Flock Cameras & Data Centers | Tom Renz

One of the pushbacks that I hear from people when I go off on these subjects is that two things, actually.

If you're doing nothing wrong, you don't have anything to hide.

And the other one is you have no expectation of privacy in public.

You have police with body cams.

You have cameras that have been there.

And now all of a sudden we have a new brand of cameras.

What's the big deal? What's your response to that?

Well, you have an expectation of privacy in your fenced-in backyard.

How about through your window? How about through the window of your car? I mean, yes, you do have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a lot of places.

How about what they're doing to pick up your conversations? How about that? How about the fact that they can record your conversations? The idea that you don't have anything to worry if you're not doing anything wrong is absurd because I don't know if anybody's looked at the Code of Federal Regulations recently or at the Mount of Law on the books, but we're well past the point where show me the man and I'll show you a crime.

I assure you, There isn't a person on this planet that if I really wanted to be creative and dig into them, that I couldn't find something to charge them with, right? Because there's so many laws.

You mentioned jaywalking a while ago.

You pick your thing, right? There's always something.

And I hate to break it to the holier-than-thou crowd, but unless you're Jesus Christ, You sin.

I'm a Christian.

I'm a Catholic.

I don't care if you are or you're not.

But what I can tell you is every single person on this planet makes mistakes.

Do you want every one of those mistakes public? Do you want everything you say or do to be public? Are you okay with the fact that they now have microphones in your television sets that record God knows what and send that data God knows where? Are you okay with that? Are you okay with what you say to your wife in private being something that someone can listen into? The idea that we're going to be okay with it because of, well, I don't do anything wrong is absolute absurdity and it's nonsense.

You're not okay.

If that's the case, are you okay with me putting a flock camera in your living room? I'm pretty sure you're not.

Nobody's okay with that.

It's a sell-out, cop-out thing.

And the reason that that's out there is because people keep buying into politicians rather than standing on principle.

And when their politicians that they're fans of sell out, and say, hey, I'm a fan of flock cameras, or hey, if you're not doing anything wrong, what do you got to worry about? They say, well, yeah, that's right.