The Smoking Argus

In his weekly Texas Straight Talk update, Representative Ron Paul discusses the invasive nature of the 2010 U.S. Census and past abuses of such information regardless of promises otherwise by the Federal Government. Dr. Paul points out that the original intent of the census was to conduct a headcount every ten years for the sole purpose of Congressional representation, not the expansive data-mining operation it has become over the years.

Through concerted efforts to categorize ever individual down to a finite ethnicity, race, creed, et cetera, the census in its current form seeks to further push Americans to think of themselves in terms of “people-groups” as opposed to unique individuals thereby reaffirming the racist notion of collectivism. Further and contrary to current and past promises made by the Central Authority, census data supposedly kept under lock & key has been used by numerous agencies within the federal government for nefarious purposes. From the I.R.S seeking to find Income Tax evaders to the Department of Defense searching for males who dodged the draft and even ethnicity in order to facilitate the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, census data has a history of federal abuse.

According to Dr. Paul, he feels the most succinct answer to the all census questions outside of “how many people live here” should be “none of your business”, but continues to point out, refusing to answer the Census Bureau may result in a hefty fine of $5,000 for failure to render your demographics to the bloated federal government.

Source(s): Representative Ron Paul House Website • MinnesotaChris YouTube Channel

Allison Bricker

In what may be seen as a move to stave of the exodus of viewers, old-media cable news outlet MSNBC attempted to further enrage passions surrounding the debate over government health care. In a clip that quickly found its way to YouTube, an MSNBC intro piece showed a man attending a protest outside of President Obama’s health care rally in Phoenix, Arizona armed with an AR-15 rifle. The heavily edited and purposely cropped video then gave way to host Contessa Brewer who transparently opined:

“There are questions whether this [health care town hall protests] have racial overtones. Here you have a man of color in the Presidency with white people showing up with guns.”

Contessa Brewer
August 19th, 2009

Unfortunately for Ms. Brewer, her attempt at further entrenching divisions amongst Americans is revealed to be nothing more than a poorly constructed attempt at race-baiting; the original unedited video clearly shows the man to whom Ms. Brewer’s comments reference is African-American.

Attempts to contact both the MSNBC newsroom and Ms. Brewer for comment have thus far gone unanswered. Moreover, with the old-media’s first attempts at promulgating that the town hall protests were “staged” it is growing ever clearer that the old-media’s faux “journalists” are now seeking to go down a much more unethical and shameful road of inflaming racial tensions.

Source(s): “Obama back in Phoenix 8-17-09 Yes a man had an AR 15… get over it.” YouTube User: WeAreChangeAZ • MSNBC “Morning Meeting” originally aired Tueday, August 18th, 2009