Thomas
                         P.O. Box 27217
                    Washington, D.C.    20038

                        February 24, 1990

Clarity Haynes
c/o Jim Tom Haynes
818 Conn. Avenue N.W.  Suite 1000
Washington, D.C.
                 20006

Dear Clarity:

Predictably, I understand, criminal charges against you for having
held a bedsheet with words in a public park have been dropped. 
Hopefully this development serves to vindicate the legal advise I
gave you prior to your arrest.

I'd have responded to your note sooner than this, but, frankly, I
had a knee jerk reaction to what seemed your knee jerk reaction to
the word "Christ."  Silly of me.  No way to expect that you should
understand what I mean by "Christ," particularly when television
evanglists have been giving the word such a bad name.

In suggesting that you join onto our on-going lawsuit I certainly
wasn't trying to trick you into joining our non-existant church.  
Perhaps I didn't make it sufficiently clear to you that we would
have drafted your own complaint, complete with your own reasons for
being in the park and your own statement of beliefs, or lack of
belief.

To me it seemed rather obvious that -- even if I "believe that
Christ is the way" and you believe something or nothing else is the
way -- we were both being hasseled by the same unreasonable force. 
Without reason I suppose I just expected you would realize a
principle I take for granted.

In Germany they first came for the Commusints
and I didn't speak up becuase I wasn't a 
Communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and
I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.  Then
they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't
speak up beca8se I wasn't a trade unionist.  Then 
they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.  Then they came for me -- and by that time no one was
left to speak up.
                               Pastor Martin Niemoller

I am sorry for having expectations.  Stop by if you're in the
neighborhood.

Enclosing excerpts from the first and last chapters of a book
entitled "Back Home."   We were pleased that the author, whose
focus seemed to be on gauging "freedom," "democracy," and other
principles, chose to tie the beginning of his book to the end with
"Peace Park."
                              Love,