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the Cult Awareness Network, which was a very large
national group that was exposing the abusive practices of
all cults.

The Church of Scientology took it on as
their own project to destroy this organization, and did
so successfully after nine years of very serious and
expensive litigation on behalf against the Cult Awareness
Network. So what Scientology has essentially done is
sued all of the organizations that have ever been set up
out of existence and they did that with the Cult
Awareness Network.

Having been involved in this anti-cult
movement for a little over five years now I wanted to set
an organization here in Clearwater to specifically expose
Scientology’s deceptive and abusive practices, right here
in their own back yard. Getting the message out to the
public, but to local city government people who have been
embracing the Church of Scientology in a way that hasn’t
been seen in these parts for twenty—five years.

In the last couple of years that there
have been some serious changes in the way the government
has embraced Scientology. And to communicate to the
young Sea Org. members who you see going around the
streets of Clearwater.

Q Those are the ones in uniform?