3 Comments → “FBI wiretap finds most Americans support the Patriot Act”

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   Taj
   

   Jun 19, 2005

   While those “polls” may not be true, these are:

   44% believe civil liberties should be restricted for Muslims
   27% favor requiring Muslim Americans to register with the federal government.

   http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-12-17-muslims-civil-liberties_x.htm

   88 percent of U.S. adults believe that Saddam Hussein would have made weapons of mass destruction if he could have (down slightly from 90% in November).
   76 percent believe that the Iraqis are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein (same as November).
   64 percent believe that history will give the U.S. credit for bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq (up slightly from 63% in November).
   64 percent believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links to Al Qaeda (up slightly from 62% in November).
   61 percent believe that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was a serious threat to U.S. security (down slightly from 63% in November).
   47 percent believe that Saddam Hussein helped plan and support the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001 (up six percentage points from November).
   44 percent actually believe that several of the hijackers who attacked the U.S. on September 11 were Iraqis (up significantly from 37% in November).
   36 percent believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the U.S. invaded (down slightly from 38% in November).

   http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=544

   (Thanks to orthogonal for posting these on Slashdot).

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   Taj
   

   Jun 19, 2005

   Argh! All my lists got stripped out :(. Check your code, please. Thanks :)

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3. Aug 27, 2005

   Has America become fascist? The 14 defining characteristics of fascism - IO ERROR
   

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