Well, here's some encouraging news - fully 56% of those polled by CNN think that the government is a threat to citizens' rights. In fact, the more I think of it, unless armed men just stormed your office, government is usually the ONLY threat to citizens' rights, isn't it? In fact, odds are that IF armed men just stormed your office, they were probably government agents.
I think civics would be much better taught if they focused on the idea that it's not the government that keeps us free - it's the limits placed on our government by the constitution that make us free. And it's not the race or gender or even religion of people like Barack Obama that make us distrust him. It's the way they shrug off their constitutional limits, or see them as something to be worked around in order to deliver the next big freebie they promised...
CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights
Washington (CNN) – A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll.
Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government's become so large and powerful that it poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens. Forty-four percent of those polled disagree.
The survey indicates a partisan divide on the question: only 37 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Independents and nearly 7 in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.
According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the U.S. government is broken - though the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.
The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.
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