all rise and stand and remain standing so you can hear and obey the commands from the living sovereign justices of the moorish american consulate of the moorish national republic federal government, as this is the sovereign living article iii moorish american (al moroccan) consular court action. Moorish Americans are not exempt from laws that require driver's licenses, license plates, and vehicle registration. After the . Ahlstrom (p. 1067), Abu Shouk (p. 147), Hamm (p. 14), and Lippy (p. 214) all state that Fard claimed to be, or was considered by many Moors to be, the reincarnation of Drew Ali. An archived version of the site containing the quoted material from January 11, 2016, is available through the Internet Archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20160111205409/ http://operationproclamation.org/. For instance, he explains that They call our children pickaninnies. [65], Some "Moorish" activists have practiced hostile possession of properties, citing "reparations" as a justification for their actions, even though their victims included other Black Americans. The religious and civil rights organization, which was founded in the early 1900s, says that the defendants are twisting their religious teachings to serve their own interests. So stick them all on a plane to Morocco and let play their BS games over there. The woman said she discovered the movement while doing research for a college class on the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, the 1857 . 4 (1983): 7 JOURNAL OF LAW AND RELIGION 71. He suggested that all Asiatics should be allied. African Americans who hold sovereign citizen-type beliefs sometimes refer to themselves as moors or muurs.. Based on idiosyncratic readings of the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights . Citations use the form indicated by the title page of the work cited. [20] He left the city after agitating people with his views on race. for this article. According to Ali, this area included other countries that today surround Morocco. The notion that claims of Moorish-American heritage can help defendants evade prosecution circulates in the Baltimore City Detention Center, according to Romeo Joyner-El, who worked for the . moorish american consular court mailing location: care of 401 east 1st street #158 near. [55][59] In reality, the 1786 treaty was primarily a trade agreement. 4 (1983): 7. [71][72][73] An Instagram account belonging to the group says its goal is to continue the work of Noble Drew Ali. no UNITED STATES CORPORATION COMPANY CITIZEN nor THEIR AGENTS PRINCIPALS HEIRS ASSIGNS nor anye DERIVATIVES THERE OF has personam jurisdiction, nor terratorial jurisdiction, nor subject matter jurisdiction over me nor over any moors. [40], The community was further split when Wallace Fard Muhammad, known within the temple as David Ford-el,[41] also claimed (or was taken by some) to be the reincarnation of Drew Ali. Nance, Susan (Summer 2002). Or are those of us who are ultimately defrauded just now more susceptible to the guiles and brilliance of successful frauds? The word I am tempted to pin to this practice is anarchic; other Moorish thinkers are selective in reading out from word occurrences, like Amen A. El's analysis of idiomatic English. We also work in relations with the Moorish American Consulate Court. Relatione, _____ Page 1 of 6 Sovereign citizens would accurately be described as the flat earthers of the legal world. But then of course, they also claim that the protections of the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America does apply to them, even though seemingly every other US law does not. The Moorish nation of 150,000,000 of the U.S.A., shall not be destroyed for lack of truth and knowledge of the law and constitution of the MOORS. Corporation Act (805 ILCS 110/); Conveyances Act (765 ILCS 5/); Notice by Publication Act. Tactics used by the group include filing false deeds and property claims,[63] false liens against government officials, frivolous legal motions to overwhelm courts, and invented legalese used in court appearances and filings. Moorish National Republic Federal Government North East Amexem Territories and Dominions YeSharon Akasha El Rose Bey, Supreme Judiciary Pennsylvania Republic Branch: c/o 1300 Macdade Boulevard, Suite 2 #439 Folsom, Pennsylvania Republic [19033] Phone: (856) 362-4392 / Fax: (856) 200-8857 Email: MoorishAmericanConsulateNE@gmail.com i am an original indigenous sovereign moorish american national and i am exercising all my rights at this time and at all points in time, nunc pro tunc. Their beliefs are usually based on convoluted readings of commercial law and the 14 th Amendment, conspiracy theories involving the U.S. Treasury, some wishful thinking, and misinformation from other defendants who promise them that "it really works." [5], The Moorish Science Temple of America was incorporated under the Illinois Religious Corporation Act 805 ILCS 110. <>stream The key of civilization