A Census Bureau official is quoted in an article in The Morgan Messenger out of Berkely Springs, West Virginia, confirming that workers will be visiting homes in the region to obtain GPS coordinates of homes in the area. The article is dated April 22.Excerpted from the Messenger:
First phase of 2010 Census begins in West Virginia - by Kate Evans - 4/22/2009The article continues with 16 further paragraphs giving details on how one can gain a Census job, and the importance of accurate Census data in funding for states and localities
Area residents hired for the first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census will be canvassing door-to-door and checking home addresses from April 20 through mid-July across West Virginia.
They will be verifying physical address information with handheld global positioning system (GPS) units for mapping accuracy, said Elizabeth Guthrie, U.S. Census Bureau partnership specialist.
Census workers must ensure an accurate count of housing units in the county before the actual census takes place in April 2010, Guthrie said.Limited census work has begun already in some sections of the state, she said. Guthrie believed that Morgan County operations would start during the next two weeks.
How long they will be at work in the county depends on the lay of the land, she said. Canvassing city blocks goes much more quickly than canvassing rural areas.
Census workers will mostly remain on the edge of properties in their vehicle or pull into driveways to use their GPS units, Guthrie said. They will not need to come inside residences. In some areas, they will give a courtesy knock to let residents know they are present.
Will have census badges
U.S. Census workers will be identifiable by census badges that they will wear and by other markings that will indicate they work for the Census Bureau, she said.
Note - Morgan County is in northeastern WV, on the Maryland border, and a 2 hour drive from Washington, DC.
UPDATE!
New Jersey newspaper confirms same
The Daily Journal serving Cumberland County, NJ published a piece hours ago, titled:
"Census Bureau now takes along GPS on canvass"
1 comments:
Eric, as you know I am a very careful and critical person (part of being conservative in the Burke tradition) (as you may know), and my 6th sense tells me there may be a lot of truth to this, the general idea of surveillance, security state. Socialist regimes in Eastern Europe etc. all had highly security, to "control" people.
And this should also be seen in the light of the MIAC report (I understand that a policemenn who read it and is a Ron Paul supporter, broke that story to Alex Jones) and the DHS story was broken by Stephen Gordon.
Many of the peacemeal and real changes occur "undetected". Rahm Emanuel knows how to use a crisis, an economic crisis in this case, to take away freemdom and privacy, just like Bush/Cheney etc. misused the 911 crisis to start with the Patriot Act. And remember the Patriot Act enables all this that JB is reporting, they do not need another law. Then there is also the wiretapping 4th Amendment issue. And Obama has not taken any of the special presidential powers that congress gave Bush. The president can in effect rule by decree, I think he can even dissolve congress or in any case totally ignore them.
Consider also that Eric Schidt, CEO of Google, supported Obama and Google has access to allt he GPS maps or the world and in more detail even for the US. There is also the possibility that they may develop 3D technology with satellite,e.g. that the satellite it not only restricted to only view from above, but also sideviews...
And then the most terrifying story that Russia Today broke about the US govt. spying in emails and basically enable hacking into any US computer, about 1,2 months ago. Did you got that one? Most US media did not report on that. And Russia Today is a serious TV service (not Pravda).
I will give you another piece
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