BILL WHITE - A HISTORY PART II

PART II
ANARCHY BILL

It's easy to dismiss those on the extremist right as "Whacko" or "Nuts" or "Insane." The truth of the matter is, however, that the vast majority would not meet the criteria set for mental illness. Sadly, the vast majority are perfectly sane with outrageous views. Every once in awhile, however, someone emerges who defies all claims of sanity. Such is the case with Bill White.

We are not profiling Bill White because he poses a threat as a racist or anti-semitist. While he spews the rhetoric and the venom, it is questionable how much he really believes in what he is saying and how much he says these things just for attention. In reality, Bill White doesn't fit into any boxes. He is not an adherent to any organization or ideology. He simply flies by the seat of his pants reinventing himself along the way. That he has chosen the racist right to hitch his wagon to isn't surprising since he could never lean far enough left or be honest enough in his endeavors to fit in among the anarchists he initially chose. We are profiling Bill White because we believe that he is a dangerous man who will do ANYTHING to get attention, who will do ANYTHING to be accepted, and who might do ANYTHING if he fails.

It has been reported that as a youth Bill White was a troubled person. Though intelligent and articulate, White seemed to always be in trouble. At an early age, White started developing an interest in political issues and it has been reported by a middle school teacher that he would debate "anything and everything." While this could be construed as a helthy intellectual exercise, in White's case he simply became more and more aggressive in his questioning and served no other purpose than to be disruptive in the classroom. Generally, youths engaging in such overtly disruptive acts are seeking attention and recognition. Once he entered high school, according to research compiled by One People's Project, the aggression displayed in middle school debate escalated to a physical confrontation with a female teacher for which he received a three day suspension.

White attended three different high schools where he engaged in disruptive and aggressive behaviors throughout. It is reported that in his last school he was voted "Most Likely to Appear on America's Most Wanted," an honor he apparently is trying to live up to in his daily escapades today.

After high school, White attended Montgomery College for a year and then moved to the University of Maryland. Interestingly enough, and perhaps most compelling, is the fact that White was studying psychology and expressed a desire to work with troubled teens. Considering Bill's own problems as a youth, this, in and of itself, is not too surprising. His approach, however, to providing help for those children in need, however, is most troublesome.

In February of 1996, White was supposedly told by the friends of a young, emotionally disturbed teenager, that the girl was suffering abuse at the hands of her parents. Apparently they gave White all of the girl's personal information. It took White no time at all to begin posting messages to various groups on the internet about the rumored situation. Within minutes, readers were urged to call the parents and "tell her you are disgusted and you demand that she stops." Subsequently, threatening phone calls unnerved the girls parents. In an article that appeared in the Washington Post,it was revealed that much of the information shared with White by the girls friends, came from a highly confidential counseling session, and that the young lady was being seen for emotional problems. The family became extremely distraught over the invasion of their privacy and the threatening phone calls. In an interview with White, the Post quoted him as saying:

"You should be able to write what you want on the Internet, whether it's true or not."

Apparently, Bill White still believes that statement today.

Concurrently, White was honing his own brand of anarchist thought - a lot of which centered around teens. White founded the "Utopian Anarchist Party" and set forth an agenda to "eliminate the government of the United States and not replace it." Two of the stated goals were "the elimination of coerce public schooling and the elimination of coercive juvenile psychiatry." Additionally, White and a couple of his cohorts started the "Runaway Railway," a shelter for runaway teens. On his UAP website, White published the following message:

"To the dismay of the police and the media (Washington Post, July 26, 1996, page A1) the Utopian Anarchist Party has initiated a program to assist young people who have been abandoned or forced to leave their homes. If you are young and alone and have nowhere to go, or if your parents are trying to lock you up or otherwise abuse you, contact the Utopian Anarchist Party and we'll do whatever we can to help you, regardless of state or local laws. The UAP provides youth support, and doesn't care about the consequences."

