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Without public vote, without transparent debate, and without clear consent from the people, a mass surveillance net has slowly woven itself over Warner Robins, Georgia. Through contracts with FLOCK, a for-profit intelligence corporation, automated license plate readers now log the movement of everyday residents under the well-marketed guise of “public safety.”
This escalation did not happen in isolation. Residents have not forgotten Operation Rolling Thunder—a sweeping, militarized police action brought to War-Town through federal grant partnerships for H.E.A.T. (Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic) vehicles. That event turned local roadways into a staging ground for an overwhelming show of state power, prompting accusations of policing-for-profit and civil liberties violations. And just like FLOCK, officials attempted the same familiar maneuver: blame shifting, claiming the city was merely a passenger in decisions they themselves helped facilitate.
What began quietly has grown into a system capable of tracking the innocent as if they were persons of interest—creating a digital record of movement, association, and private life that the Fourth Amendment was written to protect.
In Episode One: City Council Collusion, Daniel Louis Crumpton takes listeners to the public moment when these concerns were finally dragged into the light. This opening installment features raw, unfiltered footage of Daniel and other residents speaking before Warner Robins City Council during Citizens Comments, warning officials that outsourcing police power to private corporations is not safety—it is the privatization of surveillance and a constitutional bypass. Some residents also confront council members about their role in enabling Operation Rolling Thunder, demanding accountability for the normalization of police-state tactics in their own community.
The council’s response? A now-familiar sequence of political theatre:
- Canned-ham talking points about “protecting the community”
- Blame-shifting and procedural finger pointing
- Virtue-signaling to appear compassionate while ignoring substance
- And, yes, statements from council members such as Charlie Bibb, who seemed disturbingly comfortable treating privacy as a negotiable commodity, rather than a natural right.
Daniel answers this posture with scorched-earth precision, exposing how easily officials dismiss their duty to defend the people’s liberty once corporate convenience enters the conversation—and how patterns of militarized enforcement and data-driven policing are merging into a single, unaccountable apparatus.
Watch Episode One Now:
🚨 What This Episode Covers
- Daniel’s firsthand account of trying to halt the spread of FLOCK systems
- On-the-record council footage and resident testimony
- Discussion of Operation Rolling Thunder and federally-funded H.E.A.T. deployments
- The legal & constitutional stakes of privatized law enforcement tech
- How “public safety” rhetoric is used to normalize surveillance
- Why residents must refuse to become data points in their own hometown
📣 Take Action
If you believe privacy is a birthright—not a permission slip—get involved:
➡ Join the organizing hub: Stop FLOCK Surveillance in Georgia (Facebook Group)
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