“Now you know what it feels like to be Black.”

I was fighting corruption in the family law courts in California. My own parental rights were violated by a commissioner named Alan Friedenthal (deceased). Eventually, the Commission on Judicial Performance and State Supreme Court found Friedenthal appeared to have a bias against me. But his Draconian orders were never overturned.

An African American colleague made the statement quoted above to me.

I moved to Arkansas to try to escape the repression. Judge Susan Weaver has gone out of her way to deny my Constitutional right to due process in my adopted home. Escape is hopeless.

I find myself thinking of my ancestors from two and more generations back. They were Jews in what is now the Ukraine. They had their property taken with no just reason, and then were slaughtered. My Paternal Grandmother escaped to Poland, migrated to Germany before Hitler took power and then made it to the United States. Nine of her siblings did not escape.

Jewish people often say “forgive, but never forget.” Unfortunately, some of the less than honest judicial officers are of Jewish descent. They have forgotten.

When police, judges or the Furor rationalize their theft of property, liberty and life based on skin color or religion, they are scapegoating. When mean-spirited government employees use their power to do these same things because they can get away with it, they are being as oppressive as the Nazis and the Klan.

It is not some irrational hatred based on genetics that drives the current oppressors. They victimize anyone they can get away with victimizing. They do anything to grab power and line their pockets.

It is sick and disturbing.

Exposing Commissioner Alan Friedenthal, Attorney William Spiller, Commissioner Glenda Veasey and their ilk did not ingratiate me to the other judges in California. In fact, a Stanford-Hastings trained attorney who represented me on a matter advised me to never step foot in a courthouse in California again. He was right.

So far, Arkansas courts and attorneys do not seem any better.