I took it, then looked at the results, and it's striking how overwhelming is the concern about and opposition to invasions of privacy, from corporations to government. Despite the line that Bush tries to feed us about how much we want the government to tap our phones and track our phone calls, the survey reveals the truth:

8) If you learned that the federal government could listen to your telephone calls without getting a court order, how concerned would you be?

61% say "very concerned"(5), 10% "concerned"(4), lesser levels of anxiety got only single digits.

11) If you learned that the federal government had access to the list of telephone numbers that you dialed every month, how concerned would you be?

48% very concerned (5), 13% concerned (4), declining from there.

Who do you trust more to protect your privacy?

government: 7%
private corporations: 6%
"I trust neither": 87%

Some other highly significant results:

Which best describes your overall feelings about privacy?

60% say "I see my privacy slowly slipping away, and that bothers me". 18% agreed with "No one enjoys privacy any more, and that really bothers me". The various forms of head-in-the sand garnered only single digit responses.

I could go on: The answers to every question reveal deepseated concern and anxiety about invasion of privacy, and the questions concerned with government invasion of privacy drew the strongest negative responses. We don't want Bush and the NSA tracking our phone calls and Web surfing and movements. We don't want to be fingerprinted or have RFID chips implanted under our skins. We don't want to be videotaped and photographed in public places.

MSNBC threw the RightWing a lifeline with the footnote "*Not a scientific survey", and I'm sure we'll hear the usual strident denials based on casting doubts on the result. But c'mon, how do you stuff a poll that far, that the percentages are that consistently overwhelming? I'm sure they'll be happy to tell us, at great length.