Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 11:22:01 -0400
From: Chuck Munson <chuck-AT-tao.ca>
Subject: WashTimes on UAP


Another reason why we need to do something about Bill White.

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Subject: WashTimes on UAP
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 10:04:27 -0400


Anarchist Web site salutes 2 killers 

                    ( The Washington Times ) 

An anarchist party based in Montgomery County operates an Internet site
that urges the abolition of government and praises the "courage" of two
Columbine High School killers.

On the day of the massacre, Utopian Anarchist Party spokesman Bill White
posted a "salute" to teen-age gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as
"two young men who had the courage to strike back against the system,
even if their strike back was somewhat misguided in its aims."

The UAP's World Wide Web site - www.overthrow.com - describes the party
as "militant anti-government anarchism at its best" and includes such
recipes for revolution as a School Stopper's Textbook, first published
by the Youth International Party (Yippies) in the 1960s.

Politically, the UAP is eclectic. The party's Web site denounces
liberals and conservatives alike, condemning the anti-bigotry efforts of
the Simon Wiesenthal Center as "progressive fascism" and announcing
dates for communist May Day parades.

"The government is a tool of the ruling class, used for the systematic
exploitation of the masses," Mr. White, 21, a 1994 graduate of
Bethesda' s Walt Whitman High School, said in a telephone interview with
The Washington Times.

He said he began his drift toward anarchism at age 13, when he began
reading such works at the Communist Manifesto.

He "started to form mildly socialist ideas," Mr. White said, and school
officials "tried to shut down my free speech" when he tried to         
express those views.

The UAP argues for the abolition of public schools which are "a tool the
ruling class uses to indoctrinate the young," Mr. White said, "and, in
the last election, 5 percent of the Montgomery County electorate agreed
with me."

Last year, Mr. White ran on the UAP ticket and got 4,146 votes in the
September primary for an at-large seat on the county Board of Education.
He finished last.

"I don't believe people should go around killing people at random, " Mr.
White said, but stressed that many students feel oppressed by public
schools and reacted to the Columbine massacre accordingly.

"What happened in Colorado was viewed by a lot of [young] people as
empowering. . . . [They felt that] `we can fight back and we can win,' "
the UAP spokesman said. "That's why there have been so many copycats and
bomb threats" since the April 20 massacre.

On the UAP Web site, Mr. White called the Colorado shootings an
expression of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's concept of the
"will to power." Mr. White also wrote: "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."

Mr. White, who condemns President Clinton as "corrupt," said his beliefs
have earned him and the UAP some important enemies. He proudly mentions
that conservative talk-show host Michael Reagan recently called him "a
threat to America."