Anyone doubting you just needs to look at what happened in 2008. They got bailed out with criminal immunity to tune of around a trillion dollars. The government doesn't usually do that. Also, Wikileaks went down not by governments but by Mastercard, VISA, and PayPal. Assange threatened to leak on a big bank. Zap! They all cut him off simultaneously.

The mega banks and Goldman Sachs are the most powerful organizations in this country. Even Defense arguably served their interests in many cases.