NY Cousins Are Calling About Grady

I’m holding the NEW YORK TIMES (Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, p. A18). The page features a picture of Grady Memorial Hospital and three pictures (large ones): two women and a man who will die very soon without Dialysis Clinic treatment. The Grady corporate, privatized board of their safety-net charity hospital has voted to pull the plug on 92 kidney patients. The “illegal immigrant” 32 year old mother of the 5 year old in another blog told attorney Lindsey Jones today (Sept. 29) that she has given up. She will go home to die in Honduras.
My blue-haired Presbyterian cousins read my blog. They were more than a little upset with my questioning the Grady corporate board’s decision to let people die. They did not believe my report. In fact my not too blue stocking language ruffled their country club feathers. You read the unsavory adjective modifying Atlanta leadership. I apologize for those bad words.

Now that my cousins have read the similar report in the NEW YORK TIMES, I have credibility. Please go to newyorktimes.com Grady Hospital. Read and weep.

A Slow Death

A hearing today (September 23, 2009) at 9 am in the Superior Court of Fulton County (Georgia) produced no ruling on a restraining order to Grady Memorial Hospital to maintain the life-saving Dialysis Clinic that the new privatized, corporate board voted months ago to close on September 20. Attorney Lindsay Jones argued that Grady Hospital, having begun treatment for 96 kidney patients is obligated to find available treatment elsewhere. Mr. Taylor, Grady attorney for 27 years, argued that there is no constitutional right to health care in the United States or in the State of Georgia.

A poignant scene in the court room included a moaning dialysis patient on a stretcher whose family had taken him to Florida as directed by Grady social workers. The patient was denied treatment by the hospital in Florida. He is back in Atlanta seeking help to remain alive.

Mayoral candidate Lisa Borders, President of Atlanta City Council and Chair of Grady Hospital Foundation reports that $90 million has been raised for Grady over the last year. Unfortunately, this money must be used for capital improvements, not for operational expenses such as a Dialysis Clinic.

Several people present in the court room for this hearing described the stretcher and the critically ill man lying on it. Family members watched, helpless. Dr. Neal Schulman, the hero who has begged and fought to keep this Dialysis Clinic open watched, helpless. Doctors and nurses of the dying 96 watched, helpless. You have to wonder if that man on the stretcher were the father or grandfather or grandson or son or son-in-law or brother or uncle or cousin or neighbor, would the privatized, corporate Grady Board change their vote? Would a personal touch, touch the heart of Chairman Pete Correll? Would the champion of private enterprise, Tom Bell, be moved if his son were on that stretcher moving to get his breath. Would the Reverend Joseph Roberts, heir to Martin Luther King, III’s pulpit, twitch if that man twitching on the stretcher were his brother?

Quess what? Those 96 kidney patients, every one of them, is our brother, our sister, our father, our mother, our friend, our neighbor. John Donne taught us that no man is an island, and Jesus taught us that if we reach out to one of these little ones, the least of these, we have reached out to Him. Jesus also taught us that the two religious community leaders who passed by the dying man beaten and left in the ditch for dead were not the man’s neighbor. The business man who stopped, gathered up the broken man, and paid for his stay in the next hotel was the neighbor. God give us more corporate people like that good Samaritan. And what did Jesus say about being one’s neighbor? “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength.” Then He said “You are to love your neighbor as you love yourself.”

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16

TASK FORCE WINS TODAY’S HEARING TO COMPEL!

The weather was cloudy and bleak. Zeus had spoken earlier with flashing lightning and rolling thunder. He’s not happy. However poor little David walked away from court smiling with five smooth stones still at his side. The sun was shining everywhere. In the Superior Court of Fulton County, at 10:30 AM, Judge Ural Glanville denied a motion filed by Atlanta attornys to dismiss the case, The Alanta Task Force for the Homeless v. The City of Atlanta (Mayor’s office). A motion had been filed for this hearing to COMPEL Central Atlanta Progress to produce Documents and to produce A.J. Robinson, President and Richard Orr, Senior Projects Manager, for deposition.

