“The open letter to Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym, posted to Apple’s website, warns of the negative repercussions that could arise from a U.S. government effort to force Apple’s aid in unlocking an iPhone used by San Bernardino terror suspect Syed Rizwan Farook,” Mikey Campbell reports for AppleInsider.
“‘No party should wield the power to force private companies to weaken the security of all in order to investigate a few,’ the letter reads,” Campbell reports. “The amicus brief was written last week and signed by Beats, Rhymes & Relief, the Center for Media Justice, The Gathering for Justice and the Justice League NYC. Individual signatories include New York Daily News Senior Justice Writer Shaun King and Opal Tometi, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and Director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI).”
“‘As Rev. Jesse Jackson recalled last week, one need only look to the days of J. Edgar Hoover and wiretapping of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to recognize the FBI has not always respected the right to privacy for groups it did not agree with,’ the group says,” Campbell reports. “‘The FBI’s historically questionable surveillance procedures do not bode well for setting a precedent that allows the agency universal access to private smartphone data,’ the group writes.”
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Sorry but ALL lives matter and the Black LIES Matter idiocy is not any endorsement anyone needs…….
Que the morons in 3….2…..1…
Duh, and missing the point. Just read this to see why your comment makes no sense:
http://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/why-all-lives-matter-inste.html
Also, it’s fascinating that you felt the need to attack black activists when they probably agree with you on the subject at hand. Hmm…
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
BLM was stolen from the old Black Panthers’ agenda and it’s list of ten demands almost exactly mirrors the BP’s works.
Both are racist groups. I would no more use their support of my issue than Trump our the KKK.
NO. DIFFERENCE.
They go absolutely nuts if you say all lives matter.
Grieving person: “I’m so sad that my spouse died of colon cancer. I wish we could cure it!”
Asshole: “All diseases matter!”
Exactly the point!
BLM makes me sick. These cancerous leeches on the black community. That child in Chicago who was executed received nary a mention from those low lives. Keep playing the race card for your failures. It’s wearing very thin indeed.
Obama’s silence on this matter is deafening also. ( as in both of them)
They are pointing out that breaking encryption would threaten everyone’s civil liberties. Do you disagree? Why the need to rant about them here? Do you hate them so much you won’t welcome an ally against government overreach?
They are so morally bereft they aren’t an entity yo want to ally with.
Black lives of course matter, as do Asian, Pacific Islanders, Hispanic, Caucasian and whomever I’m missing I apologize. I would like to know if BLM is involved in making sure black lives matter in black communities. I read my local newspaper and I swear I’m seeing more black on black killings than white on black or Asian American on black.
I guess I just don’t understand.
You don’t understand. Clearly.
First of all, in ANY community, most of the people who are killed are killed by someone in that community, so your point is…? Second of all, if you haven’t seen people in Black communities working to reduce violence within their community, you clearly aren’t paying attention.
So, it seems your point here was to try to excuse racism by saying that the victims are at fault? That’s not cool.
“Hey, person who was just raped/robbed/whatever! I hear that you weren’t polite to your neighbor yesterday!”
93% of black people are killed by other black people. This isn’t a measurement like 4 out of 5, this is terms of thousands.
I am sick of people like you pushing racism as an excuse for anti-social violent behavior. It is not. The only role racism plays in society today is as a tool for political gain. Racism is the false cudgel of leftists. The never ending monotonous emphasis on racism relegates us to nothing more than victims, and this is exactly where the left wants us. Not because black lives matter, but because black votes matter.
And 84% of white people are killed by other white people. You view 93% versus 84% as indicating something significant?
Just to check: you seriously don’t think that institutions discriminate on a systematic basis against non-white people?
I’m talking about the numbers. The number of blacks viciously murdered by other blacks vastly outnumbers whites killed by whites. When you look at that 93%, it isn’t 93% of 5 murders, it’s 93% of thousands of murders. Less than 1% of black people are killed by anyone else, including cops. If black lives really mattered, the finger of blame would point steadily at black people themselves. NO ONE ELSE HAS ANY CULPABILITY.
Ok, so 93% of 20% of the population is a lot worse than 84% of 70% of the population? How does that math work without recourse to racism?
Can you clarify? You say that “less than 1% of black people are killed by anyone else” and also say that 93% are killed by black people. Who killed the other 6%?
You also seem to be saying that thousands of murders occur in the black community, but only 5 in other communities. I assume you know that is false, so what is your intention here?
I’m also confused about “anti-social violent behavior” – were we talking about excusing that? I wasn’t.
Well stated…..!!! Unfortunately the low-info faux nonsense rules the day…..
In Baltimore it’s not that important if it’s a black man who’s killed; the only important factor is the race of the person who killed said black man. Black on black homicide is never-ending, and only becomes an issue to the black community if it involves a child. If a white person, inevitably a police officer, kills a black then all hell breaks loose, regardless of the guilt or innocence of the victim.
They’re sure ones to talk! By the way. ALL LIVES MATTER! Nothing these wackos have to say interests me. Apple is right to stand their ground on this, but we don’t need these losers to tell us that. Don’t like me criticizing BLM? Tough. Deal with it.
A regular chant at BLM protests is: “All lives will matter when Black Lives Matter!”
