26 The Solari Report / 2018 Annual Wrap Up / Part Two V. The War on Hamilton (November 1995– September 2001) “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” ~ Mike Tyson I never intended to spend 30 years of my life trying to prevent U.S. federal financial fraud or, when I needed help to prevent it or the harm it was causing, warning my fellow citizens and investors about it. I never expected to spend countless hours, year after year for three decades, reading complex, purposefully obtuse federal financial audits. I never expected to deal with physical harassment, poisonings, house break-ins, trolls, disinformation shills, limited modified hangout experts, hackers, and the endless, mind-numbing parade of swamp critters that protect the monies rolling out of the back doors of the U.S. government. Those were never on my list of life goals. I did it because the federal finances are at the heart of the matter—a door that every American citizen has to walk through if we are going to be able to survive, let alone be healthy and free. What destroyed my family and my neighborhood, as well as millions of other families and neigh- borhoods? I came to understand that it all led back to the nature of the governance system and its ability to operate above the law—with all of us financing the machinery of lawlessness. This was a core issue at the heart of what was needed to bring real solutions—whether to heal the environ- ment, end war without ceasing, heal the divide-and-conquer culture wars, fund our pension and retirement obligations, provide decent educations at reasonable cost, move from a debt to equity model and sound money, or address our health care issues. I had come to realize that all roads lead back to this one overriding financial mechanism.