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-------- Original Message --------
| From: |
Bob |
| To: |
Danny Shelton |
| CC: |
Walt Thompson, Elder Ken Denslow |
| Subject: |
RE: Some additional verification needed for Walt Thompson's statements. |
| Date: |
Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:13:19 -0600 |
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Hi Danny. Thanks so much for your initial reply, which appears
below my reply to you.
I must say that I am a little surprised by your reply. I will
point out in this email a few difficulties that I see, and why
it is extremely difficult for me to use it to clear you of any
of the allegations out there, as well as ask some additional
questions.
First of all, you will recall that I initially wrote to you
a week ago at the suggestion of your board chairman, Dr. Walt
Thompson. On Monday, November 27, he gave me some information
and said,
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"I would like to request ... that you ... verify [this letter's]
contents."
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Now Walt gave me only two sources for his information other
than Pastor Glenn Dryden. The only one of those two that he named
was yourself, and therefore the only way I can fulfill his request
is to write to you. And yet you write:
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"That's why I choose to wait until ASI handles this huge issue
of mine and Linda's divorce before answering questions of all
the other accusations manufactured by Linda, Gailon, Derrell
Johann, Barbara Kerr and others who have or has had an ax to
grind with 3ABN."
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As you know quite well, Walt has been accused of being a "lemming"
and your "surrogate," language I disapprove of. Yet in light
of the fact that you as president can so easily disregard the
wishes of your own board chairman, I think it fair to ask,
Question 16: How can you demonstrate that Dr. Walt
Thompson and/or your board have any definite, real, and actual
authority within the 3ABN corporate structure as it currently
operates, authority unrelated to whatever you may choose to delegate
to them or what is merely described on paper?
I think this question is vital since it does indeed affect
perceptions of how the divorce and remarriage were handled, as
well as how the Tommy Shelton child molestation allegations were
handled, and perhaps even the success or failure of the appeal
of the tax case I understand 3ABN has pending.
In light of the fact that it is now one week since I requested
the name of the other source so that I can verify Walt's information,
I think it fair to ask,
Question 17: What might be the reason or reasons why
there is such hesitancy to provide that name, as well as the
name of the person who gave that name to Walt Thompson?
You write:
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"According to you and Gailon and several others, the 3ABN leadership
including myself, have covered up my wrong doing by making Linda
the scape goat."
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I believe the term "smokescreen" would be more appropriate
than "scapegoat."
You also write:
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"After hearing the testimony and evidence from both sides ASI
will make a decision. Should ASI decide that the 3ABN board and
myself did not 'scapegoat Linda' to cover up my sins, then, in
my opinion it will become obvious to the public that maybe many
of these other accusations are lies also."
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By referring to only two "sides" when you full well know that
there are many more parties than two, and by pitting ASI's conclusions
regarding your divorce and remarriage against all the remaining
allegations, you again demonstrate that you have chosen not to
allow ASI to review all the allegations, a fatal mistake in my
opinion.
In other words, while claiming to be false the perception
that you are trying to use the Linda issue as a smokescreen,
you then go on to prove that that perception of the situation
is correct. Thus,
Question 18: Will you and/or the 3ABN board make a
formal request in writing to ASI that they examine all allegations
of financial, operational, and personal misconduct, and will
you provide us a copy of that letter as soon as possible, and
if not, could you please list whatever you are afraid of that
you might lose from such a process, and why?
You write:
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"Much has been said by Johann, Arild, Barbara K. and people
who didn't even know Linda and me.
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"That's why I choose to wait until ASI handles this huge issue
of mine and Linda's divorce before answering questions of all
the other accusations manufactured by Linda, Gailon, Derrell
Johann, Barbara Kerr and others who have or has had an ax to
grind with 3ABN."
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John Lomacang on September 1 told me the same, that all these
allegations were manufactured by or are the result of Linda and
"her boyfriend," the doctor, and their allies. I told him I can't
buy that, since the not-quite-most-recent Tommy Shelton allegations
date from the first half of 2003, about a year before Linda's
alleged affair. Thus,
Question 19: How did Linda, Derrell, Johann, and Barbara
manufacture the Tommy Shelton child molestation allegations a
year before Linda's alleged affair; what sort of ax to grind
against 3ABN would Church of God member Roger Clem have in 2003
that he would come forward and accuse Tommy, not 3ABN, of child
molestation; and what sort of ax to grind against 3ABN would
motivate members/attendees of the Church of God congregation
Tommy pastored in Virginia to accuse Tommy, not 3ABN, of sexual
misconduct before he ever returned to Illinois around 2000 and
began working at 3ABN again?
Lastly, you write:
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"That's why I choose to wait until ASI handles this huge issue
of mine and Linda's divorce ...." (bold added)
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As serious as the allegations are that you lied about Linda
having an affair in order to justify divorcing her, it is fair
to ask,
Question 20: By saying this, are you suggesting that
being accused of intentionally lying about your wife being an
adulteress is an extremely more serious issue than the allegation
that you intentionally lied to your board chairman about the
serious nature, wide extent, and recent timing of the Tommy Shelton
child molestation allegations, and thus put innocent children
at continued risk?
I think these are the only challenges I see in your reply,
challenges that make it difficult to use to clear you of the
allegations against you. And as I have expressed to you before,
I think that if you truly have the best interest of 3ABN at heart,
you will need to immediately alter the way you address these
issues. There is a desperate need of greater transparency, straightforwardness,
and openness if these issues are ever going to go away, and I
am certain that you must realize that.
May God grant you special courage and wisdom at this time.
Bob
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