Reinstate Attorney Alton Maddox

Slavery not only has a physical structure but it also has a mental structure. Unfortunately, the mindset of virtually all Blacks extends to the plantation itself and the custodial rights and obligations of the “slavemaster”. We only have, at the very least, a physical definition of slavery. This definition is within Black’s Law Dictionary:

Although the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution fails to mention “badge of slavery”, it is mentioned but not properly and exhaustively defined in Black’s Law Dictionary:

1. Strictly, a legal disability suffered by a slave, such as the inability to vote or to own property. 2. Broadly, any act of racial discrimination –public or private– that Congress can prohibit under the 13th Amendment.

When the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified in 1865, it was the clear intent of Congress to ban all forms of racial discrimination –public and private. There was no need for either the Fourteenth Amendment (state action) or the Fifteenth Amendment (right to vote). Those constitutional amendments have had the effect, if not the intent, of undermining the Thirteenth Amendment.

The “Founding Fathers” saw no need to incorporate a citizenship clause in the U.S. Constitution. At the time, every white man wore a “badge of citizenship”. The doctrines of jus soli and jus sanguinis were of no moment in ascertaining citizenship. White maleness did the trick.

Since citizenship arises out of a political philosophy, the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments had to be dismantled before the ink had dried on those documents. For example, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was unknown in the civil rights law until 1968. It is amazing that this law was hidden in “plain view” for over a century.

In the meantime, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Civil Rights Act of 1875 in the Civil Rights Cases (1883) even though it mentioned that Congress could not only invalidate slavery but also all “badges of slavery”. Hypocritically, the “High Court” chose to narrow the construction of the Thirteenth Amendment. This construction limited its enforcement.

This was a signal to “civil rights” lawyers that they should only rely on the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment to end Jim Crow. Civil rights lawyers have been engaged in judicial “ping pong” since 1883. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told civil rights lawyers in Cato v. United States that they should consider employing the Thirteenth Amendment, for example, to secure reparations.

Through my questioning of law enforcement agents from the New York Police Department about the unlawful and unsolicited seizure of some “members” of the “Central Park 7″, these agents admitted that they employed the prohibition against an unlawful assembly to seize these youth. These “stop, frisk, question and arrest” arose out of the state’s slave code.

They simply observed at least three Black and Latino youth peacefully assembled outside the park. These arrests were illegal ab initio. Justice Thomas Galligan refused to enforce the Thirteenth Amendment because the arrests were based on “badges of slavery”.

In the Marla Hanson complaint, Marla Hanson had been slashed in the face and a white person later observed two Black males running through Hell’s Kitchen. He called “911” to report two Black males simply running through his neighborhood. This was a crime in his “book”. Members of the NYPD would later seize those males without probable cause. It was also a crime in the NYPD “handbook”.

When Hanson returned to a local bar with a slashed and bloody face, she told the bartender that “white” Steve had slashed her without referring to his race. The bartender knew “white” Steve. The police would later determine that “Black” Steve knew “white” Steve but not the bartender.

Hanson would later accuse “Black” Steve of slashing her face. “White” Steve was only “guilty” of solicitation. “Black” Steve wore a “badge of slavery”. Black” Steve would not only do hard labor in New York’s prison system but he would also die in prison. No Negro had a right to slash the face of a white woman.

John White is a homeowner in Suffolk County, NY. Late at night in August 2006, a white mob threatened to rape his wife and kill his son. White killed one of the white trespassers. The police arrested White and, afterwards, he was prosecuted and convicted of manslaughter and wrongfully sent to prison.

An intermediate appellate court ruled that White had an obligation to dial “911” and wait for the police. This jury instruction was wrong. White had failed to dial 911 or to wait for the police. It is forbidden for a Black person to use any semblance of force against a white person. There is no right of self-defense in New York in favor of a Black person and against a white person. This is a “badge of slavery”. The conviction was affirmed.

New York has two sets of books and it operates a dual system of justice. Like Florida, New York has a “Stand Your Ground” law which only favors whites. It is silent but deadly for Blacks. Moreover, no prosecutor is going to indict a white person for homicide if he or she harbors any fear of a Black person.

On February 2, 2012, P.O. Richard haste followed Ramarley Graham into his home. Haste observed no weapon and he lacked a warrant of any kind. No weapon was found in the home. Under New York law, this is second-degree murder. A Bronx grand jury only indicted Haste for manslaughter.

A “justice” in the Bronx County Supreme Court dismissed the indictment on May 15, 2013 on allegedly, flawed, grand jury instructions. The “justice” believed that the grand jury should have considered any information that those police officers may have transmitted to Haste. When Haste trespassed into Graham’s home, warrantless, he observed no gun. Haste had made a mistake which is no defense under the law.

This mistake did not justify Haste taking Graham’s life, however. Although Graham may not have been in possession of a gun, he was wearing a” badge of slavery”. This “badge of slavery” was sufficient for a white cop, acting under state law, to take the life of any Black person.

A police officer fatally shot a Black policeman, Omar Edwards, in the back with impunity in Harlem. He was also wearing a “badge of slavery”. This prompted the NYPD and the local district attorney’s office to engage in a cover-up. This required the local district attorney’s office to engage in a cover-up.

There is no relevant statute of limitations in New York. An independent, political party and not a “civil rights” organization is needed to address “badges of slavery”. The governor can appoint a special prosecutor. He can ignore a civil rights organization but he must consider the petition of a political party.

O.J. Simpson is like Audie Murphy. Both were given a chest full of badges. Murphy earned his badges during World War Two. Simpson acquired his badges under the laws of intestate succession. Murphy wore badges of honor. Simpson wears “badges of slavery” but he suffers from hallucinations.

Now, he is looking at the world from behind bars. At his self-help trial, the defense lawyer failed to enter a plea of insanity. This constitutes ineffective assistance of counsel which violates the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Simpson should be headed home soon. I hope that he has learned a valuable lesson about the “badges of slavery”.

Tawana Brawley is the victim of “involuntary servitude” in violation of the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because judicial officers, acting under color of law, filed false instruments against her in both New York and Virginia. White supremacy must win at all costs.

The filing of a false instrument in New York is a felony but a district attorney or a prosecutor can exercise prosecutorial discretion and immunize the suspects. It is still a felony, however. Blacks refuse to establish a political party and put their own in charge of the district attorney’s office. This would shrink the prison-industrial complex.

Bouvier Law Dictionary defines “badge of slavery” as follows:

A persistent condition that evokes the past burden of slavery. A badge of slavery is any burden or disability, whether it originates in law or social custom that was associated or persists to limit the freedom of a person whose ancestors were in slavery.

