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Every July 4th, Americans celebrate that Americans rebelled against the authoritah of Great Britain. The “Redcoats” – enforcers of British authoritah – have for generations been depicted as tyrants Americans rightfully rebelled against. Here we are 250 years later – and Americans are tyrannized by an authoritah far more all encompassing and private.

These Flock and Axon cameras, I mean. All of a sudden (there were essentially none as recently as 2024) they are everywhere, just about. Even in rural, one-stoplight counties such as the one where I live in SW Virginia. The local government used the money it extracted from the locals via property taxes on what for that reason isn’t really their property (how can you be the owner of a thing that you’re obliged to make perpetual payments on in order to avoid having it forcibly taken from you?) and used to pay Flock – a private company – to put up three Flock cameras in my one stoplight county. Nothing the British authoritah did during the colonial era is as effronterous as this. It at least had the decency to do its own dirty work. There wasn’t at that time this despicable collusion between the state – authoritah – and private businesses that has become standard operating procedure in this country.

I trace it back to the legalizing of collusion between the state and the car insurance mafia. People – some people – cheered when the state made it a legal requirement to hand over money to a private, for-profit operation, thereby assuring lots of profit. They were gulled by the facile argument that forcing people to hand over money to the insurance mafia would assure all drivers had insurance coverage and as a result, they’d no longer have to worry about getting hit by a driver without insurance. It’s an idea as childish as the one about how making it illegal for anyone to own a gun will prevent criminals from having guns. Well, enough people fell for it – because enough people are childish enough to believe it – and now everyone is paying exorbitantly for “coverage” and there are still lots of drivers out there who do not have it.

Well, having set the precedent, here we are. It passes as normal for the state to hand over the money it extracts from you to private companies such as Flock and Axon, to put up creepy cameras that track our movements at our expense.

Some Americans have had enough and are doing what Americans once celebrated. They are rebelling. They are dealing with Flock and Axon cameras the way Americans once dealt with the Redcoats. It is a justifiable rebellion. These cameras have got to go. Something else that has got to go is this business of private companies such as Flock leveraging the state (and vice versa) to oppress us at our own expense. Flock and Axon have no right to watch us, track us and then “partner” with the state, to monetize, mulct and hassle us. The state has no right to use private entities to get around the legal obstacles – such as the Bill of Rights – that limit the authoritah of the state. What the state may not do, private entities ought not to be permitted to do on behalf of the state.

We, as Americans, have the right to resist this. That means doing whatever we have to do to keep private companies from watching (and recording and tracking)  us in public, in “partnership” with the state. Let the state do its own dirty work, openly and accountably. Let smug little creeps such as Garrett Langley – the CEO of Flock – go straight to Hell. Maybe we ought to go to his home and erect an array of creepy cameras to watch every move he and his family make. Maybe he needs some camera in his cars, too – the live feed going straight to our screens.

How ’bout it, Garrett?

Meanwhile, whatever it takes to put the brakes on this. We have the right – the duty – to rebel. If we are supposed to cheer the men who dumped tea into Boston Harbor 250 years ago how can we not cheer the men who Sawzall and bug-spray these got-damned Flock and Axon cameras? How are they, to put it plainly, not also patriots fighting against a tyranny even more oppressive than being expected to pay a small tax for a stamp?

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115 COMMENTS

  1. You ain’t seen nothing yet in Israel’s loyal vassal.
    AI will power Bolshevik Revolution 2.0 for the chosen Epstein class.
    How about all those blessings.

  2. What is corporation when it merges with a state?

    Corporatism or more commonly called fascism. Today it’s claimed to be. of course, different!

    Wiki

    Today, the phrase is often used broadly to describe an economic and political system where private business monopolies and government power fuse together, meaning public policy and state resources serve corporate interests, and corporate power acts as an arm of the state. Alternative Contexts State-Owned Enterprises: In literal administrative terms, it can refer to a government-owned corporation or a public-private partnership where commercial businesses and government agencies legally blend operations.Corporate Law: In standard legal terminology, a “merger” simply refers to two or more private business entities combining assets, which must be registered and filed with a government Secretary of State (such as the Florida Department of State), but this is purely administrative and unrelated to political systems.If you’d like to explore this further, let me know if you are interested in: the truth!!!……..yes

    Its always different, acceptable, and “legal” when we do it. All that boy needs is a nazi armband 🙂

  3. Okay, I am officially depressed after reading all of this. That’s not really true, most of the comments did make me feel pretty good.
    The only thing I might add would be that it would be a terrible, terrible, horrible thing if something wiped DC off the face of the earth. I just don’t think I would ever recover from such a tragedy—-well, I mean it might take several minutes to recover. And….it would be bad if that same thing happened to other areas in the country. I’m telling you, I would be devastated. Don’t want anyone to misunderstand me, how tragic something like that would be.

    • To paraphrase “Ferris Buellers Day Off”…it’s not “Bueller… Bueller…Bueller….”

      It’s “Mitch…Mitch…Mitch…”

      And the answer???

      “He’s dead, Jim”…borrowing one of Star Trek’s most famous lines…..Oy Vey!!!

      YMMV….

  4. Y’all may be aware of the MI senate race where they may allow an Arab American to beat the woman who dreams of Israel, but do you know the other MI senator–the close friend of Spamburger/GOVVA:

    WIKI. “Elissa Slotkin (Jew) (D): Elissa Blair Slotkin (/ˈslɒtkɪn/ SLOT-kin; born July 10, 1976) is an American politician and former Department of Defense official serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025.[1]

    “Slotkin was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense (DoD) official, ending her career there as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. In 2018, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Michigan’s 8th congressional district.

