Step 1: vote down SAVE Act
Step 2: add sect 219 to NDAA
Step 3: add SAVE Act to NDAA
Step 4: Trump claims China stole 2020 and demands to pass NDAA
Step 5: Israel gets what it wanted
I honestly think this is all about 219.
@RepTimmons The GOP was given the house the senate and the Presidency to enact an America first agenda. You failed, miserably. November will be a disaster for the GOP and they earned it.
Most Americans don't care what happens in Israel or Iran. They care about what happens in Illinois, Indiana, and Iowa. They don't care about Ukraine. They care about Utah. When you ignore these hardworking people who are struggling, you'll pay the price. I'm trying to warn you.
@RepLisaMcClain Biggest pile of bullshit I’ve heard in a minute. Are they border patrol now? Did you forget the field hospitals they set up for the Syrian rebels the most virulent wahhabi head choppers on the planet? Donald Trump had chief head chopper Juliani in the White House. GTFO
So many Israel bills, it can get confusing. Here’s a breakdown.
KILL THE ISRAEL INTEGRATION BILLS
❌H.R.8800 / S.4784 NDAA
❌S. 4615, Section 622
❌H.R.7540 / S.3855
❌H.R.1229 / S.554
❌H.Res.1339
DEFUND ISRAEL
✅ H.R. 8595, Massie Amendment
The House passed the SAVE Act attached to the State Department Appropriations Bill HR 8595 not the NDAA HR 8800.
Israel Funding in HR 8595 State Dept.
- $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grants for Israel agreed upon in the MOU. At least $250.3 million can be spent in Israel for defense articles/services (including R&D).
- $6.5 million for refugee resettlement in Israel.
- Extension of the $9 billion Israel loan guarantee program.
This is in addition to other Israel funding:
- DoD Spending Bill: $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense.
- NDAA Bill: $500+ million
House NDAA HR 8800 and Senate NDAA S. 4784 are still being negotiated in their respective Armed Service Committees.
First of all no, we're not doing this. I do not answer DMs from a company that is trying to do damage control AFTER they have ruined the trust of Americans. I do not have "good faith" debates with people who want to enslave me in a fishbowl that they can monitor at all times.
Guess what guys: We don't actually have to give anyone the benefit of the doubt, or engage in "good faith" debates with bad actors. I don't have to justify my concerns about Flock to anyone. But since this condescension pissed me off, I will respond publicly, since Flock seems to want to keep our voices in the shadows and out of the public eye.
Note the argument:
"You see, King George specifically authorized quartering troops among you, I don't know what you're complaining about it's ALL LEGAL".
Well, golly gee guys, I guess it's all right then, they made it legal.
That's exactly the problem. Notice how nobody has a problem with standard security cameras. Public security cameras are not the problem...directly pumping the feed of every square inch of the country into a centralized federal database is one HELL of a problem and we must do everything within our rights as Americans to push back against efforts like this, if we are to have a future as a nation.
Flock, much like Palantir, took the decently good idea of improving security, and implemented it in the most cartoonishly evil way possible at nearly every single step. They are working directly for all levels of government....not the citizenry. They use subterfuge, legal technicalities, and every single trick in the book to put up hundreds of cameras every single day. They constantly mislead the public about what databases their sensors feed into, and who they sell the metadata to.
They have so little oversight that it's laughable, and ALL oversight involves the classic case of "we investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing". Flock has been caught lying MANY times, and misleading the public regarding what their cameras actually do. Newsflash...they don't just read license plates.
They are also concealing which agencies purchase their data specifically so as to avoid getting warrants, and in doing so they have turned the ENTIRE COUNTRY into an open air prison....where THEY get to provide the intelligence data to those who enforce the laws as selectively as they please.
And their defense for doing so? "Aww look at the cute puppy we rescued" or "We arrested one guy using our camera network, we're so AWESOME".
