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Federal judge has had enough of Moorish sovereign-citizen frivolity

A federal judge in Boston yesterday dismissed an effort by one of the people involved in that armed standoff on Rte. 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."

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. 128 in Wakefield after an armed standoff with State Police. The ten men and one teenager were charged with various violations of Massachusetts guns laws as they drove from Rhode Island to armed "training" in Maine.

Bey and several of the other men involved have filed a number of actions in federal court over their state criminal charges, all basically saying that as citizens of the "Free National Government of Morocco" and the true aboriginal inhabitants of North America to boot, they are not subject to state law and that in any case, the Second Amendment gives them the right to form a militia and do whatever they want with all weapons, including those specifically banned in Massachusetts.

Because they have all filed their federal cases by themselves, the various judges involved have shown them considerable leeway in allowing them to make their claims, no matter how seemingly nonsensical they might be - such as that they are not, in fact, citizens of "the US corporation" and that the state troopers and county prosecutors involved in their cases are guilty of both treason and genocide. They also consistently claim the 14th Amendment has no holding on them because it was declared null and void in Congress on June 12, 1967, when, in fact, no such thing happened, but a white-nationalist congressman from Louisiana gave a speech denouncing the 14th Amendment for leading to the Supreme Court's decision that morning to ban miscegenation laws.

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.

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.

[A]lthough Bey argues that removal [from state to federal court] is proper because he is a Moor-American National, such arguments have been consistently rejected by federal courts, and this Court finds Bey's argument without merit. ... Contrary to Defendant's assertions, his purported status as a Moorish-American citizen does not enable him to violate state laws without consequence.

And so, Gorton would not give Bey the chance to amend his initial attempt to move his case to federal court, something judges can do with pro-se filers:

Given the nature of Bey's pleadings, any amended pleading would appear to be based upon the frivolous legal theory that the Commonwealth courts lack jurisdiction because of Bey is a Moor-American National.

Complete ruling (477k PDF).
Bey's filing to move case to federal court (3.8M handwritten PDF).


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"Judge says, no Moor"?

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Poor things.

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What a Mooron lol

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Imagine going to the UK and violating a county felony and then being like "Sorry, I'm an American. You can't try me unless you send me to a national level court."

Because that's what their argument was.

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They seem to claim that some non-existent treaty from 1787 exempts them from US laws. That's the crux of all of this, a piece of paper that has never existed says it's all good.

It's worth noting that a treaty does exist between the US and Morocco, the Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, ratified by Congress in 1787, but it definitely does not do what they are claiming such a treaty does.

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 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.

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But like you said, it doesn't say what the Moors say it does. That's a pretty common theme in their legal rantings - like the supposed Congressional repeal of the 14th amendment on a specific day (which was, in fact, just one good ol' boy from Louisiana whining about Loving v. Virginia in a speech preserved by the Congressional Record). I've gone down that rabbit hole a couple of times in researching Moorish claims and it's just amazing how they keep pointing to things like some modern day Vizzini.

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the judge spent the last few years building up an immunity to their iocane powder bullshit.

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Adorable. Magoo.

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Never thought I’d say that.

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It would seem likely that at some point in the near future the conservative US Supreme court knocks down all or most state laws regulating gun ownership. Few gun laws have been upheld as of late.

It might not be these nuts that make it before the court but it's not unreasonable to think the crimes they are charged with will no longer be valid within a few years.

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It's MOOPS!

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So stick them all on a plane to Morocco and let play their BS games over there.

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They're US citizens whether they want to be or not.

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Have any historical-sociological studies been conducted that measured the frequency, in proportionate terms of fakes to general population, over many decades? Fakers and frauds are always plentiful. Snake oil salesman and Jim Bakkers are always around.

But are there more than usual right now? Or are those of us who are ultimately defrauded just now more susceptible to the guiles and brilliance of successful frauds?

Trump proved that it is not difficult today - at that level of money, power and pulpit - to wrap around himself massive illusion. Strom Thurmond showed us that open secrets of personal hypocrisy never stopped his supporters from reelecting him.

Successful frauds are emotionally brilliant. They wait, listen, find the chinks in anyone's armor and then use those weaknesses to manipulate.

I think that these pseudo-Moors are just not smart enough to play the game of fraud. Ironically they should have found back channels to the Trump cabal and learned from them how to tell extreme lies that are still believable.

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