    “Slotkin was elected to the Senate in 2024, defeating Republican nominee Mike Rogers in a close race.[2] She became the second female senator from Michigan after Debbie Stabenow. She is expected to become Michigan’s senior senator when Gary Peters retires in 2027.[3]

    “Slotkin was born on July 10, 1976, in New York City, the daughter of Judith (née Spitz) Slotkin[4] and Curt Slotkin.[5][6] She spent her early life on a farm in Holly, Michigan. She attended Cranbrook Kingswood School in Bloomfield Hills.[7] Her family farm was part of Hygrade Meat Company,[8] founded by her great-grandfather Samuel Slotkin,[9] who emigrated from Minsk in 1900.[10] Hygrade was the original company behind Ball Park Franks, which is now owned by Tyson Foods.[11] Judith and Curt divorced, and Judith came out as gay, in 1986, during the peak of the AIDS epidemic. Slotkin and her brother moved in with their mom. Their home was a gathering place for Detroit’s covert but vibrant LGBTQ+ community. Her father was a longtime Republican and Ronald Reagan supporter whose worldview she agreed with during her childhood. Slotkin has said that she became a Democrat because of the Reagan administration’s indifference to the widespread suffering of those with AIDS, which greatly affected her.[12]”

    She says she is for humanitarian aid to Gaza and that it must be got in there, but it still hasn’t got there and she still won’t call what Israel is doing a genocide.
    https://michiganadvance.com/2025/08/01/slotkin-says-shed-have-backed-israel-arms-block-resolutions-after-missing-votes-for-tv-appearance/

  5. I’ve always been perplexed by the legal interpretations of the Bill of Rights. Courts increasingly interpret anything in them as narrowly as possible, especially the ones that protect fundamental rights that are absolute, or ought to be absolute.

    One thing I’ve never understood, is how the Supreme Court can twist word meanings and implied intentions of Constitution writers into applying the Constitution in ways that were never intended. Fine. If the Court is going to wring meanings from the words and allow government wide latitude in spite of the narrow language of the Amendments, that clearly strictly limit government agents power, then why not also interpret the Amendments to apply more broadly across the spectrum of government influence.

    At the very least, the Constitution should apply to publicly traded corporations, since they are completely controlled, created, and defined by The State, and could not exist without The State and its legal system. if the Supremes can apply the constitution to hotel owners, or decide individual cases involving police, or use the Constitution to determine civil cases involving suits brought against government entities…for instance the entire concept of Qualified Immunity for LEO agents, found nowhere in the Law, is interpreted into existence. Well if the court is going to expand powers that were never even granted in the words of our supreme law, then why not expand their application to so-called private companies that are much less private than not?

    I hear the legal term Public Accomodation alot whenever my city or state wants to regulate a particular business in areas of employment, or civil rights, or access, or just about anything. Well, every private firm is a Public Accomodation, and with the infiltration of our economy by government bureaucracy, should all of them also be subject to some level of restriction based on the Bill of Rights? things like, you cant fire someone for their political beliefs, or refuse access to banking for speech, political affiliation, religion, that sort of thing?

    Makes sense to me. It makes sense to me that in a true liberal republic and individual’s position versus the state would be stronger over time as courts gradually expanded the interpretations of our Constitution in the direction of liberty, instead of this stupid and probably illegal concept of a Balance between State Interests and Individual Interests.

    What ever happened to the Tenth Amendment?

    History shows us that liberty is not the natural state of humanity; subjugation is. Seems our expirement with liberty and justice for all was over a long time ago, in favor of the usual system of more for me, less for you.

    • Hi Andy,

      This gets into what is called case law vs. statutory law. The Constitution is statutory law; the actual words, etc. Then comes the interpretation – the parsing – of those words. This is case law and it becomes the law. Thus we arrive at legalism – and the discombobulating fact that the obvious, plain language of (to cite one example) the 4th Amendment is twisted to negate the plain language of the 4th Amendment.

      We get such legalisms as “compelling state interest” and “exigent circumstances.”

      • The Constitution is fundamentally flawed.

        Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 allows Congress “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all the Powers herein granted, and shall be subject to the Constitution.”

        Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 allows Congress the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;”

        The document itself may be statutory and requires a high bar to amend. But the poison pill is that it gave the Congress latitude under the “reasonable” allowance to implicitly lord over us beyond the explicit strict interpretation.

        The shark was thus jumped the moment Congress passed it’s first set of laws and was exacerbated when they were not challenge delegating regulatory authority in lieu of laws to the Executive.

        There’s no way to claw back to the original interpretation, the document needs to be scraped and at least the Articles of Confederation be put back into effect over the feral Federal government, if not the whole federalist “united” States system be taken out back and dispatched.

        • Jefferson argued that the first clause of Article I Section 8 granted the feds plenary power. (Hmm. The very first power granted to Congress was authority to tax. Odd, that.) That if a congresscritter could make even a feeble case that it was for the “general welfare”, the CONstitution allowed it.

          He wrote to Madison that the only way to fix that was to explicitly say the general welfare clause was limited to only the delegated powers, or to get rid of it entirely. For as smart as Madison is alleged to have been, he disagreed. And, so, here we are.

        • I agree, Larry –

          I also think it was intentional rather than flawed. Lawyers are rarely stupid, especially high level ones such as Hamilton. The “flexibility” was engineered into the thing, to assure the federal government would grow and grow and grow.

    • Wow! Who knew? (AI) “Roadside collisions: Stand-alone metal camera poles placed in high-speed suburban or rural areas create new fixed-object crash hazards for drivers. Lack of inspection: Roadside camera poles often bypass the safety and placement inspections required for standard municipal signs or utility poles.Poor visibility: Unreflective, dark paint schemes can make unlit poles difficult to spot at night, increasing accident severity.”

