Pew Poll Finds For First Time ever Majority Of Americans Think Federal Government Threatens Their Rights, Freedoms… Do you agree?
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For the first time, a majority of Americans believe the federal government threatens their rights and freedoms, according to a poll released Thursday.
Fifty-three percent of Americans believe the government is a threat, and 43 percent do not, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Three-in-ten Americans believe government constitutes a major threat. In a poll conducted October 2003, only 45 percent saw government as a threat to their freedoms. Fifty-four percent do not.
Men are more likely than women to believe their rights are under attack, and Republicans (70 percent) are far more likely than Democrats (38 percent) to say so. Three-quarters of conservative Republicans say so, as do 55 percent of independents. And as President Barack Obama begins a legislative push for stricter gun control laws, 62 percent of those with a gun in the home believe their rights are threatened, compared to only 45 percent of non-gun owners.
And even Americans who don’t feel threatened by Washington distrust the government and are frustrated with it. Only 26 percent of Americans believe the government does the right thing most or all of the time, and 73 percent think it does the right thing rarely or not at all.
Fifty-three percent of Americans believe the government is a threat, and 43 percent do not, according to a Pew Research Center poll. Three-in-ten Americans believe government constitutes a major threat. In a poll conducted October 2003, only 45 percent saw government as a threat to their freedoms. Fifty-four percent do not.
Men are more likely than women to believe their rights are under attack, and Republicans (70 percent) are far more likely than Democrats (38 percent) to say so. Three-quarters of conservative Republicans say so, as do 55 percent of independents. And as President Barack Obama begins a legislative push for stricter gun control laws, 62 percent of those with a gun in the home believe their rights are threatened, compared to only 45 percent of non-gun owners.
And even Americans who don’t feel threatened by Washington distrust the government and are frustrated with it. Only 26 percent of Americans believe the government does the right thing most or all of the time, and 73 percent think it does the right thing rarely or not at all.
Distrust is highest among whites — 79 percent of them say government rarely does the right thing, compared to 59 percent of blacks and 54 percent of Hispanics. Distrust is also lowest among those 18-29. Thirty-five percent of them trust the government to do the right thing most or all of the time, 10 points higher than any other age group.
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ed 2013/02/01 16:29:47Yes
+14Good Americans. Open your eyes. Governments can only infringe freedom and America was setup as the first attempt in human history to protect those freedoms. And the Founders knew that it could easily turn around to be abused and warned us. They suggested that we must remain vigilant and learned. However this government has worked to dumb the society down and they have mostly succeeded. I hope the results of this poll suggest Americans are waking up.
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
When Naomi Wolf wrote this, President Bush was trying to scare us with Al Qaeda is everywhere. He said, “You’re either with us or against us.” Obama, the Teleprompter Reader, was told by Wall Street to focus on veterans and constitutionalists. Why?
2 Create a gulag.
Wall Street created lots of Gulags and advertised them. They have prepared over 800 FEMA camps and National Guard prisons for those of us who will get angry when 10 million Americans die of starvation. They published Army Field Manuals telling soldiers how to run civilian inmate labor camps.
3 Develop a thug caste
The TSA is a bunch of thugs. But do not compare them to the Waffen SS when it comes to fighting. The TSA deliberately hired people with criminal records even including pedophilia precisely so they can use genital groping to humiliate us.
4 Set up an internal surveillance system.
They do have a lot of gadgets and gizmos watching us. TVs and computers can now watch us. Score this for the bankers.
5 Harass citizens’ groups.
The police in America have been getting training in Israel. The Isr...
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy.
When Naomi Wolf wrote this, President Bush was trying to scare us with Al Qaeda is everywhere. He said, “You’re either with us or against us.” Obama, the Teleprompter Reader, was told by Wall Street to focus on veterans and constitutionalists. Why?
2 Create a gulag.
Wall Street created lots of Gulags and advertised them. They have prepared over 800 FEMA camps and National Guard prisons for those of us who will get angry when 10 million Americans die of starvation. They published Army Field Manuals telling soldiers how to run civilian inmate labor camps.
3 Develop a thug caste
The TSA is a bunch of thugs. But do not compare them to the Waffen SS when it comes to fighting. The TSA deliberately hired people with criminal records even including pedophilia precisely so they can use genital groping to humiliate us.
4 Set up an internal surveillance system.
They do have a lot of gadgets and gizmos watching us. TVs and computers can now watch us. Score this for the bankers.
5 Harass citizens’ groups.
The police in America have been getting training in Israel. The Israelis take them into occupied Palestine to train our police to treat Americans like Palestinians.
6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release.
The Banker Occupied government has been arbitrarily arresting us for a long. long time.
