Many police are defending Flock cameras & other AI tools saying, “It makes our job easier.”
News flash: Your job isn’t supposed to be EASY! It’s supposed to be restrained, heavy, and encumbered by the burden of proof, probable cause, the presumption of innocence, and always subject to OUR civil liberties!!!
A free society is not about making things convenient for the state, it’s about protecting the individual FROM the state. So many people have forgotten this.
⚠️The most dangerous thing about Flock cameras isn't what they do.
It's what they quietly teach society to accept...
The gradual abandonment of one of the oldest traditions of a free society:
*The presumption of innocence.*
For centuries, free societies began with the premise that the individual is innocent until there is reason to believe otherwise.
Mass surveillance reverses that relationship.
*Guilty until proven innocent.*
Everyone is watched.
Everyone is cataloged.
Everyone is searchable.
Not because they've done something wrong, but because they *might* do something wrong someday.
This shift should concern us.
When the state records the movements of an entire population "just in case," the presumption of innocence is replaced by perpetual suspicion.
Rights become conditional.
Suspicion becomes the default.
Privacy becomes something you justify.
The script is always the same:
"For the greater good."
"If you have nothing to hide."
"It's worth it if it prevents crime."
The ends justify the means.
Collective safety over individual liberty.
Liberty no longer exists as a principle,
it survives only as a temporary permission.
Benjamin Franklin understood this in 1755:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Technology changes.
Human nature doesn't.
Advanced light-water small modular reactors are smaller, manufactured versions of large-scale reactors.
They typically range from 20 to 300 megawatts of electric power and can come in two types — pressurized or boiling water reactor systems.
@GlennJacobsTN Didn’t that lunatic also want to test the waste water coming from UT dorms or was it the fauci/birx sycophants on the board of health who suggested it?
23 State Attorneys General: “We, the undersigned state attorneys general, write to express our strong support for the nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as the next Attorney General of the United States. The Attorney General occupies one of the most consequential positions in our constitutional system. As chief law enforcement officers, we recognize that the office demands principled leadership, effective management of a vast law enforcement enterprise, fidelity to the rule of law, and a commitment to protecting public safety. We are confident that Mr. Blanche is the right person at the right time.… [W]e urge the Senate to swiftly confirm Todd Blanche as United States Attorney General. We look forward to working alongside him to uphold the Constitution, protect our communities, and ensure equal justice under the law.” #ConfirmBlanche
There’s a reason why DJT didn’t endorse her….she betrayed him and Tennesseans who voted for him when she (and Hagerty) reneged on objecting to the electoral count and then blamed him for J6 shenanigans.
.@VoteMarsha maintains a double digit lead with less than a week left in the primary. Early voting ends today. Election day is August 6th. Vote Marsha Blackburn for Governor!
They can't stop crime with cameras.
They can't keep drugs out of prisons.
They can’t create order with more laws.
Yet the solution is always:
More cameras.
More laws.
More enforcement.
More control.
It's almost as if surveillance, authoritarianism and coercion was never the cure for social dysfunction.
Flock Safety CEO, Garrett Langley, is expected to attend the Aug 24th Knox County TN Commission Meeting.
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Okay what the fuck is going on that a a pop star can put out a video where she looks like that and *nobody* says “maybe let’s not let anyone see this, it’s profoundly disturbing and you need help”
If 100,000+ Flock cameras blanketed America during COVID, you really think authorities wouldn't have used them to track & log people who refused to stay home?
You know they would have.
That’s why surveillance infrastructure should worry everyone.
Why am I so passionate and willing to burn all of my political capital for the sake of our nation’s veterans and restoring the VA?
Let me explain…
The VA is a foundational piece of the American government puzzle, and not many realize it. Much like the FBI and DOJ are key pillars holding up our democracy, the VA represents widespread trust in our Republic as a whole in a way that no other agency does.
When the Department of War asks for $1.5 trillion in defense spending, the request is predicated on making America’s military the most elite, revered, feared, and consequential force on planet Earth. The contract essentially says: “If you give us these hard-earned tax dollars, we will use them to revolutionize our military and take care of service members.”
It’s a reasonable ask so long as the second half of the question gets answered: “If we give you all this money for war efforts, what promises can you make for veterans who suffer debilitating injuries as a result of their service?”
As of right now, the Department of War, Congress, and the VA can’t answer that question because the care for those who sacrificed is terrible. Furthermore, they’re asked to fight their own government upon returning home just to receive the necessary care for a normal life after injury.
This will not fly any longer. @SecVetAffairs Collins is failing the DOW, the President, Congress, the American voter, and most importantly, veterans who are suffering. If we’re to have beautiful, safe cities, an elite military, a thriving manufacturing base, and trust in our institutions, reforming the VA must be at the absolute top of the priority list.
Look at what the President and Director Patel have done with the FBI in just 18 short months for an example of the reverberating effect of competent leadership and ambitious, unrelenting goals.
A 126-year low in violent crimes across America.
I will pound the table for veterans until this is done and bring it up in every conversation I have with President Trump going forward.
Knoxville Police Department’s contract with Flock expired on December 31, 2025. The cameras were shut off January 1, 2026.
