11/27/2014=18
The 2014 ‘Black Paper’
Aliens, greys,
Black revolution, furgeson verdict
; the 1985 Move bombing A
Tavistock, Quaker 'social experiment' etc.,
All actions have been studied.in my work is solution. But currently, we must allow this drama to play itself out without interference. Our work is survival, in order to survive we must become familiar with our environ. notice men like Malcolm X did not succeed in their revolutionary schemes, if anyone could have pulled it off our intelligence tell us that Malcolm X was the man and indeed could have been a success, then why did he fail: our intelligence show us that it was not the will of the true controllers of this drama which only appeared to be what is perceived as the united states government.it came to us in a song “we free our people with music” Bob Marley said this and we have found it to be true.no one has rightly educated us on this drama until now, the advent of internet was that we find the correct pieces placing them together right in order, as to give right information that you get correct picture, so the past has been decoded, all is left now is to perform the sacred rite. This is what we pray for now, this is our desire, this is true prayer, and realization is prayer answered. Study this blog; you will see the light, love one another, help one another, listen to one another, let’s move on into future those of us who are ready, in the aftermath of current events, I shed tears of loneliness, you who are with your families give thanks and keep them near to you, let us together walk into the new world having the faith of all who have been robed in light separated by the long night, their lives were not in-vain…
All actions have been studied.in my work is solution. But currently, we must allow this drama to play itself out without interference. Our work is survival, in order to survive we must become familiar with our environ. notice men like Malcolm X did not succeed in their revolutionary schemes, if anyone could have pulled it off our intelligence tell us that Malcolm X was the man and indeed could have been a success, then why did he fail: our intelligence show us that it was not the will of the true controllers of this drama which only appeared to be what is perceived as the united states government.it came to us in a song “we free our people with music” Bob Marley said this and we have found it to be true.no one has rightly educated us on this drama until now, the advent of internet was that we find the correct pieces placing them together right in order, as to give right information that you get correct picture, so the past has been decoded, all is left now is to perform the sacred rite. This is what we pray for now, this is our desire, this is true prayer, and realization is prayer answered. Study this blog; you will see the light, love one another, help one another, listen to one another, let’s move on into future those of us who are ready, in the aftermath of current events, I shed tears of loneliness, you who are with your families give thanks and keep them near to you, let us together walk into the new world having the faith of all who have been robed in light separated by the long night, their lives were not in-vain…
This paper is to clear up most things going cling in the
brain of the many out there making noise today…
Amidst all the confusion, heartache let down embarrassment,
of the Ferguson fiasco I find today apropos being thanksgiving. A great day to
reflect of what some see as black revolution. There’s never going to be that
magical synchronicity moment in time where every black person wake up from
their beauty sleep at once and move to that mystical spot, just like it’s been
a few thousand years and Jesus is yet to return, the 6 is gone beyond the nine
the day of the million man march is over and outdated, as always in my work I have
presented a solution so far overlooked with an overview of the problem, I’m not
reacting to events which are beyond my control, I have been our think tank. Data
and intelligence has been gathered.
We now know the past, we know the system has let us down,
some of us have moved beyond the illusion connected to the marching, and many more
are on their way, we know if one move the other one will.
I challenge you if many of you stop campaigning for the
office of messiah and direct your energies in right direction, that’s the
wisdom we need because you don’t have the answer, you have not paid the price
to know…
The problem with truth for the seeker of today is the poison
venom of the fundamentalist mindset, who render all things arcane evil.it is
like listening to the Sunday morning televangelist, who hands you truth on a
golden platter of falsehood, he preach a 85 percent truth and present some facts,
but his punch line is “Jesus is lord”
which makes the whole sermon a lie. Some people say 911 was an inside job, but
the number 11also showed up in another bombing 16 years before 9/11/2001. And
that was the move bombing at Philadelphia pa. Where out of the 13 people in the
house at 6221 Osage avenue only two survived and 11 died, so we see the number
2 or 11 twice here. Note that 6221 if we add 6+2+2+1=11 we get number 11 plain
as day.
The origin of the idea of the Grey is commonly associated
with the Betty and Barney Hill abduction claim which took place 1961, although
skeptics see precursors in science fiction and earlier paranormal claims. The
Grey aliens are also famous from the Roswell UFO incident from 1947. Started
off as little green men. From mars.
