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The Flock Camera Backlash Is Working... (for now)

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All right, what's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video here on the channel and today I'm going to be doing an update video on the Flock Network of cameras that has been getting set up across the United States. I've already talked about this a little bit here on the channel, but I wanted to do another video talking about it because there's been some recent developments that I want to cover and just kind of expand upon and just kind of take a look at where the temperature is with all of this right now. Obviously, last time I made a video talking about this a couple of weeks ago, we talked about how there has been this more growing sentiment of frustration surrounding this entire like Flock Network that's getting set up everywhere. The more that people seem to be becoming aware of what exactly Flock is, what Flock Safety does, it seems like at least the more controversy is being created, which in my opinion is a good thing. I do think it's good that people are finally kind of coming around to the idea that this stuff needs to have something done about it and people are talking about it and just kind of at least getting initiated when it comes to what is going on with this. Now, for those of you who are uninitiated with this entire topic, I'm going to go ahead and give you a brief explanation of what these Flock cameras and what Flock Safety is. So, Flock Safety is a company a private company that is working with thousands of police departments, government agencies, local municipalities across the United States. They're setting up these license plate reader cameras. Your local officials sign a deal with this company Flock Safety and then Flock comes and installs these cameras along the roadways, on the easements and embankments, and they will monitor and then store all of that information. And if you drive around your area, you probably have already seen them even if you don't know necessarily what they are, but they're these new tall black posts that are getting put up along the road. They pretty much always have a camera on them facing the road. It probably wasn't there like 6 months ago. I mean, even in the last couple of weeks, I have been seeing new cameras in my area popping up. So, this is an ongoing thing and it seems like it is accelerating the pace at which these are getting put up. So, at least as of right now, according to online sources, there are anywhere from over 80,000 to maybe even 100 or 120,000 of these cameras that have been set up nationally and they scan your license plate automatically. They monitor details about your vehicle as you travel on the roadways without your consent and usually without your knowledge. The information about your vehicle is then saved to Flock's cloud. They have a data cloud where images of your vehicle, all the details that are, you know, put in the database about you will be stored. It is then shared with thousands of police departments and towns and whatnot. This is done without your knowledge or your consent. So, essentially, when you're driving through your neighborhood and the Flock camera picks you up doing so, all of that info information about you is now being telegraphed to virtually most, if not all of the major police departments and towns and municipalities in your area and across the country. This is a nationalized digital surveillance system. That's exactly what this is. Now, the network is still, like I said, being constantly expanded. There's constantly new ones being put up in areas that have already made deals with Flock Safety. There are new deals that are coming with Flock Safety from municipalities and local governments. So, as this whole thing has kind of continued to go on and people are starting to really kind of realize what it is, what exactly is going on here, they are still installing these cameras and putting them up. And the more that people are becoming aware of them, the more that the details, the fine details on what exactly is being collected data-wise, the data security issues, the more that this becomes publicized, the more people seem to be getting pissed off, right? There are now multiple nationwide grassroots grassroots efforts, both politically and vigilante, to stop this expansion of Flock's Network. You have people showing up at their local city hall meetings. You have people who are petitioning their local governors and other officials and you know, county officials to prevent these things from being installed or to remove them in already installed areas. Now, while people are making headway head waves in the political scene with this entire thing, there is a generally online presence of people who are communicating themselves and even in some instances recording themselves going around and cutting down these posts, vandalizing the cameras, hitting the cameras with lasers to burn the components inside of them, covering them in spray paint, putting bags over top of them, running the whole thing over with their car. And there have been numerous instances now of police departments around the country essentially begging the public for help in finding the vandals of these Flock cameras, which is ironic, right? Now, I I kind of want to expand on that point because I find it actually really funny. So, like