Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Poll: Most Americans would trim liberties to be safer

Sadly, 51% of American's are ignorant and lack understanding of the fundamentals of what our country was founded on.

After a recent attempted terrorist attack set off a debate about full-body X-rays at airports, a new McClatchy-Ipsos poll finds that Americans lean more toward giving up some of their liberty in exchange for more safety.

The survey found 51 percent of Americans agreeing that "it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism."

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