Lane von Herzen: President Trump, Call My Sons Back, Please

My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.

Friday, April 4, 2025

President Trump, Call My Sons Back, Please

President Trump, if in fact my sons have been deployed to commit assassinations through the unconstitutional Pxxxxxx Program, as the FBI appears to indicate, I respectfully request that they be called home on an immediate basis.

Whether their respective agencies have disclosed to you that they have allegedly deployed my sons, in direct contravention of all ethical standards, remains unclear.

But I believe you disagree with the human trafficking and torture that have been inflicted on my sons and my youngest son's fiancee, in direct violation of their constitutional rights.

And I believe you now wish to stand before the American public, the Congress, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court in order to convey that human trafficking and torture, as perpetrated by the FBI and its affiliates against honorable Americans, is profoundly and unequivocally wrong.

And I believe you now wish to convey that you respect and uphold the Supreme Court's ruling in my favor, indicating that FOIA reports and investigative reports should now be provided to me on an immediate basis, without redaction or omission.

And I believe you now wish to communicate that to turn the sons of a highly honorable whistleblower into murderers at the behest of a corrupt FBI, as President Biden directed during his presidency, represents an intolerable violation of the civil rights of the American public.

And I believe you value the future freedoms of Americans more highly than you do the plans of the FBI and its affiliates to profiteer from the profound and unforgivable harm of America's children, separate and apart from any mission or objectives ever extended to this federal agency or any other.

In recognition of your insistence on leading the United States with character and integrity, I appreciate your intervention to safeguard my family's wellbeing and my own on an immediate basis.

For your reference, Mr. President, this is my son Graham Tate MacWilliams:

And this is my son Duncan Sayer MacWilliams:

Thank you for prioritizing my family's wellbeing and my own by forbidding my sons' participation in any further harms, just as you forbid any further harms from being perpetrated against them by the FBI and its affiliates.

I also extend my gratitude to the U.S. Congress, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court for extending their united support for the full recovery of my sons and my youngest son's fiancee, along with my husband and myself, and including our pets, who have also suffered recent harm at FBI directive.

I look forward to addressing all areas of concern with regard to my case so that my family can be reunited and restored in every capacity, and so that the long term freedoms of Americans can be safeguarded in a manner that will prove us worthy of the public trust.

Thank you for your ethical engagement with this matter, Mr. President.

Sincerely yours,