Posted on 01/18/2008 7:19:06 AM PST by freespirited
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans say that Security is more important than privacy. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 29% disagree and say privacy is more important. Twenty percent (20%) are not sure.
The survey also found public support for strict rules regarding identification needed to obtain drivers’ licenses. Sixty-nine percent (69%) say it is a good idea for the federal government to establish such rules, while only 17% disagree.
Over fifteen states have made headlines recently by speaking out against the REAL Identification Act of 2005, which would bar anyone not possessing the proper licenses from boarding airplanes or entering government buildings. In addition to concerns about privacy, many in the opposing states fear that states will not be able to create enough funding to comply with the technology required of new the licenses.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and supporters of the legislation feel there are too many types of identification that allow people into the country, and creating federal requirements on drivers’ licenses will limit the amount of illegal immigrants entering the United States.
The public is divided on whether or not the new legislation will cut down on illegal immigration. While 49% feel the Act is at least somewhat likely to reduce illegal immigration, 42% say it is not very or not at all likely.
Regarding the new drivers’ licenses required in the Act, a quarter of those surveyed (25%) see it as an invasion of privacy, while the majority (44%) disagrees. Thirty-one percent (31%) are not sure.
Nearly half of adults (45%) have followed news stories on the issue at least somewhat closely, while another half (50%) have not followed the stories closely or at all.
It’s the 20% who aren’t sure who scare the snot outta me...
I am not surprised since about 67% of the population want a nanny-state.
The "not sure" 20% are simply PC wimps who haven't yet figured out what is EXPECTED of them yet. Of the 29% who disagree almost all will reside firmly in the tinfoil papered ether of another world.
People are addicted to government. They want the government to take care of them, protect them, provide for them.
I’ve heard there are few privacy concerns in a coffin.
We have security. We have nuclear equipped subs cruising around the ocean for our counter strike. It’s stupid to REALLY worry. It’s our way, or end game, in my estimation.
Another one from Poor Richard's Almanac that fits:
"Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans say that Security is more important than privacy.
Yeah okay, and 51% of Germans said the same thing in 1929. IIRC that thinking didn't turn out too well. (not sarcasm)
(Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.)
***Private but unsafe does not make particular sense to me.***
Safe and not free sounds like a prison to me.
If the majority of American's think this then we are well on are way to becoming a third world socialist cess-pool. It saddens me to see how stupid this country is becoming.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- BEN FRANKLIN (attributed)
if you are truly free, you are free to make your own safety.
51% “baaaahh” every morning before leaving for work.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
Of the 29% who disagree almost all will reside firmly in the tinfoil papered ether of another world.
No, we reside in a world where you get security by destroying threats to ones security rather than handing over all of ones freedoms to worthless sacks-of-crap politicians who promise to provide security...
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