Jeremiah, Diogenes and Ed Loring

Jeremiah 5: 1 – 9b

Jeremiah 1 describes the prophet’s call. He is obedient but reluctant. Jeremiah 2 announces judgement on the nation of Judah whose flagship capital is Jerusalem. Jeremiah 3 offers rescue for the city and nation already condemned. Jeremiah 4 pictures the destruction of Jerusalem and the prophet agonizing over what he sees coming.

Jeremiah 5:1-9b employs the language of the courtroom. Jerusalem and the nation of Judah have been indicted and found guilty. The sentence has been served. How and why has this happened? Some Bible translations insert headings at the beginning and inside chapters. One New International Version (NIV) publication at the beginning of Jeremiah 5 reads, “Not One Is Upright.” Verse one of Chapter 5 sends Jeremiah scurrying through the streets of Jerusalem looking for one upright person, one who tells the truth and one who does the right thing. The image of an old man, the prophet, with his beard flying and his robe flowing brings a smile. This image brings to my mind two great men, one from long ago, the other from today. The long-ago man is the Greek philosopher, Diogenes. The today one is the Presbyterian cleric, Eduard Loring.

Picture this. Diogenes, lantern in hand, slips inside the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce looking for one honest person. Ed Loring is searching too. He’s downtown at Central Atlanta Progress. Clutching his Bible he looks for one person who tells the truth. Neither the philosopher nor the clergy finds one. Together, the two tip-toe through City Hall security. High and low they look. In City Hall they find only federal agents looking through files. Leaving this third Atlanta monolith, Ed Loring asks his Greek friend if he found one honest person. Diogenes reports the truth, “No, how about you?” The Presbyterian reports the truth, “Hell, no!”

An early definition of “upright” is “vertical.” And “vertical” takes us to plumb line. The Prophet Amos uses the image plumb line to show how far Israel has wandered from her calling, her raison d’etre. The well-fed “kine” of Bashan (Amos 4:1) refers to the women who order their husbands to bring drinks at cocktail hour. Amos knows the cows of Bashan are the best fed and most carefully groomed in the land. Amos is not joking and he’s not making fun. He is exposing the spoiled and arrogant people of the apostate northern kingdom, Israel, whose demise came in 722 b. c. e., 136 years earlier than the fall of Jerusalem. These women are party with those who “sell the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals.” (Amos 8:11)

The plumb line tells all. In construction, failure to adhere to
its instruction causes the structure to collapse. In covenant, failure to adhere to its instruction causes spiritual collapse. Both Samaria, the capital of northern Israel, and Jerusalem, the capital of southern Judah, collapsed under the weight of their social injustices.

Chapter 5 focuses on Jerusalem’s moral depravity, the charges leveled against her and her unrelenting wanderings. She faces a lawsuit. The searchlight of Yahweh’s scrutiny comes in the form of a court trial, a lawsuit. Jeremiah, strange enough, speaks as a defense attorney in the first six verses. William A. Holladay (Jeremiah, Vol. I, Fortress, 1986) shows Yahweh and Jeremiah talking to each other. Verses 1 and 2 show Yahweh instructing Jeremiah to scour the streets of downtown in order to find one person who acts justly and seeks honesty. At this point Yahweh is saying that this search is taking place so that “I can pardon you. I will forgive this city.”

Holliday sees the first nine verses as a dialogue between Yahweh and Jeremiah. In verses 1 and 2 Yahweh orders the search that could pardon Jerusalem. In verses 3 through 6 Jeremiah tells the results of the search. Verses 7 through 9 record Yahweh’s response.

Note: Whether leadership in Atlanta or California or America believes that the prophets of the Hebrew Bible spoke God’s Word is immaterial. What is pertinent is that quality of life is a universal right for everyone, mandated by God. Universal rejection of the mandate lessons its urgency not a scintilla.

Jim Beaty

Jeremiah 22:16

February 7, 2019

 

 

Passersby

Attorney Richard Robbins Quits Manny Fialkow

Richard Robbins, Manny Fialkow’s Lawyer, Quits

How are things in the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy? What’s cooking at the City of Atlanta’a Department of Watershed Management? How’s TEAM GOLIATH’s New Orleans extension operating? I stated a few essays ago that City Hall and United Way of Atlanta had paid a crack team of social workers from the French Quarter or somewhere to come to Atlanta to be here for the turning off of the water at the Peachtree Pine facility. They were in Atlanta to “transition” the residents at the Pine to United Way’s safe havens that do not exist. TEAM GOLIATH’s ploy to shut off the water in order to close the shelter was foiled once again for the three hundreth time. The crack team from New Orleans, an extension of TEAM GOLIATH, went back to the Big Easy the day after Team David’s Task Force paid the $581,000 plus water bill. But at least one member of the team resurfaced at Peachtree-Pine several days ago, positioning for another tactic.

