Americans Not Bothered by NSA Spying

Snap E Tom writes "According to a Washington Post poll, a majority (63%) of Americans 'said they found the NSA program to be an acceptable way to investigate terrorism.' A slightly higher majority would not be bothered if the NSA collected personal calls that they made. Even though the program has received bi-partisan criticism from Congress, it appears that the public values security over privacy."

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as the saying goes..

[Abstract_Me]

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.

        -Thomas Jefferson

Sic?

[jawtheshark]

Sic Heil Bush

It's "Sieg Heil"... *sigh*

Re:Americans can do what they want.

[pl1ght]

Lets compare laws, social freedoms, etc etc. Point for point, then when we still come out on top by a large number for the freedoms we Americans have, you can still giggle about it. Even with our "decreasing" number of freedoms as some would call it, we still are the most free nation on earth by far.

Re:It's about perspective, you fuckwit.

[schmaustech]

Nice - "say that our "war on terrorism" has costed us more"

"costed"

Go back and check your Speak-n-Spell, I think the Speak is broken.

Re:Yay! For the USA! You're an IDIOT!

[eward_bsd]

YOU'RE AN IDIOT!

Re:security over privacy

[Golias]

Pfft.

It's call data. BFD.

Even if the government had a recording of every overseas call I ever made, along with complete biographies of everybody I talked to, AND a list of my favorite internet pr0n sites, they'd still have less information about me than amazon.com already does.

Privacy is an illusion. Get over it, or move to a 12x12 shack in Montana.

Re:Yes, it was

[rirugrat]

And all of the 502 "adults" polled just happened to live in Kansas. In addition, almost all polled agreed that this Darwin thing is just a passing fad.

Praise the Lord!

Re:Yay! For the USA!

[Hatta]

Those numbers are meaningless because many of them were collected with proprietary unauditable electronic voting machines manufactured by a major contributor to bush's campaign who promised to deliver Ohio.

Was there fraud? I dunno. But the machines were deliberately designed such that it is impossible to prove that there is no fraud. That speaks volumes in and of itself.