History
In the 1893 article "Man of the Year Million", H.
G. Wells envisaged humanity transformed into a race of grey-skinned beings,
stunted and with big heads. (Compare the Morlocks of Wells's 1895 novel, The
Time Machine, who appear greyish-white and large-eyed, but hairy.) In his 1901
book The First Men in the Moon, Wells described Selenites (natives of the Moon)
as having grey skin, big heads, large black eyes and wasp-stings. He also
briefly describes aliens resembling Greys brought down to Earth as food by the
Martian antagonists of his 1898 novel The War of the Worlds.
In 1933, the Swedish novelist Gustav Sandgren, using the pen
name Gabriel Linde, published a science-fiction novel called Den okända faran
(The Unknown Danger), in which he describes a race of extraterrestrials:
"[...] the creatures did not resemble any race of humans. They were short,
shorter than the average Japanese, and their heads were big and bald, with
strong, square foreheads, and very small noses and mouths, and weak chins. What
was most extraordinary about them were the eyes – large, dark, gleaming, with a
sharp gaze. They wore clothes made of soft grey fabric, and their limbs seemed
to be similar to those of humans." The novel, aimed at young readers,
included illustrations of the imagined aliens.
Star map of Zeta Reticuli, according to Betty Hill and
Marjorie Fish
In 1965 newspaper reports of the Betty and Barney Hill
abduction brought Greys to international attention. The alleged abductees,
Betty and Barney Hill, claimed that in 1961 alien beings had abducted them and
taken them to a saucer-shaped spaceship. (The term "Greys" did not
come into usage until many years later, but the alleged beings described by
Betty and Barney Hill generally fit many of the common traits of the so-called
Greys.) From a star chart reported by Betty Hill, Marjorie Fish, an
elementary-school teacher and amateur astronomer, located the home planet of
these beings in the Zeta Reticuli star-system (allegedly the fourth planet of
one of the stars of the Zeta Reticuli binary system). The Greys therefore
sometimes became known as Zeta Reticulans.
The Greys also appear as the (benevolent) aliens in the 1977
movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind
During the early 1980s popular culture linked Greys to the
alleged crash-landing of a flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. A
number of publications contained statements from individuals who claimed to
have seen the U.S. military handling a number of unusually proportioned, bald,
child-sized beings. These individuals claimed that the beings had over-sized
heads and slanted eyes—but scant other facial features—during and after the
incident.
In 1987, popular novelist Whitley Strieber published the
book Communion, in which he describes a number of close encounters he purports
to have experienced with Greys and other extraterrestrial beings. The book
became a New York Times bestseller, and New Line Cinema released a film
adaption starring Christopher Walken in 1989.
In 1988 Christophe Dechavanne interviewed the French
science-fiction writer and ufologist Jimmy Guieu during a weekly French TV Live
Show which, at the time, was entitled “Ciel, mon mardi !”. It was broadcast by
TF1, one of the three national TV channels in France. Besides mentioning
Majestic 12, Jimmy Guieu described the existence of what he called “the little
greys” which, later on, became better known in French under the following name:
les petits gris. Petit-gris is (perhaps ironically) the name given to one of
the more common species of snail served as the appetiser Escargot in many
French restaurants. 1992–present day
A CGI generated rendering of two Greys.
During the 1990s, popular culture began to increasingly link
Greys to a number of military-industrial complex/New World Order conspiracy
theories. A well-known example of this was the FOX television series The
X-Files, which first aired in 1993. It combined the quest to find proof of the
existence of Grey-like extraterrestrials with a number of UFO conspiracy theory
subplots, in order to form its primary story arc. Other notable examples
include Dark Skies, first broadcast in 1996, which expanded upon the MJ-12
conspiracy, and Stargate SG-1, which in the 1998 episode "Thor's Chariot"
introduced the Asgard, a race of benevolent Greys who visited ancient Earth
masquerading as characters from Norse Mythology. Greys, referred to as
'visitors', appear in two episodes of South Park, and Roger Smith, a regular
character on the animated comedy series American Dad! Since its debut in 2005,
is a Grey-like alien. On Babylon 5, the Greys were referred to as the Vree, and
depicted as being allies and trade partners of 23rd Century Earth.
