He spent most of the 1970s and '80s helping the evil corporatocracy that runs the Secret American Empire establish suzerainty over the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa.
"You need the media to play its function to disclose the facts to the public, and, in a sense, help the government detect evils," Wang told me recently, in his large, cluttered office downstairs from Caijing's headquarters.
This would help stop the "evil" of hunger stalking the land.
The rest of the plan included flying Ms. Davis to North Vietnam to help expose the evil of the American war there, and for the couple to retire to a farm in Australia.
Dons had close links to dissident and émigré outfits and spent their holidays enjoying the frisson of semi-clandestine trips behind the Iron Curtain to help subvert the evil empire.
Hunting them down is a detachment of soldiers led by Captain Vidal, brilliantly played by the handsome, menacing Sergi Lopez, best known in this country for playing the psychopathic killer in Dominik Moll's Harry, He's Here To Help and the evil head porter of a London hotel in Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things.
Then it asks for a donation to help fight the evil banks.
And the then-criticized Helsinki Accords that Ford signed with the Soviets, guaranteeing basic civil liberties to those in the Soviet bloc, did indeed help undermine the Evil Empire.
Our account executive kept telling us that he would love to help but "The evil guys from finance aren't allowing me to do anything so you'll have to pay the entire contract amount to get out".
The four-part series, tucked in alongside puzzles, nature stories and less pious comic strips, turns the 80-year-old pontiff into a comic book superhero -- one who relies on faith, not magical powers, to help the needy and combat evil (in this case, Communism).
