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Kitto… where have I heard that name before?

The face of race hate
Bonehead who attacked Asians proud of act
Jonathan Marshall
Sunday News
June 22, 2008

THE white supremacist who told a judge he had turned his back on racism before being jailed over the bashing of Asian students has done an about-turn after being released from prison. Nelson labourer Daniel Kitto, 21, was sentenced to eight months last year after he and his then 28-year-old mate Harry McCormack attacked three Korean students from Nelson College outside a dairy…

McCormack, who was sentenced to 12 months, kicked one of the schoolboys in the head and punched another. Kitto punched the third. Kitto wrote to Nelson District Court judge David McKegg before the sentencing. He said: “I am writing this letter to tell you how sorry I am for what I have done. I feel sick. They were only kids. I thought they were my age. I have realised there is no future in being a racist skinhead and if I was to carry on that way I would spend a lot of time in prison.”

But on Thursday, Kitto told Sunday News he wanted all non-Europeans to “go home”. He said he was proud of his actions. “I’m just sick of seeing all the Asians come to Nelson,” he said. “They are taking our jobs and buying all of our land. I am just frustrated by them being here. (Asians) are bludging health care and schooling resources.” Kitto, who served four months in prison, claimed a number of people have since praised him for his actions. “A few have patted me on the back and said, `Well done’. Some people have even bought me a beer,” he said. Kitto said his regret for the race attack, in March last year, was that his victims were so young. “The one Harry kicked was 14, mine was 17,” he said…

Skin Heads Neither For Nor Against Racial Prejudice have refused to comment on Kitto’s case, nor on that of fellow bonehead Mr Mosen:

Mother of bonehead son worried
TVNZ
June 16, 2008

The mother of a bonehead shot in Wanganui fears there will be more violence unless police arrest the gunman responsible. William Mosen suffered serious shotgun wounds in the attack, but has discharged himself from hospital intent on revenge. Sandra Walford says she wishes she could walk away from the problems facing her family. Her son, 26-year-old William Mosen, was shot at close range by someone armed with a shotgun last week. And she fears it’s not over…

Earlier this month, Kiwi bonehead Lloyd James Bowling was sentenced to two years jail after being convicted of threatening a juror in a kidnapping case (one also involving boneheads). One of his fellow boneheads, Benjamin Peter McPadden, having initially received a non-custodial sentence for his role in the kidnapping, has also recently been jailed:

Kidnapper loses chance to avoid jail
The Dominion Post
June 7, 2008

A young kidnapper has thrown away his last chance of avoiding prison for his part in the assault and robbery of a Canadian tourist. In the High Court at Wellington yesterday, Benjamin Peter McPadden was told he had ignored a remarkable opportunity as he was jailed for 10 months. McPadden, 20, said that when he turned up for his original sentence of community work another worker had told him the bonehead group he had been linked to considered him a “nark” and he would be killed. He stopped turning up and completed only 35 hours of the 250-hour sentence…

More recently:

Arrests over race-hate attacks on Asians
Kiran Chug
The Nelson Mail
June 9, 2008

Nelson police say two “boneheads” have been arrested following two unprovoked racist attacks in the central city, which left the victims terrified and shaken on Sunday…

Meanwhile, in the United States:

Arizona Racist Skinheads Sentenced for Attempted Murder
ADL
June 13, 2008

A Maricopa County, Arizona, judge has sentenced the last of four racist skinhead defendants for their role in the attempted murder of one of their own gang members in 2006. Kelly Ann Harkins, 29, received an 18-year sentence on June 3, 2008, after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree murder.

In January 2006, four members of the Arizona Northern American Skinheads/SS Guardians, a loosely organized racist skinhead group, took Amanda Crow, a 19-year-old recent recruit of the group, into the desert outside Phoenix. The assailants beat her, slit her throat and severed her spinal cord, and left her for dead. Crow was later found by a group of recreational ATV riders who obtained aid for her. She ultimately survived the attack, but remains a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the neck down…

Locally, boneheads have a number of upcoming gigs. In Adelaide on July 18(?), Blood & Honour and the Southern Cross Hammerskins are organising a second annual Mid-Winter Fest. In Melbourne on September 13, the same mobs are organising the umpteenth annual Ian Stuart is Dead celebration, *ing Blood Red Eagle, Ravenous and some foreigners. Also in Melbourne, on July 19, a Jimmy Pursey-less Sham 69 is playing at the East Brunswick Hotel, with support from Sydney bands T.H.U.G. and Sin City (or possibly Toe to Toe) and local band Bastard Squad.