was and is in the hands of the Asiatic nations. For example he defines consent as [v]oluntary compliance with government. ARTICLE VII The Moorish Americans Freedom and legal rights in the Christian union Court Room 2 0 obj The Ammuurian Tribe Judicial Branch of government consists of two (2) courts, the Supreme Court and the Grand Virtual Court. Some followers also claim to have roots in America that predate the United States, and argue that a 1787 treaty with Morocco exempts them from American laws. [48], In 1978, Fort returned to Chicago and changed the name of his gang to El Rukn ("the foundation" in Arabic), also known as "Circle Seven El Rukn Moorish Science Temple of America"[49] and the "Moorish Science Temple, El Rukn tribe". Not all Moors will agree about being druids or about the particular reading of pickaninny, or the meaning of the presence of the Moor's head on the pope's coat of arms, but all Moors, I submit, will agree that our concepts are wrong, as a whole, that the confusion of the present ageto which the prophet Noble Drew Ali came with the mission of correcting, of uplifting a nation by teaching them how to thinkis rooted largely in the terms used and misused, applied and misapplied to themselves, others, and the wider society. 128 to move his case to federal court, declaring that his argument that he is a "Moor" not subject to Massachusetts criminal law is bunk, or in legal terms, "frivolous.". Imagine going to the UK and violating a county felony and then being like "Sorry, I'm an American. [55] Various groups and individuals identifying as Moorish sovereign citizens have used the unorthodox "quantum grammar" created by David Wynn Miller. Four people who identified as Moorish American indigenous people filed separate lawsuits the same month against the Providence Police Department, accusing officers of violating their rights by. the judge spent the last few years building up an immunity to their iocane powder bullshit. In medievalRomance languages, variations of theLatinword for the Moors (for instance,ItalianandSpanish:moro,French:maure,Portuguese:mouro,Romanian:maur) developed different applications and connotations. Drew Ali wrote the last four chapters of the Circle Seven Koran himself. tue of their alleged Moorish origin. An organization with headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, claiming to be "the ONLY Moorish Science Temple teaching the full National side of the Moorish Movement",[1] is the Moorish Science Temple, with registered business names of the Divine and National Movement of North America, Inc., and Moorish American National Republic. Moorish sovereigns tend to be black and younger; many get started on this path in prison. 131; 3 Steph. (715 ILCS 5/) The original Moorish Charter of the HONOBLE Noble Drew Ali And Title to HIS Vast Estate Express Trust: Form 1099 . They called the inhabitants they met there Maures from the Greek word mauros, meaning dark or black. Moorish Americans, also known as Moorish sovereign citizens, believe themselves to be the inheritors of a fictitious empire that they say stretched from the present-day kingdom of Morocco to North America, with Mexico and Atlantis thrown in for good measure. See also Scopino. Moor is a term applied from the outside, by Europeans, yet \"unlike relatively stable terms of Roman provenance inherited by Christians such as Arab, Ishmaelite and Saracen,\" the significance of the term varies in particular historical moments and shifts over time. The founders must have really loved Morocco so much to carve out a very specific exception in a treaty written in 1786 that would tie in a law that didn't exist until 1791. x|{@SG&H^QDT@TAT@EyA| V*7V[mk[_Zauvunvn;s|}~'3s3g9s !D$#Yg4O]^b"{k6hOg[?6{ X8~Qo"2nN?^ $S1|"{vm6k52=B2X,Y=!yHol^X?&_&7zRyW"#d9K?r.n5101Xc1h7fG}gMIk i am an original indigenous sovereign moorish american national and i am exercising all my rights at this time and at all points in time, nunc pro tunc. Lamont Maurice El, who is part of the "Moorish Americans," however, had "some experience with the Maryland court system." In 2013, he was convicted of multiple counts related to his attempt to illegally occupy a 12-bedroom mansion in the city of Bethesda. [30] Although the exact circumstances of his death are unknown, the Certificate of Death stated that Noble Drew Ali died from "tuberculosis broncho-pneumonia". Not having these things can result in arrest and confiscation of your vehicle which causes confusion. Moorish Science Temple of America is a part of the Indiginous Nation Moorish American Republic all of this nationals are . View all Google Scholar citations 20 See El Bey v. Moorish Science Temple of America, Inc., 765 A.2d 132 (Md. US District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, though, ruled yesterday he has had enough, ordered Bey's federal case dismissed and sent the whole thing back to Middlesex County court. Noble Drew Ali had several wives. Etymology of various forms gets employed