
Innocence Project Suspect of Racism in Virgin Islands 3 Case: No Accountability to the Oppressed as a Matter of White Privilege
About a month ago, I learned
that the Ohio Innocence Project decided that it would not offer the
Virgin Islands 3 (Haneef
Bey/Beaumont
Gereu, Abdul
Azziz/Warren
Ballentine, and Malik
Bey/Meral
Smith) any help, which
came as no shock to me,
nor
any of the three.
Not because we have any doubt about our legal and Human Rights
position, because we do not,
but because "Liberal" White privilege allows for
indifference and unaccountability to the oppressed.
We have done our legal work, trapping the U.S. government into
criminal admission
through criminal
default, we exposed and
are pursuing a major international case of systemic Human Rights
violations and genocide by the United States against the "Natives"
of the Virgin Islands.
I have sought and welcomed expressed interest by advocacy
organizations like the OIP, the National Lawyers Guild, and the
Jericho Movement in pursuing justice in this matter. However,
contacts with these organizations turned out to be poisoned from the
beginning by White arrogance and privilege, White liberalism that
insists a right not to be accountable to the oppressed of which they
get their bread and butter, and get awards for helping without really
helping.
A
brief history of the case of the VI3 is required, so in 1972 five
young Black male natives were charged with the murder of seven White
"American tourists" and a mulatto at the Fountain Valley
golf course in St. Croix. The FBI led all police actions in the case,
rounding up over 100 young Black native men in house to house
searches, none of them older than 24, who were beaten and tortured.
The incident was treated by the U.S., and portrayed in the press as
a slave uprising, so it had to be quickly quashed and some guilty
parties publicly executed, they settled on Ishmael LaBeet, Raphael
Joseph, Abdul Aziz, Haneef Bey, and Malik Bey as the culprits in one
week. This, in spite of the fact that the five assailants wear masked
the entire time, spent less than 10 minutes at the site, and then
disappeared into the surrounding rain forest. How the FBI decided
that the assailants were young men is a mystery, even though the
assault rifle used to commit the murders was registered to the St.
Croix police department. All of the young men were beaten, however
the five were subjected to straight out torture, they were hung by
the neck repeatedly, water-boarded, genital electric shock,
starvation, sleep deprivation, in addition to being constantly
beaten. The "confessions" obtained from this was the only
"evidence" that the U.S. had, and all that it needed to
then put them on the public execution block before all the other
slaves and slave sympathizers, and lobbed off their heads with
sentences of more than 700-years each (the killing of the mulatto
employee did not count), which was quickly executed.
Although I recall the
events, I had no real idea as to what the "U.S. Virgin Islands"
were, or exactly where they were, as distinguished from the "British
Virgin Islands" and other European pirate claims to lands and
people greatly distant to them. In 2015, the three made contact with
me for assistance addressing the fact that they were even being
denied the right to apply for parole, more than two-decades after
they were entitled to apply. I normally do not get involved in
parole/"begging" cases, where the objective is to obtain
forgiveness or mercy, my only interest is in justice. I went to the
islands on my own to conduct an up-close investigation, I was unknown
to the system down there as a threat, now I am red hot. My visit
revealed that the reason these men were being denied the right to
even apply for parole as provided under colonial law, was because
they were never colonial prisoners of the colonial regime. For the
past 17-years it has been holding them illegally for the U.S.
government. In 2000-01, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons terminated the
sentences of all "territorial" prisoners in its custody,
only, instead of releasing them as required by law, it "transferred"
them to illegal and indefinite detention by their respective colonial
regimes. This is irrefutable in law and fact, which is why the U.S.
judiciary as refused to address it in blatant violation of domestic
and international law.
