Moorish sovereign citizens often display an emblem consisting of a scarlet rectangular banner or a flag with a five-pointed green star located to the left of the center. In Moorish legal acts, Moorish sovereign citizens refer to themselves with a series of Africanized names that include the words “bey” or “el” or a combination of both. Little fell victim to a scheme known as paper terrorism, a popular tactic of one of the fastest-growing extremist groups, according to government experts and watchdog organizations. Known as the Moorish Sovereign Citizens Movement and loosely based on a theory that blacks are foreign citizens bound only by obscure legal systems, it encourages followers to violate existing laws in the name of empowerment. Experts lure marginalized people into its ranks with the false promise that they are above the law. The men “claimed to be sovereign citizens of the al-Moroccan Empire and that their status allowed them access to property,” according to O`Hara`s report. Officers confirmed that Little had purchased the house in February and asked the men to leave the house. They did. 14 Azeem Hopkins-Bey, “What makes a Moorish American?” Know Thyself Radio, Audio Podcast, October 18, 2010, www.blogtalkradio.com/themooriam/2010/10/18/what-makes-one-a-moorish-american. This is not the first time Moorish leaders have possessed illegal firearms or been involved in clashes with police. A small number of Moors have been implicated in shootings, bank robberies and murders. 23 Moorish America, “We are All One Family Bearing One Free National Name,” Moorish American News, p. 24.
December 2013, moorishamericannews.com/we-are-all-one-family-bearing-one-free-national-name#sthash.Mke8GJHg.dpbs. Moorish leaders believe that their status as members of a sovereign nation confers immunity from federal, state, and local authorities. They use this perceived immunity to justify their refusal to pay taxes, buy car insurance, register their vehicles and scam banks and other credit institutions. Many Moorish rulers also profit from the sale of false registration, licensing, and insurance documents on websites that promote Moorish sovereign beliefs and doctrines. In several cases, this belief in immunity from legal authority has led some Moorish leaders to initiate violent clashes with law enforcement. 70 “Pictures of Our Moorish Supreme Court of Equity and Truth,” Moor News (blog), Moorish Science Temple, 9. November 2012, moorishamericannationalrepublic.com/news_categories/moor-news/page/9/. How it evolved from a neat entrepreneur to a Moorish citizen confronted by a SWAT team in New Jersey is obscure. Around 2018, social media accounts associated with Black X, his trade association, changed their tone, with posts about how to obtain Moorish license plates and ID cards and explanations of abstruse legal tactics. 29 Connally-Bey reprints C.
M. Bey`s “Zodiac Constitution.” A full text of C. M. Bey`s version is available on moorishdirectory.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Zodiac-Constitution-by-CM-Bey.pdf. This “Constitution of the Zodiac” played a central role in the arrest of a hundred New York employees for tax evasion in 1997. See Robert Dannin, Black Pilgrimage to Islam, photographs by Jolie Stahl (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), page 32-72 “Black`s Law Dictionary 5th Edition”, YouTube video, 0:29, posted by “Tactikalguy1”, 19 November 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgzLtssgsPM. Other travelers follow similar tactics, such as Randy Stroud of sovereigntactics.org/. Stroud is a white ruler who, in addition to Random House Webster`s College Dictionary, also relies on the fourth edition of Black`s Law Dictionary. He is interested in both the “common definition” and . Legal definition” of a particular word, although it warns: “Legal German is its own language of general proverb.” He gives another example, saying, “The law and the license are opposites,” given their legal significance.
He insists: “Are you a driver? Do you drive? I am a traveler, not a driver” because “driver” includes the term “employment” in the fourth edition of Black`s Law Dictionary. As a ruler, Stroud maintains that the United States is a society. As an exegete who focuses on the meaning of individual terms, he looks for words that he combines with formative – biblical? – texts such as the Declaration of Independence. For example, it defines “consent” as “voluntary compliance” with government. Such wordwork can lead to shocking results: “Let`s look at what a monster is,” he says, but he digs deeper into the definition to find the strand he needs. A monster cannot inherit land, “In reality, none of us can inherit land” because “most people pay property taxes,” meaning that “most people accidentally succumb to a monster.” Randy Stroud, “Blacks Law: Lesson 1,” YouTube video, 0:38–3:45, 7:08–9:00, posted by “General Zero,” July 27, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSgANcaess. 24 Mahdi McCoy, “Why We Moors MUST Rock the Vote,” Moorish American News, September 16, 2014, moorishamericannews.com/moors-must-rock-vote#sthash.HyyO5jpg.dpuf. The movement of Moorish sovereign citizens does not have a unified leadership. Most act as individuals and receive information about Moorish sovereignty online or in paid seminars taught by sovereign gurus. In contrast, groups of Moorish sovereign citizens are usually small, consisting of a few dozen followers, many of whom are nominally led by one or two charismatic individuals who profit from the promotion of Moorish doctrines and the preparation and sale of false legal documents to those who adopt their Moorish nationality or heritage. Moorish leaders often make money by selling fake legal documents, fraudulent car insurance forms, fake license plates, fake passports, and various other documents.
They also save money by engaging in tax evasion or tax evasion schemes. They committed large-scale financial fraud, including the creation of fake money orders, fraudulent bank cheques and fake financial instruments. In some cases, their fraudulent activities are part of a broader sovereign practice called the doctrine of salvation. He explains that the Moors (like all rulers) can incorporate themselves, allowing individuals to use themselves as personal property worth tens of millions of dollars. The official-looking letters arrived shortly after Shanetta Little bought the pretty Tudor home on Ivy Street in Newark. The documents, which bore a gold seal in legalistic Aureate language, claimed that an obscure 18th-century contract gave the sender the right to claim his new home as his own.