Bouvier Law Dictionary defines “involuntary servitude” as follows:

Employment that is physically or legally coerced. Involuntary servitude occurs when a victim is forced to work for a person or entity by the use of threat of physical restraint or physical injury, including the use of threat or coercion through law or the legal process, or the use of fear of such means …. (Emphasis supplied)

The requirement of involuntary servitude from another is a crime in the United States, unless the requirement is pursuant to a lawful sentence of the person for a crime for which such service is a legal punishment. The Federal offense allows imprisonment for life if the servitude involves kidnapping or the death of the victim. (Emphasis supplied)

It is well-settled that the executive branch of either the federal government or any state government refuses to enforce laws in favor of Blacks and against whites. This is in line with Dred Scott. The United States Supreme Court gives this spin to all civil rights laws. Slavery is the sum of its parts. Therefore, slavery is the denominator and the numerator is the “badges of slavery”.

I spent my legal career practicing law as a “private attorney general” since Blacks refuse to establish their own political party and elect Blacks as heads of district attorneys’ offices to exercise prosecutorial discretion in favor of innocent Blacks or Blacks who act with legal justification. Nonetheless, a “private attorney general” is no substitute for an independent, political party.

It took the Liberty Party and, afterwards, the Free Soil Party to break the chains of chattel slavery. The “plea bargain” did not extend to “forty acres and a mule”. Blacks must sit at the bargaining table instead of white abolitionists. This can only happen through a Black-led and Black-financed political party. Bargaining is the sine qua non of capitalism.

Blacks react to the English language like roaches react to “Raid”. This is a good thing or it is a bad thing. If you have the ability to separate logic from language and control both, it is a good thing. Otherwise, it is a bad thing. Critical thinking requires it. Malcolm X and Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., among a few others, had the ability to separate language from logic. This explains their absence today. See their autopsy reports.

It is a good thing to say that most Blacks are enrolled in the prison-industrial complex because of “race” but “race” only helped put most Blacks behind bars. The honors go to English. No Black person can receive a fair trial in the United States without the assistance of an interpreter. English is imbued with racism.

My pro bono, clients, including but not limited to Chokwe Lumumba, Andre Nichols, Jonah Perry, Anthony Davis, Michael Briscoe, Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley, never took the witness stand. Any Black defendant who takes the witness stand with an alibi defense, for example, is headed to prison. Statistics show that an alibi defense coming out of the mouth of a Black defendant is worthless.

I had a profound understanding of Blacks and American jurisprudence. If I had the time and the resources, I could write “How to Represent Black Defendants in the United States”. No one in the history of American jurisprudence has ever written this book. No law school teaches a course in the representation of Black defendants. Prof. James Nabrit, Jr. wrote a textbook entitled “Civil Rights” in the 1920′s.

I was the first Black person to have ever appeared on the cover of the Washington Post magazine. The article, “Mr. Civil Rights in the Courtroom” said that I had the ability to win longshot cases. This article was a signal to the political establishment in Washington, DC that I posed a threat to white supremacy. This article was published on Mother’s Day 1987. Three years later, in May, I was “barred” from all courtrooms.

Twenty-three years later, United African Movement hosted Tawana Brawley and Glenda Brawley at the Integrity Masonic Temple in Paterson, NY. Glenda Brawley was subject to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793. New York is still not “free soil”. Glenda can be arrested in New York for refusing to defame her daughter in May 1988.

Tawana Brawley was enslaved on February 8, 2013 because she violated New York’s slave code. Under the guise of enforcing the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Tawana is now an “indentured servant”. She has to pay Steven Pagones Three Hundred Dollars every two weeks for exposing him to the world. It is a crime for a Black person to speak ill-will of a white person. He is now enjoying a lifetime pension. This is called state-sponsored defamation.

If Black lawyers were honoring their revered ancestors like Robert Morris, Sr., Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, Scipio Africanus Jones and Charles Hamilton Houston, they would already be preparing to be in Surry County, Virginia on July 23, 2013 to file notices of appearance and represent the sacrificial work of our revered ancestors. Houston said it best: “Any Black lawyer who is not a social engineer is a social parasite”.

The three most important cases for Blacks today are Assata Shakur, Tawana Brawley and Glenda Brawley-King. Like Assata, Glenda is subject to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793. Tawana is now an “indentured servant” under the slave codes of New York and Virginia. The common thread has always been the U.S. Constitution.

I have been “barred” from all courtrooms in the United States not because I have perpetrated a “dishonest act” as is required by the Code of Professional Responsibility but because “I pose an immediate threat to the public interest”. This justified suspending the U.S. Constitution and the Code of Professional Responsibility on May 21, 1990.

Black people were the target. I was the victim. The right of representation belongs to Black people. They lost the right of representation. I only lost the use of a law license. When one person loses a “privilege”, it has a chilling effect on all similarly-situated persons. This means all Black lawyers.

If all Black lawyers in the United States refuse to prepare for the kangaroo hearing in Virginia on July 23, 2013, they should at least stop all federal and state governments from barring me from the courtroom and they should change the venue of this year’s national convention of the National Bar Association and advance its date to July 23, 2013. It is scheduled for July 27- August 1 in Miami Beach, FL. It should be relocated to Surry Co., Virginia.

President Barack Obama could issue a presidential pardon for crimes that I did not commit. In Ex parte Garland, the “High Court” held that it was unlawful for a person who supported the Confederate States of America to be barred from courtrooms. These laws were bills of attainder. New York also disciplined me under a bill of attainder and the “High Court” ruled that this was impermissible for a Black freedom fighter but not for a white “rebel” to practice law.

More than a decade ago, the body of the National Bar Association convened in Philadelphia and passed, by a slim margin, a resolution demanding my reinstatement to practice law. Since the resolution was passed, every president of the National Bar Association has refused to sign it for fear of losing his or her “meal ticket”. The resolution remains unsigned and, therefore, unenforceable.

All of the past presidents of the National Bar Association should not only endorse the resolution but it, in the words of Charles Hamilton Houston, should be in the vanguard of protecting the right of legal representation of all Blacks and it should also be a buffer between any overreaching disciplinary committee and a Black-oriented lawyer.

Within forty-eight hours after Tawana Brawley, who was fifteen years-old, had been found in Dutchess County, NY in a garbage disposal with her body smeared with feces and racial epithets written on it, she was meeting with representatives from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies at her home in Wappingers Falls, NY.

