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Drawing on information from the book The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcom X by Karl Evanzz (Thunder’s Mouth Press, hardcover, copyright 1992), the program focuses on the behavior and rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan with regard to both the assassination of Malcom X and the murder of members of a group of dissident muslims. Having publicly called for Malcom’s elimination, Farrakhan’s movements and actions in the time period surrounding Malcom X’s assassination raise significant questions concerning his proclamation of innocence in connection with the killing. Equally disturbing is the description of the deliberate and brutal execution of members of a breakaway Muslim group. Many of the victims were children. Farrakhan (then known as Louis X) utilized the killing as a veiled warning of what would happen to those who opposed the agenda of then NOI head Elijah Muhammad.
Program Highlights Include: Texas right-wing billionaire H.L Hunt’s funding of the Nation of Islam (one of the points of criticism of the NOI by Malcolm X that led to the latter’s split with Elijah Mohammad; Elijah Mohammad’s belief that Farrakhan would be a good choice to take over Malcolm X’s role within the organization; Louis Farrakhan’s networking with white supremacists; Louis Farrakhan’s position as an iconic figure for the fascist Third Position. (Recorded in the fall of 1995.)
[...] FTR #21 Louis Farrakhan and the Politics of Murder [...]
Dave two questions what do you think of Karl Evanzz’s new documentary They killed Malcolm X the Black Zapruder film? His chief researcher film maker Omar Shabazz also made his own documentaries about Malcolm’s murder/assassination and led demonstrations at the job site of the shotgun assassin. His film is called The Laughing Lieutenant. I’m asking because many of us are on limited budgets and would like your opinion before ordering.
@Matthew jackson–
I haven’t seen the film, so I can’t comment intelligently.
Evanzz’s book “The Judas Factor,” is excellent.
One of the security men from the mosque formerly headed by Malcom X was convicted in the murder and then given a job at the same mosque by Farrakhan after his release from prison.
Good to hear from you.
Best,
Dave
Looks like the NYC shooter suspect, as I suspected, was NOI or NOI-adjacent. His social media includes endorsements of Farrakhan, pictures of Elijah Muhammad, and incitements to violence. This is from conservative Andy Ngo, so any caveats apply. However, he got it right with the Jeren Miles/Facebook story.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1514029565622075405
Here is one of his youtube channels that for some reason isn’t deleted. His other one was just deleted in the last 10 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC25wqoWdSUBACwu-6AXVsvA/videos
I saved an image from a deleted video on his other channel of him ranting in front of a picture of Jim Jones. I will upload to imgur and post later (imgur is down right now).
I also have that video in my cache that I will watch when I can use volume. I will also try to capture it for posterity. May not be anything worthwhile, but it pisses me off when Youtube does this before researchers have more time.
Also, I find it odd that he goes by the name “Prophet of Doom 88” on Youtube. He is old and wasn’t born in 1988, so I wonder about the 88? As weird as it sounds, there are sectors of the political world where some Blacks view Hitler positively, and the NOI is certainly a breeding ground for those kinds of views.
Farrakhan himself has literally called Hitler a “great man” many times over the years, and I have found that the evidence that Fard Muhammad, NOI founder, was an Axis collaborator to be fairly strong. Who knows, maybe “Prophet of Doom 1–87” were taken, but that 88 really jumps out at me.
Also, the Feds cleared him previously during previous investigations.
https://www.newsweek.com/brooklyn-subway-attack-being-investigated-terrorism-official-says-1697298
It’s hard to get one’s hopes up when it comes to the reopening of government-sponsored political assassinations. And yet, it’s also hard not to be at least a little hopeful following the announcement of a $100 million wrongful death suit announced this week by attorney Benjamin Crump on behalf of the family of Malcolm X. Crump served “formal notice” to the City and State of New York, the FBI, and the CIA, and other federal agencies in a suit that effectively accuses the US government of staging the assassination of covering it up. Crump specifically named the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover as being culpable in the plot.
So what is it about this lawsuit that should inspire hope? Well, it’s the fact that the lawsuit appears to be the latest move in a series of revelations that followed the November 2020 release of a deathbed confession by former police officer Raymond Wood. As Wood describes it, he was ordered to effectively entrap key members of Malcolm X’s security detail right before the assassination to ensure that Malcolm X lacked the proper security during the assassination, which was the case.
