September 2017 – Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.)

Attack on Tennessee Christian Church Leaves 1 Dead, 7 Injured – Black Nationalist Shooter

On Sunday, September 24, 2017, a masked man attacked the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch, Tennessee (a suburb of Nashville) with a gun, killing one woman and injuring seven others, in addition to injuring himself. Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns this act of violence and hate; our research leads R.E.A.L. to believe this was not a random act of violence, and based on our research, it is R.E.A.L.’s conclusion this attack was performed by a supporter of black nationalist hate.

The attacker, 25 year old, Emanuel Kidega Samson, a U.S. resident from Sudan, shot one woman to death in the church parking lot, Melanie Smith, and then sought to attack Christians in the church as the Sunday services were ending. After killing Melanie Smith in the parking lot, the armed attacker then entered the church, where he was confronted by the church usher, 22-year-old Robert Engle. The attacker pistol-whipped Robert Engle, who received a “significant injury to his head.” Then the attacker continued to shoot Christian worshipers in the church, shooting six others, including the pastor, his wife, and four other elderly worshipers. During the mass shooting, many of the 42 Christians in the church hid and ducked under church pews, while the attacker sought to gun people down. Some hid in a child’s worship room, which a 10 year old child helped to barricade.

The attacker shot the Christian worshipers using a .40-caliber handgun, firing 12 rounds, and reloading the gun at least once, according to police spokesman Don Aaron. The police stated that the attacker also wore a tactical vest with three additional magazines of ammunition. In the SUV that he kept idling to escape after attacking the church, the attacker also had an unloaded semi-automatic AR-15 rifle and an additional handgun. The police also stated that he had “many more rounds [of ammunition] available.”

Church usher Robert Engle recovered from his injury, and raced out to his own automobile to retrieve his own licensed gun to protect the Christian congregation. Robert Engle returned and held the attacker, Emanuel Kidega Samson, until police arrived. During Engle’s initial struggle with the attacker, Samson shot himself by accident. Metro Nashville Police Chief Steve Anderson said of Robert Engle, “He’s the hero. He’s the person who stopped this madness.”

The attacker, Emanuel Kidega Samson, received medical treatment, then was placed in police custody. He has currently been charged with one count of murder, and additional charges, including attempted murder, are expected by the police. A judicial commissioner has ordered that Emanuel Kidega Samson be held without bond pending further court proceedings. The latest report states that the attacker did not appear for a preliminary hearing, which was rescheduled for October 6, 2017. (Update: at the October 6, 2017 court hearing, the preliminary hearing was again rescheduled to October 23, per the Tennesseean: “During a brief hearing Friday, Davidson County General Sessions Judge Dianne Turner set Samson’s preliminary hearing for Oct. 23.”)

The Memphis FBI Field Office’s Nashville Resident Agency, the Civil Rights Division, and the US Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee have opened a civil rights investigation into the shooting. Tennessee police had previously been involved with Emanuel Kidega Samson in January 2017 over a domestic dispute, in March 2017 when he was accused of trying to force entry into a home of woman who claimed he had hit her, and in June 2017, when police checked on Samson after receiving a report that he had sent his father a suicidal text message.

The victims were of this attack were all white, adult, Christians, and most of them were elderly and women. The attacker killed Melanie Smith, 39 years old, outside of the church. Inside the church, he shot Pastor Joey Spann (David Joseph Spann) (66), his wife Peggy Spann (65), Linda Bush (68), Catherine C. Dickerson (64), William “Don” Jenkins (84), and his wife Marlene Jenkins (84). The attacker also injured church usher, Robert Engle (25), during the attack. The Burnette Chapel Church of Christ was a multi-ethnic and multi-racial house of worship. All of the victims of this attack were white. Five victims in the hospital are in stable condition. Pastor Joey Spann, who was shot in the chest, had been in critical condition, but his condition has since improved. R.E.A.L. expresses our concerns and shares our prayers for the victims and the loved ones of this vicious attack.

The attacker, Emanuel Kidega Samson, a black male, is not a U.S. citizen, but has been living as a U.S. resident since the 1990s. The attacker Samson had previously identified himself as a Christian, despite recent religious and social views, as documented on his social media Facebook account, researched by R.E.A.L. After the attack, local News Channel 5 reported that “you don’t see on his social media accounts is anything that would suggest terrorism as a possible motive.” R.E.A.L.’s investigation shows a different pattern and a growing public support of extremist views by the attacker on social media, including a recent post by an extremist attacking “Jesus” as “dumb a** sh**.”

Five years ago, the attacker publicly identified himself as a Christian. But by 2017, the attacker had been increasingly posting messages about the Black Panthers black nationalist and extremist group (whose 20th century members were responsible for terror attacks in the U.S.) and promoting messages by the Anonymous hacker criminal group.

Based on R.E.A.L.’s research of the attackers’ social media and the fact that only white Christians were targeted in this attack, R.E.A.L. would conclude that there is a high chance that the attack was motivated by black nationalist extremist views. If so, this would be the fifth such black nationalist terrorist attack in the past 14 months.

