Rep. Todd Jones Sponsors Another Georgia Police State Bill, HB986

The lat­est police-state leg­is­la­tion Geor­gia House Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Todd Jones (GA-25) has spon­sored, HB986, recent­ly passed the Geor­gia House, and present­ly resides in the Sen­ate where it is assigned to a com­mit­tee for review. We have spo­ken about the fact that in recent years much of Rep. Jones work as a law­mak­er has been to the effect of amass­ing police state pow­ers with­in the insti­tu­tions of state gov­ern­ment. And much of his effort has been car­ried out under the guise of pur­su­ing ever-ele­vat­ing lev­els of men­tal health among Geor­gias pop­u­la­tion, as that term may be defined by the state. There is no end to such an errand. The gov­ern­ment is the very insti­tu­tion cre­at­ing the con­di­tions under which men­tal health dete­ri­o­rates. The state cre­ates the prob­lem and Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones appar­ent­ly attempts to fix it, demon­strat­ing a sort of sym­bi­ot­ic polit­i­cal rela­tion­ship between the two.

The insti­tu­tion estab­lished under law to repair men­tal health in Geor­gia is the Depart­ment of Behav­ioral Health and Devel­op­men­tal Dis­abil­i­ties, now firm­ly entrenched with a mul­ti-bil­lion dol­lar annu­al bud­get, such that it can nev­er go away and will only grow from here. Should, hypo­thet­i­cal­ly, this admin­is­tra­tive behe­moth actu­al­ly ful­fill its leg­isla­tive pur­pose, ele­vat­ing the lev­el of men­tal health in Geor­gias pop­u­la­tion to cer­tain accept­able arbi­trary stan­dards, to keep the mon­ster grow­ing and thriv­ing, its board mem­bers would sim­ply move the goal posts, and expand its man­date to encom­pass addi­tion­al pur­pos­es. That is what these peo­ple do.

As an exam­ple, when I was a kid, the CDC in Decatur was actu­al­ly the Com­mu­ni­ca­ble Dis­ease Cen­ter. Its man­date was to treat ail­ments such as syphilis and gon­or­rhea. Its pri­ma­ry weapon in the fight against these dis­eases was a shot of peni­cillin. Peni­cillin was so easy and effec­tive that the com­mu­ni­ca­ble dis­eases the CDC was assigned to treat actu­al­ly van­ished. That being the case, did they close the CDC? Of course not. They rebrand­ed the CDC to become the, Cen­ter for Dis­ease Con­trol, expand­ing its pur­pose to study and treat every form of dis­ease known to mankind. So what hap­pened? As we saw dur­ing the lead-up and after­math of the 2020 elec­tion, that insti­tu­tion became a ver­i­ta­ble police state tool, using the pow­er of the expert opin­ion to dic­tate pol­i­cy to gov­ern the behav­ior of the entire Amer­i­can pop­u­la­tion, and heav­i­ly influ­ence world­wide gov­ern­men­tal pol­i­cy to con­trol pop­u­la­tions in prac­ti­cal­ly every coun­try around the world. They jus­ti­fied these police state pow­ers by push­ing the impres­sion of a need to deal with a ver­i­ta­ble bio-weapon, Covid-19, released against those pop­u­la­tions, by those same gov­ern­ments. Do you see how this works? Gov­ern­ment cre­ates the prob­lem, the peo­ples rep­re­sen­ta­tives, such as Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones, cre­ate solu­tions to fix the prob­lems the gov­ern­ment cre­ates, and those solu­tions beget entire­ly new sets of prob­lems for the gov­ern­ment to fix, such as men­tal ill­ness. In the end, with­out the peo­ple notic­ing, a ver­i­ta­ble police state comes online, which the peo­ple pay for. And, sad­ly, what I describe is the dynam­ic under­ly­ing the push to pass HB986.

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If It Aint Broke, Dont Fix It

The first hint that there is more than meets the eye with HB986 is that it is designed to fix a prob­lem that does­nt exist.Accord­ing to the leg­is­la­tion, its pur­pose is to pro­tectagainst the use of decep­tive media in bad faith to influ­ence elec­tions by reduc­ing cer­tain can­di­dates’ chances of being elect­ed or by sup­press­ing vot­er turnout through mass con­fu­sion.Where has this been a prob­lem? Where are all those vot­ers con­fused bythe use of decep­tive media in bad faith to influ­ence elec­tions?When it comes right down to it, prac­ti­cal­ly all polit­i­cal ads could be described as, decep­tive media. So, why is this brand of decep­tive media so spe­cial?

Accord­ing to the bill,decep­tive mediameansa video record­ing, video file, audio record­ing, or audio file, still image, or still image file that:

(A) Appears to depict a real indi­vid­u­al’s speech or con­duct that did not occur in real­i­ty;

and

(B) Would appear to a rea­son­able observ­er to be authen­tic.

Again, where has this been a prob­lem? Why are we spend­ing time and mon­ey fix­ing prob­lems that have nev­er hap­pened? And, assum­ing decep­tive media of the type described in the bill might be used to imper­son­ate a can­di­date doing or say­ing some­thing he or she did not do or say, would it not be easy enough for the tar­get­ed can­di­date to call foul, and point at his or her very dis­hon­est adver­sary to use it against him or her? This kind of decep­tive media could be used both ways.

