{"id":51427,"date":"2016-07-19T05:09:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51427"},"modified":"2016-07-19T05:14:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T05:14:38","slug":"jj-macnab-on-baton-rouge-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51427","title":{"rendered":"JJ MacNab on the Baton Rouge shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; plus further readings on sovereign citizens &#038; the Moorish Science Temple ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JJ MacNab<\/strong>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Seditionists-Inside-Explosive-World-Anti-government-Extremism-America\/47876418\">The Seditionists: Inside the Explosive World of Anti-Government Extremism in America<\/a> &#8212; note date of publication &#8212; has the basics on the quasi-religious sovereign citizen and Baton Rouge cop shooter, <strong>Gavin Long<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tweet storm: The Baton Rouge cop shootings <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BatonRougeShooting?src=hash\">#BatonRougeShooting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/socitpa?src=hash\">#socitpa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sovcit?src=hash\">#sovcit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sovereigncitizen?src=hash\">#sovereigncitizen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/moors?src=hash\">#moors<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Extremism?src=hash\">#Extremism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjmacnab\/status\/755068690467475456\">July 18, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the text of MacNab&#8217;s <strong>Tweet-storm<\/strong>, collapsed for easier reading: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday, Louisiana law enforcement revealed that the Baton Rouge shooter, Gavin Long, had a Washitaw Nation card on him when he was killed. Judy Thomas of the Kansas City Star looked beyond the social media clues to find a Washitaw-related legal filing: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/local\/article90183857.html\">Kansas City man identified as suspect in killings of three Baton Rouge police officers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sovereign citizen is someone who mixes fabricated history, out of context laws, and miscellaneous quotes to prove he&#8217;s above all laws. Those who have been watching the #BundyRanch standoff and the #oregonstandoff have seen this &#8220;magical thinking&#8221; in action. <\/p>\n<p>25+ years ago, this movement fell into the white supremacist \/ right-wing extremist categories. 20 years ago, the white supremacist side of the movement splintered off, leaving behind a right-wing extremist group. 15 years ago, a handful of left-wing extremist \/ black supremacist groups adopted many of the legal theories as their own. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the sovereign movement falls into 3 general categories: the right wing patriots, the left wing Moors, and the left wing anarchists. Since the left-wing anarchist sovereigns aren&#8217;t a significant threat at this point, I&#8217;ll leave them out of the rest of this thread. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015 Gavin Eugene Long aka Cosmo Setepenra filed a curious document with the Jackson County, Missouri recorder. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2.jpg 420w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this document, he corrected his &#8220;common law name&#8221; from Long to Setepenra.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"590\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1.jpg 590w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/3-1-300x89.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Note that his given name GAVIN EUGENE LONG is in all capital letters while his &#8220;corrected&#8221; name Cosmo Ausar Setepenra, is mixed case. In sovereign-speak, he is attempting to separate his flesh-and-blood self (Cosmo) from his corporate fiction self (GAVIN.)  In the document, Long claims to be a member of a fictional Native American tribe: the Washitaw Nation. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4-1.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"600\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/4-1-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This group has a theory that, when the North American continent separated from the African Continent, humans were split between them. They consider the slave ship stories of the early colonies to be a myth. Therefore, he is descended from an indigenous people who were in the U.S. before it became a country and is not subject to any our laws. <\/p>\n<p>When gov agencies (police, IRS, courts) fail to recognize their faux indigenous status, they believe their inherent rights are violated. They simply lifted legal theories from the right-wing sovereigns &#8211; UCC codes, &#8220;reclamation,&#8221; admiralty law theories, &#8220;truth language.&#8221; The personalized those theories w\/ a complex layer: Egyptian mythology and symbols, numerology, new age imagery, holistic healing, etc. <\/p>\n<p>To see some of these beliefs, poke around this website a bit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartsynopsis.com\/washitaw.htm\">http:\/\/www.stewartsynopsis.com\/washitaw.htm<\/a>\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Long left clues beyond filing his sovereign &#8220;reclamation&#8221; legal document and carrying a Washitaw Nation card (probably his ID card.) The number 7, for example, is sacred. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"383\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5.jpg 383w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gavin Long&#8217;s email address was TheCosmoWay7@gmail.com. The family name he chose for himself was Setepenra or Setep-en-ra (Chosen by Ra.)  The shooter said that he used to be part of Nation of Islam. That is not inconsistent as there is some overlapping between movements.<\/p>\n<p>When you start looking into this movement, you will find hundreds of website, hundreds of Youtube videos, and thousands of online comments. It&#8217;s a complex sub-culture so no tidy category boxes. Moorish sovereign beliefs can be found in everything fr popular music 2 self-help vids. As w\/ their &#8220;patriot&#8221; sover&#8217;n cousins, there&#8217;s a lot of grifting, property theft &#038; domestic violence (females relatives &#038; kids are property)  And like the &#8220;patriots,&#8221; they resent authority figs who don&#8217;t respect their belief that they are above the law. This can be deadly to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The following is violence\/plots list. As you scroll down (it&#8217;s 8 pages,) look for the &#8220;Moorish Sovereign&#8221; subset. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seditionists.com\/antigovviolence.pdf\">http:\/\/www.seditionists.com\/antigovviolence.pdf<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I first became aware of the <strong>Moorish Temple<\/strong> via the brilliant and eccentric <strong>Peter Lamborn Wilson<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citylights.com\/book\/?GCOI=87286100908510\">Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam<\/a>. <strong>Herbert Berg<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rel.as.ua.edu\/pdf\/bergjaar.pdf\">Mythmaking in the African American Muslim Context: The Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the American Society of Muslims<\/a> looks to be a serious paper on the topic, and you can find more at the <a href=\"http:\/\/hermetic.com\/moorish\/\"><strong>Moorish<\/strong> page at the <strong>Hermetic Library<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; note that <strong>Hakim Bey<\/strong> is the pseudonym of Peter Lamborn Wilson. See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Koran-Moorish-Science-Temple-America\/dp\/1617590940\/\">Holy Koran of the Moorish Science Temple of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; plus further readings on sovereign citizens &#038; the Moorish Science Temple ] . JJ MacNab, author of The Seditionists: Inside the Explosive World of Anti-Government Extremism in America &#8212; note date of publication &#8212; has the basics on the quasi-religious sovereign citizen and Baton Rouge cop shooter, Gavin Long: Tweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,483,753,1392,790,533,1367,1327,211,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-extremists","category-islam","category-jj-macnab","category-law-enforcement","category-religion","category-sov-cit-c","category-sovereign-citizen","category-terrorism","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51427"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51444,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51427\/revisions\/51444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}