Census Worker Murdered

When a Census worker was found dead in Kentucky last year, Rick Ungar proclaimed “Send the Body to Glenn Beck” and Andrew Sullivan suspected “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts.”
Bill Sparkman’s death turned out to be suicide.
So, who’s to blame for killing Census workers now?
A U.S. Census Bureau [...]

Q: ‘How Many Right-Wing Extremists Currently Reside at This Address?’

Really, these Census questions have become so intrusive . . .

The lady from the Census Bureau stopped by yesterday, thanks to my personal effort to stimulate employment: Don’t fill out the mail-in form, so they have to send an enumerator to the house.
Your tax dollars at work — temporarily, at least.
Despite the concerns of Andrew [...]

Question 9 — “Some other race” — “American”

by Smitty
Mark Krikorian offers a perfectly legal, sensible, and proper means of answering the Census Bureau’s race question. Say you’re American, if that is what you are.
Racism* is DNA-based decision making. We must oppose it, and also the data gathering that supports and perpetuates it.
*Sexism, too.

What Is The Appropriate Level Of Census Participation?

by Smitty
Via Drudge, the AP has an interesting bit on the Patriot Act vs. the Census:
In a letter to Congress, the Obama administration provided its legal position that census data cannot be disclosed under the Patriot Act, the nation’s main counterterrorism law. The government has previously given legal assurances the information will not be used [...]