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Well, I guess I?m going to prison
JamesRK
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I got something in the mail from the Census Bureau. A twenty-eight page questionnaire requiring (not requesting) most of the intimate details of my life.
They explained that I am required by law to answer all the questions and send it back. I hope it's a misdemeanor and not a felony, because I'd hate to lose my right to own a firearm over this. Maybe Mateo can get the charge reduced for me.
I'll tell them my name and how many live in my household because that's what the Constitution says I should tell them once every ten years. I haven't decided yet if I'll give them my phone number.
The last time I got one of these was in 1980. I got away with it that time. I wonder if I can pull it off again.
They explained that I am required by law to answer all the questions and send it back. I hope it's a misdemeanor and not a felony, because I'd hate to lose my right to own a firearm over this. Maybe Mateo can get the charge reduced for me.
I'll tell them my name and how many live in my household because that's what the Constitution says I should tell them once every ten years. I haven't decided yet if I'll give them my phone number.
The last time I got one of these was in 1980. I got away with it that time. I wonder if I can pull it off again.
The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
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If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
TITLE 13 - CENSUS
CHAPTER 7 - OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
SUBCHAPTER II - OTHER PERSONS
Sec. 221. Refusal or neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question345.htm
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Shoot just throw it in the trash and SAY you mailed it in!!
That's a $500 fine. I think I'll take the $100. [:D]
Possible $100 fine for not filling it out, at least according to this
http://people.howstuffworks.com/question345.htm
pffft! speeding tickets are more these days
the time wasted to fill out a 28 page gub'ment form is more expensive [;)]
So I have that going for me...
Could be the sheriff is already on his way out here. [:D]
Last time I got one of those I faithfully filled it out AND sent in $500 just in case I said something false by mistake.
So I have that going for me...
You have to WILLFULLY make a false ststement to be fined $500, so it's no foul to make a mistake. Call them on tuesday and they will send your 500 bucks back. Just tell 'em it was a honest mistake.
Been nice knowin' ya James, you criminal.
ask one if they or if they even know anyone that has filled it out, and i'm dead serious, i know from experience
I got one of those several months ago. Didn't reply, got another one. Finally, I filled out the basic info, as you mentioned. All of the other questions--I wrote in "none of your business"---and mailed it. Started getting phone calls from those idiots----they would not give up. With caller ID, I could recognize their 800 number---wouldn't answer the phone---so they would leave messages on my voice mail to call them. This went on for weeks----total harassment. Finally, they quit calling and I haven't heard anymore from them and I hope I don't.
You know, back in the day you could count on the good old apathetic civil servant to just shrug things off and take an early and long lunch. Funny how an unmotivated government really helped keep liberty alive and well. Now with the Department of Homeland Security, interlocking databases, and the police coming for a chat with battering rams and guns drawn, I worry about doing anything to p i $ $ off the government. What the heck happened to this country?
Instead of "of the people for the people" it's "of the government for the government"[xx(]
We keep voting for the collectivists that the 'machine' continually offers up. The result is inevitable, the relentless march toward totalitarianism.
All one has to do is look, to see it.
On the line where I was required to print my full legal name, I "accidently" inserted the letter "Q" as my middle initial. I figured if asked I could explain that "accident" away as me just being distracted by the television, or some such, during the lengthy time that was required of me to fill out that damn form. When I signed the form with my legal signature I did not provide the "Q" because that would be pretty much impossible to claim as an "accident.".
Anyway, I did this in an effort to test the government's claim that all this detailed and personal information would be held strictly confidential. I think I know how government works pretty well and I have no confidence in their promises. And I was correct because it wasn't much more than a year that passed and I started getting junk mail sent to me with my name printed correctly but also containing the fake letter "Q" as part of my name. To me this means that obviously my detailed and personal information (not just about me, but also about my family) had either been carelessly handled, leaked or even sold to companies in order to target my household for their advertising.
After I had several examples of such advertising being sent to me, using that fake letter "Q" in my name, I contacted and complained to two of my Congressmen. One of the didn't care and the other one wanted me to send them copies of the advertising I had received. Because of reasons I don't care to mention I decided to wait on that but I always wondered what might happen if I had followed up on my complaint. Probably nothing.
But anyway, you and anyone else wanting to test your government might try something like this.
A little old man I knew carried bricks in his trunk.
He said they were for mailing the posted prepaid envelopes back to the junk mailers.
That old fart saved more trees than Gore.
Yeah, I have done that. Even mailed an entire cinder block to the local newspaper, the Kansas City Star. Seems those postage paid envelopes cover the postage, not just for the envelope, but for whatever that envelope is attached to. Regardless of how large the postage charge is. I doubt I would do it to a government agency though. They might find some way to get back at you. I'm not so sure that even a private company nowadays couldn't get you into trouble. What will all the new laws and restrictions on actions that now might be considered "terrorism", etc.
I guess I've made the big time. Not one, but two Wallie cartoons. [:D]
Better hope they have beer too and lots of it.
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=322330
I told her what I did, and there could be a hundred dollar fine involved. She just looked me in the eye and said "Your stupid".
I have the full backing of my wife in this thing. She has always stuck with me through thick.
I told her what I did, and there could be a hundred dollar fine involved. She just looked me in the eye and said "Your stupid".
Did you tell her everyone here at GB already knows that? And asked what took her so long to figure that out?[:D] [8D] [:D]
...She just looked me in the eye and said "Your stupid".
She must belong to the same club as mine...
Or just put your X behind every question and on the signature line.