So let me get this straight.

A vigilante exposes that our judges buy slaves, our senators run trafficking rings, and our pharmaceutical companies calculate how many deaths are acceptable before lawsuits cut into profits.

And the takeaway from Metro City's corporate elite is: "This is our moment."

The Power Grab

Marcus Chen, CEO of Nexus Corporation — the company that already has cameras on every corner — wants to be mayor. His pitch? Give us more power. Let us put robots on your streets.

Elena Vasquez, founder of Axiom Technologies — the company that wants to put chips in your brain — wants to be state senator. Her pitch? We're the nice tech company. Trust us instead.

Here's the thing: nobody elected these people to anything.

Project Sentinel

Nexus wants to deploy 50 robot cops downtown. Six-foot-two, 380 pounds, armed with tasers and "chemical deterrents." They've got facial recognition, thermal imaging, and an AI brain that makes decisions about who's a threat.

Who programs the threat assessment? Nexus.
Who decides what laws the robots enforce? Nexus.
Who controls the data from all those sensors? Nexus.

"But they're incorruptible!" Sure. A robot can't be bribed. It just does what it's told. And who's doing the telling?

What the Robots WON'T Do

• Investigate why NexaGen bribed FDA officials for years
• Ask why Judge Castellano dismissed trafficking cases
• Prevent the next corporate cover-up

What They WILL Do

• Patrol your streets
• Scan your face
• Flag you as a "potential threat"
• Enforce whatever their corporate masters decide matters

The Sentinel isn't designed to stop the next TerrorByte. It's designed to stop the next wave of people who might agree with TerrorByte when they see that the system is rigged.

The Bottom Line

The poll says we're split 47-48. Half wants to catch TerrorByte. Half wants to fix what he exposed.

Here's what unites us: neither half voted to let corporations run the city.

The City Council votes on Sentinel next month. I know where I'll be.