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RUSH: Folks, on this Apple and the Department of Justice and the FBI. Do you believe how big this has gotten? You know, people make fun of me both here at the EIB Network and in my personal life. They make fun of me over my passion for these devices, which is okay. People have made fun of me my whole life. They made fun of the fact that I really like Apple. They made fun of the fact that I\u2019m an expert in these things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had people over the weekend sending me questions, comments, about this argument between Apple and the FBI, and what it means for the terrorist\u2019s phone. I\u2019ve taken a lot of time to try to answer in great detail. I have expressed and expressed and tried to correct incorrect assumptions that people have. You know, it\u2019s amazing to me. Do you trust this government, folks? I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t trust the Obama administration. I never have trusted it. I don\u2019t trust it now; I won\u2019t trust it in the future. And most of you don\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n

Most of you are very suspicious of it, and rightly so. You should be. This is an administration that doesn\u2019t really care about the Constitution much, trying to transform the country, erase or harm much or many of the things that have defined our greatness. Yet when this episode comes along, everybody\u2019s all for the government. Why? Because there\u2019s a terrorist involved. Yep. A terrorist, a terrorist\u2019s phone. And so everybody casts aside their distrust, their justified distrust and throws all-in because this phone belonged to a terrorist.<\/p>\n

To properly understand this situation, to properly… If you really want to know what this is about, you have to forget what kind of phone this is, iPhone 5c, 5s, 6s, 6 Plus. Forget it. It doesn\u2019t matter. You have to forget that a terrorist was involved, because that\u2019s not what this is really all about. You have to focus on one thing. Have you learned through all of this…? Do you now realize it? Despite how many of you have been running around thinking that the NSA is tracking your every move, they can listen to every conversation…?<\/line><\/p>\n

They can maybe even turn on your microphone or camera on your phone and monitor what you\u2019re saying because your life is so exciting, people at the NSA can\u2019t stop tracking you! Now all of a sudden, you\u2019re learning the government cannot hack your phone. You have learned they cannot get into your phone. Do you want \u2019em to be able to? It\u2019s no more complicated than that. If you want them to be able to get into your phone, then support the FBI; tell Apple to shut up and go away. But this is even more frustrating than that, because of what we learned over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The terrorists\u2019 phones were not owned by the terrorist. Mr. Syed Farook Skyhook did not own his phone. San Bernardino County owned the phone. And it really… I don\u2019t mean to sound uppity or braggadocios, here. I am fascinated by this tech because of how intricate and in many ways miraculous it is. I have spent a lot of time learning how to use these devices and learning what they\u2019re capable of and how they might help me with my enjoyment of life, with my productivity in life, work flows, any number of things.<\/p>\n

I want to know as much about them as I can. Most people don\u2019t, understandably. But here\u2019s the thing. Do you know that over the weekend we learned the FBI told San Bernardino to change the password on this phone? They thought that they would be able to find out information if they changed the… Well, not the password. The Apple ID password. It\u2019s just it\u2019s an absolute mess. Nobody knows what\u2019s going on or how to use these things. Here\u2019s the bottom line as I\u2019m coming up to it on a break.<\/p>\n

Since San Bernardino County owned the phone, they could have had total control over it. If you are a business right now and you deploy iPhones — and I\u2019m gonna stick with iPhones in this case \u2019cause that\u2019s what I know, but it\u2019s true of any others. If you\u2019re a small business, a corporation, and you provide phones for your employees and you own those phones, there is something called Digital Device Management. It is software that allows you to control everything on their phone.<\/p>\n

You can put restrictions on what they can do with it. You can put restrictions on which apps work and which apps won\u2019t. In other words, you can stop them from using the phone personally. In addition to that, you, because you own the phone, have the ability to erase it at any time and find out what\u2019s on it. You can reset the pass code yourself as the owner of the phone. You can do it with four clicks.<\/line><\/p>\n

If the people in San Bernardino County had ever taken the time to find out what they could do with the phones that they were giving to employees, if they had just taken the time to have somebody come in and teach them, we wouldn\u2019t be here. Because there already is a way for the FBI and San Bernardino to get what they want in the circumstance where somebody\u2019s using a phone owned by a business: Digital Device Management. It\u2019s software. It\u2019s on servers.<\/p>\n

