Why Johnny Can't Come Home [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Noreen N. Gosch (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 340 pages
• Publisher: Johnny Gosch Foundation (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970519508
• ISBN-13: 978-0970519504
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,470,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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45 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clearing a path to the Truth, May 16, 2001

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Judy Dragon, Co-editor and writer for "Mu... (CA.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Why Johnny Can't Come Home (Paperback)

We are both mothers, and our children have been abused. Noreen and I have been corresponding for over a year and a half. I know what it took for her to gather all the information and documents to present a chronologically accurate story of the darker and covert elements of Johnny's kidnapping. The agencies that were supposed to protect our children and ourselves can no longer be glorified or trusted--they never could be, but we wanted to believe differently. We wanted to believe that Efraim Zimbalist Jr., starring in the FBI, was a moral representation of the FBI. We wanted to believe that Mel Gibson was actually helped by the CIA in "The Conspiracy Theory". The times have come to expose the years of denial of what really exists. This book is not about conspiracies because there are no conspiracies, only those who attempt to hide the truth of their insidious intent and actions. It is not too late to be outraged and call for accountability! Child abuse, ritual abuse, intentional trauma-based programmed mind control, and secret, black-funded government agencies and projects must be thoroughly exposed. Noreen has risked her life to expose the truth, a path few are willing to travel; and with all this, the gift to her was gaining her peace of mind, and perhaps, someday, Johnny can really come home. I thank Noreen for her unbridled courage, and I invite all to read and share her story.

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An especially disturbing case, September 3, 2006

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Scott R. Driver (Tucson AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Johnny Can't Come Home (Paperback)

Johnny Gosch was abducted as a 12 year old paper boy in Iowa at the exact same time as I was a 12 year old paper boy in Iowa. Another Iowa paper boy close in age was abducted (no trace ever surfaced) soon after Gosch, which whipped the issue into a froth that caught the end of my childhood in its wake. Vulnerability and powerlessness is part and parcel of childhood, and that together with the considerable media attention for his case and the similarity of our life circumstances had something of an impact on me. Though I have no connection to the Gosch family, I've always felt a particular affinity for the case and have carefully followed the bizarre and perplexing developments throughout the years, always to an extent reliving the original anxiety.

To this very day the case continues to evolve. Extremely significant new evidence surfaced just this week.

There's plenty in this book that the author couldn't pray to substantiate in a lifetime of research. But a large part of me believes that the truth of the case will someday surface, and I have no doubt it will be extraordinarily unsettling in its scope and egregiousness.

40 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, but Badly Written, March 14, 2006

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southpaw68 "southpaw68" (florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Why Johnny Can't Come Home (Paperback)

This book has a lot of grammatical errors and repetitions in it. It really needs a lot of writing, organizing, and editing work. It's an English teacher's nightmare with errors such as spelling "sadist" as "saddest" and putting little dots in like this: ..., when they aren't needed. But the story of Johnny Gosch who was kidnapped is presented and the author, his mother, shows the reader that the crime has ties to many other things going wrong in our world today.

The author Noreen Gosch goes beyond her own son's case and reveals other cases of strangers abducting children. She suspects that it is a crime that is organized by rogue people in government and other positions of power.

She finally meets her son and along the way was able to gather some evidence of what happened to him. Unfortunately, many in law enforcement weren't interested in pursuing her case. She thinks that certain officials were not doing anything on purpose and covering up for people doing the crime.

The book goes on to reveal the unethical doings of the NAMBLA pedophile group, the media, and government agencies such as the CIA and FBI.

There was a lot of media coverage given to the story nationally, but in some cases, whenever the story was going to get on a prestigious show, as opposed to freak talk shows, the media would be under pressure not to run the story, and they didn't run it. Often the media won't cover a story if it involves powerful people who don't want to be exposed and reporters can be intimidated by lawsuits and with death and violence.

It seems that rogue elements in the government are using children as mind control slaves for sex, drug running, and blackmail. The CIA is particularly condemned in the book and Gosch advocates reforming the National Security Act so that unethical things done against citizens cannot be covered up "for reasons of national security". The CIA also has operatives in the media who spread disinformation.

The satanic ritual abuse done against the kidnapped children covered in the book also serves the purpose of shattering the personality into different compartments so that a "program" can be called up for different tasks that the mind control slave will perform.

Some people are in denial that kids can be snatched off the streets for nefarious purposes and blame Noreen Gosch for not watching over her child well enough to make themselves feel confident that it won`t happen to a kid they care about.

The author advocates that we become actively involved in protecting children from these criminals by demanding justice for their crimes.

The book has a lot of shocking things in it such as a certain famous comedian with a sunny demeanor who bought his own child slave at an underground auction.