In other words, they are trying to point out that our institutions have been telling them (by actions!) that “all lives do NOT matter.”
So, they are saying “Black Lives Matter, too!” without using the final word, which frankly would make the chant sound pretty simply, right?
People who claim they are saying “_only_ Black Lives Matter” must have a reason they are deliberately mis-interpreting what is being said. I wonder why that is…
^^ “simply” was an auto-correct – should be “wimpy.”
Totally disagree. The addition of the word “too” would clearly emphasize their belief there is a difference. It’s sounds Kanye-esqe, and no one appreciates his attitude toward people.
I disagree. Leaving it out makes it clear who is intentionally misunderstanding them. Since they are very clear about protesting the unfair (i.e. unequal) treatment they receive from U.S. institutions, when someone deliberately pretends to add the word “only” at the beginning, it makes it clear that person is looking for any excuse to keep letting U.S. agencies murder Black people.
It’s a litmus test: when someone is deliberately obtuse and decides the word “only” is implied, it reveals that they do NOT like Black people standing up for themselves. They will find any reason, no matter how lame, to dodge the issue.
I don’t give a damn what they say. These people are thugs. When they have been told that all lives matter, they get pissed off and start protesting.
Each time these morons are quoted as if they have any sort of official capacity to speak for anyone, or as if they are anything other than a Twitter based scam born of thuggery and hooliganism the hard earned respect of true black intellectuals is greatly diminished. I am disheartened seeing their opinions quoted here.
One might very well quote the Society of Rodeo Clowns.
A lot of folks are going on about all lives matter, and yes I’m all for the respect towards the spotted owl and the worms, but taking that aspect ignores the fact that most of life depends on other life, i.e. consumers like lions tigers and bears eat other lives, so other lives to matter to them. Not so much for other living things like plants (producers) and certain microbes (decomposers). Other lives don’t matter to them because they don’t rely on other lives to sustain them (though that’s not the way it works out in the field as there are a variety of symbiotic relationships both good and detrimental out there.
According to scientists there have been extinctions of over 90% of the species that have ever existed on earth, and the species that really matter are the plants and microbes. Take away all the plants for example and there is no life. Take away the consumers, not a problem there is still lots of life.
So just remember the lives that really really matter are plants and microbes. The rest are very optional.
Road Warrior, I think they’re talking about murder, not about the natural order of things.
I know, I just toss that in to try to shake off that approach a lot of people have about being the center of the universe. It’s kind of like going in front of the SPCA and killing a bunch of cockroaches and taunting them to do something about it. I mean if it was the SPCM (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Mammals) it would be all right cause essentially that’s what they protect but nooooo they have to be grandiose with their grand standing and insinuated that they protect all animals. They won’t even protect fish from being abused in aquariums, I know I tried.
That’s just an example, you probably notice it here, when it comes to nationalism it’s all rah rah rah, but bring forth global ideas, it’s listen to the crickets chirp and they make a very good point.
Plus it’s fun.
Oh and isn’t murder part of the natural order of things?
No sir, as near as I can determine it is an invention of H. sapiens, the ultimate killers. Check out our literature; we are fascinated with the subject.
Which is to admit we are shockingly self-absorbed. Murder within one’s own species deserves a book and a movie, whilst extinguishing other species or tribes within our own, rate a PBS special at best.
See, this is exactly the kind of ” center of the universe” insinuations that I see creep into the language all the time.
I say that murder is in the natural order of things and you say it’s an invention of H. sapiens. So by extension H. sapiens is not part of the natural order of things.
Fascinating that you would come up with that, as so many do.
So I guess H. sapiens are what then, above nature, below, beside it, deity like? Are they in the same group as Castor canadensis the ultimate lodge and dam builders? They have been doing it well before H. sapiens came into existence.
I did check the literature, and the Spanish Influenza of 1918 killed between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history and killed more people than the second world war. Humans may be fascinated with the subject but they are far from being the ultimate killers.
When it comes to killing off members of its own species, it may be the most flamboyant, but it is not unique. When it comes to being unique H. sapiens is the only creature that I know of that produces materials toxic to itself but to every other living organisms. It has however come nowhere near producing the amount needed to eradicate life on this planet.
Realizing that humans are part of nature is an important step of working with the life sustaining principle of nature, one being diversity.
It’s a pleasure reading your posts by the way, keep them coming.
BLM is a racist group. Ignore them like you would ignore a WLM movement.
Suddenly I don’t care anymore
When we circumvent and destroy civil liberties, when we subvert and ignore US Constitutional rights…
#TheTerroristsWIN
Osama bin Laden is laughing uncontrollably, playing cribbage with Poseidon in Davy Jones’ Locker. The real fools are the ones who live, yet fail to learn.
The wisdom of Confucius is lost on Obama, because he never consults his fortune cookie after a meal. He trusts his advisors instead, who are a pack of moles and sycophants. Far better to rely on seasoned astrologers, as the late Nancy Reagan did in helping formulate favourable agendas for her wounded warrior President. Obama would do better casting yarrow stalks in consulting the I Ching than absorbing his advisors’ opinions as if they were revelations. The stars may lead you astray; but advisors can lead you to grievious harm. I think Shakespeare said that, or meant it at least.
Men at some time are masters of their fates;
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
— Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The Ides of March Loom.