{"id":3003,"date":"2009-05-08T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T18:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2015-05-07T18:58:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T01:58:14","slug":"dont-answer-the-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/dont-answer-the-census\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Answer the Census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/91\/knight\/knight4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/PoliceState.png\" alt=\"Police State\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>Strike-The-Root.com<\/a> | Note that the clause in question speaks only of an \u201cEnumeration\u201d \u2013 i.e., the total number of people living in a given geographical region.  It says precisely nothing about the ethnicity of said people, their occupations, level of earnings, or how many toilets happen to be in their home.  It says nothing about whether you own pets, have a medical condition, or are a certain age.  It means how many people live where you do.  Period.  End of story.  But somewhere along the line, some group of smartass politicians decided that wasn\u2019t good enough. <\/p>\n<p>And as if it wasn\u2019t, note that the CON-stitution (capital letters quite deliberate) states that the sole two purposes of such an enumeration are to a.) provide for the election of the constitutionally appropriate number of congressmen to the U.S. House of Representatives based on each \u201cState\u2019s\u201d population, and b.) to properly apportion any direct taxes amongst the populace. <\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t and wouldn\u2019t want to speak for you, but I would consider the complete and total absence of all congressmen a blessing, and so could care less about the \u201cstate\u201d I allegedly live in being \u201cproperly\u201d represented in a governmental body.  I don\u2019t vote and never want to.  So this is a less than useless provision. <\/p>\n<p>As for the second part, in case anyone hasn\u2019t noticed, we\u2019re already the victims of several unapportioned direct taxes \u2013 \u201cincome\u201d and \u201cSocial Security\u201d being the two big ones.  Allegedly the 16th \u201cAmendment\u201d changed any and all apportionment requirements.  There is much evidence to suggest that this is total bullshit, but that\u2019s largely academic.  The truth is, government does as it damn well pleases, and you\u2019d better pay up, sit down, and shut up if you don\u2019t want to lose everything you own, spend your life in a cage, or get shot.  Those are your current options in lovely Amerika.  Isn\u2019t freedom great? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strike-the-root.com\/91\/knight\/knight4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Alex R. Knight III<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strike-The-Root.com | Note that the clause in question speaks only of an \u201cEnumeration\u201d \u2013 i.e., the total number of people living in a given geographical region. It says precisely nothing about the ethnicity of said people, their occupations, level of earnings, or how many toilets happen to be in their home. It says nothing about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[123,133,36,141],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-census","tag-free-market","tag-police-state","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}