IN AMERICA, we have a First Amendment right to film in public. IN AMERICA, we are at war with a deep state sending armored MASKED goons into our cities to execute “observers”. IN AMERICA, “the land of the free, and the home of the brave” we will not let “them” execute us for being Americans! ~MeridaGOround // “Citizen-journalist”. EXCERPT, NYTimes: The nation’s founders worried that if the state had a monopoly on weapons, its citizens could be oppressed. Their answer was the Second Amendment. Now that our phones are the primary weapons of today’s information war, we should be as zealous about our right to bear phones as we are about our right to bear arms. To adopt the language of Second Amendment enthusiasts, perhaps the only thing that can eventually stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a camera. More than 25 years ago, the science fiction writer David Brin foretold this exact crossroads. In his 1998 book “The Transparent Society,” he painted two alternate snapshots of a futuristic city festooned with tiny, ubiquitous cameras. In one scenario, the government uses the devices to monitor residents in an Orwellian police state. In the other, citizens can look at the live footage from any camera to watch out for one another and to keep tabs on the police, resulting in a just and fair society. The difference between oppression and liberation, he wrote, is, “Who will ultimately control the cameras?” Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/opinion/minnesota-minneapolis-phone-ice-shooting.html