Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 24, 2021

And life is a suka!! Enjoy your trip!!

;-)

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill

I will choose a path that’s clear

I will choose free will

Especially if you have not prepared a safety net in anticipation of poor decision-making. Fair and free voting matters!

Hey, Carmen is actually acting like a real conservative for once.

Everybody wants to avoid, forgets or thinks its someone’s responsibility to protect them from the 3rd panel.

You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill

I will choose a path that’s clear, I will choose Freewill

Rush

Lotta questions over whether or not we have free will in temporal quantum physics.

That said, Carmen you go grrl.

GQP ‘freedom and personal responsibility…’

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Shortly after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd last year, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) flew a Predator drone over the city in an effort to surveil the ongoing protests against police brutality occurring there.

The drone, which took off from Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota and flew in a holding pattern over protests for approximately 90 minutes, recorded video from a height of 20,000 feet. Now, thanks to a recent Freedom of Information Request, you can watch that video.

The video, which CBP published online Monday, was initially requested by Emily Crose, a network security professional.

Crose told Gizmodo that she filed the FOIA request because “there needs to be attention paid to the ways local policing is being handled” and that she felt the public needed to be aware of the degree to which surveillance was being used on everyday Americans.

“When federal agencies like Customs and Border Patrol can be called upon to surveil local demonstrators without a justification that comports directly with the agency’s mission, it contributes to the ways our communities are over-policed,” said Crose, in a direct message.

“I would also point out that the level of surveillance being done on local communities during protests, particularly in the last year needs to stick in the memory of the public.”

Last year, public disclosures about the CBP drone set off a firestorm of criticism—and led to disclosures about similar aerial surveillance being conducted by other federal agencies.

The incident inspired a debate about federal policing tactics and spurred some lawmakers to send letters to agencies demanding additional information about their practices.

Amazingly, the CBP director at the time claimed the drones were not being used for spying but were instead merely… ✁ ✁ ✁

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https://gizmodo.com/cbp-releases-video-from-predator-drone-deployed-over-ge-1846712785

Just register as a member of the Democrat party. That’ll give you license to do anything you want with no consequences since the mainstream media will be your PR firm…

@gentalemanbill. You have an opinion right out of Fox Opinion and Propaganda Network, OANN, and any other RW source. Sadly, your RW sources have little or no relation to objective truth

Republicans are going to fall a lot further in the next two to four years.

“I don’t blame people for their mistakes. But I do ask that they pay for them.” John Hammond (portrayed by Richard Attenborough) in Jurassic Park (Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment – 1993).

Not only hates to pay for the consequences, but also wants to blame everybody except for herself…

Flutter them wings, Babe.

We have had a least one generation with no concept of “consequences”. This has resulted in, at the very least, a generation of people doing the most outlandish things with no idea that they are dangerous, unethical, disrespectful, illegal, and on and on. One example: a couple in Florida who re-united thirty years after high school graduation (therefore “old enough to know better”) decided to have their dream wedding in a $5M mansion – without the owner’s permission. The house was on the market so this bright pair, which had already been denied permission to use the backyard for their wedding, decided they’d go ahead anyway and use the house for the wedding and reception one day and come back the next for a lovely brunch. Imagine their surprise when, on arriving at the house to set up on the day of the wedding, found the owner, who lived in another house on the property, waiting at the gates for them. On being offered an introduction to the police by the owner, the groom, um, withdrew. I would love to know what they did with their guests when they started to arrive. As I said, no idea of consequences.

“There’s a Spanish proverb," he said, "that’s always fascinated me. “Take what you want and pay for it, says God.’” “I don’t believe in God,” Daniel said, "but that principle seems, to me, to have a divinity of its own; a kind of blazing purity. What could be simpler, or more crucial? You can have anything you want, as long as you accept that there is a price and that you will have to pay it.”

― Tana French, The Likeness

Ah yes, free will, The Creators biggest mistake. Unless it did it to us on purpose for It’s own amusement

Now that sounds like the idiot RWPs I know……………..thank you seldomlystantisfersomething for un moment du verite.