“Mr. Williams is an unpopular determine, and had I extra expertise on the time I might have actually declined this illustration.”
Laura Finch, Mr. Williams’ protection lawyer
Pocahontas Present Trial: The Wrongful Conviction of an Unpopular Determine in West Virginia
(See additionally the webpage for the e book.)
William White Williams
Cosmotheist Books, 2021.
Pocahontas Present Trial is the story of the authorized and private challenges skilled by Will Williams from 2014 to 2021 as chairman of the Nationwide Alliance (NA). His reasonably sophisticated account is extremely private, but additionally offers with broader points — organizational, sexual, ideological, and judicial — related to White activism.
To place the story into context: In July 2002 William Pierce, founder and chairman of the Nationwide Alliance died. One nameless on-line poster described Pierce as a fancy and pushed man who gave up a cushty tutorial life to grow to be a dissident instructor and prophet. On the time of his loss of life the Alliance was the foremost radical White advocacy group within the nation, radical in its authentic that means of root, of coping with root or foundational points.
After Pierce’s loss of life the group went into a gradual decline. By 2013 the NA had solely a handful of members and was primarily bankrupt. The then chairman, Erich Gliebe, was promoting off the group’s property. At this level Williams, the previous membership coordinator below Pierce, together with one other former member, Kevin Strom, determined to resurrect the group. After shopping for Pierce’s 13,000 quantity private library from Gliebe, Williams struck a second deal. Gliebe was being sued by one other group of former members for management of the moribund group. Williams labored with Gliebe to extract him from this go well with by assuming chairmanship of the NA. The above account might look like simply “motion drama,” nevertheless it does have wider ramifications.
One of many broader points concerned on this story is the organizational construction of White advocacy. The Alliance is a membership group with appreciable actual property engaging to grifters, opportunists, and lawfare warriors. Though Gliebe had pushed the Alliance into the ditch, the group nonetheless possessed a 350-acre headquarters in West Virginia, a million-dollar property with a number of buildings, saleable timber, media stock, and buyer lists that might produce money. Pierce was satisfied that solely such a real-world group might obtain long-term success. However such a company can also be weak to wreck from each faulty supporters and malicious opponents.
The subtitle of this e book might have been: “Good Assist Is Laborious to Discover.” Attracting dysfunctional individuals has been the bane of White advocacy teams for many years. Williams describes Pierce’s methodology of recruitment as kissing loads of frogs to discover a prince. Referring to the Grimm Brothers fairy story, Pierce needed to undergo a variety of prospects earlier than he discovered a keeper. He was in a position to do that due to his unquestioned management and since he was on-site. When Williams took over management of the NA he was dwelling in Tennessee 200 miles from the Mill Level headquarters. Thus he wanted to rent somebody to carry down the fort in his absence. The pool of candidates was restricted — nearly all have been what Williams calls toads — no princes.
The primary so-called toad encountered was former Chairman Gliebe’s enterprise supervisor Patrick Martin. After Williams gained entry to the Alliance’s monetary statements, he discovered proof that Martin might have embezzled tens of hundreds of {dollars} from the group, funds the NA badly wanted.
Williams’ first rent, Randolph Dilloway wasn’t any higher. Dilloway had labored as a volunteer for the Alliance, and Williams employed him to take care of the NA headquarters. “I employed Dilloway tentatively in mid-December 2014, after I was determined to get somebody on the property simply to have a presence there.” By the next Might, Dilloway had been fired for insubordination and theft. Not too uncommon, personalities battle at work, individuals give up or get fired, laborious emotions end result. However that was just the start of the story.
A few of the gadgets Dilloway stole have been Alliance information that the contemptable thief bought to the Southern Poverty Regulation Heart (SPLC) for a reported $5,000. The SPLC is a malevolent, multifaceted group: a propaganda mill, a personal spy company, a fund-raising racket, and a lawfare agency. A lot of the supplies stolen have been invoices from previous e book gross sales, however there was at the very least one merchandise of actionable intelligence for the SPLC’s chief feminine bloodhound, Heidi Beirich. Beirich is a well-recognized determine to the Dissident Proper. We study in Present Trial that opposite to well-liked perception, she will not be Jewish, however a self-hating, overweight, lesbian of German descent.
Beirich’s one gold nugget was a thirty-year-old letter from Pierce to his legal professional that was CC’d to a regulation scholar Glen Allen. A long time later Allen was now an legal professional working for town of Baltimore till the SPLC lobbied to get him fired. Not one to take issues mendacity down, Allen, who’s the top of the Free Expression Basis and a contributor to The Occidental Observer, sued the SPLC to defend First Modification rights.
However with Dilloway gone, issues have been truly going to worsen with the hiring of Garland DeCourcy, AKA Garland Corse, Elizabeth Corse, Gail Dempsey. It isn’t clear when DeCourcy started working with the SPLC. Williams writes that she “grew to become one other SPLC asset by September 2015.” Williams knew DeCourcy had been an Alliance member a few years in the past when the writer employed her in April 2015. In a coup try a number of months later, DeCourcy staged a “battery incident” through which she claimed Williams assaulted her. Although not obvious at first look, there was mounting proof that DeCourcy was mentally unstable, maybe psychotic. Once more, good persons are laborious to search out.
