Conservatives Are A "risk" Group, According To Census Bureau

[Lounge Daddy]

This time it's the Census Bureau, and the AP made a FOI request to see what goes into end-of-year planning for the Bureau, and what sort of prioritizing is made.

Apparently they use a risk-level method. Number one risk is immigrants who decline to reply to the census. And then at number two, or close to it (the AP article didn't specify) are "conservatives."

Why?[url="http://www.withoutadjectives.com/?p=1605"]Because those radical conservatives like to boycott and they like guns.[/url] Scary, eh?

[quote]Another risk being monitored by the Census Bureau is the possibility of a conservative boycott following recent rhetoric, including one blogger’s threat to pull out a shotgun to scare away census workers. ... Conservatives who refuse to participate may also be counted by way of neighbor questioning or statistical imputation.

Arnold Jackson, the bureau’s associate director for the decennial census, said in an interview ... “We also remain terribly concerned about safety.”[/quote]

Collectivism is fun, ain't it? It allows broad-brushing, blanket statements, and more.

"Conservatives" as a collective group are in good company I think.

[quote]
We live in an America where third party voters are suspected by government as being highly dangerous, pro-lifers are condemned on prime-time tv as clinic-bombing extremists and of being “one branch of the broader movement of violent, militant, anti-government extremism in this country” ... and opponents to this socialized health-care are openly being called “terrorists” by members of the political class.[/quote]

[Brother Adam]

So 70% of Americans are terrorists?

[CatherineM]

Don't tell my mother in law. She already tried to have me deported as a terrorist.

[cmotherofpirl]

don't ya know [i]anybody[/i] who doesn't agree with Obamas regime is a terrorist.

[MIKolbe]

goodthink will be rewarded...

badthink will get you on a list...

[Winchester]

We cling to our gun and our religion.


And Obama believes inner city people can't handle guns. His contempt for the poor is obvious in his "Audacity of [s]Tyranny[/s] Hope"

[jeffpugh]

Oh, so it's bad for ones' health to be "Conservative" now? Daang...

[Bennn]

America is starting to resemble my country.

[Socrates]

[quote name='Bennn' date='08 April 2010 - 01:53 PM' timestamp='1270749234' post='2089297']
America is starting to resemble my country.
[/quote]
Yay "Progress."

[Bennn]

Please tell me you are being sarcastic. hard to spot on the internet.[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]

EDIT: just noticed the "".[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/sweat.gif[/img]

Edited April 8, 2010 by Bennn

[Socrates]

[quote name='Bennn' date='08 April 2010 - 02:21 PM' timestamp='1270750904' post='2089337']
Please tell me you are being sarcastic. Impossible to spot on the internet.[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
[/quote]
I'd say something sarcastic to that, but . . . yeah.
It's pretty obvious if you know my unenlightened right-wing inclinations. And the quote marks should be a hint.

[Semper Catholic]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' date='08 April 2010 - 10:55 AM' timestamp='1270742100' post='2089220']
don't ya know [i]anybody[/i] who doesn't agree with Obamas regime is a terrorist.
[/quote]

Yep. The more things change the more things stay the same, and you wonder why I think politics is futile?

Obama as adopted nearly every strategy originally used by the Bush white house to work around the constitution. Wouldn't surprise me if Barack and W became the best of friends after Barack is out of office.

[Winchester]

[quote name='Bennn' date='08 April 2010 - 02:21 PM' timestamp='1270750904' post='2089337']
Please tell me you are being sarcastic. hard to spot on the internet.[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif[/img]
[/quote]
No harder than in any other written medium.

[CatherineM]

[quote name='Semper Catholic' date='08 April 2010 - 01:36 PM' timestamp='1270751782' post='2089354']
Yep. The more things change the more things stay the same, and you wonder why I think politics is futile?

Obama as adopted nearly every strategy originally used by the Bush white house to work around the constitution. Wouldn't surprise me if Barack and W became the best of friends after Barack is out of office.
[/quote]
Bush and Clinton are hanging out in Haiti together. Wonder if they played any golf?

[Lounge Daddy]

[quote name='Semper Catholic' date='08 April 2010 - 01:36 PM' timestamp='1270751782' post='2089354']
Yep. The more things change the more things stay the same ...
[/quote]

Indeed.