Americans Don't Care About Domestic Spying ?

S1mmo+61 writes "Salon is analyzing a Time Magazine article today, a piece that essentially claims Americans do not care about the domestic spying. The analysis of the Time magazine piece (which is longer than the article itself) is interesting, if only as a quick history of domestic spying in the last eight years. 'Time claims that "nobody cares" about the Government's increased spying powers and that "polling consistently supports that conclusion." They don't cite a single poll because that assertion is blatantly false. Just this weekend, a new poll released by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University proves that exactly the opposite is true. That poll shows that the percentage of Americans who believe the Federal Government is "very secretive" has doubled in the last two years alone (to 44%)'"

Comments

Re:I actually agree with the article.

[vandit2k6]

But you're missing the point. I am pretty sure they don't care about that stuff, right I don't know but why do you think they would care? The whole point in spying is to weed out the bad guys right? They care about other details.

Re:I actually agree with the article.

[jlarocco]

If I haven't done anything wrong, why are they wasting their time spying on me?

Re:I actually agree with the article.

[tuxgeek]

Amazing what one 2-term presidential administration makes, aka, 8 years. If the level of domestic spying and surveillance going on today had been engaged during Bill Clinton's term, the republican press would have made a big issue out of it. But today all they, the "beetle-like-men", have to do is go to their list of key words like, terrorists, threat level, patriot act, etc... and they can literally wipe their asses with the Constitution and Bill of Rights.