Previous black nationalist extremist terror attacks in the U.S. have included: (1) April 18, 2017 Fresno, California terror attack by NOI activist Kori Ali Muhammad (killing three whites in the streets of Fresno and a fourth hotel guard), (2) July 17, 2016 terror attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Gavin Eugene Long (acknowledged former NOI extremist) (killing three police officers), (3) July 8, 2016 terror attack in Bristol, Tennessee, by Lakeem Keon Scott (targeting whites on a highway, killing 1 woman and injuring three others), and (4) July 7, 2016 terror attack in Dallas, Texas by Micah Johnson (linked to NOI extremist) and supporter of the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and Black Riders Liberation Party (killing 5 and injuring 11). In these four black nationalist-associated terror attacks, all of the victims killed were white, except for one of the Baton Rouge police officers.

By August 2, 2017, the attacker’s embrace of black nationalist extremists included posting a video where the speaker shouted about how black Americans should not “bring me Jesus and that dumb a** sh**,” while warning about “Europeans infecting us.” This was posted by African Diaspora culture activist Ankh Ma’at Ra, who distributes a number of videos, which would be considered part of the Pan-Africanist or Black Nationalist Consciousness Community/Movement (CC) ideology. The interview was recorded by “black consciousness” activist “Sa Neter,” who promotes such ideologies through videos shared on YouTube and Social Media, which he publishes on behalf of a “House of Konsciousness” (HOK) movement. “Sa Neter” has also defended black nationalist and virulent racist Louis Farrakhan, who leads the “Nation of Islam” (NOI) extremists, although as part of the Consciouness Community” movement, “Sa Neter” appears to have different religious views. Ankh Ma’at Ra offers alternatives on religious views including rejecting the concept to “love your enemy.” “Sa Neter” has also distribued videos on “Black News 101” (which was terminated by YouTube), including interviews of individuals promoting black nationalist violence, and was re-established as “Black News 102.” The Sa Neter videos promote a broad range of black nationalist and pan-African views from diverse views of New Black Panthers, Kemetic, Hebrew Israelite, Moorish Science Temple, and Nation of Islam perspectives.

While the corporate media is reporting on the attacker’s body-building photos, the increasing migration of the attacker’s public postings to focus on topics from conspiracy sites on a general “the West is attacking Africa and Africans” type of message is being generally ignored. The tone of his social media postings begin to change in December 2015.

In the days before his attack on the church, the attacker called for people to “join his rebellion,” with postings that also stated: “Everything you’ve ever doubted or made to be believe as false, is real. & vice versa, B.” He stated “Become the creator instead of what’s created. Whatever you say, goes.” He wrote“You are more than what they told us.” By August 30, 2017, he wrote: “Every single legend before me was just a false alarm. Every single thought that you think you think you thought is wrong. Crawling through hell with gasoline garments on, army-strong, barel to the devil this is the rebirth of Kong.” By August 15, 2017, he wrote about the darkened sun by the solar eclipse, “Join my rebellion and gaze into that mf with 0 **’s given, dawg.” On August 2, 2017, he posted a video from a black nationalist activist “Sa Neter,” who works out of New York City. “Sa Neter” interviewed another “Africa Stand Up” activist who described the failure to support black Americans, and called for black Americans to understand their community, including by rejecting Jesus Christ.

He also began projecting that because the names of hurricanes were quickly given with reports about such natural disasters that unknown powers conspired knew about these way in advance. (Weather conspiracy theories are frequent among posting of black nationalist extremists supporting the Nation of Islam.)

The attacker’s social media showed an increasing focus on extremist conspiracy issues, hate of police, support for the Black Panther extremist group (associated with other attacks), including posting report on calls by Black Panther extremists to “tell Blacks to ‘Arm up’,” and posting report on reported “execution” of Black Panther extremists by the police, stating “Police murder a Black Panther general execution style and try to cover it up.” The attacker continued to distance his focus on Christianity, as pan-African and black nationalist activists offered alternative views on America and the West.

The attacker increasingly also posted anti-West conspiracy theories; he posted on how “1 Trillion Stolen from Africa in 50 years and Diverted to Western Countries Illegally.” He posted on how the U.S. Government has lied in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, posted on how “Doctors who discovered cancer enzymes in vaccines have been murdered,” posted on “Woman leading Flint lead poisoning lawsuit found shot dead in her home.” With such posts, the attacker wrote text like “I believe in incidents, not accidents. There has never been such a thing as “by chance ” & nor will there ever will be.”

While this case will continue to be investigated by law enforcement authorities, R.E.A.L. urges the investigators not to discount what would appear to be links in the support of the armed Black Panther movement (viewed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – SPLC) , and other black nationalist anti-white hate as motivations behind the attack, killing, and targeted shootings at the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ.

R.E.A.L. has noted an significant increase in black nationalist hate and violence in the past year, and as previously noted multiple terror attacks linked to black nationalist views over the past 14 months. On August 8, 2017, the SPLC also reported on an increased trend of black nationalist violence, in an article titled “Return of the Violent Black Nationalist Violence.” In the August 8, 2017 SPLC report, the SPLC stated that: “Since 2000, the number of Black Nationalist groups in the United States has jumped dramatically from 48 groups to 193 in 2016.” In this this report, the SPLC notes the violence from the Fresno, Dallas, and Baton Rouge attacks, and states that “the U.S. has not experienced this level of violent Black Nationalism in nearly 40 years.”