The Judge having said that he found the information in the argument on the motion to COMPEL “relevant” ordered the attorneys, Steve Hall for the Task Force and Steve Riddell for CAP to meet. This meetiing lasted about fifteen minutes. Riddell did not want the Judge to give the order. This means that CAP lawyers will produce all previously subpoenaed documents and all previously subpoenaed persons to be deposed. Those persons so far who have been subpoenaed are Robinson and Orr.

"Not Stable Enough"

I learned recently to my dismay that a longtime donor will not give any money to the Task Force during the next fiscal year. Not only was this donor an old friend but also a substantial contributor. The CEO of this corporation frequently expressed pleasure with the work of the Task Force at the Peachtree-Pine shelter. The only word that I received is that a committee decision not to renew funding was based on the fact that the Task Force is “not stable enough.” I could have told these folks that the Task Force has never been and never will be “stable enough.” The heel that presses our neck would never permit financial stability. I ponder “Not Stable Enough.”

Before venturing a guess as to what it means, I want to say a word about giving money. People have the freedom to give or not to give; that is not the question. The right NOT to give is the same for groups: foundations, garden clubs, cathedrals, corporations, small businesses, churches, cathouses; synagogues, mosques or strip clubs.

For instance, I would never give a bean to the Atlanta United Way. My focus is poor people, and I know United Way employs Debi Starnes whose $45,000 salary (every six months) is funneled from Central Atlanta Progress to her bank account. Oh yes, a hotel pays $5,000 of that total, but the Czar under oath couldn’t remember which one. Debi Starnes hurts poor people; she takes water from them when they are thirsty; she orders Rachet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter to keep them out of the bathroom when they need to go potty; she refuses to let them bath, and then calls them “abysmal.” So, I don’t have to help CAP pay Starnes to torture homeless people; CAP’s millions can do that. I prefer not to join Starnes or CAP or Ratchet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter or David “Great news” Wardell or the loon at Georgia State who induced Wardell’s ejaculation or A. J. “We’re all kind of mystified” Robinson or Richard “We’re in!” Orr or Rufus “Squirt em with my robot” Terrell by giving money to United Way. The choice is mine.

“Not Stable Enough” carries a fruit basket of possibilities. Since Debi, like Georgia, is always on our mind, we have to ask does she have a plant in that committee the same as she does at the Peachtree-Pine Shelter? Do her tentacles reach as far as the bowels of corporations? Is her TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE all pervasive? “Not stable enough” might mean from a committees’ standpoint that politically the Task Force is just a little too hot to handle just now. Business may suffer if we give what we have given for so long. “Not stable enough” might mean I don’t want to question the wisdom of our leaders at CAP. And on and on we could go from STATUS QUO safety to Charles Dickens’ “Voice of Society” to those stinking homeless people are just disgusting anyway. Whatever the phrase might mean to this committee, the generous funding that came for years is cut off. But many generous and loving people from that corporation still volunteer with love and care for the people at Peachtree-Pine.

To speak of a spiritual standard in a corporate committee might be a bit of a stretch. I don’t know, though. I know many folks in the corporate community who see their businesses as ministries, helping others. I sincerely agree. I know the billionaire Chic fila folks close on Sundays in order to keep the Sabbath holy (which by the way is Saturday). Surely there are myriads of corporate people who are spiritually minded folks.

Therefore to ask our corporate committee to put a spiritual “test” on their decision to cut funds that sustain the poor might not be too far fetched. A “spiritual” standard for some would be “What would Jesus do?” On the stability of the Task Force or the stability of any one or anything in need of help, what did Jesus do? What do the writers of Scripture say that Jesus did?

