NEXT ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: TIM BLAND

On the anti-racist blog Nikki’s Nest, it was mentioned back in 2007 that Tim Bland was the “one legit active non-criminal member” in Bill White’s American National Socialist Workers’ Party (ANSWP for short, “ASSWIPE” to detractors). That changed today as Tim Bland pled guilty to threatening Meghan White, another ANSWP member and Bill White’s wife. We are starting to think that when you are a member of Aryan Brotherhood, one of the prequisites is to disconnect yourself conpletely from reality. Only someone who does would think it’s a great ideal to make phone calls threatening to kill not only the person you are talking to, but also her infant daughter…and then text this person a picture of your…this is why we call them boneheads. If Bland gets jail time, he’s looking at five years, although he might not get all that. Wherever he goes, our feeling is when you threaten the life of an infant, you pretty much need to keep your head down for the rest of your life. Maybe Bland will think the same way.

Roanoke.com

A Baltimore man who claimed to be part of the Aryan Brotherhood pleaded guilty today to threatening the wife and daughter of jailed white supremacist Bill White.

Timothy Grant Bland, 45, admitted in federal court in Roanoke to sending a threat via interstate commerce, a federal charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

On Dec. 20, while White was serving a jail term for making  threats, Bland made a series of profane phone calls to Meghan White, said he was coming to shoot her and her infant daughter, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said today in a statement.

“You’re a disgrace,” Bland said in one of the calls, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Aryan Brotherhood is coming for you … And if he does get out and gets free, he won’t last six months.”

In subsequent calls, Bland said he was coming to Roanoke, then that he was in Roanoke and coming to shoot Meghan White and her daughter.

U.S. attorney’s office spokesman Brian McGinn said Bland also texted Megan White a picture of his genitals.

Bland was subpoenaed to testify at White’s criminal trial in December, but was never called to the witness stand, McGinn said. Meghan White said she had never met Bland and did not think her husband had met him either, McGinn said.

Meghan White was terrified by the calls, McGinn said. She spent that night in her daughter’s bedroom, then moved in with relatives, McGinn said.

When authorities tracked down Bland, the text message picture of his genitals was still on his phone, McGinn said. Bland acknowledged the picture was of him, but said he did not remember sending it, McGinn said. Bland did not deny calling Meghan White, McGinn said.

Bland claimed the incident resulted from a “psychotic episode” triggered by alcohol and medication, McGinn said.

The same night Bland called Meghan White, he phoned 911 in Baltimore and said he was former member of a Nazi organization and that people were trying to kill him.

Bland was allowed to stay free on bond awaiting sentencing.

White, who moved to Roanoke in 2004 and gained notoriety with a website that trumpeted his neo-Nazi ideology — and a tendency to insert himself into racial controversies across the country — was convicted in December of threatening people in Missouri, Delaware and Virginia. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison.

In August, a civil lawsuit in federal court ended in a $545,000 judgment against White. He had been sued by five black women to whom he’d sent threatening letters after they became involved in a housing discrimination dispute with their white landlord in Virginia Beach.