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      Got to be more safety conscious like Axon [CNN 7.30.26 “Vigilant Solutions and Motorola also operate ALPR cameras, and there are signs that Axon, a major provider of body cameras to police departments, is starting to take over public contracts from cities that have worked with Flock in the past. But people are taking notice. Last week, when Syracuse’s local ABC affiliate reported that the city would be ending its partnership with Flock and signing a new agreement with Axon, the response was unsparing. As one commenter on Facebook wrote, “People, we need to rein in these big brother authoritarian goons, not let them just change the camera brand.”]

      https://cdn.mediavalet.com/usva/axon/2expIbtH6UCfO7tuupw_0Q/K71wirocakaJIA2GMiSbxw/Original/Camera%20Warnings%20EN-US.pdf

      [google yourself: axon cameras appear vulnerable to hacking so that criminals can track police or take control of cameras]
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      12.3.25 “Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras. Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras …This kind of technology could give officers instant identification of any person that crosses their path…Axon had previously claimed it would pause the addition of face recognition to its tools due to concerns raised in 2019 by the company’s AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board. However, since then, the company has continued to research and consider the addition of FRT to its products.”
      ________________________
      Axon wants to deploy their body cameras to EMS personnel also: “Axon for EMS provides a complete safety and security ecosystem with integrated solutions designed to protect responders and patients alike.”

      • Flock is prohibited by name in congressional bills, while Axon has DHS contracts:

        2.25.26 “Top US body-camera maker reports record revenue amid Trump immigration crackdown. Axon sees ‘major opportunities’ as Congress proposes $20m for ICE body cameras but data privacy experts warn of risks. The largest body-camera maker in the US celebrated its latest financial results on Tuesday – reporting record revenue and forecasting major growth – as it prepares to cash in on the Department of Homeland Security’s planned rapid acquisition and deployment of these devices nationwide.

        “In Tuesday’s earnings presentation, body-camera maker Axon, which also makes the well-known Taser device, announced that it blew past Wall Street expectations with $797m in revenue, up 39% year-over-year.

        “The company attributed its growth to the offerings of its “AI era plan”, which includes a voice-activated companion for its body cameras. Executives also outlined a “major opportunity” for working with federal law enforcement in the year to come, in particular: body cameras and software licenses for the DHS.

        “Asked by investors about his biggest worries, CEO Rick Smith said: “A misstep around privacy and data handling.”

        “Without elaborating on specific examples, he said: “We are seeing that those are concerns right now out in the public. I think that would be one where we could make a mistake that would have outsized negative consequences….

        “Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly, US Democratic senators for Arizona, introduced a bill last month that would mandate body cameras for all DHS officers. Gallego has received more than $20,000 in campaign donations from Axon’s CEO and executives since 2017, according to FEC data. He declined to comment. Axon is based in Arizona… Republicans offered money for body cameras as part of their negotiations with Democrats for the DHS spending bill, and some have said they are not opposed to their use….

        “Axon was known for producing Tasers before it made body cameras, and it has expanded its offerings drastically in recent years. The company currently positions itself as a holistic, real-time, AI-powered crime center. On Tuesday’s call, Smith described Axon as the“WORLD’S LARGEST GLOBAL SENSOR NETWORK…”

        ““The body cameras are the tip of the iceberg … the real money is in the data storage and being able to offer analytics,” …Much of Axon’s revenue comes from AI-powered software, and the infrastructure required to host the huge amounts of videos its devices collect. The company’s software and services revenue grew 40% in its fourth quarter to $343m. Given Axon’s vast capabilities in the context of local law enforcement, Ferguson is concerned about who controls body-camera footage taken by DHS officers” [AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER “ALPR” and store that for the DHS with congressional help!]
        https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/axon-body-cameras-revenue

      • Hi Jack,

        I believe the Senate stays Republican with approximately 51 seats.

        The Dems win the House by gaining 20-25 seats.

        I don’t think this is going to be the blow out everybody thinks it is. Yes, Trump’s poll numbers suck and they should. But, we keep thinking that the rest of America thinks like us. They aren’t paying attention. They know their gas is higher, food costs more, housing is ridiculous, but overall they will go the ballot box and the selection will stay the same. It is the exact reason that Grassley, McConnell, Waters, and Pelosi are still in Congress. They blame everybody else except their own guy.

        • Yeah, because so much of the audience expects a blowout, the scriptwriters probably won’t go so on-the-nose as a Dem landslide. There is nothing on the screens they don’t want you to see. If it is there, it is because they want you to see it. The audience knowing Trump is so heavily reviled really builds up the drama, too. Imagine if the writers totally zig when everyone thinks they’ll zag, and the repubs hold on! The outrage and passionate feelings it will arouse!!! The traitorous pedophiles who sold away the country have won!!!….How can this be?!?! Wow, what a show.

          • Morning, Kmose –

            There’s also the more mundane possibility that the usual (roughly) 50 percent of the eligible voter pool will vote, with the winners being determined by the usual (roughly) 24-26 percent. The Democrats will (in my view) probably win most of their races because most of them still believe in Voting Harder; they are what Trump voters were in 2024.

            We’ll see, I suppose.

        • Hi Raider Girl, thanks for the reply, according to the same site, they forecast:

          https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-election-predictions/

          “2026 Senate Election: Consensus Forecast
          The U.S. Senate has 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats (including two independents). There are 35 seats up in 2026 – including special elections in Florida and Ohio – of which 23 are held Republicans. Democrats will need a net gain of four seats to retake control in 2027.”
          ———–
          I am more optimistic and I will tell you why. I believe the perfect storm has arrived for Trump, that the nation’s anger is building and will be fuming by November 3rd.

          interest rates will continue up, by Nov I expect 30 year fixed mortgage rates to be easily above 7%

          gasoline $4.50 or higher, maybe above 5

          diesel not available in some areas

          another false flag that backfires

          war all the way to election night

          food prices still going up

          more evidence Israel is destroying us

          more evidence Trump is the worst traitor in history

          more epstain scandal on the front page

          demands for trump’s resignation worldwide

          • Morning, Jack –

            On this Epstein Stuff: It’s amazing how tightly the lid has been kept on it. I mean, if it goes beyond older (mostly married) guys having sex with borderline legal young women who weren’t forced into it (which is gross and tacky but not quite the same thing as molesting kids) then it’s remarkable no one who has evidence of that – of kids being molested by high officials, etc. – has produced the evidence or that if they have (I know there are allegations) it hasn’t been thoroughly and publicly exposed. I personally suspect there’s a lot more to it than the usual sordid adultery and so on but (as they say) where’s the beef?

