I generally advocate for the police when it comes to fighting crime.
However, I do not support any degradation in Constitutional protections of citizens (illegal aliens should have no rights other than humane executions). The Constitution was never designed to make the police's job easier. Easy police work is tyranny
Apple has every right as a company to not be forced to do shit for the Federal Government that violates the company's standards and ethics. If the Federal Government wants to tap into a piece of technology, let the Federal Government do the work - and if they are incompetent in accessing critical files, oh fucking well.
Pound Sand!
I have drawn a careful line here - the Federal Government may do whatever it wants with legally seized property (that means obtained with Court orders that are not obtained by hidden or secret courts). The Federal Government must be compelled to expose its entire set of hunches - the citizenry, so accused, should never be hit by secret panels and backroom deals - especially by Administrations that have demonstrated that it will use the IRS to harass its political enemies or which fabricates Kangaroo courts to turn Constitutional protections into less substantial barriers to police overreach than a speedbump in a parking lot.
If our government is so lazy and so ill prepared as to have technological staff that is competent, then it is not the problem of citizens that governmental incompetence should be an excuse to violate rights of citizens or other private organizations. As there has not even been any evidence offered that the data contained on that cell phone used by the worm food former militant mooslim terrorists constitutes the "pending nuclear explosion" scenario, then we must rebuke the Feds and demand they actually hire competent technology experts to do the dirty work of the Government.
At no time should the Federal Government EVER be allowed to force a third party to violate its customer privacy policies. And since we know that the mooslims and communist governments of the world would employ such gained leverage (from Apple being compelled to crack the privacy settings on that cell phone), we must further lambast and push back on the Federal Government since such declarations for need EXACERBATE privacy of the entire population. And since the damage thus offered to crack the cell phone is miniscule compared to the greater threat of individual liberty by the same enemies said to exist in the former, we must deny, deny, deny, and tell the Federal Government to go fuck themselves with all due disrespect and prejudice.

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