Now, only one of the three figures convicted of shooting Malcolm X has ever admitted guilt. The other two, Muhammad Abdul Aziz and Khalil Islam, maintained their innocence. Wood’s letter prompted NY District Attorney Cy Vance to reopen their cases and in November 2021 Both Aziz and Islam were exonerated. That’s part of the context of this new lawsuit: it has legal momentum behind it. The kind of legal momentum that often requires something like a deathbed confession.
As we’re also going to see in the following TPM piece, the family of Malcolm X has, in the past, expressed suspicions that don’t just include the US government. It turns out TPM reporter Hunter Walker got to conduct phone interviews of both Gamilah Shabazz and Quibilah Shabazz back in 2010 as part of his Master’s Thesis project on the assassination. As Walker recounts, Gamillah described it as ‘an International Conspiracy.’ That another part of the context of this lawsuit: it’s already clear that there’s A LOT under this rock. And plenty of reason to be open to the possibility that there’s even more under this rock than many suspect:
“Malcolm X was shot and killed on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Multiple gunmen were involved in the assassination. Three men were arrested and convicted of taking part. Two of them have since been exonerated. ”
Two out of three of the convicted gunmen were exonerated two years ago. It’s a long overdue step in the right direction, but also obviously just the start. If Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson were innocent, who was responsible? That’s the question at the heart of the new $100 million lawsuit by Malcolm X’s family. A lawsuit pointing strongly in the direction of a government coverup. A government coverup for a government-sponsored murder:
And note the scope of the family’s suspicions, as expressed by Gamilah Shabazz to Hunter Walker back in 2010 during a phone interview for Walker’s Master’s Thesis: “You know, it was an international conspiracy”:
How much of the overall conspiracy will this new lawsuit reveal? History suggests not much. It’s an apparent government coverup, after all. These things aren’t just casually exposed.
But then again, when you have something like the November 2020 deathbed confession letter from former police officer Raymond Wood, doors that have remained closed just might start opening. At least that’s the hope with the opening of this lawsuit. Hope partially rooted in the fact that Wood’s deathbed confession was powerful enough to result in the exoneration of Aziz and Islam roughly a year later. Few things reopen cold cases more effectively then a damning undeniable death bed confession:
“The family members and Crump said the allegations were in a deathbed letter by a former police officer, Raymond Wood.”
The deathbed letter strikes again! This time, it was a January 25, 2011 from former officer Raymond Wood, who is pretty explicit in his admissions. He was given orders to ensure Malcolm X didn’t have proper security:
Note how Wood claims that, at the time, he wasn’t aware that Malcolm X was the ultimate target. It points towards the compartmentalized nature of these kinds of operations, with local police being involved but not necessarily knowing the scope of the plot at work. That’s worth keeping mind in relation to Gamilah Shabazz’s speculations about the international nature of the conspiracy.
And as the November 2021 exoneration of Aziz and Islam make clear, Raymond Wood’s deathbed confession has legs. A confession that hinted at a much larger and more organized government plot to assassinate a civil rights leader. A plot large enough and organized enough to convict two innocent men and keep it all under wraps for decades:
“District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said most of the physical evidence and witnesses couldn’t be re-investigated because of the time that’s passed and the investigation found that several witnesses told the FBI they had not seen Aziz or Islam with the murder weapon. The investigation also determined that prosecutors withheld evidence that could have cleared Aziz and Islam at trial.”
As we can see with the exoneration of Aziz and Islam, Raymond Wood’s deathbed letter wasn’t lacking in substance. It directly lead to two exonerations in less than a year. In other words, this is an investigation with momentum:
Is there enough momentum at this point to result in a major breakthrough? Time will tell. But it’s worth keeping in mind one of the other aspects of this story and and the other still unresolved political assassinations of the 1960s: It’s certainly better later than never for the truth to be revealed. But when it takes 60 years or more to get to that truth, better later than never can still be too late for real justice. Better late than never isn’t good enough. In other words, yes, it will be nice for this travesty of justice to finally get revealed. But taking this long to reveal a travesty is still a travesty of its own. We’ll see how long this particular travesty of justice continues to play out. Assuming it ever ends. One has to hope. Because when it comes to US political assassinations, blind hope for justice as good as it gets. Fingers crossed.
It’s undoubtedly going to be a sh*t show. But what flavor of sh*t show? A hyper-organized fascist sh*t show that runs as a well-oiled machine, much like the George W. Bush administration? Or round 2 of the chaotic sh*t show we all witnessed during Donald Trump’s first term in office, driven more by Donald Trump’s mercurial mood swings and fascist impulses? Time will well, but it’s pretty remarkable how intense the political cross-winds are when it comes to this question.
