2010 Census: Will your answers stay private?
The 2010 Census: Will your answers stay private?, by James Bovard, in March 24, 2010 Christian Science Monitor (via slashdot.org.)
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What do WW I Draft-dodgers, Japanese-Americans in 1942, and Arab-Americans in 2003 have in common?
Hint: The U.S. Census fingered them—and gave their information away in every case. How confidential are your census answers? See Census Confidentiality? The Check’s is in the Mail, by David Kopel. (Tipped off to this from Lew Rockwell mp3 radio interview on the census at lewrockwell.com.)
Are we living in USA 5.0?
Whatever one may think of Hauerwas, he has a point: Who has the infinite duty to honor the infinite claim of every person to the pursuit of happiness? The answer of the eighteenth century, and of those who have followed, is familiar: it is the nation-state. The nation-state replaces the holy church and the holy-empire [...]
“Instructions to all persons of JAPANESE ancestry…”
So read the title line of placards posted in Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona in March 1942. I have been researching this event of late and suggest to readers the following article: “The Japanese Camps in California” by Mark Weber. What is your government capable of? Just about anything! http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-45_Weber.html According to the article: All [...]
