Orwell Rising..Census Bureau Wants to Question Citizens About Mental Health, Psychosocial Disabilities in Mandatory Survey..

US Census Bureau Wants to Question Citizens About Mental Health, Psychosocial Disabilities in Mandatory Survey..

Why be surprised? What else would you expect in the coming New World Order? There is a need to manage and control the mass of humanity so there must be a convenient means of acquiring personal and vital information about people and MANDATORY government surveys fill the bill quite nicely. Never mind that the practice is unconstitutional, BIDEN is just a globalist puppet who doesn’t know where he is half or more of the time so this is coming from the ‘Committee of 300′, a consortium of NGOs who control our government through Brussels, Belgium, likely lead by Barrack Obama. [Europe as the Bible reveals is the seat of the Beast Power.] Read this letter for yourselves since I have only reproduced two out of TEN pages here: John Whitehead letter to Census Bureau

T H E R U T H E R F O R D I N S T I T U T E
Post Office Box 7482
Charlottesville, Virginia 22906-7482

JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Founder and President
TELEPHONE | 434 - 978 - 3888
EMAIL | staff@rutherford.org
www.rutherford.org

December 19, 2023
U.S. Census Bureau
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233

Re: American Community Survey and the Puerto Rico Community Survey;

Opposition to Proposed and Continuing Information Collections
Docket Number USBC-2023-0009
88 Federal Register 72424

Director Robert L. Santos:

As a civil liberties organization committed to safeguarding the privacy and free speech
rights of all citizens, The Rutherford Institute1 strongly opposes the U.S. Census Bureau’s
attempts through the American Community Survey to force individuals to disclose to the
government some of the most intimate details about their lives and their disabilities.

2. The makers of our Constitution…conferred, as against the government, the right
to be let alone—the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by
civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the
government upon the privacy of the individual, whatever the means employed,
must be deemed a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

3 The Census Bureau conducting such a broad warrantless search and using threats of

punishment to compel people to answer the questions in the American Community Survey is a
violation of both the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Rutherford
Institute therefore calls on the Census Bureau to respect people’s privacy and right to be left
alone by the government, to not intimidate or force people against their will to answer the
proposed additional questions asking about a person’s level of disability, possession of electric
 

U.S.Census Bureau

Docket No. USBC-2023-0009
Dec. 19, 2023
Page 2
 

vehicles, use of solar panels, type of sewage disposal, and other personal matters, and to cease mandating responses to the American Community Survey altogether.

The Rutheford Institute submits this letter in response to the Census Bureau’s solicitation for comments to both “(a) Evaluate whether the proposed information collection is necessary for
the proper functions of the Department [of Commerce]”4—it is not; and “(d) Minimize the
reporting burden on those who are to respond”5—the proposal completely fails to take into
account the significant emotional burden and mental stress placed on respondents who do not
feel comfortable providing this sensitive personal information, yet feel compelled and harassed
by the Census Bureau to do so.

General Background of the ACS and Data Collection

The American Community Survey (“ACS”) is not the decennial census conducted every
ten years as authorized under Article I, Section II of the U.S. Constitution.6 Rather, the ACS is a
highly invasive, “ongoing monthly survey” issued by the U.S. Census Bureau to collect “detailed
housing and socioeconomic data” from about 3.5 million U.S. households each year.7 Survey
recipients are asked to respond by internet, paper via mail, or “interviewer-administered modes
via telephone and in-person.”8 There are so many questions on the ACS that it is estimated the
average household will have to take 40 minutes to answer the quest

The ACS demands recipients to provide the government with extensive and sensitive
information about each and every person in the household, including their work schedules, their
physical disabilities and limitations, the number of automobiles kept at the residence, and their
access to phones and the internet.10 This information collected by the ACS is not anonymous—
the questionnaire contains the name, age, sex, race, and home address of each person at the
residence, along with the phone number of the person who fills out the form.11
Even though many people are incredibly uncomfortable providing such detailed private
information, the Census Bureau tries to intimidate and bully them into responding to the ACS by
implying a threat of penalty for not answering it. The Bureau is sure to make clear to recipients
that “Your response is required by law,” as is written in bold on the first page of the ACS,12 is
similarly stated on the Bureau’s website (“you are legally obligated to answer all the….