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William A. White (aka "Bill White"), born 1977, is the administrator of Overthrow.com and a spokesperson for the Neo-Nazi Libertarian National Socialist Green Party. He is also the owner of White Homes and Land, LLC, a real estate investment and development company which has invested in excess of $3 million in the impoverished West End neighborhood of Roanoke, VA. White also holds business interests in a number of internet and computer related companies, the full extent of which is not known.

His website is one of the most popular and widely read news sites on the socialist right, and has recently garnered significant attention both for comments published in the New York Times regarding federal judge Joan Lefkow, and for his comments on the Alan Colmes radio show regarding Red Lake High School massacre perpetrator Jeffrey Weise.

White's political involvement has been characterized by numerous reincarnations, ranging from the fringe left to the radical right but always marked by controversy and a taste for violent extremism. Though he is now a national socialist and third-positionist agitator, White has previously considered himself an anarchist and communist. However, White rejected anarchism and communism after becoming disappointed with the radical left and their anti-working class perspective.

The Utopian Anarchist Party

Bill White first became involved with radical politics in highschool where he founded a left-wing group called the Utopian Anarchist Party (UAP). The UAP's primary function was the distribution of a zine that focused on opposition to the education system, psychiatry and the police. The UAP focused heavily on chaos and violence with political theory as a tenuous backdrop.

In 1995, while attending the University of Maryland, College Park, White began distribution of UAP's newsletter over the internet at Overthrow.com. The site published both far-left and far-right news and chronicled White's exploits (typically fights and arguments with Nazis or Christians).

During that time, White conflicted with other anarchists, such as Chuck Munson of Infoshop.org, who later published a number of unflattering internet profiles of him, including some here on Misplaced Pages.

In 1997 and 1998, White became increasingly aliented by anarchist and communist groups, and the far left in general, denouncing them as "fake leftists" and increasingly criticizing their anti-working class positions and their efforts to use political violence to suppress the free speech rights of those they disagreed with. White was briefly involved with Refuse and Resist, the Revolutionary Communist Party and the International Socialist Organization, appearing in publications such as Revolutionary Worker, before joining the Communist Party, USA.

In 1999, White attracted national attention after Matt Drudge claimed that the Columbine High School massacre was orchestrated by UAP members. Later that year, White, active in the Buchanan campaign, commented extensively on the Seattle's WTO protests.

Upset by the violence and nihilism that occurred at Columbine, and the general criminal attitude of the far left, White withdrew from leftist politics entirely, abandoned anarchism, and set out to find a more meaningful socialist theory.

Moving right

In 2000, having previously held membership in the Communist Party USA and the Libertarian Party, White joined the Reform Party and chaired the Maryland petition drive to elect right-wing populist Pat Buchanan for president. White, who at this point began referring to himself as a libertarian socialist, also launched his own bid for local office, renamed his news service LSN ("Libertarian Socialist News"), and temporarily moved to LibertarianSocialist.com. White also managed the campaign of Constitution Party Congressional candidate Brian Saunders, who won 2.7% of the vote in liberal Montgomery County, Maryland. During this period, several of White's essays appeared in the Washington Times, and White developed a friendship with controversial Washington Times editor Robert Stacy McCain.

Having won 7% of the vote for school board, in a surprise upset that defeated several more established candidates in the 9 candidate field, White found employment as a reporter with the Russian nationalist Pravda Online. Meanwhile, White's LSN shifted to a new socialist perspective, built from his disgust and reflections on the anti-working class politics of his teenage youth. White become an adherent of Traditionalism, devoting significant webspace to the ideas of Julius Evola. After a fight with David Horowitz over an unflattering profile of the FrontPageMag.com author which he published on Pravda, he openly declared himself an anti-semite.

In 2002, White was involved with Vanguard News Network and Alex Linder, as well the National Alliance and other white activist groups. He also ran for the Maryland state legislature, being one of the first third party candidates to successfully qualify for the ballot in twenty years, and managed the campaigns of several other legislative and Congressional candidates. At the time the owner of a successful web development consulting business, White also took over the technical management of several national socialist websites, in the employ of white nationalist financier Marc Moran. After Moran's withdrawal from activism, a falling out with Linder and the collapse of the National Alliance Board of Directors, White again found himself disgusted with the white nationalist movement and began looking for new directions for social change.

Business Interests

White began working in the internet field sometime during college. He incorporated his first company, White Web Publishing, Inc, in 2002, as an extension of his existing internet consulting career. He sold the company's contracts and assets off for an unknown sum in 2003. During his time in the internet industry, White also acquired interests in a number of other internet businesses, the full extent of which is not known. White's money first drew attention when a campaign for Chester Doles, which he launched with Linder and Moran in 2003, garnered more than $75,000 for Doles' defense fund, much of it through contributions from the principals. White's businesses appear to have been successful, as White's recent business activities have included the investment of more than $3 million in proceeds from his earlier activities.

In late 2003, White sold his business and his home near Washington, DC and moved to Roanoke, Virginia where he founded White Homes and Land, LLC. At some point, he lived briefly in St Louis, Missouri with Jennifer Adams, associate director of the Midland Region of the Hammerskin Nation, daughter of Joe Adams, of Iran-Contra fame.

According to the Roanoke Times, White has invested in excess of $3 million of his proceeds from the sale of his prior business and real estate into the redevelopment of Roanoke's West End neighborhood.

After a former girlfriend of White, Erica Hoesch, currently in prison for unrelated crimes, attacked him with a group of anti-racists outside of his rental properties, and found herself injured in the process, White's company garnered significant media attention, and faced accusations of "racism". The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the FBI investigated the complaints and cleared White of all wrongdoing in April of 2005.

White most recently garnered attention when he bid $1.25 million to acquire a block of houses near Roanoke's downtown, in an effort to derail an attempt by HUD to build a "downtown housing project" in the area. Though White ultimately did not win the bidding war, he was able to stop the "housing project" and compel the City to remodel the properties and sell them to private owners.

External Links

• Overthrow.com
• Nazi.org
• Archive of UAP Zines
• 40 to Watch (SPLCenter.org)
• Anti-Globalist Resistance Beyond Left And Right: An Emerging Trend That Is Defining A New Paradigm In Revolutionary Struggle, an essay by Bill White
• Bill White's Pravda articles

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• People from Virginia
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• People from Maryland
• Maryland politicians