You don't get to arrest one genuine criminal, and use that as justification to set up and entire Minority Report-esque surveillance system to surveil the entire country. You don't get to betray trust, and then be sad that people don't trust you. You don't get to cozy up to the boot of tyranny so much that you become the boot yourself, and then pretend to be just "one of the guys".
We will not fall for this gaslighting, no matter how hard they try.
For some reason, many people think that private companies can't be tyrants, which could not be further from the truth. At a certain point, a private company can be so heavily embedded within government, that they might as well BE the government. Except they are worse, because we don't even have the tiniest way to hold them accountable except for taking the billion-dollar company to court.
That's my problem with Flock, Palantir, and pretty much every single other defense contractor in existence. I will NOT accept every single facet of my life being monitored, just in case a criminal commits a crime somewhere near me. I will NOT live in "ze pod", no matter which politician is in power, and I will not accept a future where people like this will dictate to me what my country should be.
Since Flock loves to track our locations, it only seems fair that we know theirs.
Flock Safety's new GA plant is located at 1885 Mitchell Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082
Flock went to great lengths to keep that address hidden.
That probably means it should be public info.
Megyn Kelly Exposes Lindsey Graham’s Bloodlust
Megyn Kelly said what Washington refused to say:
“Lindsey Graham is frothing at the mouth. This guy is a homicidal maniac with a bloodlust that is insatiable.”
Then she delivered the line that cuts deepest:
“You have no fcking kids and no fcking clue. Those of us who have children —especially moms with kids in the armed forces — don’t have the same bloodlust that you have.”
Lindsey Graham treated war like theater because other people’s children paid the price.
Now they are lying!
This lawyer claims that the Supreme Court has upheld that flock cameras are legal. The fact is the Supreme Court hasn't ruled on them yet, and on similar technology is has determined they are NOT Constitutional/legal.
Carpenter vs United States (2018): "...individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the comprehensive record of their physical movements."
And again they make the argument these cameras will be OK once you "have a balance". That once you put the right rules in place they will be fine.
NO! They will never be fine. They will always end up being abused because we know that one day, a leader who fully intends to abuse them will be elected into office. That dangerous leader cannot have this technology in place when they take office. The abuse of power they will be capable of is too vast, too immense for us to take the risk!
Flock cameras MUST BE REMOVED! We will never be fully free so long as they exist.
Tucker Carlson argues that advances in technology have enabled a small technocratic elite to impose control over millions through mass surveillance.
He maintains that surveillance is not about safety or reducing crime, but about suppressing dissent and instilling powerlessness among the population.
"The point is not to help you in any way. The point is to control you and make dissent impossible."
"It's to diminish you and remind you of your powerlessness so you don't rebel as they drain the treasury and eliminate... the things that make life worth living."
Hey @glangley — I was the head of design for connected devices at Axon when we did the deal with @Flock_Safety.
What you may not know is that our CEO, Rick Smith had met with Vigilant, the ALPR leader at the time.
During the demo, their team pulled up a random Axon employee’s car from the parking lot and showed the Axon leadership everywhere that car had been.
I wasn’t in the meeting, but I’m told Rick immediately kicked them out of the Scottsdale office.
You can make a good case for officers (hell, even politicians) wearing body cams because it empowers citizens to watch the watchers.
Flock offers no such benefit.
You’ll likely justify the surveillance state you’re helping create with platitudes of a “safer society”.
But America wasn’t founded to be safe.
America was founded to be FREE.
Flock is much more compatible with totalitarian countries like China or the UK, and I wish you great success there.
As Benjamin Franklin famously summarized America’s ethos of rugged individualism:
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Now kindly get the flock out of America.
Hi, I'm their lawyer. It will be a cold day in Hell before my client pays that fine. Ofcom won't be collecting it unless they're prepared to land ground troops in America, overthrow our government, and rescind our constitutional order by force.
Hope that helps!
People don't understand how Flock cameras can be abused. This deputy used Flock cameras to stalk a female who wasn't interested in him. He followed her, pulled her over, threatened to harass her boyfriend, etc. These cameras should be banned.