KPD has since switched to Axon license plate readers. They now run 19 fixed Axon ALPRs (with 8 more coming) plus 30 mobile ones built into dash cams. The system feeds into their Real Time Information Center. KPD says it’s a closed system they control, data is kept only 30 days, and it takes still photos of plates — no facial recognition. Officers must visually verify any “hit” before acting. Different company. Same core technology: automated plate scanning and searchable vehicle data.
"When you have cameras popping up on rural/back roads, you start asking 'Well why here?' If it’s meant to fight crime, deter crime, and catch bad guys who are trying to flee the county; they're not usually doing it on a one-lane road." - Adam Thompson, Knox County Commissioner
A sixth-generation farmer from Corryton representing District 8, Thompson has been one of the strongest voices pushing back. After residents contacted him with privacy concerns, Thompson called out the lack of transparency in a $1.57 million state Violent Crime Intervention Fund grant that was sold as crime reduction but turned into a planned countywide network of hundreds of Flock cameras. He and Mayor Glenn Jacobs have both said the technology erodes constitutional liberties and does not belong in Knox County without far stronger oversight. The $1.57 million grant, the planned Flock expansion of cameras, and the Advanced Research & Communications Center are all Knox County Sheriff’s Office projects.
This funding for the planned expansion comes entirely from Tennessee’s Violent Crime Intervention Fund, a state grant administered by the Office of Criminal Justice Programs. The Knox County Commission accepted the full amount on November 7, 2025, with no local match required. There are no other funding sources involved — it is 100% state taxpayer money, collected from Tennesseans statewide and redistributed through this grant program.
I provided the link for full YouTube video of the interview between Commissioner Thompson and WATE 6 News. I have also linked the PDF`s for the Sheriff’s Office grant, as well the Knoxville PD contract. Share this around!👇👇 👇
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I hate Fauci with a passion but more than him, I hate every fаggоt who tried to demean me or make me feel stupid for being a “conspiracy theorist” when all I was doing was applying LOGIC to the situation and making an informed choice.
They acted as if they were superior morally and intellectually because the media made them feel good about being “selfless.”
These people have not learned. Right now, they are all acting just as intellectually and morally superior by upholding the propaganda about the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Logic should tell you if the government hates you, if they lied to you before, they are not going to suddenly start loving you and telling you the truth. The fact that I, as a woman, am more logical than even the “based” right-wing men is a sign of how far our society has fallen.
“The masks are up front” some lunatic customer hissed at me while I was freely walking around Ingles grocery store. That was a mild reaction compared to what the Kroger experience was. Hateful staff was the problem @kroger.
To be unvaccinated during covid was to be:
Hated, pressured, vilified, mocked, punished, ostracised and scapegoated.
And yet, despite all of this...
We were 100% right the whole time.
Has anyone ever looked at a map? Does anyone know geography anymore? I thought to myself, Morocco isn't even the same continent as Spain. How could Moroccans be invading Spain?
They ARE NOT.
Morocco is in Africa. Spain in Europe. There are 2 autonomous Spanish cities in North Africa. Spain has controlled the cities for centuries, like they did Florida. Morocco has challenged that since its independence in 1956.
What happened this week was Moroccans, about 2,000, surged into the Spanish autonomous CITY of Cueta in NORTH AFRICA, not EUROPE - NOT SPAIN, and this happens frequently. The last time was 2021.
The Cash for Clunkers program, which Congress passed in June 2009 and burned through its $3 billion budget in under two months, destroyed functional wealth on a national scale, and somehow they called it "stimulus."
The mechanics were simple: trade in a working car, receive up to $4,500 toward a new one, and watch government employees pour sodium silicate into the old engine to make it seize permanently. Around 700,000 vehicles got crushed. These were not rusted-out death traps. The eligibility rules required the trade-in to be drivable and insured. You were watching the state systematically annihilate usable capital because Keynesian demand theory told it that destruction generates recovery. Frederic Bastiat explained why this is wrong in 1850, in an essay short enough to read on your lunch break. Congress ignored it.
The ripple effect hit people the government never mentioned in its press releases. Mechanics lost repair work. Used-car dealers watched their inventory evaporate. Low-income buyers who depend on the sub-$5,000 market faced prices that jumped roughly 10% in the years after the program. Free market economists call this "seen versus unseen." Politicians only showed you the gleaming new Chevy Malibu driving off the lot. They never showed you the single mother in Akron who needed a $3,000 Corolla and found nothing affordable left on the lot.
Even the environmental justification collapsed under basic scrutiny. A 2009 study by Resources for the Future calculated that the program cost between $237 and $365 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced. The voluntary carbon credit market at the time priced a ton around $10 to $20. The government spent up to thirty times the market rate to achieve an environmental outcome the market was already pricing far more efficiently.
This is what central planning always does. It takes your money, destroys real assets, and transfers wealth from the poor to auto manufacturers and their financiers. The program's designers received awards. The Akron mother paid higher prices. The engines sat crushed in junkyards. Nobody in Washington answered for any of it.
I have been dealing with left frozen shoulder issues since Jan. At my rehab massage yesterday, the therapist asked if I had any left hip pain to which I replied “only after squats.” Come to find out it is due to my lat not working properly bc of shoulder.