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"We all know the story of the stock market crash. We all sat and watched CSPAN as congress reconvened to pass the emergency powers bill. There isn't a deliberative body in the world that won't pass on the opportunity to place responsibility elsewhere. It became politically untenable for the president, however, and he was forced by conservatives in congress to appoint a steering committee of wealthy industrialists to "revitalize" the economy. When the corporations started hiring the private armies, we knew we had to do something. In a month, they had forced congress to terminate the federal government. It helped that almost half of the members were all for the idea. Today there is no currency. They tell us the union still stands. The conglomerates own branches of the military. We had already been letting them run our prisons, it wasn't so difficult to make the switch to a private penal system. They tell us the union still stands. They tell us, don't you still have your television set? The state governments each went their own way. There's a few loose federations here and there. The's even a confederacy. Two midwestern states are at war. But most of those governments dissolved, too. If there's anything corporations are good at, it's merchandising! They tell us the union still stands. They tell us, don't you still have your television set? They tell us, your lawn is looking a bit under the weather. You should probably buy an irrigation system!
We are here because we remember the way it used to be. We're the only thing left in this country. We're lucky to have the skills we have, because if we didn't, the struggle would be all that much harder. We hack their computers, we keep ourselves anonymous. We try and do little things here and there. But we're growing in number. And it won't be long before they hear from us again."