I said, a lot of people around and vandalizing Flock cameras and they're doing it in a myriad of ways. It's not just like, you know, there there's one method to doing this. There's a bunch of different ways that people are using, some of them more effective than others. Uh and it's kind of causing a massive headache not even just for Flock Safety, but for all these local municipalities because you have a lot of these government officials who essentially signed over the locals without the locals knowing, you know, making these backhanded deals without the public's knowledge or consent. And then, you know, they they just kind of assumed that things are going to go great. They're going to get their surveillance tools, they're going to get to expand this surveillance network against people, they're going to get some kickbacks probably at some point or make some money off the whole thing as every politician does with all their deals that they make. But, instead of everybody just kind of keeling over and accepting it and you know, just dealing with the ramifications of it, you have people going around and actually doing something about it. And this has led to, like I said, these police are like baffled. They have no idea what to do. I mean, there's so many cameras being vandalized and people are obscuring themselves so well while they while they do it. The local police are having trouble doing anything. And isn't it ironic because the whole reason this whole surveillance network is being set up, according to the police departments, according to Flock Safety, according to the officials that are signing these deals, they are establishing this in order to basically deter criminals. It's being done in order to catch people who are committing crimes and you know, bring the bad guys to justice. And that's supposed to be the reason that you sign over your constitutional amendments. That's the reason you're supposed to give up your right to privacy and the right to travel freely without the government surveilling you. You're supposed to give that up because the Flock cameras are going to catch the criminals. They're going to catch the bad guys. But meanwhile, people are going around vandalizing these cameras in mass and are just [ __ ] destroying them, tearing them down, running them over, painting over them, whatever, right? And they seem to have a whole lot of trouble catching these criminals that are doing this to the cameras. And then, you know, you'd have to think that if these Flock cameras are so successful, if they're so effective at deterring and preventing crime, how is it that they seem to be a magnet for vandals to just come and [ __ ] with and destroy? And they they have to then beg the public for help. They don't go and review the other Flock cameras and figure out what's going on. They don't use the other surveillance tools effectively. They then have to ask the public and beg them to basically be a traitor on their neighbor and turn them in against the whole thing, right? So, really ironic that even though these are all being put up, you know, to monitor us and keep us safe and protect us, they seem to do a really piss-poor job at monitoring, protecting, and saving themselves from I don't know, a teenager with a spray paint can, a guy with a laser he bought off eBay for $80, you know? I don't really know. Now, once again, there's all these claims from Flock Safety and from the police and all these other people that, you know, these Flock cameras being installed are going to deter crime. It's going to save people's lives. It's going to make society safer, bro. Meanwhile, there is no substantial evidence available to prove this claim. There's no like massive study that's been done that is actually, you know, like agreeing with them. There is no actual evidence other than, you know, the the few little instances that they'll put out in the mainstream media where they're like, "Oh, well, the Flock camera saved us this time." And it's always like a simple crime. It'll be like, "Okay, there was a shooting in this area." or whatever, right? And then it'll be like, "Well, the Flock camera helped us figure out which direct direction was going." And then you look deeper into these news stories every time and it'll tell you about how there were four eyewitnesses that gave details to the police on scene. Yad yad yad. But it's always the Flock camera, you know, the the Flock camera helped us save the day and break the case. And it's clear every time that you see this in the news why it's being mentioned, what it's there for. It doesn't even necessarily have to be true. They can just kind of, you know, mildly attribute that a Flock camera was nearby and they can just be like, "Man, the Flock camera figured it out for us." And you're supposed to just take it at face value. You're supposed to just accept that explanation, you know, on paper, no sort of thought about it. You just kind of take that information in, you don't parse it whatsoever, you just deal with it, right? So, the unfortunate reality of that though is while the mainstream media is running coverage for them, your local government is running probably coverage for them if they're in your area, you know, Flock Safety is out here trying to explain themselves away. There are several confirmed and searchable instances where police officers have already been caught misusing Flock's cameras and misusing the network in general. There's police officers out here stalking and harassing their ex-girlfriends and their ex-wives using the Flock cameras. There's people using these things to extort the locals out of money and whatnot, and you've got police officers who are using it to stalk their family members and [ __ ] like that. And it it's not one instance, it's not an isolated event. This is happening, it seems like all across the country, numerous different states. You have police officers already being caught abusing this technology, and yet again, you're supposed to just believe that because they vaguely attributed a couple crime cell solvings to it in the mainstream media, all of a sudden, oh wow, this is making us safer. It's all about making our lives better. And there's been instances, too, where, you know, the Flock camera will read somebody's license plate wrong, you know, maybe it'll think that there was an eight where there was actually a two in your number or whatever. And as a result, police have gotten notifications from the Flock network, like, "Hey, there's a violent criminal driving here. We caught his license plate. They'll go pull this person over at [ __ ] gunpoint." And it turns out that it was an innocent person, the Flock camera made a mistake, it read the number wrong. And but do you think that saves that person from being pulled over, dragged out of their car by the police at gunpoint, you know, possibly shot and killed? I mean, these are instances where police are responding to what they believe to be a potential casualty incident, right? They believe they're responding to a violent criminal who might try to cause them harm, and it turns out it was just a camera making a [ __ ] silly little mistake. And maybe it's your grandma or your mother just driving to go get groceries. Next thing you know, the cops have her outside the car at gunpoint with a 556, talking about some, "Let's see your hands," right? So, apparently though, you know, these little oopsy daisies, they they got your nose or whatever, you're supposed to just ignore how they continue to happen almost at a rate that seems higher than actual crimes being solved. And yet you're supposed to just blindly trust the tech, blindly trust the company. Oh, sure, you know, they're not going to violate my constitutional rights. They're not going to try to abuse me with this technology. Surely this is all about keeping me safe. I mean, the government, the private corporations, the billionaires, the Epstein elite class, all these people up there in the top like 0.5% of society, right? They've done a really good job at keeping me safe. They've done a really good job at making sure people are having good lives, simple lives that are safe, they're in society just being protected, right? It's just actually ridiculous. Like, to even accept any of these terms that they're trying to give you at face value, to accept really any of these explanations, like, you have to do such [ __ ] psychotic mental gymnastics that it is almost inconceivable to me how people actually come to the conclusion that this is a good thing. I mean, I guess if your mom works for Flock or something, I can get why you'd support it, you know? Like, if you're the CEO of Flock, I can get why you think you're a cool guy or whatever, but you have just like routine everyday Americans who are like actually just ignoring this as if this isn't a violation of the Constitution and obvious overstep. People are just ignoring it if not outright defending it, you know? Now, there is some good news, okay? And the good news is that with all of this pressure, with all of the work that people have been putting in, both legally and not legally, uh to do something about the Flock cameras, there has been some progress made in very specific areas. Like I said, there has been a lot of work done by Flock and by other companies similar similar to Flock to basically set up these cameras and to set this whole thing up and to get really in tune with the government, but at the same time, there is some of these municipalities and cities and departments that are now re-reviewing if not allowing their terms to expire with Flock Safety because they realize, like, when the people around here find out what exactly we're doing, A, they're just going to vandalize the cameras. And let's be real, that is probably genuinely the most effective way to really do something about it right now, sadly, is to just vandalize the [ __ ] out of the camera because not only are you sending an obvious unavoidable message by doing that, but you're literally forcing the municipality to review the constant cost that is being associated with the new cameras. Like, and even if Flock is going out there and replacing them for free, they can only do that so quickly and so many times before it just becomes fiscally irresponsible for them as a business to work in certain areas. Like, if you're going out and replacing a $3,000 camera setup every 2 weeks at the same intersection and you're not even really getting anything out of it. Not only is the local government eventually going to realize like, all right, we're pissing people off and wasting money with this, but you're wasting money as a private company with limited resources, too. I It just When people start doing that, I mean, it just gets to a point like, okay, well, nobody is going to win in this situation as long as people are doing that other than the people doing it. So, there is just a few weeks ago a really big news story, actually probably the biggest news story of this type. Uh it was actually involving the Los Angeles Police Department, which I'm not going to lie, they need all the good press they can get. They have had a horrible run at it these last few decades. They are not known uh for being an awesome department, but they became the most notable for sure case so far of a police agency or department or local municipality halting their agreement with Flock Safety. So, they were citing, I would say, valid concerns about the sharing of data, the privacy details of the whole thing, the data ownership. Obviously, Flock is keeping all of the data that they're monitoring on their own private servers as well, right? So, generally, what these Flock cameras were providing became enough of a nuisance to people, became enough of a controversy, that they just decided to let the terms go void. So, there was a 3-year agreement signed back in 2023 by the LAPD. As a result, they had about 140 operational Flock cameras under their guidance in Los Angeles that have now basically been allowed to expire. Now, the thing is that I don't know if people are talking about or not. Are we absolutely certain that when something like this happens, like in LA, where the police in the local areas like, we're not going to renew the deal, [ __ ] that, is Flock just still running these cameras even though they're technically no longer in agreement? I mean, who really knows? Like, if the police department loses access to the cloud or the data or whatever because the deal expires, who independently is able to verify that these cameras are are still operating even though there's no real legal basis for them to. Obviously Flock Safety in their best interest would keep the cameras on. It's more data for them to farm into the system and sell and more use cases to promote. But who is to say that these cameras aren't still on? But I mean even though they I don't know. Like even though that is a possibility I guess, it is good news to see that at least you know somebody is standing up to this whole thing and and at least questioning what's going on. A lot of the times these deals that were signed I feel like weren't really second guessed. They weren't really critically thought about. It was just mostly local politicians, police chiefs, whoever right making the call knowing that it was going to benefit them personally. It was going to benefit them primarily. And I think that's why a lot of these deals were made. Now Los Angeles is not the only area that is re-determining their whole strategy with this thing. As of me making this video, so far 82 communities throughout 28 states have terminated their agreements with Flock Safety or they at least chose to not renew any of the terms that they had previously signed once the contract expired. Now to me and to anyone else this should show that with enough pressure, enough awareness, enough local civic participation to the cause, right? People can get their communities of really any size to terminate these agreements. If a city of like 8 million people or however many people are in Los Angeles is capable of doing this and you know halting this whole thing at least from what we can tell here, there really shouldn't be anything halting like a 30,000 people strong town in Kansas from getting together and being like, "Look, we don't want these [ __ ] Flock cameras. Keep it out of our county." Now like I said, there's people who are doing it the legal political way and then there's people who are just trying to cause chaos until that is what actually sparks some sort of change here. And personally I agree with both takes. I agree with doing it either way because at least these people are doing something. At least these people are making their voice heard whether it is convenient to the corporations or not. These people are doing something about their constitutional rights being eroded. And it is going to be that work that people are doing out there in the streets, literally, that is going to really turn any sort of public opinion. Because, you know, we can make a YouTube video like this. I can sit here and talk about the the the cons that we're going to see from having these deals all over the place. I can talk about all the different use cases that show you like this is dangerous as [ __ ] We shouldn't be doing this, right? But, at the end of the day, until people are scaring their local government into compliance, until people are vandalizing the cameras and sending enough of a message like, "Hey, [ __ ] you. This is America." I mean, what's really going to change? Bitching on the internet's not doing much. So, I really do admire and I do encourage the people who are doing these, who are who are standing up for not even just themselves. People who are doing this are standing up for you, too. And that's what a lot of I've seen people criticizing these people, [ __ ] on them like, "Oh, these people are stupid. They're risking going to jail. Why would you risk going to jail over this?" Like, this is a literal struggle for your constitutional rights. You know what I mean? This is beyond just like petty theft or or vandalism. This is literal political activism that is designed to keep you from being monitored in a surveillance state. So, when these people are getting in trouble or, you know, going and doing this [ __ ] they're not just doing it for themselves. It's not just some little like vanity project, a little ego stroke. This is about protecting everybody and making sure that everybody doesn't have to deal with this. And to me, that is honestly quite admirable. That is a very good thing to do, even if they are risking a lot of personal consequence, right? So, So, on the screen now, want to go ahead and take the time here to show you an example of what these automatic license plate readers are identifying when you drive by. Go ahead and look, you can already kind of see it yourself. It correctly identifies his entire license plate. It realizes what state it's from. It gets the full plate number, so it has all of that info. It correctly identifies the make, model, and color of his vehicle while it's traveling. It identifies that the vehicle has a back rack attachment. I assume that's not stock. I don't know too much about this particular vehicle though, but if it's able to notice that and point it out, that means it is capable of noticing vehicle modifications. So, if you have any like special modification on your vehicle that is noticeable to these things, it correctly identifies the NFL team sticker the guy has on his window. It's a Raiders sticker. Uh it even has the GPS coordinates, the date, and approximate time on the HUD. So, just from this image alone, you could tell a lot about this guy. You could tell his daily routines, what roads or routes he takes to and from work or home. You can see what his favorite sports teams are and what his personal interests are. You can see what state he lives in or is registered from. You can see the date, time, and GPS location of exactly where he was. You can tell a lot from these cameras. It's not just reading your license plate, seeing if you're a felon or a a convict or whatever, seeing if you have active warrants or whatever. It's not just doing that. It is literally farming information about you as a person, about your personal details, and your personal routine that it is then saving and sharing without your consent nationally with this entire database. Now, keep in mind too, if you're someone who does like the personal bumper stickers, I see this a lot on people's vehicles, you know? Uh they'll they'll have things like uh "Oh, my kid is a straight-A student at Lincoln High School. Proud mom. Uh proud Ohio State mom. Graduated from Toledo University, class of 2004." You know, [ __ ] like that, right? People put these stickers on their car that realistically give off personal details and information that maybe they're not aware of. And if you're driving past these Flock cameras, you best believe it's catching all of this, too. So, it's going to know your car, your make, model. It's going to know where you're going. It's going to know what time, what part of the day it's being done at. It's going to know where your kids go to school. If you're one of these people, you put like political bumper stickers, I see people with like the Hillary 2016 sticker or the Trump 2024 sticker, right? If you have any of that, it now knows your political affiliations, too. All of this information, whether you consent or know about it or not is being saved and monitored constantly by this company in an effort to elude the Constitution in an effort to monitor you, monitor your habits, monitor your routines, monitor your daily life without your permission or consent. And it is a national database. This is not It's not like just your local police know, you know, it's not like you're driving through you know, any town USA and only the Flock cameras in any town USA are sharing info with the any town police department. you are being essentially monitored by the entire police state of the United States that is actively participating in this program wherever you're at in the country without your permission or consent. Now, if you have watched some of my prior content, you may also be aware of my video responding to the Palantir manifesto. If you have not seen this video, I recommend that you watch it after this one. I think it's a pretty good video. But in that video, if you have watched it, you'll see where I'm going with this, okay? Now, these private tech companies like Flock Safety, Palantir, all these other companies that are building these surveillance networks, these AI monitoring systems, working with the federal government, things like that, right? They all have the same end goal. All of these companies are trying to obviously make the most amount of money possible. They are private companies and that is only done if they can herd you up like cattle and put you under these cameras because they will be able to extort the government and the local governments out of basically free money. They will be getting taxpayer money that will always exist and will always be a guaranteed income source basically to monitor the taxpayers. Do you know what I mean? To keep the taxpayers in check. That is why this all exists. These are control mechanisms of the state that are masquerading as corporations prioritizing safety. They are literally building the security and monitoring apparatus that the federal government that is already spying on you is going to use to then lock you into essentially a permanent surveillance state altogether. I mean, you've got companies like Palantir, they're building a nationalized database software for the US federal government that will combine the records of every person, you know, your driving, your tax info, your voting history, your your government criminal record, things like that. These will all be combined into one folder on you, right? It'll be a unique profile monitored and updated by AI. What do you think inevitably is going to happen with all of this information from Flock and all these other company and security corporations? What do you think is going to happen with that info? You think that's not going to end up in the government's databases, too? You think the government is not going to have a profile that will now link all of your bank and tax information to your driving record history, to your criminal record history, to your voting record history, to your social media profiles that they have indexed, to all of your phone conversations and emails that they've been monitoring through the NSA, from any political opinion or maybe unsavory or insensitive thing you say on the internet, for any unendorsed opinion that you have that goes against the government. They will have all of that in a database. They will have everything about you right there at a click of a button. And they will be monitoring and watching every single [ __ ] thing you do. When you're at home and using the internet, they will be monitoring your social media. They will be monitoring your internet search history. They will be monitoring your keystrokes. Whenever you're on the phone talking to your buddy, they're saving your phone call or your text messages or your emails. When you're driving down the road to and from work or to the grocery store, to the doctor's, or to the dispensary, or to the liquor store, or to the park, or to your kids school, that will be monitored and saved in this database. The time of days in which you're active, awake, and asleep, those will be monitored and added to your profile. There will be a comprehensive database that knows every [ __ ] thing about you. And the government will have full access to your life. And then from there, where does it go? They digitize currency so that all of your transactions are monitored and recorded. You can't pay cash and ever avoid being monitored. They will put cameras and monitoring software and kill switches in your car so that if you're doing something that the vehicle manufacturer or the government thinks is wrong, you know, maybe you're speeding or you're not using your turn signal properly or you looked at your phone for a second, something, right? If you do anything that they deem wrong, they can shut your car off. They can just [ __ ] stop you in the middle of the road. And then the police can show up because the flock camera knows where you're at. This is where things are heading and people don't want to hear it because it's scary. The idea that all these dystopian sci-fi 1984 kind of, you know, fake realities as we thought they were, they may be the actual world we live in, that scares people and I get it. Like it's not comfortable to think about. This isn't awesome, it's not fun, it's not like an Orwellian society is something we're all jumping yippee yippee, you know, giddy about, but that is where we're at. That's where we're [ __ ] heading. The ball is actively rolling toward the pins and we're just like all watching, you know, besides the people actually breaking cameras and doing [ __ ] Most of us are just what? I mean, I don't give a [ __ ] right? What do what do I care? Well, you should care. You should care. This is important. This matters. This This is beyond just some like, oh, well, maybe it'll go away in a week. This is an active years-long, multi-year, multi-agency, government, private corporation partnership to destroy the Constitution, to erode more of your rights, to lock you into a society you can't even begin to [ __ ] imagine, right? We hear all the time, I feel like here in the United States about like China and North Korea and Iran and these places around the world, these dictatorships, these, you know, communist countries, whatever, right? Where the government is actively monitoring you. I mean, in China, they've got a social credit system where if you jaywalk and the cameras pick it up, they deduct your credit score. It make it harder to get a loan or buy a house or whatever, right? And the media will cover it here in the United States and they will rightfully call it oppressive and servacive and just disgusting, right? They'll be like, this is [ __ ] wild. This is insane that people live in this kind of [ __ ] over in China. But then actively the US government and its allies in the private sector are rolling out the same level of government technocracy that we would see in somewhere like China or North Korea or whatever, right? And people are genuinely trying to tell you it's about safety and security and protecting you and trying to Oh, well, they've got it bad over in North Korea, didn't you know? They've got it bad in Iran and China. Like, yeah, I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that, you know, there's a lot of elements of life there that are way worse than here, but in terms of this specific issue, I hear a whole lot of media pundits and I hear a whole lot of people talking a whole bunch of [ __ ] about China and all these other countries spying on people. And oh, in the UK, you get arrested for hate speech just by talking. You know, and I get it. Like, yeah, sure, valid, but what about here? What about in our own backyard where they're implementing the same [ __ ] thing? What about the cameras outside of your kids' school that is watching people go in and out of the school, right? Like, they're doing the same [ __ ] thing here. They're implementing their own version of the system here, but people are too busy talking about it elsewhere, you know, talking Oh, it's it's bad over here over insert X. Uh it's bad I I heard on the news it's not too hot over there. It's just like, where are we even going with all this, man? Like, uh So, what does it come down to here? Obviously, the mainstream media, the government uh Flock, all these other companies uh kind of involved in all of this racket, right? They all have a lot to gain by trying to brainwash you. They have a lot to gain by trying to trick you into thinking that you will genuinely be safer if their products are implemented, but as we all can very clearly see and tell, that is not the case. Like, the world is not getting better because Flock cameras got put in, right? Has the murder rate been dropping in any of these massive cities and it's been due to the Flock camera I feel like we hear all the time about, you know, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, uh all these different places around the country where gun crime is just [ __ ] out of control, people are getting killed, there's gangs, whatever, right? How come the Flock safety cameras haven't made Chicago a safe haven yet, right? How come the Flock security cameras haven't made New York like walking through Utopia? I mean, if we're making people so safe and it's so effective and the technology is so great, why is America still the way it is? Why are all of these things that are obvious problems, why are they still going on? Where's all the safety and security? Where's all the privacy and protection that we're all supposed to get from this, right? It's because the obvious truth that is being buried behind a million miles mountain tall of lies is that this is all [ __ ] The media is being paid to promote this [ __ ] They're talking about these flock the they the police attribute a Flock camera to pulling over a suspect who was illegally whatever. It's all being done to trick you and brainwash you. So that if you read, you know, eight news stories that say that, you'll subconsciously start believing like, okay, well, the Flock cameras are working. They're actually making me safer. But in reality, they're making you less safe. If you're the ex-wife of a police chief, he's using it to [ __ ] stalk you and find out where you're going. If you're a local who maybe has a number that could be easily misread, you're getting pulled out of your car at gunpoint because of a [ __ ] reading error by the camera. Yet, you're being told how safe you're going to be because of it. You're being told with glee and giddy, oh, you're going to be much better off, bro. Just trust me. And of course, who do you have to trust? The government? These private companies that have been [ __ ] your eyeballs out your entire life and obviously are trying to farm you for money like cattle? Those are the people you got to put your trust in that this is going to go well. So, I'm making this video because I want people to be aware. And even if you're not going to go out and vandalize Flock cameras, it it's in the hopes that maybe you'll talk about it with your friends. Maybe even if it's in passing, just like, hey, have you guys noticed these Flock cameras and all that [ __ ] This is obviously a big scam. They're trying to ruin our rights. They're trying to turn us into [ __ ] cattle, man. Like, the more that people are talking about it and bringing awareness to it, the more people are actually stepping up to do something about it. And the more that people are stepping up to do something about it, the more likely I feel like a lot of these communities are, as we've seen dozens of times now, to just cancel, to just stop this, because that is still an option. We still can go back. We still can erase this [ __ ] and not make it the status quo. And of course, if we do somehow manage to win this fight and we, you know, get Flock shut down or whatever and then they stop, I mean, this is not the last time that we will have to worry about some [ __ ] like this. This will be a problem again in the future. They're not just going to take their L and walk away in salt. They will keep trying to push this [ __ ] onto people, but that is the part of society that I feel people have mostly forgotten in the modern era. You have to actively participate in a society for it to be functional. We need people to actively be aware of what's going on in their communities, actively voting with that information in mind, collaborating with their, you know, neighbors, their friends, their families on this stuff. People actually can stop this [ __ ] from happening. You just actually have to make a fuss about it. You can't just, you know, wallow in pity and just hope that it's going to go away, because that's not how this works whatsoever. Anyway, with that being said, thank you guys for watching. If you did enjoy, make sure to leave a like. Subscribe if you're brand new around here on the channel. Follow me over on Twitter and Twitch @SubToOptimus. Make sure to check out ShopOptimus down below. 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