hereindeed, perhaps exploding or at least setting wide the margins of the termMungin Bey speaks of Nameology, which is not merely about meaning but also sounds rhythms and spiritual properties of names. ', "Moorish Science Temple of America Represents Morocco at Flag-Raising Ceremony", "The Sovereign Citizen Movement: A Comparative Analysis with Similar Foreign Movements and Takeaways for the United States Judicial System", "A Kind of Magic: The Origins and Culture of 'Pseudolaw', "What to know about Rise of the Moors, an armed group that says it's not subject to U.S. law", "The Washitaw Nation and Moorish Sovereign Citizens: What You Need to Know", "Judge Ignores 'Martian law,' Tosses 'Sovereign Citizen' Into Slammer", "The Sovereign Citizen Movement Common Documentary Identifiers & Examples", "Bogus court filings spotlight little-known sect Moorish Science Temple of America", "She Bought Her Dream Home. Stop referring to yourself as negro, colored and Black for you are neither. [17], They added the suffixes Bey or El to their surnames, to signify Moorish heritage as well as their taking on the new life as Moorish Americans. Drew Ali, A Warning from the Prophet in 1928.. [32] Others thought it was due to pneumonia. The Massachusetts police got into a standoff with several members of an armed group on Friday night, which continued into Saturday morning, July 3, causing a closure of a part of Interstate 95 overnight and a shelter-in-place order for parts of the communities of Wakefield and Reading. American pseudolaw matured around 1999-2000, and, at that point, was hosted by the sovereign citizen movement. 31 Chris, March 12, 2013 (4:14 a.m.), comment on Azeem Hopkins-Bey, Subject of Exposition: Free National Name?, Operation Proclamation, March 11, 2013, http://operationproclamation.org/subject-of-exposition-free-national-name.html. Ahlstrom (p. 1067), Lippy (p. 214), Miyakawa (p. 12). The rest of the group, identifying themselves as "Moorish American Arms," fled into a wooded area. Such work of words can produce shocking results: Let's look up what a monster is, he says, but he pushes deeper into the definition to find the strand he needs. [15] In the inter-war years in Chicago and other major cities, he used these concepts to preach racial pride and uplift. Stroud is a white sovereign who also relies on the fourth edition of Black's Law Dictionary alongside the Random House Webster's College Dictionary. Timothy Drew, known to its members as Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founded the Moorish Science Temple of America in 1913 in Newark, New Jersey, a booming industrial city. this sovereign justice stands as law. In a video that the Moorish Americans later posted online, Butler wearing a camouflage uniform, dark headscarf and a pistol on his hip can be seen approaching the deputies on the side of the road. 9 While many Moors (and many early scholars) speak of the founding of the Moorish Science Temple of America as dating to 1913 in New Jersey, this is the date for Drew Ali's earlier religious experiment, the Canaanite Temple, about which little is known. [23] In the late 1920s, journalists estimated the Moorish Science Temple had 35,000 members in 17 temples in cities across the Midwest and upper South. . In addition to the Moorish Science Temple doctrine that Black Americans are of Moorish descent, Moorish sovereign citizens claim immunity from U.S. federal, state, and local laws,[58] because of a mistaken belief that the MoroccanAmerican Treaty of Friendship (1786) grants them sovereignty. They typically believe that there are two types of citizens: natural citizens and Fourteenth Amendment citizens. 23 Moorish America, We Are All One Family Bearing One Free National Name, Moorish American News, December 24, 2013, http://moorishamericannews.com/we-are-all-one-family-bearing-one-free-national-name#sthash.Mke8GJHg.dpbs. The group published several magazines: one was the Moorish Guide National. While this is often negativeblack, for instance, as a brand, a tool for oppressionwords can also reveal positive glimpses of the glorious Moorish past. According to the Moorish Science Temple of America's website, the temple is a "divine and national movement" that teaches about Moorish identity, which under their definition, means Black Americans. On March 15, Green-Bey was stabbed to death at the Unity Hall of the Moorish Science Temple, on Indiana Avenue in Chicago.[28]. No indictment was sworn for Drew Ali at that time. A concentrated vote is ultimate power politically, and OPERATION PROCLAMATION is the movement to duplicate Noble Drew Ali's civic agenda for the first time in 84 years. Operation Proclamation, http://operationproclamation.org/ (site discontinued). He is interested in both common definition and legal definition of any given word, though he cautions, Legalese is its own separate language from common adage. He provides another example, stating, Right and license are antithetical to each other, if you consider their legal meanings. Bey signed the document as: A Free Moorish American national and citizen of the free National Government of Morocco, I am, Rashad Bey. His approach appealed to thousands of African Americans who had left severely oppressive conditions in the South through the Great Migration and faced struggles in new urban environments. [21] Drew Ali and his followers migrated, while planting congregations in Philadelphia; Washington, D.C., and Detroit. 