Uncensored: FBI Attack on Free Speech The Scariest Criminal Case You’ve Probably Never

The Biden administration is trying to send an 82-year veteran to prison for life for the crime of repeating ‘Russian misinformation.’ The scariest, most important criminal case you’ve probably never heard of.

ucker [00:00:00] So it was about two years ago, a little over two years ago, that Russian troops moved into eastern Ukraine and throughout the West, Western media reported this as a totally unprovoked act of aggression. Who could have seen it coming? But there was, if you paid very close attention, one political group in the United States that had a different explanation for it, and it was a group a lot of people would dismiss as fringe, a group called the African Peoples Socialist Party. And to be honest, we never heard of them. But around this time they started releasing videos with a different view. Those videos were critical of the United States and NATO, and they pointed out that there was, in fact, a history here, and that NATO had been expanding eastward for quite some time and putting a lot of pressure on Russia. Now, you may agree or disagree with that, but they had a coherent view of it. And to give you an example of what that view was. Here's video from the group's chairman, a man called Omali Yeshitela. Watch.

Omali Yeshitela [00:00:54] This discussion about Russian military buildup on its border with Ukraine, and how this represents a terrible threat, to Ukraine by, by Russians. But there is no acknowledgment of the history that took us to this place, how the US overthrew, participated in and facilitated the overthrow of a government in Ukraine that was friendly to the Soviet Union. Nor does it talk about the history of this relationship between Ukraine and Russia. Then you have to remember that they're using NATO here too and NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was something that came into existence to deal with the Soviet Union of Soviet Russia, as it used to be called. And so this is an ongoing aggression that did not just start. It has been going on for a while, but the US government, relies on the eagerness of, of the people, in this country and in much of the world that's facilitated by people like Zuckerberg.

Tucker [00:01:58] So you could agree or disagree with that analysis. Couple parts of it are indisputably true. One, the US government does rely on the ignorance of its population to do things in that population's name that the population doesn't want. Start all kinds of pointless wars, for example, get people killed, bankrupt the government. That's all real. It's also true that there is a history in Ukraine, and you may or may not think it justifies Russian aggression, but there's no question that NATO has been moving eastward, and it's hard to see why. What benefit is there to the NATO member states? In any case, that's a point of view. Agree with it or not. But for some reason, the FBI was watching. They were watching, and they considered sentiments like that not just wrong or offensive, but a crime. And so three months later, the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, our federal law enforcement tasked with keeping us safe, spent its time and a lot of agents - it looked to be dozens of agents - raiding the home and the office of the man you just saw speaking, as well as the homes of six other members of his organization. Dozens of heavily armed agents descended with automatic weapons. They used flashbang grenades and drones. The first thing they did when they broke in, when they smashed the door, was to tape over the internal security cameras, so there would be no record of what they were doing. And then they walked off with a huge amount of material they stole things from Yeshitela and his wife and a bunch of other people who work for this organization. Then they handcuff them and lead them away. This is how they describe the experience at the time.

Omali Yeshitela [00:03:35] They handcuff me and my wife out here. They wanted me to sit on the curb, while they were carrying this out. Something that I refused to do. They wanted my wife to sit on the curb out here, but she refused to do.

Speakers: [00:03:54] As I was coming out, this big old drum met me. The only revolutionary organization that's done something here on the ground practically for African people is the one that's come under attack. Institution that offers a community radio station, a newspaper, a commercial kitchen and a rental space and community office for organizers. That was the building that has come under attack.

Tucker [00:04:47] So if you're watching this video right now, the chances are that you're probably not a revolutionary black nationalist. We're not, obviously, but you may be an American, and if you are an American or if you believe in the idea of America, you should care about this case. Why? Because of the charges. Now, typically in situations like this, when the city of Philadelphia, for example, incinerated the entire MOVE community back in the 80s when the US government under Bill Clinton killed all the Branch Davidians and their children at Waco, when federal agents murdered Randy Weaver's wife and child and shot his dog there's some pretext for doing it. There's a gun charge. They were caught with bomb making materials. There's some weird sex stuff going on. They're child pornographers. It's human trafficking. They at least bother to tell you a story that makes you stop asking more questions. Because you think to yourself, well, these people were obviously very bad. They did something that was a legit felony, and they probably got what was coming to them. What's so interesting about this case is that the government under Joe Biden is not even pretending that they did anything illegal. There's no actual crime here. No one has been charged with bomb making or hurting anyone or any act of violence, no active embezzlement or theft. What they're charged with is liking Russia, is having opinions that the Biden administration doesn't want them to have, saying things that they're not supposed to say in public. So even if you're not a revolutionary black nationalist, you should care deeply about this case, because first, they come for people like this, people on the fringe, and then they come for you. The details of the story are even more shocking than we're describing, and we're going to get them from the man at the very center of it, Omali Yeshitela, the chairman of this group, the man now accused of being a Russian agent and about to go on trial. We're honored to have him join us now. Mr. Chairman, thank you so much for coming on.

