https://freerepublic.com/tag/1984truth/ en-us Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:52:05 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4393621/posts In a year as chaotic, violent, and economically destructive as this one has been, it is interesting that, to many Americans, the great villain of 2026 is turning out to be a traffic camera.But, indeed, we are seeing visceral, cross-partisan opposition to so-called Flock cameras—named after the leading manufacturer of these automated license plate readers—take hold in communities across the country. And that opposition is, to be sure, entirely legitimate.Flock’s camera networks are based on the idea that, while it would obviously be illegal and unconstitutional for law enforcement at any and all levels to put GPS trackers in everyone’s... The Libertarian Institute https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4393621/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:52:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393561/posts On Dec. 13 last year, a stranger in a Brown University bathroom noticed a man dressed head to toe in black, wrong for the weather, mere hours before that same man opened fire on Brown University’s campus, killing two and wounding eight before vanishing. Investigators had almost nothing: no name, no plate, just a tip describing a gray Nissan with Florida plates. But that was enough: Providence police ran it through a network of more than 70 Flock Safety cameras, which reached back through 30 days of history, and found the car had passed 14 times since Dec. 1. “We... Fortune https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4393561/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:14:19 GMT