Q & A with Kal Korff about Bob Heironimus

Kal Korff is an internationaly known Author, Broadcaster and Investigative Journalist known for his hard hitting exposes. Korff is also President and CEO of CriticalThinkers and wrote the Foreword for Greg Long's book. Kal returns to the radio airwaves after a four years hiatus with this popular segment, The Korff Report/Kal's Korner on March 13, 2004.

What motivates you to do these big, intensive investigations you always seem to be either a part of, or leading?
I have dedicated my entire life, all of my very being, to the following:

1. Conduct entirely original research
2. Finish research or studies left incomplete or unresolved by others
3. Examine existing issues or problems, analyze and understand them, then try to implement the best solutions possible, with the objective of resolution.

EVERYTHING I do in my life, either falls into these three criteria, or I am NOT interested, period.

You have a small, but very vocal group of self-described "critics" -- these are people who are very vocal about your work, and seem to always be hostile to it, no matter what you do. Why do you think you cause such a binary reaction in people? You seem to bring out people's passions: People seem to either admire you greatly, if not "love" you, or complain very loudly and try to always undermine you.

I think if you do NOT have so-called "critics" in your life, then you have not done much with your life.

You MUST keep things in perspective here: I have been in the news media for some 30 years now, ever since I was a young boy. During that time, I can count the "negative" articles about me in the mainstream media on ONE finger. If I then count the number of "negative" articles about me that are ACCURATE, this number goes DOWN TO ZERO! I will take this "winning percentage" any day, and pit it against any of the "arguments" that my so-called "critics" care to try and attack me with.

I don't worry much about people who attack me for emotional reasons, that is THEIR problem so to speak. Regardless of what someone may think of me personally, which I have to laugh at because most of the people do NOT know me personally at all, and can't seem to remember even what COUNTRY I live in -- I am too busy doing RESEARCH and MAKING A DIFFERENCE to MOST PEOPLE and I am too busy trying to make a difference in this world. I am here to Serve and Inform. THANKFULLY, the handful of vocal, noisy negativists that call themselves my "critics" are NOT in the majority, in fact they are the rare exception. THEY are the ones that have to face the hard facts and refute my work, not me. Whenever I discover a truth that people care about, I have a moral and spiritual obligation to get it out to the public in as wide a variety of forums and avenues as possible. I am not obligated to respond or spend any time on those who just do not "get it" or cannot see things objectively. As the popular saying goes: I can lead a horse to water, make the horse even drink it, but I CANNOT guarantee that the horse will LIKE it and recommend it to their friends.

You tend to be blunt and speak openly. Do you think that hurts or helps you?

I think the correct answer is that it helps DEFINE who you are and what you stand for. Look, truth is important. Reality is important. Facts are important. The issues I study, expose and write about; research and devote my existence to, are extremely deep, and if I may say so, are considered to universally be some of the most important subjects known. This is not my ego talking, I am speaking facts, just look at what my books are about and WHERE they are heading, like my next book, which is on TERRORISM. I do NOT believe in being "politically correct" at the expense of the truth. When one does that, truth is compromised. I am here to make a difference in this world, to get people to think critically about important issues, and try to make us face some of our very real problems. If we do not face them, and FIX THEM, we are doomed as a species, and the END will MOST LIKELY COME before this century ends, even perhaps in my lifetime. I need no other motive to keep me focused than this fact. Even if we would last anothr 1 million years being as destructive as we are, still, I think morally and spiritually, we have along ways to go before we get our collective act togeter as a species. I do not know when or if this will ever happen. I just know that we MUST try, or DIE TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING. Right now, we are slowly wiping ourselves out because of greed and nationalism.

Your critics call you a "debunker" or a "skeptic" -- how do you respond to that?

It is a LIE, of course. Just remember WHOM you are citing, this extremely vocal but thankfully extremely minor "penis gallery" of critics I have. Notice I said "penis gallery", NOT "peanut gallery" -- I would not want to insult food, it did nothing wrong.

I am NOT a "debunker" although if I were, there would be NOTHING wrong with this. You see, my "critics" are so SCREWED UP that they have FORGOTTEN what the word DEBUNKER means! Look it up in the DICTIONARY: it means to take the BUNK or things that are NOT TRUE and remove them! I find that to be a NOBLE cause. MAYBE I SHOULD become a "debunker" -- if I did the cause would be noble, and for once my "critics" would be right!

To PROVE to you just how WAY OFF BASE my "critics" are, they do not seem to understand one simple concept: I am JUST A RESEARCHER. I research, and then I publish and inform the public.

I am the ONLY person who can speak for myself and truly tell you what I am and what it is that I stand for. No one else can, and those who pretend to be able to do exactly this are not only wrong, but often do not tell the truth. ASK me and I will tell you, that is one refershing advantage of being blunt and open.

Your next book project is totally UNRELATED to the paranormal. Your next book, Secret Wars, is about Terrorism. WHY?

I have been secrety involved in fighting against organized terrorism since 1980, and in my new book I start off right away talking about this. In my opinion, the issue of terrorism should NOT be a source for division and conflict among nations. INSTEAD, it should be a train of hope that every civilized nation should get aboard, and we should ride it all the way to victory. Then, after the immediate threats of organized terrorism are eliminated, we should BUILD upon this momentum that has been generated that united us all in this cause. If our planet can unite JUST ONCE, then it can do so a SECOND TIME. We can and SHOULD use this positive energy to forge ahead and tackle very real other problems that are just as bad, and existed long before there were suicide bombers. I am talking about the environment and not destroying it, overpopulation, the spread of AIDS. EVERY world cause should UNITE us, NOT divide us. The problems that affect us ALL, we should all affect! But too many people say "that is not my problem," or WORSE, will use the EXCUSE "I can't do anything." It has been my experience that if you believe you CANNOT do something, you NEVER WILL!

Will you use CriticalThinkers to get your message out, now that you are the President and CEO of this metaorganization that now has its hooks buried deep into more than 500 projects around the world?

The short answer is YES. You cannot separate me or my work, or my very being from what CriticalThinkers is about or stands for. I am here to Serve and am trying to make a difference in this world, changing it one person at a time.