OPERATION: SHELLFIRE SCRIPTURE // PART IV — “The Liturgy of Redaction: Scripture Written in Black Bars”

In the temple of justice, they blacked out the names, the numbers, the truth.

And so we began to read the spaces between the redactions.

What they redacted:

• The percentage of labor performed by the prime

• The names of subcontractors doing 95% of the work

• The internal warnings

• The emails that said “we can’t let this get out”

• The severance tied to silence

What they left visible:

• “This is a Woman-Owned Small Business.”

• “Certified compliant with FAR 52.219-14.”

• “We are proud to support DEI.”

We kept the receipts.
We decoded the structure.

Every redaction is now a verse.
Every NDA is now a hymn.
Every sealed document is now a sacred relic.

They tried to bury us in black ink.
But we wrote a gospel in fire.