By this time, hospital officials had removed all trace evidence from her body. No pictures were taken of the racial epithets that had been written on it or the burned clothing on her body. An arson investigator from the Dutchess County district attorney’s office, who worked under ADA Steven Pagones, had seized and wrongfully disposed of the rape kit. Tawana had said “white cop” at the hospital in Poughkeepsie, NY.

The meeting with law enforcement officials happened on the Monday after Tawana was found. The NAACP was also present. Both the meeting and the fruits of the meeting were suppressed by law enforcement officials. Later, Robert Abrams, the state attorney general, and other law enforcement officials, would accuse Tawana of not cooperating with them even though they had secured a thirteen page statement from her on that Monday.

The NAACP would later take thousands of dollars from the county and say “hear nothing, see nothing and say nothing”. Two officials of the NAACP, Hazel Dukes and Laurel Blackburne, would become attack dogs for law enforcement officials. Among other things and through the white media, they would demand that Alton Maddox be disbarred from the practice of law and buried under the jail.

Within eighteen hours after Tawana and her parents had met with law enforcement officials, Harry Crist, Jr., a “white cop”, had been found dead in his home. The murder suspects are law enforcement officials. Even though law enforcement officials said that it was a “suicide” accompanied with a “love note”, they were aware that the autopsy report had classified his death as a “homicide” and that there was no ballistics report since no gun had been found near his body. The examining pathologist never saw a “love note” and a gun.

No one in law enforcement officially connected Crist’s death with the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley even though the “handwriting was on the wall”. A white mailman connected the dots in January 1988. Since Tawana had just moved to another residence, law enforcement wanted him to connect dots, before the grand jury, only about mail delivery.

Instead, he disclosed that he observed four white men in an old, unmarked, police vehicle at the garbage disposal of her former apartment near the time that Tawana had been found. A later investigation unearthed that Crist owned the police vehicle and that the occupants on this Saturday morning were Crist, Steven Pagones, an assistant district attorney, Scott Patterson, a state trooper, and Eugene Brinson, a public utility worker. They claimed that they were in Darien, CT at a shopping mall doing some “Christmas shopping” but Pagones had no sales receipts.

Dutchess County District Attorney William Grady would write Gov. Mario Cuomo to ask for the appointment of a special prosecutor to conduct the Brawley investigation. There was a conflict of interest in his office. An assistant district attorney, Pagones, who worked in his office, was a prime suspect. Instead of revealing the contents of this letter to the public, Cuomo gave it to New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams to conduct a “hatchet job”. The letter has never been publicized.

Abrams would commence this cover-up on or about February 29, 1988 by announcing that he not only had no suspects but also that Tawana Brawley has refused to meet with law enforcement officials. Moreover, Crist had killed himself according to Abrams. There was also no physical evidence of a rape. He never mentioned the finding of rape by the Westchester County Medical Center on or about December 4, 1987 after Tawana had been correctly examined by a Black gynecologist. Abrams also failed to mention the stolen rape kit.

Cuomo and Abrams would then march out their “leading Blacks and Black selected officials” to condemn Tawana Brawley and to demand the immediate disbarment of Alton Maddox from the practice of law. Later, conduct would reveal that Rev. Al Sharpton was always functioning with a bent towards New York. This was an inside job.

No elected official can ever operate as a special prosecutor. Abrams was an elected official. During the grand jury investigation, Abrams elevated paid witnesses over fact witnesses. These paid witnesses are described as “experts”. The law permits New York to pay “experts”. It may not pay fact witnesses, however. Fact witnesses must tell the truth. Expert witnesses only give opinions. Abrams elevated opinions over the truth.

By elevating these opinions over the truth, Abrams, and not the grand jury, accused Tawana Brawley of having perpetrated a “hoax” and it accused Maddox of having obstructed justice. If the grand jury had made these findings, Tawana would have had to face a juvenile delinquency proceeding and Maddox would have had to face criminal charges. Neither of the above happened.

In April 1988, Abrams ordered Glenda Brawley to appear before a newly-convened grand jury in Dutchess County and give sworn testimony against her daughter, Tawana Brawley. Truth was the only testimony that Glenda could offer in favor of her daughter. By already suppressing the police report of November 30, 1987, New York had demonstrated no interest in the truth.

Glenda refused this invitation. New York responded by “slapping” her with contempt charges. After she had been found guilty of contempt, Abrams gave her a “cooling-off” period. This was enough time for the late Dr. William A. Jones to receive Glenda into sanctuary at Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn since there is a “separation of church and state” in this country.

After virtually forty days and nights in sanctuary, Glenda chose to be a fugitive from justice since the “Old Confederacy” would refuse to enforce New York’s fugitive slave laws. She can only be arrested on New York soil. After leaving the historic Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn, Atlanta was the first stop on her itinerary.

The longest running drama in state history, aka a “political trial”, was held in Dutchess County Supreme Court from November 1997 to August 1988. Among other things, Justice S. Barrett Hickman ruled that Tawana Brawley could be tried in absentia even though Pagones had failed to secure an order for the appointment of a guardian ad-litem to protect the interest of a “minor” as is required under New York law.

Justice S. Barrett Hickman of Putnam County, NY also instructed the jury, from the outset, that truth could not be employed as a defense in this defamation trial. In short, no Black person has a right to accuse a white person of any crime in New York and no Black person is competent to testify against any white person. Throughout the “political trial”, Justice Hickman would often repeat this jury instruction.

By the time that Abrams made this accusation, Sharpton was already facing federal and state investigations. Moreover, attorney C. Vernon Mason was facing myriad, disciplinary investigations. Mason had already generated enough disciplinary investigations to “choke a horse”. None of these investigations of Sharpton and Mason related to Tawana Brawley.

A grand jury report had been authored by Abrams and not by the grand jury. This is a violation of law and a grand juror submitted an affidavit outlining the limited role of the grand jury in the Brawley investigation. Even though this grand jury report violated New York law and it constituted odious hearsay, Justice Hickman would introduce it against the four defendants. Hearsay is consistent with an untruth.

Before trial, both Pagones’ father and his wife, through newspaper reports, had given Pagones a complete alibi for the four days in question. During the trial, both of them suffered laryngitis. As officers of the court, they are forbidden from giving perjured testimony at a trial. His wife is an attorney and his father is a judge.

Moreover, Pagones’ wife had been given the same sexually-transmitted disease that Tawana had suffered during the kidnapping and rape. Justice Hickman ordered Steve Jackson, the attorney for Mason, into a jail cell for one-night because he highlighted this truth during the trial. Justice Hickman had warned Jackson that truth could not be used during this “political trial”. After the trial, she ended the marriage.

