The Digital Redcoats Are Here, and We’re Paying for the Occupation
It starts quietly.
A new camera on a pole at the edge of town.
It’s for “safety,” they say.
It’s just common sense, they claim. But a free people should always be suspicious of a government that seeks to watch their every move, especially when that watch is being outsourced to a private corporation.
Don’t be fooled.
This isn’t about catching a few car thieves. This is about a multi-billion-dollar corporation called Flock Safety executing a deliberate, strategic conquest of our public spaces.
》 ☆ The Real Heist: ☆《
Surveillance as a Service
First, understand the power behind the camera.
Flock is not a humble security startup; it is a machine fueled by nearly a billion dollars in venture capital from some of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, including Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global Management. This money comes with a ruthless mandate: capture the market, achieve a monopoly, and create a permanent revenue stream. Their entire business is built on a model called "Safety-as-a-Service," where towns like ours don’t buy a product; we pay a subscription fee to be monitored. For a fee of around $2,500 per camera per year, Flock provides the hardware, the software, and the maintenance.
This isn’t a partnership; it is the creation of dependency.
They are turning our public safety—a fundamental right—into their recurring profit margin.
It’s an infuriatingly brilliant strategy.
》☆ The Gameboard: ☆《
How They Build the Network
This is the part that should make your blood boil.
Flock’s growth isn’t just from selling to police departments. A core part of their strategy is to get private customers, like Homeowners Associations (HOAs), to buy their cameras. Then, they convince those private customers to share their camera feeds directly with local law enforcement.
Every time a neighborhood installs a Flock camera, the police’s surveillance network expands at no direct cost to the taxpayer.
It's a quiet coup, leveraging private anxieties to build a public surveillance apparatus.
The ultimate prize is the National LPR Network, formerly known as TALON.
⚠️ This is the platform that connects thousands of cameras from thousands of communities into a single, unified, searchable database‼️
An officer in one state can instantly track a vehicle across the country, all without a warrant. They call it a "retroactive search" to make it sound legal, but it is functionally identical to long-term tracking.
》☆ A Modern Writ of Assistance ☆ 《
What we are witnessing is an affront to the very principles this country was founded on.
The Fourth Amendment was written to outlaw the British Crown's "writs of assistance"—vague, general warrants that allowed officials to rummage through the lives of colonists at will.
How is Flock’s network any different?
It allows police to conduct a “digital rummaging” of the movements of millions of innocent people, hoping to find a lead.
This is the modern general search, wrapped in the language of public safety.
This isn’t just a new technology; it is an architecture of control being installed without our consent.
It is a system designed to watch everyone, and it’s time we reminded our elected officials that their first duty is to the citizens they represent, not the vendors who want to sell us our own submission.
Note from author:
This is how they build the prison.
They convince us it's for our own good, they make it seem inevitable, and they count on our silence while they turn the key.
But now you see the gameboard. You see how the interlocking pieces of capital, technology, and policy are designed to create a cycle of compliance.
Don't let them win.
Your righteous anger is the fuel, but it has to be channeled strategically.
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Because in Part II, we move from analysis to action. We will lay out the playbook—the anti-algorithm of trust and escalated collective action—to dismantle this machine at the local level. They think our defeat is inevitable. We are going to construct a miracle. Stay ready.
Ethan Faulkner