to attend.

In addition, you can meet the new officers for 2010:
Jim Knuth–chairman, Presque Isle
Kim Simac–first vice chairman, Eagle River
Jeff Kirschmann– second vice chairman, Eagle River
Mary Lou Hake–secretary, Conover
Jim Lynn–Eagle River, Treasurer

More about the movie, “The Obama White House Radicals” - Click Here

– shared by Mark Levin, noting a year-long celebration in honor of Ronald Reagan’s 100th Birthday - Click for More

As numerous “Story of Stuff” videos were being shown across the USA in classrooms, L Doren developed critiques including this one to debunk the Cap & Trade Story. Indoctrination is alive and well so please ask questions of your teachers, school board and administrators. It’s up to us.

More critiques can be found on Doren’s YouTube Channel.

Is this the prescription for job growth that you’d recommend?  Please share your ideas for government’s role in job creation in comments below this article.

White House jobs forum focuses on job creation

By The Associated Press (AP) – 1 day ago

Participants in President Barack Obama’s jobs forum Thursday broke into six groups to discuss job creation strategies. Summaries of the discussions in each group.

Creating Jobs by Rebuilding Infrastructure

President Barack Obama told more than 20 labor, industry, and local officials that government faces a dilemma when it tries to use highway, rail, aviation and other infrastructure projects to create jobs.

The “tension,” said Obama, is between projects that can put people to work quickly, which tend to be upkeep and repair work, and the more “visionary” projects that require planning and time to implement but don’t produce jobs as fast.

Obama responded warmly to endorsements from several participants of a national infrastructure bank, a concept he backed on the campaign trail. Such a bank would use public and private capital to fund projects. Obama said the bank would take politics out of the project selection process and “leverage private sector dollars that are right now sitting on the sidelines.”

Gerard Arpey, chairman of American Airlines and AMR Corp., made a pitch for more funding for a new air traffic control system based on GPS technology instead of World War II-era radar technology.

The Federal Aviation Administration anticipates spending $15 billion to $22 billion on the “NextGen” program, which is expected to be completed around 2020. But FAA’s plans also call for airlines to shell out an additional $14 billion to $20 billion to install equipment their planes would need to use the new system. Airlines, many of which are in financial trouble, want the government to pick up the entire tab for a new air traffic control system.

Green Jobs of the Future

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An article published back in February 2009 is resurfacing due to its clear and precise explanation of how the Cloward/Piven Strategy of creating and managing crisis is dictating the actions of our federal government.  Please read this article carefully, reread, and come to see the motivations behind our government’s actions.  Under their plans, the end justifies the means.   

The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery

February 07, 2009, American Thinker
By Nancy Coppock

Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation… [Emphasis added.]

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