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Secondly, there are many options to pick on the racial background question and you are allowed to mark as many boxes as you would like. There is even an “other” option.

Lastly, your religious views are not the census bureau’s concern, as they are not asking a question pertaining to religious views on the 2010 census.

Bachmann is simply being using her “shock and awe” tactics get attention and thoroughly confuse us all.

Even my family does not know anything about my religious beliefs and would consider it rude to ask, so why would the government need to know.

Also, I have never condidered myself as a paticular race – I’m just a mixture of other mixed generations with whitish skin, so what’s the big deal about choosing a race – aren’t we all equal?????

She’s worried about a freaking census but didn’t say anything when Bush/Cheney started illegally spying on 300,000,000 Americans?

I’ll take that bet. Bachmann is a fundamentalist fool. She truly believes her bullshit. While she was a state representative her focus was “The Gay.” In her view Gays had an agenda and her job was to stop it. There was a rally at the state Capitol once where Bachmann was caught hiding behind some bushes peering out at the “gays” gathered there.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×4258101

In another incident she filed a report saying that she had been held hostage in the ladies room at a village hall in her district. She thought that two lesbian women were out to get her. This link lists some that I’d forgotten. Its well worth reading.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-05-04/rep-michele-bachmannrsquos-wackiest-moments/2/

Don’t try to teach a pig to sing – it only annoys the pig.

And as the dude points out – there is a massive amount of information that the credit bureaus gather with almost no oversight.

I haven’t seen a denial that the census was used to enable roundup Japanese-Americans during WWII.

So it appears to be true that the census data can be abused.

From what a relative said who helped round up Japanese people, most of the information was provided by the immigration services at the time (I don’t know the exact name of immigration services during that time period, as it has changed since). They provided lists of immigrants and their families.

From my readings specifically of a camp diary, a boy’s father was accused of being a Japanese conspirator, when he was actually Chinese, and his mother was Japanese. They were apprehended and shipped there due to his fathers business dealings and not his ancestry.

Reports of that time also suggested that many immigrants failed to register with the census for fear of pogroms similar to Russia’s, Japan’s or China’s (under Britain). Many of the camp’s residents were unregistered aliens making them victims of occurrence and not of the census. Because of the Alien registration act, which was fundamentally apart from the census, officers were allowed to apprehend aliens who did not have registration cards, allowing them to gather data separately from any census. When the exclusions were set, forcing all Japanese Americans to flee, it did not require any personal information, as it only required the suggestion of Japanese blood, either by sight, organization involvement or neighbor complaints, which is why there were a few Chinese Americans and Korean Americans caught up in the internment camps. The whole involvement of the census was rather cursory, as it was only partially utilized by the FBI to formulate their codex, with a majority of it developed through domestic wiretaps and spying, and the US Attorney at the time put the kabosh on that codex as he said it was illegal.

For the most part the census has been a red herring in the case of Japanese internment because it has always been a source of fear mongering among hot bloods, racists and isolationists. They’ve used the fear to prevent people from being counted. they did it to black people in the South during the Jim Crow era, they did it to Mexicans in Texas, and the Southwest states, they are trying to do it to the Hispanic immigrants now, and for some reason they are doing it to themselves. They use the example of these internment camps to rouse suspicion in the unwary and uninformed, mostly because they have found that in the south there is an unequal split among the undereducated, with a greater majority of liberal sympathizers, and by keeping the whole group down they guarantee that the larger portion does not influence federal money, nor do they gain power. It’s a plan that has been used by several parties since the 1700’s including the republicans and the democrats.

The census could never be used to identify people anyways as the information is separated within the first few rounds of dissemination, and your name is theoretically no longer connected to your info. At this stage, any complaint about the census is fundamentally retarded as your credit report holds more information

But, in addition to your efforts, what is the answer? How do we get our politicians to actually make decisions based on their own judgement (the way is was meant to be) and not the herding we see within the parties?

Article V of the United States Constitution: Specifically “on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution”. This requires a lot of work, but if that amendment imposed by individual states includes wording to the effect that congressmen shall be beholden to their own state for monetary replenishment, or remuneration including all insurance funds, you may find that congressmen will stop acting on the will of the party throughout the US, and only on the will of the party within the individual state, or more at the will of the state legislation. Better yet if wages were set by state quorum you’d definitely see politicians working for their districts needs more than the needs of the national party.

we both know this will never happen but one can dream…

May you all rot in hell!

Dibs on Circle #2.

As for being concerned about the govt running our lives, I have far more concern about Wall St, insurance companies, and health care non-govt organizations running, and ruining my life. Who should I trust, the salaried govt person or the overpaid insurance company that decides my health care based on maximizing profits?