According to the SPLC report, “The Black Nationalist Movement represents a swath of antigovernment, anti-police, racist, and radical religious ideologies. While organized groups have refrained from violence, they attract adherents (e.g. ‘lone wolves’) who are motivated to commit violence, criminal behavior, or other subversive acts as a result of Black Nationalism’s radical ideology. As a result, lone individuals prone to violence who are affiliated with Black Nationalism, pose a potential threat to law enforcement, government officials and others. Like other domestic extremists, the merging of antigovernment, racist and religious extremist ideologies is cause for concern. Historically, this convergence of extremist beliefs serves as a catalyst for radicalization and mobilization towards violent action for some members and affiliates.” The SPLC report describes that “Black Nationalist Groups of Concern,” which the SPLC states “attract violent individuals whom they indoctrinate and push toward extremism,” including: Nation of Islam (NOI), New Black Panther Party (NBPP), New Black Panther Nation (NBPN), New Black Liberation Militia (NBLM), Five Percent Nation (based out of Harlem), Black Hebrew Israelites (BHI), and the Moorish Nation (linked to Sovereign Citizen Extremists – SCE). Dallas terrorist Micah Xavier Johnson was a member of the New Black Panther Party. According to the ADL, terrorist Gavin Long was also associated with the “Moorish Sovereign Citizens” SCE. There is a similar group known as the “Nuwaubian Nation.”

In the attack on the Antioch church, the law enforcement investigation must continue. However, as R.E.A.L. has shown, the attacker had sympathy with at least the Black Panther Party described in this SPLC report.

This remains not only a counterterrorism security issue, but also a human rights issue for Americans to address, which is particularly compounded in the U.S. due to public concerns of cases involving police abuse of authority. When increasing public sympathy support black nationalist extremism, the security and human rights are compounded by a disinterest and unwillingness to hear messages to reject extremist views and to support nonviolence solutions for human rights progress.

Among Emanuel Kidega Samson’s 4,700+ followers on Facebook, virtually none of them have “un-friended” him, over a day after his attack on Burnette Chapel Church of Christ. Three of his followers publicly asked him why he did this or condemned the attack on his Facebook timeline.

In addition, once again, we see yet another attacker in the U.S., who had been working as a security guard. The night before his attack on the Antioch Christian church, the attacker worked as an unarmed security guard with Crimson Security of Murfreesboro. Channel 17 News also reports that he was in the process of working to renew his license as a security guard with the Academy of Personal Protection and Security. For context, R.E.A.L. has pointed out previous terrorist attacks in the U.S. by current or former security guards in Orlando (Omar Mateen, G4S), St.Cloud, MN (Dahir A. Adan – Securitas), NYC and New Jersey (Ahmad Raham – Summit Security), and Fort Lauderdale, FL (Esteban Santiago – Signal 88). This attack in Antioch is the fifth known attack on U.S. by a trusted security guard.

The human rights challenge to black nationalist violence requires a recognition of the need to support both belief and identity systems, as well as provide leadership in activist solutions for nonviolence in promoting human rights change.

For the U.S., cultural challenges and religious challenges are mixed together without clear and consistent leadership to provide inspirational and identity leadership to frustrated individuals. Among many frustrated black and African-Americans, there are not only extremists, but also those similarly frustrated indivividuals, who are indicating that “Christianity” is a “white” religion, and this remains a struggle in social coherency during increasing times of social and racial unrest. A number of individuals get drawn to the “Nation of Islam” extremist movement, simply because of its strength in leadership and its defiance to “white America,” despite and/or because of the NOI’s racist views.

Religious and cultural analyst Adam Coleman explains that ineffectiveness among some traditional U.S. Christian organizations have made frustrated black and African-American searching for additional sources of inspiration. According to the analyst Adam Coleman, the “Consciousness Community” (CC) includes “is a rather nebulous entity. There are a few main belief systems that people who consider themselves to be conscious tend to subscribe to, but no formal creed or organization around which the CC revolves. These include the Hebrew Israelites, Moorish Scientists, Egyptian (Kemetic) spiritualists, and practitioners of African mysticism.” He states: “Each of these groups purport to solve the identity problem, faced by people of African descent, by restoring the individual to their true identity. The primary draw for these groups is that rather than simply offering an alternative belief system, they offer an identity system.” He states: “Those who consider themselves ‘conscious’ typically take on some form of Pan-Africanist or Black Nationalist ideology. That is to say they hope to reclaim control of Africa’s resources and establish an autonomous nation of African people including those of the Diaspora.” In addition, he states that “Among the CC, anti-Caucasian sentiment ranges from latent resentment to violent aversion. By extension, Western society as a whole is viewed as a power structure that is bent on subduing people of color.”

