Bill Forstchen - Author of One Second After

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Dear All,

There has been enough private response to my letter to Bill Forstchen

from y'all that I thought I'd just post that letter of mine for your

perusal. You can read Mr. Forstchen's original response at:

http://www.amazon.com/One-Second-After-William-Forstchen/product-reviews/0765317583/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8 & coliid= & showViewpoints=1 & colid= & sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

 

You need to scroll down to the review that says, "Sorry! This

book just doesn't cut it." Of course you're welcome to post

your own comments, and / or vote as to whether or not the

review I wrote below is helpful. ;o)

Yours in Knowledge, Health, & Freedom,

Doc

 

Dear Bill,

 

Thank

you for responding to my review, and I appreciate your offer to agree

to disagree. ;o) I too am thankful that we live in a country where such

debate is still tolerated, though lord only knows how long that will

last with the current trend in legislated lost freedoms currently

coming down the pike such as the proposed "Codex Alimentarius"

scheduled to go into effect this coming December, and certain

presidential orders now on the books.

 

Your senses are correct

in that I too am an author and have published over a thousand articles,

two audio lectures that have reached over 20,000 people worldwide, and

am in the process of writing a book on Health and Natural Healing.

Http://www.AcademyOfNaturalHealing.com In some ways, I feel that you

and I have considerably more to agree upon than might at first appear.

It is obvious from your book and from your response to my review that

you love your family, especially your daughter, and that you also love

your country. I have two sons, two grandsons and a grand daughter, and

I have to admit that my 8 month old grand daughter has me thoroughly

wrapped around her little finger. I too love my country, and I feel

that western North Carolina is a piece of heaven on Earth. My wife

Valorie and I just moved from Marble, NC (half way between Andrews and

Murphy), and my greatest joy when living there was wandering around the

1.3 million acres of the Nantahala National Forest. We are now living

in southern Florida and though missing our "hills", still feel that we

live in the most beautiful country of the World.

 

I am not a

professional historian such as yourself, but I don't believe our

forefathers would approve of what our modern day politicians are doing

to our country AND to the rest of the World. It wouldn't surprise me if

Washington, Jefferson and Adams have been turning over in their graves

for the last several decades or more. You bring up Hitler as an

example, and yet our current and last presidents (Obama & Bush)

have led our country towards a science dominated, Hitlerian

Totalitarianism at a frightful rate. When was the last time you read

the Presidential Executive orders? Too sad actually. We as Americans

can no longer go along draining the rest of the World for our own

greed, profit and pleasure without some form of retribution. Senior to

all Political rhetoric and Public Relations is the Law of "Cause and

Effect".

 

Now I do take umbrage when you turn my words around

and state, "and that I have somehow sullen the sterling reputations of

nations such as Iran and North Korea (actually the leadership of those

nations)." I did not say nor imply that. Not in the faintest!!!

Actually, no country nor government in the World today has anything

even close to a sterling reputation. Not even vaguely close, including

the United States of America. As a country interfering in the lives of

other nations, our hands are not clean. I'm glad I can still make that

statement, though in a year or two, I might have to go to a "Free

Speech Zone" to utter it or write it (if they even exist at that future

time).

 

And as far as the "Christian rhetoric" is concerned, I

get just a little fed up when I see people use their position in any

religious group for the purpose of forwarding any agenda other than

that of their own faith or if they're using this position to put down

or attack another religion or system of beliefs. Now, please pardon me

if this comes across as a bit of an "over reaction" and a rant (and it

is ;o) but I've been on the receiving end of being labeled a "Cult

Member" and it's not nice. Not nice at all!!!

