# I Discovered Who Is Really Funding the Anti-Flock Backlash
# 51-49 with James Li — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP54OpXeJ30

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Okay, in 2015,
Jeffrey Epstein partnered with former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
invest in a security tech startup called
Reporty Homeland Security, now known as
Carbon. Yes, Jeffrey Epstein and Israel
is a part of this story as they usually
are. Okay, so if you guys remember, at
the end of my mini doc about Flock
surveillance cameras,
I was telling you guys about a hunch
that I had that something more could be
going on. Specifically, I was asking if
all the viral anti-Flock content that is
blowing up on the internet right now
could have been potentially AstroTurfed
to facilitate the buildout of an even
bigger mass surveillance state. Well,
let me tell you guys, I think I was onto
something because boy, do I now have a
few receipts. First off, quick recap,
Flock Safety is this company that makes
automated license plate readers, ALPRs
as they're called, which are these
AI-powered cameras that capture and
analyze images of passing vehicles and
they store these details like your car's
location, date, time, many other things.
And over the past 8 years, they've
installed over 110,000
of these cameras across America. Most
likely, you will find them in your
neighborhood. And some are even alleging
that these cameras, which they say only
tracks cars, is also capable of facial
recognition. And all of this data that's
being collected is going into a massive
national dragnet database. This is
something that nobody voted for,
nobody's asking for these things to be
installed, so I believe the backlash is
real. Let me be clear. Flock is in
serious trouble after massive backlash.
The reporting is that at least 53 cities
have ended their contracts with the
company so far, according to a July 22nd
article from Futurism. But the part I'm
suspicious about is this hyperfocus on
one company when there are many others
that make exactly the same kind of
product. Check this out.
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the ground. This partnership accelerates
deployments and turns existing
infrastructure into intelligent
interconnected tools for public safety.
That's what they always say. They always
tell us that it is for our safety, quote
unquote public safety, and
unfortunately, most of us fall for it
every single time. That was, by the way,
the CEO of Axon Enterprise. His name is
Rick Smith. And Axon is this
multi-billion-dollar company that makes
things like police body cams, tasers,
drones, in-car cameras, and also
AI-powered cloud software for law
enforcement, military, and enterprise
security. And recently, in 2025, they
announced that they are going to be
expanding into what they call new fixed
ALPR camera solutions and next-gen AI
advancements, basically the same exact
technology and products that Flock
makes. Now, this is where the story
starts to get interesting. When I was
doing research putting together the mini
doc, I noticed a bit of a pattern where
city councils, facing public backlash,
would say, "Okay, we hear you guys. We
will cancel Flock only to then sign a
new contract with Axon, including this
example that you see here from Douglas
County, which is the Denver area, where
the sheriff's office voted to replace
Flock cameras with a $22.8 million
Axon system. Flock to Axon, that's what
we call six in one, half a dozen in the
other. Another example is Syracuse, New
York. Quote, "The Syracuse Common
Council on Monday voted to pass an
agreement with Axon to install 26 new
license plate readers. The five-year
agreement, which comes at a cost of
$422,000,
goes into effect March 1st. The city
presently works with Flock for the same
technology, but city leaders expressed
concerns about the collection and
sharing of personal information under
that arrangement. I've noticed probably
about six or seven of these kinds of
cases where cities are shifting from
Flock to Axon that I know of so far.
There are probably many more. So, the
big question is, what is going on here?
Well, let's talk about who owns Flock
and who owns Axon. Okay, on one side,
Flock, you have investment groups like
Andreessen Horowitz. That is Marc
Andreessen's group, the conehead guy.
Further down the list, you see
highlighted Founders Fund. That is Peter
Thiel's group. Y Combinator below that.
That is the group that used to be run by
Sam Altman. And then on the other side,
Axon, that is a public company that is
91% owned by institutional investors,
BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street.
That's the big three, and they are the
top three shareholders of the company. I
hope you guys are noticing a little bit
of a pattern here. It's Silicon Valley
technocrats on one side with Flock, and
the other side, Wall Street bankers and
finance. I think when people talk about
the powers that be, {quote} {unquote},
whether you want to call it the deep
state or the Illuminati or whatever,
they often think that they're unified,
okay? In many cases, they do have a
similar shared goal,
but at other times, there's a turf war
going on in the background that doesn't
get talked about a lot, and I think this
might be one of those situations
happening right now. Okay, almost every
single piece of content that I've come
across about mass surveillance
specifically targets Flock, not
necessarily the mass surveillance
industrial complex as a whole. So, I
thought, hmm, that is
very interesting. Could it be a
coincidence?
