| Scott Perry |
Talk |
06/08/2026 |
WHP-AM |
Harrisburg-Lancaster-Lebanon-York |
07:39 EDT |
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<p>Speaker 1:</p><p>Congressman Scott Perry with us. You can always tell when because Classic Rock is on.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>Hey, well, I appreciate that and look, you know, the whole birthday thing, you know, RJ, I think we're both at the point where we lament having so many, but we're happy we keep having them. So I'm just going to leave it at that.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>No, I I I agree with you on that every every day that God gives me is a great day I read a true blessing. So listen. Yes. Yeah what I'd like to ask you about today This is congressman Scott Perry for his monthly update is The spying on us stuff you were really big on this and it's getting out of hand So could you give us a thumbnail first on? What has you riled up and I think rightfully so</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>Well, the ubiquitous, which means it's just ever -present and it's everywhere. And what I would characterize as unconstitutional spying on American citizens. It's just everywhere, RJ. And so the new thing is, and look, I'm a guy, as you know, who's always supported law enforcement. I see how our law enforcement people are treated. They're underpaid. They're overworked. They're disrespected. And, and they're oftentimes in unsafe conditions, and so I stand with them. At the same time, if someone's doing something wrong, then, then I just ask law enforcement to follow the Constitution and get a warrant. But and, and I get that all these things are available today, but that doesn't mean you should just use them without following the Constitution. And, you know, when you hook up the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which spied on millions of Americans, and you combine that with all manner of things that watch us and listen to us every single day, and the fact that, you know, the government now, instead of getting a warrant, just simply buys the information. And the most recent thing is these, we call them flock cameras, and that's the name of a manufacturer that are being installed everywhere. and the important thing about them, RJ, is they have automatic license plate readers on them. And so, whether you're at some store or whether it's the government monitoring your license plate, it's not just the police anymore. You know, the police have license plate readers in their car. No sticker needed on your license plate anymore for registration. When they're behind you, they know whether your car is registered or not. But it's the now purchasing all this data, and you combine that with artificial intelligence and then all these data centers. But I'm all about, and I support data centers that work with the United States national security component to make sure that we defeat China. But when we have, and this is what needs to be determined, when they're all showing up to monitor you and me and whether, you know, what time we go to the store at night and what we're wearing and what we purchase, you know, they put these cameras outside of certain venues, let's put it that way, whether it's a peaceful assembly of citizens that dislike something in their government, or whether it's at your local, let's just say, gun store. And there's automatic license plate reading hooked to that. And then that's combined with everything else that is available, facial recognition software, for and then artificial intelligence. We're under constant surveillance, RJ, without any due process and without any justification. There's no warrant for any of this stuff, it's just they're collecting it.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>Okay, now, when you say they're collecting it, is it the government or are these cameras also being put up by private institutions that then sell the data? In other words, they know that I go to XYZ store X amount of times a week or whatever. Is it all of the above or is this just government?</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>No, it's both. It is all of the above, but the kind of the thing that is the camel's nose under the tent that nobody seems to want to get their hands on is the fact that the government just buys the data. So in the past, if the government had some suspicion that you were doing something wrong, they had to determine whether there was probable cause. Not just suspicion, but maybe in some cases, right? But strong suspicion that you had done something wrong. They go to a judge and they get a warrant and then they check you out. Now they just check us all out whether they have a warrant or not because instead of getting a warrant and listening to a judge and compiling the information and saying why we think this person is a threat or a problem or what they think that that person is doing wrong, they just buy all the data, which means, yes, that person and everybody else's too. And then they sit through all of it and they might find some things they might not. But the point is, we have a right to our you know our constitutional right to our own privacy and not to be spied on by our government just just anytime they feel like it that's one of the reasons that we had a fight with the king of England because they would just they would just watch you and come into your house and do anything they wanted to without a warrant because they were the government well to me we're fast approaching that now</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>OK, so I guess what I'd like to know is what are the proponents saying? Are they saying that we need this to make America more secure? How do they justify this?</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>That's exactly, it's twofold. It makes it easier. It makes all this making sure we catch the criminals easier and that we need it to keep us safe. That's what they say. But, you know, well, then you shouldn't take the oath. If you take an oath to uphold the Constitution, it says that we're gonna have, you know, you're gonna get a warrant before you search all this information. But nobody does that anymore and it's just for the sake of the expediency. And look, I want it to be as easy as possible too, but I also want to live in a free society, and I'm raising the alarm bell because I think that there's a sweet spot in the middle here, but the easy thing to do is just to do nothing, and I don't think that's appropriate.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>So what does the bill that you're behind say?</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>Well, I have numerous ones, but on this particular and the most recent was is that these these license plate reading cameras be used for tolling only unless there's probable cause. And you know, because they use them for tolling when you're in turnpike, whatever, it's a license plate reader. Sure. And I'm saying if you're going to use license plate reading camera data, then you either have to have probable cause or use it for tolling, but don't use it just to determine what time you went to the store, how long you stayed there, what store you went to, how many trips in and out of your house, how many times you used this road. If they use it in some places, they just park a police car along the entrance in and out of a county in Virginia to determine how many people are coming in and out of the county, the ones that live there and the ones that don't. I don't know that, you know, I don't know. Well, I do know. I don't think we should be doing that.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>Yeah, yeah. Well, interesting. What else is going on in Congress, he asked?</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>Well, we still have to get this funding for border security and immigration and customs enforcement taking care of it. I guess we were close on the end of the week, but the Senate couldn't get it done, and it's all because now the Senate continues to refuse—well, it's not the Senate, it's Senate Democrats minus oftentimes Senator Federman, but they refuse to reauthorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and as you know, I just talked about I've got issues with that as well But I'm not refusing to you know I'm not refusing to reauthorize it what I want to do what I want to do with that bill and we had it on There and we passed it out of house is make sure that the federal government doesn't institute a central bank digital currency Which just goes to the whole previous conversation We just had RJ because that's the ultimate spying tool whether where they determine Whether or not you can purchase anything and where you purchase it and how and if and all that kind of</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>I was gonna say and shut you off if they want</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>Well, that's exactly, you think about what they did to the Canadian truckers during the pandemic and supercharged that a thousand times when they have a central bank digital currency. So that's something that the House has asked already in the past, every single Republican voted for it. And we think that that should be included in this spying. Remember, RJ, this is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. We're not supposed to be surveilling US citizens, But we do, and we want some reasonable, you know, some reasonable modifications of that. We passed that out of the House, but the Senate says no now because the president selected this person to serve as the interim director of national intelligence. They don't like him, so they say no. And so we can't, we can't seem to get there at the moment.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>that's crazy well with that we have to run thank you so much for the monthly update and the station is yours anytime you need it and be safe out there God bless you all right</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 2:</p><p>God bless you RJ, just watch who's watching.</p><p><br></p><p>Speaker 1:</p><p>Yep, gotcha. All right. Take care congressman Scott Perry. It's 746</p> |