Nick Gillespie

According to Nick Gillespie in the following viewpoint, trading freedom and privacy for enhanced security is a bad swap. In doing so, he contends, Americans are dishonoring those who died in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and sacrificing the values for which America stands. Gillespie argues, for example, that the anti-terrorism legislation passed immediately after the attacks allows law enforcement to spy on U.S. citizens. When people sacrifice freedom for security in times of crisis, he maintains, they unwittingly pave the way for ever more restrictions on their civil liberties. Nick Gillespie is editor in chief of Reason, a libertarian magazine.

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1. What percentage of respondents in a Gallup/University of Oklahoma poll favored trading civil liberties for security, as cited by Gillespie?
2. As...