R.E.A.L. has previously also identified this shortcoming within the Christian and faith-other based leadership, to offer activist guidance and solutions to those that claim that nonviolence is not a solution. As R.E.A.L. described in our report “Compassion And Nonviolence Leadership For Racial Justice” on April 25, 2017, “America needs such leaders of compassion and nonviolence today, in our important national issues of racial justice.” In the Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he described the essential need to leverage the new revolution of nonviolence as a solution to supporting racial justice in America. In Chapter 29 of this autobiography, pages 328 to 330, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. explained that “Before this century, virtually all revolutions had been based on hope and hate…. What was new about Mahatma Gandhi’s movement in India was that he mounted a revolution based on hope and love, hope and nonviolence.” This was the model that Reverend King sought to use to bring change to racial equality in America. Reverend King explained “As long as long as the hope was fulfilled there was little questioning of nonviolence.” But when hopes were not realized, some came to despair and sought other ways for change. Reverend King stated that “revolution, though born of despair, cannot be sustained by despair. This was the ultimate contradiction of the Black Power movement.” He explained that hope was essential for any campaign for long-term change. Reverend King rejected the “blatantly illogical” answer by some promoting violence and “overthrowing racist state and local governments.” He concluded “nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power,” in support of human rights and racial equality for all Americans.

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) reject all hate-based and terrorist violence, as we have provided reports on many other terrorist violence and attacks, including the recent terrorist attack and violence in Charlottesville, Viriginia. Responsible supporter of human rights, dignity, and shared public security must unequivocally condemn all such violence and terrorism, no matter what the ideological justification, including the increasing number of violent black nationalist attacks that we have seen in the United States of America. Violent attacks on our fellow human beings are wrong, and we must set a consistent standard of rejection and condemnation for such violence and hate. To work to change the atmosphere of violence and hate, while some may call for forgiveness of brutal violence, we must clearly condemn such acts of murder and violence, and enforce our laws to make it clear such actions can never be accepted by our society. The continuing challenges of racial equality and justice in America can never justify the violence and terrorism that we have continued to see. Those solutions cannot be based on hate, but must find an understanding of our societal needs to end the causes of such violence. We must, as a nation, work towards solutions of nonviolence for all Americans.

Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

North Korea Crimes Against Humanity and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has long supported the human rights and dignity of North Korea people, and those held captive and kidnapped by its totalitarian government. It is astounding that in the political partisan charged environment of 2017, so many are willing to ignore and forget the ongoing Crimes Against Humanity by the Communist North Korea government, its leadership, and as documented not only by the United Nations, but also by defectors from that totalitarian regime.

Humanity cannot simply “forget” an unrepentant totalitarian regime which continues to commit, and has a long history of Crimes Against Humanity. The long history of horrific murders, concentration camps, and inhuman treatment against its own citizens should give ethical pause to those who believe North Korea can be responsible and restrained once it has nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

On March 21, 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council announced that it had “established the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Resolution A/HRC/RES/22/13 mandates the body to investigate the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, with a view to ensuring full accountability, in particular for violations which may amount to crimes against humanity.” The U.N. stated that among the violations to be investigated were “those pertaining to the right to food, those associated with prison camps, torture and inhuman treatment, arbitrary detention, discrimination, freedom of expression, the right to life, freedom of movement, and enforced disappearances, including in the form of abductions of nationals of other States.”

In 2014, the United Nations provided a report on these North Korea Crimes Against Humanity, by the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the human rights situation in North Korea. It issued a 36 page summary, and a nearly 400 page report of its full findings. As the International Society of Human Rights (ISHR) reported, “Since the UN experts were denied entry to North Korea, the Commission interviewed 80 witnesses in public hearings and 240 people behind closed doors in Seoul, Tokyo, London and Washington on the situation in North Korea.” The U.N. commission’s public hearings are still available for the public to see.

The U.N. commission’s report summarized “crimes against humanity” by the North Korea government. The U.N. commission reported that: “the commission finds that the body of testimony and other information it received establishes that crimes against humanity have been committed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, pursuant to policies established at the highest level of the State.” It stated “These crimes against humanity entail extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation. The commission further finds that crimes against humanity are ongoing in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea because the policies, institutions and patterns of impunity that lie at their heart remain in place.” “Persons detained in political and other prison camps, those who try to flee the State, Christians and others considered to introduce subversive influences are the primary targets of a systematic and widespread attack against all populations that are considered to pose a threat to the political system and leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. This attack is embedded in the larger patterns of politically motivated human rights violations experienced by the general population, including the discriminatory system of classification of persons based on songbun.” “In addition, the commission finds that crimes against humanity have been committed against starving populations, particularly during the 1990s. These crimes arose from decisions and policies violating the right to food, which were applied for the purposes of sustaining the present political system, in full awareness that such decisions would exacerbate starvation and related deaths of much of the population.” “Lastly, the commission finds that crimes against humanity are being committed against persons from other countries who were systematically abducted or denied repatriation, in order to gain labour and other skills for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

The UN Commission of Inquiry on the human rights situation in North Korea concluded that: “Systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, its institutions and officials. In many instances, the violations of human rights found by the commission constitute crimes against humanity. These are not mere excesses of the State; they are essential components of a political system that has moved far from the ideals on which it claims to be founded.”

The U.N. commission concluded: “The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world. Political scientists of the twentieth century characterized this type of political organization as a totalitarian State: a State that does not content itself with ensuring the authoritarian rule of a small group of people, but seeks to dominate every aspect of its citizens’ lives and terrorizes them from within.”

