Hebrew Prophet Micah On Central Atlanta Progress

The Hebrew Bible speaks clearly on land grabbing.  Hebrew Prophet Micah may scream clearest.  Micah 2.1-2 (New Living Translation) reads: “How terrible it will be for you who lie awake at night thinking up evil plans.  You rise at dawn and hurry to carry out any of the wicked schemes you have power to accomplish.  When you want a piece of land you find a way to seize it.  When you want someone’s house, you take it by fraud and violence.  No one’s family or inheritance is safe with you around.

Manny’s full name now is Manny “Micah 2.1-2” Fialkow.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 25, 2010

Peachtree-Pine March 3 Foreclosure Postponed

Atlanta Real Estate Developer Manny Fialkow, afraid of being sued personally by Baker Donelson, called off the foreclosure of the Peachtree-Pine shelter for at least 30 days.  Central Atlanta Progress and its Siamese sibling, Atlanta Downtown Improvement Development (ADID), were hours away from being named as defendants in the lawsuit against the city when Fialkow agreed not to foreclose on Peachtree Pine on March 3.  His  tight relationship with Central Atlanta Progress, especially CAP’s President A. J. Robinson may be one of the reasons for Manny Fialkow’s sudden change of heart. 

In 7 hours of questioning yesterday (February 23) at Troutman Sanders, A. J. Robinson under oath said he knew Manny Fialkow and had conversed with him.  Other evidence shows that Mr. Robinson’s interest in the 94,000 square foot building at 477 Peachtree Street may be more than his zeal to protect the community from those 700 “down on their luck” ne’er do wells who live there.  Robinson just may want a taste of the pie.  The newly formed and carefully named Ichthus Community Trust and developer Manny Fialkow are one and the same ball of wax.  It remains to be seen how far into that ball of wax are the movers and shakers at the husky, muscular Central Atlantic Progress.  Perhaps Robinson’s and Orr’s to be continued depositions in the near future will shed more light on Robinson’s relationship with Manny Fialkow. 

Incidentally, A. J. Robinson and Richard Orr will be deposed a second time because Troutman Sanders’ lawyer, Steve Riddell, failed to produce all the e-mails that had been subpoenaed.  Some of those e-mails held back may just mention this newest named player in TEAM GOLIATH, Manny Fialkow.  Do you reckon?  Troutman Sanders by the way is representing Robinson and Orr and Central Atlanta Progress for free, pro bono.  I wonder why.  Does CAP’s $8,000,000 budget not cover lawsuits.  I guess not since I don’t believe they have ever before been deposed.  Perhaps Troutman Sanders may,  like Manny Zialkow, want to take a second look at CAP before proceeding pro bono.  But I suppose it’s amember of the same club thing.

Please look for fun at the closing words of my BLOG posted February 13, 2010, entitled ALMOST TOO ROTTEN TO REPORT.  I closed that blog by pointing out that much of the public gets gleeful, sometimes giddy, when they see “principalities and powers” with their drawers around their ankles.  I listed some of the names in the lineup of gruesome TEAM GOLIATH, from Little Miss Debi Mae Starnes to Milton “half a million” Little.  I added in that piece the fact that some of those worthies are standing around now with nothing but their socks on.

Yesterday was a new experience for me.  I witnessed the 7 hour deposition of A. J. Robinson.  I have never heard so many different answers to the very same question.  When one’s drawers land around one’s ankles, it is not a pretty sight,  especially not on the 53rd floor of a tower of power.   In the great scheme of the universe, sometimes the movers and shakers become the movers and the SHAKING. 

I was told by an attorney today that Troutman Sanders has 1300 lawyers.  Can that possibly be accurate?  That same person asked me if I could imagine that many lawyers in one place.  I said in Dante’s INFERNO.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 24, 2010

CharlesDickens On A Well-spent Life

Walter Pidgeon in the Broadway musical TAKE ME ALONG sang an encouraging song that proclaimed “I’m staying young, I’m staying young while everyone around me is growing old.”

Charles Dickens in chapter two of BARNABY RUDGE describes the delightful Gabriel Varney and how Father Time has treated him.

Dickens wrote, “He was past the prime of life, but Father Time is not always a hard parent, and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.  With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.”

