{"id":1805,"date":"2013-04-30T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T21:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:31:21","slug":"lucid-founder-dismisses-scare-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/lucid-founder-dismisses-scare-tactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucid founder dismisses “scare tactic”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We understand that Farley Flex thinks his team is \u201cminus one member\u201d.
\nIn reality, Farley was the last to join the team I founded. He joined for two reasons; one was to get back into larger scale festival production and, two, because he does not have the multi-dimensional business scope Lucid has.
\nWhy would he have needed our strategic technology? Farley is merely riding the waves Lucid made. He needed to get beyond the widths of dealing with kids in school, creating make believe opportunities and begin to learn how to create real ones; hence our purpose.
\nFarley is allowed to think the way he thinks. Giving real meaning to all events requires a real examination of facts; void of rhetoric and fiction. Farley wishes for people to believe we are using scare tactics. We have a solid case.
\nNo part of it can be determined when clouded with spin or conjecture. Lucid are able to demonstrate for the judge how Farley\u2019s actions have cost us significantly. This is clearly provable in our opinion. It may be easy to mislead the idealized \u201cstar struck\u201d minds but we doubt he will have as easy a time with a civil court judge.
\nMany members came to us without the wherewithal to make proper pragmatic judgments in their own best interests, (hence the need for Lucid in the first place). Farley lacks the depth of knowledge I brought to his game. This was a primary factor for our partnership. The group saw that. Members depended on me to steer them in the direction of asking the right questions. I established trust due to my results; that is until Farley arrived.
\nSoon thereafter, the group shifted their dependence on him while I was building the festival and arranging meetings. Having \u201ccelebrity status\u201d is not a good enough reason to allow someone to use you. Blinded by that, scare tactics and Farley\u2019s distribution of false information, Farley used the same to dismantle the trust I had earned.
\nThe remaining Lucid members that were not so easily manipulated were not given the courtesy of a return call to gain answers to questions regarding the email sent to the town with their names attached at Farley\u2019s direction.
\nTo block my examination of facts, Farley demanded a strict \u201cno talk to George rule\u201d thereby preventing any leaks being made to remaining members not a part to his mutiny.
\nWith the mutiny going well, all agreements made for the protection of the entire group were now reserved for those under Farley\u2019s leadership only. Obviously, his focus was the well-being of members he successfully swayed at Lucid\u2019s expense.
\nFarley\u2019s use of parroted phrases like \u201cno leg to stand on\u201d is merely a defensive attempt grounded in words; designed to maintain the belief in his own infallibility, thereby magically erasing the facts attached to his fiduciary breach.
\nFarley believes our confronting him over his bad practices is intended to prevent Aurora from having a festival; actually, his foolishness already did that. In reality, Farley will learn that judging skills in civil court are far more real than those found in a one-dimensional televised singing contest.
\nThat said, we are hoping that the venture I set Farley up in is a successful one.<\/p>\n

George Roche
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