To those in the trenches, those on the front line, those trusted with the lives of Americans and the balance of the world—you were never prepared for this. No war college, no intelligence manual, no strategic briefing ever truly considered the day when the enemy would not be foreign, but domestic.
It was too far-fetched. American power was too stable, too vast, too all-encompassing.
And yet, the duty that you swore an oath to uphold is now being tested as never before. You—men and women in the intelligence community, in federal law enforcement, in the defense apparatus—held the line through the darkest days of this nation. You have been entrusted with the security of not only the American people but the preservation of the free world.
Now ask yourself this: Am I, the author of this missive, the threat?
Not because I incite violence. Not because I seek to undermine order. But because I dare to say what we both know to be true: You are duty-called.
And in that dystopia, where a citizen must risk their life simply to remind those entrusted with security that their duty still stands, the burden will not fall on men like me—it will fall on you.
Because if those sworn to protect the nation do not act, if those charged with upholding justice allow lies to define truth and let intelligence be silenced rather than sharpened as a tool of the just, then there will be no order left to defend.
The test is upon you. Your moxie, your mettle, your oath—all are being questioned.
The question before you now is this:
Do you rise to meet your highest ideals, to strive for the highest order of excellence, to foresee the future with clarity as never before?
Or do you stand in the darkness, where the lies become truth, where the suppression of knowledge is power, where intelligence is feared rather than upheld?
The choice, as it has always been, is yours.
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