AI, Simply a New brand of Fake News

The decep­tive media described in this bill is noth­ing but a new brand of exot­ic fake news. Yet, we have seen extreme­ly effec­tive fake news dis­sem­i­nat­ed by cor­po­rate media, spon­sored by gov­ern­ment agen­cies for years. And that kind of fake newsactu­al­ly does influ­ence elec­tions. Remem­ber the Ful­ton Coun­ty water main break the gov­ern­ment used to scat­ter poll watch­ers before the suit­cas­es came out from under the tables? How about Rus­si­a­gate? All that real­ly was fake news, which tru­ly did affect the 2020 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. Where was Jones on all that fake news? Why have we nev­er heard Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones utter the first con­cern about the 2020 elec­tion? If Jones is so con­cerned about elec­tions, why did he not assail the cor­po­rate media for not imme­di­ate­ly report­ing the water main fake news as real? Why isnt Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones craft­ing leg­is­la­tion to deal with that kind of real fake news, to pros­e­cute fake news out­lets and require news agen­cies to report the truth of events such as the fake water main break, such as Rus­si­a­gate, both of which real­ly did hap­pen, and real­ly did change an elec­tion, rather than fake news of a vari­ety that has nev­er occurred? Is HB986 going to empow­er the GBI to cross state lines and appre­hend high school-aged cyber-tal­ent­ed, meme mak­ers hav­ing fun in their par­ents base­ments? Will Geor­gia now become the first state in the union to sign onto an inter­state com­pact to fight high-tech meme mak­ing? Why would any­one vote for a bill such as HB986? Its pow­ers are absurd.

Now, I am not for the gov­ern­ment to enter into news report­ing busi­ness, not at all. I use these real life events, which very like­ly changed the out­come of the 2020 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in Geor­gia, as an exam­ple of how ludi­crous HB986 is, select­ing a cer­tain exot­ic brand of poten­tial fake news and out­law­ing it. Why would Todd Jones spon­sor a bill like that? The answer is like­ly a cou­ple of rea­sons. Todd Jones looks real­ly bad and des­per­ate­ly needs a win. Two years ago, HB1013 got stripped of all the goody Jones hoped to cap­i­tal­ize on for his busi­ness. Last year, pub­lic out­cry caused HB520, which remains dor­mant but still alive, to lan­guish in sen­ate com­mit­tee. This year, on the sur­face, HB986 received a lot of votes in the House and went over to the Sen­ate. So, hes halfway home. HB986 claims to be about elec­tion integri­ty, a red meat issue for Repub­li­cans. What Repub­li­can would vote against elec­tion integri­ty? Not many. The fact is, how­ev­er, HB986 is not about elec­tion integri­ty at all. It is about hand­ing more and more police state pow­ers to our state gov­ern­ment and giv­ing Todd Jones a win to crow about dur­ing this years elec­tion sea­son.

Jones Sells AI He Hopes to Outlaw Others From Using

Not coin­ci­den­tal­ly, in pri­vate life Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones sells arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence ser­vices as a part and par­cel of his Tal­itrix mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem pro­gram. The com­pa­ny sells its pro­pri­etary brand of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence to gov­ern­ing enti­ties. Jones AI soft­ware ana­lyzes the behav­ior of indi­vid­u­als forced by var­i­ous cir­cum­stances to wear his com­pa­nys GPS and bio­met­ric mon­i­tor­ing hard­ware. His AI com­put­er pro­gram gen­er­ates cer­tain pre­dic­tive ana­lyt­ics which gov­ern­ment agen­cies use to tai­lor and mod­i­fy their clients priv­i­leges under a cus­tomized com­pli­ance scor­ing sys­tem.

So, think about this. Accord­ing to Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jones, it is OK for the gov­ern­ment to pay him to use his own, per­son­al, AI plat­form to influ­ence pub­lic pol­i­cy to con­trol the per­son­al free­dom of human beings, bas­ing that con­trol on pro­grammed AI pre­dic­tions of future human behav­ior, mean­ing, of course,behav­ior that has not hap­pened yet, while at the same time he spon­sors leg­is­la­tion to deprive pri­vate human beings from using their own per­son­al AI soft­ware, Jones, again, attempt­ing tocon­trol behav­ior that has not hap­pened yet, such that those indi­vid­u­als can­not con­trol gov­ern­ment pol­i­cy in reverse.Put it this way, this sup­posed con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can is glad for the gov­ern­ment to pay his com­pa­ny for AI soft­ware to help con­trol human beings, but does not want human beings to use their own AI soft­ware to con­trol the gov­ern­ment.

