On 3/30/10 7:07 AM, "el macaco" wrote:

> > I just made a small donation of what I can at the moment.  I wonder what the
> > backstory is on this arson, is it US govt, mexican officials, extorting gangs,
> > jealous girlfriend?  It seems like a relocation from Mexico to Colombia to
> > seek a safer home base speaks volumes.

Jonathan had been providing a place to crash in his newly created lab/guest
house for two guests, who ended up getting into a couple of physical
altercations with Jonathan's neighbor. Clearly, Jonathan found this to be
unacceptable, and his guests' anger was then turned onto him. While he was
gone from the country, they burned his place down. Nearly all of his books
are now covered soot and have to be cleaned before packing up, but
thankfully only about 40-50 of them were charred and none were consumed. So
he's got a bunch of sad, dirty, tedious work ahead of him, packing
everything up into fruit crates, trucking it to Veracruz, shipping it by
container to Cartagena de Indias, then overland to Manizales, in the
Cordillera Central. Colombia as a spot to relocate likely has more to do
with the fact that he has a gig and a friend he can stay with there; but it
is also true that he was increasingly disenchanted with the area in Xalapa
where he lived.

-- Jon

OTT FUND
http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/jonathan_ott_fund.htm

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