Omali Yeshitela [00:06:42] Thank you very much for having me. This is an important interview for us. It helps us to break out of this encirclement, information encirclement that has been imposed on us, by the US government. And when we talk about the ignorance of the people, being a factor here, part of the way to keep the people ignorant is to keep them from participating in discussion. Because, the attack on the right to speak is also an attack on the right of the people to hear. So I have something to say for me, as you said agree or not agree with it. But at least, they can have opinions that are informed opinions about, agreeing or not agreeing with me. But when they use grenades and battering rams, and armored vehicles and assault weapons and things like that to keep me from talking. And when they talk about putting me in prison for 15 years, which is the equivalent of a life sentence for me. This is designed to keep people from hearing what I have to say. And this is real testimony, in my opinion, of the fragility of a social system that cannot tolerate a discussion coming from somebody, from one of the most economically, depressed sectors, the city of Saint Louis. So, so it's all a falsification. I wanted to say, first of all, that, our lawyers for the point for the purpose of making this defense have to move forward and say that even if we did what they said, we did, that, the First Amendment protects us. But I want to say beyond that, that they fabricated most of what they say, that they're lying. It's mostly a fabrication and that they are politically motivated and doing what they do, they have done because of internal crises and crises in the existing global system, that sees, forces like China and Russia, and increasingly even countries like, Iran, countries like Venezuela, challenging the hegemony, of a country that has, held that, for the longest period of time has been the big hegemon. And so I think this is a domestic crisis that was best represented by what we see happening inside this country right now. And what we see being partially responsible for it, by forces around the world, who are challenging the ability of the United States, to continue to be the big dog here. I think that's what we're looking at. Then, of course, there's the immediate, immediate personal interests of a guy, who's running for president, reelection and, who is also attempting to escape the moniker of being sleepy. So, I mean, I think these are some of the factors that, that informs much of what's happening right now.

Tucker [00:09:44] One of the great and beautiful things of this moment, of this moment that we're living in, is that we can sort of put aside some of our preconceptions, and I'm sure there's a lot we disagree on. I don't think I disagree with a single word that you just said. I thought it was very nicely put and wise. And I just want to say for the record, I agree with you. This is a sign of fragility of the regime. Confident rulers don't act like this. But I just had to say that. But I just want to get to the facts of it quickly. So am I misreading this? I think your lawyer is right. Even if you are guilty of what they accuse you of doing, you're not guilty of any crime because you're not accused of violence, theft, no conventional crime. You're accused of having the wrong opinions. Am I missing something?

Omali Yeshitela [00:10:33] Well, yeah, because what they've said is that even if what we said was true, even if it's disinformation, we're accused of, spewing Russian disinformation. And they have said that even if we said what we said is true, it is it still amounts to disinformation. So they're not necessarily accusing us of lying. They're accusing us of talking.

Tucker [00:11:01] Right?

Tucker [00:16:23] But may I ask you. May I ask you a question, though? But this is being done by the administration that tells us constantly how much they love and worship black people. They love black people. No one's ever done more for black people than the Biden administration. And no one has has cheered that on more loudly than the New York Times and The Washington Post, which also love black people probably a lot more than you do. So have they come to your defense at all?

Omali Yeshitela [00:16:52] Not at all.

Tucker [00:16:53] Yeah. Why? That's kind of weird.