            • Another strange thing about the Epstein file: have you watched the interview Steve Bannon conducted with him? (I’ve seen one on youtube, there are more but I don’t know if they’ve been published online).
              Epstein was at best a midwit. He did not come across as intelligent, clever, particularly knowledgeable, or in any way some kind of mastermind with special talents or abilities. Pretty sure most of the commenters here are more intelligent.
              There’s something unrealistic about the entire affair. No doubt we’ll never know the truth.

              • Truth. There’s quite a little circumstantial evidence that the Russians had something on Epstein, and he was working for them.

                Incidentally, if that’s the case, I’d bet the Russians would have nipped the more sordid stuff in the bud. If “pizza” meant something more than nubile young ladies, I’d expect to have seen a whole lot of unexpected deaths. For all their faults, Russians can be, um, direct in their approach to problem solving.

              • Hi cobbles,

                Yup. The same has occurred to me re Musk. He also does not come across as intelligent, clever or particularly knowledgeable. Maybe that is part of his schtick, though?

              • Hi Jack,

                Well, there’s a lot of awful stuff floating around – but how do we know it’s not AI generated? Mind: I put nothing past these people. That said, I need facts before I judge. Trump is without question a serial adulterer, liar and con man. A vicious vulgarian and opportunist. But is he a child rapist? Maybe. I would not be surprised if it turns out he is. Such allegations involving him are not incredible. Even so, I need facts…

          • Hi Jack,

            I think GA and NC will flip for the Asses in the Senate; everything else will stay within party lines. Texas isn’t going blue and Collin’s isn’t going to lose in Maine…she has been there 30 years and every time she runs they pretend it is a nail bitter. 😒

            For the House to flip significantly the country’s citizens will have to flip their district’s party line. Just because Trump stinks isn’t going to make someone that has voted Red all of these years decide to vote Blue. Not only that but the Dems have moved the goal posts further left. If they picked more moderate candidates they would have had a better chance of significantly flipping both sides.

            As long as the Stock Market stays up there will be no significant change other than the Dems taking the House, which is a surprise to no one. If the AI bubble pops before mid terms then the game changes rapidly, but I don’t believe anything will happen prior to November.

            • Agreed, right down the line. Particularly the recent DSA thing. That has people spooked, and rightly so.

              Do you agree that higher interest rates would be a good thing? Giving people the incentive to save rather than spend it all before inflation eats it away? I get that people without an econ background would hate increased interest, but as someone in the trenches, what’s your take?

              • Hi Steve,

                Trump made a fatal mistake by going into Iran. I expect July inflation to be around 3.5%…similar to June’s. If the moron did not invade another country inflation would be around 2.2% and the Fed could start lowering interest rates to speed up economic development. FYI: I realize the true rate of inflation is significantly higher than what they are reporting.

                High interest rates help those that have savings. It slaughters everyone else. Right now the economy is K shaped, which means those 45+ and older are probably doing okay because their assets (investment portfolio, homes, and cash accounts) are all up. The rest of the country is suffering greatly because they don’t have the extra savings and are relying off debt which is now more expensive.

                I would expect the third quarter to show negative growth. As a business owner I see AR is taking longer to collect. Clients are stating that things are slowing down in their businesses and they are starting to make decisions to cut costs. Lots of things are being prolonged or band aided in the mean time.

                • I won’t go so far as Uncle Milty, but inflation is largely a monetary phenomenon. People like to blame the Fed, but Congress’ spending is the real problem. Even if you believe M2 is ~$23tn, when you add $2tn each year in debt instruments you would expect 10% inflation in nominal M2, even if you assume velocity is 1. Which it is not.

                  Anyway, the upshot is that inflation is not primarily caused by bombing, but by the realization that the DOGE cuts are never happening. Spending is coming down in new appropriations bills, but the CRs are destroying America.

                  Not that the average Joe understands any of that. Heck, probably not more than a few percent do. And we’re not doing a very good job of communicating.

                  Over the short term, raising interest rates causes a lot of pain, yes. So not a thing to do before midterms. But over even the medium term, nothing else makes sense to me. We’ve been papering over the real inflation rate, and something has to happen to make saving a good idea again. See the ’80s. I hope Warsh becomes the next Volcker.

  6. It’s not just the cameras. When did the British parliament say crap like this? The Kippah wearing, wailing wall kneeling, abrogate the first amendment for the Jewish state Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is running a protection program not only for Epstein and his pedophile clients but for all criminal donors and government profiteers (MQ this is for you: he’s speaking to the “Faith and Freedom Coalition” and openly calling 1/2 of them criminals).

    “There is a dangerous trend going on in the country right now. Many Mamdanis popping up all around the country running for Congress. You cannot take this for granted. It’s a serious threat, my friends. The grassroots operation, the money is on the side of the insurgent left and they are openly running as Marxist communists for Congress. If we were to we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid these Democrats, y’all, impeachment is not even the big concern. They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors and friends. Half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you. Okay? We’re going to win. We’re going to win the midterm.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeIEpHScZkA

    • How does Mike Johnson know he’s going to win? Cameras. BOTS. Voting Machines.

      “BlackCore, the Israeli company, deployed 500,000 bots – fake profiles – to manipulate the Colombian electorate with millions of lies about Ivan and me,” Petro wrote on X last week.