What does TEAM GOLIATH do next? Will Czar Debi Starnes rise to the surface of the cesspool with another lice infestation? Will Horace Sibley find his computer somewhere over at Georgia Tech? Will crack CDC detect rats over on Ponce de Leon that came from Peachtree Pine? Will Central Atlanta Progress find an EBOLA outbreak in Miami that started with a homeless someone? I doubt it. Starns and CDC and CAP have a few more things to think about these days. The fabricated existence of lice and flea infestations and locust attacks at the Pine have turned into lawsuits and court cases and losing appeals. Remember Joe Beaslesy’s, “It’s time somebody went to jail!”

The latest blip on TEAM GOLIATH’s screen occurred today when Manny Fialkow’s lawyer moved to withdraw from representing Premium Funding Solutions, Inc. Of course, Exhibit 20 that I posted recently has Manny Fialkow stating under oath that he is in no way shape or form connected to Premium Funding Solutions, Inc. Manny Fialkow is the conspirator in TEAM GOLIATH who paid the Mercy Housing nuns $780,000 for the mortgage notes on the Peachtree-Pine building on Peachree Street in Atlanta. AJ Robinson wrote that Manny deserved a discount on what he was paying the nuns since Manny was the chosen one to put them into default and then “kick them out.” Evidence has Emory Health Care, Inc. in the background in case it needed to pick up any shortage in dollars for Fialkow.

It is interesting that legal representation for Fialkow, Attorney Richard Robbins, attempted today to withdraw from the case. This should be no problem for Manny Fialkow as he has had a number of lawyers to withdraw from this case. And only God knows how many other lawyers may be defending him in other lawsuits. He’ll find another lawyer; he better. Stay tuned.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
October 7, 2014

Exhibit 18 Dane Peterson “. . . and have Emory pick up the tab for the difference to the full amount.”

Exhib 18 Tab 18 Dane Peterson: “…and have Emory pick up the tab for the difference to the full amount.”

Baker Donelson Attorneys Steve Hall and Bob Brazier on July 11, 2014, filed Exhibit 18 along with 27 other exhibits in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. All these exhibits bring evidence in a lawsuit pitting The Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. against Premium Funding Solutions, Inc., Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District. These defendants are accused among other things of racketeering, tortious interference, seizing property fraudulently, bribery, and defamation. How ironic that on this 18th day of September 2014, Task Force attorneys learned this a.m. that the City of Atlanta is scheduled to shut-off water at the Peachtree-Pine facility that presently houses some 400 man and 90 women and children.

Some of the members of TEAM GOLIATH who want these redundant men, women and children out of sight and out of mind are the City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District, Cousins Properties, Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Atlanta United Way, Rocktenn, Inc., Emory Health Care, Inc. and Emory University. Any person remotely familiar with downtown Atlanta’s inveterate flow of corruption expects behavior that disappears homeless people and shuts off drinking and bathing water to women and their babies. For half a century Central Atlanta Progress leadership has disappeared redundant people from their purview. The Chamber of Commerce across the land is synonymous with exclusivity and selective enforcement. The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce had a hand in the recent Atlanta Public Schools’ cheating scandal. Heads have rolled and will continue to roll. Five‘ll get you ten that no more heads from CAP or the Chamber will roll. A.J. Robinson’s pal “Sammy” Williams left the scene of the crime soon after the scandal broke.

Chicanery and deceit occur as business as usual at CAP and City Hall. But snow white Emory? The nun-run Mercy Housing? These doers of all good, Emory Health Care, Inc.? Emory University? Stainless steel Cousins Properties who employs caddies and turns potential waste dumps into championship golf courses for the rich? No way! Exhibit 18 proves that these untainted members of the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy employ the soiled Manny Fialkow and CAP to do their dirty when it comes to putting “them into foreclosure” and “kicking them out” of their property.
Exhibit 18 names Central Atlanta Progress, Cousins Properties, Inc., Emory Health Care, Inc. and ROCKTENN, Inc. Manny Fialkow smells the green as he volunteers to put them into foreclosure and to kick them out of the building that he is helping to steal.