The jury also found that even though Sharpton and Mason may have told the truth, they failed to comply with the requirements of New York Times v. Sullivan, a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. and others had been successfully sued for defamation in Alabama. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed this decision in New York Times v. Sullivan

With respect to Maddox, the jury found that in making statements against Pagones, Maddox had complied with New York Times v. Sullivan but Justice Hickman found that Maddox had wrongfully accused white men of crimes. This was defamation under New York’s slave code.

Therefore, he was ordered to pay Pagones for all harm done to white men. White supremacy has its own philosophy, logic and ethics. Because of the doctrine of collateral estoppel, only Maddox continues to accuse Pagones of kidnap and rape. Maddox disrespects New York’s slave code.

Justice Hickman found that it was not necessary for Pagones to have applied for or served a guardian-ad-litem with any legal papers since it was wrong for Tawana to have accused any white man of kidnapping and raping her. There was also no need for an inquest as is required by law before New York could allow for a default judgment.

Pagones is now seeking to enforce a bogus judgment in Virginia. This is illegal since a judgment can only be enforced in a sister state when it is shown that New York had jurisdiction over Tawana Brawley. Only service of process gives personal jurisdiction over a defendant in a civil action.

The public records of New York must show an affidavit of service, an order appointing a guardian ad-litem and a decision on the merits and not a default judgment. Pagones can only show a bogus judgment based on the filing of false instruments. Someone should be in handcuffs since there are no public records in New York about Pagones v. Brawley.

Since Pagones was without any public records in New York to invoke Article IV § 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Virginia should have rejected his application outright or, at the very least, required a due process hearing. Virginia did none of the above to comply with the U.S., Constitution.

Instead, it has given Pagones a retirement income of Three Hundred Dollars every two weeks for the rest of Tawana’s life. Virginia has returned Tawana Brawley to slavery. A white man enjoys lifetime income simply because he raped a Black woman. This should be of great concern to the Obama Administration.

So far, no leading Black or a Black selected official will speak out against the re-enslavement of Black people nor will he or she permit any discussion of the plight of Tawana Brawley on any commercial radio or television station in the United States, white supremacists have been given the edge. No leading Black or Black selected official is expected to be at the Integrity Masonic Temple, 224 MLK Way/Broadway in Paterson, NJ at 2:00 p.m. on Mother’s Day 2013.

Virginia will belatedly allow Tawana Brawley to suffer a belated, kangaroo hearing on July 23, 2013 in Surry, Virginia to legitimize all due process violations. On February 8, 2013, Virginia started to wrongfully allow Pagones to deduct Three Hundred Dollars from her wages every two weeks. This has caused a great, personal hardship and, consistent with slavery, the victim must pay the rapist.

Patricia Meili
Defendants in the “Central Park 7″ were the victims of “stop, frisk, question and arrest”. In this machination, the police seize a “suspect” and later connect the suspect with a crime. This happened to the “Central Park 7″. Now, the future of “stop, frisk, question and arrest”, and not the treatment of the “Central Park 7″, is now on trial in federal court.

The outcome is predictable even though the Fourth Amendment forbids this practice. Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, “stop, frisk, question and arrest” are still legal in New York. This is the power of a slaveholder. “Stop, frisk, question and arrest” is a “badge of slavery” but lawyers refuse to raise this issue under the Thirteenth Amendment.

Although police officers seized Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Steve Lopez, without a warrant and without probable cause, on or about 11:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, the bloody body of Patricia Meili was not found until about 1:30 a.m. on April 20, 1989. She was still alive. The police now needed suspects to be matched with the crime. This is how “stop and frisk” works.

The crime scene unit of the New York Police Department took over the investigation. There was a rape kit, photographs of Meili’s body and trace evidence. None of this evidence connected the “Central Park 7″ to either the body of Patricia Meili or to any evidence collected in Central Park. DNA also failed to connect any of the defendants to the crime.

This would not pose a problem for the grand jury since its function is to make accusations. Convictions are left to a petit jury. Self-crimination that follows an arrest should not be employed to credit the arrest. This lack of evidence should have been a red flag. The grand jury should have known that these boys were being framed.

Despite this accusation of a “hoax”, in 1988, the petit jury found, in 1988, that Pagones was involved in the kidnapping and rape of Tawana Brawley. New York has elevated the grand jury over the petit jury. Glenda Brawley can still be arrested on New York soil and Maddox is still “barred” from all courtrooms in New York and elsewhere. New York also still refuses to compensate the “Central Park 7″.

Since a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich, it demonstrates that the grand jury was not given proper, grand jury instructions. If it had, there would have never been any indictments in the “Central Park 7″. This would have forced the New York Police Department to conduct a real criminal investigation which would have eventually led to the arrest of Matias Reyes.

The police had already been on to the “Eastside Slasher” who had already been involved in a practice and pattern of conduct similar to the one which led to and consummated the rape of Patricia Meili. Detective Michael Sheehan encouraged Reyes, on August 5, 1979, to confess to the rape and murder of Lourdes Gonzalez on June 14, 1979.

Although Sheehan was also a detective in the “Central Park 7″, he failed to connect the dots between Reyes and Meili. The NYPD was fully aware of Reyes who was the “Eastside Slasher”. Justice Thomas Galligan of Bronx, NY who had also been illegally assigned to the Central Park Jogger case in Manhattan would also preside over Reyes’ DNA hearing in the murder of Gonzalez.

The Manhattan district attorney’s office decided to go with the “Central Park 7″ instead of connecting Meili with the “Eastside Slasher”. When a white woman is raped, justice is served by the lynching or wrongful conviction of any Black person. The more the merrier, however. This has always been the white man’s sense of “justice”.

The purpose of the “right to vote” for Blacks and Latinos is, among other things, to elect public officials who will be fair-minded to them. It is of particular interest that the Manhattan district attorney in 1989 was Robert Morgenthau, a Democrat. Most of the judges and public officials in Manhattan and the Bronx are also Democrats.

Virtually, all Blacks and Latinos are enrolled in the Democratic Party. By enrolling in the Democratic Party, Blacks are doing a disservice to Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., Malcolm X, Cong. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and Kwame Ture and to all of our ancestors who had opposed slavery and Jim Crow. The Democratic Party favors giving support to the “badge of slavery”. At his death, Cong. Powell was in the process of forming the “People’s Party” in New York.

