When the Government, Big Tech and Wall Street Get Into Bed Together

“Big Brother is Watching You” — George Orwell

In 2001, we watched the Twin Towers in the financial capital of the world collapse at the hands of a few jihadists using commercial jets as missiles of destruction. The Department of Homeland Security was then built in real time within 90 days after September 11, grief and fear pushed it through with barely a dissenting vote.

Weaponization of government institutions against their political foes had begun with the next administration, and Homeland Security, used as a tool, was not omitted.

The machinery outlasts the intentions of the people who build such Trojan Horses. We are now embedding the most powerful offensive cyber tool ever built into the American banking system through a private consortium authorized by a secret meeting with no legislative debate.