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I made yet another mistake last night and allowed a group of scientologists who had been harassing and confronting me from the moment I walked off the plane yesterday to bait me into a stupid response around 11:00 pm on Halloween in front of the Fort Harrison. While attempting to call the police and in the process of crossing the street to do so in private a certain scieno decided I was to have no privacy and I responded in a way that the police considered inappropriate on the video replay (my video). That response landed me in the Pinellas County Jail for a couple of hours in the wee hours of the morning on a misdemeanor battery charge.

I would like to apologize for any untowards grief that may befall anyone here as a result of their friendship towards me or implicit association with me by virtue of being opposed to scientology's harassive and abusive tactics as well as their utter hypocrisy and violation of people's civil and human rights. I am not the first person to go to jail by being willing to stand up to a bigoted organization who stomps on the civil and human rights of its members and the public at large. I am also not the stupidest to do that. However, once again, I regret having let down the side of the good guys.

Sincerely,

Bob Minton

P.S. For what its worth, the letter campaign in the last 10 days by the anon cowards of scientology, the visit to my house in New Hampshire by scientologists Saturday night and yesterday's events no doubt shortened my fuse. :-(

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From: David Cecere, ED of the Lisa McPherson Trust <David_member@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: An apology concerning Clearwater
Date: 1 Nov 1999 12:00:23 -0800
Message-ID: <7vkrgn$2val@drn.newsguy.com>

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Greetings all,

This missive to ARS is my first official posting as the Executive Director of the Lisa McPherson Trust. I want to go on record as accepting Bob's apology as his friend and as his colleague.

I abhor violence and as ED of the Lisa McPherson Trust I will never advocate violence towards anyone for any reason. To any and all who would berate Bob for his actions I want to remind you that his is up against an organization that specializes in emotional manipulation, lying to its membership and the public, and the foment of hatred towards all critics of the cult.

Bob's altercation with Flag staffers was unfortunate but it should server as a reminder to anyone who protests the crimes and abuses of the scientology cult: they're playing to win the war they have invented.

David Cecere

P.S. I have signed this message with my new PGP key for David Daniel Cecere which is available from http://pgp.mit.edu/.

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