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The Flock cameras your city voted out are still watching you, and the money behind the replacement runs through Epstein, Thiel, and Trump.
Austin canceled Flock in 2025 and the AI plate readers never stopped, because Axon had them running in patrol cars the whole time.
Denver cut Flock in February and handed the same job to Axon that same week.
50 councils, 39 terminations in 5 months, and the surveillance did not pause anywhere.
Axon's new camera is called Lightpost, and it mounts inside streetlights. It livestreams, and the AI reads every plate as it passes. The pitch is that it "blends into the urban landscape and avoids complex permitting processes." No permit means no hearing. No hearing means no vote.
The Flock box sticks out and is close enough to the ground, which is the only reason anyone beats it. Volunteers can stand there and pin it to a map. The replacement is a streetlight. Good luck mapping the streetlights.
Flock only sells cameras. Axon sells the body camera on the officer, the camera in the patrol car, the taser in his hand, the drone overhead, the streetlight camera, and the cloud that stores all of it and puts it together.
Flock can tell a cop where your car went. Axon runs AI across all of it. Facial recognition on the body cam footage, video an officer can search by typing in a question, and a model that drafts the police report from the audio. Your plate, your face, and a 911 call from your own phone land in one searchable system, and the AI writes the narrative that goes in the file.
Every viral post, every influencer stunt, every council fight this year has been aimed at one company, and it is the company with the obvious camera and the CEO who called his critics terrorists. Nobody is chanting about Axon. Nobody has a map of the streetlights. The most hated surveillance brand in America is the one you can see, and while everyone gathered to kill it, the harder thing quietly took its contracts. It has been very convenient for the people holding both ends of it.
In November, Axon paid $625 million for a company called Carbyne. In 2015 Jeffrey Epstein put a million dollars into it through a deal brokered by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.
Peter Thiel's Founders Fund owns a piece of Flock. It also bought into Carbyne. Both sides are funded by the same men.
President Trump traded $1.26 million of Axon stock across two dozen trades. An account in his name picked up as much as $5 million more on February 10. 14 days later ICE went shopping for a five-year, $220 million contract written for exactly what Axon sells.
They rob you under cover of law and jail the men who do it without one. The powers-that-be don't care whose logo is on the housing. They only care that the contract renews, and it will renew under any name you have not learned to hate yet.
Businessman @ZachLahn surprised the state of Iowa getting the GOP nomination for Governor but before Iowans can vote for him, they have questions about the permanency of his data center "moratorium," what was discussed in his meetings with big ag, and if he will take a hard stance against them if elected.
Lahn is also asked about if he aligns more with Chris Jones, Democrat running for Secretary of Agriculture, and is asked if the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is a captured entity, as he has claimed, will he make an Iowa-focused version of the EPA with individual labeling requirements like California?
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Did a bit of research on this yesterday.
This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.
There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.
@Flock_Safety and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.
Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.
This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.
With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.
@Rob_ThaBuilder I was once with you back when Democrats used the phrase โsafe, legal and rare.โ The mask is way off now revealing they never really had any limiting principles.
The Left said climate change was SO IMPORTANT that they should be able to:
a) Rip out your gas appliances
b) Ban your gas vehicle
c) Tax you into oblivion
Then, Elon supported Trump and they BURNED his Teslas.
It was never about the climate.
It was about controlling YOU.
I don't think our great-grandchildren will quite be able to grasp that this decade featured people going to Handmaid's Tale-themed protests, and not batting an eye at passing multiple niqab'ed women while enroute.
@DisrespectedThe Someone mentioned the problem of wild hogs in places like TX and all I can think is that this would be a great โkill 2 birdsโ scenario.
Flock is bad because:
It builds a searchable dragnet of Americansโ movements with persistent retention.
It operates without meaningful limits.
It allows searches without warrants or individualized suspicion in ordinary use.
It already has a clear track record of overreach and abuse.
๐จ BREAKING! @ZachLahn will abolish Flock cameras! ๐๐ป
In Iowa, one man is ready to put #IowaFirst, while the other probably supports more surveillance & tyranny. ๐