NEO-NAZI LEADER BILL WHITE INDICTED. . . . . AGAIN
by Mark Potok on December 11, 2008
Federal prosecutors announced today that Bill White, the most important neo-Nazi leader in America, has been indicted on seven counts related to making Internet and other threats that could bring him 55 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines.
White was already being held in a federal holding facility in Chicago, where he faces an earlier charge of obstructing justice for publishing personal information about a jury foreman on his website. White suggested in that posting that the juror had committed a crime by voting in 2004 to convict another neo-Nazi leader, Matt Hale, for soliciting the murder of a federal judge. (The judge was not harmed.) Trial on that charge has been set for March 3 in Chicago federal court.
Bond was denied to White in two earlier hearings. In the most recent, on Dec. 5, a judge said White would be held “to ensure the safety of the community.”
In recent years, White has developed a reputation as a blustery threatmaker, posting personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers of many individuals — including the author of this blog posting — and, in some cases, suggesting that it would be good to kill them. He was known for pushing First Amendment protections to their absolute limit, although the indictments suggest that he was not careful enough to prevent the lodging of extremely serious charges.
Prosecutors in Roanoke, Va., where White lives and where new indictments were brought, suggested that the additional charges would help stem the tide of Internet threats. “The Internet has proven to be a powerful force in our daily lives. It has made information from across the globe available at the click of a mouse,” Acting U.S. Attorney Julia Dudley said today. “The law enforcement community cannot allow individuals to unlawfully threaten anyone, in any manner. When violent threats are made, legal action must be taken and justice must be served.”
Specifically, the new indictment charges White with:
• Threatening a Citibank employee he was having a dispute with.
• Attempting to extort that Citibank employee by demanding she send him a certain legal document related to the dispute.
• Attempting to prevent testimony through threatening letters sent to black tenants in a housing dispute in his hometown of Roanoke.
• Threatening Leonard Pitts, a black Miami Herald columnist. (The indictment does not identify victims, but several have been known for months.)
• Threatening a professor who administered a diversity training program at the University of Delaware in Newark.
• Threatening Richard Warman, a Canadian civil rights lawyer who has brought actions against numerous white supremacists in that country.
• Threatening the mayor of South Harrison Township, N.J., a black man who has been subjected to other threats in the past. White apparently read about a Town Council resolution offering a reward for information about those people who earlier threatened the mayor.
• Attempting to extort that Citibank employee by demanding she send him a certain legal document related to the dispute.
• Attempting to prevent testimony through threatening letters sent to black tenants in a housing dispute in his hometown of Roanoke.
• Threatening Leonard Pitts, a black Miami Herald columnist. (The indictment does not identify victims, but several have been known for months.)
• Threatening a professor who administered a diversity training program at the University of Delaware in Newark.
• Threatening Richard Warman, a Canadian civil rights lawyer who has brought actions against numerous white supremacists in that country.
• Threatening the mayor of South Harrison Township, N.J., a black man who has been subjected to other threats in the past. White apparently read about a Town Council resolution offering a reward for information about those people who earlier threatened the mayor.
“I’m very relieved,” Warman said after being informed by Hatewatch of the new indictments. “Having someone repeatedly counsel people to murder you is a grave cause for concern, especially when it’s connected to your home address. It’s been a long two-plus years. I’m very much looking forward to the legal process running its course.”
White started his group, the American National Socialist Workers Party, in 2006, after quitting another neo-Nazi organization, the National Socialist Movement (NSM). Today, the NSM is the only other major neo-Nazi group in America besides ANSWP, which is believed to have fewer than 150 members. Just a few years ago, there were three additional major neo-Nazi groups — the Aryan Nations, the World Church of the Creator, and the National Alliance — but all three have virtually disappeared in recent years as their leaders have died or been sent to prison.
“Federal prosecutors announced today that Bill White, the most important neo-Nazi leader in America, has been indicted on seven counts related to making Internet and other threats that could bring him 55 years in prison and $1.75 million in fines.”
“Fifty-five years in prison”. Yeah, he’s going to be getting a whole lot of luv from the homies he shares a prison with. (He’d better hope for admin. seg. or, it’s goodbye rectum.)
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THEY’RE BACK: RACIST MUSIC SAMPLER TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS
by Sonia Scherr on December 10, 2008
Four years after a neo-Nazi record label provoked a nationwide outcry by distributing hate rock to middle and high school students, one of the men behind that ambitious recruitment drive is at it again.
