The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for September 07, 2015
September 06, 2015
September 08, 2015
Transcript:
Huey: What if people don't want to be counted? Don't they have the right to be left alone? You're being trained as an agent of privacy invasion. You're walking down a dangerous path that can't lead anywhere good. I bet most of the informants against the Black Panthers were trained census-takers. Granddad: Oh, shut up already!!
The census is a power delegated by the people to the federal government by the Constitution for purposes of congressional representation. But that’s the ONLY reason for this power. Anything beyond a head count is unconstitutional, so Huey’s partly right.
The census has become invasive and other than giving the number of people living in a household, which is all the Constitution requires, no one is compelled to give any further information. But damn, Huey just gets so rabid … I agree with him, but after a while I’d be inclined to tell him to shut it.