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Bottom Feeder said:
Heh — ready for the Weimar waterfall to begin.
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I keep waiting for it.

It keeps not happening.

And everything keeps getting loonier. The food...the mRNA...PA Governor Shapiro is cracking down on the Amish, who've dodged the Autism Epidemic...he HATES the idea that his sponsor, Big Pharma, has their lies exposed with a cohort that ignores orders for 80 injections for children.

Meantime, the demented bitch-kooks in Brussels keep on taunting Russia. And I'm listening to a podcast with soundbytes from Scotland Yard's head of Homicide...a DEI wombyn, don't you know...who had to jump in with female hysteria, about how absurd the claim is that Lindsey was let off because she's a Protected Class. WHILE babbling on about how sensitive the Sisterhood has to be to various chemical imbalances.

This is head of a major police homicide unit!

The Overton Window only slides left. And it keeps on sliding. Now they turn BUYING CRAP into a shell-game, spin-the-numbers gamble, with the House having a brake on the wheel...? WE NEED A COLLAPSE.
 
Casey Jones said:
I keep waiting for it.

It keeps not happening.
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It's been supposed to be "happening" any day now for the past 50 years, if ya listen to the doomers in this community.
.....and I see what they've been getting at. Our fiscal and monetary situation has sucked for the past 100+ years.

Only thing saving it is the fact that we have been and still are "King of the hill", so to speak.
......and despite our debt load, still the cleanest shirt in the laundry hamper of World currencies.


What'll f' us up is when we can no longer sell enough Bonds at a low enough (affordable) interest rate in order to pay off old debt.

When that happens, it'll be "tits up" time. When that happens, no one will have enough ammo for what's gonna happen.

Which (believe it or not) is a big part of why Trump is doing a lot of the stuff he is doing.

The way's of all those fighting him, (the Globalists) is to manage the decline and help China to take our spot.
 

Court proceedings begin for 5 IMPD officers charged in Flock camera scandal​


INDIANAPOLIS — Court proceedings are in motion for the five IMPD officers charged in the department's Flock camera scandal.

The range of allegations include unauthorized searches of vehicles belonging to intimate partners, exes, and strangers using Flock Safety's Automated License Plate Reader (ALPR) technology.

Officer Michael Rogers is due in court on Monday, Sept. 28, while Officers Matthew Binford, Abigail Cramer, and Cassandra Crawley are set for court appearances on Tuesday.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...k-camera-scandal/ar-AA2d4ZpX?ocid=socialshare
 

Federal Jury Strikes Down Texas Sheriff’s Surveillance-Driven Traffic Stop Program​


License-plate-reading cameras flagged an ordinary road trip as suspicious. A Bexar County deputy invented a traffic violation, interrogated the driver, and searched his truck. A jury said that was unconstitutional.

Today, a jury in federal court found Bexar County liable for running an unconstitutional traffic stop scheme that turned mass surveillance of American drivers into a pipeline of pretextual traffic stops and unconstitutional searches.

The unconstitutional program ran in five steps: First, surveillance cameras across the state and country recorded license plates and logged when and where cars went. Second, analysts and anonymous tipsters flagged ordinary travel, like driving toward the border and back, as suspicious. Third, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies invented a traffic violation to justify pulling over the flagged driver. Fourth, deputies pulled drivers into their front seats, interrogated them and asked consent to search their car. Finally, fifth, if the driver refused to consent to a search, a K-9 alert from a manipulated dog supplied the probable cause to search anyway. This practice happened for four years to countless motorists.

“This is a huge win, and not just for Alek,” said Institute for Justice (IJ) Attorney Christie Hebert. “Motorists across this country are being watched by local, state and federal agents, flagged by AI-powered cameras, and then pulled over for a bogus offense that exists only as a cover story for an interrogation and a search. The Fourth Amendment does not permit this. Today a jury of Texans looked at how this program actually worked and said so. Every agency in this state should understand that we are fully prepared to enforce this verdict.”

The jury found the practice violated the Fourth Amendment rights of Alek Schott, a Houston father of two who was stopped on Interstate 35 in March 2022 on his way home from a business trip. Schott was held on the shoulder for 76 minutes, interrogated in the front seat of a patrol car, and subjected to a search of his truck after a drug dog alerted. Deputies found nothing, because there was nothing to find.

Alek sells equipment for his family’s oilfield business. On March 15, 2022, he drove from his home near Houston to a well pad outside Carrizo Springs with a colleague, staying the night at a hotel nearby so he could start early and not drive tired. He was stopped by Bexar County Deputy Joel Babb on the way home — not for anything he did on the road, but because a network of cameras operated by the federal government flagged his Ford F-250 as suspicious.

