From: Hector Rosario
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 12:57 PM
Subject: Still here



Dear Mr. President:

Saludos. As you are well aware, I have been fasting in front
of your house since Wendesday morning but my fast actually
started on Monday at night. All we are asking for is that
you agree to meet with the Vieques community leaders,
something you have declined to do ever since they requested
it on December 21, 1999. Later, on February 29, 2000 the
religious leaders in  Puerto Rico asked you to meet with
them. You did not even respond. You have suggested that
Jeffrey Farrow meet with them, but they do not want to meet
with him because all he does is distort reality. You should
have the kindness and courtesy to listen to how Viequenses
feel about the military exercises on their island for the
past 60 years. We believe you do not have the necessary
facts to make a sound decision with regard to Vieques. I
will be in front of the White House (I'm accessing the
Internet from the Kinko's on 15th St. and K St.) until you
agree to meet with them or I have to be taken to the
hospital. You decide.

Several congresspeople as well as senators and
representatives from Puerto Rico have written letters of
support making you responsible for anything that might
happen to me simply because you refuse to concede to this
meeting, a simple request. Please, let us talk about when to
have said meeting.

Willing to die but not to kill,
Hector Rosario