I have not seen a census of American prisons but it seems to me that more than two thirds of our prisoners are either drug offenders or illegal aliens. Of course some are both. That means only a few thousand spaces remain for political prisoners to be arrested. In the next phase they will be forced to open up FEMA Camps to round up even 100.000 of us resistors. And that is something they cannot do. I do admit that welfare recipients will meekly follow the free cheese handouts into prisons but the rest of us will not go.
7 Target key individuals
Take a look at the rampant organized pedophilia inside the government. Pedophiles are one of the few groups of men who will follow the orders of the NWO. If Wall Street is going to kill us anyway, there is no reason to play along with their agenda.
8 Control the press
The dollar is collapsing by design as it transfers wealth from us to them.
9 Dissent equals treason
George Bush tried that and it got us nowhere but into Iraq and Afghanistan which everyone now resents. It does not work anymore. We are now invading Mali to steal their gold to replace the bullion bankers stole from their mostly white clients. The problem is that there is a limited number of countries with mines that can easily be invaded.
10 Suspend the rule of law
Bush and Obama tried to gradually suspend the rule of law. We used to be protected against unlawful searches and seizures. But that was taken away by the TSA. We used to be guaranteed the right to peacefully assemble and to petition the government. No more. We can now be arrested for assembling outside government buildings.
If the rule of law is suspended, mass arrests and death in concentration camps will be America’s future.
Hmmmm:
Then again, looking at the picture, it does lend support to the idea that people are realizing how government works. Naturally the highest point of support for the government was after 9/11. Since then, the belief that government threatens personal rights has been increasing. Distrust of and frustrations against the government has been high for a long time, and I don't see why it shouldn't be.
This one (from 2010) is interesting:
50% trusted the government...wow.
A carnival float in Cologne, Germany, depicts President Obama as comic book hero Captain America: Germany is one of many countries that overwhelmingly favors Obama over Mitt Romney.
resident Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in an incredibly tight race at home, but overseas, the vote isn't even close. A BBC World Service opinion poll found that residents of 21 foreign countries overwhelmingly support Obama, with an average of 50 percent hoping that he wins a second term and only 9 percent favoring Romney. France is Obama's biggest booster — 72 percent of respondents support him. The only country where Romney enjoyed greater support than Obama? Pakistan. So why are foreigners in the bag for Obama? Here, three theories:
1. Obama's foreign policy works
Overseas, the president has an undeniably strong record, says Jeffrey Simpson at Canada's Globe and Mail. Obama has shown he's capable of "mixing muscularity with restraint," extricating the U.S. from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, avoiding direct intervention in Syria, and resisting "the push to recklessly attack Iran" — all while relentlessly going after terrorists and playing a limited...
A carnival float in Cologne, Germany, depicts President Obama as comic book hero Captain America: Germany is one of many countries that overwhelmingly favors Obama over Mitt Romney.
resident Obama and Mitt Romney are locked in an incredibly tight race at home, but overseas, the vote isn't even close. A BBC World Service opinion poll found that residents of 21 foreign countries overwhelmingly support Obama, with an average of 50 percent hoping that he wins a second term and only 9 percent favoring Romney. France is Obama's biggest booster — 72 percent of respondents support him. The only country where Romney enjoyed greater support than Obama? Pakistan. So why are foreigners in the bag for Obama? Here, three theories:
1. Obama's foreign policy works
Overseas, the president has an undeniably strong record, says Jeffrey Simpson at Canada's Globe and Mail. Obama has shown he's capable of "mixing muscularity with restraint," extricating the U.S. from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, avoiding direct intervention in Syria, and resisting "the push to recklessly attack Iran" — all while relentlessly going after terrorists and playing a limited but key role in forcing regime change in Libya. Meanwhile, the world sees Romney displaying "the hubris of the powerful and the ignorance of the uninformed," thumping his chest and scaring folks overseas.
2. The world is associating Romney with Bush
In many ways, this isn't really a reflection on Romney, says Max Fisher at The Washington Post. In Pakistan, for example, people aren't embracing Romney so much as protesting Obama's drone program in areas near the Afghan border. And more broadly, Romney's overseas poll numbers "are consistent with [Sen. John] McCain's in 2008, suggesting the possibility that many foreign publics associate Republicans with George W. Bush, whose administration was deeply unpopular abroad."
3. Soaking the rich is popular overseas
The fact that France is more pro-Obama than anyone else says it all, says Matthew Balan at News Busters. France is a leftist nanny state, and Socialist President Francois Hollande is trying to slap a 75 percent marginal income tax on people earning more than 1 million euros a year, a move the Heritage Foundation's Nile Gardiner called "economic suicide." Such proposals "line up nicely with the president's platform." No wonder he polls so well there.