The tip reached Bexar County through a group chat on WhatsApp, a private messaging app, called the “Northwest Highway Group.” Deputy Babb testified the information came from a man he knew only as “Kiki,” who Babb believed worked at a federal fusion center in Laredo. To make the stop, Deputy Babb parked on the shoulder, waited for the truck, followed it, and eventually stopped it. Babb said the reason for the stop was that Alek had drifted across the fog line on the road. Evidence shown at the trial showed Schott never veered outside the lines.

“After the stop, I filed a complaint with the Sheriff’s Office because I knew what happened to me was wrong,” said Alek Schott. “The department reviewed it, told me they didn’t see any violation, and said if I had a problem with it, I should sue them. So I did. Today is vindication, not just for me, but for every driver they ran through this.”

Alek sued under the federal civil rights law that holds local governments accountable when an official policy or custom causes a constitutional violation. That required proving more than one bad stop: that the Sheriff’s Office had a policy or custom of stopping and searching drivers this way, that the Sheriff knew or should have known, and that the practice caused what happened to Alek. The jury agreed, and awarded him $76—one dollar for every minute he spent detained on I-35. He never asked for a penny more. IJ has represented him free of charge since 2023.

“This is what mass surveillance looks like when it reaches the shoulder of the highway,” said IJ Attorney Senior Josh Windham. “An AI-powered camera flagged Alek’s plate. An anonymous law enforcement agent decided his completely ordinary trip looked suspicious. And a deputy went out and found a violation that never happened. This unit ran thousands of drivers through that routine—humiliating, invasive interrogations and searches of people who had done nothing wrong. It all rests on the idea that if you watch enough innocent people closely enough, criminals will fall out. That’s wrong, it’s unconstitutional, and now, a jury has said so.”

The jury awarded Alek $76, exactly what he asked for; one dollar for every minute he was detained. Money was never what mattered. This was and has always been about the Constitution. IJ will now ask the court to enjoin Bexar County from using baseless traffic stops as a tool for warrantless searches, and will work to enforce the precedent across the state.

“For more than three decades, IJ has gone to court to hold government to the promise of the Constitution,” said IJ Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes. “Today’s verdict is a victory for ordinary Americans who want to travel our roads and highways without being stopped for bogus traffic stops, held for baseless interrogations in police cars, and then searched after a manipulated drug dog alert. Driving the highways doesn’t make one suspicious and IJ will be there to enforce constitutional restrictions on police authority.”

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Federal Jury Strikes Down Texas Sheriff’s Surveillance-Driven Traffic Stop Program - Institute for Justice

SAN ANTONIO—Today, a jury in federal court found Bexar County liable for running an unconstitutional traffic stop scheme that turned mass surveillance of American drivers […]
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Flock Cameras Lead Police To Identify Wrong Car In Road Rage Case, Armed Officers Surround Wrong House At 4 A.M.​

Imagine police surrounding your house and knocking on your door early in the morning, suspecting you of a crime you didn't commit. That's what happened to Will Penn, Robin Pen, and Penn's 94-year-old grandmother, reports Lexington, Kentucky's Lex News. As is so often the case these days, this was a case of mistaken identity, spurred by a Flock camera.

The couple's Ring camera captured the sequence of events. At 3:56 a.m., several Lexington police cars began to surround their property. At 4:08, they shone their spotlights on the house, and armed police knocked on the door. Penn and Pen went outside to speak with them, which was when they learned what this was all about.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...g-house-at-4-a-m/ar-AA2drqo6?ocid=socialshare

Source:

www.jalopnik.com

Flock Cameras Lead Police To Identify Wrong Car In Road Rage Case, Armed Officers Surround Wrong House At 4 A.M. - Jalopnik

A driver told Lexington, Kentucky police that a dark-colored Ram 2500 had been involved in a road-rage incident, so police turned to Flock to find it.
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searcher said:
Flock Cameras Lead Police To Identify Wrong Car In Road Rage Case, Armed Officers Surround Wrong House At 4 A.M.
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If Flock's system misidentify's someone and it leads to stuff like that, Flock should have to pay them $10 million.

If so, Flock would fix their system overnight.
 
Gotta add, if they actually did that, I'd be hoping to get misidentified. Lol
 
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But if we had to guess, it would seem Flock itself put them up.

No one else could benefit, as the data these cameras collect only feed into the Flock network.

So we know with near-absolute certainty they put up the extra cameras; the next question is why.

