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A We started to try to setup in Clearwater as
early as September of ‘99, but we didn’t get to
Clearwater for a variety of reasons until January of this
year.

Q Have you been able, however, based upon your
success in your previous profession to help fund the Lisa
McPherson Trust and its goals that you just said?

A Yes, I have.

Q Now, on the basis of that, Mr. Minton, has that
caused you some, for lack .of a better term, problems with
the Office of Special Affairs, or the practices of the
Church of Scientology?

A Well, I have had a lot of problems with the
Church of Scientology and the Office of Special Affairs
for a lot of years now. But clearly, the Lisa McPherson
case and my funding of it is according to the New York
Times, the reason Scientology hates me the most.

Q Are you, for lack of a better term, enemy
number one to the Church of Scientology, to your
knowledge?

A Several newspapers and NBC Dateline, for
example, have referred to me that way.

Q Now, do you from time to time, and you have
already told us other things that you do to get out the
message, but do you as one of them, protest up and down