O.K. let's get real! Darco represents Glenn as saying soething he did not. Darco asks: "do you have evidence of people being excluded from the park?"
Glenn did not ever say in his communique that people were excluded from the park. Whether he said something else with which you disagree, Tony... he most certainly did not say what Darco said he did! You ignored that fact in your email! Do you deny that 'mistake' to be the case?! As far as people being excluded from planning sessions I do believe Glenn, who cited much more than you credited him with. De Facto exclusion sounds fairly patently exhibited. Your statements regarding Glenn are perhaps even closer to libel than Darco's who seems to have misread rather than misrepresented Glenn. Whatever your feelings about him are, you both owe him an apology! Bill: There are houses all over the Wissahickon Valley built on (and completely surrounded by) formerly public (park) property. What you are not aware of may yet be extant; believe it. The issue of City sales of Fairmount Park property is very current news whether you know it or not. What you said about Glenn was abstruse; and it sounded quite unnecessarily nasty. Rick On Apr 28, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Anthony West wrote: > Richard, > > I would have to say Darco's reading is quite skilled. Glenn's "overwhelming > evidence" is either imaginary, or self-fabricated. The 10-year-old article he > is fond of citing offers one (1) piece of hard evidence that people were > being "excluded" from Clark Park planning: an unsupported, quoted assertion > by -- none other than himself! That's all there's ever been; he has no other > evidence to offer. > > I note that, since you too know of no instances where anyone has actually > been excluded from Clark Park or its planning, you have just shifted the > discussion to Fairmount Park. Here, I have to question your statement that > "control by private parties" is increasing in Fairmount Park. All of the > private facilities there I can think of -- Boathouse Row, etc. -- have been > in place for a long time. So in fact I might point out that what you are > worried might happen here, hasn't even been happening there. > > So this thread is debating an alleged problem which hasn't happened here; > which hasn't happened there; and which hasn't happened anywhere. It is on a > level with the problem with Barack Obama's birth certificate. > > ---Tony West > > >> Darco, >> >> I must agree with Glenn that you have most clearly misinterpreted what Glenn >> wrote and you should read it again more closely. >> >> Although, in fact I might point out, as control by private parties >> increases, particularly when park spaces are leased or sold to private >> parties, it can become a matter of others being excluded. >> >> There are many places in Fairmount Park right now which are private >> property, and where you are quite forbidden to trespass. >> >> Rick Conrad >
