IMAM
JAMIL ABDULLAH AL-AMIN (FORMER H. RAP BROWN): PERHAPS A VICTIM OF THE NEW
COINTELPRO SHROUDED IN THE U.S.
PATRIOT ACT
Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), I will continue to pray for his health, safety and release from prison and pray for his family and the personal struggles they are up against. I am always of the opinion, that when someone sends me this type of sensitive information (or topic on one of our Freedom Fighters who made tremendous sacrifices for black people’s liberation and our struggle to be free, perhaps I will always see it as my duty to give some intellectual feedback. Let me be clear, we live in a new legal era and theUnited States
jurisprudence system is reflective and indicative of this recent legal paradigm
shift that publically made this initial transition on September 11, 2001 (9-11). This
is when the United States Government transitioned from a government
(for the people and by the people into a covert authoritarian dictatorship) that
was no longer rooted in the separation of powers pursuant to the three
branches of government i.e., the Executive Branch, Legislative Branch and the
Judicial Branch (separation of powers and checks and balances)
which was brilliantly put into place to insure that our government maintain its
founding principles of being built and structured on a Democracy and to insure
that no one branch of government had the ability or right to assume an
unbalance amount of governmental power (compromising the balance of power) in
which would allow for the United States Constitution to be redefined relative
to how justice would be dispensed, in particular in the area of Civil
Liberties and mainly, it would lead to the upending of our 14TH Amendment right to constitution (due
process) and all other constitutional rights (reference: Mike Lee; Our Lost
Constitution: The Willful Subversion of America's Founding Document). This would allow
them to use the war on terror to impose more repressive legislation and laws
when it comes to the invasiveness of its citizens civil rights and civil liberties,
which in the past, the constitution prohibited and forbade the state (law
enforcement) and other government enforcement agencies from treading upon its
citizens civil liberties, it offered and guaranteed each American citizen equal protection under the law (reference:
Jonathan Turley; “10 Reasons The U.S. Is
No longer Land of the Free” http://jonathanturley.org/2012/01/15/10-reasons-the-u-s-is-no-longer-the-land-of-the-free/ .
I believe, the revealing of these classified FBI documents (some have already been revealed via the Freedom of Information Act) will provide proof that Imam Jamil Al-Amin had been unjustly under government surveillance for perhaps over fifty years, and his arrest and conviction of allegedly murdering a Fulton County Georgia police officers and seriously wounding another in which on March 9, 2002, nearly two years after the shooting took place, Al-Amin was convicted of 13 criminal charges, including the murder of deputy Ricky Kinchen. Four days later, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Many of Imam Al-Amin’s supporters viewed his conviction as a government ploy right out of the playbook of Cointelpro. I know Imam Al-Amin's legal team already know some of these things (and I am probably preaching to the choir), but it appears Imam Al-Amin's case and fight still have not been embraced nor told on a larger public scale.
J. Edgar Hoover mission also was to: Prevent militant black nationalist groups and leaders from gaining
RESPECTABILITY, by discrediting them to three separate segments of the
community. The goal of discrediting
black nationalists must be handled tactically in three ways. You must discredit those groups and
individuals to, first, the responsible Negro community. Second, they must be discredited to the white
community, both the responsible community and to "liberals" who have
vestiges of sympathy for militant black nationalist [sic] simply because they
are Negroes. Third, these groups must be
discredited in the eyes of Negro radicals, the followers of the movement. This
last area requires entirely different tactics from the first two. Publicity
about violent tendencies and radical statements merely enhances black
nationalists to the last group; it adds "respectability" in a
different way (reference: Kenneth
O'Reilly Racial Matters: The
FBI's Secret File on Black America ,
1960-1972) and Black Americans: The
FBI File
I was at the 20th year anniversary of the Million Man March convened by Minister Louis Farrakhan and granted I got there a little late, but I did not hear or see any speaker up on the dais speaking on behalf of Imam Jamil Al-Amin and I did not see fliers and information being circulated about his case. The mobilization and organizational efforts have to be intensified in order bring international attention to the Imam's case. The youth are communicating via Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, etc.; and they could tell his story to a far and wide range audience via social media. Free Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located inDurham , NC ; our mission is to
inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers
that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden
meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the
world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared
to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the
slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power.