In 1995 filmmaker Ray Santilli claimed to have obtained 22
reels of 16 mm film that depicted the autopsy of a "real" Grey
supposedly recovered from the site of the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico.
However, in 2006 Santilli announced that the film was not original, but was
instead a "reconstruction" created after the original film was found
to have degraded. He maintained that a real Grey had been found and autopsied
on camera in 1947, and that the footage released to the public contained a
percentage of that original footage, but he was unable to say what that
percentage was. This incident became the subject of the British comedy film
Alien Autopsy, starring television presenters Ant & Dec.
The 2011 film Paul tells the story of a Grey who attributes
the Greys' frequent presence in science-fiction pop-culture to the US
government deliberately inserting the stereotypical Grey alien image into
mainstream media so that if humanity came into contact with Paul's species,
there would be no immediate shock as to their appearance.
The 2012 video game XCOM: Enemy Unknown uses grey aliens
(called Sectoids) as a main enemy type.
We as Rastafari are not saying we are superior to another;
we are not racist by definition. Are there men who are superior to others? Our
answer is yes. In many ways: intellect, health, fiscal means and social status
just to name a few. But each one of us does what we do and know what we know.
and together we all make up the body Christ, and the supreme beings among us
are naturally our leaders and such, respect is do where respect is do
regardless of anything else. And we all know right from wrong (opposites
attract) so same sex marriage is out…
Before I even get
into this little talk, I will first say I have met men of European descent who are Rastafari at heart and has done more
for the movement than the whole of the movement in the past 84 years, I know a
few who have went beyond the movement. I personally know one Jewish Brother who
is more Rastafari than any Blackman I have ever met who says he’s a Rastafari,
I will also add that I believe that through Rastafari it is easy for any man to
find his true self and return to his own culture, I feel it is a must for men
to embrace their own culture by race or nationality, concerning Rastafari and
Race: Rastafari is a work, that came to us that we fulfill. Being a bright
light naturally the moth were attracted to it, for its man’s nature to seek
truth, so those from each race who came to Rastafari with clean hands and pure
heart, are known as the peace makers. Blessed are the peace makers, it is for
all human to be peacemakers. Yet the facts remain hidden within the social
drama of the USA, which is synchronized with Islamic and Christian scripture,
this is the drama of the black slave and his European masters upon orb-ship
earth, (yes there were Irish and Jewish slaves, and first owner was black) same
drama as biblical children of Israel and biblical Egypt, same old story
repeating, now Sodom and Gomorrah, Noah and flood, Moses, etc. we are
fulfilling currently, take it or leave it. There is nothing else going on save
this. Over all Bob Marley tried to explain in so many words that Rastafari was
a new Race of People. But this was far above many heads so to speak. There are
many tribes among the Black people and their culture are many. There are many
shades of black, but our experience here in wilderness of North America makes
us currently one people one tribe with one aim and destiny to be free on all
levels. The Rastafari are a new people, created in the year 1930 by the
subtitle majesty of His imperial majesty Emperor Halie Selassie The 1st.we are
his true subjects.
We are a new creation reincarnated souls from ancient times,
we are the survivors among our people, from chittlins and hog jaws to
vegetarianism we broke the god-spell, in the hidden rites and rituals of the
Nation of Islam these fact are made clear to ones knowing the codes having the
master key. We are messiah: ones who woke up from among the sleeping many, we
are ones Government tried to kill all of us off, we are the survivors, yes the
black survivors, for the message is in the music if rightly understood….
Upon the 311th year of chattel Black slavery in America came
two redemption movements in the wilderness of North America. These two
movements were expressly designed for the upliftment and redemption of the
Black slaves of The Americas. Please note that the founders or main players of
these two movements were of mixed race. Also note the reason in this wisdom, a
pure black at the time 1930 in America would be rejected and killed right away,
those two movements were Nation of Islam under farad –and Elijah Muhammad and
The Rastafari movement under Halie Selassie and Bob Marley. Many argue that Bob
Marley Father was a British or white man, and they argue that this is reason
for ‘whites’ to be Rasta’s, the black Rastafari argument is simple, and that
Rastafari movement at its essence is a black liberation movement, please study
the foundation teaching of the howellites and the nyabingi orders. The
teachings of the Rt. Hon. Leonard Percival Howell are the foundation teachings
of Rastafari movement. Who can deny that The Teachings of Bob Marley were
redemption teachings? Who does not recall the song “Black man redemption”?
