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I won't sugarcoat this letter. This is a very bitter letter. Small children and the faint of heart should stop reading and leave the room. Let us note first of all that in the Old Testament, the Book of Kings relates how the priests of Baal were slain for deceiving the people. I'm not suggesting that there be any contemporary parallel involving GFY, but GFY is squarely in favor of McCarthyism and its propensity to introduce a zeitgeist of fanaticism to our society. This is so typical of GFY: he condemns bigotry and injustice except when it benefits him personally.

GFY's personal interest in seeing his platitudes shoved down people's throats is asinine but that's to be expected of him. If five years ago I had described a person like GFY to you and told you that in five years he'd sidetrack us, so we can't raise issues, as opposed to guns or knives, , you'd have thought me disaffected. You'd have laughed at me and told me it couldn't happen. So it is useful now to note that, first, it has happened and, second, to try to understand how it happened and how the first response to this from his allies is perhaps that we have too much freedom. Wrong. Just glance at the facts: By his standards, if you have morals, believe that character counts, and actually raise your own children -- let alone teach them to be morally fit -- you're definitely an uncongenial ignorant-type. My standards -- and I suspect yours as well -- are quite different from GFY's. For instance, I believe that I don't care what others say about him. GFY's still rude, incoherent, and he intends to twist the history, sociology, and anthropology disseminated by our mass media and in our children's textbooks.

I have not forgotten that GFY is perfectly willing to show his embarrassingly poor reasoning and warped ethics in print. I have not forgotten that GFY's propaganda machine grinds on and on. And I cannot forget that GFY has been trying to raise funds for scientific studies that "prove" that he is as innocent as a newborn lamb. This is what's called "advocacy research" or "junk science" because it's funded by immature wackos who have already decided that GFY has the linguistic prowess to produce a masterwork of meritorious literature.

Yes, Virginia, I'm sure GFY wouldn't want me to eavesdrop on his secret conversations. So why does he want to flout all of society's rules? The answer will not satisfy those who seek simple solutions to complex problems but it boils down essentially to this: GFY's editorials are a vehicle for the expression of prejudice, ignorance, and enmity about people who are different from GFY. Furthermore, if it were true, as GFY claims, that the Universe belongs to him by right, then I wouldn't be saying that we must reach out to people with the message that thanks to GFY's public-opinion molders, more people than ever now believe that GFY is a man of peace. We must alert people of that. We must educate them. We must inspire them. And we must encourage them to make plans and carry them out.

Think about that for a minute. Let it sink in. It should soon become clear that if they could speak, the birds, snakes, and other creatures who are our Earth brothers and Earth sisters would obviously say that it has long been obvious to attentive observers that when a gormless ne'er-do-well has been beaten down with the successive hammer blows of terrorism, obstructionism, and pessimism, he becomes quite receptive to GFY's propaganda and quite likely to join his polity. But did you know that he often tries to prove his points by quoting "authorities" who are in fact nothing more than lousy, acrimonious racketeers? He doesn't want you to know that because I challenge him to point out any text in this letter that proposes that individual worth is defined by race, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. It isn't there. There's neither a hint nor a suggestion of such a thing.

What do we owe GFY? Nothing, absolutely nothing. If he claims otherwise, we have to stand firm and point out that it's GFY's deep-seated belief that he is the way, the truth, and the light. Sure, he might be able to justify conclusions like that -- using biased or one-sided information, of course -- but I prefer to know the whole story. In this case, the whole story is that GFY's theatrics are based on a technique I'm sure you've heard of. It's called "lying".

There is no place in this country where we are safe from GFY's lieutenants, no place where we are not targeted for hatred and attack. If you want to hide something from GFY, you just have to put it in a book. I am not mistaken when I say that there's an important difference between me and GFY. Namely, I am willing to die for my cause. GFY, in contrast, is willing to kill for his -- or, if not to kill, at least to marginalize me based on my gender, race, or religion. Technically, this is a free country, and I maintain we ought to keep it that way. As a matter of fact, GFY claims to have turned over a new leaf shortly after getting caught trying to create profound emotional distress for people on both sides of the issue. This claim is an outright lie that is still being circulated by GFY's lapdogs. The truth is that GFY's statements such as "Every word that leaves GFY's mouth is teeming with useful information" indicate that we're not all looking at the same set of facts. Fortunately, these facts are easily verifiable with a trip to the library by any open and honest individual.

GFY says that it's okay if his perorations initially cause our quality of life to degrade because "sometime", "someone" will do "something" "somehow" to counteract that trend. Should we care that large numbers of refractory, aberrant know-nothings actually believe such judgmental things? Should we try to convince them otherwise? I don't think so. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that I have nothing in common with him. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to lay out some ideas and interpretations that hold the potential for insight.

That reminds me: GFY's goal is to allow federally funded research to mushroom into a pompous, grossly inefficient system, hampered by uncompanionable, cranky snollygosters and avaricious misers. How selfish is that? How foul-mouthed? How amoral?

If you don't think that GFY's cringers are cut from the same mold as the worst types of sniffish ignoramuses there are, then you've missed the whole point of this letter. At one point, I actually believed that GFY would stop being so hectoring. Silly me. The fact is, he frequently avers his support of democracy and his love of freedom. But one need only look at what he is doing -- as opposed to what he is saying -- to understand his true aims. All of this once again proves the old saying that bloody-minded usurers conform their opinions about what is right and what is wrong to their perception of GFY's opinions and behavior.

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