51% Say Security More Important than Privacy

Rasmussen Reports ^ | 1/18/08

[CowboyJay]

"Call them what they are: Marxists and Useful Idiots!" Not to worry. I use stronger names than that for them in private. I tend to tone it down a bit when discussing these things with those who may be unaccustomed to hearing the truth. Too big a pill for them to swallow whole sometimes. Nobody likes being called a useful idiot. Don't win many hearts and minds that way. The schools are a problem. Some parents don't have the means for private or home education. They're forced to make their children wards of the state 8 hours a day to make a living. However, they need to at least help their kids unspin the misinformation they're being fed when they come home at night. Too many would sooner numb-out in front of the idiot box for their own dose of indoctrination.

[elkfersupper]

Personal safety is at the bottom of my list of priorities.

I'm with you on that. The greatest threat to what is important to me has been from the day I was born and is now my own various governments.

[PA_Country]

Are you opposed to airport screening of your luggage? After all, it is an invasion of your privacy.
Nope not at all… you see the thing that I understand is this… when I go to an airport and get on an Airplane I’m getting into a privately owned vehicle operated by a privately owned – at least in theory – company and thus must submit to their rules… — Side bar… that’s what makes smoking bans in bars and restaurants illegal – but I digress… What I can’t tolerate is wondering if the CIA is listening me talk to my Arab friend when he’s traveling in England… which is more than possible… not because he or are doing anything illegal…but rather because tracking the citizenry is the stepping stone to the police state

[arderkrag]

What utter fools. Franklin’s rolling over in his grave.

[freespirited]

Nope not at all… you see the thing that I understand is this… when I go to an airport and get on an Airplane I’m getting into a privately owned vehicle operated by a privately owned – at least in theory – company and thus must submit to their rules…

"Their rules" come from the federal government. An outfit called the TSA. For ex, it wasn't the airlines who recently decided to limit the size of articles you take on the plane. It was an edict imposed by the govt. Your luggage is screened to insure you are complying ... with the govt rules.