It costs about $4 per phone and you have your IT manager research it and learn how to operate it, and you control and manage every phone that you deploy, remotely. You don\u2019t have to have it in your possession to set up these restrictions. It just has to be signed in to the proper ID, Apple ID, and whatever other identification systems a company uses. And there is a specific opportunity for owners of phones in this — like San Bernardino County, they could have gone in.<\/p>\n

The moment this incident happened, they could have locked Farook and whoever out of the phone, anybody else, and only allowed themselves in. They could have gone in, they could have gotten every bit of data they wanted off that phone via a backup or a dump. They could have changed the password themselves. They could have done any number of these things. But they didn\u2019t know they could. They had no idea. And I\u2019ll wager that 95% of companies or organizations that give away phones or provide them for businesses have no clue about any of this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I misspoke. I didn\u2019t mean DDM, I meant MDM. Mobile Device Management. And in the case of Apple, it\u2019s free. Other software, $4 a phone is what it averages out but with OS X server which is simply what you would need. It\u2019s an app, a server operating system. You can deploy… All you have to do is set up the profiles for the phones that you want that are under your management. This is why you have an IT guy. It\u2019s why you hire one.<\/p>\n

Most people are not gonna take the time to learn. Hire an IT guy, and the IT guy does this. He manages all the devices. But the point is in a situation like this or any disgruntled employee or any circumstance where you the employer need to find out what\u2019s on your employee\u2019s phone, guess what? Because of mobile device software there already is a legal back door on every phone under Mobile Device Management.<\/p>\n

Apple doesn\u2019t need to add anything, and the FBI doesn\u2019t need to have Apple rewrite software for all of us because what they want exists in a large number of circumstances and did exist in this San Bernardino situation. But I\u2019m sure the people at San Bernardino were clueless and had no idea how to do this. They even confused the passcode to unlock phone and the passport for the Apple ID connecting the phone to iCloud. They got confused over that. They literally had no idea what they were doing. It\u2019s stunning what they did not know.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Steve in Duluth, Georgia. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, thanks, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a definitive knowing what I know, a little bit about the technology. My opinion is that Apple should develop a tool of some sort that would remedy this. And I think the best legal way to do it, with any device, legal device you have to do, you have to have a court order. You simply have to have a court order to attain it. For example, you just can\u2019t walk through my front door and get into my computer without a court order. Same thing with the phone. I believe they should develop, you know, technology to do that.<\/p>\n

Now, I will tell you that I\u2019m affiliated with a company, and we do hundreds of thousands of repairs, refurbishment, warranty work, turnover of phones a month. So we see everything. And I will tell you — and this is not a well-known thing at all — even though you can delete, delete, delete, delete, to your heart\u2019s content, when I get that phone back, if you\u2019ve taken it back for repair or refurbishment or whatever…<\/line><\/p>\n

Even if you go into the store, for example, at your favorite cellular store and you decide to try a new phone and within the 15-day or 30-day period, you don\u2019t like it, you take it back, that phone comes the same route as if it were broke. And I can go into that phone. Even though presumably — presumptively you\u2019ve taken away all the information, it\u2019s not true. I can get to it. I can look at it. I can see the pictures, I can see the texts, I can see the numbers, and it\u2019s my job. Oh, by the way, from the manufacturer, whatever that the manufacturer might be, to make sure —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. You\u2019re telling me the phone has been wiped, you can still get the pictures from it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, then if that\u2019s true then why is the FBI even messing around with Apple? Why don\u2019t just go in there and get what\u2019s on the phone?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, good question. I will tell you that the iPhone is unique in several different ways with regards to the technology, the way they set up their access. The other Android phones are much easier to do this with, but being that it\u2019s a new Apple device and that sort of thing, there are several different ways, in my opinion, what I know — and I don\u2019t know — I\u2019m so far away from —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me… I\u2019m running out of time. Let me answer my own question. The reason Apple doesn\u2019t go in and get the data that you claim is there and on this phone… I dispute your notion that you can go get data like full photos and texts and whatever from a phone that has been wiped and erased and basically reset up with factory defaults as brand-new. Now, I know that people who may have done damage to the phone, you can maybe find bits of data from that.<\/p>\n

