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People are being urged to boycott next month's UK's census because the US arms manufacturer responsible for Trident is involved in gathering the information.
Protesters say they are willing to break the law and face a £1,000 fine and a criminal record by refusing to fill in the 32-page questionnaire.
The company, which makes Trident nuclear missiles, cluster bombs and F-16 fighter jets, won the £150m contract to run the census on behalf of the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
A spokesman for the Stop the War Coalition said: "We will certainly be calling for a boycott and telling people not co-operate with the warmongers."
"The really worrying thing is the fact that the information being collected in the next census – including new questions on sources of income and place of birth [to help monitor immigration] – would be ideal fodder for the kind of anti-terror analyses being carried out by Lockheed, and could lead to a faraway database identifying thousands of us as potential 'threats'."
"No personal census data will be handled or seen by any American-owned company".
"we have no legal precedence as to whether, under the pretext of national security, this census information can be acquired by the US government. The Office for National Statistics claims that our data will be safe but the UK government has demonstrated on several occasions that it cannot be trusted with managing digital data containing personal records."
Originally posted by pazcat
reply to post by OptimisticPessimist
That's alright.
I honestly wonder how many people would get the fine for not doing the census.
I seriously doubt many would.
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
i wont be filling it in thats for sure.....theres no law saying you have to...just an act which needs consent...which i refuse to give, given the circumstances!!
Have you heard of the Alberta tar sands?
Originally posted by OptimisticPessimist
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
i wont be filling it in thats for sure.....theres no law saying you have to...just an act which needs consent...which i refuse to give, given the circumstances!!
Are you referring to Legal Fiction?
Our First Nations people are ingesting poisonous water and polluted fish, dying from all kinds of cancers, while their home land is being ripped from under them.
Originally posted by loves a conspiricy
I had a letter from DVLA telling me i had to pay them £20 to have the pic on my license changed before 11-01-11 or i would face a £1000 fine...
Originally posted by fakedirt
an idea for all who have reservations about this.