1. in 2002 the memory of 9/11 is too fresh and the "hysteria" is a bit more understandable. 2. in 2006 the "hysteria" should be cooling a bit, but in that survey the question is about more vague "surveillance programs" - it is possible to suppose/assume/wish that there are proper/sufficient safeguards against the abuses.
so, while i am not sure I am happy about these results, I am not sure I would be quite so upset. Of all the numbers I am perhaps most disturbed by a significant increase of people who think that email should be monitored even as the threat of terrorism is dropping (the only mitigating factor I can see is the Boston bombing affair impacting beyond reasonable the views of the people surveyed).
There's always something to impact people's views. We can not talk about abstract spherical people in vacuum... But the obvious thing is a partisan reversal of opinion. Of course, we could dismiss this as a 10% of idiots which are in any population, but I'm not sure it's that simple.
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2. in 2006 the "hysteria" should be cooling a bit, but in that survey the question is about more vague "surveillance programs" - it is possible to suppose/assume/wish that there are proper/sufficient safeguards against the abuses.
so, while i am not sure I am happy about these results, I am not sure I would be quite so upset.
Of all the numbers I am perhaps most disturbed by a significant increase of people who think that email should be monitored even as the threat of terrorism is dropping (the only mitigating factor I can see is the Boston bombing affair impacting beyond reasonable the views of the people surveyed).
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