I think it’s fair to say that most Americans are putting national security ahead of civil liberties absolutism.

Since these are, of course, the only two choices.

What the poll tells me is that (slightly) over a third of the American population feel that their rights are in jeopardy. While not a majority it is hardly insignificant.

I wish there would have been a fourth option for the people polled to choose from:

d) I do not actually know anything about any of the policies that you are talking about. I feel that my rights are just fine, or that they are being encroached upon, although I don’t actually know why or how.

Robert108,

As you know, Georgia’s nascent Voter ID statute was shot down by a judge (which is why Republicans MUST control the Senate!). Yet poll workers at my voting precinct require picture IDs for both primaries and general elections, local or national. My neighbor, who has volunteered for this work for years, says he has yet to receive a complaint. He just smiles smugly each time I pass by to vote.

It was started two years ago by the previous mayor and city council.

And therfore that makes what the Bush administration is doing to the Constitution okay?

Once again, we hear from a “smart” leftie that the American people don’t know what is going on, and should leave it to the leftie elite to tell us what to do. Typical leftie arrogance and disrespect for “the proletariat”.

Bat: Right on! When I registered this year, I demanded to show my picture ID. Let’s all start a trend!

And therfore that makes what the Bush administration is doing to the Constitution okay?

Sorry. Those Americans have (pardon me while I put on my tin foil hat) fallen into the web of decit and lies perpatrated by the Bush administration as well as all of Congress (Dems and Reps).

This poll tells me that Government (again, Dems and Reps) has successfully taken American’s brains from them and replaced a “government approved” thinker.

The only thing this poll shows is exactly how a state our country really is in and how horribly bad they have been duped.

Ok first off, this poll size is ridiculously small. How is it even fair to suggest that the “Vast Majority Of Americans” or 1,013 in CNN’s terms are satisfied. If CNN hosted the poll, I would assume (please correct me if I’m wrong) the VAST MAJORITY of the polling audience would be under a similar bias as CNN itself.

Starting with the glorious Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.

Uniting and Strengthening?! Right…

“..more than 1,000 Muslim men who have been secretly jailed, many of them secretly deported without having been linked to terrorism.” Innocent until proven guilty? or Guilty, period. Every American should have EQUAL rights. Therefore when someone else gets taken advantage of, you’re taking advantage of the system, the system EVERYONE is protected by. How is this not an infringement of civil liberties.

How much do you want to bet that each and everyone of that third voted for John Fing Kerry?

Nick: I think even US citizens, if they work to support terrorism in any way, have lost their citizenship rights. “The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” You seem to fear that these tactics might be used against regular Americans who aren’t involved in terrorism; do you have any proof at all of that, or is it just another version of the “bogeyman in the closet”, childhood fear?

Ok first off, this poll size is ridiculously small. How is it even fair to suggest that the “Vast Majority Of Americans” or 1,013 in CNN’s terms are satisfied.

That’s a pretty standard sample size for media polls. That’s the same sample size, in fact, that’s being used in all sorts of polls to indicate that Dems are ahead in the election.

I don’t like polls either, Nick, but when the results are this one-sided the conclusion to draw is obvious.

I think you’re just grasping at straws.