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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 19:38:37 EDT
Fwd Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 10:50:27 -0400
Subject: Re: Intruders Foundation Website


>Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 10:50:24 -0500
>From: Alfred Lehmberg <Lehmberg@snowhill.com>
>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: Intruders Foundation Website

>>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:58:02 -0400
>>To: updates@globalserve.net
>>From: John Velez <jvif@spacelab.net>
>>Subject: Intruders Foundation Website

><snip>

>>I will continue to moderate and maintain the Abduction
>>Information Center. Members can simply continue to access the
>>website and interactive e-mail list the same as always. However,
>>AIC will no longer be affilated with Budd or the Intruders
>>Foundation.

>>I have no idea who will pick up the work. For now, I am no
>>longer the webmaster for IF and I will no longer represent
>>either Budd or the Intruders Foundation in any way.

>>I hope this doesn't create an inconvenience for anyone.
>>It's just something I have to do for myself.

>I am saddened by this development, worry about losing the solidity of
>your passionate involvement, and hope it was not some bland and
>convenient partisanship that caused its precipitation.

>Consider me a supporter -- whatever the genesis.

>As I've written -- it's a wonder that you have lasted this long
>still maintaining the rationality that you so abundantly
>portray.

>You are a true hero -- John; a pioneer. Those that follow
>shuffle in your footprints.

>It was _you_ after all that convinced us that this phenomena was
>happening to real people. You interested the lay person with
>your believable discourse, the wealth of your spirit, and your
>seemingly tireless enthusiasm.

>You did this in the face of all ridicule, discouragement, and
>irritation.

>You did it for virtually nothing.

>We'll all live to see your vindication and your ultimate
>success, I'm sure.

>Good luck, and damn the torpedoes.

>Write the book.

>Lehmberg@snowhill.com


I wish I could be funny.  I wish I could make a joke. I wish I
could get angry.  I can't do any of those things. I won't do any
of those things. Maybe later....

When I first discovered AIC and John Velez, I was a mess. I had
no idea that I was not insane.  In spite of being shrunk by the
best shrinks, despite being told they were just some dreams,
childhood molestation, a case of the dreaded Mojo of the Magogo,
I was never sure. I was not even sure of my memories.  Are they
memories or that W.C. Fields disease again come to get me?

After a short time and a lot of love and care, and more insight
than I have _ever_ witnessed in my (then) 54 years, I was
literally transformed.  Not by John Velez but by his unerring
and insanely competent judgment, logic and reason.  Every time
he yelled at me (actually it only felt like that, he was in
reality, Margo, the friendly Grelb), every time he opened his
mouth, responsible words came out.  John Velez helped me heal
myself.  Took 55 years and no one, _no_one_, had been able to do
that or help me do that.  More than half a century!

I am in the debt of John Velez for ever.  As are many like me.
We've been exposed for the real people we are, real people with
real experiences which are really unexplainable, except for the
likely possibilities exposed by his untiring hard work.

Errol Bruce Kanappy knows some of what Velez went thru. Errol
saw and heard it.  And John wound up in Errol's arms, not
knowing who the hell he was or where he came from or even if he
was a believer or a skeptic.  He just LOOKED friendly to John
Velez, who had just had a most terrible experience at the hands
of a very uncaring and abusive audience.

"I need a hug!" he said to this total stranger.  And got one.

That stranger was Errol Bruce Knapp.  And I love  you for it
Errol.  I even spelled your name right that last time!  And I
also love Jeff Rense, for being a gentleman as well.

John Velez is a once in a lifetime person.  Aint none like him
with the guts to do what he's done.  NO ONE!  He's "...made
shoes for everyone, even me, and he still goes barefoot."

John, as long as I can make me mortgage payment, I promise you
as much as I can give.  And I promised Rosemarie and me, that I
will never ever do what I did again... except for my friends.  I
know who they are.  We should all be that lucky...

Thank you John.  I love you like the brother I never had.  And
since I got me an uncle in the family, just call me anytime some
punk gets in your way. Da family will take care of it. Just
remember, I may aks you to retoin dis favor someday. Ma, Tu
Gabeesh?

Your friend and impatient patient,
Jim Mortellaro