JUNE 9, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS)
While the U.S. roads continue to record more than 34,000
kills every year, governmental bums have been assaulting the citizen’s
privacy, assaulting numerous other legal rights, attacking and assaulting
people using military gear, assaulting the innocent pressure cookers, assaulting
teenagers with deadly weapons, shooting unarmed men in their backs, sending
live anthrax to numerous destinations, refusing to fix the porous borders where
millions enter our country every year, and so on.
And all that in the name of protecting the public from
theoretical terrorists. The public and
now corporations do not buy that.
Since 9/11, there have been very few terrorist acts; at the
same time, over 500,000 people have been killed on the deadly U.S. roads and
several million injured. Millions of
illegals have entered the U.S. through the borders – an impact on our safety
that is much more significant than these “terrorist” acts. Yet, these bums and clowns are refusing to
fix the borders and the roads and instead attach our privacy rights.
It is obvious that the priorities of these bums are
misplaced, perhaps because these losers never held a useful and productive job
in their lives. It is also possible that
many of these bums are trained killers who came back to the states from the ill-conceived
invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and multitude of interferences with the affairs
of many other countries.
Top U.S. tech companies are warning the Obama administration
against imposing new policies that the companies say would weaken increasingly
sophisticated encryption systems designed to protect consumers' privacy.
In a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama on
Monday, two industry associations representing major software and hardware
companies said, "We are opposed to any policy actions or measures that
would undermine encryption as an available and effective tool."
The Information Technology Industry Council and the Software
and Information Industry Association, representing tech giants, including Apple
Inc, Google Inc, Facebook Inc, IBM and Microsoft Corp, fired the latest salvo
in what could be a long fight over government access into smart phones and
other digital devices.
Obama administration officials have pushed the companies to
find ways to let law enforcement bypass encryption to investigate illegal
activities including terrorism threats, but not weaken it in a way that would
let criminals and computer hackers penetrate the security wall.
So far, however, the White House has not spelled out
specific regulatory or legislative steps that it might seek to achieve that
objective.
Last week White House press secretary Josh Earnest called
this a "thorny policy challenge" that has Obama's attention.
While he recognized tech companies' efforts to protect
Americans' civil liberties, Earnest, responding to a reporter's question, added
that the companies "would not want to be in a position in which their
technology is being deployed to aid and abet somebody who’s planning to carry
out an act of violence."
The industry letter to Obama also was sent to FBI Director
James Comey, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Attorney General Loretta
Lynch and other Cabinet heads.
Days earlier, the United States enacted legislation that
will curtail the government's ability to scoop up huge volumes of data related
to records of Americans' telephone calls.
The government surveillance was an outgrowth of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks on the United States and was exposed by former National
Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
The industry groups noted that online commerce has
flourished in part because consumers believed their payment information would
be secure.
"Consumer trust in digital products and services is an
essential component enabling continued economic growth of the online
marketplace," the industry wrote.
"Accordingly, we urge you not to pursue any policy or proposal
that would require or encourage companies to weaken these technologies,
including the weakening of encryption or creating encryption
'work-arounds'."
It a nutshell: dear governmental bums: fix the roads, fix the borders, stop assaulting the citizens using military gear, leave the pressure cookers and our privacy alone.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by Kevin
Drawbaugh)
Source: Reuters.com