1994 attack by FBI against Qubilah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz

"The Outside Force Manipulating Black Organizations From Within"
2014-04-01 from "FinalCall.org" [http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Minister_Louis_Farrakhan_9/article_101331.shtml]:
FinalCall.org editor’s note: In 1994, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam rallied support for Qubilah Shabazz—daughter of Malcolm X and the late Dr. Betty Shabazz. Qubilah was accused by the government of hiring a hit man to assassinate Minister Farrakhan. It was during the fallout of that case that Minister Farrakhan and the Black community charged the government with trying to set up Qubilah by paying Michael Fitzpatrick (aka Michael Summers), a Jewish informant, $45,000 plus expenses to record conversations he had with her. Following a Jan. 17, 1995 press conference at Mosque Maryam, where Minister Farrakhan called for a letter-writing campaign in support of Qubilah, the charges against her were subsequently dropped. On May 6, 1995, at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, history was made as the world witnessed Minister Farrakhan with Dr. Shabazz, sharing the same stage. During his speech, Minister Farrakhan addressed the United States government’s role in setting up the circumstances for disunity, distrust and betrayal through the infiltration of Black organizations by paid informants. The following article contains excerpts of this historic message.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.
It is said that “there is a thin line between love and hate.” “Love” and “hate” carry the same emotional fervor: one is positive and the other is negative; one is creative and the other is destructive.
But when one loves as deeply as we have loved each other, and then, the bond is broken and hate replaces love, we are forced to ask the questions: “What changed our direction? What forces interfered with this bond?” When a man loves a woman and a woman loves a man and the love turns to hate, it is more than likely that this turn comes because of a sense of betrayal.
“To betray” is to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty; to be unfaithful in guarding or maintaining; to be disloyal to; to disappoint the hopes or expectations; to betray one’s confidence; to betray a secret; to reveal unconsciously something one would preferably conceal; to deceive, to mislead, to reveal or disclose.
Betrayal is when one loves and puts complete trust in an individual, religion, ideology, or program and then that one feels that his or her confidence, trust and loyalty was misplaced. This produces a breech, a chasm, a great divide it does not appear that anyone is able to bridge. It is comparable to one’s attempting to build a bridge from the West Coast of the United States to the mainland of China: No engineer would be foolish enough to even attempt such, and certainly no one would wish to spend the money to do it even if it could be done, and therefore such a bridge would be considered improbable, unwise and an impossible task.
The probability of our being here today was unseen by any of us. The probability of a headline on the front page of The Final Call saying, “Free Qubilah!” with a picture of Dr. Betty Shabazz and myself was unthinkable just a few short months ago.
The fact that we are here today under these circumstance says that no ordinary architect was involved in building this bridge. This had to be the work of a Mighty God—a Mighty God who desires our unity and the reconciliation of us as individuals and as a people. So, I bow in complete submission and praise of Allah (God) for His Great Intervention that has given us this moment of victory.
The scripture says, “This is the day that the Lord has made so let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Although this scripture is referring to the Sabbath which is the Lord’s Day, this is a day or a period or a millennium given to heal the people who have been blinded and destroyed by the touch of Satan. This is the Sabbath and we who have been blinded by the touch of Satan are in the process of being healed.

Government conspiracy fuels chaos and confusion -
J. Edgar Hoover was determined that no Black Messiah would rise to unite our people in their quest for justice and true liberation. An untold sum of taxpayer dollars was used by the FBI to hurt the legitimate movement of our people toward liberation. Our zeal, our love and hatred, our ignorance was manipulated by powerful outside forces ...
I believe that the entrapment of Sister Qubilah was part of a much wider conspiracy. There is no way that the government of the United States would permit Michael Summers Fitzpatrick, a member of the Jewish community, to assassinate Louis Farrakhan knowing the possible repercussions that it could cause. I do not believe that the government wanted or wants a Caucasian person to be openly involved in an attempt at my assassination. Their desire would be that a member of our own Black family, preferably a Muslim or a nationalist, would attempt such to throw our whole house into complete chaos and confusion.
The government admits that it worked night and day to bring about a separation between Brother Malcolm X and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Once this division was accomplished, the government by its own admission had agents on both sides to manipulate the zeal and the ignorance inside the ranks of the Nation of Islam and among the followers of Brother Malcolm X to create the atmosphere that allowed him to be assassinated and the Nation of Islam to sustain wounds from which it has never recovered.
The devastation resulting from the wicked machination of the government sent many brothers and sisters from the Nation of Islam back into drugs, crime, insanity, and it caused the destruction of entire families. Sister Betty Shabazz and her family have not recovered; the Honorable Elijah Muhammad’s family has not recovered; my family has not recovered; the Nation of Islam has not recovered; and Black people have not recovered from these terrible wounds.
It is sad that there are those who do not want to see Sister Shabazz and I sit down to make an honest attempt at reconciliation when we are both victims of a wider conspiracy: a conspiracy that did not start with Malcolm X or the Honorable Elijah Muhammad; a conspiracy that certainly did not start with Sister Betty or myself.
This conspiracy started with the government of the United States because of its hatred of the movement that Malcolm X and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad had generated and the affect that these two men were having on Black America.

