New York Magazine shares some thoughts:
Has Nancy PelosiÂ’s Fear of Political Violence Been Realized?
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"...This even extends specifically to the census, the constitutionally mandated survey that occurs every ten years. You may recall recently hearing something about the evils of the census from some wide-eyed, hysterical woman — in the subway, perhaps? Nope, that was actually just Minnesota congresswoman Michelle Bachman. Here's Bachman, who had earlier claimed
she would refuse to fill out her census form,
on Fox News about three months ago:
If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the census bureau was handed over to the FBI and other organizations, at the request of President Roosevelt, and thatÂ’s how the Japanese were rounded up and put into the internment camps. IÂ’m not saying thatÂ’s what the administration is planning to do.
But I am saying that private, personal information that was given to the census bureau in the 1940s was used against Americans to round them up."
Has Nancy PelosiÂ’s Fear of Political Violence Been Realized? -- Daily Intel