Scranton neighbors say good riddance to Daron Northeast

Timothy Hinton is a lawyer. He represents Da U and the Times all of the time. I like Tim. Tim is very funny and entertaining as opposed to drabby Carl Greco who is as entertaining as watching paint dry. Tim is crawling the walls over my legal actions involving the Complex deal. For three years now he couldn't seal the deal to get rid of me, which I what makes him so funny in court. He's got the Dennis the Menace thing going for starters, so when he starts talking and if I'm looking at him, not even he can keep a straight face.

A little while back Mazzoni gave me a really good screwing before he jumped the dangerous S.S. Complex for safer political shores. Thanx for that, Bob. That forced me to file lots of paperwork to fix it, which I did. Meanwhile, the separate lawsuit against Da U was coming up for argument and my brief was due. However, the paperwork had to be fixed before Da U argument could be heard, so I didn't file the brief with the intention of withdrawing Da U lawsuit because Da u has to be included with the lawsuit against the SRA, by law, which was what Mazzoni refused to allow, among other things.

Now, Timmy boy knew I had to fix the paperwork or I really was cooked. He also knew that when I failed to file my brief he could ask the court to dismiss my lawsuit. That's legal and fair game. I expected him to do that and he did it on October 19th with argument set for October 25th before Judge Hatchet Thomson. Well, I knew Hatchet Thomson would whack me for sure, so on the 23rd I simply withdrew the complaint with a full explanation included. Lawyers do that all the time. The hearing was then cancelled, as it should have been.

Then, I got a notice from Ron Mackay, court admin., that a new date was set to argue Timmy's Motion to Dismiss. Now, the rules do provide that a judge can stop a party from withdrawing under certain circumstances, but a special petition has to be filed. Timmy never filed such a petition, so his Motion to Dismiss was defective all the way. In my answer to Tim's motion, I pointed out the defects to Judge Hatchet Thomson. Meant nothing. They held a hearing without me and Judge Hatchet gave me the hatchet. No explanation, the usual for this crony sack of sh!t. Here's his Order. The words "with prejudice" means I can't file a new lawsuit. All based on not filing a brief? Unheard of. Back to Harrisburg now to embarrass another lawyer and another judge. First, I have to stroke Judge Hatchet a little by asking him nicely to reconsider. Motion to Reconsider based upon fact that YOU DON'T KNOW THE FVCKING LAW. And they wonder why people take the law into their own hands?

It's a nasty, cut throat, backstabbing feeder system. Parents who have aspriations for their children to be the next Mickey Mantle/Joe Montana/Michael Jordan are on the warpath early. It shows up at the entry level youth sports level. There they are, the next generation of superstar potentials being led to the field by Mom and/or Dad without the strength to carry their own equipment.

They contribute heavily to the organization and become very active. Or, they contribute heavily to someone with the necessary influence to get their kids a lot of playing time. heavy contribution does not necessarily mean cash. That playing time is essential to early development, and stays essential. The playing time is unavailable without - PLAYERS -, so these youth organizations need lots of players in order that the chosen ones can even get on the field.

Every youth sports hero you read about in the paper, bar none, got to that status at the expense of all the other kids who filled other positions so the hero could flaunt his/her goods. It's the feeder program. For the chance that one kid might even get a tryout for a college, hundreds of kids were abused. Abused how, you ask? Abused by investing up to 10 - 12 years in various youth sports programs, high school included, until they graduated from it with nothing more than realizing they invested almost 4000 - 5000 hours of their life playing with a ball - and for nothing.

They graduate as a useless member of society. When they should have been studying, there were playing with a ball. All for the sake of getting a headline and giving Dad a vicarious moment. Worse than that they're indoctrinated into the remote addicted life of watching grown men play with a ball on TV and paying $250.00 for a licensed jersy,$3.00 for a hot dog at a park and even worse,$5.50 for a beer.

As for teacher/coaches, many of them are player brokers who know that having a standout player somehow means they are good coaches. Most players of standout ability have natural athletic ability and only need reps to perfect that into standout performaces, which all starts at the entry level of youth sports. Winning coaches attract college scouts. Every coach has something every parent wants for their kid - playing time. They'll do what they have to do to get it.

Editor: The purpose of this letter is to rescind the multiple accusations and negative remarks I have made at Scranton City Council meetings regarding Daron Northeast. The statements I made were misleading, malicious and without merit.

Among the false allegations I made toward Daron Northeast were:

I stated that Daron was not in compliance and that it exploited loopholes to get the company up and running. Daron Northeast followed the proper guidelines to start its manufacturing operations in the city of Scranton and did nothing to exploit the city or the zoning officials. Daron submitted all the proper applications and received all the appropriate approvals to begin its operations in 2003.

I also stated that Daron Northeast violated local zoning ordinances 30-some times. I had and still have no basis for that accusation. To my knowledge, there is not one existing zoning ordinance being violated by Daron Northeast at this time.

I have accused the city administration of protecting Daron Northeast and lining its pockets as a result of that. I have no basis for that accusation whatsoever. Daron Northeast has followed all the proper channels and guidelines in establishing its business within the city limits.

My statements accusing Daron Northeast of causing long-term lung damage as a result of Darons operations and operating illegally polluting the environment and killing residents were made recklessly and without any merit. I have no reason to believe that these statements have any truth whatsoever.

For these reasons, I am hereby retracting the above statements that I have made about Daron Northeast.

DANIEL HUBBARD

SCRANTON

(Scranton Times, June 20, 2008)