I’m trying to rename these infernal devices which, for now, have the pleasant name of Flock cameras, like a happy flock of birds flying above you in the blue sky. In reality, they are Outdoor Prison Cameras, or OPCs, for controlling the population in the open-air prison they are turning America into.
This American seen below was hassled by the police for merely blocking a Flock spy camera. Remember, these OPCs are privately owned spy cams. Twitter video link:
Police pull over to arrest Florida man—for blocking Flock camera on public sidewalk.
He sat holding a 12-foot pool skimmer with sign taped on top.
Today all camera saw was sign:
“Down With Flock Cameras.”
A witness offered to help:
“What’s your name? I’ll come bail you out!”
Carl Gunn, age 77, told a local reporter that 2 police cruisers had already stopped by to interrogate him for at least 15 minutes.
“I have a constitutional right to my privacy,” he said.
“I’m a law-abiding citizen, and I don’t need anyone sticking their nose in my business… And if they do, I’m going to chop it off.”
Flock cameras create an interconnected network that logs the movements of nearly every vehicle—without warrants.
Enabling broad surveillance that can be shared across agencies and used far beyond solving specific crimes.
Incident occurred in the Coquina Key neighborhood of St. Pete, Florida.
He doesn’t have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
We have all seen videos of Flock OPCs being cut down by patriots, and we applaud them and cheer them on. We never voted to live in open air prisons, where our every move is recorded and shared between a network of 100,000 spy cameras, all driven by artificial intelligence to seek out potential “criminals.”
Obviously, the potential for abuse is unlimited, beyond psychologically beating us into a condition of “learned helplessness,” where we give up on the very idea of privacy and personal freedom.
I can’t vouch for the message on the image below, but it certainly seems plausible, given that the Israelis mailed out thousands of exploding pagers, and have an explicit policy of assassinating anyone who stands in their way, from the elderly supreme leader of Iran (and his family and neighbors) to, possibly, even Charlie Kirk. And if the Mossad can hack the traffic cameras in Tehran, any bad actors, government or private, can do the same for any range of bad-intentioned reasons with the Flock OPC system.
I know that you’re already aware of the universal spy camera system being installed across America. My goal with this Substack is for patriots to stop calling them by the gentle and melodic name of Flock cameras, and call them what they are: Outdoor Prison Cameras, or OPCs. We never voted for this, these OPCs are a permanent 24/7 invasion of our privacy. They are un-American tools of tyranny, and patriots will resist them at every turn, by any means necessary.
A South African hotelier is believed to have been eaten by a 15ft crocodile after human remains were found inside the swollen reptile.
The animal was shot from a helicopter and airlifted from the crocodile-infested Komati River in a daring police operation before a post-mortem examination was carried out.
A ring was found inside the belly of the 500kg apex predator and is thought to have belonged to Gabriel Batista, 59.
The businessman was swept away in floodwaters while trying to drive across the Komati River in the north-east of the country a week ago.
Investigators will carry out DNA tests on the bones and flesh found inside the crocodile.
. . .
As well as the body parts, six different types of shoes were found, according to Capt Potgieter.
The comments from friends and acquaintances in the USA have been amusing. A surprising number are absolutely horrified that a man who’d just escaped drowning had promptly been eaten by a wild animal. It’s almost as if it was unfair, somehow.
They weren’t comforted by my assurance that in large parts of Africa, that sort of thing happens on an almost daily basis. As for the “six different types of shoes” . . . yeah, I’d say Mr. Batista was far from the only human meal that croc had enjoyed. Local tribespeople were doubtless greatly relieved by the news that it had been caught.
Rural Africa remains a very dark continent, filled with very deadly animals. Actual examples:
A man visits a neighboring village, gets drunk, and decides to walk back to his village along a deserted path at night. Halfway there, a passing leopard finds him and decides that he’ll make a satisfactory supper.
A man goes looking for a lost cow along a river bank. A hippo, grazing on long grass a short distance away, decides that she doesn’t want him (or anyone else) getting between her and the water, which is her security blanket. She bites him in half.
A hunter gets too close to an elephant, which promptly tramples him into pink slush in the mud. He isn’t able to shoot her in time to save himself, and in the stress of the moment, only wounds her.
While she’s recovering from the bullet wound, she kills several local villagers who get too close to her, on the general principle that if a man did this to her, she’s going to presume that any man she sees is going to try to do likewise.
An armored personnel carrier is driving through thick brush and trees. The vehicle commander is standing with his head and shoulders outside the turret, trying to see through the thick growth to plot his course. A boomslang (tree snake) is jarred off its branch by the APC as it brushes against the tree. It falls onto the vehicle commander, bites him (injecting a full dose of poison, which proves fatal) and then falls through the turret hatch into the interior of the vehicle, biting two other soldiers before it’s killed by a rain of rifle butts.
