What is Next? A Quartering Act. Nothing Would Suprise Me

So, you are asking what has a 1770's British law got to do with today? Everything. There is not much that is really new on this planet and this Census - GPS activity has got a lot of folks stirred up. Back to that in a second or two, now the Quartering and various other Acts precipitating the War of Independence.

At page 480 The First American, The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, H.W.Brands:

Whether the acts that followed were more or less moderate depended on one's point of view. The Massachusetts Government Act suspended the charter of the colony and granted the Crown much greater control over its affairs. The Administration of Justice Act allowed royal officials charged with certain crimes to be tried in England. The Quartering Act required private householders to take in troops upon the order of the British commanding officer. The Quebec Act - not a direct response to the Boston Tea Party but passed in the same atmosphere of disregard for American sensibilities - established a London-dominated civil government for Canada and extended the boundaries of Canada to the Ohio River, effectively vetoing claims of several of the existing colonies to the region.

To hear it these days, Americans protesting this action by the "Mother Country" were certainly backwoods hayseeds, rightwing nuts, homophobes, racists, whatever is diversionary to shoot the messenger. Back then it was Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and General George Washington appointed to command the Continental Army. We are watching history repeat itself only now we have GPS, EMPs, the Cyber World and here is what the United Nations are planning in part:

Full document at link. From the UN's site
UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT
ESA/STAT/AC.98/14

Department of Economic and Social Affairs 03 September 2004
Statistics Division
English only

United Nations Expert Group Meeting to Review Critical Issues Relevant to the Planning of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses

15-17 September 2004
New York

Integration of GPS, Digital Imagery and GIS with Census Mapping*
By United Nations Statistics Division
DESA
* This document is being reproduced without formal editing.

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/meetings/egm/CensusEGM04/docs/AC98_14.pdf

INTRODUCTION

1. The recent technological developments, including new high-resolution sensors, global positioning systems (GPS), geographical information systems (GIS), Internet and World Wide Web services, are revolutionizing cartography, surveying and mapping in fundamental ways: geographic data is easily collected and combined with a variety of other data in order to create relevant information for spatial analysis and decision making. Geographic information, in its digital form, is indeed exchanged more rapidly, duplicated without alteration, and easily disseminated to end-users.

2. For the past decade, the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) has been
promoting the development of geographical information systems for population and
demographic statistics in developing countries through technical cooperation projects
supported by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), training
workshops, and technical publications. However, the statistical community in developing countries has been slow to adopt the use of GIS, partially due to the monetary constraint posed by commercial software and the availability of computers, base maps, satellite imagery, work load, etc.

3. This paper outlines some developments in satellite imagery, GPS and GIS with
reference to census mapping activities, and provides some insight on the similarities
between a geographic information process and a census mapping process, therefore, it urges for the integration of these geospatial technologies within the census mapping process. It suggests some future actions to undertake in order to help kick-start the development of this field in developing countries.

Now with that under belt, read this:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97208

LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Census GPS-tagging your home's front door
Coordinates being taken for every residence in nation

My response was to generate this letter to Otero County Commissioners:

Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 18:35:45 +0000
To: Clarissa McGinn; Ronny Otero; Pamela Heltner
Subject: U.S. Census Bureau Speaker at Otero County Worksession


Dear Clarissa, Ronny and Pamela for Doug Moore,

In posting the agenda for the worksession in Chaparral, I see that Tom Chagolla of the U.S. Census Bureau is listed as a speaker for the worksession only.

I would request that Mr. Chagolla also be added to the Regular Meeting on Thursday, May 21st. If Mr. Chagolla is not able to attend the Regular Meeting I would request a written explanation as to why and that, plus a transcript of his remarks at the worksession, be added to the worksession minutes.

By copy of this letter, I am asking Donald Yee of Everything Alamogordo to stream the worksession.

Please read the article below. [ That is the article linked above.] Perhaps Mr. Chagolla could answer some of the questions raised and I am sure you can think of some of your own.

Janet White

I have received an affirmative response from Commissioner Rardin.

To complete the circle, take a moment to reflect on the Acts imposed on the Colonies and compare them to the actions of the federal government and the U.N.