You can get parts of their pictures back. But a phone that\u2019s actually been wiped, degaussed, cleaned up, factory defaults, you\u2019re out of luck. But the answer to the question, “Why doesn\u2019t the FBI just go in?” is \u2019cause there isn\u2019t a backdoor built in yet. And if somebody is forced to build one, it\u2019s gonna end up on everybody\u2019s phone, not just this one. It\u2019s not… There\u2019s no other way possible. I\u2019m out of time. I\u2019m too long. I will continue this. Sit tight.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The FBI has a court order for this phone; Apple\u2019s ignoring it. That\u2019s what the fight\u2019s all about. Well, it\u2019s about more than that, but sadly, my friends, out of precious broadcast moments at this moment. But stay glued to where you are. I know you can\u2019t move anyway. You can\u2019t go anywhere. You\u2019re locked here. We\u2019ll be back and continue in mere moments.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s very easy to confuse what\u2019s at stake in this fight between FBI and Apple, and it\u2019s very easy to get sidetracked on it. It\u2019s very easy to be manipulated — as it is, I guess, in most things. But this particularly lends itself. Because while everybody\u2019s accusing of Apple of engaging… Well, the DOJ, by the way, is accusing Apple of PR only. Have you heard their allegation? “Apple\u2019s only resisting us to do a PR maneuver to try to show their customers that they really care about security. Apple doesn\u2019t really care about your security. They\u2019re just trying to PR to help marketing and tell everybody…”<\/p>\n

The truth here is if anybody\u2019s using marketing and PR, it\u2019s the FBI by choosing this phone to make this fight about. Yeah. It happens to be the phone of a dead terrorist. And the bottom line is, San Bernardino County had the ability — on two different occasions — to get anything off that phone that the FBI now claims it wants. The mechanisms were there, if anybody had just taken a moment to learn what they had. If anybody… This goes for any of you who give iPhones to employees — and let\u2019s stick with iPhones since that\u2019s what this is about.<\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t want to have to say “smartphones and tablets” every time I talk about this because we\u2019re talking about iPhone, so I\u2019m gonna stick with that. If you\u2019re a company that for business reasons provides phones for employees, you might want to look into Mobile Device Management, if you haven\u2019t. You might want to look into everything you can do regarding your employees\u2019 phones. The restrictions, the things that your employees cannot use those phones to do, you\u2019re in charge of that. You\u2019re in control of that.<\/p>\n

You can change the password on any of those phones any time you want. You can freeze an employee out of his or her phone if you find a reason to. You can change the password; you can find out what\u2019s on that phone. Anybody that deploys phones for business purposes to a group or employees or what have you… It doesn\u2019t have to be a business. It could be a nonprofit. But anyplace that happens to provide phones for their employees can set up profiles to manage these devices, including giving the owners, which is the company, access to them.<\/p>\n

San Bernardino County twice… If anybody at the FBI or anybody at San Bernardino County knew what they could do, then we wouldn\u2019t even be here. The other thing about this that continues to amaze me, is we\u2019ve had seven years of the Obama administration, and everybody is rightfully suspicious of them. They have made enough moves on individual liberty. They don\u2019t like amendment two; they don\u2019t like religious freedom. They don\u2019t like when Congress doesn\u2019t do what they want, so they do executive orders.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s evidence upon evidence upon evidence of how this government abuses its power, whether it\u2019s privacy, whether it\u2019s security, whether it\u2019s statutory, or whatever. But then along comes this incident — and the magic words “terrorist phone” — and everybody forgets all that and assumes that this government is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and wouldn\u2019t do anything more than what they\u2019re asking us to do and they don\u2019t want to do anything more than what they\u2019re telling us they want to do.<\/p>\n

