My recent trip to San Diego was informative to say the least. I had a brief but heated conversation with a woman named Sara Ward on the patio of a restaurant in the city’s Gas Lamp district. Ward was dining alone, but had made a reservation for two. Photographs place Max Mason in San Diego that weekend, and although Ward denied it, I have it on good authority that her dinner date was none other than Mason himself.
My campaign against Mason International has put the fear of God into the company’s president and CEO, and his security force has been woefully inadequate at keeping him safe from me. If not for the timely intervention of the Orphan, Mason would have perished in the Mason Tower explosion. Apparently, Mason has learned from his mistakes: why leave his safety to chance when Mason can hire a superhero of his own?
Though Mason was in San Diego on another pretense, I believe the true purpose of his trip was to interview candidates for his open bodyguard position. And I believe Sara Ward was the frontrunner. Before I could convince Ward to admit as much to me, she fled the interview, and took flight in front of dozens of witnesses.
The fact that she has the ability to fly under her own power is not what worries me: I’m much more concerned that no one has ever heard of her. I did a background check on the mysterious Ms. Ward, and the results were puzzling: her life to date has been patently uneventful. Perfectly perfect. In fact, up until now there hasn’t been anything remarkable about her at all.
What’s more, I haven’t been able to find another living soul who claims to have known the girl. For all intents and purposes, Sara Ward is a ghost. But who she is and where she comes from is ultimately irrelevant. Since Ward disappeared that day, she has yet to resurface. But Ms. Ward, if you are reading this, I urge you reconsider your personal and professional relationship with Mason International. And God help you if you get between me and Max Mason.
Fury of Solace
Doing evil so you don’t have to
Somewhere in Los Angeles
Sunday, August 9, 2009
The Bodyguard
When Towers Fall
I realize it has been a while since my last entry. I have been… busy.
I wanted to take a moment to offer my condolences to the families of the men and women who lost their lives in the
I am a soldier. And make no mistake,
Doing evil so you don’t have to
Somewhere in
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Social Anxiety
Submitted for your approval: Max Mason, chairman and CEO of Mason International, hands down the largest Pharmaceutical company on the planet. Not much is known about the man, but the actions of his company are a matter of public record… and have earned him a prominent place in the annals of infamy.
Take everybody’s favorite social anxiety drug, Ataraxin: Mason International has bent, broken and wantonly ignored domestic and international law in every aspect of the drug’s development. Mason International’s rampant abuses in their drug trial procedures overseas makes one wonder if the company is even familiar with the term “informed consent.” India’s unwitting poor, for example, many of whom are illiterate and in some cases mentally ill, find themselves subjected to many and varied clinical trials on Mason International’s dime. Countless hundreds of India’s unsuspecting citizens found themselves on the wrong side of one of Mason International’s needles… and the results have been catastrophic. Ataraxin users, studies show, are almost 40% more likely to develop terminal heart disease.
If these facts alarm you, they should: Ataraxin was approved by the FDA earlier this year and quickly took the top spot as the number-one selling over-the-counter social anxiety medication in the country. Surely Mason International worked out all the kinks in its illegal, third-world drug trials before unleashing Ataraxin on the people of the United States, right?
Wrong. Mason International maintains that there exists no definitive link between Ataraxin and heart disease, and their lawyers discourage anyone from coming forward with evidence to the contrary. Nine months ago, one-time Mason International researcher Richard Crane tried to blow the whistle on his former employer. Crane claimed that he had found incontrovertible evidence of Ataraxin’s link to heart disease, and that his data was summarily ignored by Mason International. Crane resigned in protest, but Mason International’s lawyers put the fear of God into the would-be whistleblower, flaunting the confidentiality clause he’d signed when he first took the job. Ultimately, Crane could not let the deaths of so many people worldwide weigh on his conscience: he came forward, ready to tell his story to authorities. But before Crane could testify against Mason International in open court, he died of a drug overdose, which was ultimately ruled accidental. Interesting aside: The coroner who made the call is now on Mason International’s payroll.
But why, you ask, would Mason International allow a potentially deadly product to hit shelves and invite the wrath of the litigious bereaved? Because even if someone is able to definitively correlate Ataraxin and heart disease, the cost of settling the wrongful death cases out of court would still be cheaper than going back to the drawing board, and the money from the satisfied customers would still more than put Mason International in the black.
And the sad coda to the story? Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Mason International’s upstart competitor, was developing its own comparable social anxiety drug concurrently with Mason International’s illegal Ataraxin trials. Panacea’s drug proved to be at least as effective as Ataraxin, with only minor side effects. But thanks to the judicious application of the untold billions of dollars in Mason International’s coffers, it was Ataraxin that cornered the market, and Panacea’s far superior product remains tied up in red tape to this day.