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By Fahim
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Imam Jamil Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), I will continue to pray for his health, safety and release from prison and pray for his family and the personal struggles they are up against. I am always of the opinion, that when someone sends me this type of sensitive information (or topic on one of our Freedom Fighters who made tremendous sacrifices for black people’s liberation and our struggle to be free, perhaps I will always see it as my duty to give some intellectual feedback. Let me be clear, we live in a new legal era and the
Thus, after the 9/11 hoax, we allowed them, to
transfer all the perceived people's power into the Executive
Branch of government in which the president (acting commander-in-chief) now has the power to neutralize
the courts and congress by overriding the constitution (this action has
rendered the U.S. Constitution a worthless piece of paper) by allowing the
president to pass executive orders with no input from the other two
branches of government, this further only serves as an act of political tyranny. It has always been a governmental and congressional operational procedure (as well as a constitutional mandate) for
the president to consult with congress prior to the declaration of war (just take a moment and look at how the Afghanistan War in 2001 and the Iraq War of 2003 and other recent military skirmishes in the so-called Middle East and Africa have been handled actually President George W. Bush established a new governmental precedent relative to the question of Democracy); but
since 9/11, the president has sovereign authority to operate outside of
informing and the consultation of congress (a shadow government is overtly running the country) of his national and/or international
actions and decisions—he just has to yell, that his political decisions are a
matter of national security interest and this alone allows him to circumvent
the U.S. Constitution. This is some dangerous ground that we are treading
upon (reference: David E. Bernstein; Lawless: The Obama
Administration's Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law).
So we cannot use the
same legal strategies and tactics that were used in the 1960s and 1970s to
fight the United States Government, it will render your cause ineffective.
They, perhaps did not use any legal precedents to change Imam Jamil Al-Amin's
legal status from being a state inmate to a federal inmate, which
ordinarily, would have required, a hearing of sort (allowing legal
arguments to be heard pertaining to such matter) to enhance Imam
Jamil Al-Amin's custodial status in order to initially transfer
him into the custody of the United
States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Prison and into
Colorado Supermax penitentiary officially named: United States
Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX) where he was held for seven years and housed seven
stories underground-no sun light and little to no human contact (solitary confinement) was an atrocious act (but what most of us
fail to understand is that when you are a convicted inmate, you are
classified as an enemy against the state). How hypocritical is for the United States Government to condemn China, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Syria, Iran, etc., on issues of human rights violations and yet, there is no Amnesty International investigating and condemning the U.S. on its human rights violations inside of a government that represent the so-called free word. Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin is being
viewed by the U.S. Government no different than the so-called Islamic terrorist
being held at Guantanamo
Bay detention camp in Cuba
in which their legal rights, which used to be guaranteed by the laws
established under the Geneva
Conventions are being grossly violated and are no longer applicable
under this new legal era (New World Order)—many of the Muslim and Islamic detainees have not, been
found guilty of having committed any crimes, but are unjustly being imprisoned
under U.S. terrorism laws (Military Commission Act). The U.S. Federal Courts (assuming legal
jurisdictions in these international procedures are in direct violation of the
integrity and legal intent of international
law) the U.S. have taking legal jurisdiction over terrorism cases of international
ramifications, where crimes of terrorism were alleged to have occurred on
foreign lands. But it has been found that many of the foreign Muslim
defendants had no evidence of complicity or conspiracy brought against them, nor any provable allegations of terrorism aimed at
the United States of America
and to not address these international legal issues in the appropriate legal manner
are without doubt outside of how the United Nations was structured.