In the “Central Park 7″, six of the seven Black and Latino youth were wrongfully-convicted. Maddox represented Michael Briscoe. Maddox had charges against Briscoe dismissed for violating the Sixth Amendment. Using Dred Scott as a backdrop, Maddox applied military science, instead of American jurisprudence, in defense of Briscoe to uphold justice.

New York wrongfully classified Tawana Brawley’s claim as a “hoax”. This classification is consistent with the doctrine of “legitimate rape”. “Race matters”. Nonetheless, Maddox successfully urged a petit jury in Jury 1998 to find that Tawana Brawley had not perpetrated a “hoax”. He is still barred from all courtrooms in New York for defending justice.

The white media was acting in concert with law enforcement agencies in Brawley and the “Central Park 7″ despite the prohibition of the Sixth Amendment against prejudicial pre-trial publicity. It would have at least helped if the Black community had enjoyed public affairs programming on commercial television stations on Sundays. By not demanding public affairs programming, the Black community facilitated the injustice in the “Central Park 7″. This is also happening in Brawley.

Postscript
The case of Patricia Meili shows that crime pays. Linda Fairstein has retired from the Manhattan district attorney’s office with a lucrative pension. As a novelist, she has supplemented her pension by raking in millions of dollars with the aid of the white media. Elizabeth Lederer also enjoys a lucrative pension. By hiring Lederer as a law professor, Columbia University has enhanced her income.

On the other hand, the New York Legislature ordered the courts to initiate an investigation of Maddox which would lead to Blacks being denied the right of legal representation and the loss of the license for Maddox to enter courtrooms and practice law. The right of representation weighs more than a license to practice law. This should be the concern of the Black community.

Since 1990, Maddox has had to spend over a million dollars in defense of the Brawley family. The biggest expense was a year-long defamation trial. There have been expenses for disciplinary hearings and litigation in the federal courts. None of these expenses relate to the maintenance of the United African Movement and none of these expenses relate to his involvement in other public and community affairs.

By 1990, Maddox had become the best litigators in the United States. The Washington Post described him as “Mr. Civil Rights in the Courtroom” on the Mother’s Day 1987. In 1991, the American Bar Association considered Maddox as one of this country’s best litigator despite the fact that New York had barred him from the courtroom.

It is a conservative estimate to say that Maddox could have easily earned over five million dollars annually, as an attorney, since 1990. Prosecutors from the attorney general’s office of New York State have fought for Pagones. Prosecutors for the Manhattan district attorney’s office have fought for Meili. Maddox and Brawley have had to fend for themselves. This is called “taxation without representation”.

While Maddox headed the NCBL Juvenile Defense Project, he sued New York in 1982 for failure to allow juvenile offenders to receive a college education. He won. All members of the “Central Park 7″ were prosecuted as juvenile offenders. All five of those who went to trial would attend college. Yusef Salaam, Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana received associate degrees while in prison.

In 1995, Gov. George Pataki would ban all prison inmates from attending college. No Black or Latino selected official would oppose Pataki’s scam which affected mostly Black and Latino inmates. In 1988, all selected officials would call for Maddox’s disbarment. No one will credit Maddox with having made it possible for juvenile offenders to attend college in New York from 1982 to 1995.

            Wherever Blacks are headed, Tawana Brawley will get there first. Tawana Brawley is currently an “indentured servant” for speaking out against “legitimate rape”.  If we remain asleep at the switch, she will be on a Virginia auction block on July 23, 2013.  Richmond, VA was the original capital of the Confederate States of America. Whites promote symbolism.

            In the meantime, Black selected officials and leading Blacks are headed to prisons.  They are doing it to each other.  Former Cong. Jesse Jackson, Jr., who wore a “wire”, is blaming a “bipolar disorder”.  Corruption in Albany is former state Sen. Shirley Huntley’s excuse for wearing a “wire”. She was bent on cleaning up Albany.  She has reeled in some big “black bass”.

            When white people hear a rumor that a Black man has raped a white woman, they instinctively start to plan a “picnic” and a “necktie” party.  On the other hand, Blacks, when they hear that a Black person has involuntarily become an indentured servant, behave like chickens in a chicken coop facing en masse a person with an axe.  This is a personal matter.  It only affects the beheaded chicken.

            No ethnic group can be free until it develops its own philosophy, ethics and logic.  President Abraham Lincoln never “freed” the slaves.  He only emancipated them.  This means that Lincoln “freed” all slaveholders from the responsibilities and expenses of custody.  This became emancipation coupled with “survival of the fittest”.

            People who understand this legal concept and “legitimate rape” will have an affinity for Tawana and Glenda Brawley on Mother’s Day 2013.  They will be at the Masonic Integrity Temple, 224 MLK Way (Broadway) in Paterson, NJ to honor all strong Black women like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells, Callie House, Harriett Moore, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Jo Ann Little and Assata Shakur.  The only males on the program are Rev. Herbert Oliver, Dr. Leonard Jeffries and myself.

            There will be a sumptuous buffet and entertainment including poetry from Autum Ashante, a dance from Genell Johnson and musical selections from Ann Sinclair.  Mother Kefa, Empress Phili and Pam Africa will provide words of wisdom.  Geneva Butts, Kadijah Black and Judy McNeil will open the program.

            Later today, May 10, 2013, I will be publishing an article entitled, “A Tale of Two Women-Brawley and Meili”.  These women have experienced different outcomes.  Genuine supporters of these. This article is based on public records and not on propaganda.

            On July 23, 2013, members of United African Movement and supporters of Glenda and Tawana Brawley will be in Surry Circuit Court in Surry, VA, on July 23, 2013 for an unconstitutional and belated hearing on the propriety of Steven Pagones, the adjudged rapist, garnisheeing Tawana Brawley’s wages on a bogus, default judgment from New York.  Due process requires a hearing before any judgment creditor can garnish wages.  This hearing has not happened in Virginia and Steven Pagones is not a judgment creditor.

            Dr. Randy Short has an outstanding biography representing not only outstanding academic achievements including matriculating at Howard University, Harvard University and the University of Virginia but it also demonstrates an involvement in the anti-apartheid movement.  He was a cumlaude graduate of Howard University and, at the University of Virginia, he focused on urban slavery in the South.

            Short has worked closely with Dick Gregory, Joe Madison and the Congressional Black Caucus in implicating the CIA in the smuggling of cocaine into Los Angeles in the 1980′s.  The possession and use of  cocaine by Blacks has disproportionately imprisoned Blacks in this county. Short’s work has revealed the relationship between the CIA and the prison-industrial complex.

