Cold Open:

We got a doozy of a tale here today! Taking a break from recent stories full of insane white supremacists to tell a story full of insane black supremacists. Other side of the same coin today. The incredibly racist and also extra murder-y Nation of Yahweh cult.

This especially violent cult was founded in in 1979 by Hulon Mitchell, Jr., a super humble dude who told his followers that he was, you know, God in the flesh. He insisted that he be referred to by super modest monikers such as “Grand Master of All,” “the God of the Universe,” “The Grand Potentate,” “The Everlasting Father,” and of course “,” - Hebrew for “the Lord son of the Lord.”

Seems a little redundant. Like asking to be called “God Lord” or “Deity God”

It would’ve been more appropriate if he would’ve went by whatever “Colossal Piece of Shit” translates to in Hebrew.

Yahweh ben Yahweh wanted followers who would do anything for him. Give their belongings to him. Give their souls to him. Give their bodies to him. Kill for him. He wanted a race war to break out and saw himself, obviously, on the winning side. He asked his followers to go “kill me a white devil and bring me an ear.”

And he was brought ears.

He built a large and powerful cult. At its peak, his empire’s value was roughly $100 million. He had over 4,000 followers, a huge temple, a four- story apartment building, restaurants, stores, houses and a hotel in Miami, and a hotel and restaurant in as well as hundreds of white cars, vans, buses and 18-wheelers.

He also sexually manipulated and molested an untold number of his followers.

He had at least one member who dared to leave his cult brutally beaten and then roughly decapitated.

He had an inner circle of enforcers known as “Death angels.” He convinced women to things like blow in other women’s vaginas, telling them this was how you give CPR to a baby still in their mother’s belly.

Yep. You heard that right. This story is that fucking crazy.

Follow me into the wild times of Yahweh ben Yahweh and the cult he created in another “Humans sometimes do the most insane shit” edition of Timesuck.

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I. Welcome! A.Happy Monday:

Happy Monday you curious motherfuckers!

Coming in HOT today!

Yip, yip, yaw!

I’m Dan Cummins, the Master Sucker, Bojangles’ Pooper Scooper, Dean of the A-Hole Air Banjo Academy, and you are listening to Timesuck.

Hail Nimrod, Hail Lucifina, Praise Bojangles, and glory be to Triple M.

Recording in the Suck Dungeon in CDA and feeling the best I’ve felt in a month. Hopefully I’ve already had the Corona virus now.

Gotta VERY exciting tale for you today. Holy shit. This one had me riveted. A fascinating and inane tale awaits. I’m jealous you get to hear it for the first time with no real idea of what’s to come.

Got some heated Timesucker Updates to get to at the end. Ruffled some feathers again this past week. Boy Howdy. Gosh Dang.

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The Toxic Thoughts Tour - SO MUCH FUN.

Nashville this weekend March 12-14. Shows are STILL on. Not a lot of tickets left. The club was undamaged by the recent tornados. Sorry if your life was affected by that storm. I hate seeing such a beautiful city damaged.

Also - I will be in Standup Live in Huntsville on the 15th. My only Alabama show for 2020.

Then it’s on to Punchline in Philly March 26th - 28th.

Then I’ll be at Hawaiian Brians in Honolulu, Hawaii on Sunday, April 5th. First big island show ever!

After that, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and HOT-lanta!

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Hail Nimrod!

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Enough about my cult. Our cult is so boring compared to the Nation of Yahweh.

I haven’t tried to fuck a single member other than my wife. I haven’t even asked zero of you to kill for me. Not yet. I haven’t tricked any of you into blowing into another member’s vagina to give a baby who doesn’t even breath regular air yet CPR. Not so far. I have zero death angels thus far that I’m aware of.

So let’s talk about a much darker cult than the Cult of the Curious, let’s get to the Nation of Yahweh.

Yip yip Yaw!

Intro/Establish Premiss:

Before we dive into a truly outlandish Timesuck Timeline today detailing Hulon Mitchell Jr’s early life and his transformation into Yahweh ben Yahweh and the formation of - and then destruction of - his Nation of Yahweh cult, let’s first take a look at the racial tension and violence that existed in 70s and 80s in Miami , . Violence that allowed his cult to really thrive.

Then we’ll go over some of the history of and the teachings of the two radical religious movements that heavily influenced Yahweh ben Yahweh - the and the .

We’ll also take a peek at the man who would become Hulon’s most notorious and violent follower - former NFL Defensive Lineman . A man who admitted in court to killing seven people while he was a member of the cult.

II. Miami in the ‘80s:

Miami, Florida, and Miami-Dade County in general, where the cult originated in the late 70’s, was not EXACTLY the best place to live. Not the ideal area to raise a family in.

Check out this November 1980 article from the Washington Post:

Since Saturday, 15 killings have been recorded in Dade County, boosting the record-breaking 1980 homicide toll to nearly 500 or 40 percent more than last year. In one Dade County community, the city of Miami, the homicide rate is 70 percent above that in 1979. Of the death toll, 18 came in the riots.

Lt. John Beckman, head of Dade County's homicide investigations, says ”I think a person has a greater possibility of being a victim of a major crime in south Florida than most anywhere else in the United State.”

Wow! I’m surprised the county’s department of tourism didn’t use that for a promotional commercial.

(Friendly politician) “Hey friend! Why take the family to Disneyland in Orlando like every other schmuck when you can take the family (Scary voice) DEEPER. GO SOUTH. DIVE IN THE DARKNESS OF THE BOWELS OF THE REAL FLORIDA. BEACH BODS AND MURDER. G-STRINGS and RIOTS IN THE STREETS!”

And then the article says:

Declaring an "emergency in crime" just before the opening of the winter tourist season, Miami Beach commissioners have closed city parks, piers and beaches at 10 p.m. and approved anti-loitering and stop-and-frisk ordinances for 60 days.

Miami, the nation's 40th largest city, ranks as the fifth most dangerous in a surge of Sun Belt violence, the FBI said.

Damn near Martial Law going on in 1980s Miami!

Also, why does “Sun Belt violence” sound so much nicer than regular ol’ violence?

I picture getting my ass kicked on a sunny beach surrounded by beautiful women, which sounds better than getting beat up in a snowbank next to the freeway just outside of Glendive, Montana.

Things weren’t great in the Sunshine State.

In that same article, there was a quote about a T-shirt that mockingly juxtaposed the view down the barrel of a handgun with the city's tourism slogan: "Miami, See It Like A Native.”

In 1981, Miami would break the 1980 record 573 murders with 621.

Thankfully today those numbers aren’t nearly as high, with 75 in 2015 and 81 in 2014.

Crime rates across the globe have actually gone down significantly since the 1990s. Wouldn’t think that watching the news where they want you to believe the earth has never been bloodier because news producers know that fear sells, but it’s true.

As I’ve said so many times, things are, comparatively speaking, pretty damn great time to be alive for the earth’s population in general. Hail Nimrod!

Not saying things are the best for you and yours right now, but in general, less murder-y now than in times past. We have quite a bit of medicine. Pretty sweet TV shows and video games you can stream or play from anywhere. We have some pretty good podcasts you can listen to for free. Like this one. Could be worse.

But - Miami.

Miami had a real problem with drugs and violence in the 70s, and it just got worse in the 80s, especially the early 80s. By 1984, Miami was known as the murder capital of the USA.

Ravaged by drug-related shootouts and the immigration of criminals from Cuban prisons, Dade had the highest murder rate of 1984 with 23.7 homicides per 100,000 population -- replacing East St. Louis as the nation's most murderous metropolitan area.

And a lot of Cuban criminals did pour into Miami in 1980. That wasn’t some bullshit fake news fear-mongering about immigrants. That was reality.

In 1980, Fidel Castro, sent thousands of Cubans to Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida - mostly to South Florida - on a bunch of shitty boats. Roughly 125,000.

And many of these people were criminals.

This state-assisted mass exodus, known as the “Mariel boat-lift” was facilitated by the Cuban dictator who emptied his nations mental health facilities and prisons, and put rapists and murderers, the severely mentally ill, and other people he just didn’t want or know what to do with on boats pointed at America during a downturn in Cuba’s already fragile economy.

Many other non-criminals bounced as well to be sure, but a lot of prisoners truly were sent out to sea.

Definitely want to do a Suck on Castro one of these days. From what I know of him - not a big fan. Doesn’t seem like a good guy. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/criminals-in-exodus-from-cuba- us-fears-castro-emptying-his-jails-into-florida-1386288.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariel_boatlift

What a novel form of, basically, warfare. To send your least desirable citizens to another country that doesn’t want them.

Haha!

What if we did that? What if we just rounded up all of our sex offenders and murderers and pimps and other career criminals and the criminally insane and sent them on a whole bunch of boats headed to the shores of North Korea. Load ‘em up with weapons an see what happens.

If we lose ‘em, oh well.

“Good luck you guys! It’s defeat Kim Jong-un or die you dirty bastards!”

Not only was crime high in the Miami area. So was racial tension.

1. Arthur McDuffie Riots -

On May 18, 1980, the 1980 Miami race riots kicked off as word spread that an all-white Tampa jury had acquitted seven white and hispanic Miami-Dade police officers for charges related to murder of Arthur McDuffie.

In the early morning hours of December 17th, 1979, police officers had pursued thirty-three-year-old McDuffie, an insurance agent and former Marine, who was riding a black-and-orange 1973 Kawasaki motorcycle.

McDuffie had accumulated traffic citations and was riding with a suspended license. He led police on an eight-minute high-speed chase through residential streets at speeds of over 80 miles per hour.

The officers involved in the chase later filed a report claiming that after McDuffie had lost control of his motorcycle while making a left turn, and then attempted to flee on foot.

But they were lying.

McDuffie would die four days later from a beating delivered at the hands of officers. The coroner's report concluded that he had suffered multiple skull fractures.

Internal investigations found out that the officers involved in his arrest deliberately ran over his motorcycle with one of their patrol cars in order to break its gauges and make it seem that McDuffie had crashed. They knew they’d gone way too far and tried to cover their tracks.

The medical examiner, Dr. Ronald Wright, said McDuffie's injuries were NOT consistent with a motorcycle crash, and that if McDuffie had fallen off the motorcycle as the police said, it did not make sense that both gauges would be broken.

Dr. Wright said that it seemed that he had been beaten to death.

Six officers were indicted for manslaughter, as well as tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. A seventh was charged with tampering with evidence.

In the past six years previous to the beating, four of the officers involved had been cited in 47 different citizen complaints and 13 separate internal affairs probes.

Six of the officers involved were fired less than a month after this incident.

Another officer involved, and officer who received immunity from prosecution for testifying, painted a very different picture of what had happened.

He said that McDuffie had ended the chase by slowing down to 25 miles per hour, and then he clearly yelled “I give up,” before voluntarily stopping his motorcycle and waiting to be arrested.

And then he said that angry officers took out their frustrations regarding McDuffie trying to outrun them on him with clubs, flashlights, and their fists.

He said that one of the officers first choked McDuffie to the ground with his nightstick before tearing off his helmet then he striking him numerous times in the body and head even though he was not resisting arrest. Then another officer hit McDuffie in the head with a heavy flashlight. Then numerous officers teed off on McDuffie repeatedly with their fists and nightsticks until he lay motionless and stopped screaming from the attack.

After he lost consciousness, numerous officers continued to beat him.

And then all of these officers were acquitted of all the charges against them after the all-white jury deliberated for less than three hours.

And the black community of Miami-Dade county was fucking furious because this was but one of many similar cases. The mainly white police force had been viewed by various predominantly black communities as being racist and brutal for years.

And this was the straw that broke their back.

For three days, hurt and angry people poured into the streets. When the violence was over, an additional 18 people were dead, another 350-400 were injured, and 600 were arrested.

238 businesses were damaged and approximately 3,000 jobs were lost. The riots caused an estimated $100 million dollars in damages.

It was the worst riot in Dade County history. It would take years to recover.

Also, and this really speaks to the racial tension in the area at the time - the riots freaked the predominantly white neighborhoods of Miami the fuck out.

According to a study conducted for the Ford Foundation in the aftermath of the riots, the anti-white violence in the Miami riot was ''unprecedented in this century.'' The report added that not since the slave uprisings before the Civil War had blacks risen spontaneously with the sole purpose of beating or killing whites.

A 21-year-old man and two 15-year-old boys, all white, were dragged from their car and viciously beaten to death by numerous black residents.

One of the boys was found with tire marks on his chest. He’d been repeatedly run over.

Two white brothers were beaten by various black residents into comas. One of them, Jeffrey Kulp, 22, had his ears and tongue slashed and, police say, "was run over maybe four or five times" by a car. https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/17/us/study-finds-miami-riot- was-unlike-those-of-60-s.html

The riot forced all of Miami to re-examine itself.

It forced major changes in the Miami and Metro police departments.

According to a article in 1985, the changes were rapid.

In the last five years, the police have taken important steps to bring officers closer to the black communities that make up one-fifth of Dade County's population and one-quarter of Miami's, to promote blacks to positions of leadership and to crack down on officers who too frequently resort to force.

"Five years ago, they came in here like big white bullies with their guns and nightsticks, " said Liberty City resident Annie Love, who heads the tenants association in the Scott housing projects. "Now they don't come in with that bully attitude. They're worth our taxpayer dollars." https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/ article77769522.html

As I referenced earlier, the McDuffie murder wasn’t an isolated incident.

In January of 1979, Willie Thomas Jones, a white state trooper, had sexually molested an 11-year-old black girl. Seven months later, Jones did not contest the charge. And then he got zero jail time. And only three years' probation.

Can you imagine if someone molested your eleven year-old, then plead guilty, then was essentially just told, “Hey bud. Don’t do that anymore, ‘kay? Not cool, bro. Not cool.”

Many black residents felt that if he’d molested a white girl, he would’ve gotten in a lot more trouble, and they probably weren’t wrong.

In February of 1979, Dade detectives mistakenly served a search warrant at the home of black school teacher Nathaniel LaFleur, who was seriously injured in a struggle with them.

A grand jury did not indict the officers for criminal wrongdoing.

Nathaniel basically got a, “Hey dude. Sorry about breaking into your house and beating the fuck out of you. Everyone makes mistakes!”

And, understandably, he wasn’t happy. And because he was black and the officers involved were white, this further fueled local racial tension.

In September 1979, an off-duty Hialeah police officer working as a security guard shot and killed Randy Heath, a 22-year-old black man.

Heath’s sister, Theresa, said her brother had pulled behind a warehouse to go urinate where no one could see him. Officer Larry Shockley thought he was trying to burglarize the building and pulled a gun on him. Heath did not resist and put his hands up against the wall as officer Shockley instructed, and initially Shockley said he resisted arrest. But he failed a lie detector and then admitted to shooting the unarmed Heath in the back while his hands were against the wall and killing him. Theresa also saw Shockley shoot her brother.

Shockley placed his cocked pistol against the back of Heath’s head, and then fired his weapon.

He said the fun accidentally went off.

And a white grand jury ruled that Heath’s death was negligent, not criminal, and Officer Shockley was free to go. https://news.google.com/newspapers? nid=1346&dat=19800410&id=LoQwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4PoDAAAAIB AJ&pg=6835,3007325 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/ article77769522.html

So, like I said - racial tensions were high in Miami.

There was segregation. There were high levels of poverty in the black areas of town. There were additional cases I didn’t mention here.

This was the atmosphere that Yahweh Ben Yahweh started his racist cult in. Many local black residents were more than ready to hear a local pastor tell them they were god’s chosen people and that the white man was evil and the source of all their problems. At this time in the Miami area, “Fuck the white Devils” was an easy message to sell in many black neighborhoods.

Alright. So now I think it’s easy to see how Miami in the late 70s and 80s was a good place to kick off a black supremacist cult. Numerous incidents had led many local black residents to believe that white America didn’t give a fuck about them.

Now let’s look into the two religious sects I mentioned earlier that Hulon Mitchell Jr aka Yahweh ben Yahweh based his own doctrine off of - the nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelites.

Two organizations that had been around for quite some time. Two organizations that were also pretty damn racist.

First up, let us look into the radical teachings of the Nation of Islam.

B.Nation of Islam:

The Nation of Islam is the name of a variety of religious organizations would adopt in 20th century America. And all of them are super racist. Woven into their core ideology is the notion of black supremacy. The notion that god created black meat sacks as superior to white meat sacks.

The Nation of Islam started out as a single group. It began as African American-centric religious movement and organization founded in 1930 by Wallace D. Fard - little more on him in a second - and it was known for teachings that combined elements of traditional Islam with black-American nationalist ideals.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nation-of-Islam

The Nation promoted both racial unity and racial superiority and self- help and maintains a strict code of discipline among members.

C.ISLAMIC ROOTS IN US:

Islam has been in America to some extent since the nation’s founding. Founding Father and third President, Thomas Jefferson, owned a copy of the Quran.

The religion was first brought to the by African Muslim slaves, and it retained a minuscule presence in the country throughout the 19th century as the religion was not practiced by slaveowners during the years before the Civil War, and the overwhelming majority of slaves were forced to Christianity.

In the years following the Civil War, immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East made it to America, and the first actual traditional mosques were built in Highland Park, Michigan, and Chicago and Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the first few decades of the 20th century.

A mosque replica had been built in 1893 for Chicago’s World Columbian Exhibition, but, this was just an exhibit. https://www.vox.com/2015/12/22/10645956/islam-in-america https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Islam_in_the_United_States#Historical_Overview

At the beginning of the 20th century, Islam really began to have a real presence in America, initially as a result of the efforts of the Aḥmadīyah [??? - no guide] movement, an unorthodox sect founded in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad and of Shaikh Ahmed Faisal, the Moroccan-born leader of an independent Black Muslim movement.

