Apple has been under fire as of late from various factions in society. Please, as a disclaimer, do not fear the people who often are seeking to protect you. They are usually not the people who are actively looking for persons who believe in freedom. They are often searching for far more important individuals such as terrorists and these protectors deserve our respect. However, given this reality we have every freedom under our laws to actively discredit and show the truth behind the ideas of gaining access to everyone's data. Instead, of attacking people who are simply trying to protect you we need to come up with a better defense. Three points of defense come to mind when defending our freedom to encrypt our personal data.

Clearly privacy is the first concern. Second, our security from foreign governments will be compromised and finally safety from our own unpredictable government will be lost. We don't even have to consider our beloved Constitution, it's majestic history and the reasons our nation rose so quickly; as our founders prophetically stated.

First, we must address the concerns associated with privacy. Our opponents will say that you have nothing to hide, right? Who cares if the government has your data? In fact, I care due to having government documents which show excessive spending in the Greene County Sheriff's office. They were passed down to me as a responsibility long ago. Documents long lost as I was 21 years old, however sometimes secrets are dwelling with candidates. If those secrets don't remain secret their safety, my safety, is in danger. For anyone who doesn't want the government to own and look at your personal photos, opposing this back door should be a no brainier. Our women are already stuck with the degrading TSA. Must we give our naked bodies for safety. I say NO and so should you.

Second, as we see in this video from our Presidential nominee, Mr. McAfee, the fear of having a back door to the iPhone is actually a national security threat. Once this back door is created the information won't just be available to the FBI. As we have seen throughout my short lifetime the data one government contains won't only be available to the enemy, they will put this data on servers quite accessible to anyone. HIllary Clinton is the prime example of just how careless top secret data is handled in our contemporary administration.

Finally, if your personal privacy doesn't matter to you and the ability for foreign enemies to steal your data, later to use it against you, doesn't remove you from the opposition. Then let's appeal to the ultimate fear and the historically repeated offenses perpetrated by governments throughout history on their own citizens.

Let's simply keep our history lesson in the 20th century, or the 1900s. Everyone knows about the Nazi's and their efficient forms of spying on their own citizens. Along with the results of this spying. That's fine, let's move our discussion to the history of China. A beautiful place full of beautiful people, which has gone through some very stressful events since the Communist Revolution.

However, during Mao's regime they didn't need the ease of technology. They had spying in the form of youthful volunteers. These youthful volunteers dwelling in the cities would go to teach the rural peasants how to live more efficiently. Along the way they would extract information from the peasants of China.

First they would hold meetings teaching the Red Book, Mao's book, and those more accepting became spy's. Eventually telling on anybody who opposed the ideas of Communism including their own family. They would then stage humiliation events where the peasants would force confessions from the person accused. Sometimes forcing confessions out of people who benefited from historical family lines, Thier goals were to break the current system of land ownership. They succeeded at their goal and eventually "The Great Leap Forward" would kill millions of peasants in China.

To conclude, what happens if our current officials are as saintly as we assume them to be. We give them all they ask and they dive forever deeper into our lives?

What happens when these trusted people are gone and a regime we don't agree with comes into being. We will have no way to dissent and no way to end a ruthless regime in control of our beloved nation. We will have no freedom left.