White Supremacist Leader Bill White Arrested

By Madeleine Gruen

William "Bill" White, the leader of the neo-Nazi American National Socialist Workers Party (ANSWP), was arrested last Friday in Roanoke, VA on a Chicago warrant that accuses him of threatening the jury foreman of the 2004 Matthew Hale trial. Matt Hale, the former leader of the white supremacist group World Church of the Creator, is currently serving a 40-year prison term for soliciting the murder of a federal court judge.

ANSWP calls for the establishment of a nation-state in which only whites have the right to citizenship. It calls for the removal of all non-whites and Jews from the United States.

Until the ANSWP website was taken down on October 17, White used it to publish the name and home address of the Hale trial foreman. Over the past two years, White had also used the site to publish home addresses of prominent African American politicians, the names, home addresses, and names of relatives of members of the Roanoke Times newsroom, and the names and home addresses of African American residents of Roanoke, VA with whom White had personal conflicts.

The cover of the August-September issue of the ANSWP newsletter "The National Socialist" featured a photo of Barack Obama with his face framed in cross hairs resembling a swastika. The caption read "Kill This N*****?"

ANSWP was founded by several former members of the National Socialist Movement (NSM) after disagreements with NSM's current leadership. The selection of NSM’s current leadership has resulted in the creation of smaller factions in the last two years; contributing to the weakening of the neo-Nazi movement in the US. The arrest of Bill White may result in the formation of even smaller factions within the movement.

White is scheduled to appear in federal court in Roanoke today (October 23). A court date in Chicago has not yet been determined.

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