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Feb 2003

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Good evening. I would like to thank the judge for giving
me
the opportunity to speak. I want to talk to you briefly --
excuse me -- on some things that they talked about.

One of the things that we are here for today and the next
couple days is to find out what everyone wants to know is
what happened. Something happened. We have his side, and
we
have my side. If both of us -- one picture and come up
with
two different stories. Something is wrong. Somebody is not
telling the truth. Somebody's lying. I got sworn in. I'm
sure they got sworn in, and everyone that gets up on the
stand gets sworn in. We are all going to get sworn in. We
are going to ask to tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth.

One of the things I like -- I like reading and learning
about words. One of the things I was fascinated in coming
into this strange world to me is three truths. The truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I always
thought it was just the truth. Apparently I was wrong, so
I
did some checking to find out what is it about these three
truths? Same thing but yet they are different.

Well, the whole truth. What is the whole truth? The whole
truth, what I found out when I asked that is, Don't take
anything away from the truth, which means when we take
something away from it, it's not a whole anymore. If we do
that, that's a lie. If we do that, we are deceiving.
What's
nothing but the truth? Well, that means you don't add
nothing to the truth. If we do that, we deceiving. We are
telling a lie, so this is why it's important that we tell
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But how do we
jump from the truth to the whole truth to nothing but the
truth when at one time all we had was the truth? Jesus
said, "You shall know the truth." He didn't say you shall
know the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The truth.
For what happened between that time and this time to where
we got to deal with three truths?

Well, I found out as man evolved with wisdom and
understanding, we also evolved with deceitfulness in our
lives. It seems we found out how to tell the truth with a
lie, and upon upholding the standard of telling the truth,
you could be prosecuted for lying. He was still telling
the
truth, so what he did as we evolved in understanding
things, the scientists or the wise people at that time
realized this person's lying. Yet they're telling the
truth.

Now, how can that be so? Well, let me give you an example.
It's kind of like this. If I say I don't like basketball,
that's my opinion. I don't like basketball. But if someone
else come along and say, I like basketball, then in
actuality what he just said is what I said, but it's not
the whole truth of what I said. He left something out.
Therefore, it cannot be considered the truth. It's a lie.

So we continue to tell these stories and continue to tell
these stories to where we have to come up with the three
truths -- the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and
now that's where we are right now, which means if a person
gets up on that stand and don't respect all three truths,
then they can be prosecuted for telling a lie; and upon
the
law they can get up on the stand and lie and still tell
the
truth and not be prosecuted. That's why they changed it.
Just the facts that we need. The facts should help us to
identify what's the truth and what's not the truth and
what
is a lie and what's not a lie.

Okay. In knowing what our wisdom and our understanding, as
we evolve, we knew how to manipulate things. Put something
here that shouldn't be there, put something here that
shouldn't be there, and became more and more confusing,
and
now we have science and a whole lot of other more things
into it to prove that is the truth or to disprove that is
the truth, and it became more and more confusing.

I heard him talk about his family. Anytime I deal with
anything, I always reflect back on my children, whom I
love
very much; and I remember an incident when I was in the
Caribbean; and my favorite daughter, Taalibah -- she loves
chocolate. She loves chocolate cookies. As I was leaving,
she said, "Daddy, can I have some chocolate cookies?" and
I
said, "Sure. I come back, we'll go to the store, and we'll
get some chocolate cookies, but don't go in the cookie jar
and get no chocolate cookies until I come back." She
said, "I won't, Daddy. I won't."

So I leave. I come back about an hour later. I see my baby
daughter out in the yard with cookies in her hands and
eating chocolate cookies.

I am upset now because from what I see, she disobeyed. I
got the evidence in her hand. I got her eating cookies. I
even got her sister saying she saw her going in the cookie
jar; so I'm very upset now because my baby daughter have
lied to me. That's what I am thinking, . . . and she
starts
hiding the cookies. That is more proof. She is being
deceiving now, so I tell her I want to see her in the
house.

She come in the house; and whenever I have a dispute with
my children, first thing I do is I pick them up and I put
them up at least eye level or above me to where I look up
to them, and that way I can remind myself don't be
disrespectful to them, and I ask her. I say, "Didn't I
tell
you don't go in the cookie jar?" and she said, "Dad -- ."

