Collins Report

By Kevin “Coach” Collins

It is hard to find words for this level of nerve. Arab Americans who make up 1 ½ percent of just one state (Michigan) want special treatment from the Census Bureau.

This is a case of political correctness boomeranging and clocking a sanctified “ethnic” group. Next year’s Census promises to be one of the last vestiges of American administrative process that will fall to liberal Democrat fiat to either change or ignore anything about America that gets in their way.

The Census causes problems for liberals searching for ways to get around Constitutional requirements to ask only how many people of which gender live in a household.

Liberal Democrats don’t really like our Constitution. They think nothing of violating it, so don’t bet they won’t find a way to twist the rules to accommodate the Michigan Arab community’s demand for yet another box to be added as a choice of self description on the Census form. They want an “ARAB” box they can check.

The problem for the liberals is: on the one hand how do they sneak illegal aliens passed the Census bean counters by disallowing questions about “ancestry” and on the other how do they kowtow to Arab American demands to be recognized as a distinct ethnic group?

Currently Arab Americans are officially classified as “White” regardless of their skin tone.

The tail is trying to wag the dog

The purpose of a Census was supposed to be merely a formal enumeration of the population every ten years. States have always been allowed to adjust their own counts but this is not enough for those who want to put their thumb on the scale and change the results to their advantage.

According to an official at the Census Information Center in Hamtramck Michigan, having the “ancestry” question “provides a better notion of our pluralistic society and who we are.” That such practice divides us rather than unites us wouldn’t occur to this gentleman.

The solution to this matter is to ask not what a person’s “ancestry” is (which as a member of the ten percent of Americans who are part Indian I can understand) but rather to ask “Are you a citizen or a legal alien?” But that will never happen.

Keeping a sharp eye on the data generated by the Census next year is of vital importance. All the hard work we put into retaking control of our government could go down in flames if we don’t guard against the swarms of illegal aliens that the Democrats will attempt to use to hold on to their power.

Of course there are several areas that will demand our attention in the coming year and a half but Census data integrity can not and must not be overlooked.

My friends we can lose our country if we mishandle this pressing problem.

What will you do? Will you look away and pretend our country can be saved by someone else?

That “someone else” is you.

What have you done to defend American freedoms today?

Sources

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091217/NEWS05/912170521/1322/Groups-White-isnt-enough-on-census&template=fullarticle

This day in history December 24

1818 : “Silent Night” was composed by Franz Joseph Gruber, an
Austrian organist. The music for the poem Silent Night is by Josef Mohr.

“Silent Night” is the only known published piece of music Gruber is credited with writing.

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