The N.Y. Times reported that FBI Director James B. Comey is moaning and whining about Apple's new iPhone privacy technology which will put encryption in the hands of the user and thus leave Apple Inc., empty and powerless to comply with any government befehl to hand over data.
Mr. Comey said, “What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves beyond the law.” He cited kidnapping cases, in which exploiting the contents of a seized phone could lead to finding a victim, and predicted there would be moments when parents would come to him “with tears in their eyes, look at me and say, ‘What do you mean you can’t’
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Wasn't there some of story that said: Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing?
From Obama to Comey to the detective on a case the plaintive and whining cry rises up: the babies! the virgins! the widows! We need more tools and more power to fight "those who would blow up the world" ... (and sell dope on a street corner)!
And people fall for it over and over again, just as they fell for tales of Infidel outrages in Holy Jerusalem, Germans roasting babies on their bayonets and now "unspeakble beheadings" (as distinguished one supposes from the US troops who killed an Afghani detainee after four days of non-stop "pulpifying" -- the coroner's term.)
The Fourth Amendment is the supreme law of the land. The only thing illegal here is a government that refuses to abide the Constitution, a Supreme Court that will do its sophistical best to gut it, and a Congress that is too supine and degenerate to return to our lawful roots.
The definition of a "tyranny" is precisely that -- a government that refuses to abide the law. The operative presumption of a free and civil society is (1) that all citizens are trustworthy and innocent of wrong doing and (2) that as such they are entitled to privacy in all their personal affairs. If the government has reason to suspect a deviation from the presumption let it get a warrant based on probable cause. Period.
Beware the man crying "danger!"
From Obama to Comey to the detective on a case the plaintive and whining cry rises up: the babies! the virgins! the widows! We need more tools and more power to fight "those who would blow up the world" ... (and sell dope on a street corner)!
And people fall for it over and over again, just as they fell for tales of Infidel outrages in Holy Jerusalem, Germans roasting babies on their bayonets and now "unspeakble beheadings" (as distinguished one supposes from the US troops who killed an Afghani detainee after four days of non-stop "pulpifying" -- the coroner's term.)
The Fourth Amendment is the supreme law of the land. The only thing illegal here is a government that refuses to abide the Constitution, a Supreme Court that will do its sophistical best to gut it, and a Congress that is too supine and degenerate to return to our lawful roots.
The definition of a "tyranny" is precisely that -- a government that refuses to abide the law. The operative presumption of a free and civil society is (1) that all citizens are trustworthy and innocent of wrong doing and (2) that as such they are entitled to privacy in all their personal affairs. If the government has reason to suspect a deviation from the presumption let it get a warrant based on probable cause. Period.
Beware the man crying "danger!"
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