Yes! You heard it here first!
Unless you browse Free Republic, wherein it is reported that:
. . . the same week that Americans learned that they were "domestic terrorists" -- at least according to Obama’s new DHS (Department of Homeland Security), -- if they own a bible, a pocket Constitution or guns, and still believe in Life, Liberty and Freedom, - they also learned that Obama’s Census Bureau had hired thousands of new temporary employees, equipped each with a handheld GPS computer and sent them out to mark GPS coordinates for every residential front door in America.
Oddly, it was this same period that news was breaking of an international flu pandemic, suspected of being a weaponized strain of the virus never before seen, - and that Obama’s team still sees no need to close the US-Mexican border, despite the cross continental spread of a deadly illness now claiming American lives.
Now, if any one of these events happened alone, one might not get too excited. But when a string of such events happen all at once, one begins to question the string of freedom and life threatening coincidences...
I can’t resist the urge to question the authority and purpose behind such a BIG BROTHER initiative, when the official Census itself is not due to be taken until 2010...
No imagination is required to think up a whole laundry list of evil that could be done with a nationwide GPS grid of coordinate’s markers painted on every private home across the country. But I was having trouble thinking up one good reason for it, even one legitimate use that would justify what must be a very expensive undertaking.
Source ~ Free Republic
What is this nation coming to? True Patriots have obviously had ENUF!!!
But, wait! There were reasoned responses among the 350+ comments to the this obviously alarming news, to-wit:
Well...then, I suppose that "mark" will be tied to the big database in the sky that has my family’s information in it? Next thing we know...they’ll be xraying every house....or worse.
But is it real? OMG!!!!
This is 100% real. I caught them marking mine about two weeks ago.
They’ve been to my house, too. And I’m in the sticks as well.
WOW! President Obama has a global economic meltdown worse than anything since the Great Depression, two wars, a crisis in Pakistan, 47 million Americans without health insurance, millions of Americans unemployed, a continued foreclosure crisis AND a new swine flu epidemic -- and he’s still found time to deploy ACORN to x-ray the homes of Freepers to mark them for unspecified nefarious purposes. I’m impressed! Too bad no one asked a question about this pressing issue at the press conference tonight. Too many distractions, I guess.
Of course, there is teh Google, where you can enter "census" and "GPS" and -- OMG -- find a 2006 article from the friendly folks at NPR about the Bush Administration!!! Who knew they were in on this dastardly plot?
Two-and-a-half years from now, in early 2009, the Census Bureau plans to send an army of 100,000 temporary workers down every street and dusty, dirt road in America. They will be armed with handheld GPS devices.
Robert LaMacchia, head of the Census Bureau's geography division, says they'll capture the latitude and longitude of the front door of every house, apartment and improvised shelter they find.
"We will actually knock on doors and look for hidden housing units," he says. "We will find converted garages; from the outside, it may not look like anybody lives there."
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Shoreh Elhami, director of Geographic Information Systems in Delaware County, Ohio, says this sort of information can save lives.
"Having a geographic dataset that is accurate, comprehensive and current is priceless," Elhami says.
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At her computer, with a few clicks of the mouse, Elhami can pull up a complex, multi-layered picture of Delaware County. Standard commercial software lets her highlight sewer lines, flood plains or real estate tracts. She can pick any address and retrieve pictures of that building from overhead and from the street, along with information about its owner.
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The map can answer questions you never expected to ask, she says. Last year, a big storm came through. A reservoir on the Olentangy River, just upstream from the town, was in danger of overflowing, and authorities thought they might have to release water through the dam.
Nobody knew how many people in the town of Delaware might be flooded out of their homes. Elhami rushed to her electronic map. She added a new layer to the picture — an image she'd received from the Army Corps of Engineers showing low-lying areas that would end up under water.
The image showed the outline of the "inundation zone," and within it, lines and clusters of little red dots. Each of those dots was a house that lay within the potential flood zone.
"The software allows you to do a count of every one of those residences and produce a file of those addresses," she says.
Elhami delivered that file to emergency managers, and they quickly called the people at each address. Fortunately, the storms subsided, and no flood came.