And then in 1913, Muslim teachings were tied to black nationalism by Noble Drew Ali, originally born as Timothy Drew, who founded the Moorish Science Temple of America in Newark, New Jersey, in 1913.

Noble Drew - sweet name addition btw, I should try getting people to refer to me as Noble Dan. No one points the finger at Noble Dan. “Dude, who farted?” “I don’t know who did it. But I know that noble Dan DIDN’T do it. Not Noble Dan.”

Anyway, Noble Drew produced a new sacred text, The Holy Koran, that bears little resemblance to the actual Koran, and was based on Drew’s limited knowledge of Islam and on spiritualist teachings. Noble Drew was super charismatic, a bit of a nut - he considered himself a prophet and said he once met an high priest in Egypt who taught him real magic, and he took several wives for himself.

He’d eventually relocate to the midwest and amass thousands of followers and have 17 temples built - called Moorish Science Temples.

And then he’d die in 1929 at the age of 43. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Drew_Ali

One of his students, we think - his origins are impossible to verify with 100% certainty even by his most studios biographers - was Wallace D. Fard aka Wali Fard Muhammad, the man who would found the first Nation of Islam in America.

In 1930, claiming that he was Noble Drew Ali reincarnated, Fard basically showed up out of nowhere and founded the Nation of Islam in Detroit, Michigan, and designated his able assistant, Elijah Muhammad, originally Elijah Poole, to establish the Nation’s second centre in Chicago.

And then, in 1934, this dude just vanished as mysteriously as he arrived. No one really knows what this guy did prior to 1930 or where the Hell he went in 1934.

He just showed up out of nowhere, claimed he’d studied at Noble Drew’s Moorish Science Temple in New Jersey, claimed he was the reincarnation of the recently deceased Drew, founded the Nation of Islam, and then disappeared like a ghost.

Declassified FBI files show that the FBI looked for this guy for decades and couldn’t find him and even figure out exactly who the Hell he was.

Check out this weird backstory a Washington Post journalist put together using FBI information.

Fard, using the name Fred Dodd, married Pearl Allen in Multnomah County, Oregon, on May 9, 1914, with their first child, a son, born the next year.

Then he abandoned his family in 1916 - AS PROPHETS OFTEN DO - and he moved to Los Angeles, using the name Wallie Dodd Ford.

A World War I draft registration card for Wallie Dodd Fard from 1917 indicated he was living in Los Angeles, unmarried, as a restaurant owner, and reported that he was born in Afghanistan on February 26, 1893.

On the draft card, "Ford" is written in parentheses. No reason is given. At the bottom of the card, he signed his name as "Wallie Dodd Ford".

As of 1920 Ford was still living in Los Angeles as 26-year-old Wallie D. Ford, with his 25-year-old wife, Hazel.

In the 1920 United States Census his race was reported as white, his occupation as a proprietor of a restaurant, and his place of birth as New Zealand.

A marriage certificate dated June 5, 1924, was issued to Wallie Dodd Ford and Carmen Trevino in Orange County, . Ford reported he was a cook, age 26, born in Oregon, but living in Los Angeles.

Strange little piece of history there. The man who founded the exclusively black Nation of Islam - at least initially it was exclusively black - may have had zero African blood in him. In the few photos that exist, he looks Afghani, not African.

Maybe that’s why he disappeared.

Maybe other members took him aside, and were like, “Hey dude. We appreciate the shit out of you kicking off a black power religious movement, but, um, man… you gotta go. We love you, but, you know, you’re not black. And me and the other guys just thought it really isn’t the best look to have a dude who isn’t black, preaching a black power message.”

After Fard vanished Elijah taught that Fard was a Prophet in the Muslim sense and a savior in the Christian sense and the very presence of Allah.

Fard’s successor, Elijah Muhammad really got the Nation of Islam humming along. He provided what Fard lacked - strong leadership and a coherent theology. His teachings included many of the basic tenets of Islam, including monotheism, submission to Allah, and a strong family life, and these tenets were promoted in the Nation’s parochial schools.

Elijah also borrowed from traditional Islamic behavioral practices, including the refusal to eat pork or to use tobacco, alcohol, or illicit drugs.

And he uh, he taught the the White Man was the Devil. As in literally called white people “white devils.” So, he was a teensy bit super racist.

And he made up all kinds of weird shit.

Elijah Muhammad believed that the white race was created by Yakub, a black scientist, and that Allah had allowed this devilish race to hold power for 6,000 years.

He literally just made all this up, I mean, “God told him all this in a vision.” That’s what I need to start doing here. Any time you guys disagree with me, I’m gonna REMIND YOU that I didn’t research whatever you disagree with, GOD TOLD IT TO ME IN A VISION. So SHUT THE FUCK UP. God tole ME to tell YOU to shut the fuck UP.

Hail Nimrod! Why Nimrod!?! Why doth these infidels protest my hold word!?! Ugh! It really chaps my holy ass when they do that!

Muhammed believed that “Whitey’s” time was up in 1914, and the 20th century was when would rise to power in America.

He pushed a plan of separatism and black nationalism. A program of economic self-sufficiency, the development of black-owned businesses, and a demand for the creation of a separate black nation to be carved out of the states of , Alabama, and Mississippi.

He encouraged his followers to drop their “slave names” in favor of Muslim names or, in most cases, an “X,” signifying that they had lost their identities in slavery and did not know their true names.

That part makes sense to me. I logically, get the anger over slavery and cultural identity destruction. Too bad he take it to a place of “The white man is the Devil” and a made up dude named Yakub made white people as part of some weird 6,000 year experiment.

When WW2 broke out, Elijah Muhammed and many of his followers went to jail for refusing to serve in the military and the movement was paralyzed without its leadership.

The Nation of Islam rebounded in the 1950s after a young charismatic leader, Malcolm Little, better known as Malcolm X, took over the New York Temple.

While in prison in Boston for burglary from 1946 to 1952, Little joined the Nation of Islam. He was influenced by his brother, Reginald, who had become a member in Detroit.

Malcolm X brought many into the movement in the late 50s and early 60s. He increased membership from 500 to 25,000 by one estimate; and from 1,200 to 50,000 or 75,000 by another.

And Malcom X, whose father was officially killed in a streetcar accident, was likely killed by white supremacists. Malcom would claim that racist white people killed four of his uncles as well. And he, for the most part, also hated white people, and preached a message of black separatism, nationalism and supremacy, and generally referred to white people as white devils.

And then Malcom became disillusioned with the Nation of Islam following rumors of Elijah having affairs with numerous young Nation secretaries, rumors he believed to be true. And in 1961, there was a series of violent clashes between Nation of Islam members and LAPD, resulting in LAPD shooting and killing some members, and Malcom didn’t think Elijah was strong enough in its denouncement and protest of this.

And then when JFK was assassinated, Malcom said it was a “case of chickens coming home to roost.” And that he was glad, and he was banned from preaching by the Nation of Islam for 90 days, and then departed soon after that to form his own movement.

And then, before he could fully articulate the new views of his new movement, he was murdered.

Beginning in 1964, he spoke publicly and numerously about the Nation of Islam wanting him dead. He feared they would kill him. On February 19th, 1965, he told an interviewer that Nation of Islam was actively trying to kill him. And then while he prepared for a speech on Feb 21st in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom, a man in the crowd rushed forward and shot him in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun. And then two other men charged him firing semi-automatic handguns. He ended up with 21 gunshot wounds to the chest, left shoulder, arms and legs.

And we’ll have to Suck Malcom X properly some day. He did, denounce his earlier racist views before his death.

In a letter from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to a friend in New York, Malcolm said he had embraced the brotherhood of man and “shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well‐meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in [Elijah Muhammad] even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

For 12 long years I lived within the narrow‐minded confines of the ‘strait‐jacket world’ created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudoreligious philosophy that he preaches. But as his then most faithful disciple, I represented and defended him at all levels ... and in most instances, even beyond the level of intellect and reason.

This religion recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before ‐God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind. I totally reject Elijah Muh?mmad's racist philosophy, which he has labeled ‘Islam’ only to fool and misuse gullible people, as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only myself, and no one else for the fool that I was, and the harm that my evangelic foolishness in his behalf has done to others.” https://www.nytimes.com/1964/10/04/archives/malcolm-rejects- racist-doctrine-also-denounces-elijah-as-a.html

For the decade following Malcom’s death - the remaining decade of Elijah Muhammad’s life - the Nation of Islam movement was increasingly plagued by violence between members and former members. In 1973, for example, Nation members invaded the Hanafi Muslim Center in Washington, D.C., founded by Hammas Abdul Khaalis, a former Nation leader, and attacked his family, killing his children and leaving his wife paralyzed.

Elijah Muhammad left the movement to his son Wallace, who assumed leadership of the Nation upon Elijah’s death in 1975 and later took the name Warith Deen Mohammed.

Wallace, who had been deeply influenced by Malcolm X and orthodox Islam, soon initiated a transformation of the Nation, changing its name to World Community of al-Islam in the West and again in 1978 to the American Muslim Mission and gradually dropping its racial and nationalist doctrines as well as its belief in Fard as Allah.

The changes culminated in 1985 with Wallace’s formal resignation as head of the American Muslim Mission and his dissolution of the organization. The majority of former members followed him into the larger Muslim community, where he remained a widely respected leader.

The move toward orthodoxy was rejected by some former members, including Elijah Muhammad’s brother, John Muhammad, and national leader Silis Muhammad.

They formed two new organizations, both called the Nation of Islam, that continued the teachings of Elijah Muhammad.

And then there is Louis Farrakhan - originally Louis Eugene Wolcott - the successor of Malcolm X as leader of the New York Temple and the Nation’s most prominent spokesman at the time of Elijah Muhammad’s death.

Farrakhan disagreed with Mohammed’s changes, and in 1978 he left to found a third Nation of Islam. And Farrakhan’s movement went on to become the most prominent.

A talented orator, Farrakhan began his organization with only a few thousand adherents but soon reestablished a national movement.

He published Elijah Muhammad’s books, started a periodical, The Final Call, and eventually purchased Elijah Muhammad’s former mosque in Chicago and refurbished it as the new headquarters of the Nation of Islam.

He also expanded the movement internationally, opening centers in England and Ghana. He gained notice outside the African American community in 1984 when he aligned himself with the U.S. presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson, though he was criticized for anti-Semitic remarks that included an attack on antebellum Jewish slaveholders.

Farrakhan is still around. He’s 86 years old. And he has always been, and still is, SUPER racist. Really not a big fan of the Jews.

In 2018, he tweeted, “I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m anti-Termite.”

And just last February, in a speech in Chicago, he said, “Pedophilia and sexual perversion institutionalized in Hollywood and the entertainment industries can be traced to Talmudic principles and Jewish influence… Satanic influence under the name of Jew.”

He also hates homosexuality, and blames white people for creating it. In a 2018 speech, he said,

“[Elijah Muhammad] came to save us from the sins of white people that have been imposed on us since we have been under their rule. We didn’t have homosexuality in Africa, that’s not our tradition.”

And back in 2000, at another speech he summed up his view of white people, saying, “White people are potential humans…they haven’t evolved yet."

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/nation-of-islam- farrakhan-in-his-own-words

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/ louis-farrakhan

Farrakhan steadily gained nationwide support amongst a portion of America’s black community for his encouragement of African American business and his efforts to reduce drug abuse and poverty.

By the 1990s he had emerged as a prominent African American leader, as demonstrated by the success in 1995 of the Million Man March in Washington, D.C., which he helped to organize.

An estimated 10,000 to 50,000 people are thought to be current members of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nation-of-Islam

And without the Nation of Islam, it would have been much harder for Yahweh ben Yahweh to form his cult. Like David Koresh built his cult by twisting the teachings of the Seventh Day Adventist church, Yahweh ben Yahweh, aka Hulon Mitchell, Jr., was able to build his cult out of the teachings of the Nation of Islam. And out of the teachings of the Black Hebrew Israelites as well.

D.Black Hebrew Israelites https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hebrew-Israelites

1. ORIGINS-

The BHI or The Original African Hebrew Israelite Nation of Jerusalem was founded by various leaders and is comprised of a number of different sects.

Black Hebrew Israelites is an umbrella term for various religious sects and congregations that believe that people of color, usually , are descendants of a lost tribe of ancient Israelites.

They have no primary leader today nor a central headquarters.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, certain African Americans began to not only identify spiritually with the ancient Israelites but also to claim they were their direct physical descendants.

The oldest surviving sect originated in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1896, founded by William Crowdy, called the Church of God and Saints of Christ.

Today there are several different Church of God and Saints of Christ congregations, and they teach a range of different beliefs - it’s not a very coherent organization. Some churches teach only Jewish beliefs, some teach a mash-up of Jewish and Christian beliefs.

In the early 1960s, Chicago steelworker Ben Carter changed is name to Ben Ammi and in 1966 said he had a vision from the Archangel Gabriel who told him to take his people, African American people to the Holy Land of Israel, for they were the true Jews.

And in 1967, Ben and roughly 350 of his followers bounced and made it to Liberia, forming a religious community aka Cult Compound there. And then in 1969, after another vision, he and his group headed for Israel.

BHI groups such as Ben’s group have a strange relationship with Judaism.

The think of themselves as the true Jews, God’s real chosen tribe, but they don’t follow the teachings of traditional Judaism.

Instead, as one theological expert explains, they “creatively manipulate traditions and ideas gleaned from a wide range of sources: Holiness/Pentecostal Christianity, the British Anglo- Israelite movement, Freemasonry, Mind Power, Theosophy, Judaism, the occult, and African American Christianity’s deep association with the Hebrews of the Old Testament.”

And while most BHI groups do not consider Jews to be true descendants of “Hebrew Israelites,” they also do not consider all people of color to be part of the “lost tribe” either.

As one BHI website explains, “Israel is just one black nation that exist among many. The Egyptians, Canaanites, Ethiopians, babyloians etc [sic] were black skinned but they were not Israelites. . . . To say all black skinned people are Israelites is like saying all Asians are Chinese, or All Europeans are French.”

Man. God works in EXTRA mysterious ways with these fellas.

“I’m sorry, what do you believe?”

“It’s complicated. It’s super complicated.”

Beliefs vary wildly from one BHI congregation to the next. But there is one thing all the groups have in common. They’re fucking crazy. Lord Almight, they are fucking crazy.

I try to be respectful to religious leaders, but I’m always trying to be honest. I think every single religion on Earth has a lot of “Huh, I’m not sure that that is even remotely true” elements in it. To me, they all exist on this spectrum ranging from “Not my belief, but the central messages are really positive so good for them for spreading good morality and hope” to “Well that seems to be a bunch of terrible, made-up, wackadoodle horse shit,” to “Nope. Fuck that Noise.”

And the Black Hebrew Israelites, for me, fall into the category of “Nope. Fuck that Noise.” They’re a blatant hate group.

One belief that seems to remain consistent from one congregation to congregation is “Fuck the Jews.” Lot of White Devil talk.

Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, says that Black Hebrews call Jews, “devilish impostors or devils, because they think of themselves as the true Israelites.”

There are approximately 50,000 self-identifying Black Hebrew Israelites.

Here are some of their core beliefs.

Black Hebrew Israelites teach that certain groups of black people are the descendants of ancient Israelites and that the current Jews in Israel today are not true descendants.

Many of these groups also assert that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshipers of God, and some blacks are the true “chosen people” and are racially superior to other black people and all other ethnicities.

Some BHI's adhere to the Talmud, the Jewish collection of teachings, laws, and interpretations based on Genesis through Deuteronomy while others do not.

They believe God's true name is Yah as found in Psalm 68:4 of the King James bible.

In a 1973 article for Christianity Today, historian James Tinney classified members of this organization as fall into three groups:

a) Black Jews, who maintain a Christological perspective and adopt Jewish rituals.

b) Black Hebrews, who are more traditional in their practice of Judaism.

And then the segment I put into “Nope. Fuck that Noise” category, Black Israelites, who are most nationalistic and furthest from traditional Judaism.

Many Black Hebrew Israelites also believe in (1)Polygamy the taking of multiple wives.

(2) No birth control. It’s forbidden. No Condoms, no pills and certainly no abortion.

(3)Leaders also decide who will marry and whether marriage annulments will be permitted. They also perform the wedding ceremonies.

(4) Many Black Hebrew Israelites are vegans, avoiding the consumption of meat, dairy, eggs, and sugar.

I guess that one’s positive. I mean, I’m certainly no vegan but good for you if you can do it and not be sad and hungry all the time.

And then Members adopt Hebrew names to replace names they believe could be derived from slavery.

Man. So many rules! You gotta hate these guys, you gotta love these folks, you can’t use birth control, you have to get special permission to marry, you can’t heat meat of cheese, and so many others I’m not mentioning here.

What a bummer of a god to worship. One who loves tossing around so many rules. Like God is the annoying hall monitor kid all grown up.

I just picture that God sitting at a big desk, with so many papers and books on it. Resting it’s God Head on it’s God-hand, just super over it. Writing out more rules all the time.

“God Law 8657-998765-3 version 21. God forbideth the eating of more than ten peanut butter filled pretzel bites on any day that ends in a odd number on the Gregorian Calendar. It annoyeth God. Too much-eth tastiest snack- eth-ing grinds godeth’s gears! And, peanut butter pretzel bites are surprisingly high in sodium which is bad-eth for your blood pressure.”