The Outside Force -
J. Edgar Hoover was determined that no Black Messiah would rise to unite our people in their quest for justice and true liberation. An untold sum of taxpayer dollars was used by the FBI to hurt the legitimate movement of our people toward liberation.
Our zeal, our love and hatred, our ignorance was manipulated by powerful outside forces and the result is that members of the Nation of Islam were involved in the assassination of Malcolm X. And the Nation has taken the heat and carried the burden of the death of Malcolm X. We cannot deny whatever our part was. That is true. But we must not let the real culprit get away by hiding his hand and keeping us fighting and killing one another.
We didn’t voluntarily split from each other. There was manipulation. There was stimulation of our own pettiness, of our own weaknesses by outside forces and the government is that outside force. The FBI is that outside force. So Betty and I shouldn’t be here alone. The government has to answer for what has happened.
We know the hurt of the prominent ones among us, but what about those other families? Families of the unnamed ones that are broken to pieces. Daughters who were virgins destroyed. Young men and women that had hope in a movement destroyed. Thousands of lives ruined because the government feared our unity.
We carried no weapons. We threatened no laws. We broke no laws. But because we had an ideology and a philosophy that the government did not like, we were targeted by the government. They didn’t need laws passed by Congress to tap our phones, to follow us around, to harass us day and night.
In the government’s releasing of Qubilah, and not taking this case to trial, in one sense it is a great victory, but in another sense this protects those in government who were involved in the conspiracy. It protects those who paid Fitzpatrick and it protects the wider scheme of my planned assassination from coming to light.
You don’t think that the government was stupid enough and dumb enough to concoct such a foolish thing as that. It was a wider scheme. It never was to come to trial; it was supposed to lure me into a fight with Dr. Shabazz and her children.
If they paid $45,000 to this cheap hustler, how much money have they put in other sections of the community? This is no lightweight thing—they had a full-range plan. That man knew what his job was. There are others, but we didn’t fall into the trap. Not because we are brilliant, but because God has guided us and history has taught us.

The Enemy’s aim to undermine God’s Mercy -
This wound in the Black nation over the assassination of Malcolm X, this wound in the Nation of Islam over his assassination cannot be healed except by the knowledge of truth, and justice done in accordance with truth.
Although the Holy Qur’an holds Prophets and Messengers of Allah (God) blameless and sinless, the Qur’an states that if Allah (God) were to punish man for his sins not one soul would be left alive on the Earth. This is why in the nature of Allah (God) the quality of mercy is predominant.
There is a dark side to the moon, but Allah (God) keeps the bright side facing the earth, because the dark side cannot plant or harvest. Nothing can be nurtured. It is only the bright side of the moon, that side that reflects the light of the sun that is used in the nurturing process.
The moon symbolically represents the prophets of Allah (God). They are shown in Qur’an and Bible as nurturers of their communities. Even though they have faults, Allah (God) keeps their bright side in front of the people. David the Psalmist said, “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”
The Enemy of Allah (God) and The Enemy of Man is always probing the dark side of human nature to use it to help us in self-destruction and in the destruction of others. He listens to our conversations and he watches us from whence we see him not. And his aim it to say to Allah (God): “Look at those whom you have chosen. None of them are worthy.”
The Bible teaches that this Wicked One accused the prophets and the righteous night and day before the throne. But it is written that this Wicked One will be cast down.
This year, October 16, 1995, we propose a Million Man March on Washington and we call it the “Day of Atonement,” meaning “at one”; coming together as one, being as one, reconciling our differences.
The Qur’an talks about Satan as the “accursed one,” one “removed from God.” Sin makes us remote from God, and any human being who is removed from God is removed from power, from the sensitivity that is necessary to cultivate the better qualities of self. Sin has brought this breach; our lack of oneness with God, and so on this Day of Atonement, we are asking the government of America to acknowledge her sins against the people.
We are going to acknowledge our sins, but America has to acknowledge her sins against the people. She has to repent and make atonement for her sins against the struggle of poor and Black people for justice and her sins against the Nation of Islam, the Black Panther Party, the Civil Rights Movement, other organizations—Black and White—with whom the government has some ideological or philosophical disagreement. Perhaps in the government’s making atonement she can help herself and her people toward making a new beginning.
The government of America has to turn away from the abuse of power and authority; turn away from that which is wicked, improper and unrighteous. Whether the government atones or not, let us do this so that the gaping wound in us and our families and our people as a whole may be healed.

