Dear HN: Let's show Obama we appreciate our civil liberties and civil servants

Appreciating civil liberties and appreciating civil servants are two unrelated things. If I appreciate one, there's no reason why that should force me to appreciate the other. More specifically, civil servants like the president who chide me for "fetishizing my phone" over the needs of law enforcement are not aligned with the civil liberty goals that I hold dear.

And frankly, I have no intention of showing /anyone/ that I appreciate them as a civil servant because there's not one elected civil servant today that appreciates civil liberties in the way I do, and tearful pleas to the contrary will not easily convince me that they mean what they say. And if I could humbly suggest a life lesson to you as a student from someone who's likely been alive a number of decades longer than you have, they shouldn't easily convince you either.