I said, "Don't say nothing. Don't say nothing. Didn't I
tell you don't go in the cookie jar?"

She say, "Yes, sir."

I said, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't eat no more of these
cookies out of the cookie jar until I get back?' "




She said, "Dad -- ."

I say, "Shut up and answer my question."

She say, "Yes, sir."

I say, "Why did you disobey me?"

"Well, Dad, I didn't -- "

I said, "Why did you disobey me?"

She said nothing. So I say, "Go in the room, and I come in
there and I deal with you later;" so she go in the room
crying. When she go in the room crying, she yelled for her
big brother John, who always protects her; so she yelled
for him. He come running in the room worrying about his
sister. "Taalibah, Taalibah, what's wrong?"

She said, "Daddy going to spank me because I didn't listen
to him."

So I come in the room, and my son said, "Daddy, what is
wrong?"

I said, "Taalibah disobeyed me. She went in the cookie
jar,
and I told her don't go in the cookie jar. She eating
cookies, and I told her, 'Don't eat any cookies until we
eat;' " and my son told me -- He said, "Daddy, you don't
know what happened. You just guessing. You want to hear?"

I said, "So what you telling me? Don't believe my lying
eyes?"

He said, "Dad, I'm not saying you lie. I'm saying that you
don't know what happened. You wasn't here." He said, "I
was
here." He said, "Do you want to hear the truth?" I
said, "Yes, tell me the truth."

He said, "Well, what happened, Dad, right after you left,
Taalibah came and asked me for some cookies; so I went to
the store and I bought her some cookies, chocolate
cookies;
and when she got full, I told her to go put the rest of
the
cookies in the cookie jar."








That was the time that her sister saw her actually going
in
the cookie jar, but what her sister didn't know, she
wasn't
taking cookies out of the jar; she was actually putting
cookies in the jar; and I didn't know. I thought . . .
Taalibah had disobeyed me, but she really hadn't disobeyed
me. She actually got cookies from the store and not out of
the cookie jar. I asked her not to take cookies out of the
cookie jar, and she didn't, but I was basing that on what
I
saw. I was basing that on what I guessed at what happened,
but I didn't know that's what happened, so John told me
that.

So I asked Taalibah. I lost my memory now. I asked
Taalibah, "Why didn't you tell me?" I done forgot all
about
telling her to be quiet -- like what these people told me.
Be quiet. Go to jail, and you are not going to say
nothing,
and that's what I did.

Taalibah did exactly what I told her to do. She didn't say
anything, so when I told her, "Why didn't you tell me?"
she
looked up -- looked down at me and said, "Daddy, you told
me to be quiet;" and I told John -- I said, "John, so you
want me to believe what you just told me?" and he said the
same thing. He said, "Daddy, you don't know what happened.
I was here. I know what happened."

And I say to these people. We know something happened.
They
wasn't there. I was. I know what happened, and I know what
didn't happen. They are basing -- what they have done to
me
and what they are saying on a theory -- and I just want to
speak on that for a minute. A theory. I was locked up
based
on a theory. I was denied bail based on a theory. As a
matter of fact, there was two theories. The first theory
was I was homeless, living in homeless shelter, and poor.

Well, if that was true, then why not -- why shouldn't the
judge offer me bail? Because if I'm homeless, poor, and
living in a homeless shelter, I'm not going to be able to
make bail anyway. That's the first theory.

Then after that, he said, And, "Your Honor, we don't know
where this man lives. He goes in and out of the country
anytime he wants to."

That's the second theory. The second theory is what they
are worried about, because he knew if I was able -- if he
gave me bail, I would be able to make the bail, and then I
would not be locked up in a hole and I could come out here
and represent myself to the people instead of all you are
hearing is the negative side of my human being, so that
way
is the only time that I will be able to represent myself
here in the court because out there in the street there is
so much being said about this man to dehumanize me first,
attack my family, attack me indirectly and directly,
attack
my children and everything else; and I'm still sitting
there listening to all this stuff going on from people who
don't know what happened.

