SURPRISING STUFF
The word flock used to refer to a herd of sheep or the members of a church congregation.
Not anymore. Now, Flock means the surveillance cameras crisscrossing the country in search of totally controlling the public through access to the identities of drivers discovered by reading their automobile license plates. Your license plates.
There are now nine Flock cameras operational in Lake Geneva, including outside the elementary school near Badger High School and one near Eastview Elementary. Two are on Main Street, pointing east and west to make sure all plates are read regarding people coming and going through town. There’s one in the Home Depot lot, as well. The cameras read the plates and allow the police to have access to the data while the company still owns the cameras and the data.
Usually, the police agree to allow the Flock people to access driver data to find out drivers’ identities and records, both traffic and criminal. There are now over a million cameras set up across the nation, and those have already read more than a billion plates. What does this portray?
Location of every identified citizen at all times. Denial of school access if criminal records are found to be secretly not up to snuff, and we’re not talking about child abusers here. Any felony conviction might yield the confidential denial of a parent to pick up, drop off, or attend their child’s school for any reason. Las Vegas already has a law that anyone with a felony, for any reason, no matter how old (felonies are on record for life), must register with the police before entering the city or suffer another felony for failing to do so. Only registering one’s vehicle to a formed corporation costs a hundred dollars in Wisconsin, with a twenty-five dollar annually payable filing fee.
Is it worth it to you? You decide.
If a corporate plate is used, then the owners and officers of the company (you) are not revealed, so no negative data is given to the Flock people or anyone else. Oh, and by the way, nobody has to tell you if the Flock data that might be discovered is being used to detain, cite, or prevent you from visiting certain places, like schools or Home Depot or Lowes. Go to Dunn Lumber; they are nicer anyway, or the hardware store in Walworth. Get a corporation going. It’s worth it to sleep at night. Those records out there do not have to be accurate either.
A police standoff in Burlington ended Saturday evening after seven hours.
The standoff ended with one man dead and a woman injured on Saturday, Aug. 29. It all unfolded at a home on Lewis Street, just outside of downtown. A report of an assault brought officers to the residence near Lewis and Herman streets in Burlington around 10:20 a.m. Statements followed the domestic assault. Officers arrived to find that a man and woman had been involved in a physical altercation inside the home. First responders found a woman who had been attacked, and she was transported to the hospital.
The man accused of harming the woman locked himself inside the residence. For about seven hours, officers tried negotiating with the 43-year-old man to exit the home. Police said he had told the victim he intended to die by suicide and had access to firearms. Out of an abundance of caution, authorities issued a shelter-in-place alert for the surrounding area. The Burlington Police Department requested assistance from the Racine County Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team. Crisis negotiators from the sheriff’s office worked to communicate with the suspect, offering him resources and attempting to get him to surrender.
After all efforts were exhausted and law enforcement was no longer able to make contact with the suspect, the SWAT team deployed technology to clear the residence. The suspect was found dead inside. The man’s identity is not being released at this time. Authorities said the man and the woman taken to the hospital were in a relationship.
