Poll: Most Think Government Threatens Our Rights

I found this interesting. According to a recent CNN poll, 56% of Americans think the federal government is a threat to our individual rights.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/26/citizens.rights.poll/

Fifty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they think the federal government has 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 seven in 10 Republicans say the federal government poses a threat to the rights of Americans.

I find this very interesting.


But it shouldn't surprise anybody. Because of recent actions taken by our government, fewer and fewer people actually believe it cares about protecting our rights. We saw that last summer with the various and sundry protests... and that's a movement that has grown, not shrunk.