White then provides a link to his "Rules For Running" where he lists the Do's & Don't's for running away:

Packing

Big Backpack -- no purses or carry bags (you'll lose them)
No identification -- cops can't call in what you don't have
Personal Care -- toothbrush, razors, deodorant, soap, etc.
Clothes and coat -- wear as much as possible, pack extra
Good shoes/Boots -- you're gonna do a lot of walking
Gun/Knife -- carry concealed; it's dangerous out there
Money -- take it, and don't rely on pawning valuables
Drugs -- primarily for sale; great source of income
Book or two -- you'll have lots of free time

People

Friends -- pick and choose carefully
Boyfriend/Girlfriend -- safe, unless "they know best"
Parents/Schools/Police -- 100% liars and scum
Friend's Parents -- you're just sleeping over; don't trust them
People who want to "help" you -- friends or not, don't trust
Strangers -- don't trust them; robbers, rapists, kidnappers
Anarchists -- trust us; we put our necks out

Locations

Not your best friend's -- first place they look
Not a complete stranger's -- rape and kidnap are dangers
Friend of a friend's -- if they're trustworthy, the best place
Abandoned houses -- great places to stay and hide
Chill spots -- apartments people come and go at; great
Outdoors -- dpends on weather and distance; maybe
Under bridges/drainspouts -- maybe; not the best

Disguise

Cut it short or shave it -- better to grow long, but hard to do
Dye your hair -- natural colors; not obviously dyed
Grow a beard or shave -- confounds verbal descriptions
Change clothing style/appearance -- easiest big change
Dodging Cops

First there will be rumors or "leads" -- mostly gossip
Every friend your parents know is a lead
Let the police exhaust the leads -- you'll become a "cold case"
Avoid your friends -- no new leads
Don't go to school -- you'll be caught
Stay local, but out of your neighborhood -- it's "hot"
Stay out of public places -- malls, stores, the rest

Emergency
Cops? Stay calm -- DON'T PANIC or draw attention
Is the cop looking for you? -- or is this just a random stop
Robber, Rapist, et al. -- fight, and kill them if you have to

Don't

Go to your best friend's house -- we repeat, it's important
Deal with the cops in any capacity
Stay at any place more than one week, at least for a while
Let people know where you are or where you're going
Trust others too easily

Additionally, White then provides explicit instructions on making drugs and, at one point, making bombs.

According to Mark Salotte, "Among the UAP's advertised "programs" was something called the "Runaway Railroad" -- supposedly set up to offer safe houses and resources to runaway teenagers.trying to start life independently of their parents. This was an example of a project desperately needed in the anarchist movement, which led maybe a few of us to hopefully believe White's "movement" was for real. In reality, however, the so-called "railroad" was most likely (to the extent that it even existed) just a scam for Bill to find underage girls to hook up with and influence. Most of the anarchist movement concluded that he was useless and dangerous at best, and most likely a police agent provocateur to boot. Still, a few people who didn't have to deal too closely with him held out judgement in the hopes that he might be just ignorant but well-intentioned and enthusiastic."

How well-intentioned White was will probably never be known. It has been reported, however, that White got busted with certain articles of clothing in his car that belonged to a runaway girl.

All of these things, however, didn't draw too many cries of outrage among the anarchists. Most of the negatives were directed at White personally because of his obvious and overt manipulations of the ideology, in what appeared to be an exercise in self-glorification on the part of White. The true outrage didn't surface until it was believed that he was in the process of exploiting children.

In May of 1996, White boasted about a police investigation of him that was centered around runaways in Gaithersburg:

"A team of Montgomery County investigators, headed by Detetctive Victor A. Kennedy of the Youth Services Division of the Wheaton-Glenmont District, and in concjunction with the City of Gaithersburg and other local jurisdictions, have been invesitgating local anarchists and anarchist sympathizers for providing asistance, including shelter, transportation and other services, to several runaways. Two sought after runaways were captured in a raid in Gaithersburg, and police have interrogated seveal people and have threatened to arrest prominent anarchist Bill White (me) after officers searched his car during a traffic stop."

Furthering his outrageous pseudo-anarchist stance, White issued the following statement in regard to the runaway investigation:

"Anarchy is a righteous philosophy, and our sympathizers will continue to act in a righteous manner. The youths in question are trying to escape from homes filled with brutal beatings, vicious threats, and serious mental and emotional abuse, and we will not allow those youths or any other youths to be returned to those households against their will. Let the police come, for we will fight and die before we allow them to deny these peole their rightful freedom."

