The Politics Meister

Take a look at this video and these photos from outside of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse the day of the Shomrim hearing.

Most of the anti-shomrim demonstrators have professionally printed signs with the following information on them:

“443 909 8964 All Peoples Congress”

If you google “443 909 8964″ you end up here :

“Baltimore
c/o Solidarity Center
2011 N. Charles St., Bsm.
Baltimore, MD 21218
443-909-8964
baltimore@workers.org”

The “Solidarity Center” has the same phone number as the “All Peoples Congress”.  Here is some more information from the Workers World site that lists the Solidarity Center:

“Have you ever thought of joining a working-class party that fights against capitalism? For almost 50 years, Workers World has been that party.”

So an organization (not located in Northwest Baltimore) that helps put on these protests is at best a socialist organization.

How many of these socialists live in Northwest Baltimore? How many of the anti-shomrim protesters live in Northwest Baltimore?  Without all the professional agitators how many citizens of Northwest Baltimore would be making such a big deal out of all this?

Does the All Peoples Congress plan on protesting the broad daylight stabbing/murder that took place today five blocks away from their Baltimore office?

Did the All Peoples Congress call the murder of Stephen Pitcairn (which took place 6 blocks north of their office) a hate crime and did they protest it?

Here is the press release that the All Peoples Congress sent out before their January protest. I will leave you with this quote from the release:

“We Demand:

*Werdesheim be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for assault and hate crimes.

*Disband the racist Shomrim vigilante group.

*Reparations and resources for the Lower Park Heights neighborhood.”

Read this story about some incidents that took place around Park Heights in September.

“Almost 24 hours earlier, Rabbi Dovid Katz was pelted by thrown stones from a group of eight teens.
Hertzberg’s spiritual leader was walking to shul along Taney adjacent Cross Country Elementary School, at about 5:45 p.m. when the assault occurred. It would be his second victimization of crime since Wednesday night, when his Dodge Caravan was stolen and left smashed and abandoned near Pimlico Race Track while he and his family had a meal in their sukkah…

He wasn’t the only victim on Shabbos afternoon.
A 15-year-old boy was assaulted by four rock-throwing youths. He ended pushed to the ground with a broken arm. Hatzalah transported him to the hospital.
He was walking on Strathmore Avenue at 5:15 p.m. on Shabbat. The assailants called him a “dirty Jew” before they pushed him into the ground.”

Had you heard about this before?  This story is one of many that explains why neighborhood citizens on patrol groups are necessary in many parts of Baltimore. Many neighborhoods beg their citizens to participate in neighborhood patrols and only get four people to show up.

Now read this Baltimore Sun article about the Shomrim inident that recently took place in the Park Heights area.

If the Shomrim are proven to be a group that has a bad apple then the bad apple should be fired and the group should continue. Those who are calling for the group to be eliminated do not understand the entire situation in Park Heights and the citywide demand (and need) for such citizen based patrol groups.