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This is a Public Service Announcement.

A PSA, according to Wikipedia, is "an advertisement broadcast on radio or television for the public interest."

The "public interest" is whatever the government says it is.

This particular PSA is embedded in an article on a webpage for your personal interest.

Your "personal interest" is whatever you say it is.

The type of PSA we're most familiar with is typically created by incestuous public/private bedfellows consisting of a private ad agency that produces the ad pro bono (a Latin phrase that means, in this case, "in exchange for political favors") and is funded by a public government agency using tax dollars taken from citizens under threat of fine or imprisonment.

The purpose of a government-funded PSA is to make the general public believe what the government wants it to believe.

As an example of a government-funded PSA, a Washington Post article warned us back in January that the government was spending 340 million of our extorted tax dollars on PSAs to make us want to eagerly upchuck our most intimate personal details onto a government form called the 2010 Census.

We were further told that, "The money will also pay for census material for schoolchildren, a traveling road show of census buses at parades and festivals around the country and partnerships with groups that can get [and] distribute give-away trinkets and placards."

If you don't regurgitate your most sensitive facts and foibles onto the census form a federally funded voyeur will knock on your door and insist that you verbally confess to him or her everything that is none of his or her business so he or she can write it all down for you.

Enter Jerry Day and Matrix News Network.

Jerry Day has created a video that gives you ten perfectly good reasons why you need not respond to the government's ten census questions, either on paper or in person.

We don't know if Day, a professional video and media producer, is conservative or progressive or libertarian or anarcho pacifist internationalist Zoroastrian.

But it doesn't matter because, in the spirit of collegial apolitical nonsectarian ecumenical equal opportunity all inclusive diversity, the Dallas Libertarian Examiner herewith and henceforth presents the following Public Service Announcement for everyone living in the Greater North Texas Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex, its immediate environs, exurbs, extremities, and beyond.

And it doesn't cost you a penny in tax money.

See the upper right corner at "Many people have requested the list below"
for the 10 questions in print. (YouTube video)