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Via Prison Planet.com \u00bb Prison Planet<\/p>\n

Bob Barr<\/a>
\nMay 28, 2010<\/p>\n

Thousands of census workers, including many temporary employees, are fanning out across America\u00a0to gather information on the citizenry.\u00a0 This is a process that takes place not only every decade in order to complete the constitutionally-mandated census; but also as part of the continuing \u201cAmerican Community Survey\u201d conducted by the Census Bureau on a regular basis year in and year out.<\/p>\n

What many Americans don\u2019t realize, is that census workers \u2014 from the head of the Bureau and the Secretary of Commerce (its parent agency) down to the lowliest and newest Census employee \u2014 are empowered under federal law to actually demand <\/em>access to any apartment or any other type of home\u00a0or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for \u201cthe collection of statistics.\u201d\u00a0 If the landlord of such apartment or other \u00a0leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s right \u2014 not only can citizens be fined if they fail to answer the increasingly intrusive questions asked of them by the federal government under the guise of simply counting the number of people in the country; but a landlord must\u00a0<\/em>give them access to your apartment whether you\u2019re there or not, in order to gather whatever \u201cstatistics\u201d the law permits.<\/p>\n

In fact, some census workers apparently are going even further and\u00a0demanding \u2014 and receiving \u2014 private cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it great to live in a \u201cfree\u201d country?<\/p>\n

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