“And we\u2019ve gotta find out what\u2019s in that phone because there\u2019s terrorism and there\u2019s terrorists and there\u2019s refugees and they could be plotting against us, and this phone could have that data on it. We gotta know! We gotta know! We gotta know!” And that overrides everything, and people fall for it (you can understand it) hook, line, and sinker. But that\u2019s not what this is about. If you really want to get down to brass tacks, why is this even an issue? Open borders. Why is this even an issue? Because this Regime\u2019s making not a single effort to stop anybody.<\/p>\n

Yeah, they might be deporting here and there, but you know that they\u2019re accepting refugees from war-torn areas, and they are military-aged and able-bodied men. We have the illegal immigrant problem on the southern border. There are people coming into this country every day that we cannot count, that we cannot keep track of, and they\u2019re going out and getting phones. And so the way we gotta keep track of \u2019em is to make sure that everybody\u2019s phone can be inspected whenever the FBI… I mean, there\u2019s so many things here that we should fix first before we all just decide to give up our security.<\/p>\n

Look, folks, nobody elected Tim Cook. I understand this. Nobody elected Tim Cook to safeguard our privacy or security. That\u2019s ostensibly what we elect politicians to do. But when they won\u2019t do it, thank God Tim Cook will, is the way I look at this. But all of this is based on my understanding how these devices work. The FBI could have had what they want from this phone, and they could have gotten it in cooperation with Apple, and Apple would not have had to do anything.<\/line><\/p>\n

By the way, there\u2019s another story going around I need to blow to smithereens (you may have seen it), that Apple has on 70 previous occasions broken into phones at the request of the FBI to provide them information that they want in a criminal pursuit. That is not true. Apple has never broken into a locked phone for anybody. They have never broken into one of their devices that\u2019s locked for the FBI or anybody else. Now, there\u2019s certain data that you can get from a locked phone — that is, before the passcode\u2019s entered or the PIN, whatever you call it.<\/p>\n

But Apple has never helped anybody unlock one of their devices. If you don\u2019t know how to do it — if you\u2019ve forgotten your PIN code, if you\u2019ve forgotten your passcode — you\u2019re out of luck. You either have to find a way to reset it — and Apple has mechanisms for that — or if you\u2019re dead and the FBI wants your phone, well, in this case they could have gone to San Bernardino and said, “Do you have Mobile Device Management on it?” They\u2019d have said, “What\u2019s that?” “Okay, you don\u2019t. Well, why don\u2019t you? Have you ever thought about resetting your Apple ID password?” “Well, that sounds like a good idea.”<\/p>\n

No, bad idea; they did it anyway.<\/p>\n

They confused the difference in an Apple ID password and the phone passcode. It\u2019s just… I still like my safe analogy. What would you think…? Forget that the phone\u2019s a phone. Think of it as a safe, and the FBI needs to get into Syed Farook\u2019s safe. The safe is in Syed Farook\u2019s house, but they can\u2019t crack the safe. Every time they try to move the combination, the safe doubles down and locks even further, so they go to the safe manufacturer, “You need to get us the combination to unlock that safe.” The manufacturer says, “We didn\u2019t set the combination, the customer did.”<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t have it.<\/p>\n

“We know you can get into it, and we want you to get into it. We know you have a way to unlock every damn lock you\u2019ve got, combination or not. So get in there and do it!” “<\/p>\n

Well, well, well, well, we don\u2019t. The customer sets the lock and the combination and we…”<\/p>\n

“We know that you can do it. You better do it! And while you\u2019re at it, we want the combination for every safe you\u2019ve ever made.” In other words: “We at the FBI want to be able to open any safe you have ever made.” How many of you would go for that? Just change the device but leave the circumstances the same. A phone is very personal, but so is a safe. But most people would say, “No way!” They\u2019d say, “You can\u2019t get into the safe? Fine and dandy. Fine.”<\/line><\/p>\n

