BloggeRhythms

Aside from Trump’s campaign appearances turning into massive brawls, not very much is going on in today’s news. The cancellations of his rally’s are helpful to him, however. Because since he rarely has anything important to say, this saves him the trouble of double-talking through the nation’s most critical issues. 

On another subject, the POTUS once again is attempting to take advantage of a very delicate situation, by suggesting that government needs to encroach further on citizen’s Constitutionally granted freedoms.    

According to Jeff Mason @ca.news.yahoo.com, “U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday made a passionate case for mobile devices to be built in such a way as to allow government to gain access to personal data if needed to prevent a terrorist attack or enforce tax laws. 

“Speaking at the South by Southwest festival in Texas, Obama said he could not comment on the legal case in which the FBI is trying to force Apple Inc. to allow access to an iPhone linked to San Bernardino, California, shooter Rizwan Farook.” But, making clear his commitment to Americans' privacy and civil liberties, he believes a balance “is needed to allow some intrusion when needed.” 

He then said, "The question we now have to ask is: If technologically it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there is no key, there's no door at all, then how do we apprehend the child pornographer, how do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?"  

The answer to that one isn’t granting broad-based access to government to intrude on citizen’s protected communication. Because once that door is opened, government will most certainly abuse the expanded authority. Therefore, on a case-by-case basis, government needs to seek individual “legal’ solutions, which should be attainable if they’d do so quietly, and stop trying to make headlines.   

As a senator, Obama himself condemned the Patriot Act for violating the rights of American citizens, arguing that “it allowed government agents to perform extensive and in-depth searches on American citizens without a search warrant.” He also argued that it was "possible to secure the United States against terrorist attacks while preserving individual liberty."

He later reversed himself, signing a four-year renewal of the Patriot Act, specifically allowing roaming wiretaps and government searches of business records.

And then, in August 2013, arguing that his administration was already in the process of reviewing the NSA surveillance programs when they were leaked by Snowden, he made precisely the same claim presented by myself earlier. According to Wikipedia: “Obama stated that it would have been best for the American people to have never learned about the programs.” Which means, he's known the correct answer all along.

On another matter, appearing on Fox News' "Fox News Sunday" program, John Kasich “pledged to submit a comprehensive immigration reform plan that includes a path to legalization to Congress in the first 100 days of his Administration, if he is elected President.”

In this case, one has to wonder why Kasich would make a pledge on such a hot button issue with the hugely important Ohio primary coming up on Tuesday. Because, while the subject is critically important to Hispanic voters, they comprise 383,000 people, which is only 3.3 percent of the state's total population.  

Bringing us to today’s very short update on Bill Clinton’s wife.

FoxNews.com reports: “Hillary Clinton won the Democratic caucus on the Northern Mariana Islands. The U.S. territory located in the Pacific Ocean near Guam held its vote Saturday. 

“Clinton received 54 percent of 189 votes cast to earn four of the six delegates at stake.” 

Therefore, in receiving this very good news, perhaps she’ll make a personal visit, to thank those supporting her. And while there, perhaps find a place to reside for a while. In the hope that the FBI won’t think of looking for her there, when they’re ready to cuff her for her trip to the slammer. 

Raising the ongoing question once more: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?    

That’s it for today folks.      

Adios