White power music broker Bryant Cecchini, who uses the alias Byron Calvert, recently announced on his website that he had begun distribution last week of 30,000 CDs. The campaign is dubbed “Project Schoolyard Volume II” and targets teenagers with a 25-song sampler that features tracks such as “White Power” and “Some Niggers Never Die.” “Remember,” he wrote, “we don’t just entertain racist kids, we create them.”
The CDs are on sale for 30 cents each, but Cecchini is including several free with each order from Tightrope, his Arkansas-based website that offers hate music and other racist merchandise. Cecchini’s website features a fist clasping a noose and the motto, “It’s not illegal to be White … yet!”
Cecchini told the Intelligence Report that he has already shipped a few thousand of the CDs in batches of 50 to longtime acquaintances who, he says, will hand them out to children at malls, concerts, skate parks and schools. He said the CDs he’s mailed in bulk have gone to at least seven states — Alaska, Arkansas, California, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Pennsylvania — while the ones he’s packaged with customer orders have been sent nationwide. Cecchini said he also uses multiple MySpace accounts that are not overtly racist to reach white students at schools where racially charged incidents have occurred.
“It’s not a hard sell,” he said of his CDs. “People don’t have to be besieged by blacks and Mexican gangs necessarily to just appreciate the music.”
Asked what he hopes to accomplish with Project Schoolyard Volume II, Cecchini at first sounded like a typical ’sixties hippie. “Just rock and roll, man,” he said. “Why does anyone express themselves? Why does anyone do anything they do?”
But the 37-year-old Cecchini, who said he’s been a racist skinhead since he was 17, eventually conceded that the music serves as a hook to pull young people into the movement. “Your average kid really don’t give a damn about paint scrapings at Auschwitz,” said Cecchini, who claims no one was gassed at the infamous Nazi death camp. However, “If you put it to music, they’ll listen to it twice before breakfast every day.”
Cecchini served 3½ years in prison for a 1989 felony conviction and acknowledged that he has some regrets. “I’ve told kids for years that if you think tattoos and felonies are cool, I wish I could give you some of mine, because they’re not.”
Yet the lyrics of many of the songs on the CD appear to call for violence against minorities, “race traitors” and the American government.
A song titled “Aggravated Assault” repeats the phrase “It could happen to you,” followed by the words “nigger boy,” “filthy jew,” “slant-eyed gook,” “fucking faggot,” “race traitor,” the “U.S. government” and SPLC co-founder Morris Dees, among others.
Isn’t there a contradiction between his telling children to avoid felonies and the violent lyrics on his CD? “Hell no,” Cecchini replied. “Absolutely not.” People should be able to control their behavior after listening to or viewing violent CDs, video games or movies, Cecchini said. And given the prevalence of violent entertainment, there’s no reason he should be held to a different standard just because he’s racist.
Still, Cecchini didn’t seem too concerned that his CD could potentially cause someone to get hurt. After falsely claiming that the majority of hate crimes are committed by blacks against whites, he said, “If this music did cause kids to go out and commit hate crimes, we’ve got a lot of catching up to do.”
Project Schoolyard Volume II follows Project Schoolyard Volume I, which Cecchini organized with neo-Nazi Anthony Pierpont several year ago. Cecchini said the label he and Pierpont ran, Panzerfaust Records, distributed about 50,000 CDs in the fall of 2004. The project drew widespread media attention, including stories in The Boston Globe and on CNN. However, Panzerfaust Records didn’t achieve its goal of handing out 100,000 CDs because it disbanded in January 2005 after Cecchini went public about discovering that Pierpont’s mother was Mexican and that Pierpont had boasted about having sex with Thai prostitutes — both serious no-no’s in the world of Aryan supremacy. Pierpont was essentially drummed out of the movement after the disclosures, but has said since that he’s glad he left.
Cecchini said he doesn’t plan on promoting his most recent venture in the media as much as he did with the first Project Schoolyard because his 40-acre farm and five home-schooled children keep him busy. Nonetheless, a leading racist forum, Stormfront, contains a thread on Project Schoolyard Volume II, and Cecchini has high hopes for the CDs.
“They’re nice, they’re glossy, they’re shrink-wrapped,” he enthused. “It’s free music. Kids are going to come running.”
