John over at Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise puts up a post that is right in with what I have been saying about Surveillance: you are being watched. Everything you own from your computer to you car is spying on you. Everything your neighbors own is spying on you. Complain about this, and there are plenty on the right who will accuse you of hating cops and supporting criminals. Just this week, I had a guy call me a commie Democrat cop hater who supports criminals because I am against all of this surveillance.
The fact of all this is simple, as John points out-
If you’ve been good, you’re fine. And if you’re Hillary Clinton or Jeff Epstein, all the data will be lost.
We’ve all seen videos posted on social media of a bunch of nigg- well, gang members, grasping Glocks that have switches installed. Faces and crimes visible for all the world to see, yet no arrests. We know the power that be have the ability, they have facial recognition. I don’t even have to show my passport to enter the country- I walk up to a camera, and as soon as it recognizes my face, a green light comes on, and the government has a record of where I was and when I entered the country.
If these cameras were truly being used to fight crime and catch criminals, the shootings in Chicago and Detroit each weekend would be solved. Atlanta has:
- A large network that integrates city-owned cameras, businesses’ cameras, schools, transit systems, police body cameras, and voluntarily shared private cameras through programs such as Connect Atlanta.
- Over 60,000 cameras connected or accessible to law enforcement.
- More than 120 cameras per 1,000 residents, making it the highest among major U.S. cities.
- Atlanta says its Connect Atlanta/Fusus network allows investigators to access tens of thousands of public and private cameras and has expanded dramatically since 2022. The city says this helps with both real-time response and investigations, but it does not report how many cases were solved specifically because of camera footage.
With all of that technology, you would think that no crimes go unsolved, but that isn’t the case. Crime is still high, because those cameras aren’t there to eliminate crime. Remember the Rand quote: “The only power a government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them.”
Consider what Cape Coral, Florida is about to do- they want to put AI driven cameras on city vehicles, including garbage trucks, to scan people’s homes for evidence that the law is being broken as the vehicle drives by.
No, these cameras are there to clamp down on those who would threaten the powers of the ones in charge. This is why I think we need to do away with property taxes. Government with less money is government that can’t afford shit like this.
Want to hate Flock more? They have a little-known “public safety data platform” called Nova, which combines their mass-surveilled footage with YOUR PERSONAL INFO from people search sites that are commonly used to dox & SWAT people. It was discovered by 404 Media that Flock was ALSO using personal info gathered from data breaches. They are not only mass surveilling you, they are using illegally-obtained data to build “profiles,” then providing that information (either directly or indirectly) to those who would use it illegally, and washing their hands of it by saying they aren’t the ones using the data illegally. All they do is compile it and provide that data.