T.H.U.G. is an interesting band, featuring as it does Chumley and Simon, two members of one of Australia’s pioneering neo-Nazi bands of the ’80s, White Lightning. While White Lightning has long since gone (‘though its recordings are still available on numerous neo-Nazi mail orders), T.H.U.G. continues to celebrate the language of violence in such songs as ‘We Rule’, originally released as a track on White Lightning’s one LP (of the same title). Besides which, it’s not obvious much has changed for the boys in the band. In 2000, Simon was interviewed by a Dutch neo-Nazi zine Out of Order. Simon says:

“All my mates were into oi! and white pride as well. I did not know any skinheads that were into oi! and were not white and proud of it. Lefty skinheads would never dare to show their face on the street for fear of getting severely beaten. And that’s the way it should always be.”

“Best memory was playing a gig in Melbourne, in some pub, can’t remember which, full swing into it and about 30 Maoris drinking in the front bar… I’m sure you can picture what happened. Bedlam. We managed to protect all our gear however. Mic stands make magnificent clubs.”

“Old time skinheads rule!”

Let’s hope no Maoris happen to stray into the East Brunswick on the 71st anniversary of the Spanish Revolution eh?

Roanoke neo-Nazi files for bankruptcy
Laurence Hammack
The Roanoke Times
June 20, 2008

William White is seeking Chapter 11 protection after what he called a “cash crunch.”

Four years after coming to Roanoke and starting a rental home business that quickly drew attention to his role in the white supremacy movement, William White has filed for bankruptcy.

White, a neo-Nazi activist who is perhaps better known for his virulent Internet postings than as the owner of White Homes and Land LLC, recently sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

In a petition filed last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Virginia, White listed assets of $1.9 million and liabilities of $1.4 million.

White, commander of the Roanoke-based American National Socialist Workers Party, was one of the country’s few white supremacy leaders with a viable business, giving him both credibility in the movement and the financial means to spread his racist views, according to one expert on hate groups.

“Now that’s gone, and I think he has very little left,” said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“It’s a remarkable end for a guy who simply can’t stop bragging about what a brilliant businessman he is.”

According to an SPLC report issued earlier this year, White came to Roanoke in 2004 to start a real estate business, maxing out several credit cards for the capital to purchase the first of about 20 homes he currently maintains as rental properties in an impoverished part of the city’s West End neighborhood.

About the same time, White began to post racially charged comments on his Web site, complaining about his black tenants and suggesting that he would evict them as part of a “ghetto beautification project.”

A federal housing discrimination complaint filed by the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People produced no charges against White, who continued to use overthrow.com as a forum to comment on race relations both in Roanoke and across the country.

White said Tuesday that his reliance on credit cards had nothing to do with his financial difficulties, which he attributed to medical bills of more than $130,000 from the recent hospitalization of his wife and newborn daughter.

“We’re just reorganizing some debt,” he said.

“The property is certainly not underwater. We have plenty of money in it, but we just had a temporary cash crunch.”

White said he has been planning for some time to sell his rental homes. He said the bankruptcy proceedings should have no effect on his home construction business or on his role as leader of his neo-Nazi organization.

Although White discounted the role that credit cards played in his financial difficulties, a list of his 20 largest unsecured creditors in the bankruptcy filing includes more than $52,000 in credit card debt.

White said he has paid off the credit card used at the start of his business.

As assets, White listed 13 rental properties on Chapman and Patterson avenues with a combined value of more than $1.3 million. He also listed about $565,000 in personal property, the bulk of which he said came from his interest in White Homes and Land. The remaining seven rental properties are listed in the name of White’s company and were not included in his personal bankruptcy.

Another section of the 70-page bankruptcy petition contains evidence of White’s cash-flow problem: While his business grossed about $550,000 in 2007 and $541,000 in 2006, income to date this year was listed as just $78,797.

White’s financial problems come at a time when his neo-Nazi activities have been getting more attention.

In perhaps his most publicized controversy, White used his Web site in August to post the names and addresses of the defendants in the Jena Six case, a racially charged assault proceeding in Jena, La. Next to the black defendants’ contact information, White posted the words: “Lynch the Jena 6.”

Although the FBI said at the time it was investigating White’s actions, no legal action has been taken against him in connection with the Jena Six case.

More recently, White tangled with lawyers involved in a housing discrimination case in Virginia Beach. After White inserted himself into the case — sending racially charged letters to black tenants who had sued their white landlord — lawyers for the plaintiffs asked a judge to impose sanctions against him. The judge has yet to make a decision in that case.

Regardless of what happens to White in bankruptcy court, Potok acknowledged that it will likely have little influence on his penchant for posting nasty and Nazi-inspired views on the Internet.

“My guess is that Bill White will continue to try to be a player in the movement,” Potok said, “because he has an ego as large as the planet.”