      “De la Espriella secured 49.66% of the vote in a run-off election on 21 June, narrowly beating Cepeda’s 48.7%. At the time, Petro alleged that foreign actors had accessed the website of Colombia’s National Registry and manipulated polling data.

      “The only entity in the world capable of doing that is the state of Israel,” he said. Colombia’s attorney general Gregorio Eljach dismissed the allegations and said there was “no evidence of fraud”.

      “Petro is among Israel’s fiercest critics on the world stage. In 2024 he broke diplomatic ties with the country “for having a government, for having a president who is genocidal”.

      “French authorities last month accused BlackCore of interfering in elections in Scotland, New York, France, Angola and Togo.

      “Viginum, France’s disinformation watchdog, said the firm had coordinated hundreds of accounts to post negative comments about Scottish first minister John Swinney in the run-up to the Scottish parliament elections in May.

      “Swinney is one of the few UK politicians to have described Israel’s mass killings in Gaza as a genocide.

      “De la Espriella, who is set to take office on 7 August, is a millionaire and criminal defence lawyer who holds US citizenship and was endorsed by president Donald Trump. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated de la Espriella on his victory.

      “Israel’s friends continue to win,” he wrote on X.

      “Novara Media was unable to reach BlackCore for comment; THE FIRM DELETED ITS ONLINE PRESENCE AFTER BEING CONTACTED BY REUTERS IN JUNE.”

      https://www.instagram.com/p/Daz0cmnmkXM/

      Petro also alleges electoral fraud and fears Trump is going to kidnap him like Maduro: Al Jazeera 4 AUG 26: “Petro said on Monday that he fears being “extracted” from Colombia once he becomes an opposition leader. He has called for protests and for rural areas to form “liberation guards”.

      “I’ve been told to behave well,” Petro said. “But as a democrat, I cannot accept this electoral fraud.”

    • Speaker Johnson is a traitor who deserves arrest, trial and execution for TREASON. The “Faith and Freedom Coalition”, like the “Values Voters Summit” is a Christian Zionist sheep pen that exists only keep the shekels flowing to IsraHELL, the name itself is a sick joke.

      Not to mention Mike Johnson’s person life is seriously questionable itself. He adopted a teenage boy BEFORE he was married which is beyond bizarre, but that he dons the “Harry Potter” look just screams “I’m into young boys”. I have no doubt that he is blackmailed up to the eyeballs.

  7. Flock will inevitably have a data breach. Not just the deliberate ones that go on every day to LEOs and insurance rackets and whomever else, but something major they didn’t sell. That’s the time for class actions. So what if all the money goes to the attorneys? The point was never personal profit, but to bankrupt them. Make them realize that saving data for more than a week or two serves no legitimate purpose, and is too big of a risk.

    • Why not now? There’s got to be a lawyer with a client already who’s been harmed, probably seriously. Have in mind the ex-girlfriend of a cop.

      • That would be just something they settle. You need big damages, and ideally millions of class members to bankrupt someone like Flock.

    • I love your optimism, Steve, but what lawyers are going to take on CorporateGov? Flock is protected. It is a privately held company. It has government contracts and government protection. Nobody can afford to take on Uncle Sam, except the same companies that he is bestowing contracts to. It is a complete circle jerk.

      There is no justice except the kind that we ration out quietly when no one is looking.

      • Jurisdiction shop. This would be no more difficult than figuring out a way to tie Trump into it, and file in New York or DC.

  8. Destroy these devices, and they’ll make more. They’re cheap, and bought with your money. They’ll be made smaller and smaller, and well hidden.

    I’d much rather see the people behind these devices destroyed, heads mounted to poles along the streets.

      • It’s just in the idea stage. Just rolling it around in the noggin. I have some other, more pertinent stuff that needs to be handled before I get to do anything fun like that.

        The column has become wiggly at the tilt area, and getting worse. I need to do some research and see how to fix it, if it can be fixed, or get a new column.

        My clutch pedal rattles annoyingly while driving. Need to get that sorted out to increase my driving enjoyment.

  9. Any electronics experts out there? Some pulse device with a directed output you could fry the camera innards with? How close, on a pole or would something from ground level be workable?

    • A portable EMP isnt hard, but with the flock in a well grounded metal case it probably won’t work very well. And a laser with enough power would be hard to conceal/get away with.

    • Using EMI to fry them is a bit less practical than blinding them using a laser.

      Honestly, cutting them down is the best approach at this point since it’s a political statement.

      Might not be a bad idea to keep the truly quiet and quick disabling options in your back pocket to use later.

  10. Just the other day there was an article in the MSM (forgot which paper, was NYT or WaPo) about how Flock cameras are being used by LEO’s and other assorted members of the privileged class to stalk their girlfriends and such. Duh! Who woulda thunk it? Our overlords are such saints, only looking out for our own good 😝

  11. There was, and is, nothing good about kids making honor roll. They went on to college and picked a career based on the pay prospects. They joined a Greek-letter organization in college to make contacts for career and social opportunities. And when they got into positions of power, they had already fully conflated intelligence and success with obedience. Thus, when the government says make cars no one wants and destroy the company, they obey, and they are “smart” because they are paid so handsomely for it, by the government. When they say make a movie no one will pay to see, they obey, and they are “smart” for ‘securing the bag’ (from the government). They put 150 year-old European fashion brands on covid face masks and face shields, and, ditto. They would even obey orders to demolish the Parthenon and Great Pyramids.
    I no longer wonder why I was a C student and devoted a minimal amount of effort to getting through public school and never was interested in joining a fraternity or fitting in with my socio-economic group. This America and world these new business leaders have created sucks. The cars and homes and lifestyles most people dream of buying if they won the lottery are under sustained attack from government authorities. Nobody’s dream car is new, or even comes from 2024, or 2023. That is insane. These smart, successful, obsequious honor roll cowards have delivered us into slavery. Rant over.

