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Your principles don't matter to anyone in power. And since you aren't in power, they have no meaning to anyone that is.
Your enemies aren't constrained by your rules, and as such they're only a suicidal self-imposed handicap.

Either we persist in countering these threats effectively with all the tools available, or we have to destroy the tools themselves so that they provide no temptation in the future. But I also warn everyone that later administration and those of the past are still grossly guilty of both dereliction and willful misapplication of the authority they were never entrusted with. So even if official channels are revoked, they invent new and indirect methods.
They should never be trusted to have any position of power in the first place. And their influence needs to shrink and fast. Their track record of abuse is apparent and multitudinous.

Give no quarter, and don't delude yourself into a position of weakness out of naive optimism. Your enemy won't reciprocate your sportsmanship or consideration.