Posted on 06/01/2010 9:12:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
On April 27, 2010, I got a job with the United States Census Bureau in New Jersey. With a hidden camera, I caught four Census supervisors encouraging enumerators to falsify information on their time sheets. Over the course of two days of training, I was paid for four hours of work I never did. I was told to take a 70 minute lunch break, was given an hour of travel time to drive 10 minutes, and was told to leave work at 3:30pm. I resigned prior to doing any data collection but confronted Census supervisors who assured me, “no one is going to be auditing that that level,” and “nobody is going to be questioning it except for you.” Another Census supervisor only said he’d adjust my pay after I gave him a letter recanting my hours.
As to whether this is an “isolated incident” or if there are more Census videos showing more waste, fraud, and corruption, we’ll let you take a wild guess.
America, real journalism has been dead for a long time now. With $1500 Hannah Giles and I were able to break a story that the New York Times couldn’t have broken no matter how many times they mortgaged their building. The government took our camera, so I bought another. The government put us in jail and deleted our tapes, but we got out and we’ll just make more. My travel was restricted to the state of New Jersey, so that’s where I got back to work. The media establishment is busy doing character assassinations on my friends and me but time and truth is on our side.
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Fearless kid
Good luck, James
Yeah, you either get travel time or you don’t. Have never seem anyone do increments. This kid might want to go after bigger fish. And stop breaking the law while he’s at it.
...seen anyone...
I’m sure there are some good census workers. But why would anyone think there wouldn’t be corruption in something that Zero has his fingers in?
Would you expect LESS in New Jersey?
The state is RUN by Demoncrats.
Christie has his work more than cut out for him.
I am in awe of this young man and his friends. I am ashamed that the vast majority of us would not risk a single hour of jail time to expose the corruption in our government. This young man has had his freedom to expose corruption hampered at every turn by a illegal, corrupt governmental system and we sit by and do nothing other than wish this good man “good luck”.
So, who of us will step up to the plate and do something more than simply vote? No need to reply, simply organize a small cell of close friends and plot your own expose of corrupt democrat organizations. Unions, schools, governmental bureaucracies, politicians, judges, non-profits...learn the technology, buy the technology, and DO!
“And stop breaking the law while he’s at it.”
That’s what I expect will happen next. The government will come after him for knowingly filing a false time sheet. It would be hard to dodge this charge as he has documented it explicitly in his video.
“Yeah, you either get travel time or you don’t. Have never seem anyone do increments. This kid might want to go after bigger fish. And stop breaking the law while he’s at it.”
Yeah, and maybe you should do what is apparently impossible for you and grow a brain...miracles do happen.
Genius.
Sounds to me like a low level leader decided to cut corners in the training class and didn’t want the trainees’ time sheets to reflect that fact. It is a local and not a systemic problem.
What did he do that was illegal?
“Yeah, let’s fight illegal acts with...illegal acts!
Genius.”
He did not commit an illegal act, he exposed an illegal act moron.
Why do you think that is? He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for his little phone fiasco a few months ago. Stop name-calling for a minute or two and do a little research.
Do you defend Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson when they intentionally break the law to make their point?
Because $17 an hour isn’t enough for some people to do competent work.
A misdemeanor. That is the functional equivalent of tresspassing. Big deal. If I have to commit a misdemeanor to expose government corruption, fraud and abuse, I don't think I would hesitate for a moment. It is a small price to pay. O'Keefe is willing to pay that price. Are you?
Now back to my question. What exactly did O'Keefe do (in this Census expose) that was "illegal"?
Do you defend Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson when they intentionally break the law to make their point?
I supported Rosa Parks. Still do. There are some laws which need to be broken.
Would you have prosecuted Rosa Parks for sitting in the front of the bus?
Yeah, the misdemeanor of entering a Federal office under "false pretenses". Yeah, I know, it is a law; but it's a law that exists solely to take care of people who cause discomfort to those in power and not to actually, like, you know, maintain law and order.
I commend him for not putting up with that sort of officious crap.
It was essentially “tresspassing”.
“entering a federal building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor”
He was checking the phone lines (disguised as a phone repairman) and asking the employees about the phones because Senator Mary Landrieu was not taking calls from constiuents. They could call out of the office but no calls were coming in.
The media smear was that he was tapping her phone lines which was a bald faced Pravda Media lie.
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