Posted on 09/29/2001 10:10:19 AM PDT by dvan
Americans, firmly behind the administration's war on terrorism, are ready to give up some civil liberties if it helps catch those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, according to a poll released on Saturday.
The poll of 1,215 Americans, published in The Washington Post, showed that nine out of 10 people believed President Bush (news - web sites) was doing a good job -- a figure in line with other surveys conducted since the deadly attacks.
A similar number favored a military response to the attacks and said the United States needed to capture or kill Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), who the administration holds responsible for the plot, and dismantle his al Qaeda network.
Some 6,500 people are feared dead in the attacks, when hijackers rammed three planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon (news - web sites) near Washington.
A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania, probably after passengers overpowered the hijackers.
The survey showed that between 69 percent and 95 percent of respondents favored granting police additional powers to tap telephones or intercept voice mail or e-mail, as well as to hold foreign terrorist suspects indefinitely.
``One sacrifice Americans said they are willing to make is in their civil liberties,'' the newspaper said.
The Washington Post also said many people favored action that went well beyond the administration's stated goals.
Sixty-one percent believed that the United States ''absolutely must'' overthrow Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s Taliban government, believed to be harboring bin Laden, and 39 percent wanted the United States to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), even if he could not be directly linked to the attacks.
``The responses suggest that Americans have strategically unrealistic hopes and will be disappointed with anything less than full success,'' the newspaper said.
A poll released on Friday conducted for Time Magazine and the Cable News Network showed that Americans are prepared to wait a month or more for military strikes on Afghanistan.
Four out of every five Americans also believe another attack on U.S. soil is either ``very likely'' or ``somewhat likely'' within a year.
The United States has massed troops, warplanes and aircraft carriers within striking distance of Afghanistan and demanded its Taliban rulers avert a U.S. attack by surrendering bin Laden and the leaders of his al Qaeda network.
THE BUDGETS ALONE OF THESE AGENCIES LIKE THE FBI, CIA, NSA AND PENTAGON SHOULD JUSTIFY ALONE THAT CIVIL RIGHTS SHOULD NOT BE TOUCHED!!!
LOSE OF CIVIL RIGHTS = COMMUNISM!!!
Americans, firmly behind the administration's war on terrorism, are ready to give up some civil liberties if it helps catch those responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington, according to a poll released on Saturday.
More war party propaganda.
One sacrifice Americans said they are willing to make is in their civil liberties
Not this American!
Other than a little inconvenience when checking in at the airport, they can't name one.
This is much ado about nothing, just like this ridiculous protest currently on C-SPAN.
Leftists, anarchists, communists, social misfits, cop-killer-defenders, and baby killers, all in one place. It would be nice if we could flush Freedom Plaza.
69 percent and 95 percent of respondents favored granting police additional powers to tap telephones or intercept voice mail or e-mail, as well as to hold foreign terrorist suspects indefinitely.
Bush has even shot down the National ID card. But for those who have their whole identity wrapped up in the hysterics of the coming racist police state fka America, that is hardly seen as a positive development.
Lord Alexander Tytler on the fall of the Athenian republic:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage."
All non-citizens should be deported NOW and then we can decide who we want to let back in.
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