Jeremiah, Diogenes and Ed Loring
February 7, 2019
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
July 7, 2017
Exhibit 18 Dane Peterson “. . . and have Emory pick up the tab for the difference to the full amount.”
October 2, 2014
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
Exhibit 15 Manny Fialkow” “Offering the alternatives is the likely best way to avoid or counter a lawsuit.”
September 8, 2014
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
Rector Hoare Remembered Every Super Bowl Sunday
January 26, 2014
Next Sunday, February 2, 2014, Super Bowl XLVIII (48) will be played at the Metlife Stadium in the Meadowlands of New Jersey. This stadium is the home field of the New York Giants. Some people believe that the late Teamster Jimmy Hoffa is buried in concrete in one of the end zones. This playing field is not too far from the much talked about George Washington Bridge that spans the mighty Hudson River. Weather vultures are speaking of a blizzard for that day; other media goons are talking traffic snarls.
Residents of the Peachtree Pine Community watch with great interest all Super Bowls. Some 300 plus homeless African American men at Peachtree Pine watched Super Bowl XLV (45) played on Sunday, February 6, 2011. Few of those men remember who won that game or where it was played. However, many of them remember a sermon preached that day at All Saints Episcopal Church at the corner of North Avenue and West Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia. The sermon was delivered on Super Bowl Sunday, February 6, 2011. It carries the title, “Doing Justice,” and it was delivered by All Saints’ CEO, Rector Geoffrey Hoare, that’s Hoare with an “H.” All Saints Episcopal Church’s website published Rector Hoare’s diatribe. I assume the sermon can be read still. It may have been removed.
My blog drjimbeaty.wordpress.com posted a response to some of the Hoare lies about Peachtree-Pine Community on March 23, 2011. The men who live now at the Peachtree-Pine Community watch like Jeremiah’s almond tree in chapter one to see if Rector Hoare might give a repeat performance next Sunday, Super Bowl XLVIII (48). The men who polish the floors and clean the toilets and showers and scrub the sinks and empty the trash and case manage hundreds of women and children weekly want to know if he will say again that we live there in squalor and that their living quarters are filthy and unkempt. Hoare stated that the place is unsafe and dangerous. He’s right about that: that’s true some of the time of the outside, not inside, where drug dealers and pimps and whores, (that’s whores with a “W”) operate most of the time without any police interference. Our security volunteers say that for every Atlanta Police arrest there are fifteen drug deals in the open broad light of the day.
But one long block away, down the street at Renaissance Park there are no such shenanigans now because the neighbors around that park have DEMANDED that all drug users and dealers and prostitutes and pimps be arrested. The Community at Peachtree Pine has no such protection. I’ll bet a six pack of RC Cola that Woodruff Park and The Hurt, home of Central Atlanta Progress and ADID IT has that protection. Another six pack says that CEO Hoare’s business has police protection, business community protection, Peachtree Corridor Churches’ protection, Chamber of Commerce protection, United Way protection, Atlanta Regional Council protection, Atlanta City Council Protection, the Mayor’s Innovation Delivery Team protection and Farmers’ Insurance protection. One must ponder if Rector Hoare has the protection of THE EVERLASTING ARMS.
Read my March 23, 2011 piece and Hoare’s February 6, 2011, sermon preached from a Christian pulpit in an Episcopal church. Then wait for Super Bowl sermon next Sunday to see if Cicero delivers again.
James Wilson Beaty
January 25, 2014
Jeremiah 22:16
Rector
Emory University; What’s In A Name?
February 25, 2013
Emory University is named for some Methodist saint, a bishop, I think, whose sir name was of course, Emory. A second name considered was another Methodist saint, a Bishop Coke. Those who wanted the great Methodist stronghold of the faith to be Coke University suffered disappointment, surely. The descendants of those disappointed can be consoled by the fact that Emory University has truly become Coke University. And it is the REAL THING.
I wonder what the great John Wesley would think of Emory’s history of “racial wounds?” John Wesley, the methodist, was never a Methodist; he died a priest in the Anglican Church.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
February 25,2013
Is Emory University Five-fifths Racist?
February 25, 2013
On Saturday, February 23, 2013, THE NEW YORK TIMES ran an article entitled, “Emory University’s Leader Reopens Its Racial Wounds.” Has the ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION published anything on Emory’s “racial wounds?”
The second paragraph of the TIMES’ article states, and I quote,
“All week long, the president of Emory, James W. Wagner, has been trying to control damage done by a column he wrote for the university magazine. In it he praised the 1787 three-fifths compromise, which allowed each slave to be counted as three-fifths of a person in determining how much congressional power the Southern states would have, as an example of how polarized people could have common ground.”
“It was,” Wagner said, “a clumsy and regrettable mistake.”
The homeless residents at the Peachtree Pine Community for years have sporadically been refused service at the food court across the street from the shelter. The food court is Emory Health Care’s facility. African-American men who look like they may be residents at Peachtree-Pine are simply turned around at the door.
