Seems like the government has a clear mandate from the voters to take such action against those who wold try to prevent the mandated actions from being carried out.

This is the government trying to stop democracy from being subverted by sore losers. It was clearly stated in the GOP platform, the time to protest this was at the ballot box not with violent action and subversion against LEO's. Right?

That's not what a mandate is you tedious twit. The government DOES NOT have a carte blanche to do whatever the bloody hell it likes, and certainly not mass spying! "The time to protest was at the ballot box" The time to protest is all the damn time. Do you even care at all about privacy rights or are you a garden variety bootlicker?