Now, I'm not saying they don't know what happened. Those
are not my words. They are saying they don't know what
happened. They are saying that their entire case is based
on a theory -- and I say a theory, one. They are saying
theories. What's a theory? See, this is a new world. I
mean
this is a new world for me. I mean I'm learning language
that I didn't even think exists; so I looked up the
word "theory." It said many different things, but it ends
up with a guess. A guess, an opinion. It's a guess.
Assumption is a guess.

I'm locked up. I'm denied my constitutional right based on
a guess. I mean what is it about a human life to where we
have reduced it to where we can take it based on a guess?
A
guess. You can lock a man up and forget he's there and go
out and say every negative thing in the world you can
possibly say about him based on a guess; and ironically
about all this, once all this is over, by the grace of the
law that I am found guilty -- not guilty -- these men --
you know what they are going to do? They will say, Next.
No
I'm sorry. No apologies. Just, Next. Who's the next
victim?
Who else can we get? And the beat goes on and it goes on
and goes on. A guess, people, is not enough to take a
human
being life. A guess is not enough to lock an individual up
and deny him his constitutional right to bail so that he
can defend himself. A guess is, Who's next?

The truth. You got the positive side, the positive side,
which is the truth. Then what's the negative side? It's a
lie. No. Can a person tell a lie and not be a liar? Yeah,
they can tell lies and not be a liar. It's because they
don't know the truth. They are repeating what someone told
them. They are lying, but they don't know they're lying.

What is a liar? A liar is when you know the truth and you
willfully deceive someone in thinking what you are saying
is the truth. Now, that is a lie, and that's a liar.

In the Caribbean we call -- there is two lies that we
call.
We say it's a wicked lie and an insane lie. It's a wicked
liar and an insane liar. What's the difference between a
liar who tells the lie and a wicked liar and an insane
liar?

A wicked liar, when he lies, he starts gathering people
around him that he can convince of his lie. They start
telling the lie, and he starts gathering information to
support his lie. He knows it's a lie; but if you get up
enough information and you and people start believing that
lie as the truth -- now he always knows it's a lie; but
the
other people always think it's the truth because they
don't
think he would lie to them. That's a wicked lie.

Now, what's an insane lie? That's the one I have a problem
with. An insane lie. An insane lie is after you did all
the
lying to this person and to this person, moving this
information and put it here and move that evidence and put
it here and move this evidence and put it here, you start
believing your own lie; and that is an insane lie, when
you
start believing your own lie. That's when someone really
needs to lock you up in a rubber room, because you lost
your mind; and that's what we're dealing with; and this is
why it's important to know what the truth is based on the
whole truth and nothing but the truth.




If something is added to it, it's not the whole. If
something's taken away from it, it's not nothing but the
truth. All we are dealing with is the truth. That's what
we
are looking for.

We need the evidence. Saying it, people, doesn't make it
so. Saying it doesn't make it so.

Accusing a human being of a crime doesn't make it so. Man
is accused of being humane and decent, but what they have
done to me is not humane nor decent. To accuse me of a
crime doesn't make it so. Accuse is far different between
proving -- and that's what we are here today and for the
next couple days -- to prove what was done and what was
not
done; but when you prove something, here we go again.

PRINCE WILIAM ASSISTANT COMMONWEALTH'S ATTORNEY JAMES A.
WILLETT: If Your Honor please, at this point I hate to
interrupt. The purpose of an opening statement is to tell
the jury what he thinks the facts will be. He has not done
that up to this point.

PRINCE WILLIAM CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE LEROY F. MILLETTE JR.:
I
think he is speaking in an allegorical manner, and that's
why I allowed him to go on; but, Mr. Muhammad, he is
correct. The purpose of opening statement is to tell the
jury what you think the evidence is going to be.

