According to the Chicago Sun Times, William A. White, a neo-Nazi, who operated a hate Web site, has been arrested for posting online the name and home address of a Chicago juror who served in the trial of white supremacist Matthew Hale. White, who was arrested in Roanoke, Va., on Friday, is expected to appear in federal court in Virginia on civil rights charges and will then be transferred to Chicago.
White's Web site -- www.overthrow.com, which authorities have shut down, recently posted the headline "Kill This Nigger?" next to a photo of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. In another post, the site called for the lynching of six black teenagers charged with assault in a civil rights case in Jena, La.
According to the Sun Times, White, the self-proclaimed leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party, described by authorities as a hate group, is charged under a new law that was an outgrowth from the killings of two family members of a Chicago judge. He allegedly posted the phone number and address of a juror he called a "gay, Jewish anti-racist" who voted to convict Hale in 2004. White is alleged to have advocated harm against the juror, authorities said.
The FBI raided White's offices on Oct. 10 and seized computers and other items related to his Web site. Hale is now serving a 40-year sentence in a maximum-security prison. His case centered on charges that he solicited a hit on U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow after the Chicago judge ruled against him in a civil case.
The following spring, Lefkow's husband and mother were killed by a disgruntled litigant not tied to a hate group but who was able to track down her home address. After the killings, the judge went before Congress and pleaded for more safeguards for judges -- including restricting the publication of personal information about them online.
I hope this racist will see that the long arm of the law has finally caught up with you. William White, you can run, but you can't hide.
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