The Charter of the United
Nations already provides in Chapter XI (Declaration regarding
Non-Self-Governing Territories) article 73, point b, "the
obligation on UN members, which have or assume responsibility for the
administration of territories whose population has not yet achieved
full independence, to develop self-government of the people." On
December 14th, 1960, the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1514
(XV), the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to colonial
countries and peoples, which solemnly proclaims "the need to
promptly and unconditionally put an end to colonialism in all its
forms and manifestations." On December 21st 1965 the General
Assembly adopted Resolution 2106 (XX) (International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination), reaffirming
that "the United Nations has condemned colonialism and all
segregationist and discriminatory practices that accompany it, under
whatever form and wherever they exist." On November 22nd 1988,
the General Assembly adopted Resolution 43/47, which declared
1990-2000 the "International Decade for the Eradication of
Colonialism." The U.S. doubled down on its continued disregard
and violation of all these resolutions and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights. All of this coming to a head as the U.S. was
preparing to "celebrate" the centennial of its "purchase"
of the islands and its Black natives. Since the spring of 2016, we
have had a formal complaint before the UN Commission on Human Rights.
charging the U.S. with the systemic violation of the Human Rights of
the three and "all others similarly situated," to which we
have not received no response to date, even though we know that the
Commission received the complaint. Ironically, the complaint is about
the refusal of the U.S. judiciary to even process the petitions,
which the UN Commission on Human Rights has only repeated. Similarly,
we have same non-response, no explanation, and no accountability from
we received from the National Lawyers Guild, the Jericho Movement,
and now the Ohio Innocence Project. However, it were the latter who
came to us suddenly expressing interest in seeing justice in this
matter, having no real idea of what that is, but apparently
determined to decide what it should be. By time the NLG poked its
head in, I had already meticulously exposed and helped the three to
"legally" pursue their release, to which the U.S. judiciary
criminally refused to act on, while also facilitating repressive and
retaliatory actions against the prisoners, under which they suffer to
this day.

The
National Lawyers Guild poked its head in just as all of the
repressive actions were launched against the three after they filed
petitions of habeas corpus to end their illegal detention, all three
were rounded up and put in deep-lock isolation. In the meantime, the
chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Virgin Islands, Wilma
Lewis was refusing to process the petitions, in absolute violation of
the rules of the court and the U.S. statutory laws. This was major,
we have people being physically repressed, even being subjected to
passive torture and other treatment threatening their health and
safety, and the NLG lawyers did not even blink. They did not even
have the common courtesy to respond to me after I shared with them
general and inside information, including updates. A month after the
repression by the regime and the denial of due process by Lewis, the
colonial governor Kenneth Mapp had the three and all of the other
prisoners still held as them, summarily removed from the island and
flown to a Corrections Corporation maximum-security prison in the
middle of an Arizona desert. They just came one morning and rounded
up all those prisoners, telling them that the only thing they could
take was their toothbrush and glasses, so they were separated from
all of their property, including their legal papers. I kept the NLG
informed on all of these developments, yet their attorneys remained
mum, unaccessible, and essentially indifferent. At that point, I sent
the NLG lawyers an email criticizing their lack of communication and
apparent indifference. Instead of admitting and accepting that what
they may consider as a "jail -house" or street lawyer, all
by himself, engaged in legal action far more dynamic than they as
"attorneys" could ever imagine. Keep in mind that when they
were "tried," the great White attorney William Kuntsler was
their attorney.
My work established in law and fact that the U.S. had no legal
authority to do so, because it does not legally "own" or have any legal relationship with the
islands and thereby, cannot legitimately claim "ownership" or any other lawful relation to the islands and its people as their "authority." We raise the fact that under the laws of "possessing and receiving stolen property," Denmark did not legally own the islands or the people it had kidnapped and enslaved on them. The U.S. "purchased" of the islands and people from Denmark is an ongoing crime. Denmark pirated the islands, helped kill off the indigenous people, and
then engaged in the kidnap and importation of Afrikans to enslave on
the islands. This made the deal between the U.S. and Denmark an
international conspiracy of "possessing, transferring, receiving, and possessing stolen goods" against Denmark and the
U.S. A legal argument that extends to the purported "legitimate" existence of the U.S. itself. This was in
addition to also uncovering the mass-illegal detentions of "Natives"
that is being carried out by the U.S. government through its colonial
regime. I can only conclude that this was too much for the fragile
egos of these White NLG lawyers, how could I do all of this without a
law degree, with very limited resources, how dare I show them up? I
did not get a response to my email to them and to confirm my charges
of racism against them, the two White attorneys went crying to the
White woman in Jericho who they had used as a go-between, as if
attorneys are afraid to personally encounter me. Ultimately, without
ever having to account for their lack of response, they made tried to
make my chewing them out the issue, as if they did not ask for it and
I was not qualified to do it. We never spoke, they discussed nothing
with us, we never met, all their doing. So, based on the offense
taken by these two White people, the White woman with Jericho also
took offense with me, leaving me an angry voice mail chastising me
for upsetting her good White friends, and demanding that I apologize.
