"Editorial" on Issues: AIDS... Iraq... 
William Stoertz
February 6, 1998 

     We should of course be serious and concerned when we see 
what is happening with AIDS, that now 40 million people around 
the world are infected with HIV virus and thus condemned to 
almost certain death within ten years or so, and it is spreading 
like wildfire. 
     How could someone be so irresponsible as to say, "Oh, it is 
God's judgment; let the sinners perish."? 
     When we see that our President himself is up to his neck 
in scandals relating to more than one partner, we cannot say or 
think, "It is just him. Let's get him. Let the ax fall." Then 
we are like sharks ourselves. 
     Instead we should see the President as the figurehead and 
typical, I suppose, model or example of the whole nation. What 
he is doing, we all have been doing. We also elected him, TWICE! 
He must be an extension of our own personality and character. He 
is, at least supposed to be, the Father figure for the nation. 
So how can we just accuse him without reflecting it on ourselves? 
Although I am not saying the facts shouldn't be brought to light 
and justice done, and probably he shouldn't be in office for this. 
     It means, who is the sinners? It is all of us. Me. 
     It is a national disgrace when the President behaves in such 
a way, and it reflects upon all of us. 
     So what about AIDS? Definitely, we should work hard for a 
solution. Do you know that, for all the billions of dollars spent 
on AIDS research, scientists have more than doubled the knowledge 
of genetics, cell machinery, medicine, biochemistry, techniques? 
It is a tremendous payoff, like the space program in the sixties 
and seventies. 
     Furthermore, look at the heart (attitude) of those working 
hard on the problem and championing research: They are shedding 
their tears in desperate agony, concerned for the victims of the 
disease, and now they are even risking their own lives. Did you 
read the recent report that 300 top doctors (not fools) volunteered 
to inject themselves with heat-weakened HIV serum, to try and 
develop antibodies to HIV, so as to innoculate the whole population,
as well as treat the sick? They are facing death themselves if it 
fails, or if a mistake was made. Because of such a sacrificial 
attitude and spirit, surely the cure is forthcoming. 
     What is the internal basis for a cure for AIDS? In a word, 
it is "pure love and true family". Get it? That is the exact 
prevention, and the cure, what's more. Another way to put it: 
"Absolute sex", as opposed to "free sex". Absolute sex binds 
true couples together in eternal marriage, whereas free sex is 
irresponsible and destructive. Absolute sex is more joyful and 
gives long-lasting satisfaction than furtive or rebellious free 
sex. 
     The reason we need a moral cure or solution before we can have 
any external (medical) cure, is that the disease itself was caused 
and spread by immoral behavior (sex with animals, mixing blood, 
drug abuse, homosexuality, and free sex). So there will be no cure 
as long as people keep doing that. 
     Now that the internal or root (fundamental) cure is established, 
scientists, lo and behold! have come up with some very effective 
preventative and healing treatments. Simultaneously both in Russia 
and the USA were announced two separate cures, one using radioactivity 
and the other using vaccination. 
     Of course, the quest is not done. The cures and treatments must 
get better and better. Then the disease must be eradicated. Otherwise 
all those people who were infected will pass the virus on to their 
children through their genes. 
     But the social, moral and ethical cures, are the following: 
(1) Teach "Pure Love and True Family Values" throughout the world at 
all schools and working places. This is not merely abstinence, which 
is rather unattractive and puritanical. Rather, this is aggressive, 
family centered, exciting, positive, and constructive education for 
successful and meaningful families. 
(2) Administer the "Blessing Ceremony" to all people in the world. 
For married couples, they should rededicate their vows. 
For single adults, they should get married and stay faithful, centered 
upon this marriage Blessing. 
For young people, even children, they must be administered the 
symbolic "Holy Wine" approved by both religious and social organizations, 
which purifies (sanctifies) their blood and enables them to have pure 
and unstained marriage relations in the future, and in the meantime 
they must stay chaste and receive family education. 
Babies in the womb, already conceived, are sanctified (purified) when 
their pregnant mommies receive the Holy Wine. 
     It is hard to believe that such a cure would work, but in fact 
it does very well, and the sickness never comes back, unless the 
people engage in illicit relations again. Even if some accident or 
mistake occurs, it can be corrected and restored too. 
     That's why we are desperate to advertise our cure for the 
family sickness affecting people the world over, and are working as 
hard as possible to spread this cure all over the world through the 
Blessing. So far 55 million couples have been Blessed in this way. 

     Iraq? Oh, come, not again...!? 
     Yes! Because something we did not do right the last time. That's 
why the same exact problem has returned to plague us again. 
     What was our mistake before? Basically, a cowboy mentality, that 
we can go in there with guns blazing, shoot the bad guy, and get out 
clean. I'm not even going to speak about imperialistic shades and all 
that messy ideological stuff. Anyway, since America's foundation, we 
have had the problem of solving problems, not in the Christian way, 
but by the high road -- power, money, weapons, politics, business deals. 
     After we hit Iraq the last time, Saddam was still there, and he 
kept making weapons and igniting his people, and we certainly didn't 
win any of them as friends. 
     Interestingly, the last time 'round, 1990-'91, Saddam himself 
suggested a solution: he said, "Why don't you, instead, with all that 
money, build us a Disneyland here, and you'll have all of us for 
friends!" Of course, we were all too hot under the collar for that. 
Anyway, it is not so simple. Of course, they are evil aggressors, and 
in the same way, we should have stopped Hitler sooner. But still, it 
didn't work, let's face it. 
     What is the sense in Saddam's suggestion? It means, at the core, 
that love is the key, and from the beginning, we should be striving 
harder to love and serve the whole world, with all our blessings, and 
that we neglected many people, and now they feel frustrated, jealous, 
and resentful. So they struck, like Cain or Esau. It's the same old 
story. 
     But, the solution is not simple at all, especially to repair 
long-standing, historical (4,000 years) damage done. 
     Anyway, for sure, this time around, America will not do well to 
use unilateral military force. We will lose friends, and forever 
seal off our chances with the Iraqis and some others too. I think, 
instead, we are given a second chance to find a more mature and 
civilized solution. It will required world-level consultation, some 
humility on our part, and we should all grow through the process. 
Then, by and by, we might even start to meet Iraqis, and get to know 
them, and find they are quite likeable (as I have also met some 
on the streets here in Moscow). 
     Granted, the first time, in 1990-'91, our own national pride 
was very much at stake, and we had suffered badly in Vietnam and 
Afghanistan and other places, and had only begun to lift up our 
spirits with Grenada. So, as I remember, how we came to the Persian 
Gulf in 1990, we needed to unite and find a patriotic cause. So it 
is very much understandable, and likewise our movement supported 
this patriotic cause at that time. But now, what is required is a 
deeper, more fundamental, more advanced, more harmonizing solution. 
     I think it is forthcoming. 
     And God help us that Clinton won't try to save his own face by 
trying to call attention away from his personal scandals, by calling 
a rash attack on Iraq at this time, in such a political move. It 
would be the worst mistake, for the whole nation and world.