Sometime during this period, White got into a scuffle with the police and was arrested. It has been reported that White was placed in a psychiatric facility for a brief period, and that would fit considering the absurdity of his actions. During the time that he was away, however, White left Luke Kuhn in charge of the UAP. This was, undoubtedly, the crowning blow to his anarchist organization. As much as Bill White was disliked by others in that realm, Kuhn was liked even less.

Needing more attention than what he was getting, White strove for new heights of malevolence when 14-year-old Michael Carneal, the son of a prominent attorney, walked into the crowded lobby of Heath High School in Kentucky on December 3, 1997, and opened fire killing 3 and wounding 5 others, Bill White made the following statement:

"The only thing Michael Carneal did wrong was not take out more of these Christian pigs. By eliminating three future Bible-thumping lunatics he did America a service, and we should thank, and not revile, him for it."

No one could figure out where White was coming from. Generally speaking, anarchists aren't racist or anti-semitical. They believe in self-determination and self rule. Bill White, sparked anger among the group with his often racist statements and claims. Some attempted to categorize him as a "Third Posisitionist," and those who fit nicely into that category didn't want to claim him among their ranks either. It seemed that White fit in nowhere. And, for a narcissist, that is not unusual but to this narcissist it was totally unacceptable.

Always striving for acceptance and attention, White threw his hat into the political arena in 1998. He announced his candidacy for a Montgomery County School Board seat. Knowing that he had no following to speak of, White made a mockery of the race. On his election profile White was asked to list his previous elected offices or his civic activities. His response:

"Utopian Anarchist Party; marched in Communist May Day rally, May 1998; protested against police cover-up of police brutality in Montgomery County; burned flag at anti-Gulf War rally; organized with Refuse and Resist! for abortion rights."

When asked why people should vote for him, White replied: "Look, let's be honest-democracy is a sham. It's a charade played by the ruling class to give the rest of us the illusion of power. Candidates are pre-selected for the ballot by political parties owned by the rich. This election, I say don't 'Rock the Vote,' I say '[Expletive] the vote.' Don't worry about electing me-even if elected, they wouldn' t let an [expletive] like me do anything. Vote for me because you hate them. Vote for me because you hate the way they smile as they kill you. Vote for me because you want them to rot."

Of course he lost the election. For most of us, we could chalk such immaturity up to a rebellious nature that thrived on being iconoclastic. Generally, however, such rebelliousness is outgrown and redirected into more positive energies. Classically narcissistic people become welded in their quest for attention and acceptance. Rarely can they sate their thirst. Such appears to be the case with White.

On the morning of April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Colorado. They killed 12 students and a teacher. Seeing this as an opportunity to gain media attention, Bill White publicly applauded the shooters and called for support of their actions:

"We have to remember that people who go and shoot up their schools are not acting as tyrants here. These are oppressed people who are struggling against society and who are now fighting society in the only way they know how. These students have spent their lives tortured by society, and now they are fighting back. We have to admire them for doing it. How many of us will ever fight back?"

As his comments ired those who read them, he claimed to have brought one CNN reporter to the brink of tears with his caustic and hateful remarks. Seeing that he was becoming popular with the media because of his outlandish statements, White decided to capitalize on the attention by asserting that these children had been members of his Utopian Anarchist Party. Setting the stage for this announcement, White reported:

"The showdown is still ongoing, as anarchists today say the two men involved may be local Utopian Anarchist Party organizers. Confirmation of the men's identities has not been made. "The two men, students at the school, entered the school around 11:30 AM, during lunch, and began shooting the preppy bitches who had spent their lives bullying and picking on the shooters."

White demonstrated his lack of compassion for the victims and their families at every turn. Preaching anarchy and violence, he penned the following:

"What saddens me most in Colorado is not that someone got shot; people are shot every day, and the people who were shot in Colorado are not particularly blessed people. What saddens me is that the people who were shot were not the most deserving. What saddens me is that the message being sent has been dulled by the choice of target. Had this shooting occurred outside a police station, or outside the NATO conference, or outside the White House, it would have been much more effective.

