Notice of Non-Recognition: The Instrument Styled as the “Constitution for the Sovereign State of Accompong” (March 2022) and the Identification Products Issued Under It
Issued by the Maroon Office of the Secret Service
Under seal of the Sovereign State of Accompong
Date of issue: April 19, 2026
Reference: MOSS-2026-003
Category: Treaty Misrepresentation; External and Cyber Threats
Related: MOSS-2026-001 (Elderberg Foundation); MOSS-2026-002 (Accompong Development Foundation 2005 Ltd)
Summary
The Maroon Office of the Secret Service has examined a document ratified on March 21, 2022 and styled as the Constitution for the Sovereign State of Accompong, together with the identification and citizenship products issued under it from October 2022 onward.
After review, the Office finds that the instrument was drafted and promoted in a manner inconsistent with the standing of the State, contains provisions inconsistent with the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship, installs in a named position of authority a party found by the United States federal courts to have asserted claims to stand outside US jurisdiction, and has been publicly positioned — on the platforms of its own associates — as a model and instrument of a movement classified by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and established civil rights research bodies as a domestic extremism concern.
The Office declines to recognize the March 2022 instrument as a valid constitutional instrument of the Sovereign State of Accompong. The Office further declines to recognize any identification card, nativity document, or citizenship product issued under its authority.
This advisory completes the series begun with MOSS-2026-001 (Elderberg Foundation) and MOSS-2026-002 (Accompong Development Foundation 2005 Ltd), and addresses the document and instruments under which those prior findings have operated.
Findings of the Office
1. The March 2022 instrument was not drafted or ratified under the authority of the lawful offices of the State.
The instrument styling itself as the Constitution for the Sovereign State of Accompong bears a ratification date of March 21, 2022, and names a drafting committee styled the Constitution Amendment Committee, which includes the party styling himself Chief of Accompong and a number of ministers appointed by that administration.
The Office notes that no ratification of a constitutional instrument of the State has been entered in the records of this Office, nor acknowledged by the lawful succession described in Advisory MOSS-2026-002, Finding 5(c). The document stands as an instrument of the administration that ratified it, not as an instrument of the State whose custodianship runs through the 1923 founding of this Office and the 2014 re-establishment under Secretary of State David Errol of the Family Holmes.
Whatever signatures were gathered in connection with the ratification, and whatever ceremony attended it, do not substitute for constitutional recognition by the lawful offices of the State.
2. The drafting committee installed as “Plenipotentiary” a party found by the United States federal courts to have asserted claims inconsistent with the jurisdiction of sovereign states.
Among the parties named to the Constitution Amendment Committee is Anu Tafari Zion El, designated in the instrument as “Plenipotentiary.” The same party is identified in Advisory MOSS-2026-001 as Founder and Chairman of the Elderberg Foundation of Sanford, Florida, and is one of the named appellants in Luminant Mining Company, L.L.C. v. PakeyBey et al., No. 20-40803 (5th Cir.), in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed summary judgment against him on September 17, 2021, and in connection with which the Supreme Court of the United States denied certiorari on May 23, 2022.
Throughout the federal court proceeding, Mr. Anu Tafari Zion El and his co-appellants asserted that they were acting as “sovereign freemen outside the jurisdiction of the United States.” The assertion did not prevail.
A Plenipotentiary is, by the ordinary meaning of that word in the conduct of sovereign states, a person invested with full authority to represent a State in relations with other States. The installation in that role of a party whose public legal posture is to deny the jurisdiction of neighboring States is inconsistent with the conduct of lawful international relations and inconsistent with the function of the 1738 Treaty, which is itself a treaty between sovereigns.
3. Provisions of the March 2022 instrument depart from the terms of the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship.
The 1738 Treaty, the foundation of the standing of the State of Accompong, establishes a perpetual peace between two parties (Article 1), a perpetual state of freedom for the Maroons (Article 2), a territorial grant for themselves and posterity (Article 3), a line of command (Article 15), a mutual defense obligation (Article 7), and reciprocal access to legal process between the two parties (Article 8).