I hope and wish for you this and all your days a heart and spirit young and in full vigor.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 24, 2010

CAP’s President A. J. Robinson Deposed for 7 hours

The second day of depositions of Central Atlanta Progress’s top two executives took place today in the Troutman Sanders law firm on the 53 floor of their building on Peachtree Street.  The questioning by Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall began at 9:30 am and ended at 5;15 p.m.  Questions ranged from would you, Mr. Robinson, ask developer, Manny Fialkow, to not foreclose on the building at Peachtree Pine on March 3?  Steve Hall also asked President Robinson if he would discontinue the Wake Up, Stay Up CAP program that awakens homeless people who sleep on business properties in and around downtown Atlanta?  Mr. Hall asked Mr. Robinson where can homeless people go who do not enter programs to help themselves by entering rehab programs?  Mr Hall asked Mr. Robinson to state the programs that exist for homeless people?

A. J. Robinson answered respectively: No, No, the streets and adequate programs exist for all homeless people in Atlanta.  Mr. Hall told Mr. Robinson that CAP is being added tomorrow as a defendant in the lawsuit against the city.  The mysterious Ichthus Community Trust is linked to Manny Fialkow, and Ichthus is also being named tomorrow in Federal Court here in Atlanta.  The plot thickens.

Day one deposition featured Richard “we’re in”  “crap sniffer” Orr who was questioned for 7 hours in the same tower.  Remember all of these events are historic, firsts, impossible.  These feathers no one ruffles. 

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 23, 2010

Central Atlanta Progress Continues To Make History –Deposition Day 2

People who know downtown Atlanta — its glories, its sorrows, its corruption — cannot recall a time ever that CAP was ever subpoenaed for a deposition.  And  that is since 1941 when the organization was founded.  Today at 10:30 am on the 53rd floor of one of the towers of greed the cleanup hitter for CAP is in the batter’s box.  He will answer questions under oath in the lawsuit of The Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. v. The City of Atlanta.  There is a seven hour limit to depositions in order to protect the court reporter.

The deposition yesterday lasted 7 hours plus, and today’s will last the max.  Some of you will be interested to know that I will view the proceedings.  And I am permitted to take notes.  However, I cannot publish a word until the depositions are filed with the Federal Court.  After that I can and will sing.

I can say people at Peachtree Pine and the forty-two churches and groups all over Atlanta and the country want to know what’s going on.  I cannot imagine the AJC printing anything but foreclosure notices and and any other anti-Task Force dirt that Debi Mae shovels.  Our only daily “newspaper” has been silent on the developments of this lawsuit and will remain so as long as possible.  People tell me every day that my blog is their only source of information.  Can you imagine?  I am not nearly as nervous today as I was on the day I was deposed.

I’ll be in touch as long as I have breath.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 23, 2010

Are Subpoenas Circling The Hurt Building Like Frisbees?

Today is deposition day around the old prayer breakfast table.  One of the heavy hitters will be deposed today at 10 am as sure as United Way is just.  I cannot tell you the name of this heavy hitter, but I can say that he bats third.  Cleanup bats fourth and shutters on deck.  Are their computers  under repair at Georgia Tech?  And the beat goes on, Reverend Lowery.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 22, 2010

Horace Sibley Receives High Award on April 8; Surely They Meant April 1

The Georgia State University College of Law gives its highest award for public service to the attorney who in its view has best served the public touching the most lives impacting the most people creating the most help starting the best long range programs and spreading the most good during  the previous year in the Greater Atlanta Area.  The award is called The Ben F. Johnson Public Service Award.  The letters that I hold are signed respectively by the Selection Committee Chair and the Dean of the College of Law.  Sib won.  He ended homelessness downtown.  He along with some very mysterious dealings will soon empty into the Midtown streets 700 Black men whose home in downtown is the Peachtree Pine Shelter.  When he receives this award he will still be busy at making these men homeless and they all know it.

Buses of men, several hundreds of the 700 “chronically homeless” men who live at Peachtree Pine will be there to congratulate Sinon for his great help in ending homelessness in downtown Atlanta.  He said he would end that tragedy and by cracky as surely as there’s a Central Atlanta Progress he has done it.  Without the help of his sidekick genius, Little Miss Debi Mae Starnes, Sibley could never have become what he is today.  His Czar would have received the high award, but the award can be received only by an attorney.  Debi Does Atlanta is in many clubs, but she is not in the lawyer club, not yet.

