Stinks to high heaven! And I thought things were bad here…
An international manhunt is in its fifth day after the murder of an American woman in Ireland, but Irish police have yet to name a suspect or provide any description of the man they are seeking. And that decision is drawing sharp criticism from many, including a former FBI agent and an Irish politician.
Jamey Carney, 43, a New York native who moved to Ireland in 2021, was found dead after suffering head injuries and suffocating in her home in the picturesque town of Killarney, County Kerry, late Monday, according to The Irish Times. The idyllic southwestern town is popular among American tourists.
Before Carney’s body was discovered Tuesday, the man Irish police describe as a “person of interest” had already traveled about 200 miles from Killarney to Dublin Airport and boarded a flight to Turkey, according to Irish police, suggesting authorities knew his identity but chose not to disclose it publicly.
Full article, HERE from Fox News.
‘Apparently’, according to some reports, the reason might be due to a 2015 immigration law protecting the identities of asylum seekers. But anyone with common sense ‘should’ think that a possibility of being a murderer would override that… Or am I wrong?
Of course we all know when the MSM here refuses to identify the perp, it’s an ethnicity issue, but we’ve come to expect that, and just fill in the blank… It’s always those damned Norwegians, right???
In other news, apparently Flock cameras are showing up a few more places than just on ‘official’ vehicles (since when is a trash truck and official vehicle, or should I even ask?) I did do some checking and we have a pair of them mounted to cover a local intersection out in the middle of the countryside… kinda interesting that, since they do not appear to be tied to any network…
Anyhoo…
But we only do license plates… pinky swear!
If you want to find out where Flock cameras are lurking:
https://deflock.org
We have approximately 30 of these things in our municipality, with no consultation of the actual residents before they went in. The question that wasn’t post: “We could do this for {reasons}, but should we?”
There are NONE of these in the medium-sized cities 20 to 30 miles away from our smaller municipality. It’s obvious from this that we’re a test project and a proof-of-concept for Flock to convince other cities around us of their value so they can sell and install this system to them.
Approximately 30 cameras, and about $200K CDN spent by the municipality, and the ask was higher, but council only approved so much (this year, there’s talk about rolling more out with next year’s budget.)
The local police were apparently in on this, kicking in about half of that amount in grants (which they’ll quickly invoice back to the municipality as policing cost increases over the next few years, something the municipal Councillors don’t seem bright enough to realize, or they do, but don’t care, because tax revenue is infinite, right? {/sarc}
The municipality gives us assurances about how the data is only kept so long, and the police can only get access if they get a warrant. Those assurances aren’t assuring at all, because I went and looked up how easy these cameras are to hack. (It isn’t exactly difficult.)
Now imagine your worst enemy with a grudge against you gaining access to a network that can track your movement in your car. They can now monitor and figure out your usual daily pattern. If these cameras weren’t there, that wouldn’t be an option, but they are, and it is. Oh yeah, I’m all kinds of “reassured”.
I’m strongly tempted to put up posters of Sauron’s eye, or maybe the classic Orwellian “Big Brother is Watching You” on each post these things are mounted on. Of course then they’d have video of me doing so.
Lotsa license plates in children’s gymnastics room, on bike paths and on nature trails. We’re all living in a surveillance society.