Kasich believes you should trade liberty for safety
Ben Franklin, call your office – these candidates don’t get it!
There is a clear divide between Constitutionalists like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul vs the “keep you safe and never mind the liberty” crowd, led by Rubio, Christie, and Kasich (Bush and Carson seem to be in the middle), but the scariest line of the night belonged, as it often does, to John Kasich. From Yahoo News:
During Thursday night’s debate, Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly followed up on remarks about encryption the Ohio governor had made in prior debates, including the statement that encryption is a “big problem” that the FBI should have the ability to penetrate. Kasich’s viewpoint directly contradicts that of the majority of cryptographers and tech companies, who argue that it’s impossible to compromise encryption to go after a select group of terrorists without compromising digital security for the entire American public. Kelly smartly asked whether those experts were wrong, and Kasich got coy:
“The joint terrorism task forces need resources, and they need tools, and those are made up of the FBI, state and local law enforcement,” he said. “Megyn, it’s best not to talk anymore about backdoors and encryption. It’ll get solved, it’ll need to be solved in the Situation Room in the White House with the technology folks.”
Hmmm – nice little tech company you’ve got there – would be a shame if something happened to it – now give us a back door to your users! Anybody else get a chilling feeling from that one?
It’s not like Kasich has a history of lying to the public, or anything – move along, nothing we want you to see here!