“God-Law 8657-998765-4 version 29. God forbideth masturbating with your dominant hand more than three times a day on any day other than Saturday. On Saturday, thou may use thy dominant hand to stroke or DJ of flick or talliwack as many times as one is able without breaking thy skin. Masturbating past the point of skin breakage is always forbbiden by thy Lord…”

Why do so many of these fucking weirdos bog down spirituality with so many rules. Must make trying to follow those religions feel like doing your taxes.

Some of these BHI extremist even believe in instigating a race war. c) RACE WAR -

BHI expert John Jackson from the University of Pennsylvania explained some of these more radical BHI beliefs, saying:

“Their ultimate goal is to bring about sort of a race war that will cleanse the planet and bring Jesus back. (They say) ‘We’re doing all this stuff. We’re being as provocative as we are on the street corner because we’re really trying to foment the kind of ultimate clash between good and evil — between God’s chosen people and the damned and the imposters — so that we can bring about the second coming and a new world,” Jackson said.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/black-hebrew- israelites-winnipeg-1.3268348

And that new world won’t be filled with shitty Jews and shitty white devils! 2. MANY LIVING IN ISRAEL -

And those Black Hebrew Israelites once lead by Ben Ammi Ben Israel showed up in Israel in 1969, as I said earlier, and started a community settlement in Dimona.

And well, they made it weird.

The Black Hebrew Israelites’s claims of Jewish heritage provoked substantial debate in Israel.

Israeli law offers citizenship for all Jews throughout the world, but the Black Hebrew Israelites could produce no evidence to substantiate their Jewish heritage, because, you know, they’re actually not Jewish. They’re fucking crazy.

After much investigation, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel thus decided that the Black Hebrew Israelites were not really Jewish and were not entitled to citizenship.

Seriously, how nuts is this? This is like a bunch of people showing up in America from any other part of the world and demanding citizenship because they claim that God told them they’re the real Americans.

(Immigration official) “You guys. We can’t give you citizenship. You’re not American. You’re Ukranian. Says right here on your birth record.”

(Russian accent) “God wrote new certificate. It say we live in America many thousand years ago. We true Americans.”

(Immigration official) “Um, yeah, you can’t just type something out that you made up and have it be legally demanding.”

(Russian accent) “Bro. C’mon Bro. Just sign it. God told me to tell you to sign it. If you sign it, I won’t even kick you out of America when we take over as true Americans you fake infidel imposter.”

Black Hebrew Israelites entered Israel with temporary visas, which were periodically renewed while the government actually considered their claims to citizenship instead of saying, “Get the fuck out of here.”

They were allowed to live, work, and receive health care in Israel and were given loans so they could meet their basic needs. However, their non-citizen status did not provide the free education for their children, tax exemptions, and loans for permanent settlement that were available to Jewish immigrants.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Israeli government did not take steps to deport the Black Hebrew Israelites, but neither did it offer them citizenship, which led to heated discussions in the country.

The Black Hebrew Israelites actually could obtain full citizenship by formally converting to actual Judaism, but they refused to do so.

Meanwhile, the Black Hebrew Israelites population of Dimona grew, aided by high birthrates among the group and by additional members entering Israel.

Some Black Hebrew Israelites, frustrated by their lack of citizenship, denounced Israel and openly adopted anti-Semitic rhetoric, arguing that white Jews were frauds and that Black Hebrew Israelites were the only true Jewish descendants.

Critics in Israel labeled the Black Hebrew Israelites a cult - which they area - a charge the group adamantly denied - all cults do - and these critics argued for their expulsion.

And then proposals for their deportation were met with hunger strikes in Dimona and objections from supporters in the United States.

Haha!

These crazy fuckers come into the country under delusional pretenses, then shit on the government that is taking care of them, and then stage protests when residents want them to leave.

This is literally comparable to five crazy homeless people camping in your backyard, and then, out of the goodness of your heart, you give them blankets and food and allow them to remain. And then they have kids and you help feed the kids, and then, when eventually, you’re like, “Hey guys. I really feel like I’ve gone above and beyond to take care of you and your family, but now I’d like you to go,” and then they refuse to leave and start singing protest songs about how you’re a piece of shit.

“We won’t leave the yard, You don’t hold all the cards! Thank you for the food and stuff But now we hope you die and stuff!”

The U.S. Congress and some African American leaders in the United States argued in favor of the Black Hebrew Israelites’ continued residence in Israel and sent funds, including subsidies provided by Congress, to establish a school for the Black Hebrew Israelites’ children.

Not sure what their true rationale was here. Probably just didn’t want these crazies to come back to the US.

In 1990 the Black Hebrew Israelites and the Israeli Ministry of the Interior reached an agreement. The Black Hebrew Israelites would be granted temporary residency status which made them eligible for financial support from the Israeli government.

The Israeli government later also agreed to build a permanent organic farming village for the group in the Negev region of Israel where they continue to live and work in Israel, earning money through farming, a well-known choir, sewing, and a vegan food factory and restaurants.

Also - I should emphasize here that these extremists have NOTHING to do with the thousands of black Jews and other Jews of color in the US, who are genuine members of the Jewish faith.

And there are several other active sects of Black Hebrew Israelites, such as the Sicarii Black Hebrew Israelites.

The Sicarii Black Hebrew Israelites are a San Diego-based anti- Semitic and racist fringe religious group whose followers believe that Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians are the true descendants of the 12 Tribes of Israel and everyone else can, essentially, go get fucked.

And they believe, naturally, that white people are agents of Satan, Jews are liars and false worshipers of God, and blacks are the one true “chosen people.” https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/black-hebrew- israelites

Another sect of Black Hebrew Israelites is Israel United In Christ, a New York-based group.

The leader of the group is Nathaniel Ray aka Bishop Nathanyel Ben Israel. The group’s mission is to spread the Black Hebrew Israelite ideology and to educate black individuals of their true place in society. They are committed to spreading the ideology globally and recruiting as many black individuals as possible. They rely heavily on social media to promote their beliefs - their Instagram account is terrifying - and they host public activities such as marches and Bible readings.

They reject Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, specifically calling Jews “the bastards that funded the slave trade.” They blame Jews and other ethnicities for all social ills plaguing black individuals, and claim that acceptance of this ideology and God will free black people.

Further, they assert that Jews and white people worship the devil, AND - this is fun - they teach that white people will become their slaves in Heaven.

So - these are the beliefs of black hebrew israelite extremists. Super stupid and nonsensical and extremely racist.

And I gotta say, as a white dude who has covered so many other white dudes who hate black people, it feels weirdly good to FINALLY cover some black dudes who hate white people.

It’s NOT just white people! I say that all the time but it’s different to actually go over real groups who are aggressively racist towards white people.

Racism and stupidity comes in all colors. Any meatsack can be racist and ignorant.

And these belief systems - the Nation of Islam and the Black Hebrew Israelite belif systems, these provide the jumping off point for Yahweh Ben Yahweh, for Hulon Mitchell, Jr., to kick off his bullshit.

He built his beliefs on the backs of these beliefs.

Now, before we dive into Yahweh ben Yahweh’s timeline, let’s take a good look into the life of his craziest, most violent follower, so we don’t have to break out of the time line when he shows up to explain who he is.

Robert Rozier.

E.ROBERT ROZIER

Robert Rozier is an American serial killer who admitted to killing seven people to please Yahweh ben Yahweh.

We mentioned him in our O.J. Simpson suck - Suck 149 - as the most prolific known murderer in NFL history. 1. DEATH ANGEL

At 6’ 3” and nearly 300 pounds by the time he met up with ben Yahweh, was an “enforcer” or “Death Angel” for the Nation of Yahweh.

Rozier is the most controversial and known member of the Yahweh group due the murders he committed and due to his testimony having a huge hand in bringing down the entire religious organization that YBY had built.

2. FOOTBALL CAREER -

Born in Anchorage Alaska in 1955, Rozier and his family made it to California when he was a kid and he attended Cordova High School in Rancho Cordova, just East of Sacramento where he tore shit up on the football field.

Robert went on to become a star football player at UC Berkeley where he played Defensive End. In 1979, he was drafted by the Saint Louis Rams in the 9th round with the 228th pick, where number 75 would play six games at a game weight of 240 pounds.

According to some of his former team mates, he called “Lying Bob” Rozier behind his back an wasn’t well liked.

After just six games he was released, allegedly for drug issues. He quickly got a job in the playing for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and then the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

And then that didn’t work out either. In 1980, he made it onto the Oakland Raiders and was cut after two weeks.

People who knew him said it was mainly drug use that plagued his professional career.

It was the late 70s and the early 80s and the dude liked his nose candy. And cocaine doesn’t have a great reputation for enhancing one’s football abilities.

After being cut from the Raiders squad, Rozier drifted around the country committing various petty crimes revolving around theft for several years before joining Yahweh ben Yahweh’s black- supremacist Hebrew Israelite splinter group in either late 1981 or early 1982. Shortly after his stint for the Raiders, Canadian authorities began investigating $50,000 worth of bad checks that he passed in his CFL days.

As a new recruit, Rozier adopted the name of "Neriah Israel,” or, “Child of God.”

And he allegedly continued with his drug use and according to many members, caused some problems within the Nation of Yahweh group, but he was kept around because ben Yahweh had plans for him. Saw his value.

And in November 1986, thirty-one year-old Rozier would be arrested on multiple murder charges in Miami, linked with the October 30th shooting deaths of Rudolph Broussard and Anthony Brown.

Detectives reported that Rozier's fingerprints had been found at the scene of two random murders where transients were killed, their ears sliced off, and press releases linked him with at least five other murders in Miami that had been carried out in a similar way.

Robert said he carried out the murders on ben Yahweh’s orders.

He would tell a jury, “We did everything from driving a bus to killing someone if necessary. Beating, hanging, burning, stoning, decapitation. . . .” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-29-mn-487- story.html

“Lying Bob” would become the Fed’s prime witness against the Nation of Yahweh. He’d get 22 years in prison instead of the death penalty or life in prison for his murders due to his testimony against Yahweh Ben Yahweh.

And he would be paroled after serving just seven years. One year per murder.

Upon release in early 1996, forty-one year-old Rozier was placed in the witness protection program, and this murderer, now living under the alias Robert Ramses, would not only be free, but his life would be financed by US taxpayer money.

According to a lawyer in the criminal case against the Nation of Yahweh, Rozier tested off the charts as a psychopath scoring 26 out of 27 on the psychopath test they administered.

So now a young, prison-strong, murderous former NFL Defensive End and psychopath is walking the streets.

Luckily, he just couldn’t stay away from crime and three years later he get busted for writing more bad checks and would be sent to prison for the rest of his life under a third strike law.

Bob is currently serving his life sentence at the Mule Creek State Prison less than an hour from downtown Sacramento and just 45 minutes from his old high school.

I doubt any of his old buddies are making a lot of time to come see him.

So now we’ve learned a little about the insane ideologies that probably shaped the mind of Yahweh Ben Yahweh, we’ve gotten a feel for the racial tensions that existed in the city he founded his racist cult in, a city where it was probably pretty easy to sell a message of “Fuck those white devils”, and we’ve met one of his prized disciples.

Now let’s meet the man himself via this episode’s Timesuck Timeline.

Right after a quick sponsor break.

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NOW - it’s time for that timeline.

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III.Timesuck Timeline

1. October 27, 1935: On October 27th, 1935, Hulon Mitchell Jr. is born the first of fifteen children in the tiny wheat-farming town of Kingfisher, .

Dude. Fourteen little brothers and sisters? No thank you. No wonder he became a maniac.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/2.html?sect=13

Back to Oklahoma!

Kingfisher is fifty miles northeast of downtown Oklahoma City and 38 miles due south of [ee nid] Enid. And it’s the birthplace of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart. I think I’ve heard of that guy. I think he founded Sam’s Club as well. Kingfisher is also the birthplace of a Raymond A. Young, who founded TG&Y five and dime stores in the 1935, a chain that had 1,000 stores in 29 states at its peak. It was bought out in 1985 by the McCrorys five and dime chain that went completely bankrupt by 2002. Weird that one little town would be the birthplace of two huge retail chain founders.

And one super crazy cult leader!

Hulon was born into a family affiliated with the Antioch in Enid, Oklahoma, his father, Hulon Mitchell Sr., was the minister and his mother, Pearl Mitchell, was a pianist.

And this branch of Christianity is similar to Pentecostal. They believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Very fire and brimstone. Lot of speaking in tongues. I went to the official church website today, and the “What do We Believe” section talks a lot about divine healing, the second coming, and demons. They’re on the extreme end of Christian beliefs. And this in 2020. I can only imagine Hulon grew up hearing a LOT about the Devil. The Devil was all around. The Devil was waiting to grab his soul.

Random trivia about Hulon’s family - his younger sister , born fourteen years after he was, almost to the day, would go on to be a famous operatic soprano. Leona’s in the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. The Oklahoma African-America Hall of Fame. She’s a grammy winner. She’s been given a bunch of honorary music doctorates. She sang for a time in Paris and critics LOVED her, calling her “the toast of Paris”. And she sang as the leading soprano for the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan for eighteen seasons.

And I don’t shit about opera. I’ve never thought, “I should listen to more opera,” or, “Man, I’d sure love to go to the opera,” a single time in my whole life, I’ve never had sophisticated tastes, but 18 seasons as the lead in New York City - that sounds like a huge honor.

I listened to a little bit of one of her performances. And I could only take it for a few seconds - I forgot how much I actually really don’t joy opera music - BUT - beautiful voice. And she’s won about a thousand awards.

And she must have been humiliated by her brother Hulon. I doubt she brought him up much at parties.

“Oh you’re a pastor? My brother’s a pastor. Kind of. He’s a cult leader. I’d introduce you but you’re white and he’d rather kill you and cut your ears off than talk to you. Anyway, where do you preach?”

Leona and Hulon Jr’s dad was a preacher as I mentioned, and Hulon Mitchell Sr. gave passionate services, complete with ecstatic dancing and speaking in tongues.

And apparently, he was ridiculed by much of the town’s residents, who were mainly Baptist. Local kids would gawk through the windows to watch the antics of the "holy rollers."

And that is saying a lot. In the heart of the Bible belt in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, people thought this guy was a little too crazy about Jesus. That REALLY speaks to how on the fringe he was.

Young Hulon listened intently as his father told his flock they would be rewarded in heaven for the religious and racial ostracism they endured on Earth.

One of his favorite Bible tales was the Exodus story, in which Moses led the enslaved Israelites to freedom.

Hulon’s family, one of the few black families in town, was subjected to the full effect of Jim Crow South, forced to go to "colored" schools, stores, and movie houses.

Also, the family was extremely poor. They were living just a few miles outside of the Dust Bowl during The Great Depression when Hulon was born, and they scraped by during the Depression, with Mitchell's father taking odd sales jobs and his mother working as a maid.

And, while at the end of the day, a black supremacist outlook is just as fucked up as a white supremacist outlook, the motivation to have it for Hulon makes more sense to me than it did for recent Suck subject Timothy McVeigh, for example.

McVeigh wasn’t raised as a minority around a majority population that openly looked down on him and despised him. Hulon was. He wasn’t able to go into the same stores or use the same drinking fountains as the majority of the people in his town growing up. AND, because of his family’s religion, they were even more ostracized.

We don’t know a whole Hell of a lot about the details of Mitchell’s childhood, but in a biography about the man, it was written that he was a moody child, given to crying his eyes out one moment and howling with laughter then next.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/2.html?sect=13

2. 1941: In 1941, when Hulon was just five going on six, his family moved an hour north to Enid, Oklahoma. Around 50,000 people.

Although it was a larger town, black residents were still marginalized. More of the same. Still segregated. Most locals still thought his dad was a nut.

In high school, in the early 50s, Hulon and his pals had to pack their own food and water when they tooled around in a beat-up junker, because there weren’t many restaurants and diners they were even allowed in.

3. 1953: In 1953, when Mitchell was drafted at the age of eighteen, he enlisted as an airman with the Vance Air Force Base just four miles South of Enid.

He married a teenage sweetheart and the couple had four babies in four years, three girls and a boy.

They were transferred to Air Force bases in California and Texas, and Mitchell became as devout a soldier as he was a Pentecostal as a boy. He quickly rose through the ranks to become an instructor.

The military taught him to put his country before all else, including religion, family and self, but eventually he began to question this loyalty. Black soldiers had sacrificed their lives for their country throughout U.S. history and yet, across the country, black veterans were legally barred from sitting at a lunch counter to enjoy a cup of coffee with their white brethren.

He started to question everything, including his parent's passive acceptance of Jim Crow.

He didn't want to wait until heaven to be compensated for his suffering in this life. In fact, he didn't see why he should suffer at all.

4. 1960: By 1960, the United States Civil Rights movement was kicking into high gear. Rosa Parks had refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Martin Luther King, Jr. is rallying pastors together to end congregation. In February of 1960, Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina - the Greensboro Four - refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served.

https://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement/civil-rights- movement-timeline

Blacks were demanding equal rights, and starting to get them.

And Mitchell became part of this movement. He’d returned to Enid and become a leader in Enid's civil rights movement, staging successful sit-ins at two downtown lunch counters.

He was done with the military.

He received an honorable discharge and enrolled as a Psychology major at Enid's Phillips University, which had just recently opened its doors to black students. The school no longer exists - closed its doors in 1998. If you go to Northern Oklahoma College in Enid, you’re on the old Phillips’ campus.

Back in Enid, Hulon also starts dabbling in alternative spiritual movements, including the Rosicrucians [ roh-zi-kroo-shuh ns], a secretive order whose adherents believe they can develop "mental powers" to help them achieve health, wealth, and happiness.

And (Mario voice) Here we go!!!!

And now we add some crazy to his racial angst and fringe- religious upbringing.

