Kenneth Prewett, Director of the Bureau of the Census writes:
``Your privacy is protected by law (Title 13 of the United States Code),
which also requires that you answer these questions.''
``That law ensures that your information is only used for statistical
purposes and that no unauthorized person can see your form or find out
what you tell us - no other government agency, no court of law, NO ONE.''
Mr. Prewett is Mistaken
November 26, 1941
Grace Tully (Roosevelt's secretary) told Henry Field (anthropologist and
aide to Roosevelt) that the President was ordering him to produce, in the
shortest time possible, the full names and addresses of each American-born
and foreign-born Japanese listed by locality within each state. She
told him to use the 1930 and 1940 census.
Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment
of Civilians; Joan Z. Bernstein, Chair; Personal Justice Denied; Washington,
D.C.; ©1982; p.104-5.
February 19, 1942
President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the secretary
of war to define military areas "from which any or all persons may be excluded
as deemed necessary or desirable." The only significant opposition
would come from the Quakers (Society of Friends) and the ACLU (American
Civil Liberties Union).
As a result, thousands of Japanese-Americans were confined to
concentration camps for the duration of World War II. The law
``ensures'' nothing.
Authority
This Constitution and the Laws made in Pursuance thereof... shall be the
supreme
Law of the Land...all Judges shall be bound thereby...any Thing...to
the Contrary notwithstanding.
Article VI, Clause 2,
of the Constitution of the United States of America (1789).
The general rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having
the form and name of law, is in reality no law, but is wholly void.
. .unconstitutional law bears no power to enforce, it purports to settle
as if it never existed, for unconstitutionality dates from the enactment
of such a law and not such time as branded in an open court of law. . .it
confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates
no office; it is in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had
never been passed. No courts are bound to uphold it and no persons are
bound to obey it.
16 Am Jur 256.
The Fourth and Fifth Amendments were described in Boyd v. United States,
116 U.S. 616, 630, as protection against all governmental invasions
``of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life.'' We
recently referred [381 U.S. 479, 485] in Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 656,
to the Fourth Amendment as creating a ``right to privacy, no less important
than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people.''
GRISWOLD v. CONNECTICUT,
381 U.S. 479 (1965)
Declaration
I hereby affirm that the provisions of Title 13 ``requiring'' me to disclose
my race, personal financial data, birthdate, or any other personal, private
information to the Bureau of the Census, an agency of the United States
government; constitutes an unreasonable, unwarranted search of my person,
house, papers, and/or effects; and a governmental invasion of the sanctity
of my home and the privacies of life. As such, these provisions violate
the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution, and are thus wholly void and
I am not bound to obey them.
I have completed the only those sections of the Census form pertaining
to the Constitutionally-mandated actual enumeration, as follows:
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The actual number of people living at the address printed on the form,
excluding untaxed Native Americans;
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Age of each person in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section
2.
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Sex of each person, in accordance with US Const. Amendment XIV, Section
2.
I have thus fulfilled my obligation to the attainment of the actual enumeration
of the populace of the United States.
Any fine or other sanction that is levied by any office or organization
stemming from the unconstitutional provisions of Title 13 in connection
with my response to this or any other Census-related questioning will be
challenged in a court of law.
March 28, 2000: US District Judge Melinda Harmon has granted a temporary
restraining order against prosecution of any American who chooses not to
answer questions other than the number of people living at their address.
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