You have to be utterly ignorant of history, in a state of denial, dumb as grits or

[H2O Man]

13. "the people"

Some of "the people" certainly are okay with the lose of rights, in return for a sense of security. Others are not. And others give it little if any thought.

We could speculate on the percentages of people that fall into any of these or other groups of "the people." What is certain, however, is that the Bill of Rights is intended to protect the rights of individuals and minority groups. The majority cannot suspend the rights of those individuals and small groups. The best example of this is, of course, found in free speech. We all find some people obnoxious and offensive -- I found Dick Cheney obscene, for example -- yet Constitutional Law (the federal court cases that interpret the Constitution) on free speech is largely that defining the rights of the obnoxious and offensive people.

I'm not implying that the Bill of Rights provides unrestrictable license. But speculating on the percentage of folks who are mighty fine with domestic spying risks taking the focus on the other, extremely important points raised in the OP.