Omali Yeshitela [00:16:54] And it's really, a real serious kind of contradiction, that this is, able to occur and especially, you know, I mean, we talk about Biden if we just take it on a personal level, which is not necessarily where I was intending to go. But if you take it just on a personal level, we're talking about Biden, who claims to be the great liberal who, white man who loves us. We're talking also about the guy who was opposed, to the civil rights bill, talking about the guy who was opposed to bussing because he didn't want his children to have to go to school in a jungle, etcetera. That's just on a personal level. And, but here they have never had to have to offer African people anything when they run for office. It's not because they are offering us anything. They are frightening black people. They say, if you don't vote for us, you're going to get Trump. Who is a demon? Or are you going to get the Republicans who are demons, or are you going to get what we characterize as fascism, etc., so they don't have to promise black people anything except they swear they they will protect us from from the other white people. That's one aspect of and then there's a whole body of folk who are employed through, things like welfare, slavery and programs that they create, and, it's a whole array of folk that employ liberals based on that and what we stand for, self-determination. We also believe in reparation. But the point is that we have in Saint Louis alone, we have in seven contiguous blocks in Saint Louis, economically depressed sector. We we purchased something like 20 some properties. And we put businesses and other kinds of things there. That's not permissible. We are supposed to get in line for welfare or something like that. And we are teaching African people that you can be self-determining. There is an alternative to what you got. But the whole Democratic Party apparatus rests upon this foundation of welfare slavery. And this is why they would have black people, located. And so our, the Democratic Party, you can't say, that they lied to us, whether it was Obama or whether it was, this guy, Biden. You can't say they lied to us because they didn't promise anything except they would protect us from Trump, from the Republican Party. And I'm not a Trump, person or Republican person. I'm for the liberation of black people. And that's what this whole thing about working for Russians is so ridiculous. I'm not looking for another master. I'm trying to get rid of the whole relationship. That presupposes, that we would be served with, service of anybody.

Tucker [00:19:40] I mean, given that you haven't actually done anything, you're not accused of doing anything that isn't already legal, exercising rights that are guaranteed to you from birth till death under the U.S. Constitution. I'm a little bit surprised that nobody has defended you in the US media. Now, I will say your name sounds non-mainstream of your organization, but once.

Omali Yeshitela [00:20:07] You go.

Tucker [00:20:08] Yeah, everything's fair. Fair, Barack Hussein Obama. But once. But once you learn the details of this, you'd think there would be at least one civil libertarian at the New York Times editorial page of the Washington Post or NBC news or CNN or any of these groups. Has anybody said a word about an armored personnel carrier showing up at your house? First for speaking, for talking.

Omali Yeshitela [00:20:38] You know, we've had to go out and really, work. I mean, in July of, this year, we had, a meeting, a conference, and we pulled together something like 40 different organizations and what have you to unite, as a part of a free speech, anti-colonial free speech movement who are pushing back on this. And I think that includes, one, organization of lawyers and what have you. But generally speaking, we haven't been able to get anything, even so-called progressive black politicians and what have you. Have not stepped forward. But you also got to remember we're talking about a period, where it's impermissible even to say, well, you can say from sea to shining sea, you kind of say from, from, how does it go from, from the river. Is it from the river to river to the sea? You know, you know, I mean, it's it's incredible. The, the attack that's being made on the right, the people speech. And by the way, as a point of information, I've been arrested several times on the question of speech. I was arrested in Florida. They created a law, called incitement to. Right. It didn't have to be a riot. I just had to want one to happen. When I spoke, I mean, they put me in jail and threatening to put me in prison for having done that. So this question of, of speech is a really critical issue, and people need to pay attention. I was under assault in Saint Petersburg, Florida in 1996. Some 300 cops, National Guard troops, building, set houses on fire. Used all kinds of machinations, including the FBI, because they were concerned, that we were protesting and speaking out against, police having kill, an 18 year old youngster and, and, the grand jury, having said it was all right for that to occur, and we were having a meeting and they didn't want me to talk. And so they attacked the building, they said in our own building and said that, that you have, something like five minutes to get out of the building because this is an illegal meeting in our own. We own the building. And so they attacked us. So the free speech question and the the problem is they did this and in plain view, people saw it happen. They brought I mean, the people in the community actually brought a helicopter down by gunfire. This is how intense it was. And not a single civil libertarians stepped forward to say, why are you attacking these people for speech?

Tucker [00:23:12] Well, I'm I'm confused. So you're describing basically what the Black Lives Matter people said four years ago. They got some of them got legit rich out of it. You don't seem like you've gotten rich. And they they got all this money from Apple and the biggest companies in the world. And of course the media cheerlead them. Well, how did you miss out on that?

Omali Yeshitela [00:23:36] Well, because the thing is, I like to say Black Lives Matter, is such an empty slogan. It's a win rather than a demand. Anyway, I mean, so, you know, Joe Biden says black lives matter. I mean, you got the whole Democratic, party, you know, Congress. And what have we get out on one knee with kente cloth from Ghana on the over their shoulder saying black lives matter because it doesn't mean anything. It's a it's a non statement. But what we say is black people have to have power. So we want power on like that's the question. And that's the basis for the difference in how they would treat Black Lives Matter and how they would treat us. And and you're right, the Black Lives Matter slogan is almost a Zuckerberg manufactured slogan. Certainly, if it's not manufactured by Zuckerberg, it's certainly promoted, by Zuckerberg and and all the white people who love us.