The March 2022 instrument contains provisions that depart materially from that Treaty framework, including:
Article 9, Section 3 — “Anti-Extradition.” The instrument purports to provide that “no Maroon living in the Sovereign State of Accompong shall be extradited to a foreign jurisdiction to face criminal charges,” and that justice against the accused shall be executed “in a Maroon Court under Maroon law.” The 1738 Treaty contains no such provision. Article 8 of the Treaty provides for reciprocal access to legal process between the Maroons and the other signatory’s magistrates — the ordinary function of neighboring sovereigns dealing with one another. The March 2022 provision is not a continuation of the Treaty framework. It is a departure from it, in a direction that mirrors the legal theories of a movement classified by United States federal authorities as a domestic extremism concern.
Article 9, Section 2 — “Militia.” The instrument reproduces, nearly verbatim, language drawn from the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution: “A well regulated Militia authorized by the Full Maroon Council, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The 1738 Treaty contains no such provision. The Treaty’s Article 7, by contrast, obliges the Maroons to repair to the defense of the island against foreign invaders in concert with the Governor — a framework of mutual defense between allies, not a unilateral militia authority.
The transposition of the United States Second Amendment, in language and substance, into a document purporting to govern a Caribbean sovereign is notable. The 1738 Treaty is older than the United States.
4. The identification products issued under the March 2022 instrument were publicly positioned by their own associates as a model for a movement classified as extremism.
The rollout of Accompong National Identification Cards was announced on October 17, 2022 by the administration that ratified the March 2022 instrument. Phase 1 distributed identification cards to persons named on a 2021 electoral list, and subsequent phases invited “all natural persons inhabiting the archipelago of Jamaica and overseas who can trace their ancestry to the Maroon heritage” to apply for “a status within the constitutional fold of the Sovereign State of Accompong.”
On October 26, 2022, an article published on the website hakeembey.com — a publication of an individual identifying as a member of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement — reported on the rollout. The article identified “Sheik Anu Tafari Zion El” as part of the Accompong administration. It described the Accompong Maroons as a “Moorish nation.” And it positioned the rollout as a precedent and template for United States-based Moorish groups:
“The Moorish State governments of the mainland (Northwest Amexem / Northwest Morocco / North America) are not too far behind Accompong with the issuance of identification cards for their citizens / nationals. Allodium Moorish Praedium Ante Georgia (AMPAG) and others are set to issue State Identification Cards soon. Moors of various territories are encouraged to organize their State governments if none currently exists under the preexisting authority of the Moroccan Empire.”
The same article’s author proceeded to offer his own graphic design services to assist other “Moorish” groups in producing their own identification cards.
The Office records the following as a matter of public fact: the unauthorized identification scheme issued under the March 2022 instrument was publicly positioned, on the platform of a person presenting himself as an associate of that administration, as a model for parallel unauthorized identification products to be issued by US-based groups identifying themselves with the Moorish sovereign citizen movement.
5. The Moorish sovereign citizen movement is formally classified as an extremism concern by United States federal authorities and established civil rights research bodies.
The Office records, as a matter of public documentation:
- The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has classified sovereign citizen violent extremists as a Domestic Violent Extremist threat (FBI, 2021).
- The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies Moorish sovereign citizens as an extremist anti-government group. Its records document tactics including the filing of fraudulent deeds and property claims, invented legalese used in court appearances, and the issuance of unauthorized identification documents.
- The Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism describes Moorish sovereign citizens as a collection of groups and individuals emerging in the early 1990s as an offshoot of the anti-government extremist sovereign citizen movement.
- The Moorish Science Temple of America — the religious body whose teachings the movement invokes — has itself, in a 2011 public statement, disavowed the Moorish sovereign citizen offshoot and called its practitioners “radical and subversive fringe groups.”
