Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 03:05:20 -0700
From: murphy@MYBLUEHEAVEN.COM (Phil Murphy)
Subject: Fwd: Sinsus
To: LIBERTARIANS-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU


In case you've forgotten...

No, I don't have $100 to pay the fine, but they're getting *exactly* what
the Constitution requires. Two residents. That's it.

If all of you haven't seen the Fed's never-ending television ad campaign
threatening the talking monkeys with "unnatural financial disaster" if they
don't answer the census, you have missed out the single most disgusting
Marxist sales pitch in America's history.

Not since FDR's reign has there ever been a more blatant campaign intended
to sell the talking monkeys the idea that WE NEED GOVERNMENT TO TAKE OUR
MONEY AND REDISTRIBUTE IT AS THEY SEE FIT SO WE ALL DON'T DIE WITHOUT THEIR
LOVE AND PARENTAL GUIDANCE.

If you find my analysis somehow "extreme" or "rhetorically strident" in its
tenor, tough. If you don't already get it, this forwarded post can't even
start to save your sadly immoral (not "immortal") political soul. If you
don't find the Fed's campaign an anathema to every single principle this
country once held dear -- and that our fighting men paid for with their
lives -- then you're a real, honest-to-God communist sympathizer.

I don't mean that as some back-peddling McCarthyesque slam, no. I mean it
as a very real appraisal of where your political belief structure lies. You
are a collectivist and have no inkling to do for yourselves... or your
family. You want *other* peopleto take care of you and you will fall on
your knees to worship Great White Father in DC to make sure his wrath isn't
released upon your pathetic, tax-fed teepee. You are nothing but a bona
fide Clintonista, and all I can say to you is:

        "If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude
        greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us
        in peace. We seek not your consul, nor your arms. Crouch down
        and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon
        you; and may posterity forget ye were our countrymen."
                        -- Samuel Adams


Phillip Wayne Murphy (Second of Two)
--


>Libertarians say: Real Americans

>don't answer nosy Census questions

>

>        WASHINGTON, DC -- The federal government says it's your "civic

>duty" to complete the 2000 Census form -- but it's actually your

>patriotic duty to refuse to answer most of the government's snooping

>questions, the Libertarian Party said today.

>

>        "Real Americans don't answer nosy Census questions," said the

>party's national director, Steve Dasbach. "You can strike a blow for

>privacy, equality, and liberty by refusing to answer every question on

>the Census form except the one required by the Constitution: How many

>people live in your home?"

>

>        This week, in an attempt to reverse declining response rates,

>Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt held a press conference to plead

>with Americans to view the once-a-decade Census as a "civic ceremony."

>

>        The results of the Census, lectured Prewitt, affect "power,

>money, group interests, civil rights; in short, who gets how much of

>what."

>

>        And that's exactly what's wrong with the Census, countered

>Dasbach -- and why Americans should boycott almost every question.

>

>        "The U.S. Constitution says the purpose of the Census is to

>make an enumeration; that is, to take an accurate count of Americans

>for the purpose of apportioning Congressional districts," he said.

>

>        "But the federal government has gone far beyond that

>Constitutional mandate, and uses the Census to ask dozens of probing

>questions -- including the color of your skin, the number of toilets in

>your home, your disabilities, and how many cars you own."

>

>        In fact, the long version of the Census contains a whopping 52

>questions, noted Dasbach, which is 51 more than the Constitution

>requires.

>

>        But it's not just the questions that are offensive, he said,

>but how the information is subsequently used.

>

>        "As Mr. Prewitt noted, the Census is all about 'who gets how

>much of what' -- which is why Americans should refuse to answer those

>prying questions. The fact is, the information collected by the Census

>is used to dole out an estimated $180 billion in taxpayers' money, to

>justify and expand wasteful government programs, and to allow the

>government to discriminate against Americans based on their racial or

>ethnic background.

>

>        "In other words, Census information is used to orge the chains

>that bind Americans to failed government programs, meddlesome

>bureaucracies, and a sky-high tax rate. So, if you care about privacy,

>genuine equality, and old-fashioned American liberty, it is your civic

>responsibility to just say 'no' to nosy government bureaucrats."

>

>        To make it easier to respond, Dasbach said he had an

>all-purpose answer for Americans when they get their 2000 Census form.

>

>        "We live in an information age," he said. "But the only

>information the government deserves on the Census, beyond the number of

>people in your home, is: None of your business."

>

>        Of course, any American who gives a "None of your business"

>response could face pressure and a $100 fine from the Census Bureau,

>Dasbach acknowledged.

>

>        "Yes, it would be easier just to give the government the

>information it wants," he said. "But I think many Americans will

>realize that a $100 fine is a small price to pay for making a

>principled stand for privacy and freedom."

>--




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   Chinks... But we don't want the Irish!"

     "Ahh, prairie shit... Everybody!"
        -- David Huddleston in
         Blazing Saddles

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