The U.N. commission further concluded that “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea displays many attributes of a totalitarian State: the rule of a single party, led by a single person, is based on an elaborate guiding ideology that its current Supreme Leader refers to as ‘Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism’. The State seeks to ensure that its citizens internalize this guiding ideology by indoctrinating citizens from childhood, suppressing all political and religious expression that questions the official ideology, and tightly controlling citizens’ physical movement and their means of communication with each other and with those in other countries. Discrimination on the basis of gender and songbun is used to maintain a rigid social structure that is less likely to produce challenges to the political system.” “The key to the political system is the vast political and security apparatus that strategically uses surveillance, coercion, fear and punishment to preclude the expression of any dissent. Public executions and enforced disappearance to political prison camps serve as the ultimate means to terrorize the population into submission. The State’s violence has been externalized through State-sponsored abductions and enforced disappearances of people from other nations. These international enforced disappearances are unique in their intensity, scale and nature.” “Today, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea finds itself surrounded by a world that is changing rapidly in political, economic and technological terms. These changes offer opportunities for incremental social change within the State. Inresponse, the authorities engage in gross human rights violations so as to crack down on ‘subversive’ influences from abroad. These influences are symbolized by films and soap operas from the Republic of Korea and other countries, short-wave radio broadcasts and foreign mobile telephones. For the same reason, the State systematically uses violence and punishment to deter its citizens from exercising their human right to leave the country. Persons who are forcibly repatriated from China are commonly subjected to torture, arbitrary detention, summary execution, forced abortion and other forms of sexual violence.”

The U.N. commission also concluded: “A number of long-standing and ongoing patterns of systematic and widespread violations, which were documented by the commission, meet the high threshold required for proof of crimes against humanity in international law. The perpetrators enjoy impunity. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is unwilling to implement its international obligation to prosecute and bring the perpetrators to justice, because those perpetrators act in accordance with State policy.” “The fact that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as a State Member of the United Nations, has for decades pursued policies involving crimes that shock the conscience of humanity raises questions about the inadequacy of the response of the international community.” The commission further called for action by the International Criminal Court (ICC): “The Security Council should refer the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the International Criminal Court for action in accordance with that court’s jurisdiction. The Security Council should also adopt targeted sanctions against those who appear to be most responsible for crimes against humanity.”

Michael Kirby, Chairman of the UN Commission on North Korea, stated at a press conference after the commission issued its report on February 17, 2017: “These are the ongoing crimes against humanity happening in the DPRK which our generation must tackle urgently and collectively. The rest of the world has ignored the evidence for too long. Now there is no excuse because now we know.” “At the end of the Second World War, so many people said ‘If only we had known…!’ Now the international community does know…. there will be no excusing a failure of action.” The Chairman of the U.N. Commission also directly linked Kim Jong Un to these Crimes Against Humanity, stating: “as all lines of authority stop at the Supreme Leader the question was also presented to the commission as to whether the Supreme Leader of DPRK Kim Jong Un would or may himself be responsible for the Crimes Against Humanity.” The Chairman of the U.N. commission stated that as they were “not a prosecutorial body,” it was not their role to make that determination, but now the world had the facts and report on the Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea.

Over the years, endless reports of witnesses of such Crimes Against Humanity by North Korea have come forward to speak, as reported by the BBC, the Daily Mail, and many other media sources. Former North Korea prison guard Lim Hye-jin reported on the routine murders, torture, beheadings, and setting people on fire alive in the North Korea concentration camps. The many witnesses reported of endless and merciless Crimes Against Humanity by North Korea in these concentration camps. Some have compared the Communist North Korea concentration camps to Adolf Hitler’s horrific death camps. But one escapee, Kang Chol-hwan, stated that the protracted torture in North Korea camps had a different focus: “While Auschwitz’s goal was rapid, industrial-style extermination, Yodok prolongs the suffering over three generations. ‘The purpose of Yodok is to be but one facility that helps sustain the regime and cleanse the North Korean people of any freedom of thought.'” According to One Free Korea, “The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds as many as 120,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps, and that 400,000 people have died in these camps from torture, starvation, disease, and execution.”

Communist North Korea Concentration Camps

After the terrorist murder of Kim Jong Nam using chemical weapon VX by North Korea in Malaysia airport in 2016, the Voice of America reported that: “In 2014 the United Nations General Assembly voted to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity, after a Commission of Inquiry report documented ongoing atrocities in North Korea that include incarcerating over 120,000 people in political prisons, as well as systematic abuses that included torture, enslavement, rape and murder. The measure has since stalled in the U.N. Security Council, where the Pyongyang’s allies, China and Russia, are believed to be preventing it from coming to a vote.”

On March 24, 2017, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution (without a vote) to authorize the use of criminal justice experts to develop legal approaches in the eventual prosecution of North Korea for these crimes against humanity. Yet nothing has happened on this, and in the interim, the Communist North Korea totalitarian nation accused of such Crimes Against Humanity continue to develop more and more advanced nuclear weapons of mass destruction.

