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The NSA Is Viewed Favorably By Most Young People
cstacy writes: A poll by the Pew Research Center suggests that Snowden's revelations have not much changed the public's favorable view of the NSA. Younger people (under 30) tend to view the NSA favorably, compared to those 65 and older. 61% of people aged 18-29 viewed the NSA favorably, while 30% viewed the NSA unfavorably and 9% had no opinion. 55% of people aged 30-49 viewed the NSA favorably. At the 65+ age bracket, only 40% of people viewed the NSA favorably.
In other news, Satan is viewed positively by those who have never heard of him...
...and you do, because they're reading everything... how would YOU respond?
young people say the 'right' thing to pollsters.
They should have asked this way: "NSA is reading your WhatsApp, your phone calls and your mobile photos and making a copy of them. With that, it's building a database to determine if you *might* be criminal and make you disappear. What do you think of NSA?"
Oh yeah, the old "Back in MY day....!" argument. Excellent way to explain away everything with one centuries-old ridiculous premise.
I've learned that they're worthless, so I don't read AC comments anymore.
So, now you have strong evidence that the people you talk to are not representative of America as a whole.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Sheeples will like something when they are told by someone that that something is good
Most of the younger generations have been brought up without any struggle - everything has been provided for, from physical things such as housing, food, schooling to virtual things like voting rights, it's all there
Unlike generation of yore who had to fight the system in order to get something - the young uns don't need to
They are content, and content people can easily turned into sheeples
The question then is what will this data be used for if it is not usable/used for its intended purpose? I can think of nothing good, and this is the reason for those rights in the first place. To prevent tyranny.
Silence is a state of mime.
How much of this is a reflection of "I trust the government, if my guy is in charge. I don't trust the government if the other guy is in charge."
The Patriot Act is probably a great example of this. How many people flipped positions on whether the Patriot Act was a good thing or a bad thing when Bush left office and Obama became president?
From what I can see, consistency of thought and philosophy seems rather rare in American politics. Too many people are partisan whores who always agree with their party and always disagree with the other party.
And the politicians using double and triple speak know terrorist can do the same making any communication looking like common conversation..
The Spying and lying through the main stream media is just a manipulation feedback loop of the Peoples employees of government manipulating the employers (the people) among the many other things the Employees of the people are doing against the Declaration of Independence. i.e. stealing the retirement funds of the employers (the people) funded by the employers (social security), illegally arming the police with military equipment (and having the employers. the people pay twice for the same equipment claimed to be "surplus") while trying to suppress the employers arms (anti-gun efforts) and more . Its time the people apply their rights and do their duty and instruct those working in the peoples business of government, how the funding (taxes) they are supplying is to be used.
Its simple to do, a form to allow the taxpayers, the funders of government, to say how their taxes are to be used and included in the tax returns for the tax processors to allocate the funds according to the taxpayers instructions. Also needed is teh government transparency information, what the government wants funding for so the people can each decided to fund or not. If the government doesn't say, they don't get.
If there is a problem with allocation then funds are placed in a credit union account till government supplies verified receipts in accord to teh allocated funds, for reimbursement.
There is no need to spy on the employers, as the employers will set the budgets and this way the representatives will actually know what to do to represent the people. And the People will become participants rather than subjects.
This is a republic, not a democracy but democracy is only to be a supplement of the republic. However two universities (Princeton being one of them) have technically determined the government is functioning as an Oligarchy. Now read the Declaration of Independence for the instructions the founders wrote for what the people are to do about this distortion and abuse of bad business of letting the peoples employees run the funding of the peoples business of government bank account.,
> Younger folks do not understand these concepts or have lived in fear of "What if they draft me next?"
More importantly, mothers have not lived in fear of "what if they draft my son next." That is why the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were the two longest wars in American history. We need to bring back the draft so that the personal fear of consequences for war-mongering is something every parent has to live with, not just the parents of those for whom the military is an employer of last resort.
I write this because my nephew enlisted and became an army ranger doing two tours in Afghanistan and it drove his mother to alcoholism because every night she worried herself sick about his safety. He got out with only mental trauma (still wears one of those black KIA wrist-bands) and is getting a full-ride at a prestigious university now, and she's on the wagon. If every mother had to face the same thing my sister-in-law did, we would have been out of those countries much faster, we may never have gone into Iraq in the first place.
Getting rid of the draft was the most pro-war policy change in the history of the US.