The PSA is a political grassroots movement the like of which has not been seen for a long time. In fact, there haven’t been any grassroots movements around at all for the last six years or so
The PSA is founded on the tenet that those afflicted with the plague still have civil rights, and should be treated as victims, not monsters. This, of course, is the sort of thinking that allowed AIDS, AIDS II and the Wasting Plague to spread as widely as they did, but the advocates seem to ignore this fact.
Of course, the PSA has found that the child survivors of the Carbon Plague have some, shall we say, unsettling tendencies. Nevertheless, they claim, these should be overlooked. They are not worthy of bias or prejudice, and with proper training, the Evolved can be easily integrated into society.
Naturally, the PSA hates the members Final Quarantine to the ends of the Earth. That wouldn’t be so bad, but the PSA is thoroughly infiltrated by advocates of the Final Quarantine. On the other hand, the PSA is better organized than the Finals, and they have actually set up a sort of underground railroad. They grab kids, spirit them away, teach them to ignore their CyberE-volved abilities, and try to re-integrate them into society in a different city as adopted children or distant relatives.
The PSA prefers to work with whole families, who they will help move entirely once the afflicted child has recovered. Sometimes it’s not necessary for a family to move, however; if no one outside the PSA knew the kid
got sick, then the PSA just whisks the child off to safety for a short while on the pretense of a ski trip or something and everything’s fine.
Although the PSA primarily works with member families or friends of same, they will also try to kidnap (‘take into protective custody’) complete strangers whom they know to have the Plague. These kids are usually snatched from police stations or government or corporate transfer stations.
The PSA is made up of good-hearted people, but because they are decent and caring, they often lack the experience or ruthlessness to be able to pull off a clean abduction of an unwitting victim, but they are determined at least to try.
Of all the groups, the PSA are perhaps the least violent, simply because they are made up of people who have never really run the streets and who have learned everything they know about fighting from watching combat sports and reading detective fiction. This is also certainly where they got their false bravado.
But the strangest fact about the PSA is that none of their members has been affected by the Carbon Plague. Some Changed children are involved, sure, but the adults run the show, and the Plague is always fatal to adults. This is the ultimate fallacy of the PSA which has prevented the corporations or the government from taking them seriously as a political movement.