The three e-mails are quoted in the order that they were sent:
From: AJ Robinson
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 6:56 PM
To: jokidd@rocktenn.com; craigJonescousinsproperties.com; Peterson, Dane

Wardlaw paid approximately 50k for 90 day forbearance . . . more later.

From: Dane Peterson
Sent: Sun 12/13/2009 6/31 6:31 PM
To: AJ Robinson
Subject: PE:
Sorry for not catching you by phone. Quick question – is there any value in figuring out how to buy the note with Manny? The idea would be to let Manny get the discount from Mercy / ICE at $800 or so, and have Emory pick up the tab for the difference to the full amount. What John (Head of Emory Health Care, John Fox) was thinking is that Mercy / ICE would be more likely to sell the note if they didn’t have to sell it at a “discount.”
Does this make sense? Probably haven’t figured out all the issues, but this was the reason for my call last week.

Dane

From: AJ Robinson
To: Dane Peterson
Sent: 12/14/2009
RE:

Perhaps possible, Manny could buy at par as well but he rightfully feels like there should be some discount if he was the one to foreclose and kick them out. The issue now which we have not yet confirmed is that Mercy may have agreed with the borrower to not sell to anyone during their next 90 days, or even if they haven’t legally agreed perhaps they told the borrower such. We are trying to get an answer to this question. Stay tuned.

Note: Exposure reaches a new height and a new depth in this Exhibit 18. ROCKTENN is owned by former Emory University Board of Trustees member, Brad Curry. This is the Curry who went along with AJ’s van load of folks to visit Dan Cathy at the Chic-fil-a headquarters. Brad Curry is no part-time English professor or some other low life shuffling around the Emory campus. He’s up there high in the Emory power structure. Brad Curry brings power and influence, Emory muscle to the conspiracy. Dane Peterson mentions “John’s thinking.” And who is John? He’s head of Emory Health Care, Inc. Then Craig Jones of Stainless Steel Cousins Properties is deep in the mix. And Dane “DRIVING MISS DAISY” Peterson parrots John Fox’s suggestion to give Manny Fialkow a discount. And AJ Robinson adds for good measure that Manny deserves a discount since he’s the one putting “them” into foreclosure and then kicking them out. Dane Peterson is the CEO of Emory Hospital downtown, located almost directly across from Peachtree Pine on hallowed Peachtree Street.
Years ago Carl Hartrampf, Anita Beaty and eight men from Peachtree Pine met with Dane Petersen in our conference room. He had called. He then walked across Peachtree Street. While exchanging pleasantries, Dane Peterson, the head of the Emory Hospital said he loved Atlanta so much because as a newcomer to Atlanta he’s reminded often of DRIVING MISS DAISY. What did Dane mean? Is Atlanta nice to drivers and caddies?
The Emory Proton Therapy Center is being built right now on North Avenue some six blocks north of our 96,000 square-foot building. Our building would have been more convenient for Emory.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
October 2,2014

TEAM GOLIATH STUMBLES AGAIN!

Millions of people throughout the social and local media have learned that the City of Atlanta refused to accept a $100,000.00 check in partial payment of an outstanding water bill at a facility for homeless people. A few days later the $582,383.53 bill was paid in full by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. averting the water being shut off. The City’s devious plan was apparently foolproof and certainly extensive. Refusing the $100,000.00 proved TEAM GOLIATH did not want the money. They wanted those redundant people out of that building and away from downtown Atlanta. By law a water bill paid in full must be received. TEAM GOLIATH had no choice but to take the money. One of the City’s more disgruntled attorneys muttered something like they were so glad the Task Force was able to pay the bill. In truth, paying the bill is the last thing that person wanted. She and her coterie wanted the water turned off.

Had the City shut off the water at the Peachtree-Pine facility, her officials would have called Fulton County officials. And of course, for health reasons the County health folks for the good health of the people would remove them from UNHEALTHY Peachtree Pine. Those Atlanta citizens numbering children, their mothers and 400 men have nowhere to go; nevertheless, go they will if TEAM GOLIATH has a say.