The first miracle attributed to Jesus in the New Testament took place at a wedding feast. The wedding at Cana. Oops! They ran out of wine! Jesus’ mother told her son that the host is out of wine, and she told him in a way that strongly implied that she wanted him to help with the problem. What did he do? Did he call in the disciples to check to see who failed to plan properly? How in the world could someone have been so unstable as to run out of wine. Did he say, “You know, this wealthy host needs to learn a lesson. I think he should have to do without anymore wine.” Did he say the host is simply “Not stable enough.” Of course not. Jesus called for pots of water and then made 150 gallons of wine. The guests asked why did the host wait until the end of the party to serve his best wine. Two things happened. One, there was a need. Two, Jesus was asked to help. “Not stable enough” did not cross his mind.

What was Jesus’ response to the lame man in John 5 who for 38 years had waited to be healed at the pool of Bethesda? Tradition held that the first person to reach the pool after it was disturbed was healed of his sickness. This poor man was unstable and had lost the race for 38 years. Jesus saw him and knew the problem. What did Jesus do? Did he call the committee to study the situation? Did he tell the man he wanted to help him, but he appears to be clearly “Not stable enough”? Did Jesus say now you work on moving just a bit quicker and you apply next year and we’ll talk. None of the above. Jesus asked the man lame for 38 years if he wanted to be well. Note please that he explained to Jesus that he was not quick enough to get to the pool before someone else beat him to the pool every single time. Jesus did not say that you are “not stable enough.” He did say I heal you; get up and walk. Instantly, with no committee input the man walked away healed.

How did Jesus respond to the young woman dragged before him in the temple (John 8. 1-11). Men in the community had caught her redhanded with a man. No man was dragged in with her, only the “woman” whom some Bible scholars believe may have been a teen. Jesus listens to the blood thirsty mob of men holding stones in their hands. The mob quotes the Law of Moses which says anyone caught in the act is to be stoned to death. The men asked Jesus, hoping to trap him, “What do you say?” To the question Jesus answered nothing but bent down to write on the ground with his finger. When the mob continued asking he stood up and said to them, “If anyone of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” The oldest old boy there was the first to drop his rock; all the others followed him. The only two left were Jesus and the woman. Jesus did not address her instability. He did not reject her because she proved “Not stable enough.” He said, Where are your accusers? He asked her did not one of them condemn you? She answered, No, Sir. He said I don’t either; you go and sin no more.

We could go on and on throughout the New Testament. When people needed help Jesus responded with compassion. The man with the withered hand was not sent to therapy to get a little more stable. When Lazarus was raised from the dead he was not rejected because he wasn’t moving very well. Perhaps our decision on whether to help should be quided by the need and not by committee buyoff.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16

“Not Stable Enough”

I learned recently to my dismay that a longtime donor will not give any money to the Task Force during the next fiscal year. Not only was this donor an old friend but also a substantial contributor. The CEO of this corporation frequently expressed pleasure with the work of the Task Force at the Peachtree-Pine shelter. The only word that I received is that a committee decision not to renew funding was based on the fact that the Task Force is “not stable enough.” I could have told these folks that the Task Force has never been and never will be “stable enough.” The heel that presses our neck would never permit financial stability. I ponder “Not Stable Enough.”

Before venturing a guess as to what it means, I want to say a word about giving money. People have the freedom to give or not to give; that is not the question. The right NOT to give is the same for groups: foundations, garden clubs, cathedrals, corporations, small businesses, churches, cathouses; synagogues, mosques or strip clubs.

For instance, I would never give a bean to the Atlanta United Way. My focus is poor people, and I know United Way employs Debi Starnes whose $45,000 salary (every six months) is funneled from Central Atlanta Progress to her bank account. Oh yes, a hotel pays $5,000 of that total, but the Czar under oath couldn’t remember which one. Debi Starnes hurts poor people; she takes water from them when they are thirsty; she orders Rachet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter to keep them out of the bathroom when they need to go potty; she refuses to let them bath, and then calls them “abysmal.” So, I don’t have to help CAP pay Starnes to torture homeless people; CAP’s millions can do that. I prefer not to join Starnes or CAP or Ratchet Rob “I’ll turn your water off” Hunter or David “Great news” Wardell or the loon at Georgia State who induced Wardell’s ejaculation or A. J. “We’re all kind of mystified” Robinson or Richard “We’re in!” Orr or Rufus “Squirt em with my robot” Terrell by giving money to United Way. The choice is mine.