Rosicrucianism [ roh-zi-kroo-shuh n-ism] - we’ve touched on it in other sucks - has been described as a low-pressure, less expensive version of Scientology, based on New Age beliefs instead of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction.

I would describe it as being bat-shit fucking crazy.

Currently, you pay several hundred dollars a year for membership, and they send you printed lessons for self study that teach you all about their mystical belief system, the "keys to universal wisdom", as they put it.

Rosicrucians reach various levels, or degrees, based on how much of the self-study material you've purchased and read. You can even perform your own initiation ceremonies into each new degree at home. In your first five years as a Rosicrucian [ roh-zi-kroo- shuh n], you'll cover the three "neophyte" degrees from First Atrium through Third Atrium, and then the "temple" section from First Temple Degree through Ninth Temple Degree. By this time your teaching will include topics such as: a) Mental Alchemy b) Telepathy, Telekinesis, Vibroturgy, and Radiesthesia [rad ee uhs thee shuh] c) Cosmic Protection, Mystical Regeneration d) Attunement with the Cosmic Consciousness

All sounds pretty reasonable! Seems like a bargain to pay just a couple hundred dollars a year to get your cosmic consciousness tuned up and be mystically regenerated and learn how to send others messages with your mind, and move shit with your mind - and do whatever the fuck mental alchemy is.

Actually, I know what it is.

(Infomercial voice) And for just $1,000 dollars you can do when you buy my new book “Super Cool Magical Secrets for Gullible Idiots!”

But for real - it’s the ability to influence others - bend them to your will - with secret mental magic.

Vibroturgy is a thing completely made up by Rosicrucian [ roh- zi-kroo-shuh n] - it’s inwardly harmonizing our sensitivities with an object, in order to perceive its nature.

Radiesthesia [rad ee uhs thee shuh] is Vibrational Physics - it’s a sensitiveness to vibrations one can supposedly obtain that enables a person with the aid of divining rod or pendulum to detect things, such as the presence of underground water, the nature of an illness, or the guilt of a suspected person.

My God. This is all crazy talk. And Hulon is into all of this. In his mind, he must think he’s training himself to be basically, a literal wizard. They should send you a wizard hat and a wand when you first sign up.

B.Continued:

They don’t - BUT - your membership also gives you access to their “Council of Solace” - some beings who exist on some other plane who can help you out if you’re having trouble making rent or you’ve been having migraines of something.

Here’s what their website says about this: “The Council does this by putting certain spiritual energies into motion and directing them in accordance with mystical law and natural principles. Metaphysical aid is thus directed to individuals ...with health, domestic, economic, or other problems, and aid is also directed to those who are attuned with the Council. The aid of the Council of Solace operates on the cosmic plane. Its activity is solely metaphysical and in no way interferes with any professional or health-care assistance being received on the physical plane.”

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4164

I’m sorry? Snake-oil salesman says what?

“Man! My headaches are gone! I wonder if it’s the extra water I’ve been drinking, or the extra sleep I’ve been getting, less stress I’ve been under, the Excedrin Migraine I’ve been taking OR I wonder if it’s the Council of FUCKING SOLACE!?! MMMMMMMMM.”

There is a sucker born every minute. And some of those suckers become Rosicrucians. [ roh-zi-kroo-shuh n]

And one of those suckers was Hulon Jr. And I have to imagine he eventually thought, “If these motherfuckers can sell this bullshit, I wonder what I can sell?”

All of this as too much for Hulon’s conservative wife and she bounced.

They divorced, and, unusually, he was awarded custody of their children. And based on who he revealed himself to be later, I wonder if he threatened her or something. He WILL reveal himself to be a ruthless dude willing to do just about anything horrible to other people.

Also, in the early 1960s, Mitchell grew disillusioned with the civil rights movement.

"The civil rights movement," he'd later say,"was not about becoming free from the oppressor.

The civil rights movement was about fighting and dying to get inside of oppression, to be better oppressed... The civil rights movement was about being able to stop giving your money to your black brother and give it all to your oppressor. You wanted to sleep in the white hotel and eat in the white restaurant so you wouldn't have to eat in the black restaurant no more."

Here is some early “Fuck those white Devils” sentiment.

And again, I can’t really fault him for having them. With my temperament, if I grew up being oppressed by a black majority culture who wouldn’t let me or my family eat in their restaurants or sleep in their hotels or go to their schools or drink from their fountains, I’d have a hard time not fucking hating them.

Interesting take on civil rights to. I’d never thought of what he’s saying here, but it does make sense. How strange, to fight so hard to have the opportunity to support the businesses of people who hate your and think they’re better than you. I wouldn’t want to give them my money either.

For you Star Wars nerds out there, I feel like Hulon is like Anakin Skywalker here right before he becomes Darth Vader. He’s giving in to his hate. He’s about to embrace the power of the dark side.

And for every non-Star Wars fan, dark doesn’t mean African American. I should make that extra clear.

Hulon starts attending meetings of the Nation of Islam, whose adherents - as we touched on earlier - believe blacks are genetically superior to other races - especially white devils - and they call for total segregation.

Suddenly Mitchell no longer viewed his blackness as a curse, but a blessing. He is ALL IN on this stuff. Music to his ears.

The Nation taught that black Americans had to band together to physically protect themselves from the evil white devils running the country. The group's eye-for-an-eye militancy was way more appealing to Mitchell than the turn-the-other-cheek Christianity of his parents. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/3.html?sect=13

Hulon is no longer Hulon Mitchell. Following the Nation’s teaching, he replaces his slave name of Mitchell with an “X.”

He’s done with Christianity. He’s a radical muslim now.

1. 1960s - MITCHELL X -

In the mid-60s, Hulon X moves to Atlanta, where he attends services at a mosque there, studies the Qur'an, takes courses toward a Master's degree in Economics at Atlanta University, and despises whitey more by the day.

He supports only black-owned businesses and home-schools his kids with the help of a new wife, Chloe Hight.

He hawked copies of the Nation's newspaper, "Muhammad Speaks," on street corners and changes his last name again, this time to "Shah," which means ruler or minister.

He starts conducting his own Islamic services in a converted Baptist church, and he shows himself to be a powerfully charismatic speaker.

He uses his economics degree to manage Black Muslim enterprises, including restaurants, a bakery and a clothing store.

And then, just as "Minister Shah's" power within the Nation was growing, he gets accused in 1967 of fleecing $50,000 from church coffers AND molesting children in his flock.

“No, no guys! You got it all wrong! I wasn’t molesting those kids! I was teaching them a little bit of Radiesthesia [rad ee uhs thee shuh]. A little bit of Vibroturgy. I was teaching ‘em how to harmonize some of their vibrational frequencies to one of my objects.

I just figured, for the sake of teaching, I could show them how they could make their rectums good conductors for my divination meat-rod.

C’mon! Gosh Dang!

Asalamalakum! It was a big JK. Just goofin’ around for funzies!”

Mitchell, 32, doesn’t wait around for church investigations to conclude. He takes off and quits the movement.

He said he left because he was afraid of ending up getting assassinated like Malcolm X.

And he was probably right. But it wouldn’t be because he threatened leadership like Malcom did, it was because he was a thieving pedophile. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/3.html?sect=13

Hulon resurfaced in another part of Atlanta shortly afterward, now calling himself "Father Mitchell."

He changed the trademark bow tie of the National of Islam for a long white robe, based on Revelation 3:5 from the King James Bible "He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment."

He’s back into Christianity now. Got in trouble for stealing and diddling with the Muslims. Now he’s back to con some Christians. This piece of human trash knows how to talk the talk in both religions now.

Father Mitchell is now a faith healer.

He’s gonna use some of that Rosicrucian [ roh-zi-kroo-shuh n] mumbo jumbo to Benny Hinn the devil right out of your bones or your lungs or wherever your sick. He’s gonna lay his hands on ya! Get you to trust him so he can lay his hands on and in your kids.

Together with another faith healer in Atlanta known as "Father Jone," he got himself on the radio. He took to Atlanta's airwaves, pushing a "total blessing plan" on the city's gospel stations that would bring listeners health, happiness and winning lottery numbers - for a small donation.

Haha! This guy is such a piece of shit. He’s a prosperity preacher now who is gonna give you winning lottery numbers IF you give him some money. And if you don’t win the lottery after making that donation, I bet it was Father Mitchell’s fault! No sir! It was YOUR fault! You didn’t follow his instructions. You can’t just donate. You also have to have the right amount of faith! Wake up Num Nuts! If you’re gonna win the lottery, God needs you to have the right amount of faith, and donate to Father Mitchell, and pray the exact right amount of times, and spin around 777 times in 777 minutes and burp the alphabet backwards while standing on one leg.

Going on the radio alerts his former Black Muslim brothers to his presence. They haven’t forgotten about him stealing from them or diddling their kids.

They find him.

They start trailing him as he drives around town in his Cadillac and Biblical attire.

They believed Mitchell's quick exit from the Nation of Islam was a tacit admission of guilt, and they wanted him to return the missing funds.

Father Mitchell has to use to some of his radio scam money to hire armed bodyguards and he equips his home with an alarm system and burglar bars.

2. May 1969:

Then, in May of 1969, three men gun down his radio business partner Father Jone in what looked like a Black Muslim hit.

Father Mitchell knows he could be next but he doesn’t run. He stays put. The money was good and he has hired guns watching his back.

He decided to keep taking his chances in Hot-lanta.

He prints brochures claiming he could heal people with a "blessed prayer cloth" and improve their fortunes. "The Lame Walk!" the brochures exclaimed. "Disorders Disappear!"

The propaganda cites happy customers who Mitchell's prayers had scored them a Cadillac or made their beauty salon prosper or made their diabetes go away.

He’s a conscious-less predator who preys on those desperate for money, or desperate due to failing health. He’s a predator who preys on children. And I totally believe he molested those kids because of what we’ll learn about him later.

He’s a bad, bad dude.

His religious racket works.

He tricks the sick and takes from the poor and moves his family into a big-ass house and buys two mint El Dorados.

And he is JUST GETTING STARTED!

He opens a church, the "Modern Christian Church," and starts wearing flamboyant costumes, white satin tunics and robes with zebra lining, a gold crown and a scepter. At his urging, his congregation started to call him the King. In the church's corporate charter, he names himself president and minister for life.

He’s gotta a religious dictatorship! He’s the king and this insane asshole is even wearing a crown and holding a scepter!

"God wants you to be RICH!" he proclaims to his congregation - a message his followers want to hear.

They come Sunday after Sunday, tithing a portion of their meager earnings hoping these tithes will be an investment in divine currency that will pay them back a hundred fold!!

Fuck podcasting! Maybe I should open my own prosperity church!

(Pastor Me) “Can you feel the POWER OF NIMROD flowing through your veins-uh!?! Can you feel the Heat of Lucifina making your holy body SWEAT-uh!?!

Nimrod wants you to be RICH-UH!

Lucifina wants you to feel good-uh!

Can I get the men to leave the room-uh!

Can I get the ladies to take off their clothes-uh!

Feel the spirit flowing through your naked bodies-uh!

Not you Margaret-uh! No, Margaret, Nimrod and Lucifina want you to leave it all on-uh. Go out in the lobby with the men-uh!

Everyone else gather around my god staff-uh! Touch it! Feel it’s power-uh! Move it up and down-uh! Not quite so fast-uh! Some of you need to out lotion on your hands-uh! Looking at you Michelle-uh! Got some crazy callouses-uh! Every body bend-over-uh!

Hurry-uh before me wife-uh comes a-back-uh from the bakery-uh with-uh the snacks-uh! NIMROD has not yet quite convinced her that his all part-uh of His Holy Plan-UH!”

Shit. What this guy actually would end up doing is ever crazier than what I just joked around about here.

3. Mid 1970s: Father Mitchell's rags-to-riches message kept making him more and more money right up until the mid-'70s, when his congregation finally got pissed about him taking all their fucking money, and they turned on him. They got lawyers and were going to take him to court.

And he vanished. Took his kids and left his second wife in the dust. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/4.html?sect=13

BROTHER LOVE -

Soon after he disappears from Atlanta, he pops up in Orlando. Just over 400 miles South.

Damn. The shit people got away with before the internet. Now, people would just find him on social media or Youtube or somewhere, word would get around on Facebook or wherever, and they’d just show up at his new church and be like, “Are you fucking kidding me? Did you think you could just hide in Orlando? GIVE US OUR MONEY BACK!”

But back in the 70s, he could start over in Orlando and he did.

He was now a street preacher named "Brother Love."

Strolling down the city's sidewalks offering hope to the downtrodden who he couldn’t wait to build up and then fuck over, this total sociopath gathered a new group of followers.

One of them was an attractive woman named Linda, a 29-year-old single mother of three.

Linda found Mitchell's straight-laced lifestyle message appealing - no alcohol or drugs - and she thought he'd be a good influence on her family.

Within months he has his new followers paying his bills, and Mitchell resumes his religious studies. Now he reads up on Buddhism, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism and just about every other 'ism he could find.

He’s still studying the Quran and the Bible and he starts to believe the Bible contains secret, powerful messages that will reveal themselves with enough studious attention.

OF COURSE he believes that. He’s looking at everything with those Rosicrucian [ roh-zi-kroo-shuh n] crazy magic eyes! Putting that mental alchemy into his religious studies.

He plucks beliefs from the different 'isms and cooks up a new religion based on the Black Hebrew movement we spent so much time diving into, which taught that Africans were the "true Jews" who'd descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

Now Father Love changes his name yet again. Hulon Mitchel Jr. became Hulon X then became Hulon Shah then became Father Mitchell then became Father Love and now he is Och [ock] Mosche [moe shah] Israel, Hebrew for Brother Moses Israel, because like Moses, he believed he was ordained to lead his people to freedom.

At least that’s what he said. I doubt it. I mean, in his inner thoughts, in his private moments, did he ACTUALLY think he was helping people? Was he that crazy? Or was this all an act?

Did he study all these religions to find spiritual truths, or, did he know the more familiar with these texts he was, the easier it would be for him to convincingly manipulate religious- minded people and take advantage of them? I think the latter. He took his hustles seriously. He knew that the better he could talk the talk, the better he looked the part, the more he could take and get away with.

I think. Only he knew for sure and you couldn’t trust a word this snake said.

4. 1978:

In 1978, Mitchell arrives in Miami along with Linda after he’d had a “revelation” about moving there.

I wonder if that revelation had anything to do with more hot women wearing very revealing clothing? Have you been to Miami? Models in next to nothing everywhere you look.

As soon as the couple arrived, Mitchell used his street preacher tactics to win over more followers.

He claims his disciples one by one, walking up to people in diners, in bookstores and in parks, introducing himself as a "Bible teacher," dressed in a sharp suit and talking to them in a soft, earnest voice.

Why doesn’t anyone do this to me. I’d LOVE to have a conversation in a diner with a religious conman. Make them think they were about to hit a big payday before telling them to fuck off.

(Con man) “…and that’s the gift God gave me? The ability to see those in need of His world, and bring a bountiful harvest of financial blessings to their door, knowing they will use their wealth to spread his love.”

(me) “Man, Father, you really do see with divine sight. For I recently fell into, and forgive me for sounding like I am boasting here, I recently fell into possession of just over ten million dollars. An inheritance. And I have been struggling with what to do with it. My aunt who gave it to me was not a Christian, and it feels like the Devil’s money. And it feels like I need to have it blessed. If I were to give you nearly all of this burden, can you assure me that it will be used to spread god’s glory?

(Con man) “Why yes, son! I KNEW the Lord pointed me towards you for a very important reason!”

(me) “Thank you father. We should do this now, we should go to me bank. But first, just to make sure you’re who god wants me to give the money too, I need you to come into the bathroom with me.”

(Con man) “The bathroom, son? I’m not sure I follow.”

(me) “Yes Father, I need you to suck my dick in one of the stalls. God is telling me he wants you to suck my dick. Then you’ll get your money.”

(Con man) “Are you serious?”

(me) “No. I don’t have ten million and I’d rather kick you down the street than let you touch my dick. Get out of here you piece of shit.”

Och [ock] Mosche [moe shah] Israel finds a lot of people in South Florida open to his teachings.

Blacks in Miami were a forgotten minority as Cubans fleeing their communist island struggled to rise to the levels of financial success as many of the area’s whites. Many of whom were Jewish. All of this helped his new Black Hebrew Israelite-themed message of the Jews are the Devil and you are a member the true chosen tribe of God. YOU are the one who should be rich!

Many black neighborhoods festered with cocaine-fueled crime and poverty, and Och [ock] Mosche [moe shah] Israel was going to save them.

"Did you know that God is black?" he'd ask them. "Yes, it's true! It's the world's best kept secret!"

What a seriously weird notion by the way.

That an immortal god would be a member of ANY race.

You ever think about that?

Like, why would a god be black OR white, or a member of any other race? Wouldn’t a god be above race?

And - humans didn’t used to be all these races, and god is supposed to be much older than humans, so why would god be racial in any belief system?

If you’re thinking of god in racial terms, then, in my opinion, you’re looking at the divine in very intellectually limited and extremely illogical way.

Some of the strangers Hulon approached were intrigued and asked questions, which he happily answered.

He told them, as I just mentioned, that blacks were the true Jews, God's chosen people. He cracked open his dog-eared King James Bible to offer them proof, tapping the Scriptures with his finger.

"In Daniel 7:9, God is described as having hair like pure wool," he'd say. "Look at black folks' hair... it also looks like wool! And in Psalm 119:83, God says 'For I am become like a bottle in the smoke... A bottle of smoke is black!"