“Still, Cecchini didn’t seem too concerned that his CD could potentially cause someone to get hurt. After falsely claiming that the majority of hate crimes are committed by blacks against whites, he said, “If this music did cause kids to go out and commit hate crimes, we’ve got a lot of catching up to do.”
No. No one has a monopoly on racist hatred like those of your ilk who commit hate against non-whites.
Hate crimes: Native American genocide, and land theft. Kidnapping, enslavement of Africans. Brutal chattel slavery, Jane Crow segregation, Black Codes, redlining, racial restictive covenants, racist disparity in wage scales and the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites, present-day hate crimes against Black Americans. Nope. Racist haters like you have quite a headstart on Blacks, ‘kay?
“People don’t have to be besieged by blacks and Mexican gangs necessarily to just appreciate the music.”
No. All they will need to have is the same stupid, racist self-hatred such as yourself.
“Just rock and roll, man,” he said.”
Rock ‘n’ roll, eh, racist hater?
Since you have such hatred for Black Americans, you should not use the phrase rock ‘n’ roll. You will not be too happy with its origins, nor with the color of the original creators of Rock ‘n’ Roll, ‘kay?
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GOP BOOTS FORMER KLAN LEADER’S SON
Derek Black isn’t feeling the love from the Palm Beach County, Fla., Republican Party. On Wednesday night, the party’s chairman — or “Jewish supremacist chairman” in the words of Derek’s dad, white nationalist webmaster Don Black — refused to seat the younger Black on the executive committee he won election to in August because Black, 19, failed to sign a GOP loyalty oath by the required deadline. And besides that, said party chairman Sid Dinerstein, Black is unwelcome because he’s a white supremacist. Black said he may sue, but his friend, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and Louisiana state representative David Duke made that sound like an iffy proposition on his website.
“Whether Derek Black pursues legal action is contingent upon the family finances,” Duke’s website states. “If he truly wants to make an issue of this and lacks finances, I hope he considers setting up a legal fund and reaching out to the white nationalist community for help. This is a battle worth joining.”
Black is the 19-year-old son of Don Black, a former Alabama Klan boss who is the founder of Stormfront.com, the world’s largest white supremacist online forum. Derek Black works on his father’s website. His mother, Chloe Black, was married to Duke before she married Don Black.
Derek Black won election to one of 111 Palm Beach County Republican Executive Committee seats, beating the incumbent with 58% of the vote. Committee members’ low-profile duties include electing the county party chairman and promoting voter turnout. After Dinerstein, the local party chief, learned more about Black, he said he wouldn’t seat him on the committee. He could do so, he said, because Black failed to sign the GOP loyalty oath by the June 20 deadline.
That prompted a visit from Duke to West Palm Beach for a few days last week in a show of support for Black. “Derek has done a great thing in winning this race,” Duke said in a Stormfront interview with Don Black last week. “I’m here to help Derek if he wants me to.” He and Don and Derek Black met with a Palm Beach Post reporter and Derek Black said he was insulted by Dinerstein’s characterization of him as a white supremacist. “I would describe myself as white person who is concerned about discrimination against white people,” said Black, who created a Stormfront children’s page when he was 12 that featured white supremacist sing-along lyrics and anti-Martin Luther King Jr. bedtime stories.
After the Post published its story, Don Black recorded what he said were two threatening post-midnight phone calls, apparently from the same person. In the first, the caller said, “We’re gonna have a scope trained on your son come Wednesday night.” In the second call, he mentioned Black’s home address and wife’s name and said he was outside his house. The phone number of the caller has since been disconnected.
Duke had left town by the time Derek Black attended Wednesday night’s GOP committee meeting. Once there, Dinerstein again refused to seat him. Nine other candidates suffered the same fate because they, too, missed the loyalty oath deadline. Black contends that a technicality shouldn’t trump the fact that he won the election. But even if Black had been seated, Dinerstein could have tried to remove him on a two-thirds vote for violating the section of the GOP oath that bans involvement in activities “likely to injure the name of the Republican Party or interfere with the activities of the Republican Party.”
Black insists he’s done nothing of that sort. “I can say without a doubt that I am not associated with white supremacy,” he said.
“Black insists he’s done nothing of that sort. “I can say without a doubt that I am not associated with white supremacy,” he said.”
Mmpf…mmpf….bwahahahahahaha!
Ann
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS 