Titled:    Americans Okay With Current Balance Between National Security and Individual Liberty

Americans are generally comfortable with the current balance between national security concerns and individual liberties. Nearly a third of the respondents in a Rasmussen Reports survey (32%) say that our legal system worries too much about individual rights at the expense of national security. A similar number (29%) say there is too much concern for national security at the expense of individual liberties. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say that the current balance is about right.

So about a third are happy, and two thirds are unhappy. And this makes the current situation OK? I don't think that is what the results say. To me, it shows a broadly divided opinion, in which the views spread from the far laft to the far right, resulting in the mean and median being near the center. "Americans Broadly Divided Over Current Balance Between National Security and Individual Liberty" is nearer the mark. Mind, I'm not a polling expert like Rasmussen, so believe who you like, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.

Posted by Dave the hyphenated American