On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Glenn moyer <glen...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Neighbors, > > I imagine you all noted that UCD and FOCP immediately tried to silence our > discussion of clark park poison with "greenwashing." They didn't know the > name of the poison or even the company, but just launched into bull... "It's > organic and safe; it's safe and organic. Everyone shut up because Glenn is > paranoid." and >When I discover the exact name of the Clark park poison, I'll research the specific "product" and report back to you. This is strange. At 5:30 today, Frank Chance emailed Glenn a data sheet on the fertilizer used in the park, and I got a cc.. It's called GreenGro, it's made by a company called Synatek, and it's basically 19% urea nitrogen and 2% potassium chloride. That's pretty standard for a fertiizer. (According to the spec sheet, ingestion causes "mild stomach discomfort.") Yet here we are at 8:40 pm, and Glenn is promising to report back when he "discovers the exact name." But he's evidently spent those three hours dredging up complaints about this TruGreen company-- _three hours_ after getting information with the name of the fertilizer, and the fact that it's made by someone else entirely. It's now 11 p.m., and Glenn has not mentioned receiving Frank's email. Are we surprised? I'm not. Glenn's history is to try to find _some_ issue to get people angry at the Friends of Clark Park. It doesn't matter _what_ it is. One month it's our 'secret plans' to rebuild parts of the park. Another month, our survey on flea markets is Something Sinister. Reciting claims of corporate rule and dandelion murder haven't inspired people to really to Glenn's cause, whatever it really is. But Glenn seems to have found a button to press. He's been screaming about "poison" right off the bat, like those Town Hall cranks yelping about socialism and death panels. (Kind of an old PR trick: keep repeating the inflamatory buzzwords about your opponents, as Newt Gingrich did in the 1990s.) He's made vague, unverifiable claims that the grass is now a "strange color," and somehow, the absence of dandelions is connected with this; I'm surprised he hasn't cited local psychics that the park's aura is out of alignment. Oh, I have to mention something that's very disturbing. Glenn has made wild and unsupported claims that "millions of gallons" of "poisons" are being dumped in the park, as a "corporate" effort to promote "neo-Victorian" values. I have not seen anyone demand that he support these claims with anything like proof. But when Tony tries to answer these wild accusations-- and we're researching the issue, trust me-- suddenly the people who swallowed Glenn's dishonest bile are demanding "facts and data." Well, we're trying, but they take time to assemble: Glenn has the luxury of throwing whatever he wants onto the list, relevant, documented, or not. This is sadly typical of the angry, bullying tone that's chased a lot of reasonable people away from this mailing list.
