The results of my unscientific poll - NSA monkey business

I was horrified to see the results of the WaPo/ABC Poll that overwhelming says the majority of Americans don't care if our private information is given to a government spy agency. Of course I don't believe it, gotta be just another piece of propoganda meant to manipulate us.

Just to be sure though, when I got to work this morning, I asked 11 of my coworkers if they objected to these phone cos. giving the government their phone call information or if they didn't care.

Every single one of them objected. Most of them said they doubted the information was collected to catch terrorists.

Not all of these people are Democrats, a few, but not all. I know it was only 11 people, but it proves to me there's no way that damn poll can be correct.

so I think it's either a push poll or a complete fabrication.

If it is .. it the most expensive and least effective boondoggle... EVER.
The odds that trolling for terrorists would yield any catches is about zero.
This is a Himmler-style information blackmail and extortion operation ...
plain and simple. History repeats itself once again as Bush takes another
play from the New World Order handbook.

HuffleClaw (1000+ posts) Fri May-12-06 06:51 AM
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58. considering how they WORDED the questions, its no surprise they
got exactly the response they wanted. its what i think is called a 'push poll'. from the pdf...

3. What do you think is more important right now - (for the federal government to investigate possible terrorist threats, even if that intrudes on personal privacy); or (for the federal government not to intrude on personal privacy, even if that limits its ability to investigate possible terrorist threats)?

4. It’s been reported that the National Security Agency has been collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans. It then analyzes calling patterns in an effort to identify possible terrorism suspects, without listening to or recording the conversations. Would you consider this an acceptable or unacceptable way for the federal government terrorism? Do you feel that way strongly or somewhat?

6. Do you think it is right or wrong for the news media to have disclosed this secret government program?

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