Voters give government leeway to snoop

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/nsa-prism-privacy-92435.html?hp=t1

To hear the outrage, you’d think the public was in revolt that the government is reading their email and monitoring their phone calls.

In reality, the collective reaction was probably something closer to this: Meh.

And it’s probably why President Barack Obama won’t change the program and Republicans won’t make too much of a fuss.

Privacy is sort of like the deficit: In the abstract, voters rate it a serious concern. But drill down, and they don’t want to cut the entitlements that balloon federal spending — or end programs that have prevented terrorist attacks.

Especially if Americans don’t believe their own computers and phones are being monitored, they are willing to give the government a long leash, public opinion experts say.

so why have we been going through another inquisition, of "i'm gonna git you sucka" with ISSA?

“The outrage is coming from the people who write, but not the people who vote,” said Democratic pollster Jefrey Pollock, president of Global Strategy Group, adding that the type of surveillance revealed this week is seen as “a necessary evil.”  

and like always they see the dollar at the end of the string and the pounce, like a lion on a pork chop thinking this is the one, we can bring him down with this one, and this one, and this one, and this one, where and when does it stop, when we want it to we just have to convince those who don't know well now you know.  "yes we can".

 "People are willing to kind of bite the bullet a little bit if it helps stop terrorist attacks," said Republican pollster Ed Goeas of the Tarrance Group.

A Pew Research survey in 2011 found that only 29 percent favored "the U.S. government monitoring personal telephone calls and emails" in order to curb terrorism. But Pew found in another poll that 47 percent are more concerned government policies "have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country," while only 32 percent said they were more concerned the government has gone "too far."

we are a fickle electorate, we do it constantly vote for whoever leaves the best last impression not who is making sense and not trying to exclude half the nation from it's agenda, so what is the bottom line, we want freedom well at what price and is it too much?  life of safety over a false sense of freedom that has so many tags on it it's no longer what you remember it to be, but say one word against it and it's on.  problem is what is on, what are you upset about and why and is it your concern or just the concern some talking head on TV said it was?

if you want certain "freedoms you must pay the piper cause freedom is not free, so what the fuss?