The City of Atlanta through the auspices of United Way of Atlanta employed a fortnight or so ago a Crisis Team to come from New Orleans to Atlanta for the purpose of “TRANSITIONING” ALL the people out of and away from the Peachtree Pine Community. People were actually paid by United Way dollars and/or Atlanta tax payer dollars to come to Atlanta to be ready for the shutting off of the water. The Crisis Team was in the City for an undesignated period of time. They returned home the day after the half-million-dollar payment was made. City “officials” scheduled a meeting for Monday, September 29, 2014, away from City Hall, set for 1 pm with Task Force staff. The purpose of that meeting was to plan the placing of the 100 women with their children. That 1 pm meeting was cancelled by City Hall.

The need to “transition” women and children suddenly disappears as far as the United Way TEAM GOLIATH movers and shakers are concerned. TEAM GOLIATH stumbles regularly. More often than not, however, the monster, like all evil, rises soon to create more angst. Atlanta has a marvelous opportunity to be a City, a Jeremiah’s City, an Isaiah’s city, that City on a hill that spreads light, joy and hope.

Please pray that LEADERSHIP, real leadership that focuses on suffering men, women and children will come miraculously our way. And on the way to that utopia could we have some potholes filled and person-hole covers leveled. Where is the Great Shirley Franklin’s Pothole Posse when we need it. We have a $100,000,000.00 Streetcar Named Disaster and a thousand streets whose surfaces are an embarrassment. Isaiah 60:17b speaks of a rotten Jerusalem whose governors would be righteousness and whose rulers would be justice. Atlanta, no less guilty than a fallen Jerusalem, can change direction. Mark it well that it does not have to be this way. There exist two possibilities for relief for Atlanta: one, that the present regime do a moral about-face: or, two, that the present regime be extracted from below and beyond its deepest abscess. I fear that the latter has a greater chance of coming to pass than the former.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
October 1, 2014

WATER SHUT-OFF SCHEDULE ALERT!!!

A City of Atlanta attorney and the City’s Commissioner of Watershed Management met this morning, September 18, 2014, with the Task Force’s attorney S. Hall, Task Force Board Member Carl Hartrampf and Task Force Director Anita Beaty. The Commissioner informed the Task Force that the water at the Peachtree-Pine Facility is scheduled to be shut off on Monday, September 22. Only a payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the City’s water department by Friday afternoon can avert the shut-off of water at the emergency facility where last night 432 people resided. Of this total 432 people, 42 are women and 28 are children. Let me ask you to do one thing or three of three things that will help you. One, go to the Task Force website, http://www.atlantataskforceforthehomeless.org and send a donation of money. If you earmark your donation for “water” we will get it to the City of Atlanta Water Department. Two, bring all the bottled water you can gather to 477 Peachtree Street (Pine Street door). Three, pray for the soul of a City of Atlanta that can wrongfully cut funds and then turn around and shut-off water keeping homeless women and their children from water, a basic necessity of life.

Whatever your political persuasion, TEAM GOLIATH conspirator or a sensitive human being, surely you see the cruelty of a shut-off of water to people who have no place to go. The Task Force Attorney Steve Hall inquired about the hundreds of huge debtors to the City for back water bills. Mr. Hall didn’t mention any businesses but he could have. An AJC reporter said recently that the Water Department has “forgiven” many water bills far in excess of what the City claims is owed by Peachtree Pine. The city attorney told Mr. Hall that ONLY the Task Force’s bill would be discussed. Where is Mayor Reed in all this? Could the Superior Court of Fulton County be in all this? Is United Way offering dollars per head to struggling churches for the people they will take in when the county or the court or gog or magog close Peachtree Pine?

Micah 2:1-2, if I may quote Emanuel “God with us” Fialkow’s middle name: “Woe to those who scheme iniquity, who work out evil on their beds! When morning comes, they do it, For it is in the power of their hands. They covet fields and then seize them, and houses and take them away. They rob a man and his house, A man and his inheritance.” I beg you for water.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
September 18, 2014

Tom Bell Suggests Purchasing The Loans From Mercy Housing

Exhibit 10, along with 27 other exhibits, was filed by Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall with Judge Craig Schwall in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, at a hearing on July 11, 2014. Premium Funding Solutions (Manny Fialko) versus the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc.) requested the hearing to make the way clear to dispossess the Task Force for the Homeless from the disputed property known as the Center at Peachtree-Pine in midtown Atlanta. TEAM GOLIATH is the name I gave years ago to the conspiracy that has worked feverishly for a decade to get rid of Anita Beaty and the 600 homeless people from the 96,000 square foot building at the corner of Peachtree and Pine Streets. This very place, Peachtree-Pine, last night “housed” 100 homeless women and their children. The oldest child, in school, is 17 years old, and the youngest, in his mother’s arms, is three weeks old. These homeless people are in this facility because they have no other place to go. All other shelters that take women and children are full and overflowing as is Peachtree Pine.

