Government is there to prosecute crimes.... under rules established hundreds of years ago.
Stick with what is authorized, government. Don't over-reach.
Some may get away with it, but that how it plays out.
Better that 10 guilty go free than one be falsely convicted.
Listen, Johnny,
Your good sense, although welcome here by *most here, is against those other things which government is for. Namely, that none ever successfully take them to task for how they go about doing whatever it is they say they must, unless they (the government) give advance permission to do so when or if the government can get away with that sort of blanket prohibition about talking about, for example; blanket "fill-in-the-blank" cookie cutter arrest warrants.
To even suggest anything else is to make of yourself a *supporter of criminals* of the worst sort.
Congratulations. You are now bumped higher in the watch-list rankings than you were even before.
Is that a copy of the Constitution in your pocket, or are you just some kind of domestic terrorist?
To hear some of (but not all) LE supporters tell it, if they were to use the same reasoning (if one can call it reasoning) which those supporters have used against others here on FR, and apply that to yourself, and to the rest who are resistant to LE attempts to force encryption keys be given over to faceless & nameless LEO's, then you, JRandom, would be a supporter of child molesters.
/johnny
ISTM that some around here think that "the present emergency" (whatever it may be today) gives gov't leave to take whatever action it deems appropriate and necessary. e.g. the depredations and perceived threats of a defined subset of citizens (outlaw motorcycle gang).
In Texas, they passed a law that specifically addresses this. Texas organized crime law
This is the law that 177 were charged under on 5/17/15 in Waco. At the time, the indication was that this charge would soon be followed with additional charges, such as murder, manslaughter, assault.
Everyone understood that it would take a few days to review evidence and sort things out and get the actual bad actors charged with their actual crimes and drop the holding charge on those who did nothing except to be present at a public accommodation and dive for cover when the bullets started flying. We were told by Waco PD info officer, Patrick Swanton that Waco PD WANTED the info released. We are a week short of four months and the wall of silence continues. Oh, did I mention?... Not a peep from the Feds.
All this and much more is well documented in the wonderful FR Archives - search keyword: waco.
WARNING: From the get-go, the "few others" that BD mentions have been very busy; first trying to get ANY discussion of the matter barred by site ownership. Failing that, a small number continue to make a huge number of posts. They defend the LE narrative (such as it is) and that's fine.
However the troublesome thing is that they continually portray us who want to look at the due process aspects (probable cause, no excessive bail, being faced by accusers, gag orders...) and at holding LE accountable of being "supporters of criminal gangs".
The reader should draw his own conclusions as to the motivation for such.