Tucker [00:24:28] So tell us about what else? I wasn't aware this. I was talking to someone on your staff, this morning. It's not just the government that went after you. And I should say you haven't gone on trial. You're not convicted of anything. I mean, you've not. You're not a criminal, okay? But it sounds like business has aligned against you as well. If you wouldn't mind explaining what's happening.

Omali Yeshitela [00:24:53] Yeah. I mean, yeah, right. I mean, we've been sanctioned by banks, like, we have some kind of, hostile country, the banks that we've done more than 20 years, businesses with. And we've never missed a payment. We we, you know, really disciplined in terms of taking care and sometimes paid earlier than what was due. And the banks, regions, banks, one big bank that, they, they, kicked us off, they even some members organized members of, movement, they personal accounts have shut down. They shut us down. They forced the payment of, of, something like an $80,000, mortgage thing that we had, and we were given something like two weeks to pay it off. We've had. Similar things happening from another bank. We we've had, some 60, 130,000 signatures that have been collected on petitions, that we're calling on people to take the United States, before the United Nations, for violation of the, UN convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. They were taken down, disappeared because, as you know, the U.S government claims that, the work that we were doing, on a tour, getting, participated in by the United Nations, trip throughout the United States, and six cities. And we were collecting petitions on, that and talking about reparations that the Russians paid us to do that. So they took that down. I guess it must be some kind of evidence of crime that we committed. We don't know. It just disappear. And then, in terms of, and and that was just one of the banks, by the way, there was another bank that similar did a similar thing. And just recently, we had a situation where, within the last week or so, ten days at least, the fiscal, the the the fiscal, how do you characterize it? Sponsor that we use because we really want to have this thing be quite transparent and and quite aboveboard because we've had to spend 100, 200 and, and, just about a quarter of $1 million already just in legal fees alone. And we have this process where people can make contributions to us. And the fiscus, sponsor that has, been dealing with something like 600 different entities that they function as, as fiscal sponsors of suddenly this, they were going out of business. And of the six top, we was, 5 or 6 among the top, forces, in terms of money going into that, and others of them have not the other others, the five of them have not even been operational for the last two years, so they decided they were going out of business. There's a whole bunch of coincidences happen. Coincidence that the church right across the street from my house that they attacked on July 29th, that church, coincidentally, where we had it, was it would have been empty for ages, and we had it under contract to purchase it in order to put programs in, for the community that that church mysteriously burned down. And then this attack on us on July 29th followed, an attack on on July 2nd, 2000, 29, where, 50 foot, flagpole, hosting 15 by 25 foot, red, black and green African national flag was torched in broad daylight. And the guy who was there was even charged with with arson, you know, some kind of criminal mischief thing. I mean, it's just this just a host of of attacks that's being made over us. And sometimes the government and sometimes financial institutions, like, regions Bank, where we've had demonstrations and what have you, but they are moving. It seems to, first of all, make us spend money that we've been using to put, programs on the ground. For example, on the day they attacked us, that morning, that same morning. And later that morning, we had scheduled, training for, for African women, who, were becoming doulas, being trained to become doulas, people who, take care, and make safe birth, for women and for the children in Saint Louis, we have a situation where, there are enough black babies dying in the first year of life, to fill 15 kindergarten classes. So we have in this doula training, they attack our building. They attack our home. That that did happen, but we we've initiated a process. We've bought properties where we, setting up a women's center, things like that. That's the kind of stuff that they are attacking. And so they would divert the money that we would have for these programs, where. And you need to come to Saint Louis. By the way, I heard you make an, some kind of suggestion that you might like me if you have dinner or something. And so that's an open invitation. Come on, Saint Louis. Thank you, thank you. I want you to see what we have done, because I think it's really important to get a grasp of the significance of what is happening to us, because you won't find another organization doing this really, really transforming an impoverished community. That's in a state of despair. I mean, we built $150,000, a $60,000 basketball court, in a place where children, black children are playing in the streets, dodging cars, going back and forth using makeshift, hoops, basketball hoops from bicycle, rims and things like that. You would think that the city would be applauding us. The government would be. And but here's an irony, because. They call, this a food desert in North Saint Louis where we live. And, I think we got something like, 80,000 or more, dollars. Grant from the, if what is the the the the FDA, you know, to to create and operate, a farmers market there, which is the most one of the most effective farmers markets that they say that's happening in the country, that they that the FDA has sponsored. This is who we are. And this is this is part of the crime that's being committed against our community, our people, because this is self determination. And that's the problem that they have. And that's the thing that the Democratic Party has, because it relies on, having this relationship with, black people who are tied to welfare slavery and not self-determination. And we won't tolerate that.

