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I have removed my support and "like" of Toomers for Tuscaloosa.....I hope you do too. There are other ways of helping.

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Can someone get this information out to the media in the Auburn/Opelika area?

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The Truth

by Warren Alan Tidwell on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 10:52pm

I have agonized over how to make this known. With all of the messages I am getting from GOOD people who have been wronged in the same way I was, I am now morally obligated to make a few things known. I have witnessed so much good and so much bad in this relief effort in Alabama. Some people still think I am a part of Toomer's for Tuscaloosa. I'm not and it's not because I walked away on my on accord. I've written a letter to explain. It's long overdue.

Dear "Toomer's for Tuscaloosa",

I see where you've posted a guide on how and why people are deleted. As the founder and organizer of Toomer's for Tuscaloosa I am offended that you would describe me as a flamer, spammer, troll etc. I never did any of the things you said get people deleted. You've explained that people should get in touch with you if they think they were deleted in error. I would hope the founder of the page wouldn't "accidentally" get deleted.

You banned and blocked me long ago.

I've only clicked "like" on this page in order to post a link to this. A page that goes by the name, Toomer's Truth has been brought to my attention. I have nothing to do with it and I have went out of my way to avoid saying anything about what happened when I reluctantly walked away. That time is over.

You've always had an answer for every thing that casted a negative light on "your" page and organization. I've waited 6 weeks to say all of this. I will gladly submit to a polygraph and ask that anyone disputing any of this to do the same.

Nothing applies to the twitter administrator, Lisa, or anyone who came on board with Toomer's for Tuscaloosa after May 5th. Lisa is a good person. I am only speaking of the 4 friends who volunteered in the days after I formed Toomer's for Tuscaloosa who took over my page against my wishes.

You took my page and the organization by threat of malicious action by using your admin status to delete the page. You formed the 501©3 behind my back without my knowledge and issued me, the person who founded and ran Toomer's for Tuscaloosa, a cease and desist on May 5th. You demanded I leave town and give the group to you. You removed me as an administrator on my own page twice.

YOU HAD NO RIGHT.

Not one of you were on board before 10,000 people had already signed on to help me. I was in the field organizing the warehouse and connecting resources to need and you took advantage of the trust I placed in you by threatening to damage the group and the effort if I did not hand everything over to you. You made false claims to Temporary Emergency Services about me and have told people in the days since that I was "dismissed from my position because of mishandled money." Really? There was no money to mishandle because Toomer's was only a Facebook page matching needs to resources or so I thought. It wasn't enough to work with me. I sang your praises at every turn but you had to take the page for your own and force me out.

Anyone who asks you how much money you have raised has been deleted. I've seen the screenshots and I know they are good people who have helped hundreds if not thousands in Alabama. They were asking valid questions with a respectful tone from what I saw and only got angry after they were ignored or deleted. The answers they were given often said "we'll release our books at the end of the quarter." How hard would it be to call the bank and say "What's the balance?" It's not.

Why would I wait until now? I was able to see the big picture and know that if Toomer's for Tuscaloosa went bad less than a week after I formed it that people would suffer if help slowed or stopped going to the rural areas. I have went out of my way to take the high road and be patient. People would have soured on helping quickly if they knew all the details when this happened.

However, I am no longer afraid. I will not be intimidated anymore. I am not scared of you and most people know Toomer's was my creation and many others know that what I claim is the "Toomer's Truth." Enough time has passed that we are no longer in a critical stage across Alabama and this can now be addressed

I have heard many things that you have told people about me leaving- I mishandled money or ignored official orders. That is completely fictitious. The fact remains you took my page by threat of malicious action of either deletion or telling people it was a fraudulent page. You gave me a cease and desist that demanded I hand over administrative rights to the Facebook page. The facebook page "Toomer's for Tuscaloosa" did not and never did belong to you. You never had the right.

See the cease and desist here:

http://freepdfhosting.com/bcf7f1f581.pdf

Jimbo Shirley, as far as I knew, was a volunteer's husband who cooked at the church a couple of days. That was all. Here he is claiming to be a representative of something everyone knows I founded and organized.

