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

Exhibit 19 AJ’s Premature Celebration

Exhibit 19 Tab 19 AJ’s Premature Celebration

Exhibit 19 Tab 19 was filed in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County on July 11, 2014. The Plaintiff is the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. and the defendants are Premium Funding Solutions, Inc., Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District. This case arises from a well-documented conspiracy by powerful downtown entities whose purpose among many things was to shut down the Atlanta Task Force and to take the 96,000 square foot building at 477 Peachtree Street in Atlanta. Baker Donelson Attorneys Steve Hall and Bob Brazier represent the plaintiffs. A myriad of attorneys represent Premium Funding Solutions and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District. Troutman Sanders represents Central Atlanta Progress. Three of their attorneys appear in this Exhibit 19; there are 27 other exhibits. Emory University and Emory Health Care, Inc. are defendants in a similar lawsuit in the Superior Court of Dekalb County. Attorney Mark Murray represents the Task Force’s lawsuit against Emory.

The following e-mail is sent from AJ Robinson, President of CAP, to Attorneys Steve Riddell, Robert D. Fortson and William W. Burton at Troutman Sanders on January 28, 2010. By January 2015, five (5) years will have passed. The Peachtree Pine property was stolen almost five (5) years ago, but the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. thrives and occupies the building with homeless people residing there 365 days of the year. AJ Robinson’s celebratory ejaculation happened four (4) years, nine (9) months ago. He wrote the following:

From: AJ Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:15 PM
To: Steve W. Riddell, Robert D. Fortson, William W. Burton
Subject:

Just a note to inform you that Manny now owns the loan on the Pine Street shelter, plan is to begin on advertising for foreclosure tomorrow and foreclose on March 1st or 2nd. Of course loan could be paid off between now and then. We are developing a plan with Manny, United Way, Gateway for post foreclosure.
Aj Robinson.

Note: The foreclosure happened. The plans didn’t. United Way has been planning for decades; however, those women and children who so desperately long for their help seldom if ever find it. Gateway has been closed to women and children for eons.

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

Exhibit 17 Craig Jones to AJ Robinson: “You really got Manny lathered up. We really need to see what Emory is willing to do.”

Exhibit 17, Tab 17, is one of 28 exhibits filed as evidence in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, on July 11, 2014. The lawsuit pits the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, Inc. against Premium Funding Solutions, Inc. (Manny “Micah 2:1-2” Fialkow), Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District. The three defendants are charged among other things with racketeering, tortious interference, defamation, bribery and fraudulently seizing property. Emory University and Emory Health Care face the same and other charges in the Superior Court of Dekalb County, Georgia. In this brief Exhibit 17, Craig Jones of Cousins Properties exudes glee over the pliancy of the usually constipated Manny “Micah 2:1-2” Fialkow. Craig Jones’ ejaculation is sent by e-mail to Manny’s familiar, A. J. Robinson, president of Central Atlanta Progress. The “Boss” as Richard Orr likes to call him, responds to the Cousins Properties’ man showing what he knows of the sometimes pliable, sometimes not, Emanuel “ Micah 2:1-2” Fialkow. Their exchanges are quoted below: From: Craig Jones To: AJ Robinson Sent: Wed May 20, 2009 Subject: Fw: 477 Peachtree Pine This “gent” is way down the road on this. You’ve got him pretty lathered up. We really need to see what Emory is willing to do, although being realistic, they probably won’t move fast enough… Sent from my Blackberry Wireless Handheld From: AJ Robinson To: ‘craigjones@cousinsproperties.com Subject: Re: 477 Peachtree Agreed, but he just smells a deal and will flip to Emory if we want. . . . . . . . also he tops out at about 2 million so we need some back up. Sent from my Blackberry Wireless Handheld Note: From this Exhibit 17 through Exhibit 28 the plot thickens with Emory officials chumming with Manny “Micah 2:1-2” Fialkow and A. J. Robinson. Cousins Properties’ Craig Jones delights in Fialkow’s being “lathered up” by A. J. Robinson. Cousins Properties wants to develop 477 Peachtree. And snow white developers like Cousins Properties and pristine Health Care Providers like Emory Health Care, Inc. need “informal” dealers like Fialkow to “put them in default” and then “Kick them out” of the property. What a mix! What a conglomerate. Nuns posing as housing providers are joined at the hip with conspirators who all stand to gain on the backs of poor people and also on the back of an organization that has, though crippled by these very attackers, served them unflaggingly.       James Wilson Beaty Jeremiah 22:16 September 17, 2014.