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Now the Census Bureau is planning to undertake much the same kind of effort, on a massive scale, covering the entire country.
Source ~ NPR
An actually SMART program from the Bush Administration, which is, in and of itself, cause for wonder -- unless you’re a member of Free Republic, I guess. Better to believe the posting of someone relying on the second-hand paranoia of a friend of a cousin’s brother-in-law’s co-worker . . . But only if it supports a post worth 400 comments of irrational anti-Obama wingnutteria from your fellow bombshelterists:
Sumbitch. I had one of those idiots at my door 2 Saturdays ago. He knocked and by the time I opened the door, he was scampering down the street. I yelled to him and he returned, only to inform me that he was at my door and that's all he had to say. I initially thought it was a gas meter-reader, but now am sure it was one of Obama's seasonal employees.
HOW would they do THAT? Walk around the house? THIS is what the CENSUS is supposed to do....??? Someone needs to get ON THIS!!!
And, furthermore, wonder what about all those who live in GATED communities? Bill Gates? Rush Limbaugh? Or is it just for us peeons???
Answer: Yes. Bwa-ha-ha-ha.
Does sprinkling the blood of the lamb on the jambs and lintel render your door invisible to their electronic marker?
Hard to say for sure BUT I know how much fun I would have telling some ACORN puke what is was and that it can do that very thing.
Note: Sacrificing animals is never a good thing.
They also record how many doors are on the house.
Um, because that's useful information in the event of a natural disaster?
One of my co-workers just brought up an interesting thought. What if the mark of the beast isn’t on us but on our homes? I know...I should stop drinking the kool aid, but what if?
(Seriously -- try to find a new job!)
Probably so they can program the coordinates into a UAV to surveil, and then nail you with a GBU-39 when you have been identified as an "extremist".
(I am throwing out my UAV tonight.)
Got painted yesterday morning. A middle aged Black woman walked halfway up our driveway, stopped, told us she was from the census bureau and was just checking addresses. After she left my wife looked at me and said ACORN and your stimulus package at work.
prepping for future Predator strikes on 912’ers......
(YES! We of the pre-9/11 mindset are watching YOU. Especially those of us from New York. Like where it happened.)
Try as I might, the only reason I can see for creating a database of physical delivery points within 40 feet of a residence is a military purpose sometimes called painting a target.
GPS driving directions will take you right to the address. Physical mail doesn’t have much problem with delivery to specific addresses either.
Can anybody think of a benign/legitimate reason for such a mass database of residential GPS coordinates?
I live in rural Texas and I’d just hope I’m here at home when some fool comes around to mark my house. That thing will be tracking his every move from inside his digestive system. I really hope all this crap is rumors, because if it isn’t, then it’s time for CWII.
(Note: I thought y'all were already seceding???? )
And never, ever forget that everything President Obama does will, somehow, bring about the Rapture . . . maybe.
You may NOT be raptured pre-trib. You could be raptured pre-wrath and have to go through a lot of this stuff. Nobody knows 100 percent for sure. Be prepared.
Sound advice.
In military applications, there is such a thing as targets being "painted" by a LASER (so guided missiles and bombs can more accurately hit those targets), but I've heard of no such thing as GPS "painting".
I went to the census website and did a search on "GPS". It came up with some scientific report about using GPS for "T.I.G.E.R." (some catchy acronym) data colection in the 2000 census.
I don't think it was intended for evil use then, but just as the Patriot Act was meant to be used against foreign enemies - mainly ragheaded terrorists, by a "good" U.S. government - any such program or technology can be used by an evil U.S. government against those WRONGLY branded as domestic "terrorists" or "extremists" (Tea Party participants, gun owners, Christians, pro-life activists, etc.).
I wouldn't put ANYTHING, whether questionable, unethical, immoral, or ILLEGAL, past THIS, current left-wing led government.
Their pied-piper, Hussein, has PROVEN himself to be a LIAR of the first order.
OMG ~ LASER targets?
Would this be like LASER P.O.O.T.I.E.S.???
Nope. It is far more sinister! The markings iz being done:
to show the antichrist exactly where you live