The
majority Guantanamo Bay detainees in reality, should not even be
held in prisons and detainment camps under the auspices of the U.S. Government (or at
least allow these alleged terrorist who are being held in captivity to prove their
guilt or innocence). President Barack Obama, the U.S. State Department
and the Pentagon know that these Muslims cases should be heard in international
courts of law and presided over by a neutral government and the Islamic
prisoners of war should at least by now have had their cases heard and decided upon
under the international laws and the rules established at the Hague Conventions (reference: Joseph
Margulies; Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential
Power. They
only justified re-categorizing Imam Al-Amin’s prison status by considering
him an enemy against the state and under this new legal era just as the
so-called Muslim terrorist in Guantanamo Bay , he has no legal rights, they became fearful that the love
and solidarity that the Muslim prisoners held for Imam Al-Amin in the Georgia prison system, it was
automatically deemed a threat. The Muslim
Ummah elected him to serve as Imam over the prison community,
which comprise the Islamic inmate population and, thus, the George State
Corrections chain of command interpreted this as a possible internal threat to the safety
and security of non-Islamic inmates and correctional personnel and signed an
agreement with the Bureau of Prisons (Interagency corporation one of the goals of Homeland Security initiatives) that would bring the Imam under their
custody (federal jurisdiction although his conviction was considered a Georgia
State offense and had violated no federal laws).
Although, the Islamic
religion is perceived in U.S. prisons as one of the acceptable faith traditions,
but the government within the penal institutions considers the Five Percent Nation or Nation of Gods and Earths as a street
gang and is not recognized nor are they allowed to function and organize or assemble
in the Belly of the Beast (reference: Michael Muhammad Knight; Why
I Am a Five Percenter) . But traditional Islam is allowed to have outside Muslim chaplains to come into the prisons as part of their right to freedom of religion. The First
Amendment right to the U.S. Constitution does not apply to prisoners of war
inside this new legal paradigm of the United States of America . If Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale were reining today over the
Black Panther Party for Self-Defense not only would they have been under more
intense surveillance and scrutiny from the FBI and the CIA, they would have
been, considered public enemy number one and their political philosophy as
revolutionary theoreticians would have also been considered promoting domestic
style terrorism and, perhaps they would have even been victimized under the
laws of Homeland Security and the anti-Terrorism laws (the government now has
more tools to work with in their dirty trick bag since the establishment of Cointelpro). Hoover’s Cointelpro techniques looks like
child’s play in the light of the long arm of the U.S. Patriot Act and the
National Defense Authorization Act (reference: Bobby Seale; Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P.
Newton).
How could H. Rap Brown (Jamil Al-Amin) who
articulated the Black Power ideology in the 1960s and 1970s, perhaps only second
to Stokley Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
in passion and militancy get a fair trial in U.S. courts (H. Rap Brown was the face and voice of the social rebellions in 1967-1968 and was a one of the leaders at the Black Power conference held in Newark, New Jersey in 1967) and not to expect the
government to look at Imam Al-Amin’s black activism past and the radical political
objectives he advocated as head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee would be a gross tactical error on the part of those who know the reactionary history of the U.S. Justice system (reference: James Foreman; The Making of Black Revolutionaries) and serving as the Minister of
Justice for the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and one must not forget
that the Black Panther Party was considered a paramilitary organization
(reference: Huey P. Newton; Revolutionary Suicide).
These variables and
factors in my opinion, were not overlooked, in the case of Imam Jamil Al-Amin
versus the State of Georgia and the present treatment, he is receiving relative
to his declining health and the lack of appropriate onsite medical care at USP
Canaan U.S. Penitentiary in Waymart, PA, which is deplorable and despicable
(they are attempting to assassinate Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)
by ( medical neglect) and inhumane and
should prompt an investigation from the U.S. Attorney General’s Office and the
U.S Department of Justice. But under the new
legal paradigm, they systematically have stripped the people of some of
their basic legal rights and duped them into believing that there was a
war on terrorism and that radical militant Islam posed a danger and threat to
the United States Government national security and the American people have
applauded these gestapo new legal measures being carried out so-called in
the name of public safety (they have recently met some stiff opposition from
the youth and Black Lives Matter Movement). The corporate control media
and talking heads have blamed the Muslims for our domestic and international
issues in lieu of our antagonistic relations with Islam and the Muslim world
and simultaneously turned our nation into a police state by using propaganda
and disinformation to mold and shape public opinion.