The two survive, but only because it had already injected much of its venom into the vehicle commander. They’re sick for several weeks.
All those incidents were personally known to me. I was nearby when they all happened. That’s the norm in wild rural Africa.
The cities can be a lot tamer, but not always. A few decades ago, I remember two leopards who set up house in the concrete basement and utility spaces of the biggest soccer stadium in Soweto, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
They lived off local cats and dogs. When their presence was deduced (due to the rapid decline in other local pets and wildlife, and the presence of their tracks after rain) the local police were asked to hunt them down and shoot them.
Freely translated and interpreted, the local cops’ reply was along the lines of, “You want us to go into a concrete labyrinth, with no light at all, to hunt two big cats that can see in the dark? Oh, hell, no! Here, take our rifles and show us how it’s done. We’ll watch. In fact, we’ll sell tickets on pay-per-view!”
I’m very sorry for Mr. Batista, and for his family, of course . . . but that’s Africa: and in Africa, the good guys don’t always win. It goes with the territory.
On January 14, Charles Foehner will begin serving a four-year prison sentence.
Yes, New Yorkers, we can finally rest easy. We got him. And by him, I mean a 67-year-old man who poses no danger to society.
Foehner is a retired doorman with the gift of gab, a devoted wife, and a habit of saying “groovy.” He spends his time watching naval history videos on YouTube.
Charles Foehner poses with his wife Jenny Foehner-Speed and their dog Biscuit. Next month, Foehner will begin his four year sentence for weapons charges.Olga Ginzburg for the N.Y. Post
While there are many violent criminals with rap sheets the length of a CVS receipt walking our streets, Queens DA Melinda Katz decided to throw the book at this senior citizen, after he pleaded guilty to owning unlicensed guns.
“The only way I can get out of bed in the morning is to not think about [going to prison],” Foehner told me as we sat in the living room of his Pennsylvania townhouse, where he moved a year ago.
As sun sets on his freedom, Foehner is trying to summon the energy to call the prison consultant, who will prepare him for his grim next chapter.
“I’ve got to really give him a buzz, but I’m so shut down that it’s hard to get anything done. You think, ‘okay, I am going to call’ and the day goes by and I haven’t done it.”
Instead, he’s spending time with his devoted wife Jenny Foehner-Speed and his 8-year-old dog, Biscuit, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. He’s making plans to see loved ones and friends. One of whom is suffering from various maladies.
At 67, Charles Foehner finds himself preparing for a four year stint in prison, while violent repeat criminals roam the streets.Olga Ginzburg for the N.Y. Post
“I don’t know if he’s going to be here in three, four years when I get out. I have friends in Queens who might move. Or they might be dead. I mean, I might not come out,” he said.
He doesn’t know where he’ll be serving his time, but he has one objective: “Survive.” He’s trying to make a plan for his imminent confinement.
“I wouldn’t mind learning to weld. I’d like to become a tutor. I always thought I would be a good teacher.”
Well, the way his case has been handled by Katz has certainly been instructive. And it should enrage anyone with a sense of justice or proportionality.
In 2023, Charles Foehner fatally shot a mugger, who had a long rap sheet. It led police to discover that Foehner, a doomsday prepper had a stockpile of unlicensed guns.Gabriella Bass
Foehner first collided with our criminal justice system in May 2023 when he went out for a pack of cigarettes in the early hours of the morning. Crime in his Kew Gardens neighborhood became a problem after a now-shuttered seedy hotel had opened up in 2017, so Foehner took a revolver with him as protection.
“This isn’t our nice little neighborhood anymore,” he told The Post at that time, noting the brazen drug deals taking place.
But on that fateful night, he returned from buying smokes and saw an unhinged man banging on the door of his building. It was Cody Gonzalez, who then menacingly approached Foehner, demanding a cigarette and his phone.
Foehner, alongside his attorney Thomas Kenniff of the firm Raiser, Kenniff & Lonstein, pleaded guilty to gun charges. Instead of a slap on the wrist, Queens DA Melinda Katz threw the book at the senior citizen.Brigitte Stelzer
“He kept coming closer and clearly he was going to attack me.” Foehner said he pulled out a gun and pointed it at the ground. But Gonzalez didn’t stop. He motioned toward Foehner’s neck with an object and his instincts kicked in. Foehner shot the man dead. The ordeal was caught on security camera.
“I didn’t want to hurt anyone. He left me no choice,” said Foehner.
