“Sacrificing civil liberties OK to fight terrorism say some Americans,” reads the headline of this Associated Press report on a recent poll conducted nationwide by the news organization and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Some — but not most.

Although more than half of the Americans surveyed favor “surveillance cameras in public places to watch for suspicious activity,” “random searches involving full-body scans or pat-downs of airplane passengers,” and “government analysis of financial transactions processed by U.S. banks without a warrant” — all things that are currently legal, mind you — several other civil liberty issues, like racial or ethnic profiling in airport screening and the reading of emails without a warrant remain firmly disapproved of. According to the survey, 54 percent of Americans even say that if they had to make a choice between maintaining personal freedoms and sacrificing them in order to protect us from terrorism, they’ll stick with the personal liberties.

Hear that, government? You’ll pry America’s Google chat from its cold, dead hands.