On the one hand, with Trump no longer facing any need to get reelected and already empowered with a Supreme Court that has preemptively granted him presidential immunity for almost anything he does, the opportunities for chaos are overwhelming. At the same time, we’ve long had warnings that this isn’t simply going to be a rerun of his first time. While Trump may not be more organized, the fascist forces that operate the Republican Party and the conservative mega-donor agenda behind it — like the Koch Network and the Council for National Policy — are MUCH more organized than they were eight years ago. And arguably more organized for a fascist coup than they have been for decades. Far more organized than they were on January 6th. And much better positioned. That’s what the whole Schedule F/Project 2025 scheme is all about, after all. Detailed plans for a fascist takeover. Plans that include both ‘shock and awe’-style tactics like Russ Vought’s pledge to inflict “trauma” on the federal workforce. It’s the kind of situation that suggests organized chaos is what we really should expect. There’s going to be madness. Some of it chaotic madness resulting from Trump’s genuine psychological disturbances. But a lot of it is going to be well coordinated pre-planned madness too. Full spectrum madness is on the way. Intentional and unintentional.
And that panoply of madness brings us to the following pair of articles that raise a fascinating question about the potential madness consequences: if Trump genuinely wants to ‘destroy the Deep State’, he would obviously release the thousands of remaining documents on the JFK assassination that were supposed to be released by 2017 when Trump was first in office. It’s hard to imagine anything that would be more devastating to the real ‘Deep State’. Of course, it’s also impossible to imagine that happening given the reality that the real ‘Deep State’ is fundamentally far right and closely aligned with the billionaire mega-donor fascist agenda that will be guiding the second Trump administration. It’s not possible.
And yet, as the following article reminds us, setting up a task force to release all of those remaining JFK files, as a “tribute in honor of Bobby”, is precisely what Trump pledged to do back in August after RFK Jr. endorsed his campaign. Well, RFK Jr. is now slated to be Trump’s first head of Health and Human Services. He clearly has Trump’s ear. Trump promised to do it. What excuse will Trump come up with? As we’ll see, even Gerald Posner is agreeing that Trump has boxed himself in and will be effectively forced to release the files.
Now, keep in mind that Trump was apparently convinced by his then-CIA director to NOT release all the files back in 2017 even though federal law mandated the release of all the JFK files by that year. Then the Biden administration found COVID as an excuse to delay the release. What’s the new excuse going to be now that RFK, Jr. is a cabinet member? And Trump’s whole stated mission is revenge against the ‘Deep State’. Again, there would be nothing more devastating to the real ‘Deep State’ than a full release of those files along with the files on a host or other Deep State-related mega-scandals. Like the the other major political assassinations of the 1960s. RFK Jr. has more than just his uncle murdered, after all. And he did call for a reinvestigation into his own father’s assassination back in 2018. There’s going to be nothing stopping Trump from ordering his Attorney General, presumably Attorney General Matt Gaetz, to reopen that investigation after Trump is done ‘draining the Swamp’ throughout the Department of Justice. Heck, why not reopen the investigation into MLK’s assassination? There would be no greater sign of truly vanquishing his alleged ‘Deep State’ enemies.
Well, there is one more thing Trump could do: reopen the investigation into the assassination of Malcolm X too. Not only is there going to be nothing standing in his way, but the $100 million lawsuit Malcolm X’s daughters were preparing against the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department over the agencies both being aware of the plot plot to kill their father and participating in the plot. As the suit puts it, there was a “corrupt, unlawful, and unconstitutional” relationship between law enforcement and “ruthless killers that went unchecked for many years and was actively concealed, condoned, protected, and facilitated by government agents,” leading up to the assassination. Trump claims to hate the Deep State elements in the FBI and CIA, right? And he’s probably not thrilled with the New York justice system at this point. Isn’t intervening on the family’s behalf in this case like the ultimate power play for Trump once he assumes office? Top Tier trolling too. But will he do it?
