December 1, 2000

Why give publicity to Scientology opponent? Why is it that thousands of Scientologists in the area can do more good for the community in any 24-hour period than can be easily comprehended, and your paper prints exactly zero about the good works? Among many other positive actions, the Church of Scientology has attracted many affluent Scientologists and their businesses to the Clearwater area and this has contributed in no small way to an economic upsurge for Clearwater that no one can miss.

I first visited Clearwater 25 years ago and the downtown was like a very shabby ghost town compared to the increasingly bustling and active community it is today. This has to be obvious despite decades of blatant bias against Scientology.

So why does the Times give Robert Minton all this ink? Could it be that you are merely a propaganda mouthpiece for the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel that is turning our children into drugged zombies through their label-and-drug-children program? Since Scientology is the only effective opposition to their plans and has highly effective methods of helping children to lead drug free lives, this cartel is inevitably found to be backing people like Minton. So the questions remains: Why do you support them by giving them such favorable coverage?

Larry Byrnes, Clearwater