Pew: 51 percent of Americans view the NSA favorably

[Lucille]

Pathetic.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-23/fight-club-1776

CSM-- A new poll from Pew Research Center suggests that, so far at least, Snowden's release of information on NSA programs has had a limited effect on how the agency is viewed by the American public.

The Pew survey, conducted Jan. 7-11, asked respondents about their views of various federal agencies, breaking down responses by sex, political affiliation, and age. It found that 51 percent of Americans view the NSA favorably – down from 54 percent in fall 2013 – while only 37 percent have unfavorable views of the agency.

WB7

Which once again confirms that which we already know: We are essentially a nation of clueless morons who consider the PSI of a pro football and Kim Kardashian's oversized iButt to be of greater social importance than all else, the systematic derogation of our constitutional rights by the DC Vichycrats and the greatest financial fraud ever perpetrated on the American public to name just two examples.

Remember the notion that Congress was going to reform the NSA. I believe that ridiculous pipe dream now sits on the lameduck Q somewhere behind Twitter Community College and rescuing the phantom middle class.

If you have not yet watched Citizen Four, I strongly recommend that you do.

And yes Ed Snowden, we remember...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Secu...ra-NSA-maintains-surprisingly-favorable-image

It found that 51 percent of Americans view the NSA favorably – down from 54 percent in fall 2013 – while 37 percent have unfavorable views of the agency.

To be sure, the NSA isn't exactly popular. The only federal agency less popular among Americans was the Internal Revenue Service, which was viewed favorably by only 45 percent of Americans and was the only one in which "unfavorable" views topped favorable ones, at 48 percent. The most popular federal agencies were the Centers for Disease Control, with 70 percent "favorable," and NASA, with 68 percent.

In the latest survey, there were substantial differences in views among different cohorts. Perhaps surprisingly, younger Americans have a more favorable view of the NSA than older ones. Among adults under the age of 30, 61 percent view the NSA favorably. That drops to 55 percent among Americans 30-49 years old and to 40 percent for Americans over 65.

Only 47 percent of Republicans view the NSA well, against 58 percent of Democrats, which may reflect which party controls the presidency, though partisan views of the CIA are flipped. About 64 percent of Republicans approve of the CIA, while just 46 percent of Democrats do. Last year, the CIA and the then-Democrat controlled Senate Intelligence Committee tussled over releasing documents related to the CIA's post-9/11 torture program. In March, Dianne Feinstein, then head of the committee, publicly alleged the CIA had targeted the computers of her staffers working on the torture report.

Independents hold a 49 percent favorable view of the NSA. About 53 percent of American women favor the NSA, while 49 percent of men do.

 

[Suzanimal]

51 percent of Americans view the NSA favorably

Dumb asses.

Internal Revenue Service, which was viewed favorably by only 45 percent of Americans

"only" Da fuq???

 

[acptulsa]

Oh, look! Another Pepe le Pew Poll!

What's that smell...?

 

[otherone]

51%...

"Pewarchy":
Government by public opinion poll

 

[Dr.3D]

Oh, look! Another Pepe le Pew Poll!

What's that smell...?

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

Anyone else notice how often controversial polls always end up ~+/- 1% of the 50% mark?

Like that ever happens in the real world.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

In other news, 51% of Americans hold a mass seance to try and bring Joseph Goebbels back from the dead.

 

[Anti Federalist]

About 53 percent of American women favor the NSA, while 49 percent of men do.

Women love them some big brother.

 

[muh_roads]

Everyone should do themselves a favor and watch the Edward Snowden documentary, "Citizenfour".
If you can pay to stream it now, I apologize for posting this. Pay for it if you can. But it is touring the country VERY slowly. Something this important can't wait, IMO. https://kickass.so/citizenfour-2014-720p-web-dl-aac2-0-h264-fgt-t10106068.html

If you don't believe in torrenting and there is no other way to view it, at least watch the Two-part Frontline special and spread it to everyone you can.

Part 1
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365245528/

Part 2
http://video.pbs.org/video/2365251169/

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Women love them some big brother.

Unfortunately, this is in my experience true.

