poll on civil liberties

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Sep 23 14:53:19 PDT 2001


[via Ken Sherrill]

The Pew Research Center today released a national poll showing respondents divided about the civil liberties implications of stronger anti-terrorism laws. 39% are more concerned that the government will fair to enact new laws, 34% are more concerned that the new laws will restrict civil liberties; 10% said neither (volunteered), and 17% don't know.

Regarding specific new measures, here are the percentages willing to accept each:

require everyone to carry national ID card and show to police on request: 70%

allow CIA to contract with criminals overseas to pursue terrorists: 67%

allow CIA to conduct assassinations overseas: 67%

allow US govt to monitor your credit card purchases: 40%

allow internment of legal immigrants from unfriendly countries during crises: 29%

allow US govt to monitor your phone and e-mail: 26%

Here's the URL for the report:

http://www.people-press.org/terrorist01rpt.htm



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