I keep getting told that Flock Camera surveillance is irrelevant because we’re also tracked thru our phones, internet habits, family connections, etc.
But if the data that flock collects was inconsequential then the police wouldn’t rely on them as much as they do. The stupid overconfidence that cops demonstrate in the (numerous) cases like this isn’t an indication that Flock isn’t effective. It just shows that it’s their favorite thing to use.
Outlaw every last one of them.
JUST IN: Army veteran jailed for 30 days over a shooting he did not commit after investigators relied on Flock surveillance data to identify him as a suspect.
The CEO of Dell @MichaelDell just dropped 500 bucks total for my two kids (my third already got the $1000 to start) in their Trump Accounts. I want to write him a thank you note, but it’s not like I have his address to send it to of course.
That’s a real patriotic move. He’s helping out a lot of people who don’t have much in America and I think it’s going to really add up by the time my kids are 18.
Dell’s stock price is way up since he did this. Nice to see. Once again, I remind the Earth: billionaires have never once made my life worse. The bottom 10% however…
25 years ago today. My life changed course suddenly. I wasn’t in the military at the time. I wasn’t a lawyer. I was a FF/paramedic for a major metro American City. I came face to face this day 25 years ago, with abject and total human stupidity that grows from fear. I saw how fragile this all was.
I came on duty that morning at 7 am. That would be this morning, 25 years ago. I finally got relieved of duty thirty hours later. Six hours past my relief time. About to drop from exhaustion. The 911 system in this City had totally collapsed. We all were picking and choosing emergency calls by how close we were to pins on an electronic map that the call center staff were having to add manually. We never stopped running the entire 30 hrs. Before that day and since, this City has never had more suicides happen in any one 24 hr period. People lost their minds. Over something that happened 1500 miles away, but might as well have been in their backyard.
So as the dust settled, I accepted what I was ignorant of before 09/11– all of this around us was that precarious. I then set to do what I could to make my own world and family safer. I left that very good job with that City to join the Army at 31 years old. I became a helo pilot and participated like so many other men and women of my generation in a global War on Terrorism that I am not even sure mattered now.
At the same time, all Americans slowly allowed our leaders to politically turn collective abstract fears into daily firm realities. To use those fears to benefit a select few and grow the system into a beast that no longer serves the people or makes any of them safer. It was that insidious, it was happening right beneath us as we fought to prevent it.
I subsequently went on to become an attorney to continue my original objective there. That allowed me the ability to fight ignorance and injustice and to resist the soft tyranny we allowed to be imposed upon ourselves. That career has allowed me to help people whose ignorance of the system have paralyzed them with a new fear: of being eaten by a system that is supposed to protect them, but doesn’t even pin them on the map anymore in the hopes that someone might make their way through the chaos to help them.
We have forgotten too much already about how life was before that day. About what we gave up, to not live in fear. About what we have yet to reclaim. It has not been an easy path to travel for the past twenty-five years. To date, I am not sure if I have made much of a dent in making the World or my family safer. But I haven’t quit trying either. THAT is the lesson I have taken from 09/11– Never stop fighting until what was taken from us is returned to We the People. No matter the cost.
@Gavin_McInnes That vote can be gone for one easy payment every month. UBI with a purpose. Check the box to de-register to vote on the yearly tax form and get the cash.