For clearly political reasons in the midst of hearings and lawsuits, TEAM GOLIATH has closed its doors to women and children. The City’s “model shelter” called The Gateway sheltered 200 woman and children,  and Fulton County’s Springdale Shelter with a capacity of 150 women and children closed their doors to women with children and single women within the past year. These three-hundred-fifty spaces have been closed to women and children for purely political reasons. Where is the Mayor?  Where is Atlanta City Council?  Where is the Fulton County Board of Commissioners? What kind of leadership could let this happen? Closing their doors and their hearts to women and little children is unconscionable.

As I walk through our “lobby” almost every day and witness these people, human beings, I think of Jeremiah’s high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom (Jeremiah 7) where children were sacrificed to false gods. Jeremiah 7:32 promises that there’ll be a day when the Valley of Ben Hinnom will be called the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. And the dead were those who committed the atrocities.

Atlanta’s public, commercial and spiritual leadership is close to slaughtering poor women and children. We are slaughtering children physically, emotionally, psychologically. Go ahead, steal the Peachtree Pine building and give it to Emory Health Care, Inc. or some other shady dealer. Run Anita Beaty out of town on a rail. Torture a staff who labors alongside these women and their children 24/7. Castrate African-American males who threaten your ego, but for God’s sake and the sake of your souls where the fire is not quenched, do something about the 17 year old in school and the three-week old infant in her mother’s arms.

Exhibit 10 Tab 10, is a copy of the November 12, 2008 minutes of the executive committee of Central Atlanta Progress. The paragraphs entitled, “Panhandling update” and “Peachtree-Pine Shelter update” are the two pieces of evidence troubling to TEAM GOLIATH. For you the reader and soon to be jury members of the TEAM’s peers, I quote verbatim ONLY these two paragraphs:

Panhandling update – Robinson reviewed current progress on the recently launched anti-panhandling campaign. It was suggested that scrutiny of the courts in some form be necessary to insure their actions are supportive of panhandling arrests.

Peachtree-Pine Shelter Update – Robinson reported on several issues related to the financial viability of the Task Force for the homeless and their possible default on more than $800,000 in loans from Mercy Housing. Tom Bell suggested that it might be possible for the loans to be purchased from Mercy Housing. More information will be available in the future, as there are plans for internal staff movements at Mercy Housing that could be more favorable to the community’s efforts.

Paul Kelman
Secretary”

Note:

(1) Who is Tom Bell? This Exhibit 10 dates 2008. How wide is this conspiracy? Does Cousins Properties, Inc. ring a bell? The ringing of some bells cannot be UNRUNG, Your Honor!
(2) How would A. J. Robinson know that there were to be “internal staff movements at Mercy Housing that could be more favorable to the community’s efforts?
(3) Might the “community’s efforts” be the bringing down of the TASK FORCE and the Center at Peachtree Pine?
(4) Does A. J. Robinson’s teetering empire represent the “community’s efforts”?

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 26, 2014

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Emory University, Emory Healthcare: Guilty as Charged

The name Emory University brings to mind quality education, one of the finest universities in the country. Emory Health Care also means the finest in medical and health care for the sick and dying. Bringing quality education and compassionate care for sick people are two of the most commendable acts on the planet. We all know brilliant and dedicated people affiliated with Emory. I believe Rabbi Jesus taught truth and healed the sick.

Down the years the staff and Board of Directors of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless have known readily their detractors, their enemies. Somehow you know the wearer of the boot on your throat. The City of Atlanta, for instance, after Maynard Jackson, has not had a mayor or City Council that even pretended to address the needs of poor people. In fact, City Council’s contempt for homeless people is remarkable. Certainly, there have been members of council who have given lip service but not one positive piece of legislation has ever been passed by that body. They put a toilet here and talk of a “Giving Meter” there, but that’s the size of it.

