How to Answer the "American Community Survey", a Suggestion

Here is what is suggested on the "American Community Survey" that is a supplement to the 2010 US Census. It is suggested that people answer the questions they are comfortable with, but refuse to answer those that they are not and use the explanation given below. If all those who feel that the questions are too intrusive use this approach, this may be a case that indeed does go all the way to the Supreme Court. I believe the People would win.

For Questions That Are Felt To Be Too Intrusive:

I find these questions invasive, intrusive, unnecessary, and a violation of my right to privacy. "This "Right to Privacy", was covered in a Harvard Law Review article written in 1890 by the scholars Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis supporting that privacy should exist as a common law right. Brandeis as a Supreme Court justice stated, "The makers of our Constitution...sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations," he stated in Olmstead v. United States (1928). "They conferred as against the Government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights of man and the right most valued by civilized men."

In addition, the Fourth Amendment protects citizens against violations of their privacy with a ban on "unreasonable searches and seizures" . This questionnaire is deemed no different than an unreasonable search of information in violation of privacy. I respectfully refuse to answer these questions, and firmly believe that this right is protected by both common law and the Constitutional right to privacy.