But little do the
masses know and/or understand, that today it's Muslims they are prosecuting and
discriminating against, but tomorrow, it could easily be Christians
and/or just ordinary citizens who dared to be different. So they use the 9-11
hoax to create illusionary enemies in Osama Bin-Laden and Al-Qaeda, but the real strategy was to turn
the United States Constitution into an ineffective and
powerless legal document, as well as, render the representatives of the
people, which was supposed to be the United States Congress (535 members
voted and elected by the people) into a powerless entity. This
has allowed the Executive Branch of government to usurp the balance of
legal power and legal authority that was guaranteed to the
people by the original framers and signers of the U.S.
Constitution in 1787, which was designed to insure that the three branches
government will forever create a necessary balance of power inside our
political apparatus (reference: Lori Peek; Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans After 9/11) . . (reference: Zak Kondo; Conspiracys (Conspiracies): Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X).
I believe, the revealing of these classified FBI documents (some have already been revealed via the Freedom of Information Act) will provide proof that Imam Jamil Al-Amin had been unjustly under government surveillance for perhaps over fifty years, and his arrest and conviction of allegedly murdering a Fulton County Georgia police officers and seriously wounding another in which on March 9, 2002, nearly two years after the shooting took place, Al-Amin was convicted of 13 criminal charges, including the murder of deputy Ricky Kinchen. Four days later, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Many of Imam Al-Amin’s supporters viewed his conviction as a government ploy right out of the playbook of Cointelpro. I know Imam Al-Amin's legal team already know some of these things (and I am probably preaching to the choir), but it appears Imam Al-Amin's case and fight still have not been embraced nor told on a larger public scale.
For example, Mumia Abu Jamal (reference: Mumia Abu
Jamal; Death Blossoms:
Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience), he turned his case
into an international human rights issue and he was nowhere on the
same national leadership level as was H. Rap Brown (Imam Jamil
Abdullah Amin) as an activist and he got white people and human rights
activist throughout the world involved in his case (and this has prolonged
his life as a death row inmate and former black nationalist activist). Yes,
he still remain on death row, but entertainers and athletes (money people
and influential people have joined the free Mumia Abu Jamal struggle and
campaign) and now the young Hip-Hop culture knows
something about Mumia Abu Jamal (reference: Mumia Abu Jamal; Live
from Death Row). But very few
know anything about Imam Jamil Al-Amin, which means the enemy, has very
little external pressure on them and they can treat the Imam in any manner they
please.
There are a lot of black and white independent
filmmakers (in Europe, Australia, Canada and the United
States) and since the Imam's imprisonment, he should have
had three or four documentaries done by white liberals telling his
story and bringing more public attention to this honorary Black Panther
member and former Black Power advocate. I know since his conversion to
Sunni Islam, he has always tried to separate his Black Power activism
history and at times it appears he has had difficulty in trying
to reconcile his Islamic theology with his past militant and revolutionary
style black nationalist politics (reference: Jamil Abdullah AI-Amin; Revolution by the Book). He
often publically dismissed this part of his history, which was
a tactical and strategic mistake because the U.S. Government never
disconnected him from his radical and militant past (even as he led his
Islamic mosque in Atlanta the government sent agent provocateurs around him and
closely monitored his activity unknowing to him) (reference: H. Rap Brown; Die Nigger Die!: A
Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin).
Moreover, whatever resources, he and his followers have he need to
write five to ten more books from different intellectual angles (create
intellectual exposure and interest by telling his story) and getting this material
in young activist hands and college students who have never heard of H. Rap Brown
(Imam Al-Amin). Also, encourage some of the young Muslims
and non-Muslims to write thesis and
dissertations on the man and his mission. We need to entice young law
students to review his case and make them aware of the shoddy case law
that was used to convict the Imam and maybe inspire these innocence commissions
to take a hard look at the Imam's case and his ties to Cointelpro and
did this prohibited him from attaining an impartial and fair trial. His
case must be viewed as the government having a sinister vendetta
against the Imam that extended back to the 1960s whom they (J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI) recognized (as a radical militant hate teacher who espoused anti-government sentiments) of
having the ability unify and electrify the black masses and this was
deemed a threat under the United States Government counter-intelligence program (Cointelpro).