The protracted history of Communist North Korea’s totalitarian government, its use of an ethnic nationalism based on minjok concept of racial superiority (analyst Brian Myers calls it “race-based paranoid nationalism”), and its well-documented Crimes Against Humanity must be taken seriously as a priority by the international community. The idea that Communist North Korea is being permitted, due to the continuing failure of Communist China and Russia to act on serious sanctions and international law, to stop the growth of such Crimes Against Humanity, while simultaneously failing to stop Communist North Korea’s ambitions for nuclear weapons of mass destruction, is nothing less than contempt for international human rights and security. The growing threats by Communist North Korea to commit attacks on Japan, South Korea, the United States, and any others that might halt its aggressive ambitions, must be challenged and rejected.

R.E.A.L. calls upon the international community, including Communist China and Russia, to take meaningful and significant steps to stop the nuclear weapons of mass destruction sought by North Korea, which has been documented in committing Crimes Against Humanity.

R.E.A.L. calls upon the people in North Korea to reject the direction of their leaders in seeking to make war and violence against the world, and to sacrifice the lives of North Korea people as acceptable. Such calls for violence and threats are an attack on our shared human rights, and the North Korea public who have long suffered under terrible conditions deserve the same basic human rights as the rest of the world’s public, under our shared universal human rights. Our human rights of security are not the right to threaten to attack and destroy people and nations around the world. R.E.A.L. urges the North Korea public to call for an end to these threats and calls for violence.

Choose Love, Not Hate. Love Wins.

Racial Equality, Justice, and Rage

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) volunteers of diverse races, religions, and identity groups, have worked for many decades for racial equality and justice in American and world. A key focus for R.E.A.L.’s founder has been a life-long struggle against White Supremacism and Racism. Across America, many millions and generations of the public have worked together, and sacrificed during their lives to challenge such racist and white supremacist hate and inequality. R.E.A.L. recognizes there are those frustrated today that feel equality and justice is not where it should be. R.E.A.L. also has first-hand life experience knowing how much equality and justice has progressed. There are those who believe the solution is rage and violence. It is not, has not, and will not be the answer. Furthermore, the slurs and slanders of calling people with whom we disagree as “white supremacists,” “Nazis,” “racists,” simply clarify those consumed by rage actually have no experience in dealing with “white supremacists” and “Nazis.” R.E.A.L. has direct experience in challenging actual white supremacists and Nazis. Seeking to apply such labels to “anyone” simply undermines the ability to challenge genuine anti-Human Rights extremist ideologies. It is R.E.A.L.’s experience that those who truly support such extremist views, don’t shy from being called white supremacists or Nazis. This is not our “opinion,” but our many years of direct experience with such extremists. Hate and violence is not the answer.

Choose Love, Not Hate.

Reject Violence, Seek Shared Humanity.

Love Wins.

North Korea States Nuclear War Acceptable to Destroy USA, Threatens Other Nations

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) calls for responsible and ethical citizens in the nation of North Korea to stop efforts by its leadership to continue to promote global violence. We have seen many threats by North Korea to attack other countries around the world in recent weeks and months, most notably a North Korean missile that flew over the island of Hokkaido of Japan on August 28, 2017, and repeated threats to launch missiles against the United States of America (USA) in Guam and the USA mainland. R.E.A.L. urges the North Korean people that the path to progress is through peace and respect for our shared human rights.

Japanese media Asahi Shimbun reported on September 11, 2017 that its sources in North Korea indicate that the Communist nation is threatening cyberattacks on South Korea, Japan, and the USA.

But most notable is a new New Yorker report, for its September 18, 2017 issue, entitled “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea,” by political journalist Evan Osnos, recounting his discussions and experience during a recent visit within North Korea. Within this long and nuanced article, Mr. Osnos has discussions where representatives of the North Korea government and military seek nothing less than the destruction of the USA, as one of their main goals in pursuing missiles and nuclear bombs, which can threaten the world. To those who simply read the introduction of this 42 page report, this would not be clear. The introduction provides the standard U.S. political media narrative, how the Communist North Korea’s decades of threats are primarily aggravated by the current U.S. administration, etc.

Yet much further into the report (pages 22-23), we see a totally different and essentially important fact: North Korea government and military representatives believe that a full-scale nuclear war is not only survivable, but may be acceptable if it results in the destruction of the USA.

Pak Song Il, of the North Korea Government’s Foreign Ministry’s Institute for American Studies, was the guide for U.S. political journalist Evan Osnos. In a moment of brutal candor, Pak Song Il told Evan Osnos that a full scale nuclear war with the USA was survivable, and the North Korea military would consider such a war acceptable to achieve the “destruction of the United States.”

North Korea Government’s Pak Song Il repeatedly states that such full scale nuclear destruction of the USA would be a North Korea objective. At one point in the article, Pak Song Il explains that such total destruction is the only point of such nuclear war.

On pages 22 and 23 of the article, Evan Osnos writes that Americans assume “[i]n the event of a nuclear war, American strategists assume that North Korea would first launch a nuclear or chemical weapon at an American military base in Japan or Guam, in the belief that the U.S. would then hold its fire, rather than risk a strike on its mainland.” Evan Osnos continues: ” I mentioned that to Pak, but he countered with a different view. ‘The point of nuclear war is to give total destruction to another party,’ he said. ‘There are no moves, no maneuvers. That’s a conventional war.'”

