Posted on 06/10/2013 3:35:29 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
A large majority of Americans say the federal government should focus on investigating possible terrorist threats even if personal privacy is compromised, and most support the blanket tracking of telephone records in an effort to uncover terrorist activity, according to a new Washington Post-Pew Research Center poll.
Fully 45 percent of all Americans say the government should be able to go further than it is, saying that it should be able to monitor everyone’s online activity if doing so would prevent terrorist attacks. A slender majority, 52 percent, say no such broad-based monitoring should occur.
The new survey comes amid recent revelations of the National Security Agency’s extensive collection of telecommunications data to facilitate terrorism investigations.
Overall, 56 percent of Americans consider the NSA accessing telephone call records of millions of Americans through secret court orders “acceptable,” while 41 percent call the practice “unacceptable.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
This American believes it is unacceptable for my government to go trawling for criminals or even storing anything about me when I am under no suspicion for a crime.
LIES LIES EVERY TIME SOMETHING HAPPENS THE FREAKING LIARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE SAY THE POPULACE SUPPORTS IT.
LIES
Gun crime? No, Obamabots want to eliminate guns, period.
“Most Americans” don’t understand that virtually every call, text, email, or online transaction is being recorded by the government. They have been deceived. It’s going to take time.
The USG is the #1 terrorist. Who is monitoring them?
BS!
Quite so. I have already imagined that food purchases and restaurant visits paid via credit card will be a factor when it comes to deciding who gets that heart operation or cancer treatment and who doesn’t twenty years from now if Obamacare is in effect.
>> There is no oversight. It potential for abuse scares the hell out of me!
Indeed. And the Marxist scumbags will abuse, and possibly have abused, such potential.
I’m dubious about the notion that the NSA is an irresponsible operation that is inattentive to matters of privacy. No doubt the “browsers” exist, but there are ways to guard against that.
The silver lining here is awareness, and the understanding there should be an appropriate level of oversight. One might think Congress should be handling this, but DC is completely #ed up. A private sector consortium should exist for this purpose that includes equal representation of small to large concerns. Plenty of individuals have security clearance and the appreciation of liberty. It could be done.
I didn’t know that we had 310 million terrorist threats living in this country.
Its all in the question.
They talk about investigating a terrorist threat but this isn’t about that.
Its about spying on millions of people who have nothing to do with terrorism.
That’s unconstitutional and unaccepatable.
And here I was wondering all day how they were going to try and spin this. I figured they’d either have Snowden’s GF (or her daughter) claim rape by evening news time.
With that said, I wouldn’t believe this propoganda piece if they only polled washington post employees. And since thr fedgov loveds to snoop, I’ll give them something to wet the bed over:
(Ahem - biff biff... is this thing on? Good): attention spooks: you can buy up all the ammo. Go ahead and hunt down Snowden and make an example out of him. You can trash out borders, weaken the currency, even give a good race riot for our summer entertainment...
... and it won’t make a damn bit of difference. You’ve lost the trust of the American people and there’s nothing you can do about it. From the tea party guy, to the occupy wall street gal, and every low information voter in between. They all have smart phones, tables, pc’s etc. Across the political spectrum, no one thinks its you (expletive) business to know everything about the people who pay your salaries.
Think the information highway is your little digital playground? Well monitor this: we’re Americans, dammit! We built this network AND we can tear it down and build another one that’ll leave you spooks playing pacman to avoid dying of bordem! The net only stays up because, well... we’re nice people.
Don’t believe me, just ask a fellow geek.
Go ahead. Throw us in jail. Bankrupt us. Kill us. We don’t care. I for one WILL NOT surrender to evil foreign OR DOSMESTIC!!
Did you get all that over in Fort Meade? Good. Just remember that as of now, we all surf the same web.
Jimjohn - OUT (drops the mic).
+1,000,000,000,000
Yes, but they have to sell it as “eliminating the tragedy of gun crime”.
Here is the crux of the problem.
When the Obama government says they collect and use data like this to facilitate terrorism investigations and uncover possible terrorist threats most people think they mean they are looking for rage filled muslim crazies determined to kill Americans.
But when high level administration authorities, like Barack Obama, Janet Napolitano and others speak of potential terrorists they don’t only mean muslim crazies, or maybe they don’t mean muslim crazies at all.
But they do mean military vets, gun owners, patriots, anti-abortion and anti-homo Christians, Constitutionalists, advocates of smaller government, people who oppose socialism and communism, etc. - what Obama calls “Bitter Clingers” but what we think of as solid, loyal, American citizens.
What morons besides Obamnabots are buying?
LOL!.......
I also noticed the weird use of adjectives and adverbs.
That is simply not true. If it were, there’d be no discussion. Most Americans do not want to be spied on.
Where did they take the poll? The men’s room at the Weiner campaign HQ?
Propaganda arms of the state controlled media in full effect here. No surprise. I believe precisely nothing they say.
This could be cited as an example of propaganda language that Joseph Goebbels would envy.
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