Census Civil Disobedience

[KBCraig]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-08-26-census-kits-schools_N.htm

Anyone tempted to ignore the 2010 Census will have a tough time doing it — especially if they have kids in school.

The government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents, principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message: The Census is coming and here's why everyone should care.

[Ogre]

Reason #2,511,604 to home school your kids.

[KBCraig]

Reason #2,511,604 to home school your kids.

Out of our five, two completed home school, one survived public school and is now in a private university (he has strong AnCap leanings), the youngest (6) is un-schooled, and one is in public junior high (out of my control, he lives with his mother).

[Friday]

I received a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau, informing me that they're going to be mailing me the U.S. Census.  Gotta love that government efficiency.   

I'm still considering what I'll do with the census when I receive it.  Some ideas are:

1) let my cat Tommy eat it (he loves window envelopes  )
2) burn it
3) line catbox with it
4) wipe bum with it
5) form paper boat out of it and sail it down the Piscataquog River
6) return it marked only with the number of people who reside in my household
7) return it marked with an imaginary number of people who reside in my household

[Lloyd Danforth]

I received a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau, informing me that they're going to be mailing me the U.S. Census.  Gotta love that government efficiency.   

I'm still considering what I'll do with the census when I receive it.  Some ideas are:

1) let my cat Tommy eat it (he loves window envelopes  )
2) burn it
3) line catbox with it
4) wipe bum with it
5) form paper boat out of it and sail it down the Piscataquog River
6) return it marked only with the number of people who reside in my household
7) return it marked with an imaginary number of people who reside in my household

1) Tell the cat it is an IRS form.
4) Papercuts!!!!
7) You could go with a household that has you as 'head' and about 20 males under the age of 21 with last names like Wadd, Huge, Poker, Banger, Backdoor, etc.

[Tom Sawyer]

I realized Saturday the Census Office was next door to where the Concord Porcs meeting at the Chinese Buffet is... just sayin'... It gets me ticked off when they mess with Friday!   


Becky called the Census dude at his house and bitched him out for 20 minutes... it was fun... bet he didn't think the 12 bucks an hour they get is worth it.   

[Pat K]

He's just lucky he did not get hit
with the breast plates of freedom.

[Jim Johnson]

7) return it marked with an imaginary number of people who reside in my household

i^-4     ....if it's just yourself.

[Fluff and Stuff]

I realized Saturday the Census Office was next door to where the Concord Porcs meeting at the Chinese Buffet is... just sayin'... It gets me ticked off when they mess with Friday!   


Becky called the Census dude at his house and bitched him out for 20 minutes... it was fun... bet he didn't think the 12 bucks an hour they get is worth it.   

It is 15 for most of the folks that go door to door, 11 for the folks at the office and 16.5 and up for the bosses.

[Russell Kanning]

i love seeing the baggies hung on the empty houses

we are thinking of just leaving ours on the doorknob

I am thinking of filming myself refusing and asking the feds what they are going to do about it.

[Lloyd Danforth]

I realized Saturday the Census Office was next door to where the Concord Porcs meeting at the Chinese Buffet is... just sayin'... It gets me ticked off when they mess with Friday!   


Becky called the Census dude at his house and bitched him out for 20 minutes... it was fun... bet he didn't think the 12 bucks an hour they get is worth it.   

It is 15 for most of the most that go door to door, 11 for the folks at the office and 16.5 and up for the bosses.

A retired guy here in Grafton is getting 15 bucks an hour just for leaving the questionaire.
He had to walk 3 miles up a snowmobile in Orange to deliver one. We estimated that one at about $45.00!

[KBCraig]

The form we may or may not have received yesterday is covered with a big promise and assurance that the information collected can't be shared with anyone else, including law enforcement agencies. So, it would be impossible to prosecute without breaking the law that requires confidentiality.

[Ogre]

I, too, got the letter warning me that they will be sending the census form. I'll be writing a giant 4 on the form and sending it back. Nothing more. And if they come door-to-door, I will throw them off my property quickly.

I guess what bothers me a lot, too, is the lies they're spreading. According to various ads, if you answer the census, you will get:
1. Tons of free stuff from government
2. Dozens of new schools for your children.
3. Millions of miles of new roads so there will be no traffic.

[Kat Kanning]

"free" stuff...only the money for it is taken from you by force

[Lloyd Danforth]

There is this 'feeble' radio spot for the census.
"You've got 100 students and 20 teachers.  Suddenly(somehow)........you've got 200 students and find yourself without enough teachers!"
Mysteriously, the census that comes out every 10 years is supposed to help you with this.