On Tuesday, July 23, I wrote a scathing blog post entitled,
Greensboro City Attorney City S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan Unfit To Serve, in
which I deliberately took jabs at Greensboro City Attorney S. Mujeeb
Shah-Khan over his allowing the City of Greensboro to continue to
violate the Constitutional rights of Greensboro Mayoral candidate George
Hartzman. I closed the post with a link to an address on Google Maps
that just happens to be S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan’s home address.
I made no threats but I did rattle his cage. So much so that
Shah-Khan pushed Greensboro Police Chief Ken Miller into writing me a
threatening e-mail and violating my own Constitutional rights. Chief
Miller, who I consider a good man, was pushed into a corner by a bad
boss and forced to do something no police officer would ever willingly
do in this day and age.
As evidence of the fact that I’m correct, you can go to East
Greensboro Performing Arts Center and search the site and you’ll find
that what I wrote about Shah-Khan still stands. I’ve yet to be arrested
or even charged. As I wrote in another blog post, Greensboro Attempts
Noise Ordnance Against Bloggers And Social Media, what I did was
protected speech and while Chief Miller’s e-mail to me accused me of
threatening Shah-Khan, the definition of a threat as defined by the
United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg v. Ohio doesn’t come anywhere
close to what I did.
As a matter of fact, in my original blog post I never even stated the
address I linked to was Shah-Khan’s address or anyone else’s address.
You see, the entire effort was a fishing expedition and I caught me
one less than capable Greensboro City Attorney who took the bait hook,
line and sinker.
And I did it for good reason too. For the last two years I’ve watched
Mayor Robbie Perkins intimidate speakers at Greensboro City Council
meetings by not allowing them to speak until they speak their home
address into the microphone to be broadcast not only on live local
television and stored on the City of Greensboro website as individual
meetings but also live streamed to anyone in the entire world with
access to Internet.
That’s right, when you tell the Mayor and City Council your home
address you are telling it to the world– the entire world, all seven
billion or so people with access to the Internet. Not even the US House
of Representatives or United States Senate asks people to speak their
home address before addressing bodies of Congress. And because you had
to fill out a form before you were allowed to speak the Mayor already
has your home address right in front of him when he calls you up to
speak.
To add insult to injury, Mayor Perkins often exempts friends, high
rollers and connected elites from having to state their home addresses.
Others openly use their office addresses.
This is a form of intimidation and a violation of your rights as
citizens of Greensboro and the United States of America. It only goes on
to scare you away from the podium and more than one person has told me
they won’t address the Greensboro City Council because they fear
reprisals from having given out their home addresses in front of the
cameras.
If it scares the Greensboro City Attorney whose position affords him a
full time 24/7/365 police watch at his request as a condition of his
employment, why shouldn’t the rest of you be scared?
And why are Mayor Robbie Perkins and S. Mujeeb Shah-Khan allowed to
continue intimidating Greensboro’s working class citizens in this
manner?
. From the Clemmons Free Press
