Angelo Falcón and José A. García of HISPANIC LINK WEEKLY REPORT on CENSUS BUREAU STILL HASN’T RESTORED ITS CREDIBILITY:
The news that the U.S. Census Bureau recently provided the U.S. Department of Homeland Security with detailed tabulations at the zip code level on Arab-Americans is chilling and should be of concern to each of us. The Census Bureau relies on the confidence of all U.S. residents that when it conducts the population count every ten years as well as engages in various surveys as frequently as monthly, the information we are asked to reveal will be held in strict confidence and not used in harmful ways.
The manner in which this information was made available to Homeland Security, and the Census Bureau’s bureaucratic response once this became public, was irresponsible. Its initial willingness to compromise its mission is troubling.
Its more than troubling and one of the main reasons I worked with Mr. Connerly to support the Racial Privacy Initiative, but to a big government apologist conservative authoritarian like Michelle Malkin – its a wet dream. To a libertarian individual like me, who believes in punishing the guilty without becoming a flaming collectivist neo-socialist, its irresponsible and un-American. But then, who cares? Someone has to pay and since we can’t get at the 19 hijackers then any Arab or Muslim will do. Right Mr. and Ms. Collectivist?