{"id":1071,"date":"2010-08-20T20:02:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2010-08-20T20:02:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T01:02:42","slug":"gop-census-bureau-behaves-%e2%80%9cexactly-as-a-scam-artist-the-survey-is-a-dangerous-invasion-of-privacy-overreaching-and-intimidating-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"GOP: Census Bureau behaves \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exactly as a scam artist &#8230;[the survey is] a dangerous invasion of privacy&#8230;overreaching and intimidating.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.milowerx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Census-Bureau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.milowerx.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Census-Bureau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Committee resolved this month that the Census Bureau behaves \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exactly as a scam artist would, asking very personal questions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and called the survey \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a dangerous invasion of privacy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153overreaching and intimidating.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The committee said the Census Bureau was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spending millions of tax dollars to violate the rights and invade the personal privacy of United States citizens.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution invokes the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and notes that the Constitution mandates a count only every 10 years \u00e2\u20ac\u201d to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives. The party is demanding that the bureau either scrap the American Community Survey or make participation voluntary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/20census.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/20\/us\/politics\/20census.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee resolved this month that the Census Bureau behaves \u00e2\u20ac\u0153exactly as a scam artist would, asking very personal questions,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and called the survey \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a dangerous invasion of privacy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153overreaching and intimidating.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The committee said the Census Bureau was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spending millions of tax dollars to violate the rights and invade the personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}