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OPEN LETTER TO THE CLEARWATER FLORIDA POLICE

   3/10/97

   A group of about 20 people, both local and from around the country,
organized a candlelight memorial for Lisa McPherson, whose preventable
death at the Ft. Harrison Hotel in Clearwater needs to be remembered
and investigated.  When we arrived at 7 PM March 8 at the sidewalk
across the street from the hotel, we saw that it was literally packed
with hundreds of people whom we assumed to be Scientologists.
Fortunately, the police were present.
   As we attempted to silently walk on this sidewalk with our candles
(which represented Lisa's life that would also burn out too quickly)
we were individually surrounded by the crowd and bumped, taunted,
ridiculed, and more symbolically, people would blow out our candles.
If the police had not been present, we are convinced that we would
also have been physically assaulted.
   This callous abuse by the Church of  Scientology against a peaceful
commemoration of one of their own members is another indication of the
cruelty and lack of decency found in the Church of  Scientology.
 
   Our heartfelt thanks goes to the Clearwater police for their
diligence in protecting concerned citizens who wanted to pay their
respects to another tragic victim of the Church of  Scientology.



for further information:

Jeff Jacobsen
PO Box 3541
Scottsdale AZ  85271
cultxpt@primenet.com