Please forgive me if this is somewhat off topic :-) We are required by law to respond to the census survey. One person in six is given the "long form" to complete. Mary and I completed ours today and decided not to respond substantively to most of the items, which ask for detailed information which in our view violates our right to privacy, such as the details of our sources of income, the value of our assets, including our home, our ethnicity and racial heritage (whatever that means), languages we might speak other than English and how well we might speak them, and on and on. The constitution specifies a count of all persons every ten years, but the Bill of Rights protects us against invasion of privacy. The penalty for insisting on our rights will be a $100 fine (probably per person) but we are willing to bear that burden to draw a line in the sand. If you feel as we do, I hope you will consider a similar assertion of your rights. Chuck and Mary Hallenbeck My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh (I C Q = 67363342) "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759.