MR. MUHAMMAD: Yes, sir. The evidence, if we monitor step
by
step and be patient and listen to it carefully, it will
show that I had nothing to do with these crimes. I had
nothing to do with these crimes. They know this, and
that's
why they are trying to impose everything at one time; and
what we ask you all to do is just pay attention. Please
pay
attention because right now my life and my son's life is
on
the line, and we need for people to understand that when
you say something, it's important -- in this place it's
important to prove it. You needs facts. You need evidence
that it actually happened. Not evidence, I think it
happened. Not evidence, I assume it happened. Not
evidence,
I hope it happened. But evidence that it happened, and
that
is what separate a guess from the truth. The truth is a
fact. A guess is a theory. A theory is something that we
can believe as much as we want to, but it doesn't make it
a
fact.

Regardless of how loud it may get, regardless of how much
emphasis may be put on it, it doesn't change it. It's just
a theory. It's an assumption. We're looking for facts. We
are looking for evidence, and the evidence will show that
I
had nothing to do with these crimes, that I had nothing to
do with these crimes directly or indirectly, that I know
anything about these crimes, that I know any times of
these
crimes or anything pertaining to these crimes at all.

The evidence will show that, and this is why -- I know
that
a couple of you all came, you said that I base my decision
on the facts, and that's good, and I also noticed when the
judge asked you questions, the judge would ask you
questions, and some of you said, I think I can. I believe
I
can. I hope I can; and the judge stopped and said, You
know, it's really important because this case is so
important. We need to know. We need to know you can. Can
you separate what you've heard, what you may have seen,
what someone may have told you, to specifically on the
facts that we have in this courtroom? And if they could
not
answer that to where it would satisfy the judge or satisfy
to us, the judge dismissed them because it's important
that
you know what happened. Know.

We got a right to think. We have a right to assume. We
have
a right to speculate. We have a right to do that; but when
it's concerning a human being's life, that's what separate
what we think, what we assume, and what we theorize
happened from what we know happened; and when people get
up
on the stand and when they get up and speak, that's what I
would like you all to pay attention to. Find out do they
know what happened? Not at the beginning. Not in the
middle. Not just at the end. All the way through --
because
any part -- any part of what they're saying, it's not the
truth, it's a lie. All that is deceiving because for a
problem -- a mathematical problem to come out to a proper
answer, if you make a mistake anywhere in that problem,
then the answer is not going to be correct; so it's
important to get all the steps properly. Half -- halfway.
I
used to have a teacher that would say, John, half is not
good enough; and I say, I got half the problem right.

She say, That is not good enough. You need to get all the
problem right to get the right answer; and what we are
looking for in the next couple days is we need the right
answer. We need to know what happened, and the evidence
that they bring as he stated already, that he would hold
me
to the same standards that if I was another one of his
opponent lawyers. The same way for him. The standard
should
be the same. Not just to say it happened but to prove it
happened all the way through -- all the way through.

I know a lot of us have an issue much about Mr. Muhammad.
Mr. Muhammad this and Mr. Muhammad that. He took away a
lot
of people's rights. We actually thought we had a choice.
Dirty glass Number 1 or dirty glass Number 2 and then we
were forced -- out there I'm sure you-all were forced to
pick, thinking you really had a choice. Dirty glass Number
1, dirty glass Number 2. That's not a choice. A real
choice
will be between dirty glass Number 1 or a clean glass; and
for the next couple days, the next couple of hours, it is
my responsibility to set a clean glass of what really
happened on those days alongside this dirty glass; and
because it's the nature of a man to choose and to want to
choose what is right, I don't have to tell anyone that the
glass is clean. Just because you want to drink out of a
clean glass, you pick it. The only reason you would drink
out of a dirty glass is because you thought you had a
choice between dirty glass Number 1 and dirty glass Number
2. You really didn't have a choice.

That's what we want to do today and the next couple days
with the evidence, that we can show everything that they
said and everything that they have mentioned, how things
would evolve into what really happened, because that's why
we're here. That is why everybody is listening right now.

There is no doubt in everyone's mind something happened.
We're here today in court to find out what happened, and
that's why I thank the judge for asking the jurors can you
separate what you have heard out there and base your
opinions solely on what you hear in court? Because a lot
has been said out there, and they have brought a lot in
court already what have been said out there.

So I ask for from you the same thing the judge have asked
of you. That you -- Will you please base your decision on
what you -- what is said in the courtroom and not out
there; and that way we can make sure that the truth is
told, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Thank you, Judge.