Read the joint statement by Access Now, the ACLU, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
It’s impossible to compromise between liberty and tyranny, in the same way it’s impossible to compromise between encryption and no encryption. You can’t build a partial backdoor, or make a partial key, and only tyrants present false choices such as this to the people.
Tech Dirt. COPS, the low-brow television show that chronicles the most vainglorious of our men and women in blue hamming it up at the expense of citizens going about their day, inadvertently provided the video evidence that contradicted the statement of an officer who forgot he was being filmed.
Brace yourself for Trump, says George Will. Reason.
…restore liberty. Pouring billions into an already-bloated military, starting a trade-war with the countries whose products and workers are responsible for whatever standard of living we currently enjoy, ginning up hatred between races and religions, it’s a recipe for nothing more than national extinction.
Money Morning. A phony-baloney tidal wave of paper dollars, backed up by a shrinking number of American private-sector workers, provided the necessary phony growth numbers that have been trotted out each quarter as proof that the massive intervention in the economy staved off another depression. The Fed’s paper arsenal, which is all it has, is now empty.
Top story at Truth Out, Foreign Policy in Focus, and other outlets. Honduran activists are being murdered by a regime that forcibly took power in 2009, and Hillary strong-armed the State Department into looking the other way. Not that it would be relevant to a non-interventionist country when another country’s military overthrows their elected government, but, considering the hyperinterventionist nature of our Federal gov’t, it’s almost a certainty there lies some interest or advantage in allowing the coup to take place.
NY Times. Even if the FBI wins its court fight with Apple, they’ll still have a problem with Apple engineers, who will either refuse to write the code, or quit. And this: “The fear of losing a paycheck may not have much of an impact on security engineers whose skills are in high demand. Indeed, hiring them could be a badge of honor among other tech companies that share Apple’s skepticism of the government’s intentions.”
Raw Story: “He argues that while Islam forbids intoxicants, it does not treat addiction as an existential threat. “The primary purpose of law in Islam is to preserve life and order in society, not to create a machine of incarceration and punishment.” According to Malik, declaring “war” on drugs is a breach of both US constitutional and Islamic principals: “The War on Drugs and the War on Terror have both given way to legalized injustice. Using the rhetoric of ‘war’ tends to subvert constitutional safeguards in the legal system, thus eroding our commitment to democracy.”
In regards to the Prophet Mohammed, Malik believes that his law was intended to protect people and not destroy their lives: “His aim was not to punish people, but to save them from their wrong behavior.””