Yesterday, since I know zilch about Flock (except that I gather it involves cameras), I did a search and found a description at Mashable. Of course that’s the company’s position – I looked in the first place because of a negative article sent to me in an email.
This came out yesterday morning from Robert Reich. Yes, public executions were medieval. But they didn’t stop because of more or less general improvement in the morality of large populations. Now if they stop because people with a professional interest in preventing crime learned that public executions do not defer anyone still living from committing the same crime(s) – although that is certainly true. No, they stopped because the they stopped because the only dramatic entertainment in the Middle Ages was the Mystery (religious) plays – and there were only so many of those – and they were pious. It was only as the Renaissance was coming in that there began to be secular staged plays coming in – and they had plots, and they quickly developed production values – all of which made them far more interesting to watch than a real execution (and the theaters had sections which charged very low prices for admission.) Why would anyone today want to watch an execution by firing squad when he (or she) could be watching a Freddie Kruger movie? Yes, some will watch. But I’m pretty sure they will be disappointed.
This from Adam Klasfeld includes (but is not limited to) a 20-minute video which covers this development, what OCME is, as well as its included agency, ODIHR (pronounced “Oh dear”), how they work, what they have encountered in past elections, and so on. Since it is (comparatively) short, and the issue is so critical, and has been so far under the national radar that I’m leaving out the normal political video out today to make room for this.
(I may have posted this before)
