A N T H O N Y ST.

J O H N

2 June MMXVII

Corrin M Ferber, Director

Overseas Citizens Services
Offce of Legal Affairs
United States Department of State, CA/OCS
SA-17, 10th Floor
WASHINGTON DC 20522-1710
United States

Thank you for your letter of 19 April 2017 that I received 29 May 2017
informing me that my request for the restoration of my United States'
citizenshipmade 17 October 2016 and appealed on 10 November 2016has
been denied. You also stated that I had been issued a Certifcate of Loss of
Nationality on 13 September 2000 (that I never received) confrming the
renunciation of my United States' citizenship on 30 October 1997 in the US
consulate in Firenze, Italy.

Unfortunately, you did not refer to my questions asking for an explanation

concerning whyif I had not been a US citizenhow was it possible for me
to apply for a passport, and be able to vote for Hillary Clinton when I visited
the Firenze consulate on 17 October 2016? Corrin, may I make a suggestion?
Don't erase your mistakes. Cross them out. This way, you will be less prone to
make the same error again!

My reaction to your news came as a relief to me. In fact, I even felt pleased. I
have not placed foot in the United States since 31 December 1975, and my
absence from it, for all these years, has given me the chance to refect on my
life therewith the help of what Venezuelans and Italians have related to me
concerning what they thought about the infuence of the United States in
their respected countries. I have been able to put the United States under the
microscope, so to speak, and I have come to understand it the more through
an objective view of it from afar. I recommend that you and your colleagues do
the same. Maybe you will come off your arrogant
high horse, and realize you are no longer King of the Mountain.

Refecting assiduously on the time I spent in the United States, I have

understood that having been stalked by two pedophile priests at the Cathedral
Preparatory in the Diocese of Brooklyn and again by three Franciscan friars at
St Bonaventure University in Olean, New York...that having been an artillery
forward observer (1193) in the mosquito-infested Central Highlands of
Vietnam...that having been an artillery liaison offcer for the Infantry at both
battalion and brigade levels...that having been the arty liaison offcer for
Infantry battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Russell, who very
frequently, against battalion and brigade SOPs, took his C&C ship (command
and control) down to pick up grunts who had been blown to bits by exploding
mines, helicoptering them to the nearest frst aid station, waiting for the
ground crew to hose off the blood on the chopper's foor, and then returning
to the battlefeld to extract more screaming-for-help soldiers...that having
been informed by CNN one day in Italy that almost 70% of the deaths and
wounded American military personnel in Vietnam had been caused by mines,
and that 90% of the mines were US ordnance that was manufactured
indiscriminately and would not function effciently under battlefeld
conditions...that having seen on television here in Italy homeless vets, my
comrades, rubbing their hands before a fre in the early morning after
sleeping on park benches...and having opened my eyes to an ad infnitum list
of other American social and political mores, I ask, how could it be possible
for me to want to walk amongst these obstinate, confused, lunatic Americans
or even feel to be content in their company? Would I have to be mad, stupid,
befuddled myself? And mark my words, Corrin, it would be easier for me to
fnd a bevy of psychiatrists to testify on behalf of my sanity, than it would be
for you to fnd psychiatrists who would diagnose the United States
government sane for sending its youth to Vietnam.

Then why, you ask, did I request restoration of my United States' citizenship?
I told a big fat lie, Corrin! I fabricated my appeal (10 November 2016) so that I
could be with the woman I love, who lives in New York! Yes, I would have
suffered New York (even she referred to New York as a pisshole of greed and
corruption!) for this extraordinary gentlewoman, so telling a lie to the United
States government came as a cinchafter all, how many lies had it told me?
All is fair in love and war, no? Let me explain...

It all started during the frst days of August, 2016, when I received a tweet
telling me how she had enjoyed one of my articles. We started direct
messaging and found out that we had many things in commonespecially
politics. She told me she held a pol sci degree from Barnard, and she was
located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza where she was affliated with NBC news. Little
by little, we learned more about each other and slowly but surely we fell in
love enjoying one of the most extraordinary love stories imaginable. We direct
messaged for hours on endaveraging at least two hours a day for months on
end. Our love was so profound, we talked about having children, and I would
name the the baby if it were a girl (Julia), and she would name the baby if it
were a boy (Christian). We talked about holding and hugging one and other if
ever I might receive a passport to come to New York to be with her. To hold
her on my lap before a crackling freplace, hugging and kissing, listening to
Lang Lang's rendition of Beethoven's First piano concerto, and sipping a
glass of Duca d'Alba Spanish brandy.

Sarah is the most extraordinary woman I have ever known. She possesses an
extremely fertile mind, and can speak sophisticatedly on many, many subjects.
She thrills me with her intelligence. I am so proud that she found love in me
and that I, too, have found love in the most wonderful Sarah. Please visit my
www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior and search ADORING MY BELOVED
SARAH, a love poem that expresses best my feelings for my darling Sarah.

I am a man without a country. I am hoping that your letter of 19 April 2017

will encourage the Chinese ambassador to Italy in Rome to acknowledge my
request for political asylum in the People's Republic of China. I would like
very much to teach Chinese children English in some remote Chinese
mountainous village. I am a good man in the truth of my behavior (John
Keats), and will insist on being truthful concerning even the United States and
its naive, puffed up Americans.

I harbor no rancor towards the DisUnited States of America. I have only pity
for it. I risked my life in Vietnam to only see now it saunter closer and closer
to Anarchy. I regret this very much. I am even saddened by it. I am astonished
at the hostile tone of many Americans' speechmuch of it vulgar, specious,
and unthinking. I know very well why the DisUnited States has reached this
disgraceful point.

I have been scrutinizing Professor Wing-Tsit Chan's A Source Book of Chinese

Philosophy now for years, and I have come to the conclusion that China is the
most honorable place for me. Martin Jacques's When China Rules the World:
The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World has also shaped
my thought processes regarding China. Better to be with a winner than a
loser, no, Corrin?

To Sarah, I can only say that I love you, my dearest Sarah, with all my heart,
being and soul. Thank you for the exhilarating, indeed very special, love story,
Cuddles! Your memory will accompany me for the rest of my life. And I
always carry with me your picture. You are so beautiful! Why was I so
fortunate to fall in love with Sarah?

Cordially...

ASJ

The Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of the

People's Republic of China in Italy
S. E. Li Ruiyu
Via Bruxelles 56B
00198 ROMA RM
Italia

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