“The Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”
When the ‘safety and security of us all” is at potential risk due to terrorist plots and communications that may be stored in this phone, should that not, in some sense, trump the privacy of at least the criminal in question if they committed a terrorist action?
I understand the concern about precedent, but if law enforcement can get a warrant to search one house, while not also searching every other house on the block, then why shouldn’t they be granted the same tools for a communications device?? How different is it from pulling up phone records?
Phone records show every call/text message the phone sent or received.
The feds are looking for whatever else is stored in the bowels of the phone.
What they are demanding is the means to not only access that phone, but every other iPhone built in the last few years.
It’s like demanding a lock manufacturer produce a master key for every lock they build.
When the ‘safety and security of us all” is at potential risk due to terrorist plots....
Remember that 2 Oregon farmers were sent to jail for 5 years minimum sentence because the feds characterized their setting a fire to clear out brush on their own land as “terrorism”.