Americans are-now-more-concerned-about-terrorism-than-civil rights!

[lunasun]

http://io9.com/americans-are-now-more-concerned-about-terrorism-than-c-1635292590

There's a shifting balance between concerns about civil liberties and protection from terrorism. In a reversal from last year after Edward Snowden's NSA leaks, 50% today say they are more concerned that government anti-terrorism policies have not gone far enough to protect the country, while 35% are more concerned that the policies have gone too far in restricting civil liberties.


..., two polls last month revealed that between 39% and 46% of Americans are concerned about an Ebola outbreak in the U.S. It even turned up as a political issue in the U.S. Senate race in Arkansas, where Democrat Mark Pryor's campaign put out an ad that told voters his challenger, Republican Tom Cotton, had helped encourage the spread of the Ebola virus through his legislative inaction.

Meanwhile, another recent poll revealed that 69% of Americans see Russia as a threat to the United States, the highest level recorded since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Nearly 50% believe we are seeing the beginning of a new Cold War, while 40% worry about a nuclear war with Russia

It's also notable that a sizable number of Americans fear a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, despite the efforts of the Obama administration to play down the imminent likelihood of such a threat. All of this points to the broader question: how deep is this pervasive feeling of vulnerability? The answer to that could shed insight on how Americans will respond to a variety of issues, ranging from domestic surveillance to immigration.
Republicans are already linking fears of terrorism to immigration.
Another point possibly in the GOP's favor: According to Pew, concerns over terrorism have jumped dramatically among the Tea Party, from 33% to 59% in just one year. If national security emerges as the dominant issue among Tea Party members in this year's elections, it could give Republican candidates a bit more flexibility — they could move more toward the center on domestic issues and still maintain Tea Party support, as long as they are tough on foreign policy.

[onecaliberal]

1. Mission Accomplished, corporate media

The breathtaking ignorance of people is burning us all

[lunasun]

4. True dat!

[Pholus]

2. Well if the TEA PARTY is concerned about terror,

by all means "collect it all." Mustn't have the poor dears wetting themselves!

And then because we can't have a measured response let's be sure to misuse the information by sharing it with numerous domestic nonterrorism law enforcement investigations just as long as they lie (sorry "parallel construct&quot about where the information came from.

Go on, you can say it....they hate us for our "freedoms."

[misterhighwasted]

3. Seems that was the plan wasn't it?

Gop, teaparty, fundamentalists, limbaugh, beck, cheney/bush & 9/11, supreme court selectees, fox news propaganda, corporate sellouts, vote suppression, race, women & children, union busting, for profit endless war. Wall street & the oligarchy could not have raided & sold off this Nation without a diversion of such magnitude of fear, without creating it in some secret meeting room among those who sought nothing but the overthrow of the US Govt for their own desires of power & greed.
The diversion was created, planned & carried out by the likes of Dick Cheney, the Bush family mofia & their foreign associates.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. Maybe the Corporate Media is lying to us.

[blkmusclmachine]

6. Pic URL is http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2011/162/7/c/war_is_peace_by_bloodleach-d3im67l.png

Caption is mine.

[lunasun]

7. Maybe we will always be at war with the terrorists