View Full Version : Digg: Census Workers Face Wrath and Violence from Justified Anger
libertythor
06-20-2010, 06:02 AM
http://digg.com/politics/Census_Workers_Face_Wrath_and_Violence_from_Justif ied_Anger
Original Article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/19/AR2010061901896_pf.html
BenIsForRon
06-20-2010, 06:55 AM
Who cares if the anger is justified. No one should hurt or threaten a census worker.
libertythor
06-20-2010, 07:14 AM
Who cares if the anger is justified. No one should hurt or threaten a census worker.
I agree, but this is a definite sign that a huge number of people are now tired of the shit the government has been up to. My personal solution would be to just turn the census worker away with only giving him the answer for how many people live here.
Danke
06-20-2010, 07:34 AM
Police have been dispatched after confrontations between census takers and property owners who posted No Trespassing signs. As federal government employees, the census takers are not breaking the law by disregarding the signs.
Nice...
BenIsForRon
06-20-2010, 07:51 AM
I agree, but this is a definite sign that a huge number of people are now tired of the shit the government has been up to. My personal solution would be to just turn the census worker away with only giving him the answer for how many people live here.
No, it's a sign that these people are fucked up in the head. We live in a civil society, and we don't hurt people that are just working a temporary job for the government.
libertythor
06-20-2010, 07:56 AM
No, it's a sign that these people are fucked up in the head. We live in a civil society, and we don't hurt people that are just working a temporary job for the government.
Not all of them. The ones that simply answered the one legal question and then told them to get off of their property were in their full rights. But I do see where threatening the Census worker right off the bat is utterly wrong.
pacelli
06-20-2010, 08:07 AM
What about all of the stories where people have been harmed by actual census workers or people posing as census workers? How come those aren't mentioned in the article?
Posted on May 9, 2010 at 5:56 PM
LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) – A volunteer Census worker who made his rounds earlier this week is now accused of returning to a physically handicapped woman's home this weekend and beating her and raping her.
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/Burglary-and-rape-arrest-in-Pekin-Indiana-93240824.html
HOUSTON—A man was killed and his family members beaten after three suspects barged into a north Houston home Saturday afternoon, police said.
Investigators said one of the suspects pretended to be a census worker to gain entry into the house, located in the 400 block of Truman.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Fake-census-worker-invades-home-kills-owner-93242534.html
LOS ANGELES (AP) ―Police are searching for a woman and two men who broke into a South Sacramento home claiming to be Census workers.
http://cbs13.com/local/census.home.invasion.2.1744349.html
So I've got to ask the question: Whether it is 'mandatory' or not, shouldn't people be suspicious of anyone claiming to be a census worker? This kind of blind trust can be pretty fucking dangerous.
t0rnado
06-20-2010, 01:59 PM
No, it's a sign that these people are fucked up in the head. We live in a civil society, and we don't hurt people that are just working a temporary job for the government.
In a civil society, people don't trespass on the properties of others and demand personal information.
torchbearer
06-20-2010, 02:01 PM
Nice...
4th amendment doesn't apply to the federal government or its employees.
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