The
Rastafari movement is the current; i.e. the latest spiritual world religion ,it is the final message of
time, it is a synopsis of all other movements before it, it’s a very esoteric
movement, and much of its information is well hidden from none black believers,
this is due to its redemption technologies, in other words all the cards ae not
on the table, Rastafari movement was a progressive movement, which did not come
in its final form, due to the fact of its seemly none structure or
organization, therefore many thought they could slip in and change its course.
This was due mainly to its universal appeal, to freedom loving people of all
races. We know that the blood of the founders is mixed for occult reasons.
Many do not realize the importance of the movement, Bob
Marley was taken out, in 1981 that the
music discord of manufactured rap and hip hop would fill the minds and souls of
the future prospects of the Rastafari movement, if Marley would have lived the
world would be hypnotized by Rastafari movement, world or America would not be
as we know it today. Still some of you do not get it, like for instance, it is
nature’s law that “likes repeal, and opposites attract “so where same sex
marriage is justified, 2+2=4 and cannot be refuted, so there is no argument as
to the original purpose of Rastafari movement. And as the prophet has said
already “time will tell”
And concerning the speech of Halie Selassie ON WAR, HE WAS
Addressing THE OPPRESSIVE POWERS SUCh AS USA WHO HELD BLACK PEOPLE IN INHUMAN
BONDAGE, HE WAS STATING THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARe NOT BORN RACIST, HE WAS NOT
advocating race mixing, HE WAS Addressing THE So-called RULERS THE MAKERS OF
WAR pleading the cause of the oppressed blacks in America.
So can a white man be a Rasta, first we must know at its
essence the meaning of a Rastafari is an enlighten being someone who became the
Christ or woke up like Buddha,
1985 Move Bombing revisited in light of the
ferguson verdict
I’m writing this part
to show you or bring some awareness a higher power in the events of human affairs
upon orb-ship earth, knowing this we might not react to events as we do.,we
know media play a great part in this so-called revolution, now it’s time we
rely on independent media, social media i.e., we are all one Underground News
Network if correctly overstood.
What does Wilson Goode
the first mayor of Philadelphia and Barak Obama
the first black president have
in common (1985-2017=32)
65 6+5=11 65 row houses were lost in the bombing ,11 people
died in the main house 6221 6+2+2+1=11 osage ave, two survived sop 13 in all
were in the house.
John Africa (July 26, 1931 – May 13, 1985), born Vincent
Leaphart, was a founder of MOVE, a Philadelphia-based black liberation group
prominent in the United States in the early 1970s. He died while involved in an
armed standoff with the Philadelphia Police Department. Let us notice John Africas
birth day the vibration under which he was born:
7/26/1931(7+2+6+1+9+3+1=29(2+9=11) 11 people died in that house 6221 Osage Ave.
John Africa Died May 13, 1985 (aged 53) notice the year 1985(1+9+8+5=23) 23 is the
resonant number of Sirius the Egyptian dog star. Note that (5+1+3+1+9+8+5=32)
that’s 23 reversed, which points to 32 years after the bombing to the year
2017… notice his age 53 which correspond with sura 53 Holy Quran, The star,with
verse 49 saying: “And he Allah is lord of Sirius”
So here we see clearly the metaphysical factor of this
event,by the way just like John The Baptist of Bible John Africa was found in
the house minus his head, yes: his head was missing….
Africa later met Donald Glassey, a social worker from the
University of Pennsylvania, with whom he began to collaborate. Glassey's notes
would eventually become a document called The Guideline.
(enter another factor of move)
Glassey, after being found in possession of weapons, was
later arrested; he implicated Africa and other MOVE members in various crimes.
