content: Well, again, this is a hand-picked and warranted case that the FBI has constructed.  I get that argument, and Judge Andrew Napolitano (who I greatly admire) made a similar case--comparing this request to slavery.  On a fundamental level, I agree with that notion, but we make compromises for certain cases like with subpoenas and warrants.  The only difference is that with warrants, the government steps in and looks around for information with great particularity.  In this case, the government is asking Apple to unlock this cabinet that they can't get into.  And the All Writs Act is in place to require companies to comply if compliance is necessary for the investigation and if compliance is doable for the company.  Again, I see how you can have reservations against this concept--although even I, the biggest anti-government person I know, understand its validity in United States jurisprudence--but Apple forfeited that reservation when they said that they've been willfully compliant with the FBI in the past.  So there's either something they don't understand or there's something I don't.