    • Yeah, I was one of those, mostly because public school was so easy I could sleep through it and still pull As. Then, sometime around my 16th year, something slipped and I started to smell BS. Still mostly got those grades because it was just too easy, but went off to college on the academic full rides with eyes partially open and a healthy dose of skepticism for the academic world.

      You absolutely nailed it though, those dim lights who joined frats and made connections are now controlling too much and f*#king it all up. Millennia of western civilization evaporating in a few decades, falling to barbarian invasion and fallacy.

  12. I think we got to do more than paint the cameras, especially since the Israeli Army was just merged with “ours:”

    YNET 8.3.26 “Former Mossad chief Dadi Barnea is joining Ondas Defense (Ondas Inc.) as global president and chairman. Ondas is an American company traded on Nasdaq with a market value of more than $5 billion, specializing in autonomous systems, robotics and technologies for the defense market. In recent years, the company has pursued strategic acquisitions of approximately 15 Israeli defense-tech companies totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.”
    ____________________
    WEST PALM BEACH, FL / ACCESS Newswire / August 3, 2026 / Ondas Inc. (Nasdaq:ONDS) (“Ondas” or the “Company”), a leading provider of autonomous systems and next-generation defense and SECURITY technologies, announced today that former Mossad Director David Barnea has joined Ondas Defense Ltd. as Global President and Chairman. Barnea will join Ondas’ senior executive leadership team and support the Company’s global expansion, strategic technology development, government and defense relationships, and the business and technological integration. He will work closely with Chairman and CEO Eric Brock, Oshri Lugassy, Co-CEO of Ondas Autonomous Systems, and the leadership teams across Ondas’ businesses to advance the Company’s strategy of building a unified, AI-enabled, multi-domain defense technology platform.
    https://ir.ondas.com/press-releases/detail/320/former-mossad-director-david-barnea-joins-ondas-bringing

    • So it happened, then. Okay, so the USA has formally ended. The country is America-Israel now? Israel-America? That wasn’t the understanding. That’s a huge, huge, HUGE bait-and-switch. My country of birth is gone, then. I no longer have a nationality, I’m just an earth-dweller now. Liberating.

      • Good morning, Eric

        I expect tomorrow for the announcement to be made that he has taken a turn for the worst. I expect his “passing” date around the 10th.

        Let us not forget that Andy Beshear still sucks. We could have nipped this in the bud a month ago, but betas don’t have balls.

    • Remember, Trump/Bessent still has the option of dumping all state pensions into AI. If it still goes belly-up and wipes out all the pensions, they can claim it was caused by a massive coordinated cyber attack from Iran, Russia and China.
      Poverty and war – it’s what’s for dinner.

        • Your point is well taken Ernie but the estimates is that there’s about $6 trillion of wealth combined by the public “service” Federal, 50 State and municipal retirement plans in the market. Wiping that off the books is a serious problem to the accountants. Also keeping in mind that before that Wall Street and the banks will have Congress scoop up and nationalize all the IRAs and 401Ks, maybe even just all savings and checking accounts as well will have been bailed in.

    • I read that story – may the Ellison empire collapse of its own arrogance and hubris. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving POS.

      I may have mentioned it before but I have a cousin who is quite high up in the food chain at Oracle. He has always been ambitious to the point he it overrides any understanding of the larger consequences of what he is doing but I would not call him a bad person (like Ellison, who is evil) per say. All of my relatives think Oracle is just this wonderful company and cannot see the dark side of it. In fact, the only problem his mom sees is the my cousin is “too liberal” and not that he works for a company that wants to create a dystopian panopticon hellscape. They also don’t see a problem with what Israel does either, and are mostly Faux News brainwashed zombies. It is interesting that it is mainly I, the family heathen, that sees the sheep pen that is being built around us but my oh-so-Christian relatives are completely oblivious. It is bizarro world indeed.

      • Hi MQ,

        It definitely is bizarro. Right now the Dow Jones is up 1054 points. Why? Iran negotiations. Brent crude is at $79/barrel. Palantir is up 30% in one day. All of it is garbage. Fakery.

        I believe the gist is to pump up the Stock Market so high that every Tom, Dick, and Harry feels the need to invest. When the bow breaks (and she will) it will be the last transfer of wealth from the Middle Class to the elites. The elites will run for greener pastures (wherever they have located their bunkers) and sit in their little caves hiding out while the last breath of America is a whimper. The Middle Class will be the new poor and the poor will be even poorer. There will be no safety nets and the backing of Uncle Sam will be nothing more than an IOU receipt.

        Bezos took out $4 BILLION today. What does he know?

        The sad thing is they will get away with it. Just like in 2008. They will succeed.

        • Yeah, Ellison will too. (AI) “Larry Ellison is not in danger of losing all his money, though his fortune has dropped by over $200 billion from its peak. He remains one of the wealthiest people globally, with an estimated net worth of roughly $181 billion.

          “Current Standing
          “Net Worth: Despite shedding a massive portion of his paper wealth, his remaining $181 billion fortune keeps him safely positioned inside the global top ten billionaires list.

          “Solvency: While his heavy personal financial backing of his son’s media ambitions alongside Oracle’s steep capital expenditures represent high-profile financial risks, they do not threaten his baseline solvency or total net worth.”

          • Ellison looks creepy as hell too, not only is his face frozen like a mask that he looks like he does at 81 years old just screams “adrenochrome” or a vampiric taste for young blood.

            Yet my relatives see him as some kind of good guy. UGH!

    • “May this entire AI bubble crash.”

      It will. AI is a lot like the Shopsmith — it can do a lot of things, but few very well. Nowhere close to as well as a panoply of tools specifically designed for each job.

