Census workers

My wife worked as a Census worker a few years ago. The people she and others contacted were people that for some reason did not fill out a form mailed to them. Most just overlooked the form and were very cooperative. A few people refused to answer the door. And some people were hostile.

She did the work in rural areas of Northwest Montgomery County. It’s a nice area, with good people. But there is an undercurrent of some very unsocial types. When we started to construct the Perkiomen Trail along an old railroad line; some of the more anti-social types formed a “property rights” group to stop the trail. It was sometimes nasty; wires were strung across the trail to cut down horseback and bike riders. The Perkiomen Trail is now in use and very popular.

The Perkiomen Auction is briefly shut down now and them by the ATF when they are looking for stolen or illegal firearms. That area did and probably still does have a small number of skinhead-Nazi White Nationalists, pot grower/users and organized crime drug traffickers. All three of those very different groups have one thing in common; an abhorrence of the Federal Government.

There was one single parent family that had a Skinhead group renting the house next door to her. Some people in the Local Government told me that it was dangerous to go after the White Nationalists and to back off. We did finally get the Skinheads evicted.

All of this came to mind when I heard the news from Kentucky of a Census worker that was hung and most likely brutally murdered by some anti-government types.