11 In the short piece Nick Named, Drew Ali writes. Moorish Americans, also known as Moorish sovereign citizens, believe themselves to be the inheritors of a fictitious empire that they say stretched from the presentday kingdom of Morocco to. He argues that the arrested development (psychologically, socially, of the individual and the nation) of African Americans manifests in their lingo, when they refer to their female partners as mama and uses such adolescent terms as crib for domicile! (325). Indeed, El-Amin is one of the more prom inent and prolific sovereign Moorish theorists. in their present condition of their endeavorment in which they themselves try to force upon a civilized world, they will not refrain from their sinful ways of action and their deeds have brought jim-crowism, segregation, and everything that brings harm to human beings on earth. These actions are manifesting in front of the daughter and wife of Jamhal Talib Abdullah Bey (photo below). [18] According to The Chicago Defender, he claimed the power to marry and divorce at will.[19]. 22054, Timothy Drew, issued July 25, 1929, Office of Cook County Clerk, Cook County, Illinois". Nance, Susan. Gorton began by ruling that Bey had given him no reason to intervene in the ongoing criminal case in state court, especially given past rulings that federal judges should steer clear of state cases where defendants have ample opportunity to make their case, which he said was the case here. 5M)Lci,VFbbufjVMb@[Y,-,,,M-OX[Y^lyCgG;?:.^/[;LB?EW[x~:Qk3%7WWoG7omk9xSwQOQ7^^x^,n'''=Nwu+zW.= >oxeqWOQWB/7_9./]uiKil/.E^^"^W.s/hhh~%?W$kzQE~X>OxgNAz/wchyt~_rIYKd7O"jEdy\#f0YO^#c . 3 Bl. ", "Group of men involved in hours-long highway standoff expected to face 'a variety of charges', "What is 'Rise of the Moors,' the R.I. group that broadcast live from the I-95 standoff? [39], Kirkman Bey went on to serve as Grand Advisor of one of the most important factions until 1959, when the reins were given to F. APPEARANCES Johnny Ray Walls-Bey, Sheik, Tempe Plaintiff/Appellant WILLIAMS, Judge NOTICE: NOT FOR OFFICIAL PUBLICATION. [14], Drew Ali and his followers used this material to claim, "Jesus and his followers were Asiatic." You can't try me unless you send me to a national level court.". 74 Eric Mungin Bey, Discover the Key to the Moorish Questions: A Study Guide for All Moorish Americans (Bloomington: Xlibris, 2009). [12], Chapters 20 through 45 are borrowed from the Rosicrucian work, Unto Thee I Grant with minor changes in style and wording. 203, 207. I'm a traveler, not a driver, because driver includes the notion of employment in the fourth edition of Black's Law Dictionary. 16 Elect AndersonProphet, reads the headline of the February 1, 1929, Moorish Guide, instructing readers to vote for Louis Anderson for Second Ward alderman and Oscar De Priest for Congress. After some difficulties, Ali moved to Chicago, establishing a center there, as well as temples in other major cities. For hours on Saturday, an armed group of men, members of the Rise of the Moors, faced off with police, bringing traffic to a halt on Interstate-95 in . i am the sovereign living justice kenya monique huston el in capitis diminutio nolo, in red ink, in propria persona sui juris, in proprio solo, and in proprio heredes. The attack escalated into a shoot-out that spilled into the surrounding neighborhood. the senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the united states and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the united states. The 1911Encyclopdia Britannicaobserved that \"The term 'Moors' has no real ethnological value.\" Europeans of theMiddle Agesand theearly modern periodvariously applied the name to Arabs, North African Berbers, as well as Muslim Europeans. In court papers, Midfirst Bank said it owns the property and has sued the "Rise of the Moors" in Providence County Superior Court to clear the title on the residence. "A Sudanese Missionary to the United States". [66] In June 2021, Hubert A. John, a self-identified citizen of the Al Moroccan Empire, was arrested and charged on with counts of criminal mischief, burglary, criminal trespass and terroristic threats after he occupied a house in Newark, New Jersey, claiming that it fell into the jurisdiction of the Al Moroccan Empire. 2001). To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. If this is not an insult to the illustrious history of a nation there can never be one given. 