President Obama,

You’re fear of encryption is dangerously misguided.

The stronger the security and encryption of our digital information, the safer we will be as a nation and as individual citizens of this (and every other) country.

As Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

If the United States Government can steal our most private thoughts and use them against us, so can every other government (and hacker) around the world. That is not security, it is the recipe for international chaos. It is also the final desperate surrender of the freedoms of speech, thought, and expression we have fought so hard to protect as a nation.

If you really want to stop terrorism, you don’t need to stop encryption, you need to stop supporting oil-rich, third-world dictatorship that breed suicidal terrorists.

Do your job and protect the People of America, instead of feeding the cancerous Military Industrial complex past presidents warned us about.

Thank you,

The People of Earth

PS. If that doesn’t convince you, let me put it in terms of our current political debate: “Do you really feel safer knowing President Obama (or Trump or Clinton) can read your diary and medical records… and drop a bomb on you if they don’t like what they find?”

Do Something:

Contact the Obama White House online to comment on strong encryption.

Contact your state Senators and Representatives via the contact information supplied by ContactingTheCongress.org.

Contact Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) about their bill intended to force companies to weaken or work around encryption.