This is total crapolla from a Pew Poll of 1004 respondents.
And anyway, this is not about terrorism. The NSA isn’t eavesdropping on you and me because they’re thinking we’re terrorists. It’s for other nefarious purposes. Or, they can redefine the meaning of “terrorist” and jail us all when they feel like it.
“Oh, I don’t care if the government needs to data snoop in their effort to root out terrorists...I’m not a terrorist, so they won’t be listening in on my private phone calls..”
If it was about terrorists, they’d close the damn border. If it was about terrorists, they’d have picked up the Tsarnaev brothers two years ago. No, it’s about building a dossier of data on every American to use against us at a future date.
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.