Its All Police State Stuff

Regard­less how you might use the author­i­ties of HB986, as is gen­er­al­ly the case with Todd Jones bills, togeth­er they are in fur­ther­ance of the same police state pow­ers Jones com­pa­ny pro­vides hard­ware and soft­ware to sup­port. Con­cen­trate on lines 58–60 below to under­stand what would hap­pen to an indi­vid­ual con­vict­ed of fraud­u­lent elec­tion inter­fer­ence, which in prin­ci­ple amounts to cre­at­ing what is noth­ing more than a high-tech meme depict­ing a can­di­date for office with­in 90-days of an elec­tion:

So, lets just assume Don­ald Trump wins Geor­gia in 2024. And lets assume that the decid­ing vote is cast in Ful­ton Coun­ty in a very tight race. And lets assume that 60 days pri­or to the Novem­ber elec­tion, regard­less what oppos­ing can­di­dates might say about it dur­ing the lead-up to the elec­tion, some com­put­er whizkid pub­lish­es a life­like graph­ic depict­ing Joe Biden shak­ing hands with a Mex­i­can drug car­tel boss over a bot­tle of Jose’ Cuer­vo. Regard­less of all things rea­son­able, as we now know, a Ful­ton Coun­ty Dis­trict Attor­ney will charge that indi­vid­ual withfraud­u­lent elec­tion inter­fer­ence, pun­ish­able by 2–5 years and $50K fine. That will hap­pen. We know it will hap­pen because indi­vid­u­als are now being charged with far more for doing far less by Ful­ton Coun­ty D.A. Fani Willis. And the law they will use to charge this indi­vid­ual will be HB986, spon­sored by Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Todd Jones.HB986 is every rogue pros­e­cu­tors favorite Christ­mas present.

Todd Jones is No Conservative Republican

HB986, spon­sored by con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can Todd Jones, is yet anoth­er attempt by Jones to fur­ther the pur­pos­es of con­struct­ing the Amer­i­can police state. Why is he so pre­oc­cu­pied with con­trol­ling the free­dom of pri­vate cit­i­zens? Were Todd Jones real­ly a con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can as he por­trays, he would be think­ing of ways to reign in state gov­ern­ment. He would be cham­pi­oning the pur­pose of small­er gov­ern­ment, of low­er­ing tax­es, of return­ing mas­sive gov­ern­ment sur­plus­es to the tax­pay­ers of Geor­gia. But no, instead of pro­mot­ing what con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­cans nat­u­ral­ly sup­port, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Todd Jones pro­motes what Democ­rats sup­port, high­er tax­es, big­ger gov­ern­ment, ever-increas­ing gov­ern­ment con­trol over the lives of every­day cit­i­zens.Through var­i­ous cre­at­ed enti­ties and asso­ciates, as report­ed, Todd Jones com­pa­ny has giv­en mas­sive amounts of mon­ey to elect Demo­c­rat sher­iffs in both Ful­ton and Hen­ry Coun­ties.The Demo­c­rat sher­iff of Ful­ton Coun­ty is the one by whose order a mugshot was tak­en of Pres­i­dent Trump. That is who Todd Jones sup­ports. As report­ed, Jones, his com­pa­ny and relat­ed asso­ciates con­tributed almost eighty thou­sand dol­lars to elect a Demo­c­rat sher­iff in Ful­ton Coun­ty after which the sher­iff turned around and signed a con­tract with Jones com­pa­ny for over two mil­lions of dol­lars. Why isnt Fani Willis pros­e­cut­ing pay-to-play in this case? And because most of these kinds of activ­i­ties can be hid­den in var­i­ous ways from pub­lic expo­sure, it may take a con­cert­ed effort by teams of polit­i­cal arche­ol­o­gists many years in the future to deter­mine all the ways Todd Jones work as a Geor­gia rep­re­sen­ta­tive con­tributed to the destruc­tion of our once great and free coun­try.

It is Time for Todd Jones to Go

So, thats it. To all of my good Repub­li­can friends in Geor­gias 25th Dis­trict, it is time for a replace­ment. Todd Jones has stained your rep­u­ta­tion. Todd Jones does not rep­re­sent you or your inter­ests. He rep­re­sents his own inter­ests. Year after year, Todd Jones spon­sors leg­is­la­tion for his own bet­ter­ment, the bet­ter­ment of his com­pa­ny, Tal­itrix, and the fur­ther­ance of the police state. Year after year, Todd Jones works fever­ish­ly to increase state con­trol over the lives of pri­vate cit­i­zens. Doing so is not a Repub­li­can activ­i­ty. It is a Demo­c­rat activ­i­ty. Todd Jones and any num­ber of oth­er mem­bers of the Geor­gia Gen­er­al Assem­bly are real­ly Demo­c­rat-mind­ed indi­vid­u­als who could nev­er be elect­ed with a D next to their names. So, they swear an appro­pri­ate alle­giance, and claim to be a con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­cans. They are not. Do not fall for it.

But to unseat this entrenched Demo­c­rat wear­ing an R by his name, the 25th Dis­trict needs a wor­thy, tru­ly con­ser­v­a­tive can­di­date, one who is also tired of being rep­re­sent­ed by a Demo­c­rat mas­querad­ing as a Repub­li­can. Time for qual­i­fy­ing is upon us. Who among the 25th will step up and take the chal­lenge?

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Todd Jones must go.