      AI excels at pattern matching. Finding needles in haystacks. Pharma research, for example. Thing is, very few tasks they are planning for AI to take over are needles in haystacks. Most of them are things that a human using a computer, following a flowchart, could do better.

      The one scary thing that AI does well is run a virtual panopticon…

  13. Here’s another weird duality: a president who scammed billions from Magatards with memecoins is about to get immunity from IRS audits — something no other American possesses.

    And his corrupt personal attorney who negotiated this corrupt deal, Todd Blanche, is about to be nominated as attorney general this morning by the Senate Judiciary Committee. That’s after two retiring R-party reptiles, Cornyn (TX) and Tillis (NC), withdrew their hold on the nomination after Blanche made some changes in the corrupt ‘settlement.’

    The twenty corrupt members of the corrupt Senate Judiciary Committee are listed at the bottom of this web page:

    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov

    • R-party sellout no. 1,627:

      ‘The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday advanced the nomination of Todd Blanche to serve as attorney general, clearing the way for a vote on the Senate floor after Blanche reached a deal with two GOP holdouts on the $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.

      ‘Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who are both exiting Congress at the end of the year, had raised objections to the fund, pushing Blanche to put in writing the termination of what the North Carolina Republican called a “payout for punks.”

      ‘Blanche signed an order Sunday formally rescinding the fund, appeasing the two Republicans and winning the support necessary to advance from the committee in a 12-10, party-line vote.’

      https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6007353-judiciary-committee-blanche-nomination-attorney-general/

      Worthless clowns. New senatrix Darline Graham was one of the dozen Yea votes.

        • Hi Steve,

          Blanche is a scumbag; they all are. Hadn’t you heard?

          Do you like The Simpsons? I envision Little Lisa’s Animal Slurry factory. Only instead of animals as the ingredient for the slurry…

          • Ah. So it’s about anyone at all in the office, not him in particular? I can respect that. The DOJ has only been around since about the War of Northern Aggression. Before that, it was just the office of Attorney General, which, initially was a part time gig for one man. Wiping out the DOJ would be great.

            But neutering it for this president and leaving it intact to be abused by the next is a bad idea. I’m pretty sure we’ve all said or done SOMETHING that a DC or NY judge would toss us in prison and throw away the key.

        • Hi Steve,

          Blanche was Trump’s personal lawyer. The point of the DOJ is not to act as the President’s personal defense fund. I would chalk it up to a pretty severe conflict of interest not to mention unethical.

          Blanche is also the same guy protecting the Epstein files. We should all have a problem with any man or woman protecting pedophiles over children.

          • Thanks!

            I knew the personal lawyer thing. Attorneys deal with conflicts of interest all the time. Pretty sure Blanche could have done at least as well at managing a conflict of interest as a tranny fresh out of law school in Backwater, Mississippi.

            Managing the Epstein files, I did not know about. I personally am not that concerned about 16 YOs. Sure it’s statutory rape, but if it was consensual, I don’t really care about prostitution. Those under 16, sure. They should come forward, even anonymously and through a lawyer, and name at least Epstein. At least something to confirm the fuzzy pictures and vague emails, which is all even the most ardent Epstein Truthers have been able to piece together. At least that I’ve seen.

  14. Tyranny on the rez:

    ‘As debate over mass surveillance and license plate reader technology intensifies across Arizona, the Navajo Nation has announced a new partnership with Flock Safety to deploy cameras across its land.

    ‘The Navajo Department of Criminal Investigation and the Navajo Nation Police Department will use Flock’s license plate reader cameras as a tool to help solve crimes and find missing people, challenges that have long plagued one of the most underserved and hardest-to-police regions in the country.

    ‘The Navajo Nation also warns that tampering with or damaging the cameras is a criminal offense under Title 17 of the Navajo Nation Code.’

    https://www.azfamily.com/2026/07/30/navajo-nation-deploy-flock-license-plate-reader-cameras-across-27k-square-miles/

    This is the same Navajo Nation that implemented notorious 57-hour lockdowns during covid, from 8 pm Friday to 5 am Monday. Those lockdowns closed ALL businesses and were continued into 2021, long after other states backed off.

    Its then-president, Jonathan Nez, is the D-party nominee for Clowngress in my district. This dude is a tyrant, and has no chance against the R-party incumbent. Chief Nez — he in heap big trouble! 🙂

    • I don’t want to hear a thing about how white man screwed the “indigenous” native Americans. Horeseshit. They are allowing it to happen to themselves. Enough of that “white man bad” shit.

      • Indian reservations consist of US trust land. Tribal members live on the land, but do not own the real estate. After 85 years of persistent inflation, having no housing equity has systematically impoverished Native Americans.

        It’s astonishing that Native American ‘leaders’ do not utter a peep about this communistic ‘you will own nothing’ burden on their people. They are corrupt collaborators, not advocates for their tribes. They are perhaps best compared to African dictators on the take, ruling over impoverished masses.

        You still selling souvenir axe handles, Lester? 🙂

        • You got that right. When Trump finally gave the Lumbees, a completely made-up tribe, the federal recognition they have been denied for decades (for not being a real tribe), I wondered how many in Lumberton, NC, celebrated finally being recognized a completely morally and financially bankrupt entity. Especially considering that having half or more the population already on the dole hadn’t prevented it from being the poorest part of NC.

      • Actually it is their leadership that is the problem, not the natives as a whole. The mis-leadership at the head of these tribes is totally addicted to the government teat and acts accordingly. Meanwhile, the commoners are increasingly impoverished when real leader would be increasingly asserting their independence and joining with like minded whites and others to detach themselves from the Leviathan. This is also true of the black mis-leadership class and whites who still think the Orange Douche and the Repuke party represent them.

        Only the worst rise to the top and blaming those under their thumb (whether white, black or native) reeks too much of victim blaming.