I’ll take to my grave Mayor Bill Campbell’s response to Bob Cramer, Chairman of the Board of the Task Force. Cramer said, “Mr. Mayor, as property owners on Peachtree Street, we believe that we have rights.” Campbell with his usual smirk said, “Bob, you have rights; we have enforcement.” This comment captures the City’s attitude toward the poor on its streets from Campbell’s day to the present. We have learned to expect no better from City Hall. It’s city hall being city hall. Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), the real City Hall in Atlanta has a fifty year history as an elitist organization desperately fearful of the little man. Always applying pressure, always pulling strings, always forcing its agenda; CAP rules downtown Atlanta. How could it be anything other than what it is? It’s the real city hall being city hall. The rights of poor people could never reach this body’s agenda. In fact, the very presence of poor people downtown causes Paul Kelman and his ilk to break out with a serious irritation. The Task Force after years of experience has learned to expect nothing positive from CAP. It is Central Atlanta Progress.

United Way of Atlanta is a microcosm of its counterparts across America—questionable. Good, hard-working Americans have hard-earned dollars wrenched from their hands and placed into the coffers of these expert scavengers. Their expertise at taking surpasses any of Charles Dickens’ pickpockets. And never a dime donated in Atlanta touches directly the life of a homeless person. Mothers and babies languish in the dark shadows of Atlanta United Way. Over a million dollars, however, reached the morning coat of retiring United Way Chief Mark O’Connell some years ago.

The Chamber of Commerce in Atlanta as well as across our land enjoys a reputation certainly as tainted as United Way. Sam “Get those test scores up.” Williams resigned recently in Atlanta finding himself in the middle of the cheating scandal involving Atlanta Public Schools. Good public schools draw businesses and the Chamber wants to draw businesses. Test scores need to be high The Southern Association for Colleges and Schools guards against cheaters and caught the Atlanta Public Schools. This wrong doing very well may go away without anyone being punished. That’s the chamber way.

The City of Atlanta, Central Atlanta Progress, Atlanta Downtown Improvement District and United Way unabashedly demand that their territory be rid of homeless people and the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless. And they have worked for years as the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy to make it happen.

But could Emory, the doers of all good, the clean, the untainted, the pure, be in league with those accused of stealing from the poor? Could healthy Emory be joined at the hip with the tainted Manny Fialkow, the sordid CAP, the suspect United Way? Say it isn’t so. Not Emory.

Why would Debra S. Bloom, APR, Associate Administrator, Emory Healthcare be interested, yea concerned, about David Pendered’s 8/1,/2007 article in the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION? Bloom 8/1/07 at 8:52 am e-mailed the following to the head man of Emory Healthcare, John T. Fox. The following is quoted verbatim from Exhibit 6 Tab 6”
“Homeless backers protest fund loss. Emotional rhetoric fills debate over Shirley Franklin’s successful move to strip the shelter of public funding
By David Pendered
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Published on: 08/01/07

Raucous advocates of Atlanta’s major nonprofit homeless shelter tried to convince City Council members Tuesday to attempt to overturn Mayor Shirley Franklin’s successful move to strip the shelter of public funding. Some in the audience of more than 100 peppered the meeting with boos for their critics and chants for their supporters. One man waved his wooden cane overhead when he agreed with comments. Gloria Bromell-Tinubu, a former councilwoman, won repeated cheers that started with her opening remarks. “Slavery is the worst thing and homelessness is the second-worst thing that can be witnessed upon anyone,” Bromell-Tinubu said. “To be homeless, to be victimized again and criminalized again, is unconscionable.”

The advocates for the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless suggested they may take legal action if the state Department of Community Affairs does not provide a grant that could represent 10 percent of the Task Force’s budget. The budget for the shelter, which serves about 500 people a day near the Fox Theatre, was $1.3 million in 2004, according to its latest tax filing. The state agency did not fund a $112,000 grant request after receiving a letter from the mayor’s office that contended the shelter does not meet four of five criteria for homeless programs. The mayor’s chief of staff, Greg Pridgeon, signed the letter and said at the meeting the state could get more for its money if it went somewhere other than the task force. He did not specify which service providers would do a better job.

Bob Cramer, chairman of the task force, said the shelter has been the victim of a smear campaign that included allegations it was filled with lice. He said the shelter, commonly called Peachtree and Pine, will not move or close no matter if it loses money from the state and federal governments. “Peachtree and Pine isn’t going anywhere,” he said to a standing ovation. “All you have done is hurt our ability to serve the thousands of people we serve every week.”

