Greensboro We101: Free Speech, Roch Smith, Jr. Style (Subtitled: Progressive Like Ray Criscoe)

Yesterday evening, before driving home to Asheboro through a monster storm, I sent fellow doctor-blogger, Joe Guarino an e-mail, advising him that Roch Smith, Jr. of the blog aggregator, Greensboro We101, was back to his old tricks . . .

. . . right before an election, no less.

Joe, being a decent fellow, put up a post.  Roch, like Courier Tribune Ray Criscoe, wants people to believe that Mary Johnson is a bully - acting unreasonably and without just provocation.  Poor Roch is an innocent victim of the mean lady doctor's wrath (just like that poor Jeff Martin). 

Roch would like to be "educated".  I elected to oblige.

Sorry I'm late responding to this, Joe. But I drove home through a monster-storm last night and just rolled out of bed.

Roch, your tactics are no better than that crowd at the Courier Tribune - where, excepting the last six months, I've been banned for all of twelve years.

At the Courier last Sunday, I had an entire Editorial in the print edition dedicated to me (without mentioning my name) . . . and some of my friends . . . and that's because Ray-Criscoe-Editor-of-Asheboro's-bought-and-paid-for-Bully-Pulpit is finally running scared.

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2010/10/courier-tribunes-ray-criscoe-and.html

And I LOVE it - because now the entire town is FINALLY asking questions about what is going on over at that newspaper and City Hall. We have evidence ON TAPE that the City of Asheboro PAID OFF a CT reporter to leave a meeting and not report a story.

Now one would think that, in America, City Hall buying off the fourth estate should be BIG NEWS. I mean, how much more like PRAVDA can it get here? But no. It's not big news in the Piedmont-Triad - where all the premiere, progressive, free-speech-loving bloggers hang out.

Joe blogged about it a few weeks back, and what did we get from the Cones and the Rochs?

Radio silence.

Meanwhile, up in Greensboro, on Roch Smith's Jrs. personal labor-of-love, YOU took down the link to Housecalls without warning to me (I thought you had a Board that provided some oversight of your actions) for the horrible, awful "offense" of taking a break from comments for a while after being VICIOUSLY cyber-stalked last year by your hero, "The Stench".

As best I can tell, this apparently happened after I visited your personal blog and pointed out a few flaws in your legal "arguments" shoring up Jeff Martin's latest sick/warped/ILLEGAL antics (issuing global threats against local firemen - A REAL HOOT) . . . and commented talking about the effect my dance with our local cyber-stalker had on me.

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2010/10/to-answer-your-question-roch.html

You remember, right? You and Cone traded secret passwords with Martin while it was all going on. And you two thought it was great when the Randolph County Court system did what we all knew it would do (a good portion of the evidence against Martin never made it into the Courtroom because the DA's office and Sheriff's Department threw me under the bus).

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-fecund-stench-permeates-courtroom.html

And here's the thing about that, Roch. You don't know the half of it of what I've been through since - because, for reasons of personal safety, I've not blogged on it.

Your philosophy seems to be, let's feel sorry for anyone victimized by a cyber-bully unless it's Mary Johnson. Oh, and let's victimize the victim some more because we're so morally superior.

Of course, given my dance in the Greensboro blogosphere and with "citizen journalism", it's par for the course.

And, OF COURSE, you want it to reach the point of me bringing it up when I finally do meet with the lawyers ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE. Because you cannot EVER be educated unless lawyers are involved. They are your gods (they're not mine - and no one can say I haven't done my damnedest not to have to hire them again).

It's really kind of sad - and pathetic.

You preach about accountability and transparency and free speech, but every opportunity you get to crap on someone that YOU HATE (because her life experience pees in your Obama-loving blue cornflakes) you CRAP. This latest stunt is (as you like to say) abject hypocrisy. It's not because you're noble or acting on any kind of principle. It's because you LOVE to HATE.

The point kind of is that, in response to your bully tactics, I restored comments on my blog (before I was really ready to do so), BUT you did not restore the blog. I put up a post. I sent you e-mails. You did not respond. You wanted to poke and prod and provoke. It's what you do instead of playing fair.

http://drjshousecalls.blogspot.com/2010/10/since-you-brought-it-up-i-know.html

Everyone on these boards knows your game now is crap, but if you want to continue behaving like a petulant two-year old child, that's your business. I'm not going to beg you to put a blog back up that a decent/compassionate human being with a firm grasp of reality would have not taken down in the first place.

That's not an insult. It's the truth.

I hope you've learned something, and it would be nice if you would be what YOU say you are and restore the blog. Because there are people in Greensboro and Asheboro that need to know what is going on, and my time's a wastin.

Oh, and curiosity killed the cat.

Thanks for bringing this out in the open, Joe.

Roch, like Criscoe, apparently wants people to believe he's a victim - when he's the part of the problem.