Tucker [00:31:28] Amen. If you don't mind my asking, well, let me tell you why I'm asking when asked how old you are. Because I see this armored personnel carrier in front of your house. It looks like a war. And I see dozens of heavily armed FBI agents. And the presumption is that you're very dangerous. So to put that into perspective, how old are you?

Omali Yeshitela [00:31:50] I'm 82 years old. I was 82 in October. And, that's why I say that this whole fifth part of a 15 year prison sentence is effectively a threat of, a life sentence, as it, as it relates to me that there are other young people, younger people like Penny Hess, who is a white woman who and I'm going to mention that who, is chair of the African People Solidarity Committee, and Jesse Neville, who was a youngster, who, is the chair of who the solidarity movement. And they work primarily in the white community. And this, this concept even of understand who we are, you know, like as quote unquote black nationalists, we are anti-colonialist forces, but we have organize, we have organizations of white people and 117 cities in this country. And what these organizations are doing is they are taking the demand for reparation. They are taking the exposure of genocide. They are talking about the injustices committed against African people. So Penny Hess and Jesse Neville, they are heads of two of those organizations that up, the up front of our movement in the white community. So, just want to say that we, we we are not race based politics, politic is based on this fundamental relationship, because even the concept of race, find itself, comes into existence, through colonialism. We are anti-colonialist and and that's a change. I mean, because it doesn't mean that we haven't always been I have been at one juncture, seriously concerned about the question of race because I took, my examples of how to explain reality from what I learned from this system. And so, the racism and racism and things like that. But, even the concept of race, denies me of nationality, that I'm, I'm not even, you know, a person that can be defined in relationship to a history of my own. It's a negation of my history and even what the government has done, in terms of charging me with being an agent of Russia. Like we don't have agency as a people like we like. I, I am one of the persons that was working against your this notion that participated in organizing people to register and vote, and, particularly in the state of Florida. I was in the United States military. I was there when the I was in Berlin when the Berlin Wall went up. I was one of those forces and one of those techs that faced, one of the first time Russian American tanks faced each other in a combat there. I was there, and, I don't know where Biden was. I don't know where he was during that period I was there, you see. And, so this whole notion that somehow I'm being manipulated and I'm mentioning the thing about about Florida because I was there when the Cuban crisis, missile crisis. Now I'm stationed in Georgia. And so they send, a convoy of troops to go into, Florida, Fort Patrick, I think it was it was a Patrick Air Force base in Florida. And I'm on a convoy and I'm writing, from Fort Benning, Georgia, in a convoy, and we're driving down, to, to this area near cocoa in Florida. You know where I'm talking about. Yes, I live in Florida. And, and so we get to Palatka, Florida, and people get out, on the convoy to go and eat, in this restaurant. And we go in the restaurant, and and the woman who is serving said, we don't serve. Y'all can talk about me. I'm in the US military. I'm going to defend you, as you say, from the from the Cubans, missiles. And then you say, I can eat there. But that was all right because my officer, the white officer, said, don't worry about it. We'll bring you something out. So this is this is the history that we are talking about. And, so this notion that I don't know if, if, if the Russians ever had to experience that before, I don't think, Russians ever had to do that kind of stuff and, and be threatened as I was in Madison, Florida, with lynching for, for taking black people, to register and vote on, in Alachua County, where I was taking black people to register to vote. I don't know if Russians ever have experienced that. And, and and based on that, I don't see how the hell the Russians could be teaching me, leading me, you know, like around this issue. So it's just ridiculous on its face.

Tucker [00:36:03] I think this is one of the most.

Omali Yeshitela [00:36:05] Negate my history. That's what part of what it is they would negate, the history of black people in this country. And part of it is negation of the history of a country itself. And this part of what I mean in terms of, you know, history, I mean, it can be unpleasant, but if we don't face it, if we don't look at it, we can never solve any real problems. That's one of the contradictions we're looking at right now in occupied Palestine. Look at the history. That's the thing about Ukraine and Russia. People can get misused. People die. We are facing a possible nuclear conflagration, because of this falsified, this story that they've invented about Ukraine. It's, it's ridiculous and it's dangerous. And, that's that's one of the reasons I'm glad to have this discussion with you and. Giving me access to people who I normally wouldn't be talking to.

Tucker [00:36:53] I hope this is seen far and wide. Yeah. It's. I'm grateful, that you came on and talk to us and Godspeed, on your trial.

Omali Yeshitela [00:37:02] Thank you so much. We'll be fine. Thank you. All right. Thank you.