March 30, 2,000
Census Nonsense
Well, little to report here, other than The Kingdom Of God is
concentrating all of Its efforts to defeat the homosexuals in
Vermont, to keep them from passing their marriage law so that
they can bring their teachings into the public schools. Aside
from that, things are quiet. Oh! We did get our census form and
fortunately this year we only got the short one that didn't ask a
lot of moron quetions so I filled it out and sent it back. I can
still remember the first time a census taker came to my door in
1970. I answered the first few questions, the acceptable ones,
and then when he started asking things that were no one else's
business I refused.
"You have to answer the questions!" he insisted, "It's
the law!"
Again I refused. "I've answered all I'm going to answer,"
I told him. "No one's ever refused!"
The census taker complained, "What's the matter with you?"
"I value my privacy," I told him.
He came back twice more threatening legal action if I did not
comply. I told him what he could do with his legal action.
Finally he just stopped coming. 1980 was a virtual repeat except
it was a woman. And I got an obnoxious call from her husband
saying I was the biggest jerk in the world and I was hurting his
wife's feelings, which I answered "Too bad!" In 1990
the idiot came back four times. Finally I took the form and
filled it with absolute nonsense, and when he came back gave it
to him. He glanced through it, gave me a dirty look, shoved it in
his bag, and left. I never heard from him again. We're not even
free of them on the non-census years! Last year we had a census
taker show up at our door. She was a very nice lady and I
explained to her very courteously that I would not answer the
questions. She came back several times but finally gave up. The
last time she called my wife it sounded like she was crying. She
just couldn't believe people would not answer. We felt kind of
bad, because she was so nice, but we still value our privacy. For
some reason we seem to be on the census bureau's special list,
and I wish we weren't!
Yes, I'm very glad this year we got the short form from the
census bureau. I'm just not in the mood this year, to deal with
morons. I'm just not in the mood at all. We've got enough of them
in Washington, D.C. and in Vermont to occupy me this year. I just
don't need obnoxious census takers that think they're God because
the government gave them a little placquette and a tiny bit of
officialdom. Morons that come into people's houses and think they
have every right to ask them questions which is no one's business
whatsoever, and, that the government already knows the answer to.
The census is the biggest waste of the taxpayer's money that has
ever been created. Millions are simply thrown away every ten
years gathering information that is already in the government's
computers. It is done nowadays only to humiliate the public, to
prove the governmnet's power that they can invade your home,
interrogate you at will, and you can do nothing.
But I'm not one that simply does nothing, I live to hunt and
destroy evil and when it comes to my door I'm ready to fight.