“I know a lot of you are worried that these surveillance cameras are from that horrible company Flock that helped ICE hunt, kidnap and kill so many in broad daylight this year—well, they’re not, so don’t worry,” said Mayor Wilson. “These cameras that help ICE and the IDF hunt, kidnap and kill innocent people are from a way more successfully evil $25 billion corporation called Axon that literally designed their Seattle office to look like the inside of the Death Star—Geekwire did a whole photo feature on it, check it out! Pretty cool, fun stuff if you’re a white, rich and privileged enough bootlicker to not be scared by any of it. So, yeah, don’t worry – the cameras aren’t from Flock, they’re from a totally different company that will terrify and enrage you just as much if not more if you read up on them even the tiniest bit.”
Unlike Flock, Mayor Wilson emphasized that Seattle’s new surveillance cameras are from a company that President Trump bought $5 million in stocks from before being awarded hundreds of millions in ICE and Border Patrol contracts.
“If you were worried that these cameras would be owned and operated by Flock, relax – they’re actually owned and operated by a company that’s most likely even more corrupt,” Mayor Wilson said. “So if you seen any crazy online commenters blathering on about how the only difference between Flock and Axon is that the latter might be an even bigger threat to public safety and privacy, don’t worry, they’re 100% correct.”
designed their Seattle office to look like the inside of the Death Star
Only picture I could find
missed that one, thanks.
I highly doubt those quotes are remotely correct
It’s The Needling ;)
Katie Wilson’s admin is such a fucking disappointment. Ran on a very progressive agenda focusing on tackling the housing crisis only to underdeliver on all fronts and backslide to even worse policy than our previous (also quite terrible) mayor.
Aside from this whole debacle, next year the police department is getting a record budget increase while housing and healthcare are getting slashed. SPD was actually accidentally overpaid 13 million dollars for “retroactive raises” this year and there doesn’t seem to be much done about it except for politely asking for it back. The (also quite terrible) city council passed an emergency $300,000 of aid for the influx of trans refugees over the summer and the executive has spent exactly $0 of it.
It’s amazing how much ridiculous incompetence and corruption happens in city governments. It’s the same all over the world.
My own home town of Canberra, the capital of Australia no less, recently had the health department accidentally go a BILLIION DOLLARS over budget.
Nobody can adequately explain how.
Our city has half a million people in it.
So it’s like every one of us accidentally lost two grand behind the couch cushions.
The government that did this is still in office, because the other side would be even worse, based on their own messaging.
To be fair she also has to deal with an entire city of microsoft and starbucks NIMBY’s who’re cool with gay people but still economically right wing. Seattle voter’s want to elect and forget is kinda why the problem persists in the first place; there’s just not really any drive to get anything done because (an increasingly small amount of middle classes) people are generally comfortable with the way things are.
I commented on a different post a few months ago that we need to be vigilant about who is gonna take Flock’s place after all the backlash. Looks like we have a new target.
It doesn’t matter the company. I think we can call them Flock cameras because they do the same thing.
If you tell people “that camera is for the surveillance state” they’ll be clueless. If you tell them “its a kind of Flock camera” they’ll get it.
Theyre called flock cameras now because of the crowds that gather around them
I need to write to this asshole and tell them they can fuck off
Here’s the contact form for Mayor Katie. I dunno if she’ll love to hear from you about this, but I’ll love that she’s heard from you.
Here’s what I dropped off for her. This was kind of dashed-off; Happy to take notes on what I could have done better.
I grew up in Seattle, and though I don’t live there now I am sickened by the mayor’s stance on Axon cameras. We reject this. All of it! Rescind your support for all of this monstrous surveillance-state infrastructure so that Seattle can be an example to the country. Nobody wants corporate “business-as-usual” Democrats anymore, we want real progress.
That will miraculously be significantly less useful than a strongly worded letter from Schumer, which is a depressing reality.
The only person who can fix this is the president along with cooperation from the other branches of government. We are entrenched in a huge amount of legal confinements and our idiotic “left-leaning” leadership is effectively too compromised to deal with a fully compromised right wing AND everything else on top of it.
Thankfully the Republicans who blindly cried about China’s surveillance system voted for this. Surely they can be trusted to know what they’re talking about ever… LOL! I can’t believe there are morons who ever trusted those fucking ghouls in the 21st century, all complete idiots.
I still wrote her. Sometimes you show up to the useless protest anyway, just to keep that part of your soul from going numb. I probably can’t change her, but I can at least deny them the chance to change me.
They supposed to help fighting crime? They didn’t seem to help with $11.4M worth of Nvidia microchips stolen in California.
Those things are only for surveillance of law abiding people who might not approve what the government is doing.
FWIW, she has commissioned a study on how effective the cameras actually are at solving crime. I think we all know the answer is “not very much”, but it will be good to have the numbers.
Those things are only for surveillance of law abiding people who might not approve what the government is doing.
So treasonous criminals.
I tell you, I don’t know much about the mayor of Seattle, but every single story I see that starts with the phrase mayor of Seattle tends to be a bad one. I’m starting to think this mayor fucking sucks.
I’m very with you. At first it seemed like she was going to be pretty good, but… idk about that anymore.
