Meet Bob Minton:
Speaking to the Clearwater City Commission
July 2000
If the city of Clearwater wants to get serious
about redevelopment, the first part of any redevelopment plans for
downtown Clearwater involves transforming Scientology from a
mafia-like totalitarian political movement into something resembling
a church.
The people of Clearwater made it clear on 7/11
that they do not intend to pay for a Scientology playground in
downtown Clearwater. When Clearwater residents were polled by
the SPT a couple of weeks before the referendum, people said they
would still not come downtown any more than presently after the
development. Ask yourself WHY? Contrary to Mr. Roberto's
stated feeling Scientology is the WHY!!!
The Lisa McPherson Trust, which is a Scientology
watchdog group located in downtown Clearwater has a blueprint for
the first step in redeveloping downtown Clearwater which is a 10
point plan for reforming Scientology into a beneficial citizen of
Clearwater. Read our plans, it's on the Lisa McPherson Trust
website at www.lisamcpherson.org/LMT
or write to us or stop by our office at 33 N. Ft. Harrison and help
us fight for Scientology reforms. Ask Mr. Roberto to give you
a copy of our plan that we gave to him in February.
There are many things right about Clearwater but
Scientology is not one of them. If you Mr. Mayor and the City
Commissioners want to take a very positive step for redevelopment
and for the future of Clearwater you will first fix what is wrong
about Clearwater, Scientology. You held 60 meetings all over
Clearwater about a redevelopment plan that was wrong for
Clearwater. I urge you to hold 6 meetings in Clearwater about
what is wrong with Scientology. You may learn something about
Clearwater's biggest problem.
On another matter, I hope Mr. Keller will be
following Mr. Roberto out of town because I think there is no place
in Clearwater city government for a bigot. On July 5th, Mr.
Keller called Mark Bunker, a Clearwater resident employed by the
Lisa McPherson Trust in Clearwater a bigot because Mr. Bunker wanted
to ask a question about Scientology's impact on the St. Petersburg
Times' poll I referred to earlier. Mr. Keller need to crawl
out of Scientology's bed and re-learn the meaning of bigotry before
he shoots off his mouth in public again calling anyone in the Lisa
McPherson Trust a bigot. The City of Clearwater owes Mr.
Bunker an apology for Mr. Keller's tasteless and despicable
behavior.