But no way would you support the government being able to tell the manufacturer to give them a way to unlock every safe they\u2019ve ever made, which is what\u2019s being asked here; I don\u2019t care what anybody says. Because it\u2019s very simple. I heard somebody on TV today say, “The search warrant! The search warrant is all they have.” It\u2019s not a search warrant, because what the FBI is doing is asking Apple to make something that doesn\u2019t exist: A backdoor into every device.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t exist. A law enforcement backdoor. Let me explain what this is. You have your phone. You have your passcode. You have your fingerprint if that\u2019s what you use. But unbeknownst to you, if you go out and rob a 7-Eleven like the Gentle Giant, and you\u2019re walking down the street and a cop comes along, and they need your phone to figure out what happened, what the FBI wants is a secret way that only they know to unlock your phone in ways you don\u2019t know exist so they can get in there and find out anything they want.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what they want Apple to build. And Apple is saying if you make us build that, and you say you want it for just this phone, the fact is we\u2019ve built it, it exists, and you\u2019re gonna have it, and you\u2019re gonna share it with every other law enforcement unit that wants it. And before we\u2019re finished, a million people are gonna have access to this back door you want for just this one phone. And then somebody in law enforcement\u2019s gonna sell it to a criminal family member, I mean nobody\u2019s clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and before you know it access to this back door is gonna be had by a lot of people. Even though it started out we only want to make it available for this one phone.<\/p>\n

But once you make it, you make it. Once you create a secret way into every phone that you make, you\u2019ve created a secret way. You can\u2019t just create a secret way into one. The secret way into one phone is that person\u2019s passcode. A secret way into every phone would be irrespective of what anybody\u2019s passcode is. There\u2019s another way in. You can\u2019t tailor it to device by device or chip to chip. You make it or you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I mean, the same government, ladies and gentlemen, that had no clue how to easily gain access to Syed Farouk\u2019s iPhone, there were two ways they could have gotten in if they had the slightest idea what they were doing. The same people that want to trust that they can create a back door into all of these phones to access information, but only the FBI will use it in criminal purposes. The same government that can\u2019t figure out what to do about Hillary Clinton\u2019s illegal e-mail server in which top secret information was being trafficked all over who knows where. Speaking of hacks, who knows who got what off of Hillary Clinton\u2019s e-mail server. And it goes on.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s more intricate than that. You can take this into whatever level of detail you want. You can go there legally. You can go there technologically by explaining various aspects of the devices and how they work and how they\u2019re designed and what the marketing purpose is of all this security and how Apple benefits, how you benefit, how customers benefit from it. But you really end up just being distracted when you go deep, because it\u2019s not that complicated what\u2019s at stake here. It\u2019s not that complicated what\u2019s being asked, and it\u2019s not that complicated what is being defended.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s this thing called the All Writs Act. It\u2019s a 200-year-old statute that basically allows the government to go to businesses and say, “You need to help us in extreme circumstances in finding bad guys, weeding out criminality.” But it has never been used to force a company to make whatever it makes weaker, more vulnerable, which is what is being asked here of Apple. It\u2019s never been used that way. But, see, on the other hand I know Apple\u2019s gonna lose this. I\u2019m gonna lose this, Apple\u2019s gonna lose this, because over here we have a terrorist phone, we have the United States government, we have a massive PR machine, Barack Hussein Obama and all that going out and everybody on TV, the Democrats and the DOJ.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve already got people worried sick about terrorists infiltrating the country, they\u2019re here, we know they\u2019re here because of Syed Farouk Skyhook and so forth. And the FBI, “That phone, it\u2019s a key, it is a key to finding out maybe what else they had planned. It\u2019s a key to finding out who else knew what was going on. We can\u2019t afford not to get that information. That information is more important than any civil right or any civil liberty.”<\/p>\n

