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The Rice Thresher
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by Rachel Shiffrin Thresher staff
Jones College sophomore David Melville noticed the fliers on the cars about 9 p.m. Sunday and called the police, just as the offenders were walking away from President's Drive toward the Outer Loop. "My immediate response was frustration, as this organization had distributed fliers last year, and I was most concerned with the punishment of the subjects," Melville said. Officers on duty surrounded the perimeter of campus and stopped the offenders at Entrance 1. The fliers were created by the National Alliance, the same West Virginia-based white supremacist group that distributed similar racist literature on campus last April. One flier distributed Sunday, headlined "Missing: A Future for White Children," argues that opportunities for white children are being eliminated by "corrupt politicians and minority special-interest groups." Another flier listed crimes committed by non-whites against whites and reads "If these crimes where [sic] committed by Whites, there would be headlines across America and demands for prosecution as 'Hate Crimes'." The flier also blames the "anti-White political agenda of the Jew-controlled media." Both fliers list a local phone number and Web address. According to Police Chief Bill Taylor, distributing fliers is not a crime so the subjects could not be arrested. "People do have their opinions and the right to state them in public places," he said. The subjects did, however, violate Rice's policy prohibiting the distribution of fliers on cars on campus, and police issued the offenders a criminal trespass warning. "We have given them notice that they have no lawful business here and that they are not welcome," Taylor said. "If those two individuals come back, they will be arrested and charged with criminal trespass." Some of the National Alliance fliers distributed last year included the headline, "Don't Have Sex With Blacks: Avoid AIDS!" In response, the Black Student Association and Amnesty International organized a walk-out/teach-in unity rally. Taylor said he would like for the unity rally to become an annual event. "We need to let them know that our stance is not their stance," he said. Taylor has been working with BSA President Audrey Ette, a Baker College junior, to organize such an event for this year. The rally will be held in April because the National Alliance is typically active at that time of year to commemorate the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. "I'm disheartened anytime someone distributes this kind of literature," Taylor said. "It's part of a flame that, in my opinion, should have died out a long time ago." According to the National Alliance's Web site, members of the organization believe , "What we must have ... is a thorough rooting out of Semitic and other non-Aryan values and customs everywhere." The National Alliance was founded by William L. Pierce, author of the The Turner Diaries under the pen name Andrew Macdonald. The novel, first published in 1978, is about white supremacists who blow up FBI headquarters using a truck full of fertilizer and fuel oil. The novel also gives detailed instructions for constructing a bomb similar to the one used in the Oklahoma City bombing. Timothy McVeigh, who was convicted of the bombing, was carrying a page photocopied from the book when he was arrested after the bombing.
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