Yahweh ben Yahweh

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Yahweh ben Yahweh's legal name is Hulon Mitchell Jr. He was the leader of Nation of Yahweh, a black supremacist cult in the Miami area in the early 1990s.

Yahweh Ben Yahweh is the Grand Master of the Celestial Lodge, Architect of the Universe, and the Blessed and only Potentate. He is here to set the captives free and to cause them that are bound to stand perpendicular on the square of righteousness. He is also doing time on a RICO conviction after he and several other Yahwehists were convicted of conspiracy in more than a dozen murders.

One court document describes a scene that sounds like it could be in a blaxploitation screenplay:

Racketeering Act 5: Homicide of Leonard Dupree.
Because Dupree was known to be a karate expert, Yahweh openly challenged him to fight Lightburn, the Yahwehs' resident martial-arts expert. The two men squared off in front of about 30-60 Yahweh onlookers. Dupree quickly knocked Lightburn down, at which point Yahweh ordered all present, including Ingraham and Maurice, to attack Dupree. Ingraham struck Dupree in the face with a tire jack. Dupree was literally beaten to death. During the struggle, Gaines locked the doors of the Temple at Yahweh's request. Yahweh allowed no one to leave and made everyone, including women and children, strike and kick Dupree's lifeless body. Dupree's body has never been found.

Late breaking news flash: Cult Leader Free

Yup - Yahweh Ben Yahweh is out on parole - and on a tight leash: prohibited not only from hanging out with his old congregation, but from any form of speech by telephone, computer, radio or television if such medium could place him in contact with a member of the Hebrew Israelite religion.

A ruling on a (failed) appeal, U.S. v. Yahweh Ben Yahweh (792 F. Supp. 104) starts:

Violent crime cases are the exception in federal courts. The instant case is arguably the most violent case ever tried in a federal court: the indictment charges the sixteen defendants on trial with 14 murders by means such as beheading, stabbing, occasionally by pistol shots, plus severing of body parts such as ears to prove the worthiness of the killer. Plus, they are charged with arson of a slumbering neighborhood by molotov cocktails with the perpetrators under orders to wait outside the innocent victims' homes wearing ski masks and brandishing machetes to deter the victims from fleeing the flames.

They convicted Y-B-Y, only of conspirary, not murder, and that only because of the testimony of Robert Rozier, former NFL player, who admitted to several of the murders and testified in return for a lighter sentence. He was relocated to California under the witness protection program, and then, like a complete dummy, got caught passing bad checks, for which he's gonna do a harsh 25 to Life under California's Three Strikes law. Whoops!

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See also: Yahweh ben Yahweh, 1990s, Biography, Black supremacist, Blaxploitation, Cult