When the system protects itself instead of the people it was built to serve, everyone inside it becomes a liability — and the silence is the point.
A compromised system doesn't announce itself. It doesn't send a memo. It works exactly as designed — until the day you need it to work for you.
By then, the door is already closed. The policies are already written in ways that exclude you. The people who could help have already been told not to.
This is the space where we document how compromised institutions operate. Not to complain. To build the record.