Running an independent news site these days is like finding yourself in a swamp. Is that a croc up at the next bend, or just another log?
Out in deep cyberspace, It’s difficult to know who all the players are and what team they’re playing on. Sometimes it’s the enemy sporting the jersey of members of the home team.
People, it would seem, will do most anything to drive their point across. If they knock your wind out sliding into home plate, “Tough luck, buddy.”
Alarmists lighting their fuses along the railway line can be as treacherous as the seated government.
Added to the latest fright front are warnings coming from websites made to look like FEMA-sponsored ones, going into great detail purportedly to prepare people to take cover from a coming calamity: The Big One Worldwide Internet style.
When we live in a world where the Island of Japan has been all but wiped out by an earthquake/tsunami that puts people in jeopardy from the leaked radiation of a nuclear meltdown, the cruelty of deliberately putting people in fear comes from evil intent.
People would reasonably live in fear of natural catastrophes when 45 (and still counting) people were killed in some 260 tornadoes in areas of the south that last saw tornadoes more than 20 years ago.
Fear mongers have little compassion for the elderly living alone whose loneliness drives them on to the Internet.
Good people trying to struggle along in an economy that is taking out homes and jobs already live in an era of unease. Gas is going up. Groceries are going up. Endless stories are reaching them about an America heading towards bankruptcy.
Signs of frustration are coming from talking heads, who only months ago ridiculed all those voicing concern about the state of the economy.
The real worries of parents and grandparents for the future of their children are more monumental than imaginary.
Activists fomenting for revolution under the cover of democracy can spring up at any moment, not just in foreign lands overseas, but right in your own home town.
Governments are resetting the furniture, brazenly redesigning lifestyles for the very people they were elected to serve.
It is getting more and more difficult to find the truth among the lies and more people are honestly and sincerely asking what it is that they should do; whom they should follow.
Follow your own instincts; follow your own heart.
Look for the light of truth. It is always there, even though it may be buried deep amongst all the debris.
There will always be those trying to coax you into the dark. You don’t have to go there; you can keep the faith.
The light shines from the faces of your loved ones, from family and friends. The light shines from within from all those who believe.
Even in the middle of all the things to worry us, the light has never shone brighter than it does right now in real time: Holy Week; the week still celebrated more than 2,000 years after it happened.
In an increasingly frightening world where lies now joyfully masquerade as the truth, when so many seem to have an angle, leading us off into a thousand and one different directions, never take your sight away from The Light.
Find the Light and live in it.
Judi McLeod——Bio and Archives
-- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.
