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AFP ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH
Outspoken Dissident Targeted for Words, Not Deeds
 The
AFP issue dated Feb 1, 2010 first carried the
story of Bill White, prosperous businessman,
and outspoken activist for white rights. This
article adds detail.
By Willis A. Carto & Michael Collins
Piper
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. On
April 14, one of America’s most outspoken
political dissidents — 32-year-old William
(Bill) White of Roanoke, Va.—was sentenced
by federal judge James Turk to serve two and a
half years in prison. The judge could have opted
to give White a lesser sentence, but Turk wanted
to drive home a point — although the judge
didn’t say this: If you, like White, harbor
political opinions that stand in opposition to
the power elite in America, be sure and be nice
and polite at all times.
Contrary
to headlines you may have seen in the press, which
consistently misreported the nature of the case
against him, White didn’t cause anyone physical
harm. Nor did he plot to commit any crimes against
anyone. Instead, White’s “crime”
is his nature — he is “politically
incorrect,” pushing that first and foremost
of our constitutional rights — the First
Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech —
to the limits.
To
drive home his point that White’s freedom
of speech must be curtailed — at least in
the totalitarian point of view of those, like
the judge, who do not understand the First Amendment—the
judge also imposed three years probation upon
White following his release from prison, during
which time White is prohibited from using the
Internet for any business or hobby, including
posting blog messages.
In
fact, it was because White — a skilled computer
programmer and professional web site developer
— had used the Internet to express his views
and to hammer away at people whose political values
and intentions and business practices he found
odious that his legal problems first began, setting
the stage for his ultimate imprisonment.
A
left-winger as a teenager, White ultimately evolved
into a self-described “national socialist.”
At the time his legal problems with the federal
authorities began, White was expanding inner city
real estate properties in Roanoke, Va. worth over
$1 million.
White
was found guilty by a federal jury in Roanoke
of five out of eight charges filed against him,
largely stemming from material that White had
posted on his web site about individuals with
whom he had political or
business disagreements. He had previously beat
similar charges in federal court in Chicago in
2009 when a judge dismissed those charges.
However,
the feds continued to pursue White and brought
charges against him in federal court in his home
jurisdiction in Roanoke, cobbling together allegations,
mostly based on the fact that White had expressed
his
opposition to his critics and others in angry
terms.
The
federal prosecutors relied upon White’s
public profile — as an “angry political
extremist” — as the foundation for
their case against him, suggesting that he was
making threats or encouraging violence against
those about whom he raised criticisms in an open
forum.
White
played no favorites — even criticizing this
newspaper, AMERICAN
FREE PRESS,
and its editors and writers on a number of occasions.
Marching
to his own drummer and laying waste to his opponents
on the political “right” and the “left”
alike, White made many enemies during the past
decade, not the least of which included such groups
as the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai
B’rith and the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), which once said White may have been “the
loudest and most obnoxious” dissident of
the the political “right” in America.
White’s
political orientation began a not-so-subtle shift
during his teen years, and he and his web site
emerged as a loud and raucous voice taking a direct
stand in opposition to political correctness.
In
a short time White was a much-talked-about figure,
his name damned by folks on both the “left”
and the “right.” Many on the “right”
were angered by White, for a variety of reasons,
and more than a few alleged that he was some sort
of federal agent provocateur — a theory
that died on the vine when it became apparent
that White himself was a foremost target of federal
prosecutors, who wanted him silenced.
Efforts
were often made to accuse White of racial bias
in his dealings with many of his tenants in the
properties he was developing in Roanoke —
a patently stupid allegation considering the fact
that most of White’s tenants happened to
be African-Americans. Everyday disputes between
White and his tenants were stoked up by the media
and other politically motivated critics of White
were turned into “racial controversies.”
The
media coverage in Roanoke was particularly sensational
and often outrageously biased against White, not
surprisingly because White had used his web site
to slam the local elite media newspaper, The
Roanoke Times, which had used its considerable
resources to attack White. For his part, White
hit back at the Times by publishing a
full issue of his print-version magazine exposing
Roanoke-area gossip about Times editors,
reporters and others associated with the newspaper.
U.S.
Attorney Tim Heaphy, who prosecuted White, said
after White’s sentencing that, “While
the First Amendment protects everyone’s
right to free expression, it does not protect
hate-mongers like Bill White,” implicitly
suggesting that it was because of White’s
criticisms of Jewish political power and concerns
about racial favoritism in the political arena
that White was targeted in the first place.
Heaphy
claimed that “the White case demonstrates
our commitment to vigorously prosecuting anyone
who commits a hate crime in this district.”
However, as noted earlier, White’s alleged
“crime” or “crimes” did
not involve any act of violence accompanied by
racial or religious slurs, or any reference to
sexual orientation. This is, in fact, under the
law — no matter how wrong the law may be
in the first place — what constitutes a
“hate” crime, a point that the federal
prosecutor is aware of.
However,
because of the highly charged political and racial
implications of the case, stimulated by White’s
own rhetorical flourishes that left many people
unsettled, unable to conceive of the fact that
even over-the-top political commentary is protected
by the First Amendment, White was nonetheless
convicted.
Not
surprisingly, Mark Potok, a spokesman for the
notorious ADL-connected SPLC — which long
spearheaded a campaign againstWhite — crowed
that this was a “real milestone.”
At
the time of his sentencing, White had already
been in prison for some 18 months while awaiting
trial and final sentencing, so he should be released
in 12 months.
The
point to be remembered, in the end, is this: although
leftist political agitators and hard-line African-American
and other “minority” leaders have
continuously and historically engaged in precisely
the kind of free speech that White exercised to
its limits for whites, they have not been subjected
to the kind of obvious political targeting that
White received.
Write
White at: William White, #13888-084, FCI Beckley,
P.O. Box 350, Beaver, WV 25813.
* * * * * * *
. . ..Michael Collins Piper can
be heard every week day night live on
the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller”
documenting the collaboration of Israeli
intelligence in the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. He is also the author
of The
High Priests of War,
The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These
works can be found at America
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He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia,
Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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(Issue #15, May 10, 2010, AMERICAN
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