    • “This is the same Navajo Nation that implemented notorious 57-hour lockdowns during covid, from 8 pm Friday to 5 am Monday. Those lockdowns closed ALL businesses and were continued into 2021, long after other states backed off.”

      Pretty sure a couple of the SD reservations kept things going longer. They even shut down state (and I believe one federal) highways, and let no one in who could not prove they belonged there. Despite state and federal courts ruling that they could only block tribal roads, they basically said, “Make us, paleface.”

    • Consider the source.
      “Arizona Family” ? YGBSM
      >”hard to police” ?
      who says it needs “policing”?
      How about?
      1. Keeping people from starving.
      2. Keeping people from dying of various diseases (e.g. TB).
      3. Keeping people from freezing to death riding in the back of open pickup trucks.
      4. Keeping people from drinking themselves to death in Gallup.
      5. Preserving Navajo language and culture.
      Note this is the same Navajo Nation which willingly acquieces to aid the government (see “Navajo Code Talkers”, etc.) which sent them on a death march to a concentration camp (see “Long Walk of the Navajo”), and even votes Republican.

      Where, oh where is the Dinê counterpart of Reies Tijerina?
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reies_Tijerina

    • It’s a whole lot cheaper and effective to put them on streetlights and stoplights. With the power right there (use a battery and charger to get you through daylight hours) it’s hard to tell cameras from the sensors that change the lights for emergency vehicles.

      And even if you do, it would take a long time and probably multiple blades to saw through the pole for a stoplight. You are almost limited to using a cherry picker, which is not very subtle, or invoking Rule 308.

  15. In many jurisdictions crimes involving a firearm can result in considerably more severe charges and penalties. And juries love to convict.

    • Good morning, SG

      I wish I would be called as a juror on the Jefferey Sovern case. Not only would I acquit the man I would have Uncle Sam reimburse him for the vice grips he had to purchase to destroy the Flock cameras.

  16. Here’s another duality:

    It used to be that there was A LOT less surveillance, but a lot more JUSTICE.

    Law abiding folks are treated like criminals, while actual criminals are coddled.

    Used to be, cops weren’t everywhere watching everyone’s every move. But when one DID break the law, punishment was more swift, more certain, and more harsh.

    There was no waiting decades on death row such that most people on death row died of natural causes.

    Prisons weren’t like resorts in the Poconos—prisoners didn’t lift weights, watch TV, or sodomize each other—they did hard labor.

    Sheesh, it’s like crime does pay…

    • That’s because real Justice in a totalitarian regime requires privacy and anonymity. Not so long ago an uppity enforcer was subject to street Justice. Now it is extremely difficult to administer such without the system striking back.

    • Natural law punishment is restitution or death, if restitution will not suffice. Jail and prison are not designed to rehabilitate, they are crime school. Steal a car? Work the debt off to the owner’s satisfation if you can’t pay for the damages. Thief won’t work it off? Break his legs or cut off a hand or something like that. First degree murder? Death. Second degree? Let the victim’s family decide. Accidental death? Pay the agreed-upon fine or work it off. If they refuse to work or pay, then death. Multiple unintentional deaths? Death. That’s the price when you kill multiple people through negligence or incompetence or bad luck. Very fair. I don’t see the need for the police or state in any of this. A group of men can be brought together for folks who need help getting JUSTICE. Also, a crime must have a victim, so that eliminates tens of thousands of laws on the books.

  17. I live in a rural area. Cows far outnumber people. There is a Flock camera on an intersection about 2 miles from my house. Any ideas on how to deal with it? I was thinking maybe a large sign with the word “Flock” on the pole.

    • Morning, Ugg!

      A black plastic garbage bag is a nondestructive way to get the message across… Another idea would be to take a close-up picture of a homeless person’s crusty asshole and place it in direct view of the camera.

      I really like the concept of good for the goose, too. Cameras ought to be placed around Garrett Langley’s house. Maybe some drones hovering around, too. The live feed of his doings sent to any “interested” parties.

    • Take note of the way the camera is pointing. Approach from the rear side. Do not take your phone with you. Use any tactic cited above or of your liking. Personally, I like the idea of something small caliber and silenced. The feeling you will receive after the destruction of this spy device is overwhelming and wonderful.

    • Hi Ugg,

      First, dress up as Batman.

      Second, agree with Enemy (the name doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies, but his point his valid) approach from rear side of camera.

      Third, take Eric’s suggestion and cover it with a trash bag. I am pretty sure the people that like to watch Flock surveillance are into blindfolding.

      Four, grab your Milwaukee M18 Sawzall and go to town.

      Five, leave note “I am vengeance. I am the night. I am Batman.”

      Finally, send pic to RG. 😉

      • Showy! I like a bit of showmanship. It might make sense to do a small shaped charge and a remote detonator, less time and noise than a sawzall and no need for long range marksmanship.

        • Hi Ernie,

          You don’t think the headless Flock lying on the ground would send a clear message that we don’t want them?

          I am not for shooting it, only because ammo is so expensive.

          Watching it blow up would be nice, but that doesn’t get me my Batman pic. I don’t want Batman to get hurt.

          • Absolutely! But a small bit of det cord around it, triggered remotely from a few hundred feet away, could easily be done by Batman with no risk to bystanders. It would cut as clean as the sawzall and would take seconds to place.

            For that matter, some thermite would of to, would just need something to hold it correctly without any bang at all.

            In theory, of course. I’m planning a novel…

      • THE EGGMAN COMETH

        Vincent Price played the arch villain, Egghead, in the 60s Batman TV series.

        Donning a rubber skullcap, and clown white painted face, collect all your passed best-before-date eggs (large size) take aim and hurl.

        This provides useful upper body aerobic exercise, is environmentally friendly; and no birds, insects or animals will be injured as a result of the operation.

        Ensure no egg has been fertilised prior to commencing.

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