198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

These methods were compiled by Dr. Gene Sharp and first published in his 1973 book, "The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action" (Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 1973). The book outlines each method and gives information about its historical use.

THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT PROTEST AND PERSUASION 

Formal Statements 
1. Public Speeches
2. Letters of opposition or support
3. Declarations by organizations and institutions
4. Signed public statements
5. Declarations of indictment and intention
6. Group or mass petitions

Communications with a Wider Audience 
7. Slogans, caricatures, and symbols
8. Banners, posters, and displayed communications
9. Leaflets, pamphlets, and books
10. Newspapers and journals
11. Records, radio, and television
12. Skywriting and earthwriting

Group Representations 
13. Deputations
14. Mock awards
15. Group lobbying
16. Picketing
17. Mock elections

Symbolic Public Acts 
18. Displays of flags and symbolic colors
19. Wearing of symbols
20. Prayer and worship
21. Delivering symbolic objects
22. Protest disrobings
23. Destruction of own property
24. Symbolic lights
25. Displays of portraits
26. Paint as protest
27. New signs and names
28. Symbolic sounds
29. Symbolic reclamations
30. Rude gestures

Pressures on Individuals
31. "Haunting" officials
32. Taunting officials
33. Fraternization
34. Vigils

Drama and Music
35. Humorous skits and pranks
36. Performances of plays and music
37. Singing

Processions 
38. Marches
39. Parades
40. Religious processions
41. Pilgrimages
42. Motorcades

Honoring the Dead 
43. Political mourning
44. Mock funerals
45. Demonstrative funerals
46. Homage at burial places

Public Assemblies 
47. Assemblies of protest or support
48. Protest meetings
49. Camouflaged meetings of protest
50. Teach-ins

Withdrawal and Renunciation 
51. Walk-outs
52. Silence
53. Renouncing honors
54. Turning one's back


THE METHODS OF SOCIAL NONCOOPERATION 

Ostracism of Persons 
55. Social boycott
56. Selective social boycott
57. Lysistratic nonaction
58. Excommunication
59. Interdict

Noncooperation with Social Events, Customs, and Institutions 
60. Suspension of social and sports activities
61. Boycott of social affairs
62. Student strike
63. Social disobedience
64. Withdrawal from social institutions

Withdrawal from the Social System 
65. Stay-at-home
66. Total personal noncooperation
67. "Flight" of workers
68. Sanctuary
69. Collective disappearance
70. Protest emigration (hijrat)


THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (1) ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS 

Actions by Consumers 
71. Consumers' boycott
72. Nonconsumption of boycotted goods
73. Policy of austerity
74. Rent withholding
75. Refusal to rent
76. National consumers' boycott
77. International consumers' boycott

Action by Workers and Producers 
78. Workmen's boycott
79. Producers' boycott

Action by Middlemen 
80. Suppliers' and handlers' boycott

Action by Owners and Management 
81. Traders' boycott
82. Refusal to let or sell property
83. Lockout
84. Refusal of industrial assistance
85. Merchants' "general strike"

