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Hey, what's going on guys? Welcome back to the Mike Force Podcast. I just did a post on my Instagram Ike A. Glover talking about some of the issues I'm dealing with physically. And it was a post of my son next to a picture of a younger, more healthy version of myself during the USock sniper comp. So this was 10 years ago. 10 plus years ago. And what I said was I wasn't fearful or scared that my son would try to emulate what his father did in service. Because I think serving your country, your community is very important for every young man to aspire. And I I thought about it in the context like do I want him to die for a foreign war that we're over invested in? The answer is no. But I understand that men, young men who seek adventure want to do things like I did, like many of the men I grew up with in the military did. And I get why a son or a daughter or children, period, would want to emulate that. That's not what I was scared of. And as I, as I stated in the post, what I was scared of as I wrote it from my bed with a lot of neurological dysfunction and pain is the fact that he's going to sacrifice himself, his life, his family life and time with his loved ones to serve others, including his country. As I'm 10 years separated from the military, I got out in 2016, I've been dealing with a compounding collection of physical ailments and issues including traumatic brain injury and all the symptoms related to that, but also several three back surgeries, one of which was which was botched by the surgeon and then addressed in repair. And that has left me with issues like not being able to walk properly, being flooded with neurological pain, including ghost pain all over my body, chronic isolated back pain in my lower back dysfunction, nearly incontinent in some cases, not able to control my bladder. And I didn't want to do this post as a complaint because I'm very blessed. Jesus Is Lord is the hat I'm wearing. If you're listening to this on Spotify, I am very blessed. I have four beautiful, healthy children, an amazing spouse, an amazing mother and father and stepfather who I love and adore. The real issue is I don't want my son to have to fight his old man. Me battles where we're on the phone with VA once a week, in some cases several times a day, trying to get me healthy. My poor wife arguing with nurses and practitioners, administrators who fail to recognize that my 100% service connected disability, total and permanent rating entitles me to health care for free, especially when it's service related. So much corruption in that system, so much dysfunction to include a federal class action lawsuit of hundreds of veterans, thousands of veterans who had their bill sent to collections and ruined their credit and I was one of them. They tried to get me for a medical bill that was 20 plus thousand dollars for something that was service related and should have been paid for. I just got over a new bill whereby every time I go to the ER I'm faced with a daunting task of going through an administrative process that is completely dysfunctional and broken and trying to get them to pay my medical bills. They said, oh, we can't allow you to go get advanced or specialty care because we have that insourced. We have it inside the VA system. So I go for my first consultations with VA and they tell me, yeah, you have significant back pain. We have pain management and we have stems that we could put inside to basically block the nerves. We have entire protocols and processes. Great, when can we start? A year from now. That was their answer. So the only way to get around that is to basically go to the emergency room, get MRIs and then get consultations with private specialty clinics and then get VA to approve that, which is another daunting task. Ultimately, what I'm saying is a lot of people have it worse than me. But the way that I've seen the Veteran affairs system treat veterans under administrate, under an administration that I bought into that was going to fix and address these issues. Who's more concerned with spending money to increase budgets, to drop bombs on people overseas, including killing hundreds of school children, mostly girls in Iran, they're more interested in doing that than handling the systemic list of issues, which is daunting even for our veteran class, the ones that serve their country and often sacrifice the most. And look, I'm not special because I'm a veteran in a specific class. I can go on. In fact, the podcast that we're about to talk about the surveillance state, which is already here, has a lot to do with my disdain for what's happening in this country that was promised was going to be course corrected. Sure we bought into the we're going to fix this with Doge and identify fraud, waste and abuse. How much have you seen about fixing fraud, waste and abuse? Is it still happening behind the scenes? Yeah, maybe. But we sure advertise a lot was being fixed and what we're doing is just reallocating those funds plus some being 39 plus trillion dollars in debt into endless wars. Before we get into it, I do want to say thanks for tuning in to my channel, preaching to the choir. Every Sunday I talk about my relationship with God, Jesus Christ and my faith journey. I'm