"I understand the anger students feel against the preppy bastard "white hats". I understand the hatred of drone society and drone culture. I understand feeling that one cannot live within drone society, and I understand the feeling that suicide is one's only viable option. Before any UAP supporter commits suicide, I would commend to them the kind of glorious, vengeful death seen in Colorado today.

"These two students said they found God in themselves. I agree. Man is God. This revelation, that the individual, and no outside power, is in control of the individual's destiny is often a difficult load to bear. It is the duty of the anarchist movement to teach individuals that they are in power, and that they can change, and that instead of striking back randomly they should strike back with precision at the most responsible and most evil elements of our society.

"I would prefer that no one had been killed today, and that the young people involved had been turned into revolutionaries rather than suicide bombers. I would prefer the 'victims' had been educated and transformed rather than brutally murdered. But there are times when brutal murder is inescapable, and it is not for me to judge the situation without full knowledge of the relations between the shooters and the 'victims.'

"Let me conclude by saying that I do not oppose school shootings, that I understand the anger involved, and that I would recommend only that in the future UAP activists be more circumspect in their selection of targets."

In an article entitled "Third Positionist" Fascism In The US: A Case Study Of Bill White" by Mark Salotte and published on the "Info-Shop News Site," the following characterization is made:

"In early 1999, White's political delusions reached a feverish pitch -- the final straw was claiming that the Columbine "Trenchcoat Mafia" were UAP members acting under his command, and that the UAP had similar attacks planned across the country. Around this time he was arrested in a scuffle with a cop. He got scared, realizing that his mouth was gonna be used against him, pleaded insanity at trial, was committed to a mental institution, and disappeared from the activist scene for several months."

This period and White's hospitalization would come back to haunt him time and again.

Struggling for recognition and acceptance, realizing that the UAP was rapidly deteriorating around him, White once more decided to run for the School Board. This time he decided to change his platform somewhat and test the waters to see if he could garner more support. He listed his education as "self-educated" and claimed to be an "independently wealthy humanitarian." For his civic activities, White boasted, ": Ten years of political activism in: street-level anti-racist, anti-police brutality, free-speech, youth issues and issues of liberty in the public schools, anti-war/anti-imperialism." If those statements were not enough to insure defeat, his rationale for why people should cast their votes to him sealed it:

"The public school system is systematically destroying America by undermining our culture and destroying our understanding of the necessity of liberty, particularly in the minds of the common people and working class. Though students are graduating from schools unable to read, no student is leaving school not knowing how to duckspeak the slogans of the liberal ruling class. We need to reinstitute in all public schools an appreciation for liberty, how Americans won their liberty, and how they had maintained it, and how the current one-party monopoly has usurped it. If we do not, our society faces destruction and enslavement."

On of the things that runs through White's entire pseudo-anarchist tapestry really surfaced during this campaign. His distaste for psychiatric counseling, along with his dislike of law-enforcement and laws, became part of his platform as a school board candidate. In a written response to the Montgomery County Council of Parent-Teacher Associations, White responds to a question regarding school safety:

"To make our schools safe, we must take steps to make students no longer want to rebel. What are the bureaucrats doing to make students want to kill? We must remove all police from schools, relax discipline policies that violate civil liberties, end coercive psychiatric counseling and psychiatric drugging in the schools, and begin anew teaching the precepts of liberty to youth. A good start will be the integration of firearms training into the physical education cirriculum, and a good ending will be an appreciation of the totalitarian, anti-working class nature of the Marxist-Leninist social doctrines currently in vogue."

Again, Bill White was defeated. Needing and craving the stroking of an ego that was out of control, White floundered around on message boards throughout cyber-space seeking self-validation. He continued to be the object of much ridicule and derision. But White, in classic narcissistic fashion, was reshaping and redefining himself. This is the narcissists survival tool. And Bill White is a survivor.

As has already been noted, he had received some cold shoulders from the anarchist crew who already viewed him at best as a racist and at worst as a neo-Nazi. Realizing that his brand of anarchy was not going to garner him much in the way of anything other than guffaws at his absurdity, White decided to become a "Libertarian Socialist." While to some this may appear to be an oxymoron, to the Libertarian Socialist, quite the opposite is true. There are many discussions online in reference to the term and we shall leave it to the reader to research, perhaps starting with this link to a rather cogent discussion - Libertarian Socialists.

