According to a pair of recent polls, for the first time since the 9/11 terrorist hijackings, Americans are more fearful their government will abuse constitutional liberties than fail to keep its citizens safe.
A Fox News survey polling a random national sample of 619 registered voters the day after the bombing found despite the tragic event, those interviewed responded very differently than following 9/11.
For the first time since a similar question was asked in May 2001, more Americans answered “no” to the question, “Would you be willing to give up some of your personal freedom in order to reduce the threat of terrorism?”
A similar poll sampling 588 adults, conducted on April 17 and 18 for the Washington Post, also discovered the change in attitude.
“Which worries you more,” the Post asked, “that the government will not go far enough to investigate terrorism because of concerns about constitutional rights, or that it will go too far in compromising constitutional rights in order to investigate terrorism?”
The poll found 48 percent of respondents worry the government will go too far, compared to 41 percent who worry it won’t go far enough.
Perhaps there’s just a glimmer of hope left for the nation? I wish I could say I were convinced of the trend.
But, as with the Leftist doctrine of the American Media Maggots, this information and the existence of these polls remains predominantly uncovered.
Yes, perhaps a bit of schadenfreude, but I certainly enjoy watching Leftists hoisted on the petard of their own purposeful choosing, and I further enjoy watching falsehoods and outright lies exposed to the faces of Leftists. To wit:
Clearly, Michelle Malkin is more than capable of removing the skeletal structure of Juan Williams. Williams, like an addled goof, smiles throughout it all. He offers no logical retorts or responses except religion. Williams offers only religion.
How so, you ask? Because Juan Williams and Leftists of his kind expect you to proffer only faith. They expect you to exude faith and simply believe. How strange that the Secular Left expect you to believe — hallelujah! — in Anthropomorphic Global Warming and — can I get another hallelujah! — in our Leftist Savior, Barack Hussein Obaka! Praise Obaka, peace be upon him!
And Williams, of course, is far from the worst of the Leftists in the media.
I just thought there needed to be some sense displayed today.
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — The California Assembly passed a bill on Thursday that would make the state the first in the nation to allow non-citizens who are in the country legally to serve on jury duty.
Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski, D-Fremont, said his bill, AB1401, would help California widen the pool of prospective jurors and help integrate immigrants into the community.
Great. Now Fornicalia will have illegal immigrants deciding capital cases and bringing their biases against laws — being lawbreakers themselves — into the jury room.
Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, R-Dana Point, said there is no shortage of jurors.
“Jury selection is not the problem. The problem is trial court funding,” Harkey said before the vote. “I hope we can focus on that. Let’s not break something; it’s not broken now. Let’s not whittle away at what is reserved for U.S. citizens. There’s a reason for it.”
Copy that. The jury system isn’t broken — but, hell, the Demorats are bent on breaking it anyway.
But wait; we can’t leave the federal government out of the insanity equation, can we? Doesn’t Attorney General Holder have to weigh in on illegal immigrant invaders? Of course he does. From FoxNews.com, Holder essentially calls citizenship for illegals a “civil right.”
During a April 24th speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a “pathway to earned citizenship” was a “civil right.”
“Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential. The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented – by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and move out of the shadows – transcends the issue of immigration status. This is a matter of civil and human rights. It is about who we are as a nation. And it goes to the core of our treasured American principle of equal opportunity.”
However, fear not: we’re just talking about a measly ten or eleven million illegal Mexicans, aren’t we? In a country of 311 million persons?
The pending Senate immigration bill would bring a minimum of 33 million people into the country during its first decade of operation, according to an analysis by NumbersUSA, a group that wants to slow the current immigration rate.
By 2024, the inflow would include an estimated 9.2 million illegal immigrants, plus 2.5 million illegals who arrived as children — dubbed ‘Dreamers’ — plus roughly 3.4 million company-sponsored employees with university degrees, said the unreleased analysis.
The majority of the inflow, or roughly 17 million people, would consist of family members of illegals, recent immigrants and of company-sponsored workers, according to the NumbersUSA analysis provided to The Daily Caller.
So there you have it. Aren’t you absolutely adrip with orgasmic joy that the federal government is following in the footsteps of Looney Fornicalia?
Matter of fact, I think I have an idea for a new DC bill; it would be called the Shared Home Act. In this bill each American Taxpayer, Caucasoid in nature, would be mandated to share their home with an illegal invader family, at the homeowner’s expense, so that they would begin to understand the dire plight and sad circumstances of illegals who haven’t yet been given their own free home.
I think it could work. Hell, we’re halfway there already, are we not?
BZ
P.S.
Might it now be the time to posit this action: what if the rest of us in the nation collectively decided that we would obey only the laws that were convenient for us? I might suggest this first: the cessation of paying taxes. Because, after all, if one strata of persons can be literally rewarded for breaking laws, then why can’t you and I?
Every day you say: “It can’t get any more insane.”
For far too long the Main Stream Media has smugly assumed they had all print and broadcast news sewn up neatly in their Lefty pockets.
But for the past week rumors that the Koch brothers are taking a long look at buying the Tribune Company has spread like wild fire in a pine-beetle ravaged forest.
Media Matters Joe Strupp writes that the scary idea of the brothers buying Tribune is:
…sparking concerns from newspaper staff members that attempts to influence the editorial process in favor of their far-right political views may follow.
Among those concerned is Clarence Page, a top Chicago Tribune columnist, who said he would oppose a takeover of the paper by David and Charles Koch because of “the fact that they seem to be coming in upfront with the idea of using a major news media as a vehicle for their political voice.
Moderates or even — gulp — Rightists getting “control” of another media outlet?
The story from WND.com:
