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Closing Statements and Audience Send-Off
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Bet-David notes there is a Flock camera 100 yards from the debate venue, part of a national AI network of 100,000 cameras. Renner invokes Benjamin Franklin's warning about trading liberty for security, saying he would 'stand in front of a moving train' to stop the surveillance state, but draws a distinction between targeted deployment after a kidnapping versus mass data retention fed into AI systems. Collins supports Flock cameras — sheriffs across Florida say they save lives and catch murderers — but insists the data must stay in-house with law enforcement, not third parties, and that officers must be held accountable for misuse. Fishback is the most absolute: as governor, ban all Flock and Palantir systems statewide. He argues COVID-era Democrats would have used this surveillance footage to track families who took their kids to the park, and that military-grade tools should never be aimed at American citizens on U.S. soil.