On July 23, 1981 in the Philadelphia federal court, Africa and his co-defendant
Alfonso Africa (representing themselves) were tried and acquitted on weapons
and conspiracy charges by a jury that deliberated for almost six days. Law
enforcement officials obtained indictments on the implicated members of MOVE
and, on May 13, 1985, attempted to arrest them, which led to an armed standoff
with MOVE and a subsequent massacre of the black activists by the Philadelphia
Police Department. During the raid, Africa was killed along with six other
adults and four children when the Philadelphia Police Department head of bomb
disposal, on board a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, dropped a satchel
containing a gel-based explosive on a fortified bunker occupied by members of
MOVE. The resulting explosion started a fire that resulted in the destruction
of 65 homes in the neighborhood. The order was given by city officials to
"let the fire burn." The explosion, fire, and shootout killed all but
two members of MOVE who were present, leaving Ramona and Birdie Africa severely
burned. Birdie was released while Ramona went on to serve her maximum sentence
of 7 years in prison. MOVE was
founded in 1972 as the Christian Movement for Life. Its founder John
Africa, a charismatic leader had, though functionally illiterate, dictated a
document called The Guideline to Donald Glassey, a social worker from the
University of Pennsylvania. Africa and his followers (most, but not all to them
African-American), wore their hair in dreadlocks. They advocated a radical form
of green politics and a return to hunter-gatherer society while stating their
opposition to science, medicine and technology.[citation needed] As John Africa
himself had done, his devotees also changed their surnames to show reverence to
Africa, which they regarded as their mother continent.
(note that the move family lives in a home owned by Donald
Glassey the social worker who trained
John Africa one lephart so we can
clearly now that this is the makeings of
a social experiment)
The MOVE members lived in a commune in a house owned by
Glassey in the Powelton Village section of West Philadelphia. MOVE members
staged bullhorn-amplified, profanity-laced demonstrations against institutions
which they opposed morally, such as zoos (MOVE had strong views on animal
rights), and speakers whose views they opposed. MOVE made compost piles of
garbage and human waste in their yards which attracted rats and cockroaches;
they considered it morally wrong to kill the vermin with pest control. MOVE
attracted much hostility from their neighbors[citation needed], the majority of
whom were African-Americans. The actions by MOVE brought close scrutiny from
the Philadelphia police
The following is the first information we presented from the
move Bombing in year 1985
From this mretaphysical
information we knew the Bombing to be more than what it appeared to be.
I was able to interview Ramona Africa many times during her
seven years in Munsey prison, but she never shared my views on the move event
as I relate it to you here…
The Parable of move
Islam -
(Peace)
s u r a 1 4 a l s o
e l u d e s t o s u r a
1 1 4 which is last
chapter (sura)
o f H o l y Q u r a n called
the men for in these men are
another sign of move etc.,
i t w a s M a y
1 3 t h e h o u s e
a t 6 2 2 1 Osage Avenue was bombed
first allow u s
t o s h o w y o u
this ; T h e M a y a N u m b e r
S y s t e m a n d
C a l e n d a r
is b a s e d o n
this n u m b e r 1 3
.N o t e t h a t this
w o r d M A Y A
Has t h e root
w o r d M A Y t h e s e
M E N i.e. , M A Y A N
( O l m e c = Anunakki ) see life as a dynamic field
of radiance like
a s t a r b u r s t
firework o n F o u r t h
o f J u l y . .
. {Jose A r g u e l l
e s .Maya factor}
T h e i d e a i s
t h a t e a c h o f
t h e 1 3
n u m b e r s a r
e radial, e x p r e s s i n g
q u a l i t i e s s
i m u l t a n e o u s l y i n a l l
d i r e c t i o n s ,
e a c h c o n t a i n e d i n
a n d
penetrating all other numbers . . . the galactic core from which all radiates
from and returns to
is named Hunabku by
the maya this circuit itself “we
reveal or describe is called by
the Maya zuvuya.The current by which everything
issues from and returns; simultaneously
forwards and ackwards to the source
(Jose A r g u e l l e
s ).
E x a m p l e :
1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12
13
13 12 11 10
9 8 7 6 5
4 3 2 1
14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14 14
( 1 3 x 1 4 = 1 8 2 / 1 + 8 + 2 = (1 1) people killed @ 6 2
2 1 o s a g e a v e ) 6+2+2+1=(11)
The paired sums reveal the number 14 which chapter 14 holy
Quran is Abraham
The soul or breath of prophecy hindu scriptures we find
Brahm
The word maya in hindu scripture means illusion: therefore Olmec Maya were masters
of this grand
Illusion in fact Anunakki of Sumerian text;
Milky-way the galactic core.