Exhibit 15 Manny Fialkow” “Offering the alternatives is the likely best way to avoid or counter a lawsuit.”

Baker Doneson Attorneys Steve Hall and Bob Brazier filed the following Exhibit 15 Tab 15 in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, on July 11, 2014. Baker Donelson entitled this Exhibit 15, “Robinson-Fialkow email.” Judge Schwall responded with his ruling with the following order. He made the way clear for Manny Fialkow’s Premium Finance Solutions, Inc, to move toward dispossessory of the Peachtree-Pine Property. Also, Judge Schwall AFFIRMED Special Master Frank Strickland’s Order which stated that Defendants Manny Fialkow, Central Atlanta Progress and Atlanta Downtown Improvement District face 8 claims of wrongdoing worthy to be heard before a jury. ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION Reporter Rhonda Cook reported on the ruling in a front page article and did not mention the 8 claims that the defendants must face. Cook is notorious for one-sided and flawed reporting. Her research methodology is suspect. If she read the Special Master’s report, a reader could never tell it. Remember, for years Rhonda Cook has served as Debi Starnes’ and AJ Robinson’s newsletter propagandist. Cook’s willingness years ago to comply with CAP’s cause prompted Richard Orr to squeal to the Boss, “We’re in!”

This Exhibit 15 features Manny Fialkow and AJ Robinson. The conspiracy was so widespread at this point in May 2009 that Manny Fialkow writes to fellow conspirator, AJ Robinson, “Offering the alternatives is the best way to avoid or counter a lawsuit.” Rest assured Emanuel “Micah 2:1-2” Fialkow is familiar with facing lawsuits. Both the emails in this Exhibit 15 were written on May 17, 2009. I quote them verbatim.

“From: Emanuel Fialkow
To: AJ Robinson
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009
Subject: Note of potential importance

Michael Weinstock was the campaign chair (and housed the campaign of) T. Jackson Bedford, the judge who turned Anita’s water back on.

If need be I can get him to make a call or show up to sit with Troutman or even take that part of the case if it comes up again.

Offering the alternatives is the likely best way to avoid or counter a lawsuit.

I will continue to quietly attempt to come up with them, including buying single family homes or small apt blgs not too far from, but far enough from downtown.

Esf

From: AJ Robinson

Sent: May 17, 2009

To: esf@fialkow.net
Re: note of potential importance

Ok, but keep confidential……she will not be satisfied, she’s all about power and control.

Note: Imagine Manny Fialkow offering to call an associate, Michael Weinstock, former campaign manager of a judge for the purpose of influencing a judge. Can that happen? Are judges called? Is it ethical to pressure a judge? I thought judges were pressured ONLY to interpret and KEEP the law? Is Manny Fialkow close to the justice that we all cherish? And the same person who can influence is concerned about being taken to court in a lawsuit? Me thinks thou protests too much! And what about “the judge who turned Anita’s water back on”? Is anyone safe in a world where the Manny Fialkows influence judges and the AJ Robinsons write that saints who give their lives serving the poor are “all about power and control.”

Let me think. Where have I heard Anita Beaty described as a person who is “all about power and control”? Power and control? Power and control! Let me see. Were those very words stated in the…? No way! They couldn’t have been spoken there!

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
September 8, 2014

Exhibit 14 Tab 14 AJ Robinson: “I know Fialkow pretty well”

Exhibit 14 Tab 14 AJ: I know Fialkow pretty well”

Baker Donelson Attorneys Steve Hall and Bob Brazier filed the following Exhibit 14 along with 27 other exhibits in Judge Craig Schwall’s Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, on July 11, 2014. Baker Donelson entitles this Exhibit 14, “Robinson-Jones email.” This exhibit consists of two emails, the first from Emanuel Fialkow to Realtor Michael Dineman and copied it to AJ Robinson. The second email is from AJ Robinson, President of Central Atlanta Progress, to Craig Jones and Johm McColl of Cousins Properties. I have quoted the two emails verbatim in the order that they were written.