I told them all to go hell, for I would be coming back for them and
so here I am. The NLG has never done anything in the case of the
Virgin Island 3, other than trick us into sharing certain critical
strategic information with them, which they shared with someone else,
while never discussing it with us. I gave them certain privileged
information, yet, they never talked with me or the prisoners about
it, nor took any action in support of it. Then makes an issue
excusing their unaccountability by blaming it on my daring to chew
them out for it, so we need to talk about "White Entitlement,"
in addition to White privilege.

As
a result of the premier of the "The Skyjacker's Tale,"
at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival, a documentary produced by Jamie
Kastner, some White liberal attorneys allof sudden became interested
in the plight of Haneef, Abdul, and Malik. The film focuses on the
brazen escape in 1984 by Ishmel Labeet, who managed to hijack an
airliner on which he was being transported back to prison in the U.S.
and forced it to fly to Cuba. Even though he had to serve seven-years
in prison, Cuba granted him political asylum, which extended to the
others, Cuba was and has been the only country to recognize the case
of the Virgin Island prisoners as a political one, not a "legal"
one. In the film Labeet, now Islam, vindicates the three, and former
VI police officers involved admit to the use of torture to obtain the
confessions, at the behest of the Rockefeller family and the U.S.
government at the behest of the Rockefeller family. The documentary
caused Mark Godsey (Pic.), the director of the Ohio Innocence to seek
contact with me on the VI3 matter, it is not a "legal case,"
for we have exposed and established the absolute lawlessness of the
U.S. system. Just as the NLG attorneys came at me sideways, so did
Mark Godsey, this time Jamie Kastner was the go-through. I was not
trying to load Jamie with that burden, he has a film that needs to
get out into the public. Perhaps it is just too mind-blowing that
Jamie would be the one person to look into the matter, at the same
time that I was the one person in 45-years to come along and not only
piece things together, but do the legal-work to help these people
solidify their case and to liberate themselves, because they are my
people.
I found it strange that Godsey did not conduct a collective
"legal visit," as I had requested in giving him access to
my clients, he disrespected my expectation and visited with them
individually. This turned my pinkish neutral flag to red, then he
turns around in April and tells the three that he nor the OIP is
going to give them any help or support. The only email that I got
from this suspect piece of shit,was one telling me after visiting
with my clients, that he could share what he discussed with them
based on "client/attorney relationship." They were not his
clients, but mine, I facilitated access in hopes of getting some help
against the powerful forces of oppression we have exposed. However,
now I and the three have reason to conclude that indeed these people
who have come to us, have come as agents to pick information that the
U.S. government cannot get from the court filings, strategic
information or insight. The NLG comes at U.S. just as we have caught
the U.S., gets inside information, but does nothing. Here comes Mark
Godsey with his drama, gets inside information as the "Sky
Jackers Tale" raises a stink, on the pretense that they were
going to help redress the injustice of the matter, not that they were
thinking about. It was the same lie told by the NLG and the JM,
neither them of them have been of any help to me or the prisoners.
So, we now slide Mark Godsey and the OIP into the "agent-suspect
category, what did they do with the information provided to them? No
accountability and no need to account due to the new White
liberal-"leftist," racists.