The American people via the war on terrorism lost everything
that the constitutions used to stand for (most of all the legal avenues
to justice). It appears that Sister Karima
Al-Amin his wife and legal counsel and one of Imam Al-Amin's close
confidante Imam Khalil Abdur-Rahman, need to work
diligently to reclassify Imam Jamil Al-Amin as a U.S. prisoner of war (first step no compromise in getting this
status applied to him in name and legal status or implied intent even if only
the public viewed him as such, it would be a major legal and political step to
justice) and his being denied the adequate medical treatment or any other
rights must be viewed under Habeas
Corpus laws assigned to all political prisoners of national and
international status, but this argument would have to be built on the
premise that Imam Al-Amin has been a long standing target of Cointelpro and demand that the U.S.
Government turnover all the complete FBI files and dossiers without
any blackout (or white outs) deletions or omissions that pertained to H.
Rap Brown (Imam Jamil Al-Amin) FBI files and hidden case. J. Edgar Hoover former F.B.I director,
ordered the forty-one FBI offices at that time to intensify
their efforts, "to expose, disrupt,
misdirect, and otherwise neutralize" Black nationalist organizations
and their leaders. Primary targets of the Counterintelligence Program, Black
Nationalist-Hate Groups, should be the most violent and radical groups and
their leaders. We should emphasize those
leaders and organizations that are nationwide in scope and are most capable of
disrupting this country. These targets, members, and followers of the: The
Student Nonviolent coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Nation of Islam, and
above all, the Black Panthers were specifically targeted, as were,
among many Blacks, Stokley Carmichael, H. Rap Brown, Elijah Muhammad, Fred Hampton, Mark Clarke, Assata Shakur, etc. (reference: Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall;
The COINTELPRO
Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United
States .
They have
redefined justice in the United States of America since 9-11, and they have
placed new terms into the legal lexicon such as Enemy Combatant and homegrown
terrorism, but if the Imam legal team cannot work to show and prove
that Cointelpro has been ongoing under the guise of the United States Patriot Act and Homeland Security, which has even allowed the U.S.
Government to expand its powers, authority and scrutiny over the
American citizens with little legal oversight from the people or the
courts, it will remain a difficult battle and an almost insurmountable legal
hill to climb. We must be able to prove that Cointelpro was a violation of the United States Constitution. And illegally caused irreparable damage to
all the victims and their organizations, which was built on disinformation and
propaganda that led to the murder, false imprisonment, character assassination,
social isolation, etc., of innocent freedom fighters and that the
Black Power movement was only an extension of the Civil Rights Movement and
must be viewed from the same context of the goals and objectives that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the nonviolent
movement were fighting for, which was to obtaining freedom, justice and
equality for the so-called American Negro during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.
Another one of Cointelpro goals and objectives: Prevent
the RISE OF A "MESSIAH" who could unify, and electrify, the militant
black nationalist movement. Malcolm X might
have been such a "messiah;" he is the martyr of the movement
today. Martin Luther King, Stokely
Carmichael and Elijah Muhammed all aspire to this position. Elijah Muhammed is
less of a threat because of his age.
King could be a very real contender for this position should he abandon
his supposed "obedience" to "white, liberal doctrines"
(nonviolence) and embrace black nationalism. Carmichael
has the necessary charisma to be a real threat in this way. (reference: Zak Kondo; Conspiracys
(Conspiracies): Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X.
I was at the 20th year anniversary of the Million Man March convened by Minister Louis Farrakhan and granted I got there a little late, but I did not hear or see any speaker up on the dais speaking on behalf of Imam Jamil Al-Amin and I did not see fliers and information being circulated about his case. The mobilization and organizational efforts have to be intensified in order bring international attention to the Imam's case. The youth are communicating via Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Vine, etc.; and they could tell his story to a far and wide range audience via social media. Free Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again,
Fahim A. Knight-El