“Not Stable Enough” carries a fruit basket of possibilities. Since Debi, like Georgia, is always on our mind, we have to ask does she have a plant in that committee the same as she does at the Peachtree-Pine Shelter? Do her tentacles reach as far as the bowels of corporations? Is her TORTIOUS INTERFERENCE all pervasive? “Not stable enough” might mean from a committees’ standpoint that politically the Task Force is just a little too hot to handle just now. Business may suffer if we give what we have given for so long. “Not stable enough” might mean I don’t want to question the wisdom of our leaders at CAP. And on and on we could go from STATUS QUO safety to Charles Dickens’ “Voice of Society” to those stinking homeless people are just disgusting anyway. Whatever the phrase might mean to this committee, the generous funding that came for years is cut off. But many generous and loving people from that corporation still volunteer with love and care for the people at Peachtree-Pine.

To speak of a spiritual standard in a corporate committee might be a bit of a stretch. I don’t know, though. I know many folks in the corporate community who see their businesses as ministries, helping others. I sincerely agree. I know the billionaire Chic fila folks close on Sundays in order to keep the Sabbath holy (which by the way is Saturday). Surely there are myriads of corporate people who are spiritually minded folks.

Therefore to ask our corporate committee to put a spiritual “test” on their decision to cut funds that sustain the poor might not be too far fetched. A “spiritual” standard for some would be “What would Jesus do?” On the stability of the Task Force or the stability of any one or anything in need of help, what did Jesus do? What do the writers of Scripture say that Jesus did?

The first miracle attributed to Jesus in the New Testament took place at a wedding feast. The wedding at Cana. Oops! They ran out of wine! Jesus’ mother told her son that the host is out of wine, and she told him in a way that strongly implied that she wanted him to help with the problem. What did he do? Did he call in the disciples to check to see who failed to plan properly? How in the world could someone have been so unstable as to run out of wine. Did he say, “You know, this wealthy host needs to learn a lesson. I think he should have to do without anymore wine.” Did he say the host is simply “Not stable enough.” Of course not. Jesus called for pots of water and then made 150 gallons of wine. The guests asked why did the host wait until the end of the party to serve his best wine. Two things happened. One, there was a need. Two, Jesus was asked to help. “Not stable enough” did not cross his mind.

What was Jesus’ response to the lame man in John 5 who for 38 years had waited to be healed at the pool of Bethesda? Tradition held that the first person to reach the pool after it was disturbed was healed of his sickness. This poor man was unstable and had lost the race for 38 years. Jesus saw him and knew the problem. What did Jesus do? Did he call the committee to study the situation? Did he tell the man he wanted to help him, but he appears to be clearly “Not stable enough”? Did Jesus say now you work on moving just a bit quicker and you apply next year and we’ll talk. None of the above. Jesus asked the man lame for 38 years if he wanted to be well. Note please that he explained to Jesus that he was not quick enough to get to the pool before someone else beat him to the pool every single time. Jesus did not say that you are “not stable enough.” He did say I heal you; get up and walk. Instantly, with no committee input the man walked away healed.

How did Jesus respond to the young woman dragged before him in the temple (John 8. 1-11). Men in the community had caught her redhanded with a man. No man was dragged in with her, only the “woman” whom some Bible scholars believe may have been a teen. Jesus listens to the blood thirsty mob of men holding stones in their hands. The mob quotes the Law of Moses which says anyone caught in the act is to be stoned to death. The men asked Jesus, hoping to trap him, “What do you say?” To the question Jesus answered nothing but bent down to write on the ground with his finger. When the mob continued asking he stood up and said to them, “If anyone of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” The oldest old boy there was the first to drop his rock; all the others followed him. The only two left were Jesus and the woman. Jesus did not address her instability. He did not reject her because she proved “Not stable enough.” He said, Where are your accusers? He asked her did not one of them condemn you? She answered, No, Sir. He said I don’t either; you go and sin no more.

