The summer of 2026 may go down in history as the time in which millions of Americans woke up and realized they no longer live in a free country.

The question is, are they being fed a limited view of reality, in a way that amounts to too little too late?

The old free America has been gone for at least a few decades, but most Americans are just now waking up to that fact. And even now, they aren’t being told the gravity of the problem or the depth to which America has already sunk into the technocratic quicksand that leads to tyranny.

In the summer of 2026, the internet suddenly came alive with stories about the dystopian “Flocking” of America, and the blowback from Americans who still care about and value living in a free society has been intense. Some have taken matters into their own hands and are cutting down Flock cameras. More than 100 cities and towns have canceled or refused to renew their contracts with Flock.

As conservative writer Terry Newton aptly stated in an August 30 article for The Discern Report:

“It is not a cop on a corner who happens to notice a stolen Buick. It is a private contractor building a searchable map of every car that rolls past a pole. Connor O’Keeffe put it cleanly. The government would never get away with dropping a GPS tracker in every glove box. So it rented the next best thing and called it public safety.”

Forgive me for being so black pilled, but I find this sudden awareness to be suspicious.

Flock has been dutifully serving the government’s surveillance needs for nearly 10 years with their AI-powered spy cameras saturating every major highway and increasingly even on minor roadways, in public parks and store parking lots, and they’ve been doing it in an atmosphere of a near total news blackout. Then, once the calendar flipped to 2026, it’s like someone flipped a switch and we have wall-to-wall coverage of the ubiquitous surveillance grid, but only as it relates to one company, the Atlanta-based Flock Group, and its government partners.

Flock cameras are spying on us every minute of every day in real time, with 120,000 AI-powered cameras in more than 6,000 cities and towns watching our every move. They record where you go, how frequently you go there, how long you stay, and other key data points, all of which adds up to establishing the travel patterns of every single American who drives a car. That’s not something that dovetails very nicely with the way American political figures like to speak about this country, always in terms of us being that paragon of liberty and freedom, that shining city on a hill that’s supposed to be the envy of every other country. It’s all fake. We are not much different than China. And people are waking up to it.

Trump, who is easily the biggest mouth in U.S. political history championing how great and free America is, now has the lowest approval ratings of any modern president at 33 percent. He’s a fake and people know it. The 33 percent are basically low-information elderly boomers who get their information from Fox News. Most of them made their money in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, and aren’t affected much by high fuel prices. Most are not affected at all by the lack of job opportunities or the AI/robotics revolution that is rapidly replacing humans with machines in the workplace.

What’s more, we have had endless stories breaking this summer of law enforcement officers “misusing” the data from Flock technology. This is a big reveal in the propaganda war, because the very term, misusing, implies that there is a correct way to use this Orwellian surveillance network.

I broke the story last week along with Jon Padfield that Flock itself has been lying to us about the purpose of its technology. It’s not designed to “keep us safe,” as they say, but rather to create an integrated nationwide “dynamic surveillance network.” The company is very up front about this in its August 2022 filing with the U.S. Patent Office. See last week’s article here.

But I’m also skeptical for another reason about the timing of the sudden media offensive exposing Flock. Not only are they mischaracterizing the technology as basically benign and even helpful in “keeping us safe,” with only a rare instance of a cop “misusing” it, but they are also ignoring the fact that Flock is not the only player in this field.

Motorola, Axon and Leonardo are just as important and these three companies are getting no media coverage at all. All we hear about is Flock, Flock, Flock.

What is Leonardo?

Of these three other companies, Leonardo may be the most dangerous, says Padfield.

“They capture the unique identifiers of every electronic device on you (watch, phone, Bluetooth headphones, tablet, Fitbit, laptop, etc.) and every electronic device in you (pacemaker, glucose monitor, hearing aids, insulin pump),” he said. “They tie your electronic devices to your license plate so they know who those devices belong to. Then if they see my Apple Watch and my AirPods in YOUR vehicle, they make a note of it that we know each other because you are giving me a ride in your car. The more frequently they see our devices near each other, the stronger the relationship.”

That kind of information in the hands of a rogue government, or any government, should concern every American.

But it doesn’t stop there.

“They also collect data from your tire pressure sensors in your vehicle’s tires, so even if they later took down the camera, they could still recognize your car from the electronic signature of your tires as you drive by,” Padfield said.

Padfield is an electrical engineer who worked for General Motors and former staffer of the Indiana Department of Transportation. He knows what he’s talking about.

“Here in Indiana, I can get a new license plate at any time for just $9.50. However, most people only get new tires once every three to five years. Once your tire pressure sensors are tied to your license plate, they are tied to your actual identity. Getting a new plate doesn’t break that connection.”