White pretty much abandoned his Utopian Anarchist Party in favor of his new organization Libertarian Socialist News. White began publishing online "news reports" that were virulently anti-Semitic in nature. This drew harsh criticism once again. It seemed that White just couldn't get it right. When researching for a Libertarian Socialist perspective on racism, the following seemed to sum it up quite well:

"It has always been impossible for workers to challenge capitalism effectively so long as divisions of people based on gender, skin color, or sexual orientation have continued. Racism in particular has been used from the start as a way of dividing workers along an arbitrary basis and weakening any chances for solid organisation. So long as there is always someone being looked down upon, someone forced to accept lower wages because of their low status in society, wages in a competitive system can always be pushed to what the lowest and most desperate will accept. It should also go without saying that there is no scientific proof of the existence of separate human "races" which are truly incapable of getting along, nor is there scientific proof that women are inherently physically weaker or less intellectually capable than men. The issue of "hate speech" and pornography must always take into account the importance of artistic freedom and the necessity to criticize what one disagrees with. When it is clear that a conscious effort is being made to denigrate or divide a group of people from another, with some economic or political goal as it's motivation, libertarian socialists would resist such actions on the basis that they would divide and weaken any chance for eventual liberation from capitalism. Finally, so long as any group is prejudiced against, humanity will wage war against itself for irrational reasons, using such divisions as a means to an end when seen fit. If people understand that they too can be discriminated against, based on ANYTHING about them, it should be obvious that such discrimination, like any other human activity, has potential to be self-destructive in it's consequences."

Hence, it would appear that Bill White was at it again. Never content with the party line and always looking for that which would set him apart from all the rest, White jumped into his own racist brand of Libertarian Socialism. In an effort to, once again, redefine himself, it seems that he felt compelled to redefine the ideology to his own liking. It wasn't long before he was able to capture a little bit of the limelight once again.

In April of 2001, a debate was raging among Montgomery County Officials over whether or not to ban county funding to facilities which hold gun shows. Seing an opportunity to garner some press coverage, White seized the moment by joining the Tyranny Response Team and attending the hearing. The Tyranny Response Team is a rag-tag little group of "Patriots" who dress up in Revolution Era hats and protest gun-control throughout the United States replete with militia style rhetoric. At the Montgomery County Hearing, the Tyranny Response Team complained that the ordinance was a "broad assault on the civil liberties of firearm owners." White stepped to the forefront making the following statement about those who were in support of the bill:

"They're not worried so much about gun sales. They're worried about gun shows as a center of political organizing."

On that point, the council president seemed to agree. "These are not benign places," Ewing said. "The one I went to had a good deal of hate literature-racist and anti-jewish. People don't like that in Montgomery County." (One People's Project).

It is amazing what a few seconds of fame will do to give the narcissist a shot in the arm. Newly rejuvenated, White decided to tackle yet another issue. When the city of Kensington, Maryland was asked to light a menorah in the town square as part of its' holiday celebration, there were those in agreement and those who disagreed. After much discussion, it was decided that the 2001 celebration would be secular and patriotic. This met with strong opposition. As the cries of protest went up over what some considered a ban on Santa Claus, Bill White smelled opportunity. He swiftly issued a Press Release from the Tyranny Response Team with his plan of battle:

"Tyranny Response Team commandos and FReeper militia disguised as Santa Claus, Elves, other helpers (and even Christians), to raid anti-Santa (anti-Christmas) Kensington Town Council's "Celebration of the American Spirit Through Lights and Music" (Includes the Santa-less Town Tree Lighting Ceremony)

"Patriots will peaceably assemble near the Kensington Armory beginning around 3:30 p.m. and then occasionally disperse to cover all access and egress streets to the ceremony' s location. Remember, no profanity, no racism, no threats, no violence, ect., will be tolerated at the scene. A demonstration/protest permit is NOT required for this; regardless, local law enforcement officers should be treated with respect. We must remain "on message" defend the 1st Amendment, freedom of religion, freedom from this local government' s tyranny, while we counterattack this secular assault on Christmas. Remember that we are doing this FOR THE CHILDREN!"

And Santa's did show up. They marched right down the street. So did Bill White, carrying a sign that read "If Jews can ban Santa, why can't we ban Jews."