We could go on and on throughout the New Testament. When people needed help Jesus responded with compassion. The man with the withered hand was not sent to therapy to get a little more stable. When Lazarus was raised from the dead he was not rejected because he wasn’t moving very well. Perhaps our decision on whether to help should be quided by the need and not by committee buyoff.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16

The Village Idiots

Frank Schaeffer, author of CRAZY FOR GOD said “You can’t rearrange the village because of the village idiot.” I agree with Mr. Schaeffer; however, when a band of village idiots (or worse) is in charge of the village, drastic rearrangements must take place.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) on Conservatives

John Stuart Mill, a promoter of happiness and a champion for women’s equal rights in marriage and in the law said of conservatives (I paraphrase): A person who is a conservative is not necessarily stupid: however, I have never met a stupid person who was not a conservative. I wonder which category the brilliant Mill would place the not so brilliant Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Congressman Joseph “You lie!” Wilson.

Comes Now…Again (Part 2) Little David Holds 5 Smooth Stones

Nine Counts in The SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT filed recently by Task Force attorneys against The City of Atlanta (The Mayor’s Office) Listed below are the NINE COUNTS. The paragraph numbers are listed without the text. The entire text of this SECOND AMENDED COMPLAINT will be featured on the Task Force site in the near future, http://www.homelesstaskforce.org.

COUNT ONE: BREACH OF CONTRACT FOR PROVISION OF WATER (PARAGRAPHS 52-56)

COUNT TWO: INTENTIONAL INTERFERENCE WITH BUSINESS AND CONTRACTURAL RELATIONS (PARAGRAPHS 57-60)

COUNT THREE: VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DUE PROCESS (PARAGRAPHS 61-64)

COUNT FOUR: MANDATORY INJUNCTION RELATED TO CITY’S PROVISION OF WATER SERVICES (PARAGRAPHS 65-67)

COUNT FIVE: MANDATORY INJUNCTION RELATED TO ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATIONS WITH THE CITY’S 2004-2009 CONSOLIDATED PLAN (PARAGRAPHS 68-70)

COUNT SIX: DECLARATORY JUDGEMENT (PARAGRAPHS 71-74)

COUNT SEVEN: VIOLATION OF 42 U. S. C. 1983 (PARAGRAPHS 75-80)

COUNT EIGHT: VIOLATION OF EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE GEORGIA CONSTITUTION (PARAGRAPHS 81-84)

COUNT NINE: BAD FAITH (PARAGRAPHS 85-88)

Comes Now…Again! David holds five smooth stones!

On Friday, September 11, 2009, attorneys for the Atlanta Task Force for The Homeless, Inc. filed a
Second Amended Complaint against the city, the Mayor’s office. The entire document contains 51 numbered paragraphs covering 24 pages. Paragraphs 6 through 43 spell out in detail the basis for the Nine Counts against the city listed in the remaining paragraphs of the Complaint. I want to share some of the information gleaned from 5 1/2 hours of deposition with Homeless Czarina Debi Mae Starnes. Incidentally, Mayor Franklin’s guru on homelessness is only halfway through her deposition. She has at least one more opportunity, under oath, to tell the truth.

The following numbered paragraphs are quoted verbatim from the Complaint which is a public document. I have chosen only 16 of the 43 paragraphs that form the basis for this Second Amended Complaint against the city. I have written the paragraph numbers as they appear in the Complaint:

6.
Debi Starnes, the Mayor’s Policy Advisor on Homelessness, has acknowledged under oath that the Mayor has no policy for those people who have exhausted the limits of the service that the City affiliated agencies will provide even with respect to those who are profoundly mentally ill and unable to get themselves out of Homelessness:
Q: My question Ms. Starnes, is: what is the Mayor’s policy for those people who cannot get services
anymore from Gateway?
A: The Mayor does not have a policy about every single person in this City. The Mayor’s policy has
been to develop a continuum of care where people can come in and out. So there are individuals
that won’t avail themselves to the myriad of options that are offered them. That is correct, we
don’t have a policy for every single person in the City. (Starnes Dep., p. 177) (Draft Version) The
only place for that person to go is the street or private providers like the Task Force. (Starnes
Dep., p. 189)

