May 10, 2007 journal, a vote in Iraq could send the case to United Nations for freedom. Yes, for their freedom from us their oppressors. We have not noticed all the propaganda about liberty and freedom that we are the occupiers and murderers and oppressors with the great decider at the wheel. if you listen to the fundamentalist Christian red states you get the feeling that all Jewish people favor the war to protect the modern state of Israel, but when you travel to the north every Jewish person you meet opposes the war. There is a disconnect someplace along the way. The fundamentalist Christian people, a movement within the Protestant multi denominational Church helped to elect this administration and a president falsely claiming to be Christian. The church reserves judgment on those who claim to be 'born again' believers and tolerate their ugly ways. "You shall know a tree by the fruit it bears". If this president is a Christian I will be a monkey's uncle for sure. Time to deal with Greg bottoms beginning with asking for an investigation of his teaching practices at the University of Vermont request to the University president. Complain to the Writers Guild. complain to the University of Virginia and question their teaching him to lie in getting his MA. I wonder if the movie 'hangman also hang' is still available. complain to the Department of Education federal and state. Ask for investigations. creative nonfiction fictional memoir writing will not stand the light of day once it is exposed. Bottoms has taken it out of context and the educators have yet to recognize his insanity because of their own prejudices. Who cares what they say about a few " crazy wild " Southern Christian artists plus one from the too far north woods. We should hire a lawyer to write them all a letter putting them on notice that this is unacceptable after we have put them on notice and requested investigations. bottoms has attacked the anointed of the Lord and his judgment is preset in place already. He declared us insane even in his University of Chicago Press interview news release and used the marginal words shi-ey/pi-s-ing cows which he later recites in the book and he implies I said it. bottoms is insane and is a compulsive liar and needs psychiatric help. He is not one generation removed from the poor Christian south, he is only about three years removed from the poor Christian south where he was born and raised not far from Blacksburg Virginia where demonic teachings are displayed on the websites of the professors at Virginia Tech at least one dozen. Bottoms seems to be from the same league of demonic obsessed professors. bottoms scatter guns his creative fictional writing to include every inflammatory issue he can think of or find on the Internet to include, to damn his subjects as he targets the Christian south and visionary artist. We are fighting a real devil here. the most popular creative nonfiction writer was on TV two weeks ago and he has been employed by the federal government to write ter-r*ist scenarios but he says emphatically that otherwise it must be accurate when writing about real people. I have send you the article on demonic professors at Virginia Tech naming their websites and the writer says no wonder cho went crazy. things are changing for the worse but also for the better as things happen like Virginia Tech is going to eventually look for the psychological causes which is visible like the truth to the church and the preachers but they choose to ignore it. bottoms quotes a Jewish person as saying the fundamentalist Christian movement is....... this is more of bottoms stirring up trouble in every word of his book. bottoms speaks of my depression, I am not depressed! I have never been depressed and never spoke with him about any depression. Depression is a pre requisite to insanity therefore he has to make me depressed artificially as part of his game as he prays upon the innocent. in the Chicago Press interview which I believe bottoms wrote both sides, he declares us all insane even though with all the hundreds of articles that have been written about these five artists over 20 years not one that has ever been made that one of them is crazy. Bottoms is the one that's insane. I am one of the subjects in Greg Todd Bottoms book The Colorful Apocalypse. He may have told you that there is a great deal of controversy about the book, in which portrays me as a right-wing, Christian Fundamentalist, but I am not, and I ask your indulgence. While I am Christian, I am not the right-wing, prejudiced, or the mental case Bottoms has portrayed me to be. I welcomed him into our home and showed him my artwork in part because of his credentials from the University of Vermont., he then misrepresented me (and others) in his book. In my mind, what he has written is defamation of character. The book is full of lies, exaggerations, distortions and fabrications under the guise of creative nonfiction memoir writings about real people. 