Note: 2 0 1 2 being
2 7 y e a r s f r o m
1 9 8 5
Both years are 5 vibrations. Year 27 is sura 27
Holy Quran The Naml
A small ant like tribe. Or
word meaning ant, or wise . as babies born ant would be
placed in hand,they would be wise as men, so naml means a wise man.
Like Solomon who
marched to the vally of Naml
or ant, lead by the birds.
V e r s e 1 6 o f
c h a p t e r 2 7 s a y s
A n d S o l o m o n w a s
David’s heir, and he
said: o men, we have been taught the speech of birds,
( * 1 8 4 4 * ) a n d
w e h a v e been
g r a n t e d o f all
things .
S u r e l y
this is
m a n if e s t g r a
c e , so this
indicate w h a t the
w o r d { o s a g e}
Symbolizes i.e.,
the Hopi.(Jinn) a mountain tribe who were taken under and brought up to
safety by the Ant Like People.
We talk
more about this in Holy Book Of Wonder to be published soon,now we will
introduce you to the history and conspiracy
of move from earthly view . from this view
you might glimpse what is going on in
ferguson currently... The founder of MOVE was born Vincent Leapheart in the
Mantua neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1931. A Korean War veteran, Leapheart
was working as a handyman when he met white University of Pennsylvania graduate
student Donald Glassey in the early 1970s. By that time Leapheart had begun
referring to himself as John Africa, a homage to his heritage and "the
source of life." Glassey quickly became enamored with Africa's teachings,
which included a rejection of modern developments such as capitalism, industry,
electricity, and birth control, along with an embrace of an urban
back-to-the-land philosophy based on the "principle of natural law."
With Glassey's help, Africa, who was largely illiterate, completed The
Guidelines, a 300-page manifesto articulating his views. Africa successfully
recruited a few dozen followers consisting of "various members of his
family, homeless people, college students, business people, and political
activists" (Mjagkij, 384), and in 1974 took up residence in a house bought
by Glassey in the Powelton Village neighborhood. Like their leader, all
members—mostly black, but some white—took on the surname Africa. While
initially accepted by their neighbors, MOVE increasingly drew complaints for
its eccentric practices, such as composting food scraps and feces in its
backyard and shouting messages through bullhorns at all hours. It was the
organization's showdown with Philadelphia police, however, that eventually
forced its removal and relocation. Since arriving in Powelton Village, the
group had frequently stationed members on their porch, bullhorns in hand,
loudly propagating the MOVE philosophy. Though exasperating to their neighbors,
the spectacle wasn't enough to draw a response from city authorities. In late
May 1978, however, members began appearing in military garb and brandishing
rifles, a dramatic escalation to a conflict thus far defined by nuisance
issues. The group's increasingly militant posture drew the attention of Mayor
Frank Rizzo, a tough-talking former Philadelphia police commissioner. Despite
his reputation as a "law and order" politician in the mold of Richard
Nixon, Rizzo moved slowly, first attempting to bargain the release of
incarcerated MOVE members in exchange for the group's relocation outside the
city. MOVE refused to leave Philadelphia, putting pressure back on Rizzo to
resolve the standoff. Ten months into the stalemate, Rizzo ordered a blockade
of the four blocks surrounding the compound. All utilities, food, and water
were cut off. Nevertheless, supporters were able to smuggle supplies to the
house, prolonging the confrontation for another three months. On 18 August
1978, police moved in. While successful in evicting the group, the raid left
police officer James J. Ramp dead, five officers and firefighters wounded, and
MOVE member Delbert Africa severely beaten. MOVE headquarters was immediately
razed, and ten group members were arrested. MOVE members able to avoid capture
went into hiding. Despite evidence suggesting the inconclusiveness of Ramp's
shooting—his death may have been caused by "friendly fire"—in 1981
nine of the ten arrested members were sentenced to thirty to one hundred years
in prison. Later that year John Africa was apprehended in Rochester, NY, and
brought back to Philadelphia to stand trial; charged with weapons and
conspiracy offenses, and representing himself, he was acquitted. Though fractured,
MOVE quietly reorganized and moved into a house at 6221 Osage Avenue in Cobbs
Creek, a neighborhood with the highest number of black homeowners in
Philadelphia. As with their arrival in Powelton Village years earlier, MOVE was
welcomed at first by their neighbors. Within a few years, however, history
seemed to be repeating itself: the group constructed another large stage on its
front yard from which it would blare its message at all hours of the night.