Maybe. But then I saw MAGA influencers
starting to get involved in the
conversation here. Tim Pool is talking
about how Flock cameras are really just
AI law enforcement. They are building a
system of evil to track normal everyday
people. I honestly I couldn't agree
more. But again, the target is
specifically laser-focused on Flock.
Matt Walsh just did a deep dive a couple
days ago about Flock. And here is Eric
Dantry, another MAGA mouthpiece account
I would consider him, posting about
Flock cameras being vandalized. You guys
perhaps picking up what I'm putting out
there?
There's a bit of a pattern emerging. And
then I came across this reporting from
Tony Ortiz, a reporter from Texas, who
claimed, quote, "At least two
influencers he's spoken to have been
approached with offers of money in
exchange for posting negatively about
Flock cameras on X." So now it's not
just a theory. We're talking about a
possible paid influencer campaign.
Weird, to say the least. And then this
morning, as I was putting this piece
together, I saw that Tim Burchett
announced that he's going to propose a
bill to block Flock cameras. Let's take
a listen.
Hey everybody, Tim Burchett. Um I've
proposed legislation. Here's the bill
to um
eliminate federal funding
and federal agencies purchasing those
Flock cameras. I
find it pretty disgusting. Um
They're pretty draconian, and you can
look that up if you want to know what
that means.
Well, given everything that's happened
in the past few years, few decades quite
honestly, I think most of us do know
what draconian means, but of course I
think the big question that we have to
ask is is he against Flock cameras or is
he against mass surveillance in general?
I don't know for sure yet. But here's
something that we do know for sure about
all of this is that Donald Trump earlier
this year invested millions of dollars
into Axon Enterprise. My spidey senses
are tingling, right? Could we be seeing
some kind of mass eye up against Flock,
basically creating public backlash
against one specific company, the city
council goes, "Okay, no more Flock." The
people are like, "Hell yeah, we got
them." They start to tune out and that's
when they quietly sign a new deal with
Axon. And then this next part is an
absolute doozy. Okay, in 2015
Jeffrey Epstein partnered with former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to
invest in a security tech startup called
Reporty Homeland Security, now known as
Carbon. Yes, Jeffrey Epstein and Israel
is a part of this story as they usually
are. Because guess who owns Carbon now?
That's right, Axon.
November 2025, Axon bought Carbon as
part of their {quote} new 911 network
push. This new $625 million buyout of
the emergency dispatch and
communications tech firm is meant to
help Axon craft a public safety
ecosystem. Again, there is that
buzzword, public safety.
This is crazy, is it not? Epstein could
have made $100 million on secret police
tech investment. Former Israel Prime
Minister Ehud Barak helped the convicted
sex offender quietly invest $1 million
in a police tech startup in 2015. Its
founder said the company, which is set
to be acquired by Axon for $625 million,
wasn't aware of Epstein's involvement.
Sure. I think you're thinking of it like
this. Flock on one side represents this
new wave of technocratic elites, the
Marc Andreessens, Peter Thiels, and Sam
Altmans of the world who are in many
ways now starting to control and decide
what the rules of engagement are. And on
the other side, you have Axon, which is
kind of like the old guard, BlackRock,
Wall Street, Epstein, Trump, who are
saying, "Wait a minute, not so fast. We
still want to rule over the world the
way we used to." So, is Flock being
maybe set up as the public fall guy as
they all shift to a different master
surveillance company? That is the theory
that I'm presenting.
But, I think regardless of whether or
not all of this is just a huge
coincidence or not,
the key takeaway for all of us has to be
that we can't get hung up on Flock or
any other individual company, but we
have to fight against mass surveillance
as a whole. That's the dig for today.
Let me know what you guys think. Am I on
to something with this theory? Sound off
in the comment section below. And just
to reiterate, again, I am against Flock.
I support people fighting against that
company, but I also do think that we
need to be aware of other actors like
Axon as well.
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I think what people are afraid of is the
potential for a mass surveillance state.
Once it's in place and the scope keeps
creeping, or a national emergency comes
in,
then all of a sudden the rules change
and something that's we were told came
into our communities for one reason is
now used for a much more draconian
reason.
I don't believe that what what a Flock
camera is is invasive. I got kind of
freaked out at the beginning where
you're like, "This is what it's like to
feel your privacy invaded. This is how
people feel about Flock."
And I'm like, "I understand that's how
people feel, but that's not what Flock
is." And so, if you're open to debunking
that with me in a fair way.
Sure.
I I don't want your segment to be like
Flop House wouldn't participate because
we have nothing to hide.