Charles Foehner is escorted out of the 102 Pct in Queens on June 1, 2023.Gabriella Bass
Gonzalez had at least 15 priors dating back to 2004 and a history of mental illness. Conversely, Foehner had no criminal history. But he is a lifelong gun enthusiast and a doomsday prepper, who had amassed a stockpile of approximately 26 weapons the police found. Only a few were licensed.
“Until that night, I never pointed a gun at anybody. I never had to. I’m not a gun bully…I don’t want power over anyone,’ Foehner said, adding “I believe in the social contract.”
He wasn’t charged in the death of Gonzalez, which was deemed justified, but the DA threw the book at him for criminal weapons possession.
Charles Foehner’s horrific ordeal began when he went to buy cigarettes at 2 am in May 2023.Brigitte Stelzer
Instead of undergoing a costly and ultimately risky trial that could have sent him to jail for 25 years, he took a plea deal.
Foehner’s attorney Thomas Kenniff, who also represented acquitted subway hero Daniel Penny, blamed the city’s “draconian” gun laws that made it difficult for law abiding citizens to legally obtain guns for protection.
Clearly, Katz insisted on exacting maximum pain onto Foehner.
In fact, she heartlessly requested he spend the last few months in Rikers, but the judge granted one last mercy and allowed him to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas at home.
I cannot imagine how anyone in that office believes justice is being served here. Why are we spending tax dollars to let this good man rot in jail? Give him an ankle bracelet, probation or community service.
Foehner acknowledges he should receive some sort of punishment.
Charles Foehner, a retired doorman is facing four years in prison, despite having no other brushes with the law.Olga Ginzburg for the N.Y. Post
“I said to Tom [Kenniff], If they want me to, I’ll start at the Triborough Bridge and I’ll clean to Grand Central Parkway all the way to the Nassau border. As long as I don’t have to go to jail.”
He calls it a political case. A checkmark for Katz that will allow her to boast about getting guns off the street.
Meanwhile, “They’re ignoring the dangerous people committing crimes every day.”
People like David Mazariegos, who beat Nicola Tanzi to death in October after he kindly held a door open for him in the subway. Despite having two open felony cases, Mazariegos was given taxpayer-funded art “diversion” program for repeat criminals.
Self proclaimed doomsday prepper Charles Foehner admitted that he had a stockpile of weapons (pictured here) and should receive some punishment. But at 67 and no criminal record, he should have avoided jailtime.
Charles Foehner, a 65-year-old building resident, shot and killed his attacker on 82nd Ave and Queens Blvd. on May 31, 2023.Seth Gottfried
Or William Credle, who in 2023 sexually assaulted a 14-year-old but was ordered to undergo mental health treatment, only to go on to allegedly rape a 15-year-old in eerily similar circumstances in November. That case is yet to come to trial, but the examples could easily fill this page.
Even worse, Foehner’s social security benefits will stop while he’s in jail, and his wife of 20 years was just laid off from her job at a publishing company after 12 years. They have an online fundraiser to help defray the cost of his defense, but everything still feels so uncertain.
“We’re just sad and devastated,” Jenny told me. “It’s hard to grasp.”
Indeed, Foehner’s cruel and usual punishment is extremely difficult to wrap one’s head around.
Governor Hochul could pardon him, but Foehner has no hope in that. He does, however, still feel guilt.
Charles Foehner and his wife Jenny snuggle their rescue dog Biscuit who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Charles will be heading to prison to serve an unjust four year sentence.Olga Ginzburg for the N.Y. Post
“Whatever the circumstances are, a guy is dead because of me. Maybe I should have taken the beating [that night], but who knows where the beating stops.”
Let’s be honest, Foehner has been taking a beating from the system since he was arrested in 2023.
This isn’t justice. Sending a man like Foehner to prison is a crime in itself.
I’m a big fan of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Somali congresswoman who always speaks her mind. Of course, I’m not a fan because I like her politics. But I do like the fact that nearly every time she speaks out in public, it serves as a warning for freedom-loving Americans that a true threat exists within our own federal lawmaking body.
Such was the case recently when Rep. Omar was caught on camera weighing in on a critical issue that many of us haven’t thought about for a while. In a video reposted on the Texas Gun Rights X page, Rep. Omar enthusiastically shared her views on registration and what always follows registration—confiscation.
“We have more guns in this country than we have humans,” she said in the video. “So, one of the things that is going to be important is to create a registry so we know where the guns are. We know when they go into the wrong hands when they’re stolen. And we can actually start a buyback program. I know that some of the Minnesota legislators have had that legislation, and that’s something that we should be thinking about on a federal level.”
