"Would you give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safer from terrorism?"
Asked after more than eight years of doing little but "giving up" civil liberties to make the country "safer," the results:
YES: 51%
NO: 36%
Support at airports for:
Full body scans/searches: 74%/19% agree
Eliminate all carry-ons: 57%/34% agree
Banning all electronic devices (cells, laptops, cameras, media players): 50%/42% agree
UPDATE:
McClatchy's a breath of fresh air compared to today's Quinnipiac Poll:
"If you had to choose between national security and civil liberties, which would you choose?"
National Security 63
Civil Liberties 25
Support for:
Airport body scanners: 84-13
The War in Af-Pak: 59-35
Try "terrorists" in secret military tribunals, instead of public civilian courts: 59-34
Cops should be able to single-out individuals based on "Middle-Eastern looks": 52-44
Travelers from "Muslim countries" should be subject to more intensive "screenings": 79-16
Do NOT close Gitmo: 63-30
Come to think of it, even 1930s Germans weren't this stupid.