not a pastor, don't claim to be, don't have a Master's in Biblical Studies, don't want a Master's in Biblical Studies. Just my way of bridging the conversation and keeping myself accountable. I'll link it down below. Also, we just started the first segments for both my YouTube membership, my Locals membership, my Patreon membership for getting people onboarded to what's called Training Companion where we are doing training, me and you, where it's a virtual companion. You set up your cell phone and I can walk you through tourniquet application mindset, draw stroke tactical instruction on a range, putting your ear pods, your ear protection over your EarPods and go through a block instruct of instruction with me. With that being said, we are planning to get back to training and it's because of you, your support, but also your request. Likely the first places I'm going to train in this country are going to be Montana, Route 66 in California and Utah, my own backyard. We got access to Black Rifles range which is 120 acres about an hour south of me, 30 minutes south of Provo, Utah. I'm stoked for it. Lastly, some housekeeping. I'm doing a whole bunch of overland and off road content. It's something that's a passion of mine, but I'm also cross promoting a lot of this content across Philcraft Outpost. The Phil Craft Survival YouTube channel is back and guys, I don't ask for much from you guys. I need your support. I need you to subscribe, give the thumbs up and be engaged with that content. Because if you subscribe, if you watch it, it gets the algorithm back whereby the guys who took over the company failed Phil Craft and you by not posting on it and nearly destroying the algorithm that's associated with it. After nine plus years committed of my life to just staying consistent. So please do that. I'll link that as well in the description down below. Sponsors are listed. I don't want to mention them every single episode, but if you want to support my podcast because I don't do a lot of ads, you can support the podcast by supporting the people who sponsor the podcast to include Primal Power, Longevity Farms, Carnival, and the list goes on. The surveillance state is built on a simple bargain. Trade your freedom for safety, all in the name of safety. And it's how it works. There is an old tension that has existed since the birth of civilization, and that's how much liberty should a free people surrender in the course of their civilization in exchange for a greater security. And every generation faces that. As somebody who grew up in the G Wat generation military speaking, I saw it happen when 911 changed everything in aviation and many other segments of transportation in our country, including the introduction of tsa. Billions of dollars allocated a lot of experiences that we don't like, but we gave them up all in the name of security. We are not debating soldiers in our streets or checkpoints at city limits, because that's not what we're talking about. That's a hard distinction. What we're talking about is something more subtle that's happened over time. It's like that old analogy of putting a frog in boiling water and turning up the temperature one degree at a time until it's boiled dead. We are debating artificial intelligence, biometric databases, automated license plate readers, facial recognition, smart devices, and digital ecosystems that are privately owned and federally subcontracted. That also applies to local cities, towns and states. The interesting thing is you're paying for it. You're the one responsible for the tab. That's violating your own liberties and freedoms as they're chipping away and making billions of dollars in profit. Tucker Carlson used this example on his episode five days ago on this subject matter where he discussed Houston, Texas, specifically, a county that has over 4.7 million residents that still has an evolving and escalating crime rate, including a homicide rate of 500 murders alone in 2025, whereby the safety excuse of increasing surveillance in the name of reducing crime is a farce. It's misinformation. And the surveillance state as a whole, which I will tell you it's in the thumbnail, is already here, has not arrived through a military coup or authoritarian revolution. It's emerged gradually. The best example of this I can give you is the United Kingdom having worked with the tutu, sas, the Special Air Service, also their reconnaissance organization called the srr which I have intimate knowledge of their tactics, techniques and procedures. Where the United Kingdom doesn't have a law in place, Posse Comitatus that allows the military to be integrated into a sovereign civilian society here in this country, the UK has free reign to integrate their Department of Ministry Defense, collude and operate together meaning using military technology and assets to spy on its own people. And what has that led to? Well, using AI, using surveillance, using special techniques and procedures that mostly are involved in technological evolution in the military industrial complex to targets target its own citizens because of their Facebook post, because of their speech which isn't free. That's why this episode is important and also why scrutiny of the government is important. I've seen many people like myself jumping on the bandwagon. Talking heads, influencers, media personalities talking about the evolution of flock, for example. But it's not just flock. We'll get into flock. But it's not just flock. It's Ford Motor Company, It's Congress in legislation. It's states like California that are revoking your license because you drive more than a hundred miles an hour on a back country road where the posted speed limit on Some interstates are 75 plus miles an hour whereby a small fraction of the throttle bumps you to 100. And you'll revoke license, you'll get in the mail as a notice with no due process. We'll get into that as well. Having spent most of my career in special operations in Special Forces, also working in intelligence, I understand better than most that surveillance has legitimate and necessary applications. I kind of glossed over it on Brent Tucker's Tier 1 podcast. But my expertise, my entire special operations career mostly has been reconnaissance based in Delta Force. I was a technical reconnaissance recon NCO in air quotes. And I have likely more specialized training and experience in that field than any other special skill set that I have. Not the greatest sniper, not the greatest assaulter, not the greatest breacher, not the greatest jtac. I have all those skill sets. But I am a really good reconnaissance expert, especially with cameras, because amazing. And I love cameras. Acknowledging the value does not also eliminate the need for extensive oversight. And you know how much oversight we have now through legislation and accountability and your local town halls, your city council meets your state legislator 0. Federal government 0. And history consistently demonstrates that governments who go down this path with no oversight rarely relinquish that authority. Once acquired, there's no turning back. And the United States has experienced this pattern before. The capabilities originally justified by counterterrorism concerns slowly over time found standard applications in law enforcement and straight administrative investigations and regulatory enforcement. And if you're listening to me because you're a law enforcement officer, let me be very clear because I, I got this insult via comment from a law enforcement officer and I take it as an insult because he wasn't personally insulting me, but I take it as an insult because he should have known better. His statement was basically, my law enforcement agency doesn't dabble in privacy of its citizens. And he also said that he's seen it save lives. He also mentioned that my disdain for these shoot trackers or shot trackers, they're called shot spotters that we had in combat theaters. Why I don't like them and why I'm pushing people against them is beyond him because he's seen them save lives. Number one, I've never mentioned the shot spotter is a bad thing. I actually think that's completely different than what we're talking about because there's not a violation of privacy. Identifies and triangulates sound via specific decibel ranges to include identifying gunshots and then gives you a geotag location of the sound. A stark contrast from looking at license plate, collecting data and then doing facial recognition on individual sovereign, law abiding citizens and collecting that data to be used for whatever the IRS wants access to. The FBI wants access. A school wants access. Yes. In 2010, a story I just posted on Phil Craft Survival's Instagram channel, I posted a story from 2010 where a school district was giving laptops to school kids. They were taking these home and logging into their cameras to see what the students were doing, including assuming that one of the children was taking drugs when he was eating candy, including watching the children while they were sleeping, including who else or what else do we actually really know they were looking at? There was a lawsuit. They had 50 plus thousand images and videos and that's a school. They didn't notify parents, they didn't get permission and nobody was held criminally responsible. That is a microcosm example of what's happening on a massive scale right now. And you're giving away all your freedoms right now. I think about preparedness as it relates to this conversation. And when we deep dive into preparedness, we have to look at our own sovereignty, our Constitution and our civil liberties and rights. And a basic fundamental is individual privacy. Let's get in outside of Flock, because I already did a Flock episode, a program called Fast that's ran by California. FAST stands for forwarded actions for speeding tickets. Also, you should understand if you're a law enforcement officer, just like this guy assumed that his department that doesn't abuse this, that's been abused all over the country. It took me 15 seconds to come up with three examples. In one case, five different officers charged with crimes of violating the trust of the public. When you look at these programs, they are replacing police officers. So if you're an officer who is listening to me now and you're like, I don't get why Mike's so against Flock that technology is going to replace your job. Sure, you need somebody automated outside of the automation to work the manual process. But I guarantee you the tech integration is to reduce law enforcement officers across the board. And the error that I'm seeing in many cases throughout the country is insane. And we'll go over that because the FAST program was a joint pilot program for CHP and its intent was basically to give you a citation in the mail if you're going above a certain speed limit. In 2024, for example, they issued 18,000 citations, 1600 citations every month for speeds of 100 mile miles per hour or greater. California says speeding related crashes accounted for approximately one third of of the state's traffic deaths. That is a serious public safety concern. And the state has really significant buy in in addressing this. But they decided this was one of the programs they were going to use to justify in the name of safety reducing that statistic. But public safety does not eliminate due process. And in this case it does. Because what happens is this sends a recommendation to dmv. DMV does an investigation and then the states, including Cali, do provide a right to an administrative hearing. However, that is not equivalent to requiring the government to prove traffic charges in court before imposing the suspension. Because you'll just get it in the mail. Where many people argue that in this misidentification, innocent people are having their driver's license revoked without any due process. Flock safety camera capture a license plate image, a vehicle image, the plate number and state vehicle characteristics such as make, color, tape, time and the location of the camera. It converts that information into searchable data. And Flock says it's now worked with more than 6,000 LEO agencies and communities and the company reports more than 140,000 monthly active users. Flock is being subpoenaed by sovereign law abiding patriots of this country for public records access and they're being denied. So Flock wants privacy as a public entity that's literally capturing and utilizing your data against you, selling to the highest bidder, which they say they don't do, but I want to see receipts and it's been proven that members of the own company, Flock Incorporated, have been caught looking into cameras that they have across the nation, including a little girl's gymnastics class. Because we need a camera inside a gymnastics class. I wonder if the parents sign permission for their child in a leotard or whatever the gymnasts wear. Sorry, I'm not a gymnast, dad, but watching them do gymnastics According to Flock's own 2025 impact census, which surveyed nearly 700 customers and agencies across 43 states, its tech supported approximately 1 million investigations or incidents during the year. The company estimates the Flock assisted in approximately 20% of cases cleared by responding agencies. It also estimates that its technology helped locate approximately 10,000 missing people in 2025, which I'm calling BS. More than 40% of responding flock customers reported that technology was involved in recovering at least half of the stolen vehicles. More than 3/4 reported assisting neighboring agencies with Flock derived information at least monthly. Those numbers illustrate why police departments want the technology. However, those effectiveness figures come from a Flock survey of Flock customers. We did an investigation of ourselves and found nothing wrong, and some agencies supplied actual counts, while others estimate the percentage of soft cases in which Flock contributed. Now let's state it clearly. Who owns Flock data? According to Flock's current Privacy Privacy policy, the customer owns owns the customer data. In a police deployment. That generally means the police department, sheriff's office, county or other contracting organization owns the vehicle detection records generated by its camera. Flock says the customer determines who receives access and whether data is shared with other agencies. Flock says they don't claim ownership of customers license plate data, but Flock operates the platform. Do you have access? The answer is no. They process the information, store it in the cloud, and allow designated employees to access certain system data for operational and support purposes. According to Flock, the standard retention rate is 30 days. Ownership alone does not provide privacy. A local department can own its data and will share access with hundreds of or thousands of other agencies to your personal data. And a neighboring agency can do a search online like Google. An intel center can perform a search. A local officer can perform a search on behalf of an outside agency. And Flock says every search is connected to a named user and permitting permitted audit record. Audit logs are useful, but a permanent record of misuse is not the same as preventing misuse. Again, five officers just arrested or at least charged with abusing this system. It is widely reported that Texas deputies used Flock Network as part of an investigation involving a woman who had obtained an abortion in Illinois. The search was initially described as a missing person or welfare matter, but records later indicated that it involved an abortion investigation. As somebody who's pro life, I see this, and if you're on either side, you like liberty and freedom and don't want to be in a surveillance state, you still would look at this and go, will we? Or is it beneficial for