Action by Holders of Financial Resources
86. Withdrawal of bank deposits
87. Refusal to pay fees, dues, and assessments
88. Refusal to pay debts or interest
89. Severance of funds and credit
90. Revenue refusal
91. Refusal of a government's money

Action by Governments 
92. Domestic embargo
93. Blacklisting of traders
94. International sellers' embargo
95. International buyers' embargo
96. International trade embargo


THE METHODS OF ECONOMIC NONCOOPERATION: (2)THE STRIKE 

Symbolic Strikes 
97. Protest strike
98. Quickie walkout (lightning strike)

Agricultural Strikes
99. Peasant strike
100. Farm Workers' strike

Strikes by Special Groups 
101. Refusal of impressed labor
102. Prisoners' strike
103. Craft strike
104. Professional strike

Ordinary Industrial Strikes 
105. Establishment strike
106. Industry strike
107. Sympathetic strike

Restricted Strikes 
108. Detailed strike
109. Bumper strike
110. Slowdown strike
111. Working-to-rule strike
112. Reporting "sick" (sick-in)
113. Strike by resignation
114. Limited strike
115. Selective strike

Multi-Industry Strikes 
116. Generalized strike
117. General strike

Combination of Strikes and Economic Closures 
118. Hartal
119. Economic shutdown


THE METHODS OF POLITICAL NONCOOPERATION 

Rejection of Authority 
120. Withholding or withdrawal of allegiance
121. Refusal of public support
122. Literature and speeches advocating resistance

Citizens' Noncooperation with Government
123. Boycott of legislative bodies
124. Boycott of elections
125. Boycott of government employment and positions
126. Boycott of government depts., agencies, and other bodies
127. Withdrawal from government educational institutions
128. Boycott of government-supported organizations
129. Refusal of assistance to enforcement agents
130. Removal of own signs and placemarks
131. Refusal to accept appointed officials
132. Refusal to dissolve existing institutions

Citizens' Alternatives to Obedience 
133. Reluctant and slow compliance
134. Nonobedience in absence of direct supervision
135. Popular nonobedience
136. Disguised disobedience
137. Refusal of an assemblage or meeting to disperse
138. Sitdown
139. Noncooperation with conscription and deportation
140. Hiding, escape, and false identities
141. Civil disobedience of "illegitimate" laws

Action by Government Personnel 
142. Selective refusal of assistance by government aides
143. Blocking of lines of command and information
144. Stalling and obstruction
145. General administrative noncooperation
146. Judicial noncooperation
147. Deliberate inefficiency and selective noncooperation by enforcement agents
148. Mutiny

Domestic Governmental Action
149. Quasi-legal evasions and delays
150. Noncooperation by constituent governmental units

International Governmental Action 
151. Changes in diplomatic and other representations
152. Delay and cancellation of diplomatic events
153. Withholding of diplomatic recognition
154. Severance of diplomatic relations
155. Withdrawal from international organizations
156. Refusal of membership in international bodies
157. Expulsion from international organizations


THE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT INTERVENTION 

Psychological Intervention
158. Self-exposure to the elements
159. The fast
a) Fast of moral pressure
b) Hunger strike
c) Satyagrahic fast
160. Reverse trial
161. Nonviolent harassment

Physical Intervention 
162. Sit-in
163. Stand-in
164. Ride-in
165. Wade-in
166. Mill-in
167. Pray-in
168. Nonviolent raids
169. Nonviolent air raids
170. Nonviolent invasion
171. Nonviolent interjection
172. Nonviolent obstruction
173. Nonviolent occupation

Social Intervention
174. Establishing new social patterns
175. Overloading of facilities
176. Stall-in
177. Speak-in
178. Guerrilla theater
179. Alternative social institutions
180. Alternative communication system

Economic Intervention 
181. Reverse strike
182. Stay-in strike
183. Nonviolent land seizure
184. Defiance of blockades
185. Politically motivated counterfeiting
186. Preclusive purchasing
187. Seizure of assets
188. Dumping
189. Selective patronage
190. Alternative markets
191. Alternative transportation systems
192. Alternative economic institutions

Political Intervention 
193. Overloading of administrative systems
194. Disclosing identities of secret agents
195. Seeking imprisonment
196. Civil disobedience of "neutral" laws
197. Work-on without collaboration
198. Dual sovereignty and parallel government