Interesting write-up of the goof ball here.
Posted on 05/08/2007 12:32:09 PM PDT by Borges
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the South Florida sect leader whose brand of black supremacist preachings drew his followers into a brotherhood of murder and terror in the 1980s, has died in Miami, his lawyers said.
Lawyer Ben Kuehne said Ben Yahweh, 71, died in his sleep overnight. ''Cancer is the cause,'' Kuehne said. Ben Yahweh had been ill with prostate cancer.
The self-proclaimed ''Black Messiah,'' Yahweh based his operation in the bunker-like Temple of Love in Liberty City, once telling his followers that white people were terrorists and that unbelievers were devils.
Federal prosecutors, however, branded him the most notorious criminal in South Florida. Convicted of conspiracy, hee served 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence.
Born Hulon Mitchell Jr. in Oklahoma, the preacher and activist moved to South Florida in 1978 and changed his name to the Hebrew words for ``God, son of God.''
A charismatic leader, he founded the Nation of Yahweh, boasting thousands of followers who often dressed in white and who once won praise for rehabilitating blighted Miami neighborhoods.
According to a book on Yahweh written by former Miami Herald reporter Sydney P. Freedberg, Yahweh was the oldest child of a minister. He joined the Nation of Islam before turning up in Orlando as Brother Love and eventually finding fertile ground among the poor and black in Miami.
Yahweh, who called himself a prophet and wore a turban and flowing white robes, preached racial and religious separatism for blacks.
At the same time, he amassed a real estate and business empire worth at least $8 million. He won favor with prominent local politicians, who considered him a positive force for inner city neighborhoods. Yahweh and his followers opened grocery stores, hotels and apartment complexes.
Just a month before Yahweh's indictment in 1990, then-Mayor Xavier Suarez declared Oct. 7 as Yahweh Ben Yahweh Day.
Federal prosecutors, however, accused him of plotting 14 Miami-Dade County murders, two other attempted murders and of ordering the firebombing of a Delray Beach neighborhood in 1986 to further his religious empire.
Federal and state investigators spent millions of dollars and more than a decade tracking 20 homicides they believed were connected to the Miami-based religious sect. Yahweh's only conviction came on the conspiracy charge.
In October 2006, after Yahweh completed five years on parole, his lawyers, Jayne Weintraub and Steven Potolsky, went to federal court in an attempt to end his parole. They said the prostate cancer had metastasized and he was dying.
The attempt to free him from parole was unsuccessful.
Yahweh had been living alone in Miami after his release from prison, his lawyers said, and he had kept away from his former followers. In court papers, they wrote that Yahweh was ``greatly desirous of the simple dignity of being permitted to die a free man, not a parolee.''
Good!
“Yahweh based his operation in the bunker-like Temple of Love in Liberty City, once telling his followers that white people were terrorists and that unbelievers were devils”.
...I know this is distasteful but, Yahoo for Yahweh!
Yes, we see that a lot......The Sword, The Arm, And The Machine Gun Nest Of The Lord.
Guess he finally went to meet his “dad”...........
So he is clear of ethics?
I have never understood this. Who hires a lawyer to announce a death? Most people avoid lawyers at all cost. After all, they charge you $250 bucks to answer the phone. Why would an old man dying of cancer have a lawyer on standby to announce his death?
Up here in NYC, we have ‘The Black Israelites’ who preach racist hatred on public access cable TV and periodically from street corners.
Oh well.
Yeah, they wear that Eddie Murphy “Coming To America” garb.
The press contacts someone who acted as a spokesman for him ... in this case a lawyer. It's not so much that the lawyer announced anything as it is the press got the information from the lawyer.
in a related story.... Amreican Media reports
Hamas and Hezbollah plan to construct many Temples of Love with the ability to loft offerings into Israel.
Interesting write-up of the goof ball here.
Is October 7th still Yahweh Ben Yahweh Day in Miami?
Oha ... Pay the man for his trouble.
Talk about taking the Lords name in vain! Anyone who would name himself “God - Son of God” is pretty much reserving himself a secluded grotto in the pit of hell.
Reverend Jesse, Reverend Al, Brother Love...same difference.
No difference.
Next stop, the Twilight Zone.
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