“From: Emanuel Fialkow
Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 9:51 AM
To: m dineman
Cc: AJ Robinson
Subject: RE: 477 Peachtree Street

Please submit this Loi to Gene. Remind him that it is 2009 and warehouse props don’t sell for $ 100+psf

Esf

From: AJ Robinson
To: Craig Jones (Cousins Properties); John McColl (Cousins Properties)
Sent: 3/3/2009 3:15:41 PM
Subject: FW: 477 Peachtree Street
Attachments: LOI-477 Peachtree Street doc

Fyi, please keep confidential ….I know Fialkow pretty well…my guess is he would come up some on price but not much. We may be able to convince him to buy the notes if nothing else surfaces. Briefed Russ (Hardin) yesterday, he says Emory has no $, but will push them at right time. Communicated with the noteholders yesterday, but they still haven’t signed docs…..”

Note: By March 2009 AJ Robinson, Emory University, Emory Health Care, Manny Fialkow, Russ Hardin, president of the Woodruff Foundation, Craig Jones and John McColl of Cousins Properties, and the Nun-run Mercy Housing, Inc. and legions of others have come together as members of the TEAM GOLIATH conspiracy. Imagine these powerful status quo visionaries taking so long to get something accomplished. Since 1995 these doers of all good have failed miserably to crush and steal one stinking little shelter from Peachtree Street. What is wrong with these omnipotent cleansers? They need to bring in Sammy’s CHAMBER! Whoops, I forfot they already did, long ago.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
September 8, 2014

Exhibit 11 Tab 11 “Sell the Notes Central Atlanta Progress or a member”

Baker Donelson Attorney Steve Hall filed the following exhibit along with 27 others with Judge Craig Schwall in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, at a hearing on July 11, 2014. This exhibit consists of handwritten notes from Mercy Housings’ Dianne Leavesley. She made these notes during a conference call with the following participants: A. J. Robinson (CAP), Pete Walker Mercy Housing – Atlanta), John Morland (National Housing Trust attorney – Washington), Sandy Maben (Mercy Housing – Denver) and Julie Gould (Mercy Housing – Denver?). Dianne Leavesley’s notes written on 11/3/08 are quoted verbatim:

“City of Atlanta and business community interested in Peachtree-Pine shelter.

A former real estate developer represents the Atlanta Metro area engaged w/County, City & The Mayor

The community under the Mayor’s & United Way’s leadership want to solve the homeless issue – – not just feeding & sheltering, but to end their homelessness.

“Task Force wants to shelter & feed & nothing else!” Task Force started as an advocacy group, the shelter is poorly run, it’s a drag on the City

The City cut the water to part of the building.

Sell the Notes to Central Atlanta Progress or a member

Central Atlanta Progress a member org – – Atlanta Downtown Improvement District – – an elects w/Mayor and City Govt w/ United Way

Plan – process people on a temporary basis – they trust the system 100 people each Atlanta and Gateway 100 people each

200 – 300 – they believe the Task Force inflates the numbers

Prediction re: collapse Wardlaw no longer writing checks

What communications with/her board? Discussions with her board haven’t effective

PETE MHSE looked into the situation one year ago for SRO housing above a scaled down shelter (a small intake space)

Atlanta Housing Authority, State of GA said they would not support the development if Task Force’s people were involved.

Water liens $10,000 Debbie Starnes – works for the Mayor – former City Council person Horace Sibley – head of United Way’s program for homeless”

Note: Exhibit 11 brings Mercy Housing, Inc. into the conspiracy mix. In other e-mails A. J. Robinson asks Pete Walker, the head person for Mercy Housing South East headquartered in Atlanta how can “we” put the Task Force in default. Walker answered that he would like to know that also. This conference began that process, and this conference call was one of many attempts to ”get to” the nuns at Mercy Housing to convince them to allow someone to but the Notes. Of course, Emanuel Fialkow became the nun’s choice. With a name like Ichthus how could Manny miss? A transliteration of the letters of this Greek word proves to be iota, chi, theta, upsilon, sigma. This Greek word means FISH, probably the second best known symbol used in the early Christian church. Wouldn’t you love to know which conspirator at CAP came up with a Christian symbol to camouflage Manny Fialkow. I’d put my money on Richard “crap sniffer” Orr or Paul “toxic waste dump” Kelman.

James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
August 27, 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