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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Americans love surveillance, poll says: Spy on us, please!
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200112\NAT2
0011213a.html
Most Americans Support Government Surveillance, Poll Says
By John Rossomando
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
December 13, 2001
(CNSNews.com) - Efforts by the ACLU and other civil liberties
groups to turn public opinion against the president's
anti-terrorism initiatives are falling on deaf ears, according to a
poll conducted by Zogby International. "Despite the best efforts by
the ACLU and other rights groups... the various anti-terrorist
efforts by the president and the attorney general have strong
public support," said pollster John Zogby, president and CEO of
Zogby International. The Zogby poll indicates that 54 percent of
Americans favor allowing telephone conversations to be monitored;
80 percent favor allowing video surveillance of public places such
as street corners; 67 percent favor roadblock searches of vehicles,
and 67 percent favor having their mail monitored. John Zogby says
he finds it "shocking" that Americans are willing to allow the
government to have greater access to their personal lives in
exchange for security. "We are in a moment where fear trumps other
considerations," Zogby said. "Frankly, I guess I never thought
[that] I would live to see the day when Americans would want their
cars stopped and checked, or their mail monitored, but we certainly
had that day."
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