If they only make money selling their subscription service, putting up free cameras makes no sense.

The only logical conclusion?

They make money selling the data.

So much money that it's worth putting up the cameras for free.
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searcher

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Just some food for thought, nothing more.

Your Apple Watch & the Surveillance Economy​

A Former CIA Case Officer on Flock Cameras, Data Brokers, & the Surveillance Economy Watching All of Us ​

Last month, Apple announced several updates to the Apple Watch, most notably Audio Intelligence features Live Rewind and Siri Recap, two applications that essentially record “ambient audio” and have the capability to generate daily transcripts of the wearer's conversations. According to Apple, these are opt-in services, where users have to balance privacy and convenience, the...
 

One of nation's most prolific Flockers sent to prison for misuse​

A former police officer in Texas who is believed to be one of the most prolific Flock misusers in the country used the technology to track his ex-girlfriend and her romantic partners and jeopardized an open manslaughter case because of his misconduct, the district attorney who prosecuted him told USA TODAY.

Zachary Klein, an 11-year veteran of the Lufkin Police Department, was sentenced on Sept. 30 to five years in prison, five weeks after a USA TODAY investigation found he used his agency’s automated license plate reader cameras to monitor individual cars thousands of times.

Klein is one of at least 27 police and sheriff’s office employees across the country who have been arrested, fired, put on leave or placed under investigation to date as a result of USA TODAY’s reporting on widespread misuse of Flock’s technology. He is the first of them to be criminally convicted.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...rison-for-misuse/ar-AA2dJz6Z?ocid=socialshare
 
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Colorado woman falsely accused of package theft sues Flock, says the impact still lingers​

Chrisanna Elser says being wrongly accused of a crime has changed the way she moves through her daily life in Colorado. She now finds herself constantly aware of cameras and is careful about her actions in public.

"Always looking around, making sure there's cameras around," Elser said. "I'll walk with my hands kind of like, 'Here, like I'm not touching anything. You can clearly see what is going on.'"

Elser says she is still dealing with the anxiety stemming from an encounter with police last year.

"I'm so blessed that I was not pulled out of a car. I was not taken at gunpoint in front of my children," she said. "But then, also, it's a case of this is something so minute and minor that they would spend this kind of time and effort on, and be completely wrong."

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...ct-still-lingers/ar-AA2dHXHI?ocid=socialshare
 
Good.

SHOW the brainwashed sheeple, how fake and facile is the argument that we're getting Flocked to stop crime.

NOTHING can stop crime except hard policing and harder judges, and hellish punishment. ESPECIALLY with these noble valedictorians of color.

Show how these cameras solve NOTHING. The problem is not finding crime; it's the Soros judges.

So, the sooner we start sawing them down and selling them for scrap...the better.
 
searcher said:
searcher

Post in thread 'Watch Collecting with <SLV>: "Becoming a Collector"'

Just some food for thought, nothing more.

Your Apple Watch & the Surveillance Economy​

A Former CIA Case Officer on Flock Cameras, Data Brokers, & the Surveillance Economy Watching All of Us ​

Last month, Apple announced several updates to the Apple Watch, most notably Audio Intelligence features Live Rewind and Siri Recap, two applications that essentially record “ambient audio” and have the capability to generate daily transcripts of the wearer's conversations. According to Apple, these are opt-in services, where users have to balance privacy and convenience, the...
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searcher

Post in thread 'Watch Collecting with <SLV>: "Becoming a Collector"'

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Is Privacy Dead? Apple Watch, Flock Cameras, Strava, & the Surveillance Economy

Oct 10, 2026
In this video, we discuss the new Apple Watch "Audio Intelligence" features, Flock Cameras, Strava, and the state of data privacy in 2026. Tin foil hat gang, this one is for you.


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Articles Mentioned In This Video:

- Your Apple Watch & the Surveillance Economy: https://www.watchesofespionage.com/bl...
- CIA Officers and Apple Watches: https://www.watchesofespionage.com/bl...
- Smartwatch Hack: Strava Exposes Swedish PM's...
 
A Georgia man gets tased by Coweta County deputies at a gas station over a seatbelt violation—on private property where the law doesn’t even apply. Charges dropped. He sues for excessive force.

While that lawsuit is pending, the same sheriff’s office runs his plate through Flock 5 times over 197 days, querying 6,000+ camera networks nationwide. Justifications entered: “info” and “37.”

He felt followed and watched near his home and business. Ended a 6-year contract servicing another PD’s vehicles because he no longer felt safe.

This is exactly what Flock enables: retaliation against people who challenge them.
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