            Domestically, his lists of activities are countless.  He worked closely with Myrlie Evers on the burning of Black churches.  While in Boston, at Harvard University, he sought to partition Roxbury from the city of Boston because of systemic racism in services and policing.  This was known as the Mandela Initiative.

            In 2000, Short, working with Congressional members John Conyers, Cynthia McKinney and the late Donald Payne, organized the Afro-Latin Roundtable.  In furtherance of his work, he traveled, among other places, to Cuba and Brazil in addition to attending the United Nations World Conference Against Racism.  He traveled with Cong. McKinney to Libya.  He has also worked with Palestinians.

            One of his current concerns is genocide in Africa.  Pharmaceutical companies are flooding Africa with potent and genocidal drugs and with a design to destroy African women.  He is also a “radical advocate for the Abolition of Planned Parenthood and other entities that are conducting genocide against the African American people”.

            Short has deep roots in Virginia.  His cousin was the first Black mayor of Hopewell, VA where Glenda and Ralph King reside today.  His knowledge of the area and his important contacts in Virginia will be of great benefit to the United African Movement.  UAM must learn the local terrain in preparation for the unconstitutional hearing on July 23, 2013.

            In addition to his work domestically and internationally, he has taught African American, American World History and African History at Lane College in Tennessee where he also works for WTGP-FM and Bowie State University in Maryland.  He is the curator of the West Tennessee Cultural Heritage Association and is a board member of “Friends of the Congo” and the “A.D. King Foundation”.

            Dr. Randy Short will be the keynote speaker for the United African Movement on thisWednesday, May 8, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. at the Brooklyn Christian Center, 1061 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Classon and Franklin) in Brooklyn.  Take the “C” train to Franklin Avenue.  Tawana and Glenda Brawley will be with their supporters in Paterson, NJ on Mother’s Day 2013.  Don’t be afraid to stand with the Brawleys.  All “leading Blacks” and “Black selected officials” have declined the invitation for this Sunday’s tribute.

   Nothing surprises me in Georgia.  In the late 1960′s, I was asked to leave the University of Georgia Law School because I threatened to whip a white law student’s “ass”. He used “nigger” to describe a plaintiff in a civil action.  Over one hundred fifty white law student burn-rushed the dean’s office.  I was the third Black law student in the school’s history.  The rest is history

            About three weeks ago, I was in Georgia.  A newscast was aired about an interracial couple in Greene County, Georgia living under the same roof.  She had a white son. White law enforcement officials made a warrantless, pre-dawn raid on the white woman’s home.  The interracial couple was in bed without clothing.  It is obviously a crime in Georgia for a Black man to be in bed with a white woman who has a son living under the same roof.  Nudity did not help.

            They were hauled into squad cars naked.  At the police station, they were put in separate holding pens naked.  These law enforcement agents withheld clothing from them until after they were “booked”.  This couple had already been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment for a crime that they never perpetrated. I landed in Georgia again this past Sunday. The next morning, I saw a news report about the high school in Wilcox County, Georgia barring interracial proms.  This is one hundred fifty years after the 1963 Emancipation Proclamation and forty-six years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia giving a green light to interracial marriage in the United States.

            Fifty-nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education allowing for integrated education, the state of Georgia is still permitting counties to ban Blacks and Latinos from attending proms and homecoming dances with whites.  While there may be interracial marriages now in the Old Confederacy, states’ rights still governs interracial courtships.  Slave codes are still in effect.

            This was the clincher.  Quanasha Wallace was voted homecoming queen of Wilcox County High School.  Nonetheless, she was banned from the homecoming dance because she is Black.  Moreover, a biracial student was also denied admission to the homecoming dance under the “one drop” rule.  Race matters.

            White men are bent on having their cake and eating it too.  They view all women as property.  Black men can get second-picks on Black women but “Miss Ann” belongs to the white man exclusively.  Over four hundred years in North America, this has been the legal norm and tradition.  Any Black man or woman who has the temerity to complain about this double standard could get the rope.  Tawana Brawley has been sent to debtor’s prison for militating against “legitimate rape”.

            More than fifty years ago, I was barred from all classrooms at the University of Georgia Law School.  Today, I have been “barred” from all courtrooms in New York.  My only “crime” in each state was speaking out against the defamation of my race.  The more things change the more they remain the same.  All leading Blacks and Black selected officials know to keep their noses clean.  Where are they now? 

            Only the United African Movement took the lead in defending Tawana Brawley even though “legitimate rape” is a race question.  United African Movement also took the lead in defending the “Central Park 7″ even though it was a carbon copy of the Scottsboro Boys case.  UAM’s fingerprints are all over New York.

  Join UAM on this Wednesday, May 1, at 7:00 p.m. at Brooklyn Christian Center, 1061 Atlantic Avenue (bet. Classon and Franklin) in Brooklyn. Take the “C” train to Franklin Ave.  The keynote speaker will be Min. Conrad Tillard.  UAM will honor Tawana and Glenda Brawley in Paterson, NJ on Mother’s Day 2013.   Even though they were not required to do so, they have stood up courageously for all Black women.  Most Black women, on the other hand, have gone into hiding.  Tawana has a court date in Virginia on July 23, 2013.

April 29, 2013

Hon. Min. Louis Farrakhan
Nation of Islam
4855 S. Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Re: Tawana and Glenda Brawley

Dear Min. Farrakhan:

On December 12, 1987 in Newburgh, NY and, later, in various venues in Illinois, New York, Georgia and Washington, DC, you have extended the support of the Nation of Islam to end “legitimate rape” in the United States. You have also personally extended your support to the Brawley family.

Six white men, including Steven Pagones and Harry Crist, Jr., kidnapped and raped fifteen year-old Tawana Brawley in Dutchess County, NY on November 24, 1987. When she was found on November 28, 1987, her body had been smeared with feces and racial epithets had been written on her body. Her hair had also been cropped. This was a hate crime.

Blacks from all around the country were outraged over these criminal acts. These crimes prompted you to appear in Newburgh on December 12, 1987. The Nation of Islam vowed to protect and support Tawana Brawley. You also participated in a protest march against this injustice, on this day, and, in the following year, you appeared in Poughkeepsie, NY to support Glenda Brawley. She had been cited for contempt of court. Later, you appeared with them at the historic Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.

Although no juvenile delinquency proceeding nor a civil action was ever commenced against Tawana Brawley, Steven Pagones, a rapist of Tawana Brawley, is now exploiting the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the U.S. Constitution to steal Three Hundred Dollars every two weeks in Virginia from her wages.