Debra S. Broom, APR, Associate Administrator, Emory Healthcare”

At 1:03:42 pm John T. Fox wrote, “What do you guys think will happen?”

At 8 pm 8/1/07 Albert K. Blackwelder (CEO) Emory Hospital on Peachtree Street located near Peachtree Pine wrote the following to: Betty Willis, David Pugh, John T. Fox and Debra Bloom

“Subject: Re: Today’s AJC: (Peachtree and Pine Shelter) Homeless backers protest fund loss. I was there for a while but left with AJ Robinson before the fireworks and grand finale. Tim Williams stayed for the count and said, “It was a circus.” But nothing substantive occurred. The mayor’s office is taking a hard line with the Pine Street shelter by asking the state to cut off funding. The Tri-Jurisdictional Committee on Housing also cut off federal funding to the shelter just recently. AJ, Brad Curry and I went to talk with Dan Cathy yesterday about our concerns with the operation of this shelter and the disservice they provide both neighbors and the homless (sic) themselves. Dan Cathy has given money to the shelter and even volunteers there including staying overnight there. We hopefully made an impression that there is another side to this operation that he might not be aware of.

The effort is to both shut off public funding to the shelter and to try and impact private funding as well, hence the visit to Dan Cathy. It is too early to tell how this will affect the shelter but they have a long history of fighting, noisily, for survival. This will take more time and continued pressure. Al”

Note: Representing Emory University and Emory Healthcare, CEO Al Blackwelder actually wrote among other things, “… We hopefully made an impression that there is another side to this operation that he might not be aware of.” Then he wrote, “The effort is to both shut off public funding to the shelter and to try and impact private funding as well, hence the visit to Dan Cathy.” Just as important as what Blackwelder wrote is the persons to whom he wrote it. Why bother John T. Fox with the news of a shelter’s demise? One hundred thousand documents later in these 28 exhibits will show why. Blackwelder mentions “continued pressure” along with his cohort, A. J. Robinson who says these goings on are going on “under the cover of darkness.” As my friend Joe Beasley would say, “My, my, my, my.” And I’ve heard him add, “It’s time somebody went to jail.”

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 6, 2014

Exhibit 5 Tab 5″Sammy….we are keeping the pressure on…”

The title of this exhibit 5 Tab 5 “Sammy…we are keeping the pressure on….” is borrowed from Exhibit 2 Tab 2 “Who REALLY Runs Atlanta.” The pressure that is being applied to plot against the Task Force for the Homeless and homeless people present in downtown surfaces clearly in the October 23, 2006 meeting held at Central Atlanta Progress. Remember Mayor Shirley Franklin’s office hosted this meeting while CAP furnished the place to meet and United Way gathered other conspirators to attend this gathering. The subject line reads: Meeting about Peachtree and Pine. Wardell’s points listed below are to be covered in the November 20, 2006 meeting. Same song, different verse.

David E. Wardell, CPP, Vice President, Operations and Public Safety, on Friday, November 17, 2006 informs CAP Boss Robinson of the “Things that people are going to look into:”
– Look at emergency shelter standards (Public Works and United Way/Homeless Commission staff)
– Evaluate strengths and weaknesses of Homeless TF (Code enforcement and Homeless Commission;
– Who is on the Board of Directors of the Homeless Task Force? Want to go to the source of their resourcing and/or political support.
– Data to be collected: Volume of Complaints, Bad capacity there and at other shelters (Homeless Commission Staff;
– Law Department was going to look at the applicable or prevailing ordinances (Lem – Law Department)
– What is required to declare it a public nuisance?
– I delivered the copy of the Homeless Master Plan for their expansion program that City Planning requested. Looking at Grandfather Clauses and Fire and Safety Codes.
– Zoning as SPI (City Planning)
– Develop Public Affairs Component (? – Did not determine responsibility for putting this together) Lynette is looking for recommendations for solutions at this meeting
– We delivered the Executive Summary of the incidents in the area to Lynette (she acknowledged receipt).
– Since our last meeting (Ko Hassan’s Oct. 23rd meeting) Judge Green rebutted the information (Will not let it happen in the future) about the ordinances the police were allegedly being challenged by the Municipal Court for enforcing. Urban camping and something to do with tampering with vehicles in parking lots.

As long ago as 2006, eight years back, this conspiracy has boiled. The fight against the poor in the streets of Dr. King’s city has been relentless and endless.

