Margolin Tells the Census Bureau to Go [expletive] Themselves

 

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Chickens Coming Home to Roost at the Census Bureau

 

This is an html version of the letter I sent to the Census Bureau and has active links.

 

Jed Margolin

May 2020

 

 

Jed Margolin                                   1981 Empire Rd                   Reno, NV  89521-7430

jm@jmargolin.com                                                                            30 April 2020

 

 

Dear Census Bureau,

 

This is in response to your endless stream of harassing letters.

 

A.  After your first letter I went to your Web site and entered the information that I am willing to give you.

 

My name is Jed Margolin.

 

I am over 21 years of age.

 

I live at 1981 Empire Rd, Reno Nevada, 89521.

 

That is my mailing address. I physically live in the Virginia City Highlands, Nevada, which is in Storey County. We do not have our own Post Office. Our mail comes from a Post Office in Reno, which is why my address says Reno. Reno is in Washoe County, but I do not live in Washoe County.

 

Several years ago I wondered if you knew that my community is in Storey County. You apparently did, and I wrote about it for my Web site:

 

Margolin Talks to the Census Bureau About His Zip Code

                 www.jmargolin.com/vch/census.htm

 

I will add, while preserving all of my rights under Constitutional and Statutory Law, and Basic Human Rights, that I am the only natural person living at the above address.

 

 

B.   In November 2016 I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Department of Commerce which was given tracking number DOC-OS-2017-000199:

 

Description: This Freedom of Information Act Request involves:

 

1. The following individuals: Charles Reger and Reza Zandian (aka Gholamreza Zandian Jazi aka Gholam Reza Zandian aka Golamreza Zandianjazi aka Reza Jazi aka J. Reza Jazi aka G. Reza Jazi; which will be referred to as Reza Zandian).

 

2. The following companies: Lucach, Computer World USA Division (also known as the USD Division), Optima Technology Corporation, Iran Business Machines, and RISQ Technology Corporation.

 

For background please refer to the Federal Register Volume 60, Number 146 (Monday, July 31, 1995); Notices; Pages 38985-38987: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1995-07-31/html/95-18696.htm

 

I would like the following:

 

1.  Charging Letter dated December 6, 1993 (to Charles Reger from Department of Commerce).

 

2.  Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED), July 5, 1991, signed by Charles Reger, acting in his capacity as

General Manager of Lucach.

 

3.  Any and all Shipper’s Export Declarations signed by Charles Reger or Reza Zandian (aka ....)

 

4.  Any and all Shipper’s Export Declarations on behalf of Lucach, Computer World USA, Optima Technology Corporation, Iran Business Machines, and RISQ Technology Corporation from 1989 through 2016. See attached letter: jm_foia_commerce.pdf Jed Margolin November 18, 2016.

 

For some reason it was transferred to another agency and given a new tracking number: DOC-BIS-2017-000199.

 

In December 2016 I was informed that items 2 and 4 had been transferred to you. These were

 

2.  Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED), July 5, 1991, signed by Charles Reger, acting in his capacity as

General Manager of Lucach.

 

4.  Any and all Shipper’s Export Declarations on behalf of Lucach, Computer World USA, Optima Technology Corporation, Iran Business Machines, and RISQ Technology Corporation from 1989 through 2016.

 

In a letter dated January 19, 2017 you denied my FOIA Request citing the provisions that protect Census information even though this was not Census information. I have attached this as Reference 1. (For an html version click here.)

 

Here is some background.

 

In 1993 Reza Zandian and his partner Charles Reger were arrested attempting to export a high performance IBM computer through France to Iran. The destination in Iran was the Iran Ministry of Agriculture which is a known front for bringing in high technology equipment for use in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. 

 

Zandian and Reger were put on trial (Criminal Case #: 2:93-cr-00055-ER-1 in U.S. District Court for California). Somehow Zandian was found not guilty even though the Federal agents who arrested him had him dead-to-rights. Reger was dismissed from the case by supposedly dying. (Did he die or was he given a new identity? If he really did die was he murdered to shut him up?)

