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which the church is run. Not the members, but the manner
in which it is run, its doctrine, it dogma.

That is essence one of the reasons why he
was holding this sign, “Lisa’s blood on Scientology
hands.” We are not going to go into this Lisa McPherson,
but I think very generally, she is the woman who died at
the church, and part of Mr. Minton’s reason for
protesting is to establish that the practices of the
church caused her death.

But beyond that, this was an avenue for
him to bring this to light to the citizens of Clearwater.
To march up and down the street in protest so that they
will look into this doctrine and this dogma. So is it to
the members that he has a quarrel. The evidence will
establish not at all. But rather it is to that dogma.

Now, when Mr. Minton came into town, as I
indicated, he realized that someone was behind him. They
were following him. In fact, at one point in time -- at
one point in time a vehicle stopped in front of Mr.
Minton’s automobile when it reached the Belleview
Biltmore Hotel and a vehicle stopped behind his vehicle
at the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, so that he was
sandwiched between the two of them. Mr. Minton got out
of the vehicle. As the other people got out of the
vehicle, a woman and a man, they began filming Mr.