He'd lean in close and tell his audience why this wasn't popular knowledge: whites had lied about their elevated status for centuries, so they could dominate and brutalize black folks.

Those white fucking DEVILS!

Brother Many Names printed fliers and peppered black neighborhoods with them, inviting people to learn about his new religion. The curious began to gather at his doorstep. They sat on the floor of his living room, listening to Och [ock] Mosche [moe shah] McDouche proclaim their superior status, and felt uplifted.

He read Genesis 15:13 to them - "And he said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years" - and interpreted the passage for them. It's whites enslaving blacks for 400 years, he said.

He had been chosen, he said, by the "Terrible Black God, Yahweh" to lead oppressed African Americans back to their promised land of Israel, where they would establish a kingdom and live in equality and prosperity.

See! He’s totally teaching that new Black Hebrew Israelites message we learned about.

And that message, thanks to the racial tension we learned about at the top of the show - that message was well received.

These early disciples recruited more disciples, who recruited family and friends and co-workers. They went door-to-door in the black communities of Overtown, Liberty City and Little Haiti, knocking on doors, smartly dressed, always polite.

"Shalom," they said to residents, greeting them with the Hebrew word for peace.

They sold hope to the desperate.

Brother Diddler told his followers that white Jews were Satan's spawn, based on Revelation 3:9 - "I will make those who are of the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews though they are not, but are liars - I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you."

This passage was yet another indication that blacks were God's chosen people, he said.

He told his growing flock that blacks should separate themselves as much as possible from white mainstream culture.

He started a private school in a congregant's home. Two dozen kids of all ages crammed into a single room. Get them away from the hands of the White Devils! Get them right into the hands of pedophile.

More prey for the predator.

Theis school wasn't licensed by the state, but at the time it wasn't required to be, so Mitchell had free rein to design his own curriculum.

He fanned the flames of black rage in his young scholars by ad- libbing his way through Social Studies class and bringing in news articles about police abuse that "proved" there was a conspiracy against African Americans.

When the kids started walking around literally yelling "I hate whitey!" a couple of concerned parents pulled their children from the school.

But most didn’t.

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5. 1979:

By the end of 1979, he reached a new level of success he hadn’t quite attained in Orlando.

His organization, the Nation of Yahweh, would soon describes itself as follows:

"In 1979, Yahweh Ben Yahweh came to Miami and became the Spiritual Leader and Founder of The Nation of Yahweh. Although He took a vow of poverty, in seven years He guided The Nation to amass a $250,000,000 empire. Under His direction, The Nation has grown to encompass disciples, followers, and supporters in over 1,300 cities within the U.S. and 16 other countries."

Ha! Vow of poverty my ass. The giant stone balls of this guy.

Then came that Arthur McDuffie beating and murder I spoke about earlier at length.

6. December 21, 1979: On December 21, 1979, Arthur McDuffie, that insurance salesman, was beaten to death by white Miami cops after he gave up after leading them on a high-speed chase. 7. May 18, 1980: On May 18th, 1980, an all-white jury returned a "not guilty" verdict, and for his followers, Hulon Mitchell Jr.’s teachings were confirmed: The whites really were white devils. They could openly murder a black man and get away with it.

Riots broke out and the city burst into flames.

Immediately after the riots, Mitchell's followers visited black communities and passed out tracts with titles such as "Can I Protect My Child from Whitey's Evil Influence?" and "White Americans are Kidnappers and Terrorists," and people came in droves to hear Hulon’s message. They were afraid, angry, and didn't trust the people in charge of protecting them.

He had to have been overjoyed about how McDuffie died. McDuffie’s death couldn’t have worked out better for his message.

YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH IS BORN

Mitchell tells all his new followers that he will care for them, feed, clothe, and protect them. And someday soon, he will lead them out of racist America to start a new Jerusalem.

And NOW he starts calling himself Yahweh ben Yahweh, Hebrew for God, son of God, and he tells them he was the messiah that God had promised them in the Bible.

And (Mario voice) “Here we go!!”

He’s not just a religious con-man now. He’s gone FULL cult leader. He’s not just saying he had a unique understanding of god’s word. He’s saying he IS god. He is the real Jesus.

"Who has the power to deliver us from the brutality of the white man?" he'd ask his congregation during his sermons, which were meticulously tape-recorded.

"Yahweh ben Yahweh!" they'd answer. "One God! One mind! One love! Praise Yahweh!"

In a typical cult leader fashion, move, Yahweh Ben Yahweh begins urging members to cut off family and friends who weren't part of the congregation. There was life before Yahweh, and life after Yahweh. And life before Yahweh was OVER.

CULT! CULT! CULT!

Followers pooled their money, rented houses together, and home- schooled their children.

They rejected white standards of beauty, and the men stopped shaving, and the women stopped using chemical straighteners on their hair.

They donned loose white robes that skimmed the floor, just like Mitchell's.

They ate a kosher-based diet and didn't drink, smoke or do drugs.

They gave up their "slave names" in favor of the common last name of "Israel" and chose Biblical first names like Solomon or Gideon or Esther.

Mitchell told them that as long as they were of one mind, no one could harm them. Dissent would tear them apart, he warned prophetically, quoting Leviticus: "If you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life.”

Do EVERYTHING I FUCKING TELL YOU DO FOR I AM GOD AND GOD WILL FORSAKE YOUR VERY SOUL AND YOU WILL ROT IN THE BOWELS OF HELL IF YOU DISOBEY ME!

CULT! CULT! CULT!

Once the cult leader starts saying shit like this, that to disagree with or question them is to anger god and you will be punished, it’s only a matter of time before cult members are literally getting fucked.

That part of the story is coming.

8. October 1980: By October of 1980, The Yahweh ben Yahweh flock has at least 150 die-hard members.

They bought a dilapidated warehouse in a section of Miami called Liberty City where Yahweh ben Dingleberry told them they'd live until their exodus to Jerusalem.

And - surprisingly, most members balked at the idea of going "full time" and completely renouncing mainstream America.

God Yaweh must’ve been PISSED! Must have had a big speech about how all those weak pretenders just revealed themselves as Satan’s puppets! They were FOR SURE going to Hell now. Good riddance, dirtbags!

Ultimately, 30 people listened to Yaweh ben Yada Yada Yada and they sold their homes and cars, quit schools and jobs, and moved into the skid row dwelling.

Ugh. Yikes.

The building spanned a full city block. Everyone pitched in to fix it up, giving the walls a fresh coat of paint and restoring the plumbing and electricity.

They hung paintings of black Bible characters on the walls - a black Virgin Mary, Noah, Moses, a black Last Supper. Someone painted a futuristic city populated by black folks, complete with flying saucers.

"The black Christ is risen among us today to deliver us from white people," the caption said.

Holy shit. Can you imagine if you were like, a white building inspector and you had to go through and inspect that building.

“Wiring and plumbing seem to be up to code, Hulon. Can’t say I care for the DECOR, but, legally, I must pass you.”

They named the warehouse the "Yahweh Temple of Love."

And Yahweh would get to lovin’ many of his members really soon.

They subdivided the complex into a miniature village, with spaces for a sanctuary, a cafeteria, a grocery store, laundry, health center, and even an ice-cream parlor.

Pretty impressive. I wish I could find pictures. The only pictures I could find were pictures of the Temple long after it was abandoned, in ruins.

The print shop published Mitchell's propaganda and a King James Bible with depictions of black saints.

As for living quarters, each family was allotted a 10-by-15 foot cubicle that was separated from other cubicles by an 8-foot-tall partition. Some people furnished their cubicle with mementos of their old lives, some just threw a blanket on the bare floor.

There was no privacy.

No thank you. God I love my privacy. LOVE IT. I would not enjoy that situation one pit.

Strict schedules were imposed on all who lived at the Temple of Love. Up at 5 a.m. for chores, then prayers and Bible lessons.

And who enforced this schedule and a variety of rules? The Circle of Ten.

Mitchell picked 10 strong young men, whom he called the "Circle of Ten," to monitor this complex. They carried wooden clubs, which they called the "staffs of life."

Uh huh. Right. Staffs of life. More like “staffs of follow the fucking rules or you get a holy beating.”

Yahweh’s religious services would feature loud, modern music and he’d whip the crowd into a frenzy. "Praise Yahweh!" they’d shout.

They loved it!

At first.

According to later court documents, as his membership grew, so did his demands of his followers.

"How many of you would die for Yahweh?" he'd ask as he stood at his pulpit, a living god in front of his believers. "Would you kill for Yahweh?"

“Yes!” they’d answer back. Yes, they would kill for Yahweh. They would die for Yahweh.

Imagine if you were the FedEx guy or gal dropping off a package and you heard that shit? Might be tossing future packages onto the porch from the truck after that. https://web.archive.org/web/20050313152940/http:// www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/yahweh_cult/ 6.html?sect=13 http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/6.html?sect=13

And then, shit started to get weird. So weird. Like many gods, Yahweh ben Yahweh started to work in very cruel and mysterious ways.

It was hard to keep secrets in such cramped quarters, but his flock started to whisper. They started to discuss ol’ Yahweh ben Sneaky-Peen’s increasingly suspicious behavior. He started slipping into female followers rooms in the middle of the night when their men had been assigned other jobs, or he’d slip into the rooms of women who didn’t have men in their life, under the pretense of Bible lessons. Bible Lessons with the lights off that involved a lot of heavy breathing. Bible lessons that smelled like sweat and cum. You know - those Bible lessons.

Some Father Yod type spiritual lessons. (Father Yod [yoad] voice) “Just ballin’ baby. Just following the path. Just being the father you always wanted. The one you never knew you needed.”

One former member, YEARS later, after Yahweh ben Yahweh died. After he’d been in a witness protection program for years, said that he later found out Yahweh ben PantyThief was having sex with this wife. And many other women. He was having orgies. He’d say things like, “How many of the sisters would mind having the king’s seed?”

When Yahweh ben WetPeen caught wind of people talking, he indignantly proclaimed that he was doing no such thing. He was celibate, as Yahweh required him to be, even though he was Yahweh. He was celibate as he required himself to be. Or something like that.

Then there were his VERY strange sex-ed classes. Teaching classes to the women was one way he isolated them from the men.

Yahweh ben Naughty Pants required women and adolescent girls to attend midwife classes that he himself conducted. They were taught shun modern medicine and have their babies at home, like in Biblical times, he told them.

Couples were forbidden from using birth control, and the son of God wanted his disciples to start having babies as soon as they reached puberty. He wanted his tribe to grow, and now.

"Get it, brothers! ...Sisters, give it up!" he exhorted them. ...it's not about fallin' in love, it's about multiplyin.' ...have babies and let's subdue and control the Earth."

Hulon Mitchell Jr. recorded the names of the children who were born in the Temple of Love warehouse into a large black binder he called the "Lamb's Book of Life" - the same book where he said God recorded the names of the believers who will be saved from Hell.

What happened in the midwife classes was supposed to stay behind closed doors, but the details eventually leaked out during later court proceedings and later interviews.

Yahweh ben Batshit had no formal medical training, yet he was teaching women how to home-deliver babies. And it seems as if he just made shit up as classes went along.

He instructed women to undress and inspect each others' genitalia. He showed them how to use a douche, demonstrating on a volunteer.

Yep. He douched one woman in front of the other women. All part of God’s feminine hygiene master class.

And then things REALLY got weird.

He had one woman lie naked on her back and then he had another women bend down and blow into her vagina. Had her spread this woman’s labia, get her mouth right up on her vaginal opening, and blow into her.

Why???

Get ready for this. This is gonna sound like one of my stupid lies, but I swear this isn’t. He said this was how you performed CPR on unborn babies.

I swear to god.

Holy SHIT I laughed so fucking hard the first time I read that. Oh my GOD. That doesn’t make sense on any fucking level. You would have to not understand ANYTHING about pregnancy to fall for that. You would have to not understand that babies got their oxygen in the womb via an umbilical cord. Or that stayed inside the amniotic sac, surrounded by fluid.

You would have to think that a fully formed baby was just in their chilling. Just sitting inside the vagina. Like a baby in an actual fucking cave.

And THEN - how would you know the baby couldn’t breath? Like, would you think this little unborn baby could talk?

(Whisper-y baby) “Hey! Hey guys! Anybody! I feel like I’m about to pass out. It’s hot as fuck in here. If I pass out, I’m not gonna be able to breath. And I’m gonna need some CPR. Just a little heads up.”

Dude. If any of the women fell for that, I wonder what else he talked them into?

“Hey, I hear your constipated. Let me help. You know, the fastest and best cure for that is for you to lick another woman’s vagina while god fucks your butt. God’ll knock that poop out in no time.”

This maniac also held secret sex classes for boys and men. He showed them movies of white women having sex with animals to dissuade them from lusting after white females. Seriously. I bet he beat off to those videos when no one else was around.

Had to make up some shit if someone walked in on him.

“God! What are you doing!?!”

(Caught) “Oh! Oh shit! Why, I’m a uh, I’m beating the devil out of my dick! Damn devil went after my dick, tricked me into watching this white devil filth, and I’m putting a whooping on my dick to teach him a lesson!”

He also made male followers pull down their pants for “D.I."'s or dick inspections.

No big whoops. Every once in awhile, god needs to peek on your weenus. Make sure that ween is Mama Ridgeway Clean.

Those who weren't circumcised had to pay $100 to be circumcised. And they paid that money to the only doctor the Temple of Love had. Dr. Yahweh ben Didn’t Go to Medical School.

It’s reported that Dr. Mitchell presided over group circumcisions in the sanctuary, reassuring them that it would be quick and painless. As he sliced off foreskin, they shrieked with pain, and some passed out.

This was NOT what his followers signed up for. His small live-in congregation is really starting to talk now.

And once they start talking, they realize other shit is going on. Some of them figure out he’s been fucking their wives and girlfriends. Some of them start questioning Mitchell's authority.

But they still don’t know the worst of it. This dude is also fucking their kids.

Mitchell was a sexual predator in Orlando and of course, he’s still a sexual predator in Miami.

By the time this cult would be disassembled, members would find out he was molesting girls as young as ten years old.

He told the girls that as God's emissary, it was his job to teach women how to have sex.

Dude was a straight up monster.

In exchange for keeping his dirty secret, he showered girls with gifts - special dresses, necklaces, and trips to fancy restaurants.

One of the girls he abused would later tell investigators that Mitchell, approaching 50, had sex with her and another pubescent girl at the same time.

More women came forward to tell of the black savior's abuse at the cult's trial.

One married woman testified that Mitchell forced her to have sex with him four days after she delivered a baby, tearing her stitches.

One of Mitchell's own flesh-and-blood sisters - not the opera singer, a sister who joined the cult and later defected - said he'd raped her and ANOTHER one of his sisters back in Oklahoma years before. It also came out at his trial that he’d molested one of his biological daughters.

One of the girls he abused was the daughter of Linda, the woman who'd accompanied him to Miami. After enduring the shameful activity for years, the daughter broke down and told her brothers, who already distrusted Mitchell. One of them agreed to wear a bug for the FBI, and provided valuable evidence that helped lead to the cult's take-down.

Again - this dude was a fucking monster.

And his story isn’t done. Shit gets even worse.

No matter how twisted or racist Mitchell's teachings got, no one dared contradict him. No one dared go to the white devil law enforcement officers he’d brainwashed them into thinking he was the enemy.

He was, after all, the son of God, and the Temple of Love was absolute theocracy. Those who dared defy him were singled out for public ridicule. In one case, a grown man was made to bend over a chair as the women took turns paddling him. In another case, a teenage girl was forced to strip off her shirt and bra as Mitchell whipped her back. Anyone who disagreed with him was called an "Uncle Tom," or worse, a “blasphemer."

The Circle of Ten get an upgrade to keep people in line.

No more “staffs of life.” Now these enforcers are carrying machetes and beat-down clubs and practicing marching drills in front of the temple. They’re keeping a close watch on people who fall out of favor with Yahweh ben Motherfucker.

Despite the Circle of Ten’s surveillance, a small group of dissenters manage to find each other. They met at the house of a Yahweh member who lived outside the warehouse and they compared notes on the bizarre things that were taking place.

And then word of this meeting got back to Mitchell, and he excommunicated them. He scratched their names from The Book of Life, and printed up a flier titled "Yahweh's Hypocrites are Warned."

"Knowest thou not this of old?" he wrote in the stilted English of the King James Bible. "Since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; yet he shall perish forever like his own dung."

Why do modern prophets insist on speaking in King James Bible English? It’s so fucking annoying.

That version of the bible was written that way because that’s the way people talked back then. Not because it’s how god always talked. Why is that hard to understand?

It’s fucking ludicrous.

If anyone ever tells you that God has given them a prophecy to share, and they start speaking in thees and thous, get the fuck away from them. They’re mentally ill or a manipulative liar or both. That is NONSENSE.

“I am Thou Theest Lord! Preparest thy souleth to understandeth my word!”

“Motherfucker, it's 2020! Speak today’s tongue! Be like, “‘Sup guys this is god and stuff. I’m like, you know, back and shit. So listen and stuff.”

Excommunicating those who betrayed Yahweh ben ‘Bout to Murder bothered him greatly. According to later testimony it was clear that he wanted them killed. He wanted to send a message to other members. Betray me and die.

Check out this fiery sermon he’d had recorded:

”Whoever does not want me to rule over them, those are my enemies," he thundered. "And if you are my enemy, you must die. (You) must be killed...I want to see it...I want to see your head come off personally. I want to see the blood seep from your vein, you know that jugular vein. I want to see it." He made a gurgling noise. "you won't be able to see it seep, but you'll feel that sword when it bites your neck. I can't wait to see that. What a pleasure! All my enemies killed with a sword."

