Doing Unto Others: The Golden Rule Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780988336988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 444 str.

Mike Bushman

Opis

Stories of atonement, recovery, revenge and inspirational leadership interlace in this compelling tale of an America striving to renew from deep internal divides that nearly destroy the United States in the year 2041. Recognizing that the Golden Rule of treating others as we would want to be treated is a unifying principle able to bring people across faiths together with those who don't believe in a higher power, President Marc Phillipi launches a Constitutional amendment campaign to require government laws and actions to conform with the concept. Along the way, he encounters stiff resistance from those intent on maintaining differential treatment for the powerful. Before he can pursue that campaign, the President follows the Golden Rule by joining U.S. soldiers he orders into battle against those who brought weapons of mass destruction inside U.S. borders, learning the horrors of warfare from intimate proximity. Escaping the wreckage of a compound attack during that war, multi-billionaire drug cartel leader and technology guru Ramon Mantle attempts to build a new life torn from the wealth and power that defined him just days before. Before he can rebuild, he must first survive the pursuit of those desperate to hold him accountable for his past. When the founder of New Rite, the world's largest survivalist training and weapons development company, settles on a new mission, he involuntarily enlists University of Chicago Professor Paul Stark into creating and running a new global trial structure to test the guilt or innocence of those accused of the world's most heinous, but prosecution-ignored slaughters. New Rite's special operations team sets off on missions to eliminate the convicted using newly created, DNA-triggered weaponry as part of the founder's effort to eliminate collateral damage. One of the accused, a former Iranian general suspected of mass terrorism, uses his notoriety in an attempt to cower the U.S. government into accepting Sharia Law rather than risk widespread devastation. Along the way, nineteen-year-old Abril searches for a new place in the world after her convent aspirations are torn from her, fifteen-year-old Clarissa Coleman seeks salvation from suicide with a dangerous mission to save other young girls from lives of torment and Congresswoman Jill Carlson, the girlfriend of Professor Stark, seeks achievements she never dreamed possible when growing up on her family's Indiana dairy farm. University of Chicago students Juan Gonzalez, Rachel Cruz and Tamika Jackson gain platforms to insert their intellectual firepower behind Golden Rule adoption. The Golden Rule may be the single concept incorporated into every major faith and the views of secularists, but making it a formal part of how any nation is governed comes with extraordinary challenge. Can dedication to principle overcome entrenched powers? Can those who seek an integrated world that respects others overcome those who demand segregation or pursue integration only through forcible conversion? Can anyone with unchallenged power to kill be trusted to use that power for the betterment of mankind? Doing Unto Others tests those questions, and many more, in a compelling, twisting tale that leaves readers wondering who to trust and questioning the future facing the world if we continue on our current path.