In a better world the selection committee at good GSU College of Law would be forced to read Horace Sibley’s seven hours of answers defending the accusation that he personally and  professionally and illegally stopped funding that paid for the housing of 700 homeless men in Atlanta.  Under oath Sib labels each one to a man, “chronically homeless.”  Better yet, the Dean of the College of Law should read at the award selected passages from the deposition.  However, the Sibleys of this world have not made a better world.  Incidentally, I hope the award includes a new computer; his very mysteriously had to be “tossed.””  Perhaps a “forensic subpoena” will “untoss” that laptop.

 From the deposition of January 13, 2010:

Page 190, ll. 6-25 and Page 191, ll. 1-3

Hall:     You never sent any e-mails and you didn’t write any letters, you didn’t give any oral commentary to — about what you thought about any of the entities to anyone at the Tri-J?  BECAUSE I”M SUBPOENAING THEIR RECORDS NEXT.  (Capital letters mine, Jim Beaty)
     Mr. Beale: (Sibley’s attorney)  Object to the form of the question.
THE WITNESS:  What does that mean?
Hall:     That means I’m going to get their documents, but I’m asking you if you had anything to do with that process, the Tri-J evaluation of providers in 2007.
Sibley:  No I don’t know what you mean, anything to do.  I did not participate in that process. 
Hall:     Well, tell me, did you talk to anybody about that process while it was ongoing?
Sibley:  No.
Hall:     Did you give any commentary at anytime whatsoever to anybody about either in the Tri-J or about the Tri-J and Peachtree Pine?
Sibley:  Not that I know of.
Hall:     You are saying it didn’t happen?
Sibley:  I’m saying I don’t know of it happening.

Note:  Get the picture.  The questioning attorney during the witness’ s deposition had several times to remind the award-winning Horace Sibley that he was under oath.  Congratulations,   for an award well earned.

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 22, 2010

Central Atlanta Progress Has a History of Assisting the Needy

Award winning public servant Horace “Sinon” Sibley was shocked when Attorney Steve Hall said in his deposition that the business community didn’t want black males panhandling downtown.  I’m shocked too.  Sinon shocks me every other time he speaks.  We know that Horace and Central Atlanta Progress care deeply for all persons in need, especially black males.  That’s obvious when compassionate Paul “toxic waste dump” Kellman talks about any facility downtown that would serve people with AIDS.  Kellman spoke for CAP.  Hard hitting David “Great news ” Wardell showed his caring spirit when he kicked the shoe soles of sleeping homeless people in his disastrous WAKE UP ATLANTA program in which he hoped to rid the unwanted from downtown Atlanta.  He kicked black American citizens for Central Atlanta Progress.  We see a throbbing heart when A.J. “We’re all kind of mystified” Robinson asked of the Peachtree Pine shelter is there no one who can shut them down?  His ejaculatory question represents the muscular Central Atlanta Progress.  I wish that I could write that the inveterate need to chase unwanted human beings from downtown Atlanta began with the present CAP regime.  Believe me these conspirators wear diapers.  Their ancestors handed down the baton of exclusionism.  They are the descendants of good ole boy exclusionism.  This CLUB is for members only. 

The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. possesses hundreds of hate documents written as early as 1975.  We have struggled since our incorporation just to stay afloat.  Never once was there a hint of solid help from City Administrations.  Young and Jackson tipped their hats but never gave more than a glance.  The strongest, continuous thread of opposition to the poor and to The Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. has been the indomitable CAP.  It has been there always hating, always obstructing.  Never a thought of support. 

