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Your daily reminder that while Earth’s climate slides toward apocalypse, human society leans more dystopian (NBC New York):
Kelly Conlon and her daughter came to New York City the weekend after Thanksgiving as part of a Girl Scout field trip to Radio City Music Hall to see the Christmas Spectacular show. But while her daughter, other members of the Girl Scout troop and their mothers got to go enjoy the show, Conlon wasn’t allowed to do so.
That’s because to Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Conlon isn’t just any mom. They had identified and zeroed in on her, as security guards approached her right as he got into the lobby.
“It was pretty simultaneous, I think, to me, going through the metal detector, that I heard over an intercom or loudspeaker,” she told NBC New York. “I heard them say woman with long dark hair and a grey scarf.”
She said she was asked her name and to produce identification.
“I believe they said that our recognition picked you up,” Conlon said.
Yes, YOU! Step out of line, please. MSG’s facial recognition software protocols flagged Conlon as an enemy.
“They knew my name before I told them. They knew the firm I was associated with before I told them. And they told me I was not allowed to be there,” said Conlon.
Conlon is an associate with the New Jersey based law firm, Davis, Saperstein and Solomon, which for years has been involved in personal injury litigation against a restaurant venue now under the umbrella of MSG Entertainment.
In its statement on the incident, MSG explained that attorneys pursuing active litigation against the firm are precluded from attending its events at any of its venues until the litigation is resolved.
Conlon says she practices in New Jersey and is not involved in any MSG lawsuits. No matter. Her firm is. And Sam Davis is striking back by “challenging MSG’s license with the State Liquor Authority,” the report continues:
“The liquor license that MSG got requires them to admit members of the public, unless there are people who would be disruptive who constitute a security threat,” said Davis. “Taking a mother, separating a mother from her daughter and Girl Scouts she was watching over — and to do it under the pretext of protecting any disclosure of litigation information — is absolutely absurd. The fact they’re using facial recognition to do this is frightening. It’s un-American to do this.”
Yeah, good luck with that move against a multi-billion dollar New York corporation.
Just days ago, I remarked, “When people ask if I had any reaction to the vaccines, I say no, except for minor irritation from the microchip. If they still complain if you wear a mask in stores, look around furtively and start babbling about gummint surveillance and defeating facial recognition. Fight crazy with crazy.”
It seems less funny this morning.
Also, “the climate clock is ticking.”
(h/t Rude Pundit)
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