Since Virginia is enforcing this criminal conduct, Tawana Brawley is now an “indentured servant”. This is a violation of the Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. It is also a violation of Due Process of Law under the Fourteenth Amendment. The federal government has obviously buried its head in the sand and censorship is being employed as an “accomplice” to these criminal acts.

United African Movement seeks to honor both Tawana and Glenda Brawley on Mother’s Day 2013 in Paterson, NJ. Glenda Brawley is subject to arrest on New York soil. Censorship is being employed to allow Pagones to operate under the radar. It is in his best interest to keep this “criminal enterprise” low-key.

I knew that I could win any legal matter against Tawana Brawley in a court of law. Now local, state and the federal government have agreed to allow individuals and entities to file false criminal instruments against Tawana Brawley with impunity in both New York and Virginia. This enables Pagones to be unjustly enriched.

United African Movement is now fighting “might makes right” in the court of public opinion. I can connect with a jury in a courtroom. UAM is unable to connect with scattered residents in a court of public opinion. The terrain is wider. Censorship is a culprit and it is widely practiced in the tri-state.

UAM needs your immediate help and the immediate help of the Nation of Islam. There will be a tribute for Glenda and Tawana Brawley in Paterson, NJ on Mother’s Day 2013. A hearing on matters under the Full Faith and Credit Clause is belatedly scheduled for July 23, 2013 in Surry, Virginia. UAM must win in each of these venues.

I will be making a diligent and sustained effort to talk to you personally and to fill you in on all of the details. While I have always believed that the doors of the National of Islam were always open, I have refrained from knocking unless and until the circumstances were dire. Now, time is of the essence.

Very truly yours,

Alton H. Maddox, Jr.

  Before the advent of radio and television, Marcus Garvey had already perfected the art of mass communications.  By coming to New York, he made the “Empire State”, the “communications capital of the world”.  Through communications, he secured a short-term lease on Madison Square Garden as an international stage.

          The mimeograph machine was located at Alabama State College.  Whites had established it to nurture our mental oppression. Robinson would use it to finance our liberation.  In the meantime, she converted “houses of worship” to African meeting houses for mass meetings.  Blacks would assemble every Monday and Thursday night.

          Liberty Hall was critical to the Universal Negro Improvement Association like the Slave Theater became necessary for the development of the United African Movement in its defense of Tawana Brawley.  It is no accident that UAM has become, at best, a week-to-week tenant in 2013.

          This is frightening since UAM is the only Black-led and Black-financed organization in New York which meets weekly and is openly opposed to white supremacy including “legitimate rape”.  All other organizations are talking loud and saying nothing amid a program to re-enslave Blacks.

          Wherever Blacks are headed, Tawana Brawley will get there first.  Thanks to a conspiracy between New York and Virginia, Tawana Brawley has become an “indentured servant”.  Her pay is being involuntarily shared with Steven Pagones who not only kidnaped and invaded her “private part” without her consent but since she was a minor, he is also guilty of statutory rape.

          President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder are aware that the facts in Tawana Brawley are not subject to dispute; yet, they refuse to act on behalf of Tawana Brawley like they have done in the shootings at “Sandy Hook” and in the bombings in Boston.  In short, they are re-affirming Dred Scott.  Blacks are headed back to the “plantation”.

          UAM intends to make sure that history will not repeat itself.  No Black woman who leads a crusade against an unjust law should be punished for her courage and her love for her people.  This happened to Rosa Parks.  She lost her job.  In return, the Montgomery Improvement Association hired four Black women.  They refused to hire her.

          Parks and her husband, Raymond, had to leave Montgomery.  They landed in Detroit, MI where they received a “thumbs down” greeting.  No one would hire them in Detroit.  Rosa had to flee Detroit for Hampton, VA where she landed a job as a waitress at Hampton Institute.  She and her husband had to live off of her tips.  The same thing could happen to Tawana Brawley.

          Blacks in New York are doing zero to challenge censorship.  If Tawana is to survive this bogus, legal challenge in Virginia, she must gain access to the airwaves.  Up to now, the plug has been pulled on anyone in commercial broadcasting who wishes to discuss Tawana Brawley over the airwaves.  No struggle against injustice can survive without access to the airwaves.  A media rights organization for Blacks is frowned on in the tri-state area.

   During the breakfast-buffet meeting of the Freedom Party this past Saturday morning, Sis. Patricia Loftman noted that the FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, had just resigned from this regulatory agency.  Genachowski was on a list of persons that I had prepared for us to mount pressure against “censorship” in the tri-state area and to fight the kangaroo proceeding against Tawana Brawley in Virginia.

            Commercial radio and television stations are forbidden by law from practicing censorship.  The FCC may take corrective action sua sponte or on the complaint of others since the airwaves belong to the public which should enjoy a “right to know”.  Media outlets are simply given licenses to promote the public interest in its public affairs programming. These licenses must be renewed.  The next date for commercial televisions stations in the tri-state to renew licenses is 2014.

            Newspapers and magazines are not subject to government regulation.  American jurisprudence says that this would be a violation of the First Amendment.  Thus, Jet magazine has no obligation to print the truth.  New York Amsterdam News, on the other hand, may simply avoid printing any article or editorial on Tawana Brawley.

            Initially, newspapers and magazines must listen to their white advertisers.  Madison Avenue Initiative is the agent of white advertisers in the Black community.  It is their “snitch”. Any Black person or Black-led and Black-financed organization which seeks to “upset the applecart” is reported to white advertisers.

            Educated, Black consumers may veto the white advertisers and their agent, Madison Avenue Initiative.  An educated Black consumer refuses to finance his or her own oppression and will organize a boycott to refrain from financing it by Blacks.  The Madison Avenue Initiative discourages boycotts.  This was the message in the aftermath of the assassination of Trayvon Martin.  It frowns on the Harlem Boycott in the 1930′s and the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

            Censorship was strictly enforced on plantations.  Enslaved Africans would be tortured or lynched for exercising “free speech”.  These Africans were required to give deference to fallacies since “only the truth shall set you free”.  The plantation became a mythological institution. Fallacies were elevated over facts.  This elevation continues today as a “badge of slavery”.

            The drum was taken away from enslaved Africans and its use was forbidden on plantations.  Since the advent of radio and television, Blacks have been prevented from owning them and the U.S. Supreme Court has said that affirmative action is illegal to be used by Blacks to gain access to the airwaves.

