Stop hiding behind the constitution. The abuses in the past few years by the Feds are rampant and there are no signs of backing down. This is the same govt that got away with fast and furious and Prism. Keep saluting the flag as our rights eroded long ago.
“Stop hiding behind the constitution.”
Turn in your citizenship papers, you subversive American! Hiding behind the Constitution! Citing the Bill of Rights! HOW DARE YOU?
Heh heh heh. Priceless. You can’t get this kind of humor anywhere else.
Whether the Feds have engaged in abuses elsewhere, does not justify refusing to comply with the law in this particular case. In this particular case, the law was with the FBI, and against Apple, and Apple should have complied with it rather than attempt to subvert the law with their mob-ocracy.
This is the same govt that got away with fast and furious and Prism.
I do not believe the government is monolithic. I believe it has branches and people that are bad, and branches and people who are relatively good and trying to do their jobs. "Fast and Furious" was not perpetrated by the FBI. I believe most of the men and women of the FBI are probably decent people with ethics and a desire to do their job properly.
Now I have nothing good to say about the ATF. As far as I'm concerned, they appear to be the malevolent Keystone Kops of supposed law enforcement. They are primarily bunglers, and secondarily bad eggs with delusions of significance.
"Prism" is an NSA thing, and I must admit I am concerned about what sort of skullduggery the NSA is up to nowadays.