By
Nadrat Siddique and David Wiggins
Baltimore, MD
May 3, 2012
New Trend readers might recall that
in November 2010, a black boy, surnamed Ausby, was beaten in the Park Heights
neighborhood of Baltimore by adult males from the Shomrein Jewish militia while
walking between school and home. The Shomrein militia was established with the
approval of local authorities. It runs a patrol in the upscale Jewish part of
Park Heights, adjacent to the adjoining Black neighborhood of the same name.
The Jewish part is said to house many current and former members of the Israeli
Defense Forces (IDF), who are duel Israeli and U.S. nationals, and like the
Werdesheims, travel back and forth to “Israel.”
Initial charges against the
Werdesheims were: 1. First Degree Assault; 2. Second Degree Assault; 3. Reckless
Endangerment of a Minor; 4. Possession of a Dangerous Weapon Intent to Injure;
5. False imprisonment. This was before Jewish attorney Gregg Bernstein entered
the scene.
Then, Bernstein came into office
as State’s Attorney. His first act was to drop all felony charges against the Werdesheim
brothers. His second act was to prosecute two black men, Travers and Tremayne
Johnson, for setting a pittbull on fire in Baltimore. That case ultimately
resulted in acquittal. Not surprisingly, many of Baltimore’s black residents
viewed both decisions as examples of the Zionist attorney’s racial bias.
The Werdesheim brothers were
permitted six postponements. The elder Werdesheim was permitted to vacation in
Israel with his fiancée pending trial—something few (perhaps no) defendants of color on trial are
permitted to do—with the express approval of the victim's lawyer. That
attorney, a blackman named J. Wyndal Gordon, also represented John Allen
Muhammad. On his watch, Muhammad was put to death, an odd contrast from Mumia
Abu Jamal and many others who remain on death row for decades.
Today, the remaining three (misdemeanor)
charges were dropped against 22-year old Avi Werdesheim. The most serious of
the three misdemenor charges against 24-year old former Israeli Defense Special
forces member Eliyahu Werdesheim were dismissed by the judge. The decisions
were handed down by presiding Judge Pamela J. White, since the Werdesheims had requested
a trial by judge, and not by jury. Eliyahu was subsequently convicted only of
the two most insignificant misdemeanor charges, reckless endangerment and false
imprisonment.
All
told, 8 out of ten charges were dropped or resulted in acquittal; only two
charges resulted in conviction.
The two other alleged defendants--other than Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim--were never brought to the fore or charged. And—although there was strong evidence that the attack was a hate crime, this fact was never hinted at for the duration of the trial.
The two other alleged defendants--other than Avi and Eliyahu Werdesheim--were never brought to the fore or charged. And—although there was strong evidence that the attack was a hate crime, this fact was never hinted at for the duration of the trial.
Most oddly, the $6.5 million
civil lawsuit about which the Ausby’s mother was initally adamant, was dropped.
Given that Eliyahu Werdesheim has his own security company here in Baltimore,
and his IDF Special Forces training, the possibility that the victim’s family
were intimidated into dropping the suit cannot be discounted.
The case also exposes the
collusion between the Black bourgeoisie and the ruling Zionist Jews in
Baltimore. The Baltimore chapters of the National Action Network, the SCLC, and
the NAACP, while vocifereously protesting the Trayvon Martin killing in
Florida, repeatedly failed to make the connection between the two cases, and
hence the opportunity to make both more relevant to Baltimore’s disenfranchised
Black population.
J. Wyndal Gordon, the black attorney
representing the Ausby family, said “I was quite pleased with the verdict. In
fact, I predicted it,” he said. (Jewish Times, May 3, 2012) Discussing the
family’s decision to drop the civil suit, he said, "No amount of money can
give someone back their peace of mind. We’re happy about having closure. What’s
best for [the victim] now is to put all of this behind him and move on with his
life.”
And, as reparations activists,
and others fighting for the rights of Black people in the U.S., well know,
“Moving on with one’s life,” “Letting bygones be bygones,” or characterizing an
unaddressed wrong as being“in the past,” is terminology used by the White
Supremacist power structure and its representatives in ensuring its design is
permitted to continue and for its victims to shut up and put up. Jewish victims
of the Holocaust, for example, are never expected to “move on with their lives”
or to put things behind them.
The verdict is a clear testament
to the existence of a two-tiered justice system, and of the collusion between
Baltimore Zionists and the Baltimore Black bourgeoisie which allow it to be
perpetuated. The verdict is a slap in
the face to all people of color. We might as well go back to the slave docks.