The Office makes no finding as to the personal beliefs, conduct, or criminal status of any named individual. The Office records only that the movement with which the drafting and public promotion of the March 2022 instrument and its identification products have been publicly associated, by those associates’ own language on their own platforms, is a movement that has been formally classified as described.
The standing of the 1738 Treaty, and of the State of Accompong, is precisely the opposite of what the Moorish sovereign citizen movement claims. The Treaty is the recognition of a sovereignty secured in war and held continuously by a lawful succession of offices. It is not a claim of immunity from the ordinary jurisdiction of neighboring states. It is a treaty between states. Its misappropriation to ends inconsistent with that character is a matter the Office treats seriously.
Position of the Office
The Maroon Office of the Secret Service:
- Does not recognize the instrument ratified on March 21, 2022 and styled as the Constitution for the Sovereign State of Accompong as a valid constitutional instrument of the State.
- Does not recognize the Constitution Amendment Committee as a body competent to draft or ratify a constitutional instrument of the State, and does not recognize the designation of any party as “Plenipotentiary” of the State under that instrument.
- Does not recognize any identification card, nativity document, registration certificate, or citizenship product issued under the authority of the March 2022 instrument or under the administration that ratified it.
- Does not certify any representation that such identification products confer status, rights, immunities, or benefits of any kind under the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship or under the laws of any jurisdiction.
- Does not acknowledge any representation that the State of Accompong is a “Moorish” state, a member of any “Moorish” federation, a model for United States-based “Moorish” governance projects, or part of the movement described in Finding 5 of this Notice. The State of Accompong is the continuing sovereign recognized under the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship. It is not any of the things the cited platforms have claimed it to be.
- Reaffirms that the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship is the foundation of the State, that its custodianship rests with the lawful offices of the State in continuous succession, and that no contemporary instrument, administration, or associated network has the authority to alter, supersede, or appropriate it.
Public Warning
The Office advises members of the public, including the global Maroon diaspora, persons in possession of or considering the acquisition of identification cards issued under the administration addressed in this Notice, journalists, foreign offices, financial institutions, customs authorities, and any party presented with such documentation:
Identification products issued under the March 2022 instrument do not carry the authority of the Sovereign State of Accompong. They confer no nationality, no citizenship, no travel status, no legal immunity, no tax benefit, and no standing under the 1738 Treaty.
Presentation of such documents to any government, financial institution, border authority, or employer under the representation that they are official instruments of a recognized sovereign state is not supported by the standing of the issuing administration and is not supported by this Office.
Persons who have acquired, or been solicited to acquire, such identification products may wish to:
- Understand that no current jurisdiction — including Jamaica, any Caribbean state, or any foreign government — recognizes these products as instruments of national identification, citizenship, or sovereignty
- Recognize the established risks — described by United States federal authorities and civil rights bodies cited above — of associating one’s civil standing with instruments produced by the movement described in Finding 5
- Consult qualified legal counsel before relying on such documents in any interaction with government or financial authorities
- Report solicitations of such products — particularly solicitations directed at members of the diaspora — to this Office through the channel listed under Contact
A Note on Scope
This advisory addresses the March 2022 instrument, its drafting committee, and the identification products issued under it. It does not purport to adjudicate the standing of any named individual as a member of any movement, the private religious or political beliefs of any party, or the ancestry of any person. It records matters of public documentation and sets out the position of this Office.
The Office’s work continues. The standing of the Sovereign State of Accompong — in its Treaty, its offices, and its records — is not a contemporary construction. It is held in continuity by the lawful succession of its offices and will be defended accordingly, through the ordinary instruments of the State, against misappropriation in any form, from any quarter.
Issued under the authority of the Maroon Office of the Secret Service, in keeping with the 1738 Treaty of Peace and Friendship and the continuing mandate of the Sovereign State of Accompong.
For the Born and the Unborn.
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