At this point in Bill White's internet life, he was still claiming to be non-racist and non anti-Semitic. Yet, immediately following the protest in Kensington, the following statements were posted on his site:

"I went to the rally against the Jewish ban on Santa Clause in Kensington. I had a sign that read "If Jews Can Ban Santa, Why Can't We Ban Jews? Terrorists Of Israel * Tyrants At Home-American Intifada, http:www.overthrow.com" I knew about half of the people rallying there. Most were standing with me and supporting me to start with. Then, I got surrounded by a gaggle of cackling Jews, and most of the people with me got scared off.

"The police ordered me to move my giant sign-it was 10' by 5'-across the street. As I did so, I was attacked by several members of FreeRepublic.com My sign was destroyed. I then starting mocking Free Republic with my bullhorn, talking about how lemming conservatives were phony patriots, how they hated their country, how all they know is what they read in the newspapers and how Jews own all the newspapers. My attacks on patriotism incited a gang of bikers, five of which attacked me. The police stood by until I had taken two of these five three hundred plus pound bikers who where swinging wildly at me and put them on the ground. When the cops saw the bikers losing, they moved in to intervene.

"I don't know what footage the television is showing, but I literally have only two scratches from a man's fingernail on me, despite the fact that I spent several minutes fighting with five three hundred pound bikers, all of whom then claimed to the police I assaulted them, two of whom seemed on the verge of tears and were saying "he hit me", despite the fact they broke out of a crowd of people to charge at least fifty feet before encountering me. "Despite what the newspapers and television will say, most of the non-Jewish audience was supportive of what I had to say. Only a handful of Jews and Yahoos from FreeRepublic, as well as the drug addicted, wimpy ass super-patriots with no brain three hundred pound bikers, were upset.

"My glasses and bullhorn were taken by the police and "accidentally" given to the bikers who, unable to hurt me, did destroy them. It was no great loss-I have plenty of money, and I always expect to lose things when I' m at demonstrations.

"All in all, it has been a very fun today. I am not going out to dinner with a female friend who accompanied me to the rally but, like everyone else, stayed far away from the media attention I was giving.

"I am daily becoming more and more sure that Jews are the root of most of out society' s problems. My people who were working the crowd tell me that most of the people there thought I had a point, enjoyed my sign, and thought that what the police did by not arresting the bikers was wrong. This is good- and I hope it is the beginning of a lot of fun."

In reality, many people found the sign being carried by White quite offensive. A young teen ran up and tore the sign from White's hands. The police then intervened and took the teen to the other side of the street. And that was the only incident reported on December 2, 2001, in Kensington, Maryland. It was the "beginning" however - maybe not of "fun" but it certainly marked the beginning of ascension into the world of the White Nationalist. It also marked the beginning of the end for Bill White as he rapidly flew into the radar of anti-racists.

Enjoying his newly found media attention, White decided to once again run for political office, only this time he set his sights a little higher. He ran for the Maryland State Legislature as an Independent candidate. Oddly enough, he didn't include his membership in the Tyranny Response Team in his profile. He did, however, claim to be a "published columnist" and cited "Synthesis" the journal of the National Anarchist Movement. White lost the election, garnering only 7% of the vote.

At this point, however, Bill White had begun to receive some much needed attention from the folks on the racist right. Realizing that his acceptance as an anarchist would never come, White's narcissism required that he, once again, reinvent himself. Thus began the new era of "Kaiser" Bill White. Mark Salotte had this to say:

"...he's never quite what he seems. On the one hand he's a master of self-promotion and disinformation, but on the other hand the delusions that come out in his writing are sometimes so huge and glaring that you have to wonder if he crosses the line from intentionally stretching the truth to actually believing reality is just a bit different from what everybody else sees. While his political allegiances are easy to pin down (even people that don't know anything about his politics know him as "Nazi Bill White"), what's a little more disorienting to some are the arguments he, probably more than any other figure on the American Right, has worked to hone over the last few years, since his abandonment of the lone wolf, loose-cannon style he had staked out for himself historically, and his attempt to remake himself as some kind of external ideologue and propagandist for the neo-fascist political right wing."


MEET "KAISER" BILL WHITE

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