Recently, the stock market world has been thrown
into a whirl as one of the contributors to the 2010 “flash crash” Singh
Sarao has been taken into custody. In the wake of this tragedy, or as some may
call it, a good thing, many have been trying to figure out why this happened
and what were the motives behind it. Some think that Sarao is part of a
terrorist organization, some think that he’s a kid in his underwear with too
much time, and some may think that he did this just to expose a hole in the system.
Whatever the reasons that he did this are, I don’t know and I am not going to
try to explain why he did this. What I am going to talk about is how we should
react to this. The stock market is huge, it has the ability to build
powerhouses, destroy monopolies and give new businesses a fighting chance. So
you would think that if anything could happen to the stock market, the CIA or
the FBI would have found the hole in the system and closed it. However, since
the most popular rumor is that Singh Sarao was just a kid with a computer and
too much time and not a multi-billion dollar organization, it would seem that
there would have been no way that he could have even tapped the balance of the
stock market however from what’s being said, Sarao did more than just barely
tap the system, he flipped the market upside down and walked away with some
money in his pocket. So here’s the questions you should be asking, how safe do
I feel and where are your tax dollars going? If one person and a computer has
the ability to change the stock market, imagine what terrorist organizations
could do with the resources they have? As I’ve said before you would think that
something this blunt and pronounced could and would be prevented by our
countries military and secret organizations however this apparently isn’t the
case. Now don’t get me wrong, I love this country to a fault, I love how we are
able to worship freely who we want and the fact that we can write articles of
criticism like I am now without being afraid of getting shot. However I do
think that it is imperative that the events that are now called “the flash
crash” must be addressed and must be addressed now. From the looks of it, the
CIA and or the FBI haven’t come out and said that there is a solution to this
issue and that’s troublesome. It’s been 5 years since this happened and the
system may still be broken just waiting for another person with too much time
and a computer. So all I’m trying to say is this, we must take action, of
course there’s probably another side of the story that we don’t know but when
events like this take place, there is no room for conspiracy theories, we must
find the root of the problem and fix it and not try to guess and see if we’ll
get lucky. All I hope is that this will be just another example to all the
American people including the “big shots” of how vulnerable we really are and
what happens when you let success and invincibility cloud your vision. If we
want to endure as a nation, we must remember to believe in what all others
failed to believe in. Failure.
