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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, August l, 1980
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questions to me that I have not answered." The Attorney General will
have his weapon taken from him. But the Church has a much greater
weapon and that is TRUTH; and as Mr. Rader said, "truth will win out!"
One reporter asked Mr. Rader if all of this would stop George Deukmejian.
"No," Mr. Rader replied, "I don't think so. But he will have to be more
careful!" Careful indeed. He will be named in a massive lawsuit to be
filed in the next few weeks. This is the amended $700 million lawsuit
which has escalated, and in which the Church will probably be seeking
over a billion dollars in damages!
This new figure is not due to infla
tion, but to our more extensive understanding of the conspiracy since
January of 1979 when our suit was first filed in Federal Court.
We will be naming more parties as defendants including Judge Pacht, George
Deukmejian, other Superior Court judges, others on the Attorney General's
staff, private lawyers and unnamed co-conspirators. This action will be
pleaded by Lawrence Tribe who, as we have mentioned before, is widely
recognized as the leading constitutional lawyer in the United States
today.
In this battle, Mr. Rader declared, the Church has been the Paul Revere
to sound the alarm--to warn the public and the churches of this power grab
by the Attorney General. Now with the matter of Mr. Rader's personal
financial affairs out in the view of any who would be curious enough to
look, we can expect some new developments in the case. "Within a very
short time, we will build to a confrontation between Christ's Apostle,
Mr. Herbert Armstrong, who, by the way, today is 88 years old.... He is
going to take on the Attorney General in the State of California in a
direct confrontation to decide who will rule God's Church--Christ acting
through His chosen Apostle, Herbert W. Armstrong, or George Deukmejian,
the Attorney General and self-appointed religious arbiter of this state,"
said Mr. Rader.
PORTLAND RECEIVES VISIT FROM MR. RADER
Mr. Stanley Rader kept a busy schedule in the Portland, Oregon area last
weekend (25th-26th). He arrived Friday and went from the airport directly
to a local radio station for an interview on a talk show. That evening he
addressed a dinner meeting for the area ministers. On Saturday he de
livered the main message to a group of combined Oregon churches.
The weather was warm and clear when Mr. Rader, his wife, Mr. John Kineston
and Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kotora arrived. It was a pleasant contrast to the
cool, damp weather and the disruptive influence of Mt. St. Helens that had
kept the area somewhat "under a cloud" recently.
Interviewed on Talk Show
The
radio interview at the KXL studios was emceed by a Mr. Alan Budwell,
who introduced Mr. Rader as being a man "under the eye of the press and
the government, and a regular on '60 Minutes.'" Mr. Rader gave informa-
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