…Here Comes a Census Worker!
(Why can’t this guy use his OWN shotgun? Just wondering.)
Eric Erickson (CNN) said he would “pull out [his] wife’s shotgun” if a census worker came to try to jail him for not filling out his census form.
“This is crazy,” Erickson said of the census. “What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.”
Erickson would later write that his comment was “misconstrued.”
Talk about “misconstrued”, census workers don’t come to “jail” idiots like him. Sheriffs do. And, I’d like to know where in the decennial census form this asshat is finding the questions pertaining to his toilet or work habits. I work for the census, I’ve seen the decennial form (more times than I can count). I promise, there is NOTHING anywhere on that form that asks how many times a person flushes his / her crapper.
Despite the census count, anybody who has a brain and lives in a drought area actually should be concerned about how much they’re “flushing”. Keeping track of water usage is a good way prepare for future shortages (which is what the next civil war could be about - unless stupidity gets us all, first). And if a city gets big enough to justify mass public transit, then what is so wrong with knowing how a person gets to work / is willing to get to work? Why is improving one’s community being seen as a wicked plot?
Imagine if a black, Muslim, left-leaner had said such things as these idiots (Sarah, Rush, Glenn, etc.) are saying? I got called “un-American” for not supporting an illegal war that has led to the deaths of thousands of awesome soldiers. But these people are being praised for threatening average Americans who are simply out there trying to make an honest buck by counting people for a CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED CENSUS.
I turned down field work for THIS exact reason. I’m concerned about showing up at somebody’s door, having that somebody see my hippie-happy-peace-sign studded Subaru, and hauling out their gun in response to all that evil.
The US Constitution says we must conduct a person count every ten years - Article 1, Section 1. It’s in there, along with the rest of the rules. (Why do so many Americans want their rights - but not their responsibilities?)
These people are tromping the hell out of their own Bill of Rights and then are going to be rip-roaring pissed once they encounter people (like me) standing up and speaking out against their behavior. I’m as pro second-amendment as they come, but oops! - that’s because I understand the ENTIRE amendment. And I’m one of the (growing mass of Americans) who will for it if these dumbasses insist. They won’t like it, though. They’ll feel victimized, downtrodden, stomped upon by the government - all that stuff they claim to be fighting against. Ironic.
If you know anybody like this, please tell them to fill out the g-damned census form. To do otherwise simply costs YOUR county more money, gets YOUR state less representation, and makes it harder for YOU to rely on free lunch programs for your kids and subsidies for your farm land.
Honestly, this is stupid. And the TV is making it worse.
Tags: CNN Commentator, Decennial Census, Erick Erickson