And, as in Powelton Village, byproducts of the group's naturalistic
lifestyle—vermin, litter, odors—increasingly put it at odds with its neighbors,
with whom clashes became more and more heated. Recalling a 1984 Mother's Day
discussion between the Osage Avenue block association and the group, neighborhood
resident Oris Thomas told Time "[MOVE] said, 'If you do anything to hurt
us, we're going to kill you."
Though the association tried to get the
office of Mayor W. Wilson Goode to intervene, he accomplished little, as did
the police, both of whom were undoubtedly wary of another showdown. Out of
options, the block association scheduled a press conference in hopes of forcing
the city's hand. As attention from the city and the media increased, MOVE began
demanding the release of their nine imprisoned members. Backchannel
negotiations between the mayor's office and MOVE, undertaken as Goode plotted a
public response, were unsuccessful: "All hope of agreement ended Saturday
when [MOVE] spokesman Jerry Ford Africa sent the mayor an ominous message: 'We
are ready for you. Come and get us,'" wrote Time. On 12 March 1985 the
city issued warrants for the arrest of four members—Conrad, Theresa, Ramona,
and Frank Africa—charging them with "parole violation, contempt of court,
illegal possession of firearms, and making terroristic threats." None of
the four turned themselves in. A dangerous escalation seemed imminent, and all
residences within five blocks of the compound—a total of three hundred
people—were evacuated the next day. It quickly became apparent that MOVE
headquarters had been equipped for confrontation: a bunker had been dug in the
basement, and reinforcements had been added to the roof. At 5:45 the next
morning, police commissioner Gregore Sambor—flanked by a force of 150 police
officers, including SWAT and sharpshooter teams—issued a warning for the four
wanted members to vacate the premises within fifteen minutes. When the deadline
passed, Sambor authorized an attack on the house with tear gas and water
cannons. Shots were then fired from the MOVE compound, provoking a 90-minute,
10,000-round return volley from the police. The police continued with a variety
of tactics—including boring into the compound and pouring water on the roof to
break it open—into the afternoon, to no avail. Despite its vastly superior
firepower, the city was unable to dislodge MOVE. The exact events that followed
remain contentious to this day, and are detailed in 30 cubic feet of records
contained in the 1986 Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission report.
Nevertheless, the following is without dispute: at 5:27 pm, the Philadelphia
Police Department, under the direction of Police Commissioner Sambor and the
sanction of Mayor Goode, dropped "two 1 lb. tubes filled with a
water-based gel explosive" from a helicopter onto the roof of the MOVE
compound (Time).
According to Goode's testimony before the Commission, the
devices were intended to smash one of the bunkers built on top of the roof, creating
an entry for police to evict the MOVE members. The explosion ignited a blaze
that quickly spread to nearby houses. Perhaps even more controversial than the
city's decision to drop the explosive, the fire department did not fight the
blaze for at least the first thirty minutes. Fire chief William Richmond,
acting under the command of Sambor, explained that spraying the roof would have
inhibited police officers from "breaching" the compound and would
have produced a heavy smoke cover for escaping MOVE members.