Note: Dave Wardell’s to do list speaks for itself. However, several points are worthy of notice. Involved in plans to disappear the largest emergency shelter in the Southeast are the very persons mandated to give relief to those in need. Rather than help, suggest, aid, support and rescue; these charlatans form the largest conspiracy imaginable against the weakest people and the most vulnerable of non-profit organizations. Look at the organizations in the cabal: United Way, City Hall, City Council, The Chamber of Commerce, The Homeless Commission, headed so long by the Venerable Horace Sibley, the churches on Peachtree Street (for God’s sake). Atlanta had the opportunity to make Peachtree-Pine the finest example of a city’s caring for its little ones. What did they do? They plotted ways to declare it a nuisance. What did they do with a workable plan for mixed housing? They sabotaged the plan and looked for those who might have been responsible for it. They “got to” the nuns who held the mortgage. Boatloads of evidence of tortious interference, fraud and racketeering come out later in the remaining exhibits masterfully presented on July 11, 2014 by Baker Donelson attorneys. Watch for Exhibit 6 Tab 6 where monolithic Emory Health Care, Inc. raises its holy head.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 5, 2014

Exhibit 4 Tab 4 United Way of Atlanta and City of Atlanta CAUGHT in the Conspiracy Web

The order of arrangement of the 28 exhibits presented July 11, 2014, to Superior Court Judge Craig Schwall is nothing short of brilliant. The conspiracy snowball and RICO-making lawsuit grow with every single piece of evidence. Tab 4 presents the e-mail of a United Way staffer whose hatred of the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless goes back almost two decades. I first met Ko Hassan when he “volunteered” at the Task Force when we were located on Georgia Avenue in Grant Park prior to the move to Peachtree-Pine in 1997. Ko was a student at Emory. When I met him I said to myself, “Self, watch out, stand clear; there stands a wolf in sheep’s clothing, not to be trusted. His heart is far from this work. I fear he gags at the sight of a poor person.” By 2006 this clothed one has worked his way to “Director for Health and Disabilities Strategies” at where else, United Way. You can be assured his emphasis is on STRATEGIES

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And on 10/20/2006 at 4:19:10 PM Ko Hassan sends an e-mail to Horace Sibley of City connections and Protip Biswas of United Way. The subject of the e-mail is “Meeting about Peachtree and Pine.” His four-sentence e-mail reads: “Horace and Protip, This coming Monday, Oct 23rd from 12-2pm there is a ‘brainstorming’ meeting at Central Atlanta Progress offices that the Mayor’s office is hosting to discuss Peachtree and Pine. Horace was copied on that email but Protip was not. I wanted to let you all know that I will be going. Let me know if you plan to go as well. Thanks Khurram “Ko” Hassan, MPH Community Impact Director for Health and Disabilities Strategies United Way of Metro Atlanta”

Note how the circle of the purse-seine broadens. Here a United Way underling weaves the web that includes power players from Central Atlanta Progress, United Way and the City of Atlanta. Who hosts this “barnstorming” event? The City of Atlanta. Who provides the place to meet? Central Atlanta Progress. Who writes to remind others of the importance of this meeting about Peachtree and Pine? United Way staffer. Was anyone from the subject line to be discussed invited to this ‘brainstorming’ session? Not on your life. When Ko Hassan is asked in front of 12 jurors if this meeting was set to damage the Metro Atlanta Task Force, what, under oath, might he say?

I mention often the phrase “under oath.” A prominent attorney told me recently that bearing false witness in depositions happens all the time. I was startled. I said, “But those being deposed are under oath.” He told me that no one checks or punishes lying under oath if the oath is taken in a deposition. He explained that in Court this changes. Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall asked Horace Sibley and Debi Starnes in their depositions if they were aware that they were under oath. How truthful will these star members of TEAM GOLIATH answer when under oath in front of a jury?

Note: Watch for Exhibit 5 Tab 5 when CAP’s Dave Wardell tells Boss A. J. Robinson what will be discussed in the brainstorming session alluded to in Exhibit 4 Tab 4. Remember A. J. Robinson’s last word in his 7/20/2005 e-mail to his buddy, Sam “Get those scores up” Williams. Robinson wrote, “Sammy…we are keeping the pressure on. “ And the beat goes on. And the pressure goes on right now, some eight RICO years later.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 4, 2014