Evan Osnos continues this line of question: “[a]t lunch, I asked Pak, ‘If your country would be destroyed in a nuclear exchange, why are you really entertaining the idea?’ North Korea, he said, is no stranger to devastation: ‘We’ve been through it twice before. The Korean War and the Arduous March’—the official euphemism for the famine of the mid-nineties. ‘We can do it a third time.’ ”

Screenshot: “The Risk of Nuclear War with North Korea,” New Yorker, Evan Osnos, pp 22-23

Evan Osnos tries to understand, but the point is his world-view does not allow him to understand that there are those in North Korea that would consider nuclear war, including on North Korea as acceptable to “destroy” the United States. Evan Osnos writes: “But, to state the obvious, I said, risking a premature end to a friendly meal, a nuclear exchange would not be comparable. ‘A few thousand would survive,’ Pak said. ‘And the military would say, ‘Who cares? As long as the United States is destroyed, then we are all starting from the same line again.’ ‘ He added, ‘A lot of people would die. But not everyone would die.'”

R.E.A.L. urges world and American security advisors concerned about global human rights and security to ask serious questions about this increasingly aggressive and violent position from Communist North Korea. There is a urgent need to recognize that such aggression can quickly be turned on other people around the world, and it must be discouraged by those responsible activists and leaders in human rights.

R.E.A.L. calls upon the people in North Korea to reject the direction of their leaders in seeking to make war and violence against the world, and to sacrifice the lives of North Korea people as acceptable. Such calls for violence and threats are an attack on our shared human rights, and the North Korea public, who have long suffered under terrible conditions deserve the same basic human rights as the rest of the world’s public, under our shared universal human rights. Our human rights of security are not the right to threaten to attack and destroy people and nations around the world. R.E.A.L. urges the North Korea public to call for an end to these threats and calls for violence.

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Anarchist “Antifa” Campaign Urges Crowd to Chant “No USA At All”

As previously described by Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.), Anarchist and Anarcho-Communist movements have sought to leverage political and popular unrest for its real objective of attacking democracy and national insurrection in the United States of America. R.E.A.L. notes that “Antifa” campaign by Anarchist and Anarcho-Communist extremists, which became more active in the U.S. nearly a decade ago, is active working to encourage and incite national insurrection against America.

R.E.A.L. has now found video promoted by Anarchist organizations on social media of the Anarchist-led “Antifa” rally in Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017, which specifically uses chants to call for end to the United States of America.

In the Berkeley video, the Anarchists / Anarcho-Communists led a chant repeatedly which calls for “No U.S.A. At All.”

R.E.A.L. respects the U.S. Constitutional and universal human rights of freedom of speech that all Americans and our fellow human beings have. R.E.A.L. respects the need of those frustrated by political and public unrest to make statements of the frustration and to share their feelings.

There is a difference between frustration and unrest, and calling for an end to the United States of America. An increasing number of Anarchist and Anarcho-Communist figures are using social media and the recent infamous “popularity” of their “Antifa” campaign to call for further violence against Americans including attacks on cars with American flag bumper stickers or other symbols, and equating “patriotism” with “fascism” or slang term “fash.”

R.E.A.L. uses its own freedom of speech to reject the calls for violence and hate. R.E.A.L. rejects the calls for the end of the United States of America by Anarchist and Anarcho-Communist extremists, which are consistent with such extremist ideologies calls for national insurrection, destruction of our shared rights, and destruction of representative democracy.

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Communist North Korea Threat of EMP and Nuclear Weapon to World Human Rights

Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) has warned for many years of the human rights in Communist totalitarian North Korea. R.E.A.L. has reported about the North Korea concentration camps, starvation of vulnerable public and abandonment of children in North Korea. We have seen the singular focus of Communist North Korea’s development of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea’s primary ideologies is one of “tanil minjok” (pure race), which seeks a warlike “minjok” against the rest of the world. This is an excuse for war by the North Korean dictator; it is not true and not based in reality. It similar to the same rationale that the Axis powers used during World War II.

Starving Orphans in Communist North Korea

R.E.A.L. calls upon responsible members of the North Korea society to bring an end to growing efforts at violence in their nation today.

R.E.A.L. Publicly Call for North Korea to Renounce its Nuclear Weapon Ambitions and Threats against the World Public

The current threat of a North Korea nuclear bomb or use of it as an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) device is a threat to the world. Not only are such nuclear bomb weapons a threat to world peace, the calls by the North Korea government to use such a weapon for a “super-powerful EMP attack” has the capability of threatening the lives of many more individuals, including those vulnerable individuals depended on the shared electrical grid dependent on such resources for their survival.

On September 3, 2017, the Government of North Korea (DPRK) made such a threat, using its KCNA news agency in a report entitled “Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization.” In the report, the North Korea government stated that Communist dictator Kim Jong Un met ith “senior officials of the Department of Munitions Industry of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and scientists of the Nuclear Weapons Institute before being briefed on the details of nuclear weaponization. The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke, true to the strategic intention of the WPK for bringing about a signal turn in nuclear weaponization.” It further stated: “The scientists further upgraded its technical performance at a higher ultra-modern level on the basis of precious successes made in the first H-bomb test. The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.”

KNCA Text on September 3, 2017 with Communist North Korea Government Threat

Some “experts” told the New York Times, they are skeptical of the North Korea’s full “hydrogen bomb” level of testing.

