Federal judge has had enough of Moorish sovereign-citizen frivolity

A federal judge in Boston yesterday dismissed an effort by one of the people involved in that armed standoff on Rte. 128 to move his case to federal court, declaring that his argument that he is a "Moor" not subject to Massachusetts criminal law is bunk, or in legal terms, "frivolous."

Tariff Sharif Bey, a Detroit, MI man formerly known as Aaron Lamont Johnson, remains locked up at an Essex County jail in Middleton in lieu of $100,000 bail following his arrest along Rte. 128 in Wakefield after an armed standoff with State Police. The ten men and one teenager were charged with various violations of Massachusetts guns laws as they drove from Rhode Island to armed "training" in Maine.

Bey and several of the other men involved have filed a number of actions in federal court over their state criminal charges, all basically saying that as citizens of the "Free National Government of Morocco" and the true aboriginal inhabitants of North America to boot, they are not subject to state law and that in any case, the Second Amendment gives them the right to form a militia and do whatever they want with all weapons, including those specifically banned in Massachusetts.

Because they have all filed their federal cases by themselves, the various judges involved have shown them considerable leeway in allowing them to make their claims, no matter how seemingly nonsensical they might be - such as that they are not, in fact, citizens of "the US corporation" and that the state troopers and county prosecutors involved in their cases are guilty of both treason and genocide. They also consistently claim the 14th Amendment has no holding on them because it was declared null and void in Congress on June 12, 1967, when, in fact, no such thing happened, but a white-nationalist congressman from Louisiana gave a speech denouncing the 14th Amendment for leading to the Supreme Court's decision that morning to ban miscegenation laws.

US District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, though, ruled yesterday he has had enough, ordered Bey's federal case dismissed and sent the whole thing back to Middlesex County court.

Gorton began by ruling that Bey had given him no reason to intervene in the ongoing criminal case in state court, especially given past rulings that federal judges should steer clear of state cases where defendants have ample opportunity to make their case, which he said was the case here.

[A]lthough Bey argues that removal [from state to federal court] is proper because he is a Moor-American National, such arguments have been consistently rejected by federal courts, and this Court finds Bey's argument without merit. ... Contrary to Defendant's assertions, his purported status as a Moorish-American citizen does not enable him to violate state laws without consequence.

And so, Gorton would not give Bey the chance to amend his initial attempt to move his case to federal court, something judges can do with pro-se filers:

Given the nature of Bey's pleadings, any amended pleading would appear to be based upon the frivolous legal theory that the Commonwealth courts lack jurisdiction because of Bey is a Moor-American National.

Complete ruling (477k PDF).
Bey's filing to move case to federal court (3.8M handwritten PDF).