The assault allegation led to Williams’ arrest and many of the e book describes his travail coping with the West Virginia court docket system. The writer had a number of components working in opposition to him. The NA headquarters is situated in Mill Level, Pocahontas County, a backwoods space of West Virginia. The Alliance has had a presence within the county for the reason that Nineteen Eighties. The connection with native regulation enforcement is likely to be described as a bit tense, however not confrontational. The long-time sheriff, Jerry Dale, had purchased into the SPLC propaganda depicting the NA as armed and harmful. Thus as soon as Williams entered the prison justice system it was unlikely he would get off scot-free whatever the proof. The county’s institution noticed this as a chance to presumably rid themselves of NA’s presence.
So one other of the broader points concerned within the Williams case is the unequal software of the regulation on account of ideological issues, typically referred to as selective enforcement and prosecution. Maybe the very best instance of this was the differential remedy afforded the Floyd rioters of the summer season of 2020 and the demonstrators who besieged the capitol on January sixth. Pocahontas County is overwhelmingly White, however conventionally conservative, so lots of the locals appeared askance on the NA for being non-Christian (Cosmotheist) and unpatriotic (opposing American globalism).
One other problem is the feminization of the judicial system. The writer’s case occurred through the top of the #Me Too motion. His accuser was feminine, he had two feminine judges and an ineffective feminine counsel. An instance of the anti-male bias: Protection legal professional Laura Finch instructed Williams that they need to hold quiet concerning his two fight excursions in Vietnam as a Inexperienced Beret officer as a result of that may point out a violent persona. One would suppose having served honorably within the armed forces can be an asset. So as to add to the all-female forged, Williams claimed biased protection from Jaynell Graham, a reporter for The Pocahontas Instances.
Williams later discovered that certainly one of his judges, Justice of the Peace Carrie Wilfong, had a criticism filed in opposition to her for “being drunk at a Justice of the Peace assembly, and even whereas on the bench — together with the interval when she heard my case.” Ms. Wilfong died in January 2020 on the age of 43 after a “documented historical past of long-term alcoholism and severe drug habit.” The courthouse was a nuthouse.
Along with holding the unsuitable political/social beliefs and being of the unsuitable intercourse, Williams was a sufferer of courthouse cronyism highlighting the issue that an outsider may need discovering competent authorized illustration in a extremely rural space. When the writer employed Laura Finch to defend him issues appeared hopeful. Ms. Finch thought the proof in opposition to him was very weak and they need to win the case. However her perspective modified, and she or he put forth a slipshod protection to say the least. Why? There are a number of potential causes, none mutually unique. One, the powers that be in Pocahontas County needed Williams convicted and Finch needed to stay in good standing with the courthouse crowd. Two, Finch had political ambitions, and a profitable protection of a “Nazi” wouldn’t add luster to her resume. In 2018 she ran unsuccessfully for state senate, and in 2020 ran once more unsuccessfully for county prosecutor. Three, there might have been a component of laziness concerned. Attorneys owe their purchasers the very best protection they’ll present, however some simply undergo the motions, placing forth a minimal of effort.
To make an extended story quick, Williams was convicted of assault. He appealed his conviction all the best way to the West Virginia Supreme Court docket The conviction was upheld. He was sentenced to twenty days in jail, credited with two days served, and bought eight days off for good conduct. He in all probability might have prevented jail time with a plea deal, however refused to plead responsible to an act he says he didn’t commit.
Williams went on to file two complaints with the West Virginia Judicial Investigative Fee, one for the prison case and one for a civil case introduced in opposition to him by DeCourcy. He additionally filed complaints with the West Virginia Workplace of Disciplinary Counsel which led to a listening to earlier than the Investigative Panel of the Attorneys Disciplinary Board. All to no avail. Lastly, Williams even filed a criticism in opposition to the West Virginia judicial authorities with the U.S. Division of Justice in Washington. He had but to obtain a response as of the e book’s publication.
Present Trial is Williams’ private account — his story, his historical past. However he offers a convincing account that’s extensively documented. There are some suspenseful moments as properly. After his December 2015 arrest, he’s launched from Tygart Valley Regional Jail with out transportation, cash, or perhaps a hat and coat to hitchhike 75 miles in a winter rain again to his truck parked at Mill Level. All through Williams exhibited a tenacity and resilience that overcame prison fees, civil fits, and a torrent of on-line assaults to retain management of the Nationwide Alliance. He was lucky to have the unwavering assist of his spouse and helpmate Lana.
Present Trial recounts a fancy story involving many extra individuals and occasions than talked about on this quick assessment. The textual content displays its self-published origins. The amount would have benefited from some skilled structural enhancing, maybe a stronger chronological framework. That stated the e book must be learn by attorneys, regulation college students, and anybody within the historical past of the Nationwide Alliance. I’m wondering if a duplicate is offered on the Pocahontas County Public Library.
Notes
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