62 pages are about me while 55 pages are about my artist friend Norbert H. Kox in Green Bay Wisconsin, a majority of his 182 page book. He speaks of my depression but I am not depressed never speaking with him about it which is a precondition for a case of insanity perhaps like his brother Michael. The controversy is in fact being fed by Bottoms actions. When I attempted to defend myself in public, Bottoms responded by posting long, unprofessional ramblings on book sites. So Bottoms is creating much of the controversy himself. Bottoms was successful in getting all rebuttals removed from Amazon which is his activity to control free speech. While being offered as an art book before and after, the book actually has no art images. I know Bottoms received a grant from your University to write the book and that he is tenured there as a professor. It concerns me that the University is associated with some one so unprofessional. If there was a chance of misinterpretation, he could have contacted me or the other artists for clarification. He should have submitted the manuscript to us for review. If honest, he should have researched his subjects, rather than proceed to writing a book based on his slanted beliefs, his own agenda. We cannot allow this book to become our history. I question the accuracy of his many other books even his "Angelhead" about his brothers descent into madness. My life and art is an open book see arthompson.com My questions are 1-Are you aware that Greg Bottoms is taking creative nonfiction memory writing to the extreme into fictional writing about real people changing their characters dramatically? Then he is threatening us to not speak out against him in his referring to his tapes and notes. Bottoms changed my vision to paint art quoting me as having seen the entire Book of Revelation as the apostle John saw. Bottoms tapes will prove him a vicious liar when compared to his colorful book, why does he hate us so bad? 2-Are you aware Greg Bottoms is practicing psychiatry in diagnosing us all as insane? Are there penalties for practicing psychiatry without a license? 3-Are you aware that Greg Bottoms in his book makes fun of Southern people, Christian people and visionary artist? Hundreds of articles written about these five visionary artists over the years but never has there been one hint of insanity mentioned until bottoms takes it upon himself to prove all Christian visionary artists are like his "schizophrenic brother" whom he never told us about in the interview. I consider Bottoms to be the insane one. It also concerns me that he is teaching writing when he has behaved so irresponsibly. Is he teaching his students that they can use a scatter-gun approach to writing, that it is fine to destroy lives and careers by tossing around opinions? We have asked the publisher to recall the book and give us equal time to correct all the malicious lies and insinuations. Bottoms writes in his book that he is one generation removed from "the poor south" but when he contacted me he said he lived near I-81 in Virginia (not far from Blacksburg). It is my feeling that it would be best to advise you of my concerns. I can only hope you will honestly evaluate Bottoms. Bottoms is acting like a madman and he is now posting replies to all the comments where the books are sold online. Read his many comments on the Powell's Books site under The Colorful Apocalypse, he has posted 2 in one day even though those lines are for readers' comments and not for authors to rewrite their book. Bottoms is no David Baldacci who says his writings must be accurate about real people. Imagine having someone to change your theology and speak for you from his own mind. Sincerely, William Thomas Thompson Greg bottoms has lost his cool. The University of Chicago Press and the President of the University of Vermont. Regarding Greg Bottoms book Colorful Apocalypse using his version of creative nonfiction memoir writing. April 28, 2007 Bottoms is completely out of control like a madman responding to everyone that post a comment on Powell's books site under The Colorful Apocalypse, this is unprofessional. It is time you stop supporting your man and realize you have a problem on your hands. Read all of his ranting and raging responses on Powell's Books and other websites. The man needs help. Bottoms is a pathological liar and he is showing signs of instability. In his last response his second one to post on Friday (2 in one day) on Powell's Books, he is still claiming he quoted my vision correctly and as usual he intimidates me in saying he has it all on tape which is a lie, his tapes will prove him a liar. It is time now to stop his outrage. It is as though he put a new face on me and changed my characteristics as his victim to be someone I am not. Bottoms is nothing more than a scam artist instigating conflict. View my 700 paintings of art on my website arthompson.com to see not one racist or anti-Semitic work of art. I am preparing a list of lies about me in his book. His tapes need to be heard fully every page to show his pattern of lying. Why is Bottoms so angry and hateful toward Christian artists? Bottoms threats to sue do not frighten me at all and to that I say be my guest, make my day, save me the time. Every time he writes