And there will be people that will fall for it. I know how this is gonna end up going. In 30 states Apple has protesters in the streets for them. But just like I know that Bernie is not gonna be the nominee, I know how this is gonna turn out, but it doesn\u2019t make it any less frustrating to me.<\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here\u2019s Don in Chicago. Don, great to have you in the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, there\u2019s teenage kids in Third World countries all over the world hacking into the most secure computers in the United States, whether it be the Department of Defense, the CIA, even the White House, and I\u2019m kind of embarrassed that the FBI has to even ask for help. Where are the big brains that we hire working for all these government agencies? This is incompetence on display once again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, wait. Let\u2019s start at the beginning here. I know that there are all kinds of people trying to hack into all of these things you mention and that there are teenagers, but what do you actually know about successful hacks? I know the ChiComs have probably successfully hacked Hillary\u2019s server. But Hillary\u2019s isn\u2019t protected. I mean, Hillary\u2019s server\u2019s probably been hacked by who knows who. But you said the DOD and others like the Pentagon and so forth. What evidence do you have that they have successfully been hacked?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019ve admitted it. The CIA admitted that their computers were hacked. The White House even admitted that their computers were hacked, what kind of information they got. But that\u2019s my point. You\u2019ve got these kids that are out there, and somehow or another they\u2019ve got the brain power to do things that nobody else seems to be able to do, and we don\u2019t have the brain power to stop.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. There\u2019s one thing about all those. Those are all connected to a network somehow, somewhere. None of those systems that you\u2019re talking about — well, none of the systems hacked are air gapped, but an iPhone that\u2019s powered down, an iPhone that\u2019s not unlocked may not even be connected to a network, meaning nobody can get into it without having physical access to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, an engineer built it; there\u2019s gotta be engineers that can reverse that technology and figure out a way. We went to the moon, Rush. I mean, for the FBI to admit that they are incompetent to the point they can\u2019t take a problem and solve it and then publicly let us know about it, it doesn\u2019t give me a lot of confidence in our law enforcement agencies.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, how about this. How about maybe this is all just a giant smoke screen. Maybe the FBI\u2019s already in that phone, they\u2019ve got everything off of it they want, and they\u2019re just lying about it and trying to make everybody think they can\u2019t get in, when as you say they could crack anything. And all of this is smoke and mirrors to try to distract people or make them feel a little bit more comfortable than they should be, a little bit more secure than they really are, that the FBI\u2019s been in and deponent what they want out of that phone and are gone and are now using the data somewhere?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thought about that, but then I thought about this administration. And I thought no, no, it\u2019s incompetence.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So here we are. This is Don in Chicago who believes that somewhere out there, either a designer of the software at Apple, a designer of the hardware at Apple, an engineer somewhere, we\u2019ve been to the moon. Don\u2019t tell him we can\u2019t get in this freaking phone. I don\u2019t believe it. We\u2019re the United States of America! We found Osama Bin Laden! We can\u2019t get into an iPhone 5c, an actual cheap piece of whatever phone compared to what kinds you could buy, are you kidding me? That\u2019s what Don\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

\"large\"And then saying but he believes it because this is a bunch of incompetent boobs at the Obama Regime, unable to get in. They clearly are sending the signal they can\u2019t crack your phones. Whatever else is going on, they are telegraphing that. They can\u2019t get in unless Apple helps \u2019em. They cannot get in there unless you, the owner, or Apple helps \u2019em get in. And a lot of people are shocked, like old Don here, at that.<\/line><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Tom in Clearwater, Florida. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush! <\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Longtime listener, since \u201983. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Great, that\u2019s almost a lifer. Great to have you here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, 95% of the time I agree with you, but this Apple thing, it\u2019s got me bonkers crazy. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? <\/p>\n

CALLER: I just don\u2019t understand what could be so important on your phone that people are gonna die because I can\u2019t get into it. It just drives me nuts. What\u2019s on your phone that you\u2019re trying to hide? <\/p>\n

RUSH: You have to ask the FBI that. Or wait a minute, no, you\u2019re asking me why do I care, why don\u2019t I let the FBI in, why am I so worried about what somebody would see on my phone? <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, what are you hiding? I don\u2019t get it. I don\u2019t get it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well — <\/p>\n

