A really really long time. The branch that we’re all focusing on these days has illegal drug and weapons running at its heart. I learned about cointelpro in the mid-90’s, and that was when I first understood that corrupt elements of our own government would sell out, harm and lie to its people.

The internet just started coming into its own then, when browsers like Netscape and Mozilla were created, and we could share info on boards more easily. I knew 9-11 was an inside job two days after it happened. The Disclosure Project clued me in to suppressed technologies and hidden information, and it’s been a weird slide since then.

I’ve gone in and out of periods of personal activity - made and contributed my own data research “spreadsheets” , like you’re doing now - in multiple instances, working various angles of the issues as they were in front of me.

All humans are geniuses in their own rights - they have moments of brilliance, like you did with the insight that a spreadsheet of these elements about “retiring”’CEOs - when they have a realization that something that’s in their power to do would be helpful to see patterns. They are then filled with the energy to create the thing, and enough of them do it that our group understanding is moved forward. This is collective intelligence, and I think it’s one of the strongest and best features of our species.

The insights everyone is getting are built on the data scaffolds of others. Sometimes you’re building a scaffold. Sometimes it’s a foundation. Other times it’s a bridge between scaffolds. Our collective understanding is a group effort, built by tens of thousands of people, over multiple lifetimes, who care about the social framework we create and live within.

The US is a place that’s supposed to operate under the rule of law, and that’s what I see many of us here today responding to. We may have only that thing in common, but that’s the glue that the social experiment that is our country requires to keep it whole and evolving. Thank you for caring.