 

[enhanced_deficit]

No Such Agency has better credibility than SWC:


For first time, Q-poll shows Obama now viewed as more dishonest than honest
"For the first time today, American voters say 52 - 44 percent that Obama is not honest and trustworthy."

Majority of Americans now believe Obama is "dishonest and untrustworthy"

 

[GunnyFreedom]

No Such Agency has better credibility than SWC:


For first time, Q-poll shows Obama now viewed as more dishonest than honest
"For the first time today, American voters say 52 - 44 percent that Obama is not honest and trustworthy."

Majority of Americans now believe Obama is "dishonest and untrustworthy"

In other news, 44 percent of Americans test out as "physically brain dead." Experts speaking on the condition of anonymity add that it's a mystery how they still have heartbeats, respiration, and vote.

 

[jmdrake]

Well that means that 49 percent are against the NSA. These 49% could cripple the NSA if we used encryption as much as possible for routine communications. I've loaded this on my smart phone.

https://whispersystems.org/

A +rep to anyone who is using, or is preparing to use, encrypted email, phone, text and/or chat.

Edward Snowden's and Genn Greenwald used CryptoCat to chat.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/features/encryption-just-need-use/
https://revolution-news.com/us-government-funds-favorite-nsa-proof-apps/
http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/11/04/encryption-tools-protect-online-privacy/

CryptoCat was famously used by journalist Glenn Greenwald while he met with Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013. It’s a free chat program that can be installed in any browser. Developed by Nadin Kobeissi, CryptoCat was just an experiment when he created it in 2010 as a student at Concordia University in Montreal. Since CrpytoCat won a 2012 New York hackathon, Kobeissi has raised about $150,000 in grants to pay for professional developers to work on improvements to the software.

 

[AngryCanadian]

phoned by 1000 or so. Meh.

 

[AuH20]

51% of Americans don't think Aleister Crowley was a bad guy.

 

[TheTexan]

49% dont want our Nation to be Secure.

 

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Well, first you have to realize about 15% of the population is functionally illiterate. Second, around 35% are on welfare of one type or another. Of course most in the first group are in the second group. Third. About 7% of the population works for the government in one form or another. Then you now have Obamacare pulling in the working poor even more into the religion of government. Then of course, social security, which to many means government is saving grandma from starving. So, Really for over half the population, they have a constant bias to view the government favorably, simply because it is their means of survival.

There is no real path to reducing the scope of government going forward, the numbers don't add up, to many rely on the welfare state to ever really oppose it in a meaningful way. Vote, don't vote, you will NEVER NEVER get anywhere.

If Hillary gets elected (Most likely), she will certainly expand welfare and further push a radical feminist agenda.

IMO, it's over already really, just indeterminate date of expiration.

In order to reverse this progression towards an even larger welfare state (which leads to gov worship) you'd have to convince the over half the country living off the gov to give up their means of survival. NOT going to happen. The transition to a parasitic class large than the host is already complete.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

51% of Americans don't think Aleister Crowley was a bad guy.

85% probably never heard of the guy and were going off of 'his name sounds cool.'

 

[TomKat]

Has anyone here actually ever taken a political-like poll? I have never even been asked. Do they have control groups that they keep using over and over in different polls or is it always a made up number?

 

[DamianTV]

Youre all forgetting that the questions that people are asked are not repeated when presented as a fact. They constantly twist these things to distort peoples perceptions. They may have asked something like "do you think we need a strong government to be secure?" to which a certain percentage will answer "yes" and a certain percentage will answer "no". However, once this data is compiled, the Question itself is completely changed, damn near to the point of irrelevancy. They will take all these "yes" answers and state "Americans support NSA Spying" even though it was NOT the question they asked to begin with. It is Group Think Psychology. If one individiual believes the majority, or even super majority of people have one opinion, they may very well change their own opinions to match those of the Perceived Group, even if the Percieved Group is a statistical question manipulating statistic.

What we need to be thinking is how the hell we got to this figure to begin with. Fuck Pew Polls, lets go directly to the people that were polled and ask them. Then we can understand how this manipulation works on the truly weak minded.

But for the NSA to have a five times higher approval rating than our Criminal Congress, whose biggest issue is the NSA, I not only call BULLSHIT but COMPLETE AND TOTAL FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Where is Frank Lutz?