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Previous Survey Results!  

Last newsletter's question was: 

What Do You Think of this CNN Poll?  

As you most likely know, Civitas is not the only organization that engages in on-line polls.  One of the largest is CNN -- the Cable News Network founded by entrepreneur and adventurer Ted Turner in 1980. Most television critics feel that the quality of "hard news" on CNN has declined precipitously in recent years as the taste for information by the American people has moved more towards entertainment and gossip.

If Ted Turner was alive (oh, he is as of this moment), he might turn in his "grave-to-be" if he was aware of what CNN did this past weekend.  For several hours, they had the following poll on their web site (this wording is not exactly correct because CNN pulled the poll before we could take it down verbatim):

"Who would you prefer to manage shipping ports in the United States?"

a -- Companies that are not chartered and owned within the United States

b -- The Mafia in the United States

Our question this week is, "Why do you think that CNN asked this question?"  (You may select more than one answer.)

a) Whoever wrote the poll question has an extreme bias against people and institutions that are not American.  3 (33%)

b) CNN was just looking for a little entertainment with its web readers.  5 (55%)

c) CNN was in a hurry to put up a new survey and this was the best that they could do.  1 (11%)

d) Actually there is nothing wrong with the question. It is a fair question for Americans to consider.  0 (0%)

e) None of the above.  1 (11%)

Note: Percentages add up to more than 100% because multiple responses to the question were permitted.

Tony Keel; S.L.U.H., 2006

Well let's see... We can't ban trade of nuclear materials (we've been trying to do that for while), we definitely can't give them all to the UN, I guess we could provide financial incentives (the old pay-off trick), but I don't know if this would permanently fix the problem. Let's face it, we will have to go into Iran and North Korea eventually anyway, but knowing the US they will have to develop nukes and start something first. Though I don't think the US should "take them out" so to speak, but with UN approval somebody's got to stop them.

Brett DeLaria; S.L.U.H., 2008

I believe that nuclear weapons are 2 kinds of weapons. One of mass destruction as we learned in WWII, and one of fear as we learned in the Cold War and present day issues. It seems these days that dictators who aren't mentally sane with the world decide to use the object of the weapon as fear, and if necessary as a tool of destruction. I believe that nations whose leaders say to wipe Israel off the map shouldn't have weapons. They say it is their right. What kind of right is that? Is it their right to instill fear in the world so that they can get attention and progress with their corrupt ways of ruling? Is it their right to threaten the life of others? I think not. Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness. These are the three basic rights that all humans hold, and it is no one's right to violate or intrude or threat any of these principals. No one should have the right to threaten a person(s)' life on a scale of total destruction. How do we solve such an issue? Unfortunately as long as there is corruption and all bad virtues like this in the world I don't think we'll ever see a world without nuclear weapons, but it is the responsibility of the world to monitor each nations' comments on weapons, production, and use. We need to continue the United Nations inspections. Maybe one day the UN will seize all uranium mines and enrichment, and use it to only sell power. The profits from the mining and enrichment can be then given to the nations with the plants and natural resources. Cooperation and diplomacy must be utilized...Have we entered a Cold War II or on the brink of WWIII? Let's work so that we are not, but make these issues to a thing of the past.

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