Our First Hate Mail
It came from a relative of a relative, no less. The book hasn't even been published yet, but we sent an email with a link to download the pre-production "What You Need to Know" booklet (download here) to a number of collegues and some family members. We didn't send it to the family members who have all but disowned me for not sharing their right-wing commitments and for appearing to support one party more than the other. In truth, I support only truth and what is right for our country, our democracy, and the well being of all U.S. citizens, and all world citizens.
One slightly more sympathetic family member forwarded the link to some others, and the next thing you know, we had received our first hate mail in our email box. We'll obscure the woman's name, but she wrote it with an email address from her job with a Catholic Hospital:
To: troothache@aol.com
Subject: thoughts
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:18:01 -0500Don't claim to be in the middle searching for truth - when all you do is spew liberal crap .. try showing both sides fairly, Jill. Your pamphlet, for the most part, made me ill.
Dxxxa (Kxxx - as in Mxxxy's aunt, Jxx's sister) Dxxxxe
Clearly, one reason so few people heed the call to actively participate in helping to heal our world, our country, our society, and our neighborhoods and families, is because those who are afraid to dialogue truthfully about these things may attack those who do, instead of contributing in a meaningful way. This attacking email is only one small example of what those who try to heal the problems in our world can encounter.
My mission in writing Trooth-Ache: The Systemic Pandemic is to lay the important facts out from all facets of society, in as clear and fair of a presentation as I can. This doesn't mean that the finger will point at democrats and republicans equally, especially in these unique times when the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our government have -- fairly or unfairly -- all come under the control of one side, who has made and allowed most of the decisions we discuss in the book and the booklet. If the one-sided government were leaning the other way, it is likely that more of our calls for accountability would be directed to those making the decisions in that party.
I am a patriotic American with no affiliation to any one Party, and, in the past, I've voted Republican, Democrat, Independent, Green, and once wrote in Mickey Mouse when I felt no candidate was worthy of the office of the President.
"Truth is not on the left, nor is it on the right,
it is always always somewhere in the middle."
-- Jill Ferguson
