March 19, 2007 journal, only about half of the Washington D.C. residents can read according to major new sources congratulate high-school considered to be illiterate. Congress surely must have a higher illiteracy rate because they never read the bills they pass. Today they have had to reverse part of the Patriot Act & take back some power from the president on hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys. 50 million people nationwide are listed as illiterate. a poll on CNN ask if this nation could survive with this high rate of illiteracy and 90 percent voted no. University of Chicago Press, Chicago Illinois March 20 07 Thanks for your reply and request for an outline of the many discrepancies. We still ask for an immediate recall of the book while we are preparing the evidence. We got broad sided by poison pen Greg Bottoms in the book Colorful Apocalypse which is full of smut and smear. We agreed to be interviewed for a book about our art but the book is discrediting our work and filled with misquotes, reversal of quotes and quoting us on things we did not say. We were never told that the book would include his insane brother which he says is imprisoned for murder. He never mentioned his brother during the interviews and he never shared the script with us prior to printing. Perhaps you have been victimized also by him but now that you have been informed you must accept the responsibility and remove this book from the market before it causes us more damage. Greg Bottoms seems to be an innocent young man from Virginia that everybody trusts but now he appears to be a schizophrenic and con-artist with a vendetta to destroy us and our Christian theology. I believe he has broken the law seriously and violated us and our art. He could have had a bright future in the outsider art world but now the world will know him as a fraud writer cashing in people for a quick road to fame. Norbert will send you the absolute proof of intentional distortion of our painting entitled Idolatry as it exhibited in the American Visionary Art Museum during the interview but chopped on your book cover with this portion obscured by text. Do you want one clear-cut example of deliberate distortion or do you want a 100. At this point I estimate there are 500 distortions, exaggerations or reversals of truth in the book. In many cases he put statements in quotes as though we said it when we did not and that is fraud and deception. I have not yet acquired a copy but Norbert has read enough to me to make us both sick. The book is destructive. Bottoms would be better suited writing for the National Inquiry. Greg Bottoms may be using us to say what he wants to say for himself. His math is bad also because he could not count above 105 to 666 that was so clearly exhibited on the painting. Norbert will e-mail you a close-up of that portion which will prove Greg a liar for sure without his audiotapes. He has replied defensively saying we are public figures and he can say what he pleases and that he has the audio tapes to prove it. I am very happy he admits to having the tapes because by the tapes we will prove him to be an absolute liar throughout the 62 pages on me and 55 pages on Norbert. One option may be to take those pages out of the book completely if you are going to continue marketing it. It will take another 200 page book to counteract all the fictional garbage he has written. Visionary artists tend to be very trusting and truthful unsuspecting of crooked journalist. The title Colorful Apocalypse is a good title if it were written by an honest writer on a positive note accurately quoting the artist and sharing their views with the general public. The book pits me against people I am not opposed to and it is brutally suggestive. While I claim to be akin to the Israelite people, he has distorted that issue grossly & touched on many potentially inflammable subjects carelessly and maliciously being harmful to many people. I must assume that you did not review the contents before printing this garbage. If we prepare a detail description of the deceptions and call it 'Answer to The Colorful Apocalypse' will you then publish it to correct the damage already done to us? We are asking Chicago University Press to recall the book before more damage is done to us and to avoid major litigation. The book is not at all about our art as was represented to us but it is a distortion of the message and the ministry involved in our work. We are not in art or publishing for money. Truth is more important to us than money as it is for most visionary artists. We get nothing from your book other than trouble. If this book is not recalled from the stores and internet by next week I will seek a legal solution. Sincerely-William Thomas Thompson CBS 60 minutes reported on the indictment of four Marines for the mass killing of Iraqi civilians. four-man were ordered out of a taxi and executed on the spot shot in the back. surrounding houses were invaded and the occupants murdered in a rage of U.S. Marines. It took a year inspite of clear evidence to get the indictments and now other lawyers say it with justified. Our sense of moral values are upside down & this country is upside-down. The mayor of Salt Lake City is openly calling for impeachment of the President citing the war. Bill Moyer said in the last 3 weeks there has been one big scandal per week in this administration. are harder aren't