The Circle of Ten thugs took Mitchell's words to heart, and the Jamaican-born Aston Green was their first victim.

9. November 13, 1981 - ASTON GREEN MURDER -

It was Friday the 13th, November, 1981. A construction worker drove his truck down a narrow dirt road to a rock pit located on the edge of the Everglades for a routine equipment check.

As he parked his vehicle, he noticed a large red blanket spread over the weeds a few feet from the road, an odd sight in the remote area populated by 12-foot alligators, the occasional panthers and some strangler figs. He got out of his truck and walked toward it.

He bent over the blanket and pulled up the fabric. Underneath was a man in jeans and Florida Atlantic University T-shirt. And he was missing his head.

Blood still seeped from the severed neck into the grass. He realized the man had been murdered only a short time before. He jerked upright and looked around wildly, noticing a tree next to the body spattered red with blood, before sprinting back to his truck to radio his office.

The corpse belonged to Aston Green, 25, a Jamaican-born Nation of Yahweh member who had defied his cult and been excommunicated.

Green, a former Sunday school teacher, was a month shy of 26 when he was beheaded.

He'd taken the name Elijah Israel when he joined the cult, but reverted back to his birth name when he left. And although he'd been warned to steer clear of the Temple of Love after his defection, he still had friends at the warehouse and frequently returned to visit them.

So when he showed up yet again that fatal Friday the 13th, the temple enforcers decided to put an end to him. They brought him to a remote corner of the warehouse and beat him to a bloody pulp.

As they hit him, kicked him and stomped on his chest, reportedly a little boy ran out of a nearby classroom to see what the commotion was and was shooed away. The beating was so severe that they later painted the floor red to hide the stain of Green's blood, which they couldn't scrub away.

They dumped Green's still barely living body into the trunk of a car, then drove him to the rock quarry, where he'd beg them for mercy in a weak voice.

And then Yahew ben CPR instructor’s enforcers dragged him over to a piece of coral rock, stretched his neck over it, and chopped off his head.

"Damn. This blade is dull,'' one of them said, according to court documents, as they tried to sever Green's head. It took about 20 hacks to do so.

Mitchell’s reaction was especially grotesque according to testimony. "When we take the next head, we're going to put the head in a basket on a post so the whole city can see it and fear Yahweh," he told them.

News of Green's death swept quickly through dissident circles, and a few decided it was time to let the police know what was happening inside the Temple of Love.

Little did they know that there were moles among them, waiting to take news of another betrayal back to their tyrannical cult leader.

Of the dissenters were two popular members Carlton Carrey, a Jamaican born teacher and his wife Mildred Banks.

10. November 15, 1981 - CAREY & BANKS MURDERS:

On November 15th, 1981, just two days after Aston Green’s decapitation, Mitchell's enforcers were waiting for Carlton Carey, formerly Yakim Israel, when he and Mildred returned home from an exhausting police interview.

Four men wearing ski masks attacked them as soon as they walked through the door of their house. They shot Carey to death, but miraculously, Mildred survived despite being shot in the chest and having half of her throat slit by a machete.

The gunman left her for dead and she dragged herself to the house of a neighbor, who alerted the police.

Back at the Temple, Mitchell held a pep rally to celebrate the death of the infidels. Although some attendees were horrified by the news, they dared not show it.

The temple guards were watching the congregation closely, looking for any sign of inconformity. They had no choice but to clap their hands and praise Yahweh with the rest of the horde; they didn't want to be next on Mitchell's hit list.

After the murders, plainclothes cops started patrolling the warehouse full time.

Unmarked squad cars patrolled the neighborhood, sizing up the turbaned, machete-carrying guards. The police didn’t have enough proof linking the attacks to the cult to get arrest warrants. These white devils couldn’t raid Hulon’s holy compound until they had solid evidence.

All they could do was keep their frustrating watch, as fourteen other terrified dissidents went into hiding. Too afraid to talk to the police about what they knew was happening at the Temple.

And then a break came in the case.

The cops noticed a green carpet hanging from the temple wall that matched a piece of carpet found with Green's body. Sergeant Frank Wesolowski, the Polish head of the homicide department - Polish people are the WORST white devils - he decided to pay an official visit to the eccentric prophet.

Of course he did. This is one of the few things Hulon and I agree on. Polish people are in fact white devils. If he would’ve just focused his anger on the Polish, and only killed and beaten and molest the Polish, I’d have a poster of this guy on the wall of my bedroom. A nice visual reminder for my crystal- loving Polish monster-wife to watch her Polish tongue.

Anyway, this piece of shit detective.

JK! He was a good detective. Little Polish bashing for funzies.

Detective Wesolowski was received by Yahweh ben Guilty in his office, calmly sitting at his desk, flanked by two large enforcers.

He deflected the detective’s questions about the cult, lecturing him and his partner instead about the white oppression of blacks. At one point, he held up a copy of a historical photograph showing black men being lynched by a white mob.

"This is what your people have done to us for the last 400 years," Hulon told Wesolowski.

The detectives left scratching their heads, baffled by the racist anger of the cult leader, and unable to pry enough useful information out of him to make an arrest.

Despite the fact people that two people had been murdered, and everyone knew Yahweh ben Yahweh was behind it. Despite the fact that he was fucking everyone’s wives and molesting their kids, the cult still grew in late 1981 and 1982.

Yep.

He got away with everything you just heard.

For now at least.

Emissaries traveled to black communities across the country, dressed in their Biblical robes and sandals, giving away copies of Hulon’s racist propaganda and recruiting new members.

He must have felt invincible.

At their peak, AFTER HE HAD two people killed and a third almost killed, the Yahwehs claimed satellite churches in 45 cities and tens of thousands of members. Five hundred people lived at the warehouse. WHAT THE FUCK!?!

Mitchell bought old buses from Dade County to house single men, who lived three or four to a bus and to accommodate members of satellite churches who made pilgrimages to Liberty City for various "feasts" and celebrations.

11. Fall of 1983:

One of those pilgrims was a 22-year-old black belt karate expert from New Orleans who attended the "Feast of the Tabernacles" in the fall of 1983.

Leonard Dupree's parents didn't want him to join the weird, turban-wearing cult to begin with. But Dupree was a strong-willed young man, a searcher, and his father finally relented to loaning him money to catch a bus to the cult's headquarters. He never returned home.

Dupree drew the attention of temple guards for spacing out in class and wandering around by himself. Rumors started making the rounds that Dupree was an assassin, sent to kill the messiah.

Why did they think this?

Because they were crazy. They were all so fucking crazy.

Now 48 year-old Hulon Mitchell, Jr. is paranoid. He’s worried about getting caught for the murders. He’s worried about other defectors talking. He’s worried that the FBI or the CIA has sent undercover agents inside his Temple to bring it all down.

He’s started censoring mail to and from the temple. His enforcing are constantly on the lookout for spies.

And then, one afternoon shortly after Dupree's arrival in late 1983, Dupree got into a fight with another Yahweh member as a crowd of 70 onlookers watched, and he beat this dude’s ass.

Yahweh ben Rasputin was called to the scene.

"Do you want to hurt me?" he asked Dupree.

"No," the young man replied. "I just want to kiss your feet."

Unmoved, Mitchell accused Dupree of coming to his temple to start mayhem as an angry crowd surged around him.

When someone yelled, "Kill him!" Mitchell didn't stand in the way.

Suddenly, an enforcer wielding a tire iron cracked Dupree's skull, and then the crowd went crazy with bloodlust. He was beaten by an unknown number of followers.

The crowd continued to beat him after he sunk to the floor and lost his consciousness. They ripped his clothes off. They stomped on his genitals. Someone poked his eye completely out of his head with a broomstick.

Sentries locked the doors so no one could leave, and Mitchell made everyone present - every man, woman and child - hit Dupree at least once.

He made them all accessories to murder. They were all bound together by Dupree’s blood. No one's hand would be clean. No one would be able to denounce the murder to the authorities. The flock that kills together, Yahweh ben Yahweh reasoned, stays together.

After his slow death, a group of men rolled Dupree's body in carpet and dumped it near a canal, whose location they'd later forget.

Police never did recover Dupree's body.

Holy shit, right? This story is so fucking crazy.

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After this murder, the cult opened a food-distribution firm, a housing business, and a bottling company that cranked out bottles of Yahweh beer, Yahweh wine and Yahweh soda-drinks the Yahwehs themselves were forbidden from even tasting.

Sell that shit to the white devils! Let them get diabetes! Make money off their ill health. It’s what god wants! God’s will be done!

Everyone was expected to contribute to the groups financial success. One member, a former hair dresser, created a line of hair unguents [UNG gwunts] for black folk that was a national success.

Others hawked merchandise on city streets, selling cassettes of Mitchell's sermons, Yahweh key rings, pencils and T-shirts.

Former members have said that there was a quota of AT LEAST $10 per day that had to be brought in by all members. The street peddlers would sometimes work 18 hour days.

If they failed to meet a sales quota, they were sent to the prayer room - also known as the "pain room" - where they were forced to kneel for hours at a time as the temple guards watched and hit them with a switch if they got up without permission.

God’s will be done!

The Yahwehs who still held jobs in the outside world were required to give some SERIOUS tithes to Mr. Mitchell. Fuck 10%. Fuck 20 or even 50%. They were required to deposit their entire paycheck into the Yahweh bank account.

Meanwhile, despite all this money flowing in, he cuts back on food for his flock, reducing the meals down from three per day to one, usually just a serving of beans. Some of the kids became emaciated.

Mitchell takes the money he saves by starving and overworking his flock and invests it in real estate. He buys and renovates rundown apartments in blighted neighborhoods.

The messiah-slum lord presents himself as the ghetto's savior and he is lauded by the business community.

His influence grows, and this walking human turd is able to secure loans and buy more buildings, and his real estate empire - motels, apartment complexes and grocery stores - helps the Temple of Love, Inc.'s fortunes rise to $8.5 million.

And that doesn’t even count all the money he’s making off vagina-baby CPR classes. At the heigh of his empire, he had over 5,000 certified instructors teaching women worldwide how to lick open other women’s vaginas and blow air inside of them to save creepy talking babies not in fluid, just chilling in women’s bellies, able to yell out if they have trouble breathing.

(baby) “Help! Mom didn’t chew her steak very well before swallowing and I’m about to need CPR!”

“Somebody save that talking unborn baby! Quick, open up that woman’s vagina and blow in it!”

But seriously, the Temple of Love becomes one of Miami's largest black-owned corporations.

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Publicly, Mitchell is heralded as a pillar of Miami’s black community. Privately, he grows more paranoid.

He forms a secret group called "The Brotherhood," a band of tall, muscular young men available for discrete missions.

First he had The Circle of Ten, now he has an even more ruthless, much more secretive group, "The Brotherhood.”

To become a member of The Brotherhood, applicants had to kill a "white devil" and bring Mitchell a body part - an ear, nose or finger - as proof of their kill.

How does this story keep getting more insane? If this shit was a movie, it would feel over-the-top, right? This episode has jumped to an almost Albert Fish level of crazy.

The needle of insanity is pointing towards,

(Albert Fish) “Showbiz! That’s how they do it in Hollywood! When does this party break out the hot apple cider!?! Who’s bringing the peanut butt butter!?!”

12. April-October 1986 - Between April and October 1986, according to court papers, Mitchell's "Death Angels" - another term for his members of the Brotherhood and those on the cusp of being in The Brotherhood, descend on Miami frequently to kill random white people.

And this is where former NFL defensive end Robert Rozier enters our timeline.

The 6’3” nearly 300 pound psychopath already wanted by police for petty crimes like bad checks and forgery.

He moved into the Temple of Love after serving a six-month prison stint, and he changed his name to Neariah Israel, or child of god. He worked hard in the Yahweh booze factory and earned brownie points with Temple elders.

13. April 1986 - And on a Saturday night in April of 1986, Rozier decided to try out for The Brotherhood. He donned street clothes, slipped a 12-inch Japanese-style knife inside his jacket, and left the warehouse to go hunting for white devils.

He is literally hunting white people on the streets of Miami.

Rozier ended up in Coconut Grove, a thriving gay neighborhood, and this psycho followed groups of people around, looking for someone who was weak or small to separate themselves from the pack, impatient to kill.

He’s like a lion or a cheetah in a National Geographic wildlife special, looking at gazelles out on the prairie right now. What the fuck? This guy was a nightmare.

A couple years back he was playing in the NFL.

Now he just wants to hurry up and find a white devil, so he can kill him, and bring an ear back to his child-molesting god, Yahweh ben Yahweh, and go to sleep in his warehouse compound. That’s his real life in these moments.

A white man, Glendell G Fowler, a 52 year-old hospital technician is stumbling down the street as if he were drunk catches his attention and Rozier follows him to his apartment.

As this man he’s never met, a man whose never laid eyes on him opens his door, Rozier forced his way inside and stabs this dude in the heart.

There was another white man living in the apartment, Kurt Doerr, a 44 year-old waiter, and he stabbed that man to death as well.

He briefly considered chopping off their heads to take to Mitchell, but couldn't figure out how to transport the heads in public without arousing suspicion, so he just left.

Allegedly, when Rozier showed Lord Mitchell his knife the next day and told him what he did, Yahweh ben Kill Whitey praised him.

BUT - he didn’t bring back a body part like he’d been told. So, he wasn’t inducted into the Brotherhood quite yet. Rules are rules.

Bring me thou whitest of ears, so sayeth the Lord.

Next time, Rozier would remember to bring back a body part.

14. May 18, 1986: The following month, on May 18th, 1986, about twenty of the Yahweh’s, mainly women and children, head to a particularly crime ridden place called Delray Beach to recruit door- to-door.

While delivering pamphlets they are confronted by some neighborhood youths who don't appreciate them in the area.

Things get confrontational and the scene turns into a street fight where the white robed followers are bloodied, beaten and eventually chased out.

Yahweh ben Yahweh is not pleased. He’s furious. How dare these punks defy god!?!

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15. May 20, 1986: Two days later, about half a dozen homes in the Delray Beach area are bombed and burned. The police believe it was most likely the work of Yahweh’s “Death Angels.”

You don’t beat his flock and get away with it. If anyone’s gonna beat his flock, it’s gonna be him.

16.September 1986: According to later court testimony, several months later, in September, Rozier, who would later admit to killing seven people, kills again.

He and another Death Angel walked the streets of Miami for hours looking for more white devils to kill. They’ve gone hunting again.

Eventually they come across a man passed out in a car in a bar parking lot.

The bar was called the TeePee Lounge and the man’s name was Raymond Kelly.

And Kelly wakes up to being murdered.

The two men stab him in the chest repeatedly, and then they slice off his ear to please Yahweh ben Yahweh.

But then one of these two idiots drop his severed ear in the dark and they couldn't find it, so they went back and cut off his other ear and brought that to Mitchell.

My GOD!

Thing about that weird moment of reality. These two were out in the late night darkness of Miami, arguing about the ear they’d just cut off a stranger they’d kill to please a con man they thought was god.

“Dude! I told you to put it in your fucking pocket!”

“I’m not putting an ear in my pocket, Bob. That stain never comes out. These are my good jeans!”

“Then you should’ve let me carry it. I cut it off. I should’ve carried it. Where’d you drop it?”

“Bob, if I knew where I dropped that ear, it wouldn’t be lost, would it? FUCK! We’re never gonna find it.”

“Wait. John, I have an idea. How many ears to most people have?”

“Two, I think, why?”

“How much is two minus one?”

“Bob, math was never my strong suit, but I think one.”

“EXACTLY! He STILL HAS ANOTHER EAR! We can go it. The night isn’t totally lost yet!”

“You’re a genius, Bob! A genius!”

Police would later learn that a gun Kelly always carried in his glove compartment was also stolen by Rozier. This gun would help link Rozier to other murders and help bring this whole cult down soon.

As a reward for killing a random white dude, Lord God Mitchell gave these two shit heads the following day free, and Rozier would later testify that they celebrated by going to see the movie Aliens.

Hilarious. These two fucking idiots. They kill a white man because they hate white devils and then they go buy tickets to see Aliens, a movie written and directed by white devil James Cameron. A movie starring white devil Sigourney Weaver. A movie starring other white devils Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jennette Goldstein, a white Jewish devil.

The President of the Studio that made this movie, 20th century fox, at the time was ran by Sherry Lansing, a jewish white devil.

The cast had one black man, little known character actor Al Matthews. Gunnery Seargeant Apone.

These two stupid fucks kill a white person because they hate people and then celebrate by financially supporting the box office gross of one of the whitest movies of all time.

As more white men - usually homeless or alcoholic drifters - started showing up dead and mutilated on Miami's streets, the police initially thought the killer was a deranged Vietnam vet.

They never suspected the killings had been ordered by one of the city's revered black leaders.

Remember - the police were also SUPER busy in Miami in the 80s. Certain neighborhoods were war zones back then. Homicide detectives had big ass stacks of papers on their desks. It was one of the most murderous cities in the US.

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17.October 30, 1986 - Opa Locka incident -

On October 30th, 1986, the cult committed even more brazen murders.

They’d taken over the mortgage on an apartment in Opa-locka, a small city less than 15 miles northwest of Miami. When they tried to evict the residents, some residents refused to leave. Yahweh's Death Angels - the Brotherhood - they were sent in to forcibly remove these people.

TV cameras showed up and interviewed some of the people there who didn’t want to leave. Two residents brazenly denounced the Nation of Yahweh on camera.

Those same two residents were found shot to death later that same evening. They’d been murdered execution style.

Yahweh ben Yahweh was drunk with power. He thought he could just murder whoever the fuck gave him a problem.