The next four years could easily be the end of what’s left of the US’s democratic institutions. The culmination of a decades-long far right agenda that is very much aligned with the real Deep State’s goals. But that doesn’t mean Trump’s personal madness won’t result in some very significant Deep State embarrassments. Madness has been unleashed. Organized and chaotic madness. A Pandora’s box of fascism has been opened. But that doesn’t mean the madness that erupts has to result in exclusively awful consequences. It will be mostly awful, for sure. But if Trump really is serious about seeking vengeance on his perceived Deep State enemies it really does behoove him to take some long-overdue steps the Deep State has been resisting for decades:
“Mr Kennedy, who claims the CIA were directly involved in the assassination of his uncle, last year launched a petition calling for the Biden administration to release the last of the government’s records to “help to restore” trust in the government.”
RFK Jr has made clear he wants to see his uncle’s assassination files released. All of them. Something that, technically, should have already happened during the first Trump administration, until then-CIA head Mike Pompeo convinced Trump to reverse his pledge. And then COVID managed to government President Biden an excuse to push it back again. And here we are, with Trump poised to stack the federal government with loyalist fascists. The kind of fascists who may not have been directly involved with the fascist networks behind in JFK assassination but would no doubt share many of their ideological convictions:
That’s all part of what makes the current situation surrounding the release of these final documents so intriguing: if Donald Trump is really serious about waging war on the real ‘Deep State’, releasing these files would be one of the most devastating blow he could possibly deliver. A move that no other president has been brave enough to do. It would be genuinely historic. But it would also implicate his own ideological allies in one of the great political scandals in history. Donald Trump claims to hate the CIA but loves fascists. What’s his move in this situation? As Gerald Posner — one of the leading Warren Commission apologists — sees it, Trump locked himself in with his pledge back in August to set up a task force to release the files. Is that true? Keep in mind that ‘setting up a task force’ is very different from ordering the release of these files. It hints at what we should probably expect: a task force that will spend years reviewing the remaining documents and only releases some of them, heavily redacted, before their time is up:
But let’s not forget that the JFK assassination files are just one of the myriad of state secrets that many would argue shouldn’t be a secret. Like whatever the US government knows about the real origins of COVID. Now, as we’ve seen , the odds of that origin being honestly revealed is exceedingly low given the probability that it emerged from a US lab and Trump’s determination to pin it all on China. Don’t forget, if it emerged from a US lab, that happened was on his watch, after Trump restarted the US’s gain-of-function research that was frozen under Barack Obama. There’s basically zero chance that the US government’s full knowledge about the origins of COVID would ever be released under a second Trump term. But that doesn’t mean something that tells the narrative Trump wants told won’t be released:
And, of course, when it comes to state secrets in need of public disclosure, let’s not forget the assassination of someone even closer to RJK Jr: his dad. RFK Jr. has indeed expressed skepticism over the guilt of Sirhan Sirhan and called for a new investigation into his fathers killing. He knows the official story is garbage. So are we going to see a push for a reopening of that investigation? We’ll see, but as the following article reminds us, the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers weren’t the only high-profile US political assassinations of the 1960s. Beyond the many open questions about the coverup surrounding MLK’s assassination, there’s also the assassination of Malcolm X that evidence suggests was a state-sponsored hit. Evidence that now includes the fact that two of three accused assassins were exonerated in 2021. The kind of evidence that screams for a investigation into how exactly all of those wrongful convictions happened in the first place. And that’s exactly what the daughters of Malcolm X are now suing for, with the CIA, FBI, and NYPD defendants in a new $100 million lawsuit claiming the government agencies were not just aware of the assassination plot but involved with it:
“Three men were convicted of crimes in the death but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators took a fresh look at the case and concluded some evidence was shaky and authorities had held back some information.”
The original case against Malcolm X’s alleged assassins already formally collapsed back in 2021 which the exoneration of two of the three accused assassins. But their exoneration didn’t explain how they ended up wrongfully accused and convicted in the first place. That explanation and official admission is what the daughters are Malcolm X are demanding in this lawsuit, led by famed civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump:
The lawsuit couldn’t happen earlier because the defendants were withholding information. That sure sounds like the kind of case that sure could use a president interesting in waging war on the ‘Deep State’. What else are they withholding from the family? Trump could answer that question more easily than anyone else. Will he? And if not, what does that tell us about his ‘war’ against the ‘Deep State’?
In addition to creating a giant mess, mad sh*t shows tend to raise difficult questions. Releasing the files and reopening the investigations is one way the US’s new Mad King can answer at least some of them.
@Pterrafractyl–
Let’s not forget the political manifestations of Sebastian Gorka:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/top-trump-aide-wears-medal-of-hungarian-nazi-collaborators/
Best,
Dave