Poll: Americans More Concerned About Trading Liberties For Tough Anti-Terror Laws

A woman carries a girl from their home as a SWAT team searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings enters the building in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombi... A woman carries a girl from their home as a SWAT team searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings enters the building in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013. Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence that left one of them dead and another still at large Friday, authorities said as the manhunt intensified for a young man described as a dangerous terrorist. MORE LESS
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Americans are more concerned about anti-terrorism laws that curtail civil liberties than they are about policies that don’t go far enough, according to findings in a new Time/CNN/ORC International poll released Wednesday.

The same month that attacks near the finish line of the Boston Marathon left three people dead and injured dozens more, 61 percent of Americans said “they are more concerned about the government enacting new anti-terrorism policies that restrict civil liberties compared to 31 percent who say they are more concerned about the government failing to enact strong new anti-terrorism policies,” according to the poll.

Read more about the poll’s findings, which were a part of Time’s cover story this week. 

 

(Photo via the Associated Press)

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