Most people like to read stories about the endless good in humanity. There's no lack of material, because examples are everywhere -- heartwarming and inspiring tales of good Samaritans, generous philanthropists, and tireless humanitarians who have devoted their life to good works.
But for many people, stories of ultimate evil also have a compelling fascination. Exposés of serial killers, murderous dictators, and menacing scofflaws of all kinds are not hard to find either, although it probably takes a little more digging to find them.
While brainstorming new story ideas, the NWO Reporter came up with an unusual one: Would it be possible to combine both types of stories in one? Could we find a true story of horrible, unadulterated evil -- but evil that was perpetrated, at least for the most part, by humanitarians with pure motivations and the highest of ideals?
To tackle this seemingly impossible story, we decided on four uncompromising criteria:
First, it had to involve extreme evil, with lots of human suffering and death. No lame stories about teachers who destroyed their students' self-esteem, or anything like that.
Second, it couldn't involve a war. No tales about soldiers dutifully fighting unjust wars that were instigated by corrupt dictators and greedy international bankers.
Third, the main players perpetrating the evil had to be genuine humanitarians with a goal to do good -- they couldn't be good people gone wrong, or psychopaths masquerading as people with a conscience.
Fourth, if there were psychopaths leading the way at the top, we wanted to know who they were, at least some of them. We wanted names and faces and video. We wanted more than just hypothetical Illuminati plotting to destroy humanity.
It was the ultimate story challenge for any reporter, but amazingly, contributing android editor Henry Foster
proved he was up to the job.