 

Even though Zandian beat the rap his companies were banned from exporting equipment from the U.S. for a period of 10 years. It was those companies that were, in part, the subject of my FOIA Request.

 

These companies were used by Zandian to export banned high technology equipment to Iran for use in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs. If you are somehow not aware, Iran is the sworn enemy of the United States and is dedicated to destroying the United States.

 

And so, you used bureaucratic obfuscation and mendacity TO PROTECT THE ENEMIES OF THIS COUNTRY.

 

That makes you not only untrustworthy, but an agency that is a danger to this country. Why should the American people trust you with their personal information? I know I don’t.

 

 

C.   As far as your promise of confidentiality is concerned, the following two sections are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Census :

 

1.

The census records data specific to individual respondents are not available to the public until 72 years after a given census was taken, but aggregate statistical data derived from the census are released as soon as they are available.

 

With Google’s data mining capability and the extensive database they keep on everyone who uses Google for anything I have no doubt that they can use their expertise to narrow down your aggregate statistical data to individuals. (And if you use an Android Smart Phone they know even more about you.)

 

Google isn’t the only company with expertise in data mining. There is also Sisense, Oracle Data Mining, IBM Cognos, DOMO, RapidMiner, KNIME Analytics Platform, Orange Data Mining, and Dundas BI. No doubt there are many others and I will bet that they (and Google) are the first ones to download your data as soon as it is available.

 

2. 

Under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), using primarily census records, compiled (1939–1941) the Custodial Detention Index ("CDI") on citizens, enemy aliens, and foreign nationals, who might be dangerous. The Second War Powers Act of 1941 repealed the legal protection of confidential census data, which was not restored until 1947. This information facilitated the internment of Japanese-Americans, following the Japanese attack on the U.S. at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the internment of Italian- and German-Americans following the United States' entry into World War II.[34][35]

 

You have already broken your promise of confidentiality several times. There is nothing to stop you from doing it again.

 

Donald J. Trump became President of the United States as a result of Russian interference with the 2016 election. If not for that he would be in prison at this very moment for the numerous financial crimes that he committed before becoming The Fake President.

 

Trump has hollowed out and corrupted almost every single Federal agency ranging from DOJ to Homeland Security to the Department of State to OSHA to CDC. If he orders you to turn over individuals’ information to him, YOU WILL DO IT. It doesn’t matter whether it is for use by his companies for commercial advantage or for political purposes. YOU WILL DO IT.

 

For the foregoing reasons (and because you denied my request for a fee waiver based on the Journalist Exemption) your demand for additional information from me is HEREBY DENIED.

 

And you are hereby ORDERED to go [expletive] yourself.

 

 

D.   If you send your representatives to my house they should be accompanied by a sworn officer from the Storey County Sheriff’s Department who should bring either a Court Order or a Warrant for my arrest.

 

I do not take kindly to strangers showing up at my door unannounced.

 

Remember Zandian?

 

In 2007 Zandian stole several of my U.S. Patents (some of which are considered pioneering aerospace patents in the field of synthetic vision) by fraudulently filing documents with the U.S. Patent Office. In 2009 I sued him in the First Judicial District Court of Nevada. I eventually got a large judgment against him. And because of his conduct there is a Warrant out for his arrest for Contempt of Court.

 

Zandian’s third law firm (Kaempfer Crowell) withdrew from representing him because, among other things, “Defendant insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant...” Considering the actions that Kaempfer Crowell did take for Zandian they have a very high bar for what they consider repugnant.

 

You can read all about it on my Web site: www.jmargolin.com/zandian/zandian.htm .

 

I have reason to believe that Zandian is very unhappy with both my Judgment against him and the Warrant for his Arrest.

 

Since Zandian is an undisputed terrorist it is likely that at some point he will send someone up here to whack me. That is why I do not like strangers showing up at my door unannounced. And why I have a security and surveillance system.

 

If you send your people you should expect a video of the encounter to be posted on YouTube and other channels. You might think (like the Gestapo) “Great, that will strike fear in the hearts of others to make them obey us.”

 

I am willing to bet that you would be wrong.

 

 

Regards,

 

 

___________________

      Jed Margolin

 

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