ABSTRACT
This chapter traces some of the main fissures and conflicts within and between state responses to the boycott. In fact there was both institutional and public support for the census, but it would be too simplistic by far to describe official support with the term ''the state''. The legal-constitutional state of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland is being challenged on the matter of whether or not it carries out a unanimously passed law.'' State Data Protection Commissioners were installed in all federal states and West Berlin on the heels of this legislation, and charged with the same mission. The Federal Government makes a show of state power and reason-of-state. The citizens search out all possible ways to refuse, be it legally through weak points in the census form, or illegally through false responses or mass boycott. According to one activist, significant numbers seemed prepared to continue their engagement with the wider issue of the surveillance state.
