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In June 2009 Minnesota Congresswoman (R) Michele Bachmann told the Washington Times that her family will not fill out the 2010 census form completely. Instead, they’ll indicate only the number of people in the household. Saying “the Constitution doesn't require any information beyond that," Bachman opposes the “very personal” questions and is concerned about ACORN’s involvement, citing charges of voter registration fraud in multiple states against the agency in the 2008 presidential elections. Pres. Obama has favored ACORN, awarding them $8.4 billion before his first year in office is up. By contrast, ACORN has been given $53 million combined in the past 15 years. Bachmann said, “This is the last organization that should have the taxpayer's wallet open to them but unfortunately, under President Obama, he is multiplying the amount of money available to them.” This amount is disputed by the St. Petersburg Times affiliated fact check site.
“According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bachmann may be in trouble if she fails to fill out the entire census. Spokeswoman Shelly Lowe told the Washington Times that anyone over the age of 18 must fill out all the questions and any such person who refuses to answer ‘any of the questions’ faces a $5,000 fine.” Cbsnews.com, June 18, 2009, by Prerana Swami
One week later on Fox News, the Congresswoman gave another reason to fully complete the census form. She reminded viewers that the U.S. Census in the 1940s played an important role in the rounding up and internment (called “relocating”) of Japanese citizens in “camps” during World War II. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/cens17.shtml “I'm not saying that that's what the Administration is planning to do, but I am saying that private personal information that was given to the Census Bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up, in a violation of their constitutional rights, and put the Japanese in internment camps.” Bachmann has previously warned of the threat of “re-education camps” where young people would be indoctrinated into the government's official philosophy.
While many regard Bachmann as a conspiracy theorist, “the Department of Homeland Security asked the Census Bureau in 2003 for details about where Arab populations live in the United States, receiving detailed information about any town where more than 1000 people from Arabic-speaking countries are living. They also got a multi-hundred-page breakdown by Zip codes of every person who self-identified on the census as Egyptian, Iraqi, Jordanian, Lebanese, Moroccan, Palestinian, Syrian, Arab/Arabic, or ‘Other Arab’.” The Electronic Privacy Information Center discovered this via the Freedom of Information Act and posted the results. EPIC also offers an overview of census privacy.
“A series of academic papers by William Seltzer and Margo Anderson document Census Bureau efforts to both provide confidentiality, and violate it, over the last century. Their paper "Census Confidentiality under the Second War Powers Act (1942-1947)", prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, March 30, 2007, New York, New York, documents actual examples of the Census Bureau revealing both personal and business records during the war hysteria of World War II. In 1943, the Census Bureau looked up and revealed every Japanese citizen or alien in Washington, DC, to the Secret Service.” View here...
"In the detention centers, [Japanese] families lived in substandard housing, had inadequate nutrition and health care, and had their livelihoods destroyed: many continued to suffer psychologically long after their release.” (From Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians)
The census has an even longer history of unconventional or unplanned use: During the Civil War, “General Sherman's march was powered by Southern census data,
according to Erik Larson's book The Naked Consumer (Penguin 1992), 33-4.
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