Subject: SOS: XX- CAROL HOPKINS' PRESS RELEASE - 3pm today!!!

JUSTICE COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE  (For immediate release)

San Diego (November 13)---The Justice Committee of San Diego, part of a
nationwide network of citizens concerned over the child abuse prosecutions
underway in Wenatchee, Washington, called for a national boycott of
Washington state apples,  Wenatchee's principle product.

According to Carol Hopkins, Justice Committee spokeperson, the purpose of the
boycott is to bring to the attention of local officials in Wenatchee and
state officials in the State of Washington, the national outrage over these
false prosecutions and the civil rights abuses suffered by both children and
adults as a result of the child abuse investigations and prosecutions which
began last year and continue unabated.

"Despite a call by Washington Governor Mike Lowry and House Speaker Clyde
Ballard for a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the Wenatchee
prosecutions, local police and prosecutors have persisted in  pressing these
outrageous cases," said Hopkins. "The Justice Committee, and those
organizations and individuals across the country who are alarmed by these
cases, hope that a boycott of Wenatchee's chief economic product will force
local officials to halt these prosecutions, examine previously concluded
cases and take action against those responsible for these injustices."

Hopkins noted that the Wenatchee prosecutions have been characterized as a
Salem-type "witch hunt" by such respected media outlets as the Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, Time, NBC "Dateline", CNN and CBS. Depsite such
criticism, local officials appear impervious and are pressing ahead with
other prosecutions, despite numerous acquittals and recanted accucations and
confessions. Currently, Pastor Robbie Robertson and his wife, Connie, are
facing trial on numerous child molest charges, after the prosecution, just
days before trial was set to begin, replaced the original set of now
discredited child accusers with a new batch of "victims" cultivated by police
and prosecutors.

"Not only are the accused under assault, but innocent children are being
victimized and  citizens of the community who question the authorities have
been harassed and, at times, accused of crimes," according to Hopkins.

"The apple boycott may be more symbolic than economic," noted Hopkins, "but
it is one small measure that all people concerned with justice and truth can
take."

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