William White Williams

William White Williams II (born ) is an American white nationalist who is the fourth and current chairman of the white supremacist group the National Alliance. In the late 1980s, he was the second in command, or hasta primus, of Ben Klassen's Church of the Creator (COTC) and was the editor of the COTC's paper, Racial Loyalty.

Williams joined the United States Army Special Forces and served two combat tours in the Vietnam War. After leaving the army, he became a tax resister and then a white supremacist in the 1980s after a feud with the IRS. He first joined Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.'s White Patriot Party in 1985, moving on through several far-right groups before joining the COTC in 1988; he left a year later. Williams joined William Luther Pierce's National Alliance (NA) in 1992 and was their membership coordinator from then until 1995, but he left the NA in 2002 due to the prevalence of skinheads.

Williams has described himself as a "biological racist" and "racial loyalist", and as against interracial marriage. He ran as a delegate for Ron Paul at the Republican National Convention in 2008. The Paul campaign disavowed him once his views were publicized. In 2014, Williams obtained control of the National Alliance from Pierce's successor, Erich Gliebe, and became its chairman. He has been controversial among other white supremacists, often due to his association with Kevin Alfred Strom. In 2015 he was arrested and later convicted of battery for assaulting an NA employee at their compound.

Early life and military service

William White Williams II was born in in North Carolina. Williams joined the United States Army Special Forces as an officer and served two combat tours in the Vietnam War.

White supremacy Radicalized by a three-year battle with a black IRS auditor in the early 1980s, Williams became a tax resister and then a white supremacist. He stopped paying taxes, dropped out of his work, and instead worked as an artist. He then went on to be a member of several far-right groups, including the Southern National Front and then the National Democratic Front. He has said that "Hitler was the greatest Communist fighter in history", though claimed he does not "worship Hitler". Williams was previously a poster on the white supremacist website Stormfront, though he has been banned. He dislikes Christianity for its connections with Judaism; with his wife working as the typesetter; they lived at the COTC's commune.

Member of National Alliance (1992–2002) Williams left and moved to West Virginia in early 1992 The suit was dismissed by a judge in February 1997, who declared that Williams had not established the distress had been caused to him intentionally. Afterwards, other white supremacists commonly referred to him by that name.

Continuing their previous dispute, in 1998, Williams sued Harold Covington for libel and won; Covington was ordered to pay him $10,000. In what several commentators described as an effort to avoid paying Williams, Covington moved states to Washington. In 2000, Williams spoke at an anti-immigration rally in Siler City, North Carolina, alongside David Duke. At the same time, Williams was active in the North Carolina branch of Pat Buchanan's Reform Party, and expressed interest in turning it into a "party of the white". Williams has claimed that Strom was not guilty and had been "framed". Gliebe said he gave it to Williams because Williams was the most knowledgeable and was "not a cultist". At the same time, Williams was accused of intimidating other NA members, and the West Virginia commune was described by the SPLC as "basically uninhabitable"; many in the white supremacist movement became more critical of Williams at this time. Williams was then banned from the National Alliance headquarters; Strom became de facto leader for a time. He was convicted of misdemeanor battery in August 2018.

By 2020, Williams had re-assumed control of the group; Under Williams' leadership, the group relocated to Tennessee.