“Skip the Census” - “A Civil Disobedience Idea”

Coyote Blog offers up the following civil disobedience idea.

I have been toying around with a protest idea over the last few days, one that I hope would excite both civil libertarians interested in privacy as well as small government libertarians fed up with government social micro-engineering:

Skip the Census

Mine will be for the circular file.

Comment thread is worth perusing.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 04/09 at 01:02 PM

  1. I did that the last time it came around, and they came looking for me. Unfortunately I was sitting on my porch when the agent showed up, so I couldn’t avoid her.

    Hopefully it will turn out better this time!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  04/09  at  05:19 PM

  2. Jessica,

    As an avoidance measure, you could simply state that you are only a guest at the residence.

    Posted by John Venlet  on  04/09  at  07:00 PM

  3. I tossed my form the last time. Months later, after they’d left a couple of phone messages that were also ignored, a census taker eventually showed up at my doorstep. I interrupted her midway through her introduction and told her that I had no interest in participating. She harumphed, turned and left without another word.

    She’d probably been instructed not to waste time on the loonie-kazoonies, but that was also in rural Maine at the close of the Ghey Nineties. I’m anticipating a bit more aggressiveness from census takers this time around, especially now that I live in the Big City.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)  on  04/09  at  08:24 PM

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