I find this very refreshing. I would have expected it to be higher.
It is very encouraging that fully half were against the idea.
On Tuesday 25 September 2001 11:23, you wrote:
> [For once, I don't have anything at all to add. --DBM]
>
> ---
>
> http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--attacks-newyorkpo0924sep24
>.story?coll=ny%2Dap%2Dregional%2Dwire
>
> Poll: Third of New Yorkers support internment camps for some
>
> By MARC HUMBERT
> Associated Press Writer
>
> September 24, 2001
>
> ALBANY, N.Y. -- One third of New Yorkers favor establishing internment
> camps for "individuals who authorities identify as being sympathetic to
> terrorist causes," according to a poll from the Siena College Research
> Institute.
>
> Fifty percent of those surveyed for the statewide poll said they were
> opposed to that idea while 15 percent had no opinion.
>
> The telephone poll of 610 New York state residents over age 18 was
> conducted from Sept. 12, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World
> Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, through Sept. 19. The poll has a
> margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
>
> [...]
>
>
>
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