News: The Census and Grime Artist Ghetts the puppet!!

Ghetts's new track, Invisible, is part of a drive to persuade ethnic minorities to fill in the census.

The US arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin is to handle the UK's census data.
"Some don't know what a census is," the London grime artist Ghetts begins, "some do but they don't see the sense in it." Over a catchy hook and with a flashy video to accompany, his new track, "Invisible", seems to be part of the government's drive to persuade young people and ethnic minorities to fill in this year's national census population survey. But there is a small fact they are failing to mention in December 2008, the government quietly awarded the £150m contract to collect and securely handle the 2011 census data to Lockheed Martin, the second-largest arms manufacturer in the world. It makes bombs, bomber jets and has run most of the US military's intelligence gathering and interrogation, including at Guantánamo Bay, where it operated through subsidiary companies. Nice people to be doing business with. The Ghetts track makes clear is that young people, those who have never filled in a census before, are the government's target audience. And the choice has been made clear: fill in the census, or you are breaking the law and could end up in prison. Or, as Ghetts rhymes: "Just remember this, if minorities don't fill in the form, what's the point of living in Britain at all?" Surely all British citizens have a right to live here, regardless of whether or not they feel like giving Lockheed Martin and the British government their personal data?

I wonder how much was he paid to make the song!!

(read full article here) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/13/ghetts-census-guantanamo-bay-lockheed-martin

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NEVER BEEN A FAN OF HIS MUSIC COULDN'T TELL YOU HOE ONE OF HIS VERSES GO BUT IT'S PLAIN TO SEE HE'S A MAJOR TOOL AND HE'S DOWN WITH THE DOUCHES THAT WHAT TO HAVE US ALL ON ONE LARGE CONTROL GRID!!... FIGHT THE POWER THIS AINT A CONSPIRACY THEORY THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND AND DATA (INFO WARS) AND I FOR ONE WON'T BOW!! "GHETTO" YOUR A TAPEWORM SIZZLE, LOSING BYE!!

-FONZ