18 Sep
2001
18 Sep
'01
6:40 a.m.
Putting aside encryption for a moment, the real stand-outs in the "Hotline" survey Declan posted are the 54% who replied that they would attack suspects even if they have no proof they did it, the 32% who would "put Arabs and Arab-Americans under special surveillance" and the astonishing 32% "very confident" and 42% "somewhat confident" that "national and local law enforcement can stop terrorist plots". I don't think that half the the people of the USA are militarist bigots living in Cloud-Cuckoo Land, but if I did this wouldn't disabuse me. Ken Brown