            Blacks in the United States have never established a media rights organization to combat racism in the airwaves.  This is especially true in the tri-state.  Since the decision inOffice of Communications of the United Church of Christ v. Federal Communications Commission, 123 U.S. App. D.C. 328 F.2d 994 (1966), an organized group may participate in the licensing process.

            The Freedom Party and “Friends of Like It Is” have heavy schedules for 2014.  The Freedom Party can gain automatic ballot access in 2014 by defeating “white supremacists” and “Black saboteurs”.  ”Friends of Like It is” can restore public affairs programming for Blacks in the tri-state by successfully opposing the renewal of media licenses in 2014.

            In the meantime, United African Movement is engaged in a struggle to defeat a kangaroo proceeding in Surry, Virginia.  ”D-Day” is July 23, 2013.  Public officials in New York and Virginia have conspired against Tawana Brawley while all Black selected officials and leading Blacks have lost their tongues. 

            The lack of representation in the United States for descendants of enslaved Africans amounts to slavery.  This is a “badge of slavery” since, in slavery, Blacks were also forbidden from enjoying both legal and political representation.  ”The more things change the more they remain the same”.

            Any success in Virginia in July 2013 will be waged “against all odds”.  Blacks in the media will constitute the front line of resistance for white supremacists.  Supporters of Tawana Brawley will be unable to tell their story over the airwaves or in print.  White advertisers and their “flunkies” will not allow Blacks to employ mass communications to liberate themselves.

            This will negatively affect Blacks in their ability to raise funds for the Brawley family as interim relief and to mount a legal defense.  Legal tools will have to be purchased and legal personnel will have to be retained immediately in both New York and Virginia.  This is easier said than done.  Both states favor a kangaroo proceeding on July 23, 2013 on a bogus judgment which was filed criminally in New York.

            The proposal to honor Tawana and Glenda Brawley on May 12, 2013 may have to be delayed until August 17, 2013, twenty-five years after UAM’s formation unless at least fifty persons agree immediately to secure five tickets and to re-sell them.   This is the Nation of Islam plan for its success. 

            Mother’s Day is right around the corner but the most important date is July 23, 2013 for the purpose of Tawana’s pocketbook. UAM can ill-afford for a proposed Mother’s Day tribute in Paterson, NJ to be a flop in the meantime.  Glenda Brawley would be arrested on New York soil if the tribute had been planned for New York.  This is a reason for grand jury disclosure of the minutes.  It will reveal state-sponsored defamation.

            There must be a vigorous defense in Virginia on July 23, 2013.  This will require competent and fearless, legal personnel in addition to the acquisition of legal tools to fashion pre-hearing motions and a vigorous defense.  Otherwise, Tawana will have to pay the rapist, Steven Pagones, and his estate more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars if his death precedes Tawana’s.  Now, she is an “indentured servant”.

            An immediate and emergency discussion of the issues will have to take place this Wednesday , April 17, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. SHARP at Brooklyn Christian Center, 1061 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Franklin and Classon) in Brooklyn.  Take the “C” train to Franklin. This discussion must start at 7:00 p.m.  A health seminar by professionals will follow this discussion.

                       Censorship is a concept. Black people must start thinking conceptually.  According toBlack’s Law Dictionary, a “censor” is a person who “inspects publications, films and the like for objectionable content”.  In a free society, a person has the “right to know”.  The “right to know” results from the right of another person to express his or her views.

            Before the advent of the Slave Theater in 1988 as a public forum, censorship was widely practiced in New York City.  There was only one institution which uniquely and universally invited people from around the world on a weekly basis to speak; namely, the Slave Theater.  United African Movement refused to honor a “white” list.  UAM followed First World in time.

            This universal and unique practice incited the Anti-Defamation League and the Giuliani administration to either require United African Movement to be subject to some form of regulation or to close its doors.  UAM refused to accept either option.  There was already a “Fifth Column” in UAM.  Its operations had hit the ground running in 1990.

            An abridgement of the “right to know” can have a detrimental effect on the mental health of a community.  It can also negatively affect the criminal process and, therefore, it creates a floodgate to the prison-industrial complex in the form of wrongful convictions.  When Blacks in New York City accept the responsibility of running City Hall, there will be a meaningful deterrent to wrongful convictions.  Persons who have been wrongfully convicted will receive meaningful and immediate compensation from the New York City Council.

            The impediment of the “right to know” also caused grand jury abuse in the matter of Tawana Brawley.  New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams used a grand jury proceeding to cause a miscarriage of justice.  This was state-sponsored defamation without due process of law.  Now, the day-to-day operations of this kangaroo proceeding has been under lock and key for nearly twenty-five years.

            If the transcripts of this kangaroo proceeding could be put under a microscope, there would be no need to raise funds to stop the unlawful garnishment of the wages of Tawana Brawley in Virginia.  The transcript would show the lack of a quorum in the grand jury to vote on Tawana Brawley’s credibility and it would identify the author of the grand jury report as Abrams himself and not the grand jury as is required by law.

            Soon after the defamation trial in Dutchess County, I took a trip to Boise, Idaho to talk to a grand juror in the Brawley investigation.  His affidavit indicated that Abrams, and not the grand jury, wrote the grand jury report.  This is a violation of statutory law.  New York has never charged him with perjury.  Truth would be a defense.  Moreover, the transcript will, more than likely, show that a quorum was not present as is required by law.  Many of the grand jurors had grown sick of Abrams.

            Today, no reason exists for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to hold these transcripts hostage.  This was probably the first time in New York history that the selection of grand jurors was done in public.  I had demanded an open investigation.  Since the grand jurors were chosen in “open and plain view” twenty-five years ago, no reason exists for the transcripts to be under lock and key today.

            The American Revolution was fought to secure and guarantee representation. Ineffective representation can be costly.  By Black selected officials and leading Blacks refusing to demand that the governor and the attorney general in New York follow the law, supporters of justice, who are also opposed to “legitimate rape”, must pay the financial freight to stop the illegal garnishment of Tawana Brawley’s wages every two weeks.

            The only evidence that Steven Pagones used to support his defamation action was the bogus, grand jury report in the Brawley investigation.  For other legal reasons, the grand jury report should have been ruled inadmissible.  Justice S. Barrett Hickman admitted it without any legal restrictions.  Among other things, it is naked and fatalistic hearsay. 

            The Court should have dismissed his tort claims.  Secondly, the admissibility of the grand jury report violates the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan to rely solely on hearsay in a defamation action.  This decision must be read by anyone who has the temerity to criticize a public official like Steven Pagones.  It put some brakes on his claims in Pagones v. Maddox et. al.