Posted on 06/11/2002 6:39:05 AM PDT by Boonie Rat
Poll: Four in Five Americans Would Give Up Some Freedom for More Security
By Jennifer L. Brown Associated Press Writer
Published: Jun 11, 2002
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Four in five Americans would give up some freedoms to gain security and four in 10 worry terrorists will harm them or their family, a new Gallup poll shows.
About one-third of those polled favor making it easier for authorities to access private e-mail and telephone conversations. More than 70 percent are in favor of requiring U.S. citizens to carry identification cards with fingerprints, and 77 percent believe all Americans should have smallpox vaccinations.
"It was amazing the percentage of people who are willing to give up freedom to get back some sense of personal security," said Elaine Christiansen, senior research director for The Gallup Organization. "These aren't people who were necessarily near the twin towers, near the Pentagon, near the Murrah building. These are average people."
The telephone survey, conducted in March, included 934 people across the country. Researchers also polled about 500 people in each of three cities where terrorist attacks occurred - New York City, Washington, D.C., and Oklahoma City - to compare results with the general population survey.
The poll showed 8 percent of Americans are very worried and 31 percent are somewhat worried that they or someone in their family will become victims of a terrorist attack in the United States. In New York City, the level of worry is higher - 19 percent said they are very worried and 34 percent said they are somewhat worried.
Washington, D.C, and Oklahoma City reported levels of fear close to the national average.
Scientists involved in the poll said they were not surprised many Americans remain fearful after Sept. 11.
"The magnitude of the event was just so profound," said Carol North, a psychiatry professor at Washington University in St. Louis, who said talk of the war in Afghanistan, airline security and terrorist threats is propelling the fear.
The study was co-sponsored by The University of Oklahoma psychiatry department through a grant from the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism. The main survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, while the margin of error for the survey in the three cities is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Meanwhile, a New York Times/CBS News poll found that 60 percent of New York City residents think the threat of a terrorist attack in their city is greater than it is in any other big city.
Barely 40 percent of respondents believe the city is safer than it had been four years ago, a decrease of 20 percent from those polled in August. Even so, nearly two-thirds of those surveyed said that given a choice, they would prefer to be living in the city four years from now than any other place.
The poll, conducted by telephone in English or Spanish June 4 through Sunday, surveyed 940 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.
Shhhh! You want the sheeple to lose their "Warm and fuzzies"? They NEED to think the feral gooberment is looking under their beds for the boogeyman in order to be able to sleep.
Give it a rest. It is you and the others in the 80% percentile group who are paranoid,and naive enough to think the gooberment will "save you". Or even that they want to save you. There is not ONE single damn thing that has been done since the WTC incident that would have prevented ANY of the hijackers from successfuly hijacking and flying those planes into those buildings. Nothing. Nada,for Bush-Bots.
Why do you call yourself "Reagan Man",when you are obviously a statist? I ask this as a serious question,not as a slam.
LIke I said, in my original reply at RE:#6, You can't have freedom without security and with all due respect to old Ben Franklin, you can't have liberty without safety.
HorseHillary! You will NEVER have freedom as long as you depend on anyone else for your safety and security! The Founding Fathers clearly chose liberty over safety when they decided to break away from England and become a sovereign nation. The "safe thing to have done" would have been to remain subjects of the English Crown. This is especially true for the leaders,who were all wealthy men who stood to lose everything.
Why, sure there is.. We unionized.. Ahem, "Federalized" the airpost screeners.
And we put the National Guard in there.
(believe you me.. when the jihaders get one look at those black berets they will wet themselves and just run off!)
Wrong again. My references say everything about YOU.
>>>You've made a jerk out of yourself this whole thread and I hope you can keep at it all night.
More insults. Yawn. This getting boring. Don't you have anything intelligent to say?
All night? I don't know. I don't want to keep you up past your bedtime. Your Mom would probably get real mad. Hahahahahahaha
No you don't.
There is no law requiring ID's at all time.
See?
It's just the way the cops are.
And this is because the sheeple let them get away with it.
They suspect that if one does not have an ID then one must be fugitive or have warrants.
Didn't I hear a rumor about "innocent until proven guilty"? What's that all about?
It's up to the particular cop as to what he will do if one can not produce something to satisfy his suspicion. But suffice to say, if one doesn't show him something he will hold you until someone does.
That's because they are immune from lawsuits,and in general are REAL careful to not try to pull this crap on a lawyer or somebody with enough money to hire one. Even though HE is immune from lawsuits,the city/county he works for isn't,and he won't be real popular if they have to start paying out lots of money in damages.
Talk about "rhetoric". Most of you on this thread are just disruptors from DU parsing ala Klintoon (what is "is"?)
I watch these little limp wristed leftists crying about the evil USA (1) not declaring 'WAR' OR (2) killing terrorists or (3) arresting terrorist or (4) mistreating terrorists by not freeing them on bond or whatever and on and on and on.
Why not be honest about your agenda?????????????
??????? ROFLMAO! I'm thinking you should look up the word "hyprocisy" in the dictionary! Every post you make on this thread is to urge people to be good little sheeple and listen to big daddy gooberment,and then you turn around and advise somebody to be a individual?
It's worse than that. They don't CARE what power the gooberment grabs,as long as they are allowed to feel protected.
It's easy to give something away when you haven't paid for it.
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
Just like I said in a earlier post,the 80% crowd care nothing about freedom,only about them personally feeling "safe".
Right. Let's just hope that a terrorist with a bag full of loaded M-16 magazines doesn't knock one of them in the head and take his unloaded M-16.
A word to wise is sufficient. Don't join the mob of misfits and malcontents on FreeRepublic. Be a good American and a good FReeeper. Be an individual first.
Here's the 'Wonder' in your quote, Rman.
You don't understand FR, and never will. -- It's made up of 'malcontents' who believe in restoring a constitutional free republic. -- That makes you the misfit.
This post was not meant to be a personal insult to you when I posted it, however, over the course of this thread you have certainly earned the classification.
Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.
- Henry Steele Commager
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
The usual suspects showed up, made stupid fools of themselves, once again and I had lots of fun slapp'en them around. But you're right about one thing. The "Moron Alert" wasn't intented for anyone. Someone emailed me, to let me know it's your personal signature. Boonie Rat = "Moron Alert"
Next time I see a "Moron Alert", I'll immediately now, it's a Boonie Rat posted thread. In fact, PING me the next time you post one of your personalized threads. May be you'll hang around long enough, so I can beat the cojones off you too.
Have a good evening.
I plan on it..
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