Neo-Nazi Leader Bill White Jailed, Charged With Obstructing Justice
This time, he finally went too far.
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At least that鈥檚 what federal officials apparently concluded when they charged neo-Nazi leader (arrest photo, right), the threat-spewing former anarchist from Roanoke, Va., with obstructing justice on Friday. As first by Hatewatch on Sept. 12, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party had posted the name, home address and phone numbers of a 鈥淕ay, Jewish, anti-racist鈥� juror who helped another neo-Nazi leader, Matt Hale, of .
The Roanoke Times鈥� Laurence Hammack Saturday that Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Bondurant said White had 鈥渢hreatened use of force鈥� against the foreman of the Chicago jury that convicted , leader of the World Church of the Creator, in 2004. (Hale is now serving a 40-year prison term.) White was being held Saturday in the Roanoke city jail, and was expected to be tried in Chicago.
A week earlier, on Sept. 11, FBI agents with a search warrant raided a Roanoke apartment and seized computer equipment that supports White鈥檚 Overthrow.com website, where his comments about the juror were originally posted. An affidavit backing the search warrant said officials were seeking evidence of White鈥檚 鈥渢hreatening Hale juror A.鈥� Overthrow.com has been down ever since.
In his September posting, White did not directly propose violence against the Chicago juror. But he said the man 鈥減layed a leading role in inciting both the conviction and the harsh sentence that followed.鈥� White went on to describe the conviction as wrongful and said Hale received a 鈥渃riminally long sentence.鈥�
The Roanoke Times also reported that someone identifying themselves as White posted a message to a Yahoo white supremacist group late Thursday or Friday saying that the FBI had just executed another search warrant, this time on White鈥檚 residence. It was not clear what, if anything, was seized.
Bill White has a long and infamous history of posting racist threats and in-your-face suggestions of criminal violence on his Overthrow.com site. In September 2007, he issued a reference to black teenagers in Jena, La. He has posted the home addresses and phone numbers of numerous enemies, including black syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts and Southern Poverty Law Center CEO Richard Cohen, and even written of in Montgomery, Ala., in a 鈥渃ar full of guns.鈥� The very same week that he posted information about the Chicago juror, White also posted a proposed cover for his National Socialist magazine. The cover featured a photo of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama with his head in a rifle鈥檚 crosshairs and the headline, 鈥淜ill This N-----?鈥�
