When administrative governments want to do something, it doesn't matter what, that they know their subjects will not approve, they do two things. First they hire consultants to tell their subjects, from an outside "expert" perspective that what the government wants is better than what these subjects might prefer. Then, as if by magic, some organization will pop up that hands out "awards" to governments who follow the herd, as if any award means they are doing the right thing, even when they are not.
Dunwoody recently garnered kudos from the Center for Digital Government calling out Flock drones and the "Real-Time Crime Center." It is the Flock technology that is of particular interest. Throughout the country.
Flock cameras caught on because it allowed Blue Belly governments, who got spanked on their "defund the police" have found they can use this technology to diminish the police. Are Dunwoody police enforcing traffic laws in your neighborhood? If it cannot be done by technology, particularly cameras, it isn't going to happen. Blue Bellies like it that way. Some complain about a surveillance state invoking images from Orwell's 1984. This is dismissed with the wave of a hand.
Then it got interesting. It was just fine when the targets of surveillance technology was regular Americans for the purpose of keeping them in line. And generating revenue with next-to-no effort. Cha-ching. Come to find out, Flock shares data with the feds, which was fine with local Blue Bellies when the feds were adequately blue too. That changed. CBP (who already had covert cameras of their own) and ICE tapped into the Flock system to do their job which includes controlling the border and giving free foreign vacations to interlopers. Blue Bellies are livid and are pulling Flock cameras.
Ponder that for a moment.
So, the Blue Bellies are all in with surveillance of their subjects for imposing their will on their subjects, but should the feds step in to impose their legal mandate on folks are here without any legal authorization whatsoever. What are they saying? That their priority is to oppress the regular American while protecting folks who should be somewhere other than here. How dystopian is that?
George Orwell, a complex man of contradictions, was an atheist who attended Anglican Church and is buried in an Anglican churchyard. So one has to wonder, is he laughing in hell or crying in heaven?
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