I Think I'm Paranoid

Ok, advance apologies for the following rant but I've got to start listing this stuff and calling it what it is when I see it...
Sent to me via email from the fabulous Polimom (who I just recently started reading and don't always agree with, but she writes smart) was this story which has apparently made the rounds today and will probably continue to do so.
The orginal story headlined a supposed law passed here in Iran requiring non-Muslims to wear specially colored strips of cloth denoting their religious affiliation.
This supposed law was 'confirmed' by Iranian expats living in Canada and has been swept up here and there by various bloggers with opinions based solely on what they read. WHERE are the question-askers? Where are the conspiracy theorists? Where are the FACT CHECKERS? Where are the writers who refuse to step in someone else's mess and track it all over the place?

It seems to me that if there were actually such a law those of us living here would have heard about it already, long before the west, and especially before any Canadian news source.

I found this pathetically knee-jerk reaction particularly disturbing and have to wonder what planet these writers are living on?

Do we not all have the same general goal for peace and prosperity for all human kind, or is that just me?
Gosh, sorry, am I a bit too altruistic for you?

I know, I know...it's so HARD to be nice when oil and petrol for your shiny new H2 costs twice what it did last month.
Just makes you grumpy as ever doesn't it? I hate to get snarky, joining the smack-brigade of blogging with yet another nasty attitude, but this is just too much.

Send me whatever stories you like, I'd love to see them, and perhaps comment on them.
But, if you are a journalist PLEASE wipe your shoes at the door.