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Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

A thought provoking youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsDhkPym01k&feature=emai

I do not cosider myself a conspericy nut. But, there is a Constitutional limit to what our government needs to collect, and know about us.
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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

I will tell them my name, they will guess that I am white and they can forget about the rest of it.

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Excellent!
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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

The really disturbing thing to me is that they probably already know the answers to most of their personal questions plus a lot more!!
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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

qmdv wrote:I will tell them my name, they will guess that I am white and they can forget about the rest of it.

Tim


I'm with you Tim. Now if they cut off my gov pension I'll sing like a bird. :mrgreen:
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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

taildrgfun wrote:The really disturbing thing to me is that they probably already know the answers to most of their personal questions plus a lot more!!

Then they can look it up

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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

"They" need your name and GPS location to use the pesky mind control laser beams. Saves them a lot of time if they have the first questions in front of them when they show up at night in a dream.

Freedom is dead, you just don't know it yet. Soon you will see, please don't panic, as that never helps.

But really, all they will get from me is name and number of people in the house, because they already have everything else. I wish they would figure that out someday and stop bugging me. Hee.
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When the census takers come to your door make sure you wrap yourself in one of those foil "space" blankets, wear a tinfoil hat with a beanie whirley prop sticking out of the top and have on mirrored sunglasses.

Then learn a few words in some foreign language that the census workers are not likely to understand. Maybe something like "no understand english" in ancient greek. (oh, I guess there weren't any english in ancient greek times). [-X
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Re: Next they may wish to count our aircraft!

They may already have your airplane counted, and accounted for. A couple years ago, the FAA contacted my home airport to get a count on based aircraft -- if the airport administrators could document over 100 based aircraft, our "funding entitlement" went way up. Guess how they document based aircraft- thats right, by tail numbers. They got the tailnumbers of whoever was willing to turn them in - I had my doubts but with thoughts about what we could do with the extra money I took off my tinfoil hat & sent my number in. Well we added up to over 100 aircraft, but as far as I know we never got any extra money for our trouble.
When you rent a hangar fro the airport here, you have to not only give them your tailnumber but have to show proof of state registration (which is proof of sales tax paid). As I understand it, this policy is a condition for receiving state DOT funding.

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I am not sure what to do. I do not keep my plane in a hangar. I keep it in the "storage building" (hobby shop) that I built at the ranch. My wife came down to get the tail number. Not sure what that was for. She went to town for a dentist appointment this morning, hope it was not an atourney. [-o< [-o<

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No no, she is under mind control. It's a clear sign when they answer questions you never asked, and seem kind of scatter brained. Hard to keep your thoughts straight with two people talking at once. Does she talk to herself ever?

Say.....why just the other day I was saying to myself....
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I spent a little time looking into the constitionality of the census gathering statistial information. I to am reluctant to disclose more than very basic information. However, I found that it is considered legal. Here is the primary article I base that statement on http://2010.census.gov/2010census/why/constitutional.php

If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I sure would be interested in learning about it!
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Skystrider wrote:I spent a little time looking into the constitionality of the census gathering statistial information. I to am reluctant to disclose more than very basic information. However, I found that it is considered legal. Here is the primary article I base that statement on http://2010.census.gov/2010census/why/constitutional.php

If anyone has evidence to the contrary, I sure would be interested in learning about it!


If we ever have a constitutional convention we should include an amendment that the census shall only be taken as a count of its citizens for the purpose of apportioning representation. We can stick that next to the one that says the constitution only applies to natural citizens (that's human beings!).
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A quote from http://2010.census.gov/2010census/why/c ... tional.php "census questions are not a violation of a citizen's right to privacy or speech." No question violates your right to privacy or speach......only if you answer are they violated. So I plead the 5th :lol:
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