I’m getting real pissed off seeing these cameras everywhere. How are we allowing this.
Because not enough people are heading out in the dead of night with dark nondescript clothing, a large mask, some small tools, and smashing the ever-loving fuck out of the very unprotected cameras.
Someone around my area has been going out and riding a generic dark colored mountain bike and destroying some of the cameras in the area. Cops sitting to watch them kind of defeats the purpose of them and they’re largely left alone, and if they have hidden cameras to watch them, they aren’t capturing enough info to lead to an arrest.
I am in no way advocating that people bring a hacksaw and/or cordless sawzall to pull the poles down, crack open the solar panel housing, and cannibalize the battery and solar panel to reuse with mesh radios to help resist illegal occupations and state-led domestic terrorism.
Uh, hey don’t add description to the person or bike or anything. These systems already use AI deductive algorithms to identify. Protect at all costs. Or introduce “noise” and help out.
We don’t really have a media any more. And people generally huddle around what little nugget of safety they have inside their own homes, trapped by the fear of losing it.
We haven’t had media since at least William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.
The land of the free and the home of the brave I think not.
Never was.
Perhaps most ominously, when issuing the BOLO the chief declared “This is MYOC,” meaning “make your own case” — which in turn meant essentially, “there is no arrest warrant for him so look for any reason to stop him” and, as the deputy police chief at the time put it, “You need to build your own probable cause, your own reasonable suspicion.” As my ACLU colleague and head of the Kansas ACLU Micah Kubic put it, issuing a BOLO on someone for putting up posters is “both a rejection of the First Amendment, and a really ridiculous misuse of resources.”
