Now I am REALLY mad! Public Documents Disappearing

I do not usually put politics in my blogs because it really isn't a good thing to offend potential readers, but tonight I MUST make an exception.  What is going on in our government right now offends me deeply.  Public documents are disappearing.  This should offend anyone researching their family history, anyone who has a federal pension, Social Security, or Medicare.  It should offend our veterans who require medical care for wounds and injuries they sustained doing their duty. 

I found a post on BlueSky about the questionnaires for all the censuses, right up to the 2020 census, being available online.  Oh, goodie, this is great, thought my naive mind.  So I started downloading or copying and pasting the lovely fount of information available there.

How wonderful this is, I thought.  I did not save copies of the past years' censuses, so here was my chance to reconstruct them with these questionnaire forms from 1960 to 2020.

And one-by-one, they started disappearing right before my eyes.  At first, I got a message saying that something had gone wrong and they were working to fix it.  Yeah, right.  Then it was a straight-out 404 error.

Already having trashed the online files of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), now Elon Musk's storm troopers are at the Census Bureau, trashing those files, too.  Pretty soon, accessing past census information for family history research will be NO MORE.  

These are PUBLIC documents.  They belong to US, We the People.  They do not belong to the current (mal)administration, that arrogant power-mad South African, or anyone else in the government.  They belong to US.

The OMB trashing really worries me, because my husband is retired federal civil service.  This looks, to me, like the first move in taking away our pensions.  With a daughter suffering from cancer, and the medical bills associated with all that, we can ill afford to lose any of our income.

And neither can millions of other Americans, squeaking by paycheck-to-paycheck, many working two or even three jobs just to make ends get at least within a foot or two of each other.

And those rich, arrogant, power-mad, greedy pieces of trash in the nation's capital cackle with the obscene exercise of their power.  

There is a quotation from a computer game, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, that I think applies here:

"Beware of him who would control your access to information, for, in his heart, he sees himself your master."