Two Standards for Privacy

John Fry will do whatever it takes to get what he wants and it doesn't matter how it affects the surrounding neighborhood. And when it comes to issues of safety (personal or institutional), I think he is paranoid.

His reaction to Ron Harper, Jr? Ron may not have acted in the most professional manner, but he was carrying a camera – not a gun. There was no threat to John Fry's or his family's safety at any time.

Consider this: This is the man (John Fry) who thought it was okay to violate the civil rights (guaranteed by the Constitution) of the property owners across the street from the college by videotaping their front yards, sidewalks, front porches and fronts of their houses (blocking only doors and windows, which was required by law) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and having the resulting tapes the property, not of the city police, but of the private corporation that he heads. And this, even, without the approval of the affected homeowners.

And when some of these homeowners protested, John Fry sent a letter to one of the protesters, saying that the homeowners should accept this "for the common good" of the public. At the very least, John Fry demonstrates inconsistency.