Banned from Internet, Neo-Nazi Comes Back Via Anti-Semitic Pub
, the vicious neo-Nazi Internet gossip who spent more than two years in prison on charges of using the Internet to threaten a perceived enemy, is up to his old tricks.
Once the head of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party, White went to prison in 2008 after posting personal information about the jury foreman in the trial of another white supremacist on his website. A federal judge on First Amendment grounds, and White was released April 20 on the condition that he refrain from participating in 鈥渁ny Internet related business or hobby involving a website, and the posting of any information on any website.鈥
In a letter to the outlining his plans to retire from the neo-Nazi movement and keep his website dark, White wrote, 鈥淚 do not intend to recant my views, even if I will quiet them.鈥
Perhaps 鈥渋f鈥 was the key word. Making an end-run around the court-ordered restriction on Internet activity, White 鈥 who started using the web to harass and intimidate people 15 years ago 鈥 is now relying on old-fashioned ink-and-paper media to spread his hateful beliefs.
His outlet of choice is American Free Press, an anti-Semitic weekly that bills itself as 鈥淎merica鈥檚 Last Real Newspaper鈥 and was founded by Holocaust denier .
Most print media these days gets transferred to the Internet, and American Free Press is no exception. Full issues can be downloaded for free as PDFs, and some articles are available as typical web postings. Since May 23, White has contributed at least six articles to the racist publication.
Unsurprisingly, White shows a preference for writing about free speech and privacy issues, lacing the facts with paranoid antigovernment and anti-Semitic rhetoric. Topics have included ICE鈥檚 under-the-radar network of suburban detention centers for undocumented immigrants (first reported by the unapologetically left-wing ); the controversial of the FBI鈥檚 power to search databases and household trash, and use surveillance to look for signs of criminal or terrorist activity; and former President Bill Clinton鈥檚 May that the federal government or United Nations create an agency charged with 鈥渋dentifying relevant factual errors鈥 in online reporting. (Clinton, who鈥檚 no dummy, identified the objections that would arise from many people like White: 鈥淸I]f it鈥檚 a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the Internet.鈥)
On May 30, American Free Press ran White鈥檚 self-aggrandizing essay headlined 鈥淗ow I Was Tortured, Told to Lie by the Obama Regime,鈥 in which he claimed that he was held in a cell 鈥渇looded with human feces鈥 and that he was 鈥渄etained, tortured and held in solitary confinement because I refused to lie for the benefit of the federal government.鈥
White, whose American Free Press bio describes him as a 鈥渇reelance journalist鈥 who 鈥渟erved 30 months ... for thought crimes and trumped up charges related to his publishing efforts鈥 鈥 has been something of a cause c茅l猫bre for the paper.
Shortly after his 2010 sentencing, Carto and longtime sidekick Michael Collins Piper (who at a 1999 Council of Conservative Citizens convention that Israel was behind the Kennedy assassination), co-wrote an article lionizing White as an 鈥渙utspoken dissident鈥 persecuted by a 鈥渢otalitarian鈥 government.
鈥淲hite鈥檚 鈥榗rime鈥 is his nature,鈥 they wrote. 鈥淗e is 鈥榩olitically incorrect,鈥 pushing that first and foremost of our constitutional rights 鈥 the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech 鈥 to its limits.鈥
Hatemongering isn鈥檛 the only bad habit to which White has returned. According to a in the Roanoke Times, he has also begun renting out properties without obtaining rental certificates 鈥 a city code violation for which officials say he will eventually have to answer.
White began buying up real estate in 2004, accumulating houses and apartment buildings in a largely black neighborhood for what he called his 鈥済hetto improvement project.鈥 His pattern of improving the distressed properties, raising rents, and, often, booting out original residents who could no longer afford to stay, led the local Legal Aid Society to file complaints with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Tenants at the time also claimed White walked around their neighborhood armed with a shotgun and tried to intimidate them by saying the Klan was coming to 鈥渞egulate鈥 the area.