These brazen killings FINALLY led to a break in the case that would lead to the downfall of the entire cult.

And we’ll talk about this break, right after one last sponsor.

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And now I’m back. I couldn’t help myself. I’m so jaded now, but that really got me. One of the most absurd things I’ve ever read about.

Now back to those brazen apartment tenant killings that FINALLY led to a break in the case that would lead to the downfall of the entire cult.

A witness told police that they’d seen Rozier kill these people, and the NFL burnout was arrested on Halloween 1986 and charged with murder.

At first he refused to cooperate with investigators.

This lunatic gave his age as 404 and answered all questions with "Praise Yahweh!"

Officers then went to where he was found and discovered his murder weapons, one being the revolver Rozier had stolen from Raymond Kelly’s car.

With the evidence mounting against him and an open and shut death penalty case in front of him, prosecutors made Bob a deal he didn’t refuse. They didn’t want him. They wanted Yahweh ben Yahweh.

In exchange for testifying against the cult, he would only get a 22 year prison sentence, and he could be out in seven years on parole.

Talk about a deal with a devil. They wanted Yahweh ben Yahweh so bad they were willing to let a serial killer walk free in less than a decade.

Now Lord Mitchell is nervous.

As the noose began to tighten on his evil empire, he scurries to polish his cult's image. He hires a media-savvy lawyer, Ellis Rubin, as an adviser, and held open-houses where community leaders and journalists traipsed through the previously hidden confines of the Temple of Love.

They want to make Rozier look like a liar. He DOES have a criminal history of forgery. He IS a liar. They want to make it look like he acted alone.

He has his enforcers had exchange their weapons for briefcases. Smiling children sit in clean classrooms, reciting lessons. Smiling Yahwehs greet investigators warmly and give them tours of the facilities.

They were all "one big happy family," Mitchell tells them.

He told his guests that his church was all about black empowerment, not murder or hate, and insists that Rozier was a loose cannon acting on his own. A troubled soul he was trying to save.

And through legal maneuvering, he remains free for several more years AFTER the arrest of Rozier. He makes more money. He fucks more cult members. He molests more children. He teaches more vaginal CPR classes.

19.October 7, 1990:

On October 7th, 1990, the mayor of Miami, Xavier Suárez, declared the day "Yahweh ben Yahweh Day” at an event held at the Miami Arena that was attended by thousands of his followers. He rewards this 54 year-old psychopath for being an incredible business leader. A pillar of the black community.

Meanwhile, a federal grand jury IS FINALLY putting the last touches on a 25-page indictment accusing Yahweh and 15 disciples of 14 murders, extortion and running a racketeering enterprise.

A few weeks after Mayor Suarez's announcement, God son of God was arrested in New Orleans.

"Obviously I was wrong," Suarez said tersely when reporters hounded him for a reaction to Mitchell's arrest.

Haha! Yeah, I bet he felt a little foolish for endorsing this guy. Whoops! JK about Yahweh ben Yahweh day. Oopsie daisy! Probably would have NOT done that had I known about the murdering and molesting and all the “white devil” talk.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/13.html?sect=13

https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144054/http:// www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/yahweh_cult/ 13.html?sect=13

20. November 7, 1990: On November 7th, 1990, Yahweh headquarters are raided in five states. Yahweh ben Yahweh and 16 others are arrested. They are charged under RICO act - Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Makes sense. They are more of an organized crime operation than they are a religious institution. Hulon Mitchell, Jr. is basically a mob boss.

21. January 6, 1992 - TRIAL: The case was finally tried in 1992 at the U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale. It began on January 6th.

The presiding judge, Norman Roetgger, called it the most violent case he’d ever been a part of.

Fearing Mitchell's followers might pull a stunt, worried for his safety, the feds secure the streets around the courthouse with SWAT teams.

Over the objections of the defendants' lawyers, the jury was shown 30-by-40-inch photos of some of the victims, including Aston Green's torso and severed head, to illustrate the extent of the cult's savagery.

Dissenters who had suffered in silence for years finally had their day in court and provided lurid details of the cult's inner workings. One man told the jury how he lost his sense of self after working long hours and not sleeping or eating enough.

Reminiscent of Jim Jones here! Keep people tired, hungry, and confused. History has shown over and over and over again that they are MUCH easier to control. Just touched on that recently in the Pol Pot Khmer Rouge genocide Suck.

"I saw my own children starving," this man testified. "I was beaten. He (Mitchell) had sex with almost every woman in the temple, including my wife."

As more than a dozen former followers took the witness stand, including his own sister and nephew, Hulon Mitchell - and the court did call him that, no more Yahweh ben Yahweh motherfucker, he kept a poker face.

Mildred Banks testified with a scarf hiding the scar where his thugs had slit her throat.

Robert Rozier, released from prison for the occasion, recounted his six murders for Yahweh in cold detail. He admitted to stabbing a seventh man to death on his own accord, a Cuban panhandler who wouldn't leave him alone.

This dude.

“The seventh one was not on the cult! I’ll take full responsibility for that one. This stinky homeless guy just would NOT stop asking me for a dollar. What was I supposed to do? Not stab him to death?”

Although witnesses testified at length about the murder of dissidents and "white devils," the prosecution could not legally prove that Mitchell ordered the deaths.

FUCK.

Eventually, Mitchell himself had to take the stand and the case of the United States versus God, son of God got even weirder.

He identified himself in court as the "grand master of the celestial lodge, the architect of the universe" and denied everything. His religion was about love, he said, not death.

And then, the fate of God, son of God was handed over to the jury.

Jurors agonized over their verdicts for five days, several times declaring themselves “hopelessly hung.”

Was he gonna get away with all of this?

Wednesday morning, Miller, the forewoman, sent out a message: “The jury is hung on so many issues that only through time will any decision (if any) be reached on all counts.

“I never expected this and I am scared,” added Miller, who was scheduled to enter law school on Wednesday.

But a few hours later, the jury returned with a verdict. Miller said Wednesday night that jurors argued and shouted, but remained friends.

“We’re so thick-skinned. We respected each other as people. “Religion remained not an issue whatsoever,” she added. “Nor was race.” https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article230873664.html

After a decade-long investigation, a year and half of court dates and 160 witnesses, the ethnically diverse jury handed down the verdict.

The prosecution was stunned: the panel acquitted seven disciples, convicted seven of conspiracy, and declared a mistrial in the case of two members when they failed to agree on a verdict.

They found Mitchell guilty of conspiracy but deadlocked on the racketeering charge.

Judge Roetgger sentenced the seven disciples to 15 to 16 years each, and Mitchell 18 years. His followers cried tears of joy and his victims, tears of bitter frustration.

After all this, the cult had gotten away with murder. With multiple murders.

And all the child molestations. Got away with that too.

“Praise Yahweh for victory,” Mitchell said, dressed in the sect’s traditional white garb with his ankles cuffed together. “Sometimes the truth comes out in court.”

AND - Rozier still got that big plea bargain even though his testimony didn’t do what the prosecution had hoped.

He confessed to killing seven men in seven months, six allegedly at Yahweh’s behest.

But the jurors didn’t believe him. They found his story of being sent to kill “white devils” over-the-top. The outrageousness of Mitchell’s crimes helped him. The story was so crazy it seemed unbelievable.

22.September 26, 2001:

In the end, after everything you’ve heard, Hulon Mitchell, Jr. would only serve eleven years in prison.

He was incarcerate in 1990 and released on September 26, 2001. He was only 65 years old.

Mitchell was released on parole and returned to Miami, where at least his activities were strongly restricted until a few months before his death.

He was prohibited from reconnecting with his old congregation.

To assure this, he was restricted from any form of speech by Internet, telephone, computer, radio or television that could place him in contact with any congregational members.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/ yahweh_cult/14.html?sect=13

https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144814/http:// www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/classics/yahweh_cult/ 14.html?sect=13

23.2006 - In 2006, as he became increasingly ill with prostate cancer, his attorney Jayne Weintraub petitioned the U.S. District Court for his release from parole in order to permit him to "die with dignity".

And this was allowed and that pisses me off. They might not have been able to prove it in court, but they knew this motherfucker was a murderous piece of shit.

He didn’t let any of his followers live with dignity. The kids he raped - didn’t give them any dignity. The white devils murdered to please him - they didn’t get to die with dignity.

24.May 7, 2007 - DEATH: On May 7th, 2007, Yahweh ben Yahweh died of prostate cancer at the age of 71, and the world got a little bit better.

And that takes us out of this timeline.

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IV.Additional Thoughts

A.Recap:

Holy shit.

What a story. I had no idea how truly insane this Suck would be when I picked this topic.

Yahweh preached from Oklahoma to Georgia to Florida, he preached as a Christian healer. He preached as a Nation of Islam Black Muslim, he preached as a Black Hebrew Israelite.

For decades, he preached a message of hate. A message of us versus them. A message of segregation.

He attracted thousands of Miami followers with a message that blacks are God’s chosen people. That they are better than everyone else.

He proclaimed himself as god on earth.

He built a $100 million real estate portfolio.

Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez proclaimed a Yahweh Ben Yahweh Day in 1990.

At the height of its power in the late 1980s, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh actually housed churches in 45 cities and in 16 countries.

His daughter and former lawyer as well as many of his former followers still believe he was innocent and actually framed.

And, while they may not have active churches, they do still have an active website. https://www.yahwehbenyahweh.com/

It has a contact number and an email.

I’ve called and gotten a real person to answer and asked if the Yahweh ben Yahweh movement is still active. I was sent to voicemail.

I’ve emailed and assured them that although my name sounds white, I am NOT white. Not some white devil trying to waste their time.

I have yet to hear back.

I was fascinated by this topic. Glad we did it. I think it’s a good reminder that everyone can be racist. It’s not a white person’s disease. It’s a human disease. And it’s always ignorant.

I do think African Americans have far more emotional and historical motivation to BE racist than white Americans, but, if you just keep bouncing the hate back and forth, than it never goes away. The pendulum just keeps swinging back and forth. Group A hates Group B which pisses Group B off, and then Group B’s kids grow up to hate Group A’s kids, which pisses them off, and then Group A’s kids grow up to hate Group B’s kids, and on and on and on and on.

Don’t hate based on race. Hate based on character. If you just need to hate, there are PLENTY of worthy targets. We’ve talked about a lot of them right here on Timesuck.

Or if you’re a better meatsack than me, try to love those you hate and kill ‘em with kindness. I struggle with that one but I do see it’s long term value.

Hail Nimrod you motherfuckers. Thank you for being group that’s real easy to love.

I hear in meet and greets every time I do shows now from people who have been helped in a variety of ways - emotionally, financially, even physically, by the kindness of strangers. Strangers who don’t care what race they are, what their political affiliations are, what their sexual persuasions are. They just love their fellow meat sacks.

And that pleases the shit out of Nimrod. And it makes Lucifina oh so wet with joy.

Time now for Top Five Takeaways.

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V. Top Five Takeaways 1. Number One: Number one. Yahweh ben Yahweh really, REALLY wanted to be a religious leader. It was the game this con man loved to play. He tried multiple times in multiple places before getting it “right” with the Nation of Yahweh in Miami.

2. Number Two: Number two. Before the Federal government sent him to prison, this dude made a fortune. Combining the money of his followers with his own investments helped make the group millions of dollars, with some estimates as high as $100 million and other claims - mainly from the group themselves to take it with a grain of salt - of nearly $250 million. They did buy around 20 properties and lots of fancy cars.

3. Number Three: Number three. Defensive End and Death Angel Robert Rozier was a psycho. The dude killed seven people. That he admitted too. It was his choice to steal a gun from one of the crime scenes that would tie him to several others and tumble the Nation of Yahweh house of cards.

4. Number Four: Number four. There are still many people including one of Mitchell’s own daughters and former lawyer that think he was framed and innocent. Did this daughter of his think his own sister made up Mitchell raping her? They believe he was part of the long line of black leaders that were intentionally harmed by the white status quo.

Fuck that. This dude was no Dr. King. He was a piece of shit. They come in all colors. Including black.

5. Number Five:

Number five - new info! The Nation of Yahweh may no longer be around as an active cult, but there are still Black Hebrew Israelites around that are every bit as racist.

Remember the January 2019 Nick Sandmann case?

That viral video showing a white teenaged boy from a Catholic private school standing and smiling smugly at an American Indian elder beating a ceremonial drum. Did you assume the worst when that happened? I did.

Like many Americans, I thought that kid had one of the most punchable faces I’d ever seen.

Did you know that aggressively racist black Hebrew Israelites were the real villains that day?

Nick Sandmann, a 15-year-old from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, was wearing a Make America Great Again hat and his rowdy peers were shouting.

And by the way, wearing that hat DOES NOT make you a piece of shit. I hate that narrative. Very reductionary and narrow minded to think supporting a mainstream political candidate makes someone a terrible person. Very polarizing way to approach political discourse. I have friends who are DIE HARD democrats. And I have friends who are hard core Republicans. And guess what? Both sides have great people in them.

Media coverage IMMEDIATELY framed this issues as another outbreak of white supremacy and white male privilege in America with only President Donald Trump to blame.

But that wasn’t the truth.

And this isn’t me being political. This is me spreading facts.

There were four BHI’s that escalated that entire confrontation.

The Covington Catholic kids were waiting for their bus to leave when they got a fucking ear full from some grown bigots.

After having his life altered forever by the media and getting countless death threats and being painted as white supremacist, Nick Sandman released a statement. In it he referred to the BHI’s saying:

"They called us 'racists,' 'bigots,' 'white crackers,' 'faggots' and 'incest kids.' They also taunted an African-American student from my school by telling him that we would 'harvest his organs.' I have no idea what that insult means, but it was startling to hear," Sandmann wrote.

Many agree that this was likely a reference to the Jordan Peele horror-satire "Get Out," a 2017 movie in which the black boyfriend of a white girl discovers her family is harvesting the organs of black people.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Omaha Nation elder Nathan Phillips - the native man banging the drum - corroborated a public statement released by Sandmann that a third group was to blame for the escalation on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

He said it appeared to him that the dynamic between the Covington kids and black nationalists was getting tense and close to possible violence, so he intervened to pray.

Later, a 90-minute YouTube video emerged showing the third group that Sandmann accused of offending him, his classmates and the American Indian protesters - the Black Hebrew Israelites.

It’s pretty obvious if you watch it what happened. It’s certainly not how the media portrayed it. These assholes were just screaming obscenities at these kids. These racists were doing everything outside of physically assaulting them to bait them into a confrontation.

Nick Sandmann sued several major media outlets that his lawyers and family feel did the most damage. This includes CNN, which he went after for defamation. They have recently settled, likely for seven figures.

The BHI. Still around! Still hating white devils! Still causing problems. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/22/black- hebrew-israelites-covington-catholic-video-hate-group-other-info/ 2643519002/

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/who-are-the-black-hebrew- israelites-who-sparked-the-lincoln-memorial-standoff

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/01/07/nick- sandmann-cnn-confirms-settlement-covington-catholic-student/ 2837478001/

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VI.Final Announcements

A.Episode has been sucked!: Episode has been sucked!:

The Nation of Yahweh has been Sucked! Fuuuuuuuuuuuck those guys.

B.Thank you to Timesuck Team (including episode researcher):

Big thanks to the Timesuck Team! Thanks to Queen of the Suck Lynze Cummins, High Priestess of the Suck Harmony Vellekamp, Reverend Doctor Paisley, the Bit Elixir app design crew, Logan and Kate at Spicy Club running BadMagicMerch.com , and the Script Keeper Zaq Flannary.

C.Facebook Group/Messageboard:

Check out the Cult of the Curious Private Facebook Group if you want make some new friends!

Thank you to the Countess of the Cult, Liz Hernandez for being a kick ass admin.

Over 17,000 meat sacks to meet in there now. Whooo Hoooooo! Hearing so many great stories coming out of the Cult. So much love.

Thank you to the All Seeing Eyes of the Cult helping Liz.

Also, the Timesuck Discord channel via the Timesuck app has over 5,500 diehard suckers in there.

Thank you Beefsteak!

D.Next Episode Preview: Next week, we get so weird. The Space Lizards have chosen Baba Yaga.

A monster of Russian Folklore.

Baba yaga a supernatural being - or one of a trio of sisters of the same name - who appears as a deformed or ferocious-looking old woman.

And she lives deep in the Russian forest standing on chicken legs.

Yep.

Baba Yaga may help or hinder those that encounter her.

She has an odd look. Her nose may stick into the ceiling. Particular emphasis is placed by some narrators on the repulsiveness of her nose, breasts, buttocks, or even vagina.

And well, tales of Baba Yaga are just, um, weird.

If you liked the Brother’s Grimm Suck, you’ll like this one.

It’ll be another wild ride!

E.Segue to Timesucker Updates:

Now let’s get to today’s HEATED Timesucker updates.

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A.First Update comes in from infuriated government employee Joe I’ll leave his last name out of this.

Joe writes:

As a mediocre government employee as you have described us, I'd like to just let you know that in my time in government service, the people I work with are some of the finest people in the world.

The majority of us do the job not for money or anything like that.

In fact, most government employees are the lowest paid workers in the US economy for college educated employees and could be making more in the private sector.

We do the job because we all have a desire to help people and we do it despite the condemnation of the general public who do not understand what we do and how we do what we do.

We have routinely in the past 20 years taken the abuse of the news media, politicians, and the general public and yet we still go to work and feel that what we do does make a difference.

The sacrifices I have seen many of my friends in public service make in order to continue to do what they do is not only beyond mediocre, it s laudable and deserves praise!