The following document is one of hundreds in my possession.  It was written sometime in 1980.  I am copying it exactly as it was written:

MS 591 Central Atlanta Progress
Folder:  Derelict Task Force 1980

Letter from Howard H. Arnold III, Vice President of Retail Properties Group, to Larry Fonts of CAP.  “This is to serve as a follow-up on our recent telephone conversation regarding a suggestion by David Howard of this office that the sale of alcoholic beverages by liquor stores in containers less than a fifth of a gallon be prohibited in Atlanta’s Central Business District.  The question of whether a restriction would be legal, I must leave for someone else to determine.  However, should the legality issue prove to be a problem, possibly CAP could contact owners of buildings in which liquor stores are located and request that future leases contain provisions in the ‘use’ clause that would restrict the sale of small bottles of whiskey and wine.  Of course, this will not totally solve the wino problem in downtown but it might create an inhospitable atmosphere such that the winos might move to Birmingham, Jacksonville or back to New York from whence they probably all came.” 

Note:  Those ancient buffoons actually called their task force: Derelict Task Force.  Note the words, “wino” and “winos.”  Please don’t miss the arm twisting tactic suggested that CAP might instigate.  As then, so now.  I have read 500 e-mails in the last four months where the present diaper wearers are moving and scratching and fuming and cajoling someone to put the Atlanta Task Force out of business.  This has gone on for years.  However, I never heard a chirp of protest from the business community, surely not from the church or synagogue fraternities, God forbid from city or county or state governments. Not a chirp until a courageous, indomitable pit bull barrister, said why is this rape of the poor taking place?  God bless you for reminding us,  Joe Lowery, “And the beat goes on!”

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 20, 2010

Attorney Steve Hall Shocks Attorney Horace Sibley

The following questions and answers are quoted from page 230, ll. 9-13 of Sibley’s January 13, 2010 deposition.

  Hall:     So you are saying that the growing population as you perceive it of women and children that are homeless are not chronically homeless?
Sibley:  True.
Hall:       I’m still struggling with why you would move them around because the only reason — I’ll tell you, this is right on the rub of the question.  I think the business community didn’t want black males in downtown Atlanta panhandling.  Can you give me —
Sibley:  That’s an outrageous accusation and I’m shocked that you think that. 

James Wilson Beaty, PhD
Jeremiah 22.16
February 20, 2010

140 Women and Children On the Floor On Mats at Gateway

One hundred and forty women and their children slept on mats on the floor (NO COVER) on Wednesday night, February 17, 2010.  Horace Sibley throughout his deposition rants about the treatment of women and children IN THE LOBBY at Peachtree Pine.  What is Alan Harris saying about the 140 at The Gateway?   Get the picture.  Horace Sibley and Milton “United Way” Little proclaim that they can and will place into beds the 700 men at Peachtree Pine the night they can get to them. Sinon’s words in his deposition are, “And I am telling you, which we have told you over and over and over again, that if the community had access to the men at Peachtree and Pine “in an unfettered  way, that we could address their needs in a short period of time.”  This assertion appears on page 227, ll. 8-13 of Sibley’s deposition of January 13, 2010.

Here’s the problem.  I feel for the staff and the women and children at Gateway.  We have had dozens of women in chairs in our lobby.  The Mayor’s office sent child protective services people to take the children into custody, away from their mothers.  Peachtree Pine Staff begged the services people to leave.  They did, gladly.   But Sinon boasts that he and Milton Little will put 700 men into beds the NIGHT they can get their hands on them, “in an unfettered way” of course.

Sibley’s explanation for people on mats is that they are NOT chronically homeless.  All 700 men at Peachtree and Pine ARE “chronically homeless” according to Sibley.  So the Little/Sibley beds in waiting are reserved for the 700 while the 140 try to sleep uncovered at The Gateway.   Sibley has “access in an unfettered way” to those women and their children.  Why not give them  blankets?  I forgot.  They are not “chronically homeless. 

Sibley has answers, as limp as they are, for ever question.  Answer these, please:  How much physical space is available at The Gateway for the 140?  Where are the 140 tonight, February 20, 2010?  Will the 140 be given a mat after two weeks?  What is the long-range plan for these NOT chronically homeless women?  How much stimulus money came to the City of Atlanta?  Where is it?  Who controls it?  Could it pay the water bill at PP to keep Ratchet Rob away? 

The men in transition at Peachtree Pine who have taken COLD showers for a year would love for Sibley to pay the $4000 gas bill.  I wonder if Sinon and $500,000 a year Milton Little have HOT showers?

James Wilson Beaty, PhD

Jeremiah 22.16

February 20, 2010