What the April 28 sequence established is not that Google employees lack conviction — it is that the institutional mechanism for translating that conviction into operational delay no longer exists. The petition cited 'unmonitored harm' [1] as the specific risk, a framing precise enough to suggest its authors understood the difference between opposing military AI in principle and opposing a contract without oversight provisions. That precision did not produce a pause. The deal was confirmed signed the same morning , which means either the petition arrived after internal decisions were…