And Fred.
For using your names here: http://www.facebook.com/tony.wilkins.94/posts/4224479291231
in reference to this: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2013/01/talking-taxes.html
You see, over 10 years of pouring over blog stats has taught me that the vast majority of readers never read the comment threads. The vast majority also never click through to follow a link assuming you wouldn't link to it if it wasn't true. Unless, of course, they're assuming you're linking to a lie. I've no doubt Ed Cone is aware of this as well. Therefore, when Tony made his notes and Ed had failed to make his update after myself and others had called him on it hours before I felt it necessary to call him on his lies of omission-- something he has made quite the habit when it comes to anything that might involve the passage of GPAC.
Ed Cone was in fact the very first person to publicly admit seeing through my rouse to place the GPAC in the shopping center on Phillips Avenue. In Ed's very first post about GPAC he admitted I am right: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2012/01/downtown-arts/comments/page/2/#comments And from that moment on he turned on me.
No, people may not like the way I do things, the way I say things or the way I point fingers at the guilty, but is that reason enough to punish Greensboro's poor and working class? Because Billy Jones picked on a bunch of trust fund babies and professional grifters who want to build so called, public works projects to fill imaginary needs? You may not like me but I'm a product of what is currently being bred right now in East Greensboro. All I know how to do is fight. And while you've nothing to fear from this angry old man but what I might write or say there are literally hundreds if not thousands of young men growing up in East Greensboro today who are at risk of growing up just like I was-- a ticking time bomb like I used to be with my finger literally always on the trigger, paranoid and angry at the entire world. The difference is: we had honor and rules, today's thugs and gangsters throw honor and rules out the window. We never targeted civilians, civilians are their main course, breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they come in every color here.
You see, all the elites know I'm right. You all know I'm right. What breeds in East Greensboro doesn't stay here, it goes where it can rob and steal the most money. But rather than make this decision based on what is wrong and what is right, Ed Cone and the rest of Greensboro's elites would prefer to make it about how we play the game. Billy doesn't play by our rules so let's make the poor people suffer.
Again, I'm not playing by their rules but the results are the same. Like it or not, this time it's Billy's way or poor people suffer and it's those of you who run the City make those decisions. Are you paying attention, Mayor Perkins?
Greensboro has to decide, do we follow the same economic model we've followed for 50 plus years that brings prosperity only to Greensboro's elites? Or do we follow a model that brings prosperity to the least among us? My partners and I are working hard on our part, (I know, you're all still clueless.) we only hope Greensboro's leaders can see fit to do the same.
So to Nancy, Marikay, Denise, and Fred, I'm sorry. Right or wrong I thought it necessary.
For using your names here: http://www.facebook.com/tony.wilkins.94/posts/4224479291231
in reference to this: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2013/01/talking-taxes.html
You see, over 10 years of pouring over blog stats has taught me that the vast majority of readers never read the comment threads. The vast majority also never click through to follow a link assuming you wouldn't link to it if it wasn't true. Unless, of course, they're assuming you're linking to a lie. I've no doubt Ed Cone is aware of this as well. Therefore, when Tony made his notes and Ed had failed to make his update after myself and others had called him on it hours before I felt it necessary to call him on his lies of omission-- something he has made quite the habit when it comes to anything that might involve the passage of GPAC.
Ed Cone was in fact the very first person to publicly admit seeing through my rouse to place the GPAC in the shopping center on Phillips Avenue. In Ed's very first post about GPAC he admitted I am right: http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2012/01/downtown-arts/comments/page/2/#comments And from that moment on he turned on me.
No, people may not like the way I do things, the way I say things or the way I point fingers at the guilty, but is that reason enough to punish Greensboro's poor and working class? Because Billy Jones picked on a bunch of trust fund babies and professional grifters who want to build so called, public works projects to fill imaginary needs? You may not like me but I'm a product of what is currently being bred right now in East Greensboro. All I know how to do is fight. And while you've nothing to fear from this angry old man but what I might write or say there are literally hundreds if not thousands of young men growing up in East Greensboro today who are at risk of growing up just like I was-- a ticking time bomb like I used to be with my finger literally always on the trigger, paranoid and angry at the entire world. The difference is: we had honor and rules, today's thugs and gangsters throw honor and rules out the window. We never targeted civilians, civilians are their main course, breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they come in every color here.
You see, all the elites know I'm right. You all know I'm right. What breeds in East Greensboro doesn't stay here, it goes where it can rob and steal the most money. But rather than make this decision based on what is wrong and what is right, Ed Cone and the rest of Greensboro's elites would prefer to make it about how we play the game. Billy doesn't play by our rules so let's make the poor people suffer.
Again, I'm not playing by their rules but the results are the same. Like it or not, this time it's Billy's way or poor people suffer and it's those of you who run the City make those decisions. Are you paying attention, Mayor Perkins?
Greensboro has to decide, do we follow the same economic model we've followed for 50 plus years that brings prosperity only to Greensboro's elites? Or do we follow a model that brings prosperity to the least among us? My partners and I are working hard on our part, (I know, you're all still clueless.) we only hope Greensboro's leaders can see fit to do the same.
So to Nancy, Marikay, Denise, and Fred, I'm sorry. Right or wrong I thought it necessary.