28 Sharif A. Bey, The Blueprint: Moorish Musings on Noble Drew Ali's Divine Plan of the Age (DeWitt: Ali's Men Publishing, n.d.) (This source is not paginated.). An article syndicated by the Associated Press states that the Temple has disavowed any affiliation with those responsible, calling them "radical and subversive fringe groups" and also states that "Moorish leaders are looking into legal remedies." The federal agency later investigated the organization in 1953 for violation of the Selective Service Act of 1948 and sedition. %PDF-1.4 128 in Wakefield after an armed standoff with State Police. The city mistakenly invited members of the local Moorish Science temple to the ceremony, believing them to be of actual Moroccan descent. sumus de sanktam unum. The word indicated more than one ethnic group. To join the movement, individuals had to proclaim their "Moorish nationality". Merriam Webster Dictionary 1828, moors / muurs the ab original and indigenous natural peoples, and true inheritors of the lands (territories), central america, south america, and the adjoining islands. Incidents such as the 1996 case of the Montana Freemen, the 2003 Abbeville standoff . Many people see the court as conservative more conservative than the American public. Finally, Drew Ali settled in Chicago in 1925, saying the Midwest was "closer to Islam". In August, within a month of Drew Ali's death, John Givens El, Drew Ali's chauffeur, declared that he was Drew Ali reincarnated. El-Amin's name is not consistently hyphenated in his publications. ", Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, "Moorish Science Temple, The Divine and National Movement of North America, Incorporated, N", "Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago", "African-American Muslims and the Question of Identity: Between Traditional Islam, African Heritage, and the American Way", "The American Religion That Makes Its Members 'Moroccans', "Patrolmen Jesse D. Hults and William Gallagher", "Supreme Grand Advisor and Moderator C. Kirkman-Bey", "Saviours' Day 2014 Keynote Address: 'How Strong Is Our Foundation; Can We Survive? Two Moorish Americans who claim to be sovereign citizens of a fictitious North African empire were scheduled to make their first appearance in front of Judge Monise Brown for several. [50] Scholars are divided over the nature of the relationship, if any, between El Rukn and the Moorish Science Temple of America. They often append El or Bey to their last names. Some followers also claim to have roots in America. Tariff Sharif Bey, a Detroit, MI man formerly known as Aaron Lamont Johnson, remains locked up at an Essex County jail in Middleton in lieu of $100,000 bail following his arrest along Rte. Our concepts are wrong: we are the druids! Taj Tarik Bey Black and White Is a Legal Status, 21:11. HABEAS CORPUS AD SUBJICIENDUM. The founding of the Nation of Islam by Wallace Fard Muhammad in 1930 also created competition for members. Ali put together elements of major traditions to develop a message of personal transformation through historical education, racial pride and spiritual uplift. [55] The number of Moorish sovereign citizens is uncertain but possibly ranges between 3,000 and 6,000 organized mostly in small groups of several dozen. He based it on the premise that African Americans are descendants of the Moabites and thus are "Moorish" (sometimes also spelled "Muurish" by adherents) by nationality, and Islamic by faith. Bey's filing to move case to federal court (3.8M handwritten PDF). A federal judge in Boston yesterday dismissed an effort by one of the people involved in that armed standoff on Rte. Moorish American Consulate - Uplifting Fallen Humanity ~ The YeSharon Moabite Star Academy ~ "Changes lives, one mind at a time" "Nationality is the order of the Day". Timothy Drew was believed to have been born on January 8, 1886, in North Carolina, United States. Comm. Members believe the United States federal government to be illegitimate, which they attribute to a variety of factors including Reconstruction following the U.S. Civil War and the abandonment of the gold standard in the 1930s. 35 Compare, for instance, similar historical narratives in sovereign texts such as David E. Robinson, Reclaiming Your Sovereignty: Take Back Your Christian Name (n.p. There were major congregations in Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. They practice Islam and denounce the sovereign citizens movement and identify as U.S. citizens. save, bookmark and check back daily for updates for this public announcement page for moorish nationality, liens, land claims, lawsuits, violent Ablion banishment notices. But like you said, it doesn't say what the Moors say it does. One of the many African American new religious movements to emerge from the Great Migration to northern cities, the Moorish Science Temple of America was founded as "a divine and national movement" by Timothy (or perhaps Thomas) Drew, who adopted the title Prophet Noble Drew Ali (1886-1929).

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