the day it started

i was watching tv the morning it started. i'd had a good weekend having finally met up with trish and spending most of it with her. i was trying to get the energy to start some scanning and thought about going out to get coffee first. as i put my shoes on there was news of hacks and attempted hacks on banks all over the country. i remember them saying it must have been a bot because it seemed to happen so quickly and with the precision of a machine. most of the banks were rerouting data and trying to get back up and running. i opened my sock drawer to see if i had any cash so i could pay for my coffee. cash? who has cash? not me. ha!!

i went down to get coffee anyway and scott gave me one no charge. we go back a long way.

when i got home i just watched tv. it was a good enough excuse not to start a 2 to 3 hour scan. updates from the federal news bureau stated the hacks were sophisticated and banks that were hacked were hacked as soon as they were back online and banks that had survived the hacks had their systems banged on millions of times a second rendering them useless anyway. no one could get in to transact.

i got bored and wanted to go down to the coffee shop to get lunch and meet clip to see what or if he knew anything about what was going on.
as i started getting ready around quarter after twelve, the news switched to a more dramatic story.
surveillance drones from around the country had been feeding images of thousands of banks being robbed. all the banks had been robbed at precisely the same time. people walked into banks and pulled out weapons. police and security were called in to each and every bank. it was like every cop and federal security agent in the country was called to a robbery.
when the law showed up and took position outside of the banks civilians out on the streets around the banks, members of what is now the civilian army, took aim and fired on the men and women called in to stop the robberies in progress. thousands... tens of thousands of law enforcement officers were killed. it was not good.

it took most of the day for me to actually realize what had happened. i think the thing that amazed me the most was the organization of such an act. an act that involved tens of thousands of participants. participants that were from our own country. it was only later that i found out that there were millions taking part.
no one knows for sure but most people on both sides of this war believe not one civilian not involved in the robbery (as it has become known) was killed.

the robbery did two things, it initiated the attack on law enforcement and it also made it known that the attack on the economic and financial sector had been real (more on this later).