Tragically, referring to this blog as an expose is a misnomer: most of this information is public and easily accessible. If even our lofty US of A, which has adopted the position of policing the world under the current administration, turns a blind eye to these blatant human rights violations and questionable business practices, who can we turn to to hold Max Mason and his lackeys accountable for their crimes? This city’s so-called “heroes” may continue to fight the symptoms of a morally bankrupt society, but Fury of Solace pledges to take the fight to the source. Let it be known: Max Mason is now officially on notice. His day of reckoning is coming… and the world will be a better place after he’s gone.
Fury of Solace
Doing evil so you don't have to
Somewhere in Los Angeles
Take everybody’s favorite social anxiety drug, Ataraxin: Mason International has bent, broken and wantonly ignored domestic and international law in every aspect of the drug’s development. Mason International’s rampant abuses in their drug trial procedures overseas makes one wonder if the company is even familiar with the term “informed consent.” India’s unwitting poor, for example, many of whom are illiterate and in some cases mentally ill, find themselves subjected to many and varied clinical trials on Mason International’s dime. Countless hundreds of India’s unsuspecting citizens found themselves on the wrong side of one of Mason International’s needles… and the results have been catastrophic. Ataraxin users, studies show, are almost 40% more likely to develop terminal heart disease.
If these facts alarm you, they should: Ataraxin was approved by the FDA earlier this year and quickly took the top spot as the number-one selling over-the-counter social anxiety medication in the country. Surely Mason International worked out all the kinks in its illegal, third-world drug trials before unleashing Ataraxin on the people of the United States, right?
Wrong. Mason International maintains that there exists no definitive link between Ataraxin and heart disease, and their lawyers discourage anyone from coming forward with evidence to the contrary. Nine months ago, one-time Mason International researcher Richard Crane tried to blow the whistle on his former employer. Crane claimed that he had found incontrovertible evidence of Ataraxin’s link to heart disease, and that his data was summarily ignored by Mason International. Crane resigned in protest, but Mason International’s lawyers put the fear of God into the would-be whistleblower, flaunting the confidentiality clause he’d signed when he first took the job. Ultimately, Crane could not let the deaths of so many people worldwide weigh on his conscience: he came forward, ready to tell his story to authorities. But before Crane could testify against Mason International in open court, he died of a drug overdose, which was ultimately ruled accidental. Interesting aside: The coroner who made the call is now on Mason International’s payroll.
But why, you ask, would Mason International allow a potentially deadly product to hit shelves and invite the wrath of the litigious bereaved? Because even if someone is able to definitively correlate Ataraxin and heart disease, the cost of settling the wrongful death cases out of court would still be cheaper than going back to the drawing board, and the money from the satisfied customers would still more than put Mason International in the black.
And the sad coda to the story? Panacea Pharmaceuticals, Mason International’s upstart competitor, was developing its own comparable social anxiety drug concurrently with Mason International’s illegal Ataraxin trials. Panacea’s drug proved to be at least as effective as Ataraxin, with only minor side effects. But thanks to the judicious application of the untold billions of dollars in Mason International’s coffers, it was Ataraxin that cornered the market, and Panacea’s far superior product remains tied up in red tape to this day.
Tragically, referring to this blog as an expose is a misnomer: most of this information is public and easily accessible. If even our lofty US of A, which has adopted the position of policing the world under the current administration, turns a blind eye to these blatant human rights violations and questionable business practices, who can we turn to to hold Max Mason and his lackeys accountable for their crimes? This city’s so-called “heroes” may continue to fight the symptoms of a morally bankrupt society, but Fury of Solace pledges to take the fight to the source. Let it be known: Max Mason is now officially on notice. His day of reckoning is coming… and the world will be a better place after he’s gone.
Fury of Solace
Doing evil so you don't have to
Somewhere in Los Angeles
Friday, September 12, 2008
Manifesto
If you had the opportunity to go back in time and kill Hitler, would you do it? It’s too late to put one of the greatest mass murderers of all time out of his misery, but in the here and now there is no dearth of monsters cut from the same ilk. People who revel in causing pain and destruction on a comparable scale, not in the name of ethnic cleansing but in the name of industry and capitalism. And our society not only sits idly by like the Germans of the early 20th century in the face of mounting atrocities, they actually reward the moguls for their rampant amorality. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness… the inalienable human rights granted to each American citizen in our Declaration of Independence. But what of those whose quality of life is born at the expense of others, who lie, cheat, steal and murder their way to the top of the corporate ladder and leave nothing but scorched earth in their wake? The founding fathers advised Americans to cast off any government that would deprive its citizenship of life and liberty… shouldn’t individuals be held just as accountable? And when our nation’s laws are not up to the task to punish these poxes on the world of man, does it not fall to us as proud citizens to cut out the infection at its source? If you answered “yes” to any of the questions posed above, I urge you to stay tuned. Fury of Solace is here to prove that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Fury of Solace is the scalpel that will extract the festering tumors that consume our society from within and without. Fury of Solace… sometimes talks in the third person. In a world as messed up as ours, who’s to say a villain isn’t just a post-modern hero?
Fury of Solace
Doing evil so you don’t have to
Somewhere in Los Angeles
Fury of Solace
Doing evil so you don’t have to
Somewhere in Los Angeles
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