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A Okay, that’s the -- when you go towards the
Belleview Biltmore Hotel, you go around a large curve to
the left, and so as you are progressing along there is a
big curve to the left to go into the Belleview Biltmore.
And just at that fork there is a road called Alexander
Road, which forks down to the right. That is on Alexander
Road, the van that you see there in the top left part of
the picture that appears to be going into the Belleview
Biltmore.

Q Were you going to be staying at the Belleview
Biltmore Hotel?

A Yes, I was.

Q Did the driver of this vehicle, Mr. Howd, did
he follow you from Gulf to Bay to where you were going to
be staying?

A Just to clarify, there’s a little sequence
issue here.

Q Go ahead, tell us about it.

A We were on our way to the Belleview Biltmore
from the airport and because we were being followed we
decided to go The Fort Harrison Hotel and do a picket.
The reason we decided to do that in response to being
followed is that, you know, we didn’t want these guys
working for Scientology, or Scientology who we knew they
were reporting, to think that we were intimidated or