CALLER: People could die, you know, and you\u2019re worried about what\u2019s on your idiotic phone? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, the phone\u2019s not idiotic. Would you just let anybody in your house? The FBI shows up, come on in. They want to look for anything, maybe plant some evidence and say that it\u2019s yours. Do you have any problem with the FBI impounding your car? <\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re gonna plant evidence on your phone? I mean, this isn\u2019t bank robbers. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you kidding me? By the way, with as many laws that there are out there, how many people are totally innocent anyway? How many laws are you breaking that you don\u2019t even know? If they want to find — this is what\u2019s dangerous about this, to me. As somebody who has had this kind of privacy violated and publicized all over creation, this is what bothers me.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s the “I\u2019ve got nothing to hide” argument. “What are you afraid of?” A guy asked me, “What\u2019s on your phone that you care so much about? Why not let \u2019em see? What\u2019s the big deal?” Yeah, the “you got nothing to hide” argument. Well, then put your bank account information out there, sir, and let whoever wants in your house — and remember, sir, they don\u2019t have to find anything. All they\u2019ve gotta do is say they do. You know, politics is not about what is. Politics is about what it seems to be. <\/p>\n

Jury trials are not about guilt and innocent and fact and non-fact. Jury trials are what you can make the jury feel. Look at it OJ trial. The criminal justice system, so much of life in America is not as cut-and-dried as Civics 101 makes you think it is. Something as innocent… Look, I think there\u2019s a philosophical statement that explains Trump. You know, everybody\u2019s breaking their back trying to figure Trump out, pulling their hair out. What is it? Simple. Very few people remember for very long what you say to \u2019em, but they never forget how you make \u2019em feel. <\/p>\n

\"large\"Now, if you make people feel good and confident and safe and secure, it doesn\u2019t matter what you say. They\u2019re not gonna remember it. But they\u2019ll remember how you make \u2019em feel. Works both ways. If they scare you, if they make you feel like you can\u2019t trust \u2019em, then you lose \u2019em forever no matter what they say to you. Politics is not about what is; it\u2019s about what seems to be. How do you think the Democrats have gotten where they are? Democrats are all about emotion. Not intellect. Not words, not things, not what people say or think or remember or any of that. <\/line><\/p>\n

It\u2019s what the words make people feel. Like all these Millennials want Bernie Sanders \u2019cause he\u2019s gonna give \u2019em stuff. That\u2019s all that matters. They don\u2019t stop to think what it means, how it\u2019s gonna be paid for. Just feels good. So if somebody says, “What do you got to hide?” Well, if they\u2019re looking for you, it doesn\u2019t matter what you\u2019ve got to hide. All they\u2019ve gotta do is tell somebody they found something. It\u2019s all it takes. What do things seem? So you don\u2019t care what\u2019s on your phone? Fine! Let \u2019em look at your bank account. <\/p>\n

Let them look at the source of every dollar you have. Where\u2019d it come from? You think you haven\u2019t committed a crime? There are laws out there you don\u2019t even know exist. It all depends on whether they\u2019re looking for you or not. And even when they\u2019re not looking for you, if they see something or find something that facilitates something else they want to do… The right to privacy is not guaranteed in the Constitution. It is assumed in the Fourth Amendment on search and seizure. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not specifically spelled out. It\u2019s been something that has evolved in a legal sense. It\u2019s one of the things that concerns me on this social media. I\u2019ve said forever, “We have people out there vomiting everything about themselves. They want fame. So they\u2019re putting every picture of themselves they can find online, embarrassing or not. They\u2019re divulging all kinds of personal information as teenagers and young adults. <\/p>\n

“And 20 years from now when they want to do something serious in their life it\u2019s gonna be findable, and who knows what somebody can do with it?” Careers, futures can actually be destroyed with innuendo, depending on how big a target you become and so forth. Now, if you, as a citizen, are nothing more than a statistic and nobody knows who you are and nobody\u2019s gonna care, and you think that isn\u2019t gonna change, fine. But understand that it doesn\u2019t work that way for everybody. <\/p>\n

Anyway, folks, I have to tell you something. I\u2019m sitting here fighting off pangs of guilt because there is so much here that I want to get to that I\u2019m not gonna be able to get to today, and it seems like this is happening each and every day. Now, you don\u2019t know what it is. If I never told you, then you wouldn\u2019t think anything\u2019s up. If I don\u2019t play a record, you\u2019ll never really know. You know, you can never get hurt by something you don\u2019t say. You can never be hurt by something you don\u2019t do. <\/p>\n

You can never be hurt by not playing a song. But if you play a record nobody likes and they tune out, then you\u2019re finished, at least for a while. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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