Some of the members seem to forget what privacy is or what the Constitution was created to do, especially the Bill of Rights. Specifically, I refer to rights, which are constantly being eroded, but seem only as impediments to governments that want more power all the time. Rights are not granted, but are intrinsic to being human and only recognized and somewhat codified by the Bill of Rights. If you allow "back doors" into private information, then what of the 4th Amendment? Why would any government entity ever need a warrant to examine your every thought? If you grant the Federal Government the "right" to intrude into your private documents at any whim then, without the formality of a Constitutional Convention which would express the "will of the people", you destroy the protections that make up the essence of the United States. The founders of this country recognized the need to protect such rights because they went through a series of intrusions carried out by what was then the largest military force on the planet. Terrorism is nothing new. We, in our time, are not the first to witness it. Constitutional protections were put in place specifically to prevent such intrusions are we are tempted to allow today. The Bill of Rights Amendments are constantly under attack. The 2nd amendment has indeed been infringed, the 4th crippled, and others like the 1st and 5th all but eliminated in many instances, all without the benefit of Constitutional Convention but instead by somewhat dodgy decisions of judges who seemingly have never read the Federalist Papers which were the explanations by the founders of what their thoughts were about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights when they were written. If you think the Constitution is a "living document" which should change with the winds of various opinions in various times, I would caution you that it was written to protect you from the very Government the founders feared could evolve over time. I applaud those who resist such changes. Those who do not are placing their trust in entities which have, from the dawn of government, been found to be untrustworthy. This is, at least in the United States, supposed to be a Government of, by, and for the People. It is not intended to be a government with power concentrated in a group of oligarchs who are not immediately responsible to the governed.