another wrangling reply he recites those key inflammatory false phrases of racism and anti-Semitic expecting that I will rollover and play dead for him but I will not until the truth is known. Obviously Bottoms cannot stand the light of truth and that may explain why he is responding so wildly. Since he teaches this creative nonfiction writing technique to his students at the University of Vermont, he needs to be analyzed and investigated to see what damage he may be going to others. Sincerely William Thomas Thompson Re: Gregory Bottoms Dear Dr. Fogel: I am one of the subjects in Greg Todd Bottoms book The Colorful Apocalypse. He may have told you that there is a great deal of controversy about the book, in which portrays me as a right-wing, Christian Fundamentalist, but I am not, and I ask your indulgence. While I am Christian, I am not the right-wing, prejudiced, or the mental case Bottoms has portrayed me to be. I welcomed him into our home and showed him my artwork in part because of his credentials from the University of Vermont. He then misrepresented me (and others) in his book. In my mind, what he has written is defamation of character. The book is full of lies, exaggerations, distortions and fabrications under the guise of creative nonfiction memoir writing. A majority of his 182 page book (62 pages) is about me while 55 pages are about my artist friend Norbert H. Kox in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He speaks of my depression but I am not depressed and never spoke with him about depression. But it is clear to me that Bottoms set out to prove that Visionary artists are mentally ill, and he wrote whatever he had to write to give the public that impression. He spends much of the book diagnosing. The controversy is in fact being fed by Bottoms actions. When I attempted to defend myself in public, Bottoms responded by posting long, unprofessional ramblings on book sites. So Bottoms is creating much of the controversy himself. He was successful in getting all rebuttals removed from Amazon which is his activity to control free speech. While being offered as an art book before and after, the book actually has no art images. I know Bottoms received a grant from your University to write the book and that he is tenured there as a professor. It concerns me that the University is associated with some one so unprofessional. If there was a chance of misinterpretation, he could have contacted me or the other artists for clarification. He should have submitted the manuscript to us for review. If honest, he should have researched his subjects, rather than proceed to writing a book based on his slanted beliefs, his own agenda. We cannot allow this book to become our history. I question the accuracy of his many other books even his "Angelhead" about his brothers descent into madness. My life and art is an open book see arthompson.com My questions are 1-Are you aware that Greg Bottoms is taking creative nonfiction memory writing to the extreme into fictional writing about real people changing their characters dramatically, that he is threatening us to not speak out against him by referencing his tapes and notes? Bottoms changed my vision to paint art quoting me as having seen the entire Book of Revelation as the Apostle John saw. Bottoms tapes will prove him a vicious liar if compared to his colorful book. Why does he hate us so bad? 2-Are you aware Greg Bottoms is practicing psychiatry in diagnosing us all as insane? Are there penalties for practicing psychiatry without a license? 3-Are you aware that Greg Bottoms in his book makes fun of Southern people, Christian people and visionary artist? Hundreds of articles written about these five visionary artists over the years but never has there been one hint of insanity mentioned until bottoms takes it upon himself to prove all Christian visionary artists are like his "schizophrenic brother" whom he never told us about during the interview. It also concerns me that he is teaching writing when he has behaved so irresponsibly. Is he teaching his students that they can use a scatter-gun approach to writing, that it is fine to destroy lives and careers by tossing around opinions? We have asked the publisher to recall the book and give us equal time to correct all the malicious lies and insinuations. Bottoms writes in his book that he is one generation removed from "the poor south" but when he contacted me he said he lived near I-81 in Virginia (not far from Blacksburg). It is my feeling that it would be best to advise you of my concerns. I can only hope you will honestly evaluate Bottoms. He is acting like a madman and he is now posting replies to all the comments where books are sold online. Read his many comments on the Powell's Books site under The Colorful Apocalypse, he posted 2 in one day even though those lines are for readers' comments and not for authors to rewrite their books. Bottoms is no David Baldacci who says his writing must be accurate when it's about real people. Imagine having someone to change your theology and speak for you from his own mind. Sincerely, William Thomas Thompson