As it is we, the mediocre government workers make sure that the unemployed get their checks, that child welfare is maintained, clear the roads, protect natural resources, and generally make the gears of everyone's life work smoothly and typically behind the scenes with no praise or thank you, just admonitions, jokes, and name calling.

Joe! Holy shit were you triggered by comments in the Oklahoma City Bombing Suck.

First off, I don’t think I ever said “mediocre”. And I CERTAINLY never said ALL government employees are mediocre. I know that for sure.

I said that MY EXPERIENCES with private sector employees in the customer service area have been better overall than my experience with public servants in the customer service area.

And I stand by that. Oh my God do I ever stand by that.

And it just makes sense to me. It’s human nature. I don’t HAVE to go to Starbucks. There are a lot of other coffee shops to go if I want coffee. But if I want a driver’s license. I HAVE to go the DMV.

The nature of market competition versus no market competition OF COURSE creates a different power balance between consumer and provider. Between business and customer.

And because of that imbalance, because of free market competition, private sector employees have more incentive to work harder for your business, so OVERALL, in SOME WAYS - they do.

That doesn’t mean that all government employees are shitty employees. I don’t believe that for a second. I do believe that it is EASIER to be a shitty employee when you work for the government than it is to work for the private sector for the reason I just described.

But yes - some government employees are fucking awesome. My grandma worked at the post office for over 30 years. And did so with a smile on her face. Some of her coworkers - not so much. If her post office would’ve been a privately owned UPS store, I’m guessing they would’ve been fired.

And that being said, Joe, I know that many private sector employees are also pieces of shit when it comes to customer service.

If you’re still listening and you’re still mad at me, well, then I hope you don’t work for the IRS.

Also, if you are doing a good job, which it sounds like you are, thanks dude.

Now let’s get a far angrier message.

B.Timesucker David - I will leave his last name out as well, SUPER pissed after the OKC Suck and read a LOT into shit I never even said. David writes:

Hey Mofo- Do you really think the citizenry could stand a chance against the military? I don't think so- all they gotta do is cut off communications, like cell service, the internet, jam various FM frequencies and eavesdrop on what's left. Without comms and information, you are screwed. Also, regarding gov't overreach, the most obvious example to me are the male and female sociopaths who become cops.

According to them that study this stuff, sociopaths become CEO's, lawyers, surgeons, and cops. As we see everyday, cops lie, plant evidence, hide exculpatory evidence, murder, beat citizens to within an inch of their lives, use torture to get false confessions, use chemical warfare via pepper spray and CS gas, and the list goes on and on about how they bully, intimidate and harass citizens that haven't done anything illegal but somehow end up at the wrong place at the wrong time and encounter a sociopath with a badge.

Look at the disparity between how much jail time a plain old ordinary citizen gets for a violent crime vs. a cop found guilty of the same offense. The whole entire (in)justice system is fucked up and needs to torn down and redone. Occasionally the cops bust people as bad, evil, and violent as the cops themselves are, and even rarer, bust someone worse than them.

Mostly they just fuck with people, like pulling someone over and saying "Your wheels touched the white line. Get out of the car so I can conduct a sobriety check". Chances are that driver - me - did not touch the white line with his vehicles wheels. But what are you gonna do? You do what the bully with the badge says, except you say "I will not even try to say the damn alphabet backwards. I have been inculcated over a lifetime that the alphabet goes from A to Z, left to right. I will say my name phonetically, Delta Alpha Victor India Delta, but I will NOT say the damn alphabet backwards." And after checking to see if you are wanted for something, and you are not, they hand back your license and go back to hunting someone else to fuck with. Fuck the police, and you, oh suckmaster general.

Wow, David! Classic emotional thinking here my friend. You have a bad experience with one cop who pulls you over, maybe with a few cops, and now, to quote you, “Mostly they just fuck with people.”

I don’t believe that’s true for a moment.

And studies say that sociopaths become CEO's, lawyers, surgeons, and cops? Yeah, some do. Do you hate all CEO’S, lawyers, and surgeons too?

Hope you never need surgery, or a job, or police protection. Guess you’ll have to get in bed with Satan if you do.

What studies are you talking about by the way? You didn’t send any links.

An article published in 2018 by Business Insider did talk about the top ten professions for sociopaths.

Kevin Dutton, a British psychologist and writer, specializes in the study of psychopathy. In his book "The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success," he made a list of the types of jobs that attract the most psychopaths.

And Kevin says that Number ten is Civil Servants, so Joe from the previous message, I guess maybe he’s a sociopath as are ALL OTHER MEDIOCRE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES!

JK! Gosh dang. Just joking around there for funzies.

Number nine is Chef. Number eight is Clergy person. Number seven - to your point David, is police officer. Number six is journalist. Number five, to your point, is surgeon. Number four is salesperson. Number three is media person in TV or radio. Makes sense. Podcasts are basically the new radio and I’m OBVIOUSLY a sociopath. Number two is lawyer. And number one, is daycare provider.

Did NOT see that coming because it’s not true.

No, number one, to your point, is CEO.

But - DAVID - what this study does not talk about is the percentage of sociopaths within each of these professions, and that is most important number.

As far as officers being punished less than non-officers for the same crimes, yeah, you’re right. Is that because the police are pieces of shit, or, is it typical of the phenomenon of professional courtesy seen in just about every profession.

Am I more likely to sneak in another comic for free to one of my shows or a non-comic? Comic 100%. Comics do that for one another. We help each other out. Do each other favors.

You don’t think cops do that? Watch out for each other? Help each other out of jams?

David - if you were a cop, do you think you would give speeding tickets to your friends the same way you’d give them to strangers?

Fuck no.

To counteract this element of human nature, there are now dashboard cameras, cameras officers wear on their uniforms, etc. More and more investigations are being done.

Have many cops been corrupt? Yes. But are MOST cops corrupt. No study I have been able to find comes even close to suggesting that.

As for the citizenry standing up to the military, I feel like no is hearing what I’m saying here.

I DON’T THINK US CITIZENS COULD STAND UP THE MILITARY IN A FAIR FIGHT. Jesus Christ. I’ve never said that. Listen to what I actually do say. I think an armed insurgency could give the military PROBLEMS. Maybe slow things down enough to create a dialogue. Maybe wreak enough havoc to cause more people to join a rebellion.

Our next Timesucker better communicates what I’ve been trying to say.

And go meet more cops, David. Ask to go for some ride alongs. See that they’re not all evil.

https://www.businessinsider.com/professions-with-the-most- psychopaths-2018-5#3-media-person-in-tv-or-radio-8

C.Meticulous meat sack Joshua Roblee sends some militia numbers my way with an awesome and thorough Militia Update. Joshua writes:

Greetings Suckmaster,

Brace yourself, it’s gonna be a read.

A few times during the OKC Bombing suck you mentioned that you had changed your stance regarding armed citizens standing up to a tyrannical government to the point of view that they might be able to make a difference.

I’m gonna give you some numbers and logic and I think it will change your mind again to the, “Yeah, they’d for sure do it” group.

The population of the US is 327 Million, of that there are 1.3 million active duty military stationed here in the US and abroad. There are 800,000 reserve military and 850,000 sworn police officers. Now, the generally accepted proportion of Americans that would take up arms against a tyrannical government is thought to be around 3%. Using that number you’d end up with 39,000 active military, 24,000 reserve military, 25,500 police, and 9,721,500 civilians that would resist a tyrannical government. The remaining government force of military and police would only be about 2.8 million. These 2.8 million government police and military would be fighting an armed populace of 9.8 million. For ease of distinction, I’m going to call them “militia” from now on. There would be over 3x more militia members than police and military combined, assuming that all deployed personnel overseas were brought back to the US to quell the uprising.

Now, when we look at capabilities, the military and police have tanks, bombs, planes, etc. The militia have members in the police and military, so they would know the capabilities and VULNERABILITIES of all this equipment. They’d know where these assets can and can’t be used, how to defeat them, weak points, maneuvering abilities and inabilities. The militia would know how to stop a tank. Additionally they would have an understanding of tactics and training that the government and police would use against them. This makes it difficult to fight when the militia knows how to counter strike and disable any perceived advantages a military and police force may have.

With regard to bombs and large weapons. The militia doesn’t have them, but the government wouldn’t be able to use them. Militia members would be spread across the country, spread across cities and towns. The government couldn’t just drop bombs because of the collateral damage to supporters of the government. They couldn’t just bomb downtown Seattle because they’d destroy not only the militia, but also innocent and/or compliant citizens. If they did choose to do that, it would lead to the government being discredited and much like we saw in Iraq, the government would be painted as the bad guy and it would in many cases lead to more people joining the militia against the government, further straining their already smaller numbers. Additionally, since the militia is spread across the country, the government would have to simultaneously strike the militia. If they didn’t, targeted strikes would allow individuals to band together and counter-attack the government or develop strongholds in areas that would work against the government, like large cities that would render air attacks useless, limit visibility and maneuverability, and prevent the use of large area weapons like missiles and bombs. The militia would have a clear advantage in numbers, and has the strategic advantage in that it wouldn’t really have anything to lose, whereas the government could risk losing its credibility as a hero in the situation in the eyes of those not part of the militia. Militia members don’t have a uniform, so the militia would have another targeting advantage because they would know exactly who to shoot at. Pretty easy to point out a bunch of guys in an armored personnel carrier wearing camo or vests with big yellow “POLICE” tags all over them. The same can’t be said for government troops. Government troops would have to carefully inspect and identify possible militia members or risk shooting non-combatants. Understandably militia members would have guns, but they could easily blend in with non- combatants and sneak away unscathed in the event of any door to door raids. Those would be a thing too, because the government would have to have some means of identifying militia members and door to door raids and unwarranted searches would need to be conducted for that purpose.

Now, militias would take casualties. The quality and quantity of body armor the military and police would have would be greater than the militia. Access to medicine and hospitals may prove problematic for militia members as well. So there would be some disadvantages.

All things considered from a logistics and logical standpoint, the government wouldn’t stand a chance even if only 3% of Americans decided to take up arms against a tyrannical government. The bulk of the major advantages would go to a militia comprised of as little as 3% of Americans that decided to stand and take arms against an overreaching government.

For the record, I’m not a militia member, I am more similar to your political leanings as a libertarian. I do however like numbers and logic. I also like thinking about things. So while I’m not over here waiting for the boogaloo to start, I also understand that based on the numbers and stakes, if anything does kick off, I think I’d wanna be on the side of militia rather than the government.

Whether I’ve convinced you or not doesn’t matter, if anything, I am just hoping you’ll have some more things added to your brain muscle to think about and ponder during your travels on tour.

Thank you, keep on suckin.

Josh Roblee

You have added a LOT to my brain muscle, Josh. Makes the resistance feel possible, which I hope never happens - I’m a huge fan of the US military. I am definitely not wanting anything like that to ever happen. I just know that things change. We have an amazing country right now. Doesn’t mean we will 30 years from now. Thank you for all that info! That was amazing!

D.Now we have a firsthand OKC Bombing experience message coming in from awesome meatsack, Anthony Thornton. Anthony writes:

I just finished the Oklahoma City Bombing episode and thought I would share my personal experience from that day.

I was at my job when the blast shook the building I worked in. My boss had recently bought a new monster dually truck and had difficulty squeezing into his parking space in back. When the shockwave hit us, I walked out of my office and asked the receptionist if he had finally managed to hit building.

I looked out the window behind her, and I could see the column of smoke rising from the direction of downtown. At first, we surmised that a plane might have crashed at the Downtown Airpark, a private airfield. Debbie, the receptionist, turned on the TV at her desk, and we saw the first images and reports of an explosion at a federal building. I ran back to my desk to call my fiancee, who worked in a federal building in downtown OKC. We were getting married in less than a month. I was able to get through before the phone lines were swamped, and I was relieved to learn she was fine. Her building was around the corner from the blast, and while it had taken some damage, everyone in her office was okay. She then spent the next few weeks not only finalizing the plans for our wedding, but also working in her job at the US Attorney's Office to support the federal prosecution of Noodle McWeenie. And when we got back from our honeymoon, she went right back to it. She's a bad mofo. This May will be our 25th anniversary. On kind of a funny note, later that fateful afternoon, several hours after the bombing was headlines around the world, I figured I should call my mother and let her know that her future daughter-in-law was safe. Here's how the call went: Me: Just wanted to let you know (my fiancee's name) is safe. She wasn't near the blast. Mom: What are you talking about? Me: Didn't you hear the explosion this morning? Mom: Well, yeah. Me: And you weren't the slightest bit curious what happened? Mom: Ummm... Me: TURN ON YOUR TV, MOM!!! Sigh... Well, Dan, keep on sucking you magnificent bearded mother sucker. Anthony (still in Oklahoma)

Dude, that is nuts, Anthony. That’s crazy that you FELT that. Thank God you weren’t closer. I imagine you must think about that sometimes. Had you happened to work a few buildings over, you could’ve died that moment.

Terrible, terrible act McVeigh committed. Senseless violence brought on by a delusional belief in a tyrannical government.

Keep on sucking, Anthony.

E.Now a very different message coming in from the OKC Bombing Suck. I got TJ! Wonderful Sucker TJ Simpson writes:

Capt. Cummins of Suck Force 5, You glorius bearded bastard, you got me finally. OKC bombing episode got me, I live in Lapeer, where Nichols is from, and grew up not far away. Your anecdote about the beastiality ring got me because as you mentioned about the underground ring I figured maybe you did some research. The downtown area between some buildings does have adjoining passageways from old speak easies and storage. Good job fucker. As always, praise Triple M., hail Lucifina, and fear the good boy Bojangles.

That is hilarious, TJ. I had NO idea that the downtown area does have old basements from the Prohibition days. I got lucky! I love that for just a moment, you thought that town had a dark past filled with dog fucking.

F. I also got James Wells last week. With a different lie! I went hard on the lies last week which is why I backed off this week. Mighty fine Meatsack James writes:

Dude, You had me on the Don't Tread on Me representing the sodomizing of British troops. I about ran off the road. Fucking hilarious.

Thanks, James! One of my favorite lies so far. Two lies that revolve around sexual acts in one suck. What is wrong with me? I’m clearly a dirty pervert. Begone Lucifina!

G.And finally, Scott Wogan with an awesome message regarding TODAY’S Suck! Kick ass Sucker Scott writes:

I met Yahweh Ben Yahweh!

I was in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Miami Florida when Ben was arrested along with several of his followers. I was there because I took the fantasy of robbing a bank all the way to reality.

Turns out I'm not very good at being a criminal, and after an almost 20 minute chase on my motorcycle, I was rammed by a police car and arrested shortly after.

The late 80's to early 90's was a time for some very interesting characters in federal prison. Manuel Noriega was there (he was in isolation, but I walked right by him the first night on my way to see my attorney), I met a guy who was in the Bay of Pigs invasion (he used all that great CIA training to smuggle cocaine), and they were just two among a host of larger than life organized crime figures.

Maybe I shouldn’t think all of that is super cool, but I do. Scott continues:

I worked in the electric shop, and one of my hustles was making reading lights for guys on the top bunk because the calls were originally designed for one person and only had a lower bunk light.

Ben was a soft spoken guy with pretty Intense, icy blue eyes. He readily agreed to my 2 packs of cigarettes price and one of his underlings paid me. In case you’re wondering why he had to sleep on the top bunk, that was the way it worked when you bunked in a new cell. The current occupant always kept the lower bunk, and you had no initial control over who you bunked with. Though I didn't have any conversations with him after that, I often saw him on the yard surrounded by followers who would sometimes be massaging his legs while he was stretching. I have no doubt many, if not all, of them would have killed or died for him. Later I worked with one of his followers in the electric shop and he was easy to get along with, but tight-lipped about any personal connection with Yahweh Ben Yahweh. So, unfortunately, I didn't hear any juicy details firsthand. A little long, but hopefully interesting. Love the show, I'm a space lizard, shout out to my amazing wife Larissa, and keep on Suckin'!

Thank you, Scott! Hi Larissa!

Oh my God. You did BUSINESS with Yahweh ben Yahweh. How manipulative was that dude, by the way? Had what sounds like his own cult IN PRISON.

Not sure if you’re white or not, Scott, but Scott Wogan is a pretty white name. Can’t believe he was doing business with a filthy white devil!

So many more amazing updates came in this past week. I think next week’s Suck will be a little leaner, so, I’ll try and throw more udpates in that one.

Hail Nimrod you curious bastards! I love all the info!

PAUSE TIMESUCKER UPDATES OUTRO

VIII.Goodbye!

A.Goodbye!: Have a great week everyone. Don’t start any racist cults, don’t diddle cult members kids, don’t tell anyone to blow in pregnant women’s vaginas to save babies, but do keep on suckin’!

SOURCES:

BOOKS - https://media.local10.com/document_dev/2019/09/16/ Persecution%20of%20Yahweh%20ben%20Yahweh_1568663143332_222 84195_ver1.0.pdf https://www.scribd.com/document/205021133/YAHWEH-BEN-YAHWEH- Home-Study-Guide-English https://yahwehbenyahweh.com/Shocking_Revelations/pdf/ message_for_law_keepers_pt4.pdf

BROTHER LOVE: Murder, Money, and a Messiah

The Biological Children of Yahweh Ben Yahweh Speak Out

RISEN: The accession and devolution of Yahweh Ben Yahweh: Miami's Urban Chronicles Volume 1

LINKS - https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article230873664.html https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article1929029.html https://culteducation.com/group/1241-yahweh-ben-yahweh.html https://people.com/crime/yahweh-ben-yahweh-murderous-cult-leader-death-angels/ https://web.archive.org/web/20050313144814/http://www.crimelibrary.com/ notorious_murders/classics/yahweh_cult/14.html?sect=13