PART I
THE UTOPIAN ANARCHIST PARTY
On the morning of April 20, 1999, there was a massacre in Littleton, Colorado. Few will forget the shootings that occurred at Columbine High School. The shootings rocked us to our core and began the dawn of a new era in the way that our public schools operate. Not believing that children not yet old enough to drive would or could enter a school and open fire in such a manner against their teachers and peers, we searched for answers and understanding. We cried and held our own children just a little bit closer. And we realized that no longer could we consider our children safe at school
Fifteen hundred miles away, on another campus, however, there was one lone accolade for those being called "The Trench Coat Mafia." Bill White, then University of Maryland student and head of the controversial "Utopian Anarchist Party," applauded and defended the shooters. Issuing a call for support of the perpetrators, White said,
"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 claims 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."
So, just what is this Utopian Anarchist Party? Well, we can tell you that it certainly wasn't something embraced by the true anarchists in our society. While Bill White attempted to build this "Party" along the lines of anarchist thinking, the true agenda of Bill White and his "Party" was one to further White rather than anarchist thought. The UAP Statement of Purpose proffers the Anarchist Party Line:
Article I: Purpose
The purpose of the Utopian Anarchist Party is to eliminate the government of the United States of America and not replace it.
Article II: Goals
In pursuit of this purpose, the Utopian Anarchist Party focuses on the following goals:
Elimination of the police;
Elimination of jails, prisons, and penitentiaries;
Elimination of coercive public schooling; and,
Elimination of coercive juvenile psychiatry;
by any means expedient.
Article III: Methods In pursuit of these goals, the Utopian Anarchist Party seeks to strengthen and improve the people of this country so that they can carry out these goals and this purpose. In strengthening and improving the people, the following methods are used:
Alternate social services are provided for the unfortunate, particularly unfortunate youth, including provision of shelter, food, work, health care, counseling and other services as resources allow.
Educational and informational materials, including newsletters, brochures, flyers, and pamphlets are created and distributed among the population free of charge.
Programs to support other revolutionary groups, of all political stripes, are implemented as resources allow.
Legal organizations allied with the anarchist movement exist to achieve anarchist goals within the law.
Armed forces are raised, as resources allow, to defend the people and to counter the aggression of the state.
Article IV: Organization and Membership
There is no formal or coercive organizational structure to the Utopian Anarchist Party.
There are no official titles or positions within the Utopian Anarchist Party.
There are no membership requirements nor formal "membership" status.
There is no party line to which sympathizers must adhere.
Members of other organizations are welcome to hold sympathies towards the Utopian Anarchist Party.
And while it is rife with the ideas and tenets of Anarchist thought, the basic premise becomes bastardized by the actions of the leaders. From its conception, the UAP suffered, largely because of the leadership. On May 1, 1996, a May Day Anarchist Rally was held on the campus of the University of Maryland. Led by Bill White, the rally fell flat on its face. In an Interview with the campus newspaper "Diamondback," White stated that he supports violence against the police and called them 'pigs.' In that same interview, however, it was learned that he had paid campus security to provide their services during the rally.
The rally itself was poorly attended yet, a few real anarchists did show up and it was stated that they wanted to promote solidarity in their efforts but that they weren't doing it for Bill White who they claimed was doing this not out of loyalty to the cause, but merely for self glorification and to promote himself.
Self glorification and self-promotion appear to be a constant theme throughout Bill White's life and it isn't lost on too many. Generally put off by his articulate nature it doesn't take long before the smoke screen thrown up by White meets with a slow hot wind. As he attempted to promote his UAP across the internet he gained quite a name for himself. The accolades which he lavished on the Columbine shooters were not the first of their kind for White. 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."
These remarks have created an aura around White that the media wasn't certain how to address and the anarchists really didn't want to. Adding fuel to the already smoldering embers, White created a UAP website replete with all sorts of advice on how to build bombs and make drugs. Additionally, it has been reported that the UAP sponsored and promoted a shelter for runaway teens which they called the Runaway Railway. This caused great concern among law-enforcement, anarchists and others. 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."
Across the internet and in anarchist circles the claims that White's Runaway Railroad was merely a mechanism by which White could procure young girls ran rampant. The section of the UAP website devoted to runaways is filled with a list of do's and don't's for those planning to leave home. And, of course, the potential runaways are urged to contact White.
Also in 1996, White posted messages on internet boards that a young girl was being abused by her parents. White posted the name, address, and phone number of the parents urging everyone to call them. And people did call. Some of the calls were obscene and threatening. The girl in question was an adjudicated emotionally disturbed teen and the information came from "friends" who were part of her psychotherapy sessions which are highly confidential. When quoted in the paper, White made the claim that you should be able to say whatever you want on the internet - true or not. And that philosophy hasn't changed in the last eight years as is evidenced by White's current "reportings."
Eventually, Bill White abandoned the UAP and started his Libertarian Socialist News organization - making a radical turn to the right. Well, not too radical if you want to consider him a "Third Positionist." But even they won't lay claim to White's ideology. The UAP was merely a vehicle by which White could promote himself. Everyone saw it, and it soon outlived its' usefulness to Bill White.
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