At last receiving
orders to approach the house, firefighters were confronted with what sounded
like gunfire and immediately retreated as the fire spread further down the
block. Accounts vary on whether or not police entered the house and opened fire,
but two people finally emerged from the compound: MOVE information minister
Ramona Africa and 13-year-old Birdie Africa. The blaze was declared under
control just before midnight. When it was over, all remaining eleven members of
the household had died, including five children and MOVE founder John Africa,
and 250 people had been displaced from 62 homes. In testimony to the
Philadelphia Special Investigation Commission (PSIC) that October, Philadelphia
police commissioner Gregore Sambor insisted he was given assurances that the
explosive dropped on MOVE was safe. "What has imprinted that device on the
mind of the city is, in fact, the method of delivery," he said, referring
to its helicopter discharge. "If it had been carried or thrown into
position or if it had been dropped from a crane, the perception of that action
would be quite different." Regardless of the actions of Sambor and
Richmond, Mayor Goode took full responsibility for the event, saying in a press
conference the night of the bombing "I was aware of what was going
on…therefore, the people of the city will have to judge [me]"
(Philadelphia Magazine). The eleven-person commission, led by former Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission head William Brown III, was formed within two
weeks of the bombing. On the way to its report in March 1986, the PSIC
incorporated the assistance of forty-five law school students, seven
investigators, and numerous authorities in forensic pathology and explosives;
administered one thousand interviews; and broadcasted five weeks of televised
hearings, at a cost of almost $1 million. Though comprising an enormous sum of
documentary evidence, the entire PSIC report might be reduced to its statement
that "dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable."
The children's deaths "appeared to be unjustified homicide," the
report said, and the actions of Police Chief Sambor and Fire Commissioner
Richmond were "grossly negligent." The hearings, which lasted
eighteen days, "provided a shocking picture of confusion and indecision in
the high command" (People). A concurrent investigation launched by the
Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the police department had been surveying
the MOVE compound for over a year and a half and undertaking tests on
explosives for weeks. (The Inquirer also reported that one of the explosives
dropped on the house, Du Pont's Tovex TR-2, was explicitly designed "to be
used underground for mining and quarrying, not in the open.") Under
testimony the police department bomb unit invoked the Fifth Amendment, but
Sambor maintained his defense, stating that "any approach on May 13th
would have presented an immediate and deadly danger…[MOVE] announced that
morning that they would never surrender and that they would kill as many of us
as they could." Ramona Africa declined to testify. Along with
thirteen-year-old Birdie Africa, Ramona Africa was the only survivor of the
bombing. She escaped from the remains of the MOVE compound by crawling through
a window, suffering severe burns in the process. Taken immediately into police
custody, Ramona, the organization's spokeswoman, was tried and convicted on
charges of conspiracy to riot.
She served the entirety of her seven-year
sentence; though eligible for parole at sixteen months, she continually refused
to disassociate herself with MOVE, a condition for early release. Though little
is known about her early life, Ramona worked as a paralegal before joining
MOVE, an experience that would later help her navigate the battery of legal
fights that would make up much of her adult life. In 1996 Ramona—along with
relatives of deceased MOVE leader John Africa and his nephew Frank
Africa—successfully sued the city of Philadelphia in a wrongful death suit. The
jury verdict held that the city used excessive force and violated the
organization's right to unreasonable search and seizure, awarding Ramona
$500,000 and the relatives of John and Frank $1 million. Additionally, former
Philadelphia police commissioner Gregore Sambor and former fire commissioner
William Richmond were ordered to pay Ramona $1 per week for the following
eleven years. Birdie Africa, now living with his non-MOVE-affiliated father and
known as Michael Moses Ward, was awarded $1.7 million in 1991. No criminal
convictions have been brought against Goode, Richmond, Sambor, or any other
city official involved in the raid. In June 2010, Temple University student
journal Philadelphia Neighborhoods reported that Ramona Africa was living
quietly in West Philadelphia with the remaining members of MOVE. Since her release
in 1992, she has continued to advocate for the acquittal of the nine group
members imprisoned after the 1978 Powelton Village raid (referred to by
supporters as the MOVE 9) and Mumia Abu-Jamal, the famous activist and longtime
MOVE sympathizer on death row. Ramona remains an in-demand speaker; as recently
as February 2010 she participated in a conference on public interest and
environmental law at the University of Oregon law school. Though Sambor
resigned as police commissioner in November 1985, Goode finished his term as
mayor and was reelected in 1988. After leaving office four years later, Goode
became a minister and youth advocate and still lives in Philadelphia. Though
the city rebuilt homes destroyed in the bombing in a little over a year, the reconstruction
was so substandard that most were condemned within a few years, and in 2000
Mayor John Street offered each household $150,000 to relocate. By 2005 the city
of Philadelphia had spent a total of $42 million on
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