Al Blackwelder, while the head man at the Emory Hospital, then Crawford Long, said to Peachtree-Pine staff that he suspected “that YOUR people are coming over here and pissing in OUR frog pond.” The TIMES quotes Wagner as saying, “I know that I personally have a long way to go.” Some of us who endure the plantation mentality and Miss Daisy thinking of Emory administrators believe others at the Coca-Cola U have a long way to go.
Dr. Wagner said, “Emory is a community that airs its laundry.” A better way to say that is, “Emory is a community that puts its shit in the street.” And the beat of the heavily armed TEAM GOLIATH goes on.
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
February 25, 2013
Judy Goff Writes About Anita Beaty
January 23, 2013
Thirty plus years ago Judy Goff and Anita Beaty worked together for three years in Conway, South Carolina. Waccamaw (EOC) Economic Opportunity Council was an agency funded through President Johnson’s Great Society endeavor. Under the Waccamaw EOC umbrella viable programs such as Head Start, Summer Food Programs, Right to Read, Weatherization and Adult Reading Academy flourished.
Recently over the holidays these two women reconnected through Facebook. I read what Judy wrote, and I asked her permission to share it with my readers. As I prepared to write I asked Anita to tell me about Judy Goff, what she was like. Anita brightened and said,”She was smart, creative, energetic, funny, thirsty to learn and grow, eager to be mentored and just downright adorable.”
The following was written by Judy Goff who lives in Conway, South Carolina, with her husband and three children. With Judy Goff’s permission I publish the following:
“Anita, I just want to say – – you are simply unforgettable – – you had such an impact on my life. I was a very sheltered southern girl who had never ventured too far beyond my own state’s borders. You opened up a whole new world for me – – truly. You made me realize the world was so much bigger than my little corner, and your creative and energetic personality just sparkled. I had never known anyone like you, so smart and so capable and so independent with the ability to think outside the box. On your own, you wrote and ran programs that improved the lives of those less fortunate, those who had fallen through the cracks of our society.
My job with the Reading Program remains the very best job I have ever had. Do you remember the day we spent in the woods cutting and delivering firewood to the people in the Longs Area, some of whom had no other means to heat their homes? You arranged with the landowner, was it Ralph Ellis, to allow us to cut and chop the wood? I still remember some of the little women wanting to comb their hair and to freshen up for the pictures we took that day. Remember how we cooked a big pot of stew over a fire in the woods; it was actually good, wood chips and all.
I see you perfectly in my mind’s eye, and I think of you often. I cannot imagine the lives you have touched throughout your career. And to think you’ve been in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED! That just blows me away. Anyway, Anita, I just love you. You took me on a magic carpet ride, and it was a blast. I think you are practically perfect in every way. I would love to get together. You just name the place and time, and I’ll be there with bells on. Judy
Note: Published by permission given by Ms. Judy Lane Goff
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
January 23, 2013
On The Subject Of War, See Daniel Berrigan
November 15, 2012
If the subject is war, nation against nation, or the strong against the weak, Berrigan cuts to the chase. When on November 1, 2012, All Saints’ Day, we remembered 43 people who had died homeless the previous year on or near the streets of Atlanta. I read aloud from atop the Peachtree Pine Building where hundreds last night found refuge from the cold November night. Atop that structure rests a roof garden that boasts twwenty-five beds where grow vegetables and flowers. On November 1 the tillers and planters of that garden, all residents of the Peachtree-Pine facility, planted 43 plants (chard, lettuce, kale, collards and mums in loving memory of those who had gone home.
Daniel Berrigan’s life message counters oppressors who make war. His message counters also those who make war on the poor. Forty-three citizens of Atlanta died at the feet of Atlanta’s draconian leadership whose only mission is to remove rather than comfort them.
The following quote is lifted from Berrigan’s commentary on the book of ISAIAH. Berrigan’s title is, ISAIAH, SPIRIT OF COURAGE, GIFT OF TEARS. The following he writes while commenting on Isaiah 25:4,5:
“The outcome of moral crisis rests in other hands than the powerful of this world. The nations will one day see. Pride and chariots and spears and all their military hardware and vaunting claptrap go – – exactly nowhere. Is this salutary lesson perhaps the beginning of the end.
“Then they will see that God is the God not of the big achievers and half-believers, but of the helpless, the needy, the victimized, the distressed (25:4,5). God is shelter and providential shadow. Such this God is for those who have no chariots to trust in.”
Note: Berrigan’s translation of the two verses he sites perfectly portrays the essence of those warmongers who incessantly make war against the poor.
“You, strength of the hapless,
you, refuge of the poor.
The violent wreak havoc!
their reign – – a torrid blast,
a desert, a windborne plague
But you, you put to silence
boasts of the hard of heart!
James Wilson Beaty
Jeremiah 22:16
November 15, 2012
Dr. Jim Beaty 