{"id":1527,"date":"2025-05-29T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T14:43:44","slug":"if-they-check-us-we-should-check-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ykhong.com\/writes\/if-they-check-us-we-should-check-them\/","title":{"rendered":"If They Check Us, We Should Check Them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Agents police and officials know who we are, so we need to be able to know exactly who they are<\/strong>, too. In real time, on location. No more of their hooded and shrouded secrecy<\/strong>. If they can do background checks on us, we should be able to do background checks on them<\/strong>. They have a database on us, so we need a database on them<\/strong>. You’re checking my ID, then I need to check your ID<\/strong>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online catalogs of police departments exist, and record requests can be made, but there is extensive red tape, these systems are fragmented, and incomplete. We need information as expeditiously as they try to demand our information from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have agents hiding their faces<\/a> as they kidnap people, people impersonating agents<\/a>, and police and ICE agents covering<\/a> and eliminating<\/a> cameras. Agents obscuring faces, identities, badges, and cameras is such a widespread pattern, that there are legal efforts<\/a> to try to fight against it. Agents, officers, and the police actively punish transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warrants, badges, and IDs have and can be forged. Anyone can buy an agent uniform online. And agents, officers, and police are arresting, kidnapping, abducting, searching houses, cars, and people, taking money and belongings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NO. We do not know who they are, they could be anyone. Agents, officers, and police should need to prove their identity to us<\/strong>,every single instance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they insist on pushing Real IDs, stalking us, surveilling, using facial recognition, biometric theft, and verifying who we are, then we need to be able to verify who they are, too<\/strong>. It is beyond ridiculous that we are supposed to believe a stranger who is coming to try to kidnap, take, steal, abuse, and violate us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For agents, police, and officers, their entire uniform and everything they have on them should be covered in QR codes, bar codes, IDs<\/strong> that can be scanned by the person they are confronting, but also every single witness around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"\/<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

[QR code those uniforms, cars, weapons, and everything they have on them]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those codes and IDs should be all over their car and belongings so that they cannot even begin to hide and obscure them. And we, the People, should be able to scan who they are easily in a database, because if they have us in a database, we should have them in a database. We, the people, have more right to know who they are than even they should about who we are.<\/strong> They will say, \u201cThen people are going to target our agents.\u201d Meanwhile, their agents are freely targeting the people. We must prompt them to think twice about privacy, security, and biometric theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If they are going to facial recognition us, we need to be able to facial recognition them too. And if they do not like that, then how about we stop surveillance altogether<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unhood, expose, abolish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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