It’s interesting that Rep. Omar would mention a “gun buyback” in the same breath as gun registration. Pro-gun advocates have warned for years that registration always leads to confiscation wherever it has been tried. Thus, anti-gun Democrats have avoided lumping the topics together.
As we’ve chronicled a number of times on TTAG, there are numerous other problems with gun “buybacks” besides the elephant in the room—eventual confiscation. First, they can’t be “buybacks” because the government never owned the firearms they are confiscating through compensation.
They are all gone now but their actions still effect our world. So I still say that WWI was a disaster of the first magnitude to the ENTIRE Western World. Grumpy
The FBI re-arrested a California man accused of firing multiple shots at the ABC affiliate in Sacramento, California over the weekend, hours after the man was first arrested by Sacramento police but allowed to post bond.
64-year-old Anibal Hernandez Santana is facing state-level charges of assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building and negligent discharge of a firearm, as well as the federal charges related to interfering with a federally licensed broadcast statios that led to him being taken into custody not long after he posted bond and left the Sacramento County jail on Saturday.
Though authorities have not officially said what Hernandez Santana’s alleged motive might have been, there are suspicions that the shooting was tied to ABC’s decision to yank Jimmy Kimmel off the air last week over his comments that portrayed the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk as a right-wing MAGA supporter of President Donald Trump.
Variety reports that Hernandez Santana’s social media contains a steady stream of anti-Trump postings, but Second Amendment Foundation Director of Legal Research and Education Kostas Moros says Hernandez-Santana is also a big fan of gun control.
On X, Hernandez Santana has, among other things, spoken out in favor of California’s ban on “large capacity” magazines, advocated for limiting gun sales to single-shot rifles for adults under the age of 25 , and an outright ban on so-called assault weapons.
More recently, Hernandez Santana posted “Where is a good heart attack when we need it the most?? Please Join in my thoughts and prayers for the physical demise of our fearful leader,” and “The authoritarian oligarchy is now complete. CBS+ caving, big law firms in DC, the subservients FBI and AG, university presidents stepping own, fan boys SCOTUS, public radio, ICE goons. We are going to have to ‘fight like hell’. Rules don’t apply if election was stolen. FIGHT!”
To the best of my knowledge, not a single media outlet has reported on Hernandez Santana’s support for gun control, though the Sacramento ABC affiliate shared a post where he claimed to have started carrying a gun after Donald Trump was elected in 2016.
“I haven’t seen [the posts]… It’s not completely uncommon. I mean, I’m on social media a lot and reading comments and from both sides really, there are some comments that I wouldn’t say are extreme, but that show a lot of passion,” said [Hernandez-Santana’s attorney Mark] Reichel. “I understand the concern that people would have, but they’re not uncommon.”
With the FBI now involved, Reichel believes politics are at play.
“If his social media points are considered radical by you, I guess it depends on your perspective. There’s a lot of this stuff that’s said by the President and you’d have to consider that radical also,” said Reichel. “I think the President and the Trump Justice Department and Pam Bondi aren’t going to let this one go by… Of course, they’re going to grab it and try to bring it into federal court as soon as they can because they’ve got somebody who is an educated liberal who they believe shot at the building.”
I know that Reichel has a duty to defend his client, but c’mon now. It’s not Hernandez Santana’s social media posts that landed him behind bars. It’s the suspicion that he fired multiple shots at a television station just a few days after Kimmel was yeeted from the airwaves.
There are plenty of people on the left and the right who’ve taken issue with the implied threats by FCC Chair Brendon Carr to go after ABC and its parent company Disney, but as far as I know none of them decided to take out their frustrations by firing multiple shots at their local ABC station.
Hernandez Santana’s posts on X might help explain his mindset and motive if he is, in fact, responsible for the shooting, but I don’t think anyone has said his “radical” speech amounts to criminal activity in and of itself.
Hernandez Santana is entitled to his views on all kinds of issues, including his support for California’s gun control laws and a desire to see more restrictions on our Second Amendment rights.
But if the news media is going to highlight his prolific posts on X, they shouldn’t hide his many comments in support of gun control while highlighting his animosity towards Donald Trump and the current administration. Hernandez Santana isn’t just an “educated liberal”; he’s a staunch advocate for restricting our right to keep and bear arms who, according to authorities, had no qualms about using a gun of his own to target those he disagrees with.
Editor’s Note:The mainstream media continues to deflect, gaslight, spin, and lie about our Second Amendment rights.
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I’m a big fan of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the Somali congresswoman who always speaks her mind. Of course, I’m not a fan because I like her politics. But I do like the fact that nearly every time she speaks out in public, it serves as a warning for freedom-loving Americans that a true threat exists within our own federal lawmaking body.