Walking away was the hardest thing I ever had to do but I never stopped working to help people in the rural areas. Many groups I have worked with have done some amazing things. Many of them have been deleted from your page. From hundreds of pounds of meat to dozens of trucks to large appliances, they have kept right on helping.

It became apparent very soon that there were people still out there trying to derail what I was doing. Suzanne Williston, who you claim isn't a part of your group, has claimed to be working "hand in hand" with Toomer's for Tuscaloosa. You have directed many people her way and backed her groups. She has told multiple groups in Alabama not to work with me, attempted to keep trucks from being sent to a group I was working with, and claimed to many people in Cordova that I am under investigation for missing 18 wheelers. Unbelievable!

You constantly quote the Bible while calling good Christian people who have valid questions "distractions of the Devil." SHAME ON YOU. You have fooled too many good people for far too long and, now that some of them are seeing what I have known since the beginning, you are attempting to marginalize them.

How have any of you who were with me in the beginning been able to sleep at night? How do you continually look good people in the eye and say the things you do? How do you use the name of Jesus to support your actions after what you did to me? Chris Fields told me a day before everything happened (in front of the two main people at T4T) that people "think of us as a faith based group!" and asked "Do you know how powerful that is?"

WHAT OTHER KIND OF GROUP WOULD YOU BE?!?!

It's been beyond time that I let people know of what happened to me and why I had to walk away. I know this will come to a shock to many and I apologize for that. I will not apologize, however, for following my heart and supporting a lot of good people who are being wronged. I will not apologize for exposing how I was taken advantage of. I am dealing with people who had lost parents, children, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. THIS IS NOT A GAME. THIS IS SERIOUS, REAL LIFE BUSINESS.

The cease and desist was never valid and, even if it were, it became invalid when you contacted me to ask about helping with the email account.

I don't know where you go from here. If you are planning on suing me I welcome it. The entire truth can come out then.

TIMELINE

April 27th 8 P.M. I formed the page

April 28th After 10,000 people had come on board, late in the afternoon Holly Hart contacts me about helping. She mentions that I should form a 501©3 in order to take in money for the victims.

April 30th I make Holly Hart an admin on Toomer's for Tuscaloosa with the instructions "you can enter data and that will free me up to coordinate everything else."

May 1st Holly Hart asks if Christina Tatum can be made an admin to help with sorting the info on the page. I approve it. 50,000 have already joined the page and the million page view days begin.

May 3rd (less than a week later, and only 2 days after I arrived in Tuscaloosa) Someone applies for a 501©3 under the name "Toomer's for Tuscaloosa" without my knowledge and less than a week after I founded Toomer's for Tuscaloosa.

May 5th I am issued a cease and desist from Toomer's for Tuscaloosa, my own creation, and told to disassociate myself from the group. 77,000 had joined the page.

May 6th I make the decision to walk away to preserve the effort helping in the rural areas. At the time it was the only thing getting to some places.

In your response please be careful to make sure you are willing to take a polygraph to back up what you say. I am more than happy to and I will open my email and facebook accounts to anyone to investigate. I have a 20 page statement that includes emails and screenshots. I will gladly supply it by email to any official agencies who request it. Any communications related to this should be sent to warrentidwell@gmail.com

I don't want the group anymore. It was taken from me and tarnished. I would hope that there's not one penny sitting in a bank account with all the needs I still see. I would hope that, if there is, every last penny would be given to the LONGSTANDING not for profits on the front lines still helping many with the most basic of needs.

I will write this here because I know it won't be deleted- You speak of building homes when some rural areas are crying when I pull up with 3 cases of Gatorade. Many needs must be addressed before homes being built should even be discussed. There is a tremendous need for volunteer housing in a lot of the rural areas so volunteers can stay for more than 1 day.

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Surely there is another side, I'm waiting to hear that other side but in the mean time I have moved my support for the victims to other venues. I hope it all works out and one lesson learned is NEVER give Admin privileges to anyone on a FB page you create.

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