The Census Bureau has a process where they send out very long survey documents to a small percentage of randomly-chosen Americans. 

This survey is called the American Community Survey (ACS) and has a process of multiple mailings, phone calls to your residence, and even Census Bureau collectors who may show up at your home.

The ACS is a very invasive survey document which claims to be used for helping the government determine what government services are needed to help Americans.  Many Americans, around fifty percent or more in some areas, refuse to do the survey and mail it to the Census Bureau.

The Census Bureau has hired temporary workers to do the process of pursuing and collecting the ACS surveys.  The ACS collectors claimthat they can impose fines of $100 to $5,000 on anyone who does not do the survey.  This is making many Americans very upset.

Some people think the ACS could be used to find assets the government may want to take away from Americans, like Nazi Germany did to the Jews and others in Nazi Germany. 

The Census Bureau has lost many computers on which Americans’ data was stored, and has poor processes for protecting people’s data which the ACS is collecting.  The ACS does ask for your name, your income, where you have been living, whether you have used health care insurance and for what, and many other personal matters.  Protection of a person’s information is so crucial in these days when “identity theft” is rampant.  Some people refuse to give their information because of the lack of protection of their data.

If you have been chosen to do the ACS survey, and you do not want to do it, you are probably going to be harassed by the survey collectors.  You will get multiple mailings and reminders in the mail, you may get phone calls, and you may have ACS collectors knock on your door.

The ACS survey collectors get a PAY BONUS for every survey they collect.  Therefore, the pushiness of the collectors can be very high because they make money from harassing you into doing the survey.

The threats these ACS collectors make have no teeth.  The CensusBureau cannot take money from your bank account or garnish your income; they have no way of getting you to pay the fine if they send you a notice about a fine you owe.

Also, the Census Bureau cannot put you in jail or cause you any legal problems.  You can ignore them.

If you have a ACS survey collector show up at your door, you should call 911 and tell the police that someone is trespassing and you want them  removed.  Do not complain about “harassment” because that would give the police some questions to ask.  Just complain about “trespassing” and make sure the ACS collector hears you call 911.  The ACS person will leave before the police arrive.

Here is the address of one blog which contains comments from people who have received the ACS.  One person states the normal process isfor the ACS to spend 90 days trying to get your cooperation: first mailing copies of the survey to you and mailing reminders, then they make phone calls to you, and also visit your home.  Usually around 90 days of these hassles, they will then move on and your name will be dropped from the list. 

If you answer the survey, they will keep calling you for more information. 

THERE IS NO NEED FOR YOU TO GIVE THEM YOUR INFORMATION.

Here is a blog address where you can read comments from others being harassed by the ACS:

http://txfx.net/2008/01/07/the-american-community-survey/

DoveofO:  dove@nesara.us