us to be using government assets, subcontracted companies, to spy on people getting abortions in other states? Probably not. There have been also reported cases involving officers using the databases to monitor personal romantic partners, former partners, colleagues, or even people they had personal conflicts with. The Institute for Justice identified 14 reported instances in recent years involving police use of plate reader systems to monitor romantic interest. This officer that commented to me in my DMs said, we would never do that. My officers don't do that. Guess what? Your small department doesn't speak for the rest of departments where officers, by nature of being human being, use these things to do things like that. In Pasadena, Texas, a police sergeant resigned. He should have been criminally charged and put in prison. Resigned during internal investigation allegation that he used Flock cameras to stalk a female colleague. That's out of Houston. In California, San Francisco police disclosed 300 improper searches conducted through Flock Systems on behalf of federal and out of state agencies. These searches reportedly violated California restrictions. And California surprisingly has walked back a lot of their commitment and investment in this technology. The department noted that improper searches accounted for approximately 0.005% of all inquiries. That percentage is small, but it also reveals the scale of the system. If we're talking about hundreds of thousands or millions nationwide, then even half of a percent is a big margin. A police officer seeing one vehicle on. On. On one road at one moment is ordinary observation that typically an officer sees. And the justification is this ro robust network of collected data allows us to fish and sort through it using search algorithms to detect crime, missing persons, stolen vehicles. The system does not need to recognize a face to create a pattern of life. The plate itself can identify a pattern of life. I just saw this on the Lego debacle with the minifigs, bricks and minifigs case with this influencer. If you guys aren't tracking it, it's happening here in American Fork and Provo where both of these departments have some level or form of corruption based on what I've seen in legal analysis. And the department contacted Google over a potential stalking charge to subpoena all of this guy's private data to include his emails, his search history and the list goes on. Not a major crime. I don't even think he was charged with an actual crime, but nothing major. And these agencies and law enforcement officials, even at the local level have free access to anybody's information and private data using big tech. Ford is the biggest disappointment out of all of these and I'll speak very frank because I'm selling my Ford Raptor this week. The reason I'm selling my Ford Raptor is because I went to back up out of my driveway and nearly got t boned by a vehicle. Because despite the vehicle that was crossing the intersection a tenth of the mile a few blocks down the road from my house, as I was backing out into the road to basically go forward to drive down the road, the camera, because it had dirt on it, caught a reflection, I assume and assumed the vehicle was close to me and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I could not drive in reverse any longer. I had to actually put it in drive and drive forward back into my driveway to get out of the way of the incoming vehicle that was safely away in distance and only closed in distance and made it unsafe because I was basically dead in the road in that vehicle. Because the over saturation of technology. Ford states that its vehicles may record information about how the vehicle is performing driven, its location and the environment which it operates. And when a vehicle has connected service history or factory install connectivity, Ford may collect that data, including the driving data, vehicle location, audio or visual information and media analytics. Here's what's interesting. When you buy that car on the dotted line, you sign all that away. All that privacy and that private conversation that you thought you were having in your vehicle. Yeah, Ford can listen in. You wonder why you could watch YouTube on your main screen when you're in park in a Ford truck with a new update, it's because it's hooked to communication devices including sat coms. Yeah, cool when you want to recover your stolen vehicle. Not so cool when it wants to interrogate you by listening and exploiting your own private conversations in your truck. Ford defines driving data as information that can include speed, accelerator, brake, steering inputs, driver assist, airbag deployment, collision signals, and that could be used against you in a court of law. Florid's blue cruise system uses an inward facing driving monitor system to continuously elevate the driver's eye gaze and head position, including when the driver is wearing sunglasses. The purpose apparently is to verify that the driver remains attentive and hands free during Driving hands free driving functions. Now it's interesting. So what possibly could they use that for? Well how about it identifies that you're not the person that's supposed to be driving the truck. Maybe it's your wife, maybe it's you that's just looking different that day. Then it just locks the Ford pickup truck, the a hundred thousand truck you paid for in your driveway. Ford is the company that is collecting and controlling connected vehicle data transmitted into Ford systems which is the business plan. It's no longer the margins on vehicles because they're not great. It's the collection of data, intellectual property and the selling of that to advertisers to government agencies. Ford also states that it may collect vehicle location in limited situations. The company lists protecting its property rights, repossessing a delinquent vehicle, complying with law, its property rights. So technically when you buy that truck, you don't own that truck, it owns you. The ownership structure is therefore straightforward. The owner possesses the physical V vehicle but Ford controls everything else including everything that's connected to the data transmitted Ford system. And it's under the Ford's privacy terms. The software service connected service infrastructure privacy agreement determine what information leaves the vehicle and what Ford may do with it. This is something that blows my mind and it's one of the reasons why I sold my Ford Raptor. I'm getting basically a dumb Ford F150 and it's also why I've gotten into a 2016 LC200 Land Cruiser. One, it's cool. Two, Toyota gets it. The CEO of Toyota said the biggest threat to his company and to vehicles is as electric vehicles and integrated tech. And I agree. He also says that the emotion and the relationship that you build with a vehicle should be part of the equation. Well, Ford's forgotten that. Ford's forgotten that. I still like Ford, the dumb version of it, but legislatively they just approve the integration of cameras facing in, not facing out. Remember when law enforcement had this big outrage from every single law enforcement officer at the time that I talked to. They said they don't want cameras on their chest and they don't want to be made mandatory. The difference is you're a public servant working for the taxpayers, mostly in public communities. There should be transparency at all times. The difference here is the transparency that's asked and required in some cases is your privacy, your liberty and your freedom. I'm completely against any of this and I will be campaigning and doing whatever it takes legally and legislatively and trying to turn this around. But part of me thinks it's too late. We're too far gone. When you have billionaire executives calling people who talk poorly about Flock terrorist because they're doing public search and data request and Flock is suing people for their own privacy while they violate ours, that's problematic. The American constitutional system was designed around friction. Police generally needed individualized suspicion in order to investigate, which required manpower. Courts issued warrants. It was a deliberate manual process. Now you're just gonna get in the mail now. Your vehicle is just gonna shut down, lock you in it, notify law enforcement. They're going to show up, and then they're going to find the wrong person. How does this end up? Well, if we allow it to evolve the way it is in mass, in scale, we're going to lose our liberties and freedoms and live completely immersed in a surveillance state. Lastly, the analogy that I like that Tucker used was this idea of this glass box whereby psychologically, the reason we love privacy is because it's part of liberty, it's part of freedom, it's part of being an American. But when you take somebody and you put them in a box in the center of the prison and you surveil them, they go crazy. That's exactly what's happening to you because everything's listening. You're completely immersed in technology through your cell phone. And now big government is watching you in everything you do. Your keystrokes, your activity, they're listening. They're exploiting. And there is no such thing as privacy any longer. And we must fight for it. Tell me what you guys think in the comments down below. Follow my patreon.com mikelover Got some content coming this weekend. I appreciate you guys. Until next time. Peace out.
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Guys, what if I told you you only have 12 hours to legally have sex?
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To finding true love or just like a good guy?
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From the director of Easy A and anyone but you?
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This whole thing is nuts.
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There's nothing traditional about this, Lane. On August 7th, the clock starts on the summer's biggest rom com.
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I'm Owen.
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Allie.
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What about you and me?
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Monica Barbaro. Callum Turner.
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I've been told I'm a seven.
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By who? Your mom? No, she thinks I'm a ten.
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One night only. Rated R. Only in theaters August 7th.