[Bitsy]

I was reading the darkworker description and thinking what a magnificent description of the US government (and Fox News). Perhaps I knew the text was going in that direction. I wrote an article about some "news" coverage I saw on Fox News that reflects well what Steve describes about darkworkers. (Some of the article-oops, hmmm...the Fox News bit comes before this, apparently it wasn't only Fox):

To add to that, I happened to catch Paula Zahn on CNN interviewing the Syrian ambassador to the US. I was shocked by the emotional incontinence which she displayed, as a deliberate tone of hostility was leaking out of her mouth with her words and sullying the entire nation. She spoke to the ambassador insultingly, as if to a guilty child who she was trying to pry her own predetermined truth out of.
There are two issues that are profoundly disturbing when this is what is provided as news. The first issue deals with the impact that the tone and perception emanating from the speakers on the news have towards Arabs and Arab countries: things absorbed by the listener, but never spoken in word. While the discussion on Fox News was devoid of facts and sound reason, channeled emotions and their underlying implications were abundant. There was a clear implication that the participants did not perceive Lebanon, Syria and other Arab Middle East countries as being comprised of humans, but of some sort of subhuman animal or bacteria and that it was the noble duty of the US and Israel to wipe them out. The participants fabricated scenarios with speculation and unsubstantiated dialogue designed to sow fear and anger into the hearts of listeners and so to form the opinions that they wanted their audience to have. No facts are revealed or sought and emotion is used as the sole basis for opinions and actions. Growing up in the 80’s in the U.S., I was taught that this news was the news of communists.
The second issue of concern with this mind-manipulating news deals with its victims. Arabs across America, across the world, watching this news may not be able to articulate the implications, but they can feel when they and their people are being spoken of as subhuman things to be wiped out. Such an insult offends beyond words and breeds hatred and a necessity for self-defense. There is no mystery why Hezbollah and Hamas exist; this “news” sows fear in the hearts of its victims too. (It was from some years ago when Israel was bombing Lebanon in an attempt to get Hezbollah).

I want to help, I want to do something, how do you affect such incomprehensible people, the ones who keep electing people like George W. Bush? I don't understand it, if I remember correctly, after Clinton the US was coming out of its debt when Bush didn't get elected to the presidency and became president anyway. How can one little me even begin to unravel such an infinite and voluminous knot of corruption?

My mother campaigns for Barak Obama. Is that the way to help? Revealing all the lies and deviousness of the administration doesn't have any effect on people, so revealing truth is not helpful.

Even in the current horrid state I'm in, where you think nothing can touch you, I felt this call mentioned in Steve's text, but the same repeated problem-I am helpless and useless to find how to help and what to do to get more white blood cells.