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Libertarian: How Flock Advances Freedom
“Critics of Flock and ALPR technology, predominantly libertarians and leftists, say that the cameras create an unconstitutional system of ‘mass surveillance’,” observes Sam Raus at City Journal. But “Neither response advances liberty,” as “public order is a foundation of our freedoms, and securing it helps keep us free.” “In countless instances, these cameras have served justice and upheld the liberty of law-abiding people,” like baby abductions. They helped catch a “a mass killer in Oregon responsible for five deaths in a remote, rural location.” But do watch these utilizing the tech: “Flock may represent a new and unfamiliar application of technology,” however “what matters is whether governments are using these tools within clearly defined and sensibly designed legal limits.”
Iconoclast: Inside Fake ‘Climate Science’
The advocates at World Weather Attribution declare that the Aug. 26 catastrophe within the Himalayas “was the result of human-caused global warming,” fumes Roger Pielke Jr. at The Free Press. Yet “WWA scientists have now” completed this “more than 120 times since its founding in 2014: They issue a press release and technical report after a significant weather event,” then “purport to explain how much climate change has tilted the odds for such events.” Media eat it up, however WWA does no “legitimate analysis that would actually link the weather event to climate change. They simply assume it.” Want to show that “increases in global patent applications” worsened “a 2019 typhoon in Japan”? Pielke has used “the WWA’s attribution methodology” to take action. Beware: The WWA’s witchcraft could quickly be “displacing legitimate climate science. which to date has been assessed periodically and authoritatively by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
Optimist: Quit Teaching Kids To Fear the Future
“The picture of a dying planet bears little resemblance to the measurable world around us” certainly: “The Earth is getting greener” — but over half of 12,793 Americans aged 16 to 25 in a single survey “said climate change made them hesitant to have children,” marvels Frank Lasee in The Hill.” Such issues shouldn’t be “reasons to surrender.” Past generations “faced world wars, depressions, and nuclear standoffs,” however their “human ingenuity cleaned our air and rivers, tripled crop yields, cut extreme poverty by two-thirds, and greened a massive share of the planet.” Parents, “two generations have been taught to fear the future. Let’s teach the next one to build it.”
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Eye on Taiwan: Keep on Deterring Xi
“When President Trump returned from his Beijing summit in May, he said the situation with Taiwan should ‘stay the way it is,’” remembers Jason Hsu at The Wall Street Journal. Ahead of Xi Jinping’s arrival on the White House this week, “expect more reassurance, talk of stability, and an emphasis on mutual respect,” however don’t “assume China’s posture in the Taiwan Strait hasn’t changed much”: In reality, “Beijing is on the march.” For years, China has encroached on the island democracy through “‘salami slicing’ tactics in which no single act seems to merit war.” With each “new encroachment,” Xi redefines the “status quo” that each nations then “pledge to preserve.” “The cumulative effect is a weakened Taiwan being slowly coerced into surrender.” “ ‘Stay the way it is’ isn’t sound policy.”
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Border beat: ‘Abolish ICE’ Really Is the Agenda
The rallying cry “Abolish ICE” reveals “Democrats are increasingly, and openly, committed to undermining the rule of law across the land,” Jenny Beth Martin argues on the Washington Examiner. “To too many” of them, not simply “the far-left fringe,” the phrase is “a promise.” Notice: “All but seven Democrats in the House voted against” funding the Department of Homeland Security in any respect this 12 months so they might “block funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection.” “Voting to defund federal immigration law enforcement efforts is as extreme as it gets — it doesn’t just contribute to lawlessness at home, it goes further, to erode national sovereignty as it weakens our border security.” Voters “should remember that” in November.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