While many believe this to be a threat targeted towards only the United States of America (U.S.A.), the reality is the Communist North Korea threat is a threat to world peace for all people and all nations. As recent research shows, the expanded North Korea threat will target all nations, both in nuclear strikes and possible EMP destruction. On July 21, 2017, North Korea fired a missile at an elevated trajectory of 3,700 kilometers (2,300 miles) high and for a distance of 1,000 kilometers (621 miles). On a flatter, standard trajectory, this would be a significantly broader distance, up to 10,400 kilometers (6,500 miles), and some analysts believe North Korea is building capability for missile strike of 11,700 kilometers (7,250 miles).

Estimated Current Range of Communist North Korea Missiles Threat to World

A high-altitude EMP attack could be achieved by a nuclear weapon detonated at 30-400 kilometers altitude above the atmosphere. On July 21, 2017, the world discovered that this was definitely a possible threat by the Communist North Korean government, and one that it could possibly achieve quickly and without warning.

The North Korea September 3, 2017 threat to use a EMP and nuclear attack on the public is a massive threat of public human rights and safety, especially given the documented history of the North Korean government’s willingness to use Nazi-like crimes against humanity against their own citizens.

We must not exaggerate the danger of an EMP strike to every electronic device. But the threat of an EMP strike does not have meaningful testing in our modern age. The destruction of masses of vulnerable electrical grids, is not only an act of war, but also an act that would inevitably become an act of mass casualty terrorism, not in moments, but prolonged over months through societal and infrastruction distruption to vulnerable individuals.

The April 2008 “The Report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the US from EMP Attack” states: “When a nuclear explosion occurs at high altitude, the EMP signal it produces will cover the wide geographic region within the line of sight of the detonation. This broad band, high amplitude EMP, when coupled into sensitive electronics, has the capability to produce widespread and long lasting disruption and damage to the critical infrastructures that underpin the fabric of U.S. society.”

The March 26, 2008 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report “High Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse (HEMP) and High Power Microwave (HPM) Devices: Threat Assessments” states: “Study for A HEMP attack directed against the Unites States continent might involve a one-megaton nuclear warhead, or a smaller one that is specially-designed, using a burst several hundred miles above the mid-western states to affect computers on both coasts. However, creating a HEMP effect over an area 250 miles in diameter, an example size for a battlefield, might only require a rocket with a modest altitude and payload capability that could loft a relatively small nuclear device. If a medium or higher range missile with a nuclear payload were launched from the deck of a freighter at sea, the resulting HEMP could reportedly disable computers over a widearea of the coastal United States.”

High Altitude EMP Impact – 1997 Study included in March 2008 CRS Report

Based on physics and mathematically assessments, MIT Engineering Graduate Dr. Jack Liu has assessed the following updated general formula, in a detailed technical study on this issue: “D = Y, where D is the maximum damage distance expressed in kilometers and Y is the yield of the blast in kilotons.” Previous North Korea nuclear bomb tests were estimated at 20 kilotons. EMP impacts would yield an estimated EMP impacted area, per Dr. Liu, as follows: “a 20 KT bomb detonated at optimum height would have a maximum EMP damage distance of 20 km; a 1 MT (1,000 KT) bomb would damage out to 1,000 km” (621 miles). On September 3, 2017, initial studies by NORSAR came to the conclusion that the September 3, 2017 nuclear bomb had a damage yield of 120 kilotons. If this NORSAR estimate of 120 KT is correct and Dr. Liu’s formula is correct, this would give the EMP threat of 120 km area (74 miles). However, we have limited intelligence on the true range of such threats based on attacks at high altitudes.

At the time of posting, the issue of the seismic activity of the September 3, 2017 North Korea nuclear bomb test is not clear and not settled. While NORSAR had estimated that the seismic event resulting from the North Korea nuclear bomb test as 5.8, US stated this (as did China) as 6.3, Japan as 6.1, Russia states as 6.4. According to Arms Control analyst Jeffrey Lewis, he initially reported, “Just for reference: 5.6 is ~100 kilotons. 6.3 is a megaton. Just using Mb=4.05+.75Log(W). YMMV.” And further stated: “6.3 puts us up around a megaton. That would be a staged thermonuclear weapon folks.” Many hours later, he came up with a wide range of kiloton ranges from 63 kilotons (KT) to 542 KT, based on the various calculations. He further explained the different types of equations. (Note: Ankit Panda writes “seismic event magnitudes are measured on the moment magnitude scale. *Not* the Richter scale.”

Jeffrey Lewis review of different equations used in assessing Nuclear Bomb test based on seismic information

Initial Seismic Assessment of North Korea Nuclear Bomb Test (6.3), and Aftershock (4.1)

NORSAR estimated of Communist North Korea nuclear bomb blast

R.E.A.L. calls for global efforts to stop the aggressive campaign by Communist North Korea’s threatening the security and human rights of people around the world, including significant cooperation by China and Russia in ending this threat.

R.E.A.L. also calls for the North Korea people to stop such efforts at violence by their government and threats against the world. Vulnerable individuals around the world are threatened by such aggressiveness. We urge the North Korean people to stop the escalation of violence against the public human rights and security.

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