 

You're absolutely

correct when you say that Christians have suffered abuse and murder and

derision, but so has every other religion (and cult) out there. There

is not one religion in the World today which has not suffered some form

of torment from within or from without its ranks. The main point I was

trying to make with this part of my review is that we need to be

tolerant of the religious beliefs of others. How else will we achieve

that Christian ideal of "Peace on Earth"??? When Christianity first

came along in the days of Caesar's Rome, I'm sure it was then labeled

as a "cult". Nowadays, there are Bahai's, Scientologists, Wiccans, the

followers of Rev Moon, etc. etc. etc. that are the new kids on the

block so to speak, who are now taking the flak Christianity once had

and still has in certain parts of the world. There will be no peace on

Earth until religious tolerance of others is learned. Personally, I

believe that God is too big to fit inside just one religion. Is it

possible that he encompasses and endorses all religions, but that we as

a race of beings are just too stupid, too arrogant, too vainglorious,

and / or too warlike to wake up to this fact??? I'll never forget a

moment during the 1960's in my wild and adventurous youth when

hitchhiking across Northern Africa a war broke out in Algeria while one

was raging in Egypt at the same time, leaving me stuck in the middle of

Tunisia. A poor Bedouin lad my age by the name of Yaya Babbakka took me

into his family and into his home, and gave me shelter and food for two

weeks. He spoke no English and I no Arabic. He was Moslem while I'd

been raised in a Methodist home. He was dark skinned and dark brown

eyed, while I was whiter than white with the bluest of eyes. Every

night for two weeks, the entire family put on their best for me at the

dinner table even though we lived in a shack. All concepts were

communicated in sign language and when I left I could only hug each

family member to show my gratitude, and with them expecting nothing

else. I tried communicating to Yaya by mail when I returned home, but I

never heard from him again. I will never forget that young Islamic boy,

his family, nor their complete unselfish generosity and humanity

towards a young, hair-brained WASP.

 

I'm not talking about some

Utopian dream. A Rousseau idyllic paradise has no place in my thinking

(pretty boring actually). I'm talking about man's inhumanity to man

added to the fact that several governments of Earth are now capable of

frying every man, woman and child on the planet leaving naught but a

cold nuclear winter and a sterile Earth. I fully agree with your EMP

premise and its potential to do irreparable damage, but this is only

the tip of the iceberg, and it's not just you and me and our children

who must be taken into consideration here, but the children half a

world away in China, Indonesia, and yes, even in Korea and Iran. You

brought up Mark Twain, and I refer you to his, "The War Prayer" see:

http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/warprayer.html We are no longer

"just Americans". We ARE citizens of the US, yes, but we are also

citizens of Earth and it's time we evolved once again and grew into

this mantle. Please don't get me wrong, for I am vehemently against

this "New World Order" as it is currently being shoved down our

throats. However, let us keep our American individuality while

embracing the rest of the world as the brothers they are.

 

It

is not all about you, nor all about me and only our children. It is not

all about Catholics, nor Mormons, nor Methodists, nor Baptists, nor

Bahai's, nor Scientologists, nor Wiccans, nor Buddhists, nor Moslems,

nor Blacks, nor Whites, nor any of the other colors out there. It's not

even all about Man, nor his works, nor his art, nor his philosophies.

All the facets of LIFE need to be taken into consideration here.

 

There

is you, me, your daughter, my grand daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Chang's

great grand daughter living in Singapore, and then there's all the

religions of the World, and all the races of Man, plus the birds and

beasts of the field and all the life forms in the ocean, plus the

planet itself and all the spirits that inhabit it, and a God in

whatever form or unform he is perceived to be in by any and all of us,

that must be taken into consideration here. We can no longer be

irresponsible and fail to take all of these factors of life into our

thoughts and our concerns. It's time we grew up.

 

I hold to my

critique as above and once again, regardless of the risk of redundancy,

end with, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee"

- John Donne 1572 - 1631 (a Roman Catholic by the way).

I quote the truth wherever I find it. ;o)

 

The next time you're down Fort Lauderdale way, perhaps we could

continue this debate in person over a glass of wine ;o)

 

All the best,

 

Doc

 

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