11.
Despite the tremendous good done by the Task Force and its staff, the Mayor’s office for the City, a local business organization called Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. (“CAP”) and others seek to force the Task Force to abandon its efforts at the shelter and close it down. This is being done despite the dramatic increase in homelessness caused by the current economic crisis and despite the City’s or CAP’s inability to provide a solution to Atlanta’s homeless problem that would eliminate the need for the Task Force.

14.
Having been unable to close the Task Force by legitimate means, the City acting through the Mayor’s office, and CAP have sought to force the closure of the Task Force through improper, illegal and unethical means.

16.
The primary actor on behalf of the City and CAP is Debi Starnes, the Mayor’s purported Policy Advisor on Homelessness.

17.
Contrary to what would be expected by her title, Ms. Starnes is not a City employee. She is paid primarily by Central Atlanta Progress, Inc. with funds that are funneled through United Way, apparently to disguise their origin:
Q: I’ve given you a copy of what we have marked as Exhibit 17. Is that your contract with the
United Way, dated February–well, you dated it, it looks like January 31, 2009 and United Way looks
like February 5th, 2009.
A: That’s the original contract….

Q: All right. The original contract amount was $45,000. How much of that $45,000 came from Central
Atlanta Progress?
A: I believe $40,000.

Q: And the rest came from the hotel you can’t remember?
A: Yes. (Starnes Dep., p. 41)

18.

The incredible access to and influence on the City that CAP has obtained by the payments it has made to Debi Starnes is reflected in an email chain attached hereto as exhibit “A”. The email reflects Richard Orr, Senior Projects Manager for CAP, and A. J. Robinson, the President of CAP discussing a report Mr. Orr received from Debi Starnes regarding the City Law Department’s attorney-client thoughts and strategy on ongoing litigation against the Task Force.

19.

Acting in concert with CAP, the City has sought to drive the Task Force out of business by: (1) refusing to issue certifications of compliance with the Consolidated Plan that are necessary for the Task Force to obtain funding from federal, state and other governmental agencies despite the Task Force’s compliance with the City’s Consolidated Plan; (2) delaying the provision of certifications of compliance with the City’s Consolidated Plan: (3) defaming the Task Force to other government agencies, media and the public; (4) threatening organizations that seek to work with the Task Force; and (5) defaming the Task Force to private donors.

20.
The city and its officers are aware that private donors are unlikely to give donations to the Task Force if there are negative statements made about the Task Force by City officials in the press. Indeed, Ms. Starnes has a Ph. D. in community and organizational psychology (Starnes Dep., p. 10) and knows exactly the effect that statements made to (and) in the media by purported City officials will have on the people who read and hear them.

21.
To accomplish their goal, Ms. Starnes has repeatedly and consistently made knowingly false statements about the Task Force to media outlets with the hope and intention that they are repeated to the public. For instance, Ms. Starnes has repeatedly stated that the Task Force is the worst homeless shelter in Atlanta and allows people to simply languish in its facility like a warehouse. Although she agrees that the best measure of success for a homeless shelter is the number of people it moved to permanent shelter, in her deposition she admitted that she made the statements about the Task Force despite the fact that she had no idea how many people the Task Forced moved from homelessness to permanent housing last year.

Q: How many people did Peachtree-Pine move into permanent shelter–permanent housing last year?
A: I have no idea.

Q: Give me an estimate.
A: I don’t know. (Starnes Dep., p.80)

22.
Further demonstration that Ms. Starnes’ statements were false and defamatory, the Director of Atlanta’s Office of Grants Management, the body that even Starnes states is responsible for receiving applications for funding, stated under oath that the Task Force’s applications showed it was the largest provider of emergency shelter services in the City, served the most difficult population (chronic homeless, mentally ill and substance abusers) and moved the most people from homelessness to permanent housing last year of any provider in the City.

