Quote Originally Posted by GeoFisher View Post
I understand, but it is a slippery slope.......

Generally I support the government in these situations, and have for most of my life, but the Snowden and Manning cases are extremely concerning to me.

On one hand folks like you say I don't care and let them have the technology to break into it........and then on the the other hand, you bitch and complain when the feds want to POUND Manning and Snowden, and most recently Hillary into the ground for leaking sensitive material.

What do you want....you cannot have it both ways.

Governments have secrets, and there are things I don't care to know, and as a common member of our society, I don't NEED to know.

Just imagine for a minute.........Hillary Clinton is a senior member of the State Department. She gets briefed on soem technology component that we're going to use to TRACK DOWN and take out all terrorists. YOU know what...she was sharing that extremely sensitive information on a private network that was more than likely infiltrated by some extremely bad actors.

Yea, I know you and most liberals don't believe there is anything to the Hillary mess, but are YOU willing to take the risk.....

Personally the risk I"m talking about are very real if we give the FBI back doors into technology meant to keep things private.....

And don't kid yourself about doing things you're not supposed to do......Political groups have been using collected data over the past few decades to do very, very bad things.........Government or agencies of other governments could use that data very creatively.

I don't want the FBI or any group having any type of back door into my cell phone.......

Later,

Geo
George. I don't want the FBI looking at your phone either. Not unless you are a terrorist and just killed multiple people in the USA and a court has found that your cell phone is evidence to your connections to other terrorist and (HERE IS THE KEY) had issued a Court Order for you to open the phone for the FBI to see who you were talking to before and after you shot a bunch of innocent people.

Now as to Snowden. That's more complicated. He should be tried for what he did and handled by a court and jury of his peers. He ran of to Russia of all places. God only knows what he told the Russians. But I'm glad that we found out about the blanket illegal surveillance going on. The only Government intrusions I am for are those that are approved by a judge in a court of law. Other than that we should be free from illegal search and seizers according to the Bill of Rights or the US Constitution. They need probable cause to obtain a warrant to search your property. Period IMHO>

We have to protect innocent people's privacy and still dig out and detect the bad guys and put them away in jail. That's a tough job.

As to Hillary. I said this before. Nothing that was sent to her on her private server was marked "Confidential". She did NOT send any confidential emails to anyone! If she were doing that I would want her to be accountable for that. I'm not that fond of Hillary myself. She is going after the gun owner and also the gun manufactures which turns me off. And I personally don't want a woman as our commander in chief. Like I said some where else I"m not sure I'm liking any of the candidates on either side this time. They are all telling us what they think we want to hear.