Chapter 1418 - 460: Assault on Congress... Wait, It’s Downtown!_2

Chapter 1418: Chapter 460: Assault on Congress... Wait, It’s Downtown!_2

Besides the Efficiency Department, there will be nowhere else in the world to accommodate him.

Walt said worriedly,

"They are sure to deploy military police to suppress the parade."

"With me here, you just lead the charge forward, don’t worry about anything else."

Lin Miao advised gently,

"Surround the city hall, surround the buildings of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. As long as they dare to fire a shot, I can take their lives."

"And you must trust President Miles; she is the sun of New America! Her brilliance has already reached Detroit, a steadfast bulwark for its people. What is a mere General Motors?"

Walt, who had been oppressed and twisted by corporate tyranny for many years, couldn’t help but waver at this moment.

It’s not that he is particularly noble; it’s the seething hatred that makes him understand that his previous actions already equate to taking a side. If the other side doesn’t die, then he will.

If he were to refuse or lose his value for utilization, then Lin Miao would surely abandon him without hesitation.

Having understood this, Walt gritted his teeth, got up from the hospital bed, and said,

"Mr. Lin, I’ll go take care of it right now."

With the advent of the internet, the distances between people were no longer limited by geography; even if not together, they could communicate face-to-face in detail.

Various circles also transitioned from reality into the network, with many organizations intending to use the web to evade real government scrutiny.

In the cyber era, the control of the city’s network was in the hands of companies, who could dispatch hackers at any moment to patrol for inappropriate speech, thus achieving information monopoly and atomizing the lower classes, making it impossible for them to unite.

But the emergence of Voice of the Horizon disrupted their information monopoly. Though companies tried hard to block Voice of the Horizon, their rotten grassroots governance could not effectively manage everyone; gangs were even more hopeless.

Using the friend chat and group creation functions of Voice of the Horizon, Walt quickly connected with the workers, homeless, and veterans who attended the meeting that day, rapidly establishing an organization in places beyond the companies’ scrutiny.

And from this foundation, swiftly expanded throughout the metropolis of Detroit.

The company can control what I say at work, but can they control what I anonymously say online after work?

The detailed information about companies’ violent suppression of civilians soon spread throughout Detroit, lighting a blazing fury in the workers’ hearts.

But Walt, representing the losers in corporate struggles, had a distinctive characteristic compared to the workers: the workers didn’t understand how they were exploited, working tirelessly for wages that couldn’t even meet basic needs.

Walt and his kind were very clear about how they used to exploit the lower classes; they had ridiculously much dirt on the companies.

In the past, companies were so arrogant, they weren’t afraid of these guys speaking out because everyone was equally corrupt and weren’t afraid of rival companies finding leverage. Even if the lower class knew, it was useless.

And now?

A group of people with masked faces and voice changers were talking extensively on Voice of the Horizon about corporate dirt,

how they exploit workers, manipulate ballots, evade taxes, plunder technicians’ improvements, monopolize scientists’ inventions, and were defeated in the high-end hovercar market due to absurdly idiotic business strategies under Zeta Technology’s attacks.

And why they want to resist this industry retrieval, all for the luxurious yachts of the bosses.

They are undemocratic! Unfree! Dictatorial harming the people!

Alongside some classic clips of [we are all desperately living], juxtaposed with company leaders’ filthy language towards the lower class during banquets, child exploitation, civilian kidnapping, and playing shooting games.

It’s intolerable!

At once, civil discontent in Detroit surged.

Who says you can only stir public opinion?

Who says you can only distort facts?

Who says you can only babble eloquently?

Using another’s method to achieve one’s goal, just as how the U.S. conducts color revolutions elsewhere, Lin Miao employs this in New America.

As if no one else can.

New America is no longer the golden age’s beacon of civilization.

New America’s citizens have suffered for sixty years, hasn’t everyone harbored resentment? Who isn’t filled with complaints?

Of course, all videos conclude with adding a line,

[They concealed the truth of Detroit from President Miles, deceived the president, deceived Washington!]

In short — this is the crime of muddling right and wrong and deceiving the sacred ear of the monarch!

The intentions of those above are good; it’s you treacherous officials who executed them badly!

Public opinion began to ferment swiftly.

The companies controlled the public opinion front visibly in the city, but Horizon Corporation had grasped the public opinion front of the lower classes.

In the Ford Motor Factory, the foreman rang the bell and shouted to the workers,

"Five minutes for lunch, eat quickly and continue working."

Lunch?

Todd looked at the self-paid, nearing-expiry protein block and thought of his 14-year-old daughter who couldn’t afford an education, his body that needed enhancement shots just to work.

Finally thinking about the upper-crust bosses who even at this moment still have the energy for lavish eating and drinking, now even the government’s welfare policies are about to be withdrawn by them.

Clearly, Mr. Lin had promised us a good life, so why do you still force us to die?

Todd wasn’t afraid of living tough times; his father and his father’s father lived that way, but now someone had promised them a future, yet this promising future is being taken away by these companies!