24.
Ms. Starnes has also repeatedly stated that the Task Force holds people in homelessness because it does not provide services to help them escape homelessness: “The culture of that agency and its management of that building is not one that helps people escape homelessness. What’s going on in that building is abysmal and shouldn’t be accepted. The City should be ashamed for having allowed it to go on for so long.” (“Atlanta’s Largest Homeless Shelter Could Soon Be Shuttered,” CREATIVE LOAFING, 12/14/08)

25.
However, in deposition Ms. Starnes admitted that she did not know any of the programs offered by the Task Force:
Q: Okay. You don’t know what the list [of programs they offer to end homelessness] is. So you say
they don’t offer any programs that encourage people to get out, but you actually don’t know as we
sit here today, what programs they offer?
A: I can’t recite the list, no. (Starnes Dep., p. 218-219)

26.
Here again, further demonstrating that Ms. Starnes’ statements are knowingly false, the Director of the Office of Grants Management has acknowledged that the Task Force provides broad programs to end homelessness.

27.
…Indeed, the actions by Central Atlanta Progress are so improper that CAP has refused to comply with subpoenas requiring production of documents relevant to the Task Force. It has also refused to produce its President, A. J. Robinson, and one of its officers, Richard Orr, for depositions.

28.
Examples of CAP’s efforts to influence the media against the Task Force through “off the record” communications with the media are reflected in the emails between Richard Orr of CAP and Rhonda Cook of the Atlanta Journal Constitution (“AJC”) attached hereto as Exhibit “B”. Another example is the email communication between Mr. Orr and isama@bizjournals.com attached as Exhibit “C”.

29.
As an example of CAP and it’s leadership’s desire to use the media as a weapon against the Task Force is reflected in the emails between Richard Orr and A. J. Robinson, attached as Exhibit “C” where Mr. Orr responds to an AJC reporter’s willingness to meet with him so that he can supply “off the record” background information on the Task Force by advising the President of CAP: “FYI–Rhonda’s [Cook, reporter for the AJC] response below. WE”RE IN! (emphasis added)

30.
An example of CAP’s malicious intent is contained in an email between David Wardell and fincjm@langate.gsu.edu where Mr. Wardell reacts to a news report indicating that the City has turned off water to the Task Force’s shelter as follows: “Thanks, Great news.” Id.

The NINE COUNTS named and explained in this legal document, I choose to put in another reading. If you have waded through these 1500 words you deserve a rest. In fact, if I can get personal it’s time for me to pray. An earlier blog stated that whenever I hear the name, David Wardell, I always pray for him. As a fan of Charles Dickens, I study characters in and out of literature. David Wardell of CAP gave us that program for homeless people called “Wake Up, Atlanta.” That was the program for homeless people where Wardell, accompanied by a policeman, strolled early morning Atlanta and kicked the soles of the shoes of sleeping homeless people. I pray for David “Great news! Wake Up Atlanta” Wardell. As much as I wanted, I did not offer any comment or commentary on this Second Amended Complaint. I will in another blog entitled, “Team Goliath: Dickens Would Have Another Heyday.”

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16

The Atlanta Task Force, Inc. v. The City of Atlanta

A hearing on a filed motion by Task Force attorneys to compel Central Atlanta Progress to produce requested documents and to produce named individuals to be deposed will be held at the Superior Court of Fulton County at 8:30 a.m., Monday, September 21, 2009, in Judge Ural Glanville’s Courtroom, F-5.

Little David needs your presence and support. Team Goliath is armed with the full strength of corrupt principalities and powers. Truth speaking to Power usually pits a weak member against a monster. I fear this is no exception. Remember, Mayor Bill Campbell, said to Bob Cramer, Chairman of the Task Force Board years ago, “Yes, Bob, you have rights; we have enforcement!” May God help us. And where is Campbell when you need him? Bill Campbell is Alice in Wonderland by Shirley Franklin.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16