[Peace-discuss] 1st amendment "goes too far" (?!)

[rosemary braun]

Hi everyone,

A recent survey of public attitudes toward freedoms of press, speech,
and religion was released last week by the First Amendment Center
(www.freedomforum.org/first).  The survey, conducted by the Center
for Survey Research & Analysis at U. Conn. on a random sample of 1000
respondents, documented a 10-percentage-point increase from last year
in the belief that the 1st amendment "goes too far" in the rights it
guarantees (39% in 2001 v. 49% in 2002).
   
You can read the press release,  
  http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16836
or the full report,
  http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=16840

-Rosemary
  
ps. Both this year and last, the sampling error was +/-3%, so maybe
the jump isn't as bad as it looks.  On the other hand, maybe it's worse.
  
pps. And while we're on the topic of freedom, academic or otherwise:
LSU sacked Dr S.J.Hatfill (named a person-of-interest in the FBI's 
anthrax investigation), with little apparent justification.

-- 
rosemary braun  :: theoretical biophysics, univ. illinois ::  braun at uiuc.edu
vocation www.ks.uiuc.edu/~braun :: avocation www.ks.uiuc.edu/~braun/personal