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A TOTALLY FUN DEFECTION
"The presence of thousands of uniformed Scientologists and their 'security police' swarming the downtown area is not only oppressive to those of us who have to work here, but is especially disconcerting to our clients that come here to our offices to meet with us."

Letter to Mayor Rita Garvey
Patricia Greenway, Totally Fun Company, June 4, 1998
Totally Fun Company

Totally Fun Company found out that Scientology and WISE are not much fun at all, so they disassociated from the cult and left Occupied Clearwater.
CONTENTS

Xenu TV Interview
Peter Alexander talks to Xenu TV's Mark Bunker during a picket in Clearwater.

Stalked by P.I.'s
Some of Scientology's private investigators got more than they bargained for when they stalked TFC's execs.

Letter to the Mayor
Patricia Greenway tells Mayor Rita Garvey why the company was leaving Occupied Clearwater.

Knowledge Report
A local WISE company reports TFC to the cult.
The Totally Fun Company was, at one point, a member company in the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE), and its founder and president, Peter Alexander, was a high-level celebrity member of Scientology. But after reviewing the information available on the Internet regarding Scientology and its criminal and unethical policies, Peter left Scientology, and moved his company out of Occupied Clearwater, to downtown Tampa. He also managed to get a refund of money he had on account with the cult for courses.

TFC's story provides some insight into the economic stranglehold that Scientology has on Occupied Clearwater, as well as the true purpose of WISE, and its direct connection to cult management and policies. In fact, some deluded Scientologists, such as the one who wrote up TFC in a "Knowledge Report", apparently think that those policies still apply to Totally Fun Company. The irony is that she claims in the letter that "businesses are never 'affiliated' with the Church", and yet she sent copies of this complaint to the C/S FSO (Case Supervisor, Flag Service Organization) and to the Public MAA Flag (The Public Master-at-Arms for Flag).
XENU-TV INTERVIEWS PETER ALEXANDER

Download RealPlayer G2 - FREE!Xenu TV's Mark Bunker interviewed TFC's President, Peter Alexander, during the July 9, 1999 picket in Clearwater. In the interview, Peter describes how his ex-wife, Jolie Kanat, briefly turned TFC into a WISE company, which nearly ruined the business.

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Note: Peter's interview occurs slightly more than half-way through the video.
STALKED BY P.I.'S

On Nov. 3, Patricia Greenway and Peter Alexander were meeting with Stacy Brooks, Board Member of the Lisa McPherson Trust, at a restaurant in downtown Tampa. At one point, Patricia spotted a private investigator who was following Stacy, and confronted him.

The P.I. hid briefly in the men's room, then dashed out, keeping his face covered as much as he could. Patricia chased him off, snapping photographs the whole time.

Peter Alexander confronts a private investigator who did not want to be photographed.
LETTER TO THE MAYOR

Totally Fun Company leaves downtown Clearwater
Patricia Greenway, alt.religion.scientology, Aug. 27, 1998

"A lot of things happened in the interim, where, as VP, I started refusing to allow employees to attend their required courses at the Hubbard College (too much time away from the office-again, NOT very efficient). And THEN, all of a sudden, the few that were still going over there were taught how to write a KR (knowledge report)--which is NOT part of the biz courses we'd bought for them. Of course the KR's were being written against ME and put in to my file at the request of Jolie Kanat (staying in comm from CA). So my understanding of Scientology was starting to expand."
June 4, 1998

Mayor Garvey
Offices of the City Commission
PO Box 4748
Clearwater, FL 33758-4748

Dear Mrs. Garvey:

As Vice President of Business Development for The Totally Fun Company, located here in Clearwater at 600 Cleveland Street, Suite 400, I feel it would be of interest to you and your office to know that we will be moving out of the downtown Clearwater offices where we've been located since December of 1992.

The Totally Fun Company is an internationally recognized themed entertainment company with a highly regarded reputation in our industry and headed by Peter Alexander, TFC's President, who is widely acknowledged as an industry leader (as you will see by the attached list of his credits).

The purpose of this letter is to inform you of our decision to leave this downtown area in hopes that you will make concerted efforts to make certain changes that we feel are critical in avoiding a mass exodus of the existing businesses in this location. In short, the downtown area has taken on the look and feel of a military base. The presence of thousands of uniformed Scientologists and their "security police" swarming the downtown area is not only oppressive to those of us who have to work here, but is especially disconcerting to our clients that come here to our offices to meet with us.

We are thoroughly embarrassed by the look and feel of the downtown area when we receive visitors to our offices, (visitors, I might add, who represent all aspects of the entertainment industry and who are flying in from all parts of the world) when we are forced to explain this blatant para-military presence. It's simply an unacceptable climate in which to expose our clients.

Now, with the announcement that this cult will be expanding its presence in downtown, bringing in untold thousands MORE…well, I suggest strongly that you revisit this situation and prevent, what we perceive to be, a death hold on this otherwise lovely community.

We are sorry to be leaving what had promised to be an idyllic town in which to establish our base, but we have no choice. Our employees are uncomfortable and intimidated by these cultists and won't even go out to lunch in order to avoid them. The threat of Scientology's expansion "sealed the deal" in our decision to relocate.

We realize that it is difficult to remove their overbearing omnipresence, but for the sake of this once fine town, you should know what the repercussions are and will continue to be as this cult continues its occupation of your town.

Best Regards,

Patricia Greenway
VP Business Development

Cc: Mr. Roberto, City Manager
KNOWLEDGE REPORT

Getting KR'd
Patricia Greenway, alt.religion.scientology, Dec. 8, 1998
(redacted)

"Well, I guess the fact that we are no longer a WISE company and that the Pres. is no longer a member does NOT prevent KR's from being written. I thought I'd share this little gem with you all, as it arrived in the mail yesterday. I will block out the names to protect the innocent.....and the obnoxious."

25 November, 1998
cc: Public MAA FLAG
C/S, FSO
XXXXXXX

KNOWLEDGE REPORT
XXXXXXX

Yesterday I called the Totally Fun Company and spoke with ZZZZZ. I explained that I worked with QQQQQ in her promotion and marketing business and she had asked me to call to see if we could do some work for Totally Fun. I told ZZZZZ that QQQQQ knew XXXXX.

ZZZZZ then asked me if we were a WISE business and I said yes. She said, "We are not a WISE business any longer and we are no longer affiliated with the Church in any way." This is not the sort of information one puts on a public line nor is it truthful as businesses are never "affiliated" with the Church".

SSSSSS
Promotion Manager
QQQQQ
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