Politech: FC: Third of New Yorkers want internment camps for terror-suspects

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[For once, I don't have anything at all to add. --DBM]

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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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