No, I answered that. You apparently didn't read my answer.
To save you trouble, I will just restate it again.
So long as the government gets a court order for every instance of Apple cracking a phone, I'm fine with it. This has always been my position.
This particular case is about this one phone, but as you said previously, it will set a precedent for all future phones. Fine. Let it set a precedent that Apple will obey court orders. That is exactly the sort of precedent that ought to be set, because Apple seems a little confused on the subject.
Let the Judges make it clear to them. Apple is not above the law.
The point we and everyone else is making is that there IS no law that allows this judge to order Apple to do what the judge is demanding. So, I understand, you are just OK with Judges legislating from the bench, when Congress has declined to write a law to do what the Justice Department wants, is that it?? I am not am not so sanguine about it. . . Or as comfortable as you seem to be with little-tin-dictators in black robes arrogating to themselves the authority to decide that when Congress declines to make a law, they can do it for them, because, obviously, it was just an oversight they did not pass such a law. Sometimes doing NOTHING is the right thing to do. Laws are not passed by doing nothing, DiogenesLamp.
You are one of the most dishonest people I have ever had the misfortune to debate on FreeRepublic or anywhere. That is why I have commented that Diogenes would be ashamed you've taken his name as your own. He'd be first to deny you.