APtx 11/18 0346 Beam FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) -- A white supremacist accused of sedition was

APtx 11/18 0346 Beam


   FORT  SMITH,  Ark.  (AP)  --  A  white  supremacist accused of
sedition was denied bond after he told a federal magistrate  that
the  top  leaders in the U.S. government are vile and ought to be
removed at any cost.

   U.S.  Magistrate  Ned  Stewart,  after  a  five-hour   hearing
Tuesday,  declined  to  set  a bond for Louis Ray Beam Jr., 41, a
native Texan arrested 11 days ago in Mexico along with his wife.

   Stewart said Beam was a flight risk.

   "I look forward to the battle with relish.  I'm honored," Beam
said. "I'm going to be vindicated in February."

   His trial is Feb. 16.  An April indictment by a federal  grand
jury  in Fort Smith accused Beam of sedition, which is advocating
the overthrow of the government by  violence  or  other  unlawful
means.

   Beam  was  captured by Mexican federal police near Guadalajara
Nov. 6 when he and his wife were on their way home.   A  gunfight
ensued  and  Beam's  wife, Shiela Marie Toohey Beam, 20, shot and
injured a Mexican policeman.

   Charges of  assaulting  a  police  officer  which  were  filed
against Mrs.  Beam were dismissed by a judge Saturday and she was
ordered out  of the country.  She flew to Los Angeles Tuesday and
her mother said she was supposed to arrive in Houston today.

   Ten men are charged with sedition in the four-count indictment
handed down at Fort Smith.  There are 14 defendants named in  the
indictment was returned April 21 by a federal grand jury convened
in Fort Smith.

   "There  is  no  safety from the government once it comes after
you," Beam told Stewart.

   At  one  point,  Beam  testified  about  a  booklet  he  wrote
entitled, "Essays of a Klansman," brought up earlier in testimony
by FBI Special Agent Paul Maxwell.

   "The whole essay was written to show there is an international
conspiracy   ...   of  satanic  and  anti-Christ  leaders,"  Beam
testified, calling  the  conspiracy  ZOG  or  Zionist  Occupation
Government.

   "The  government of the United States no longer belongs to the
people.  At  the  highest  level,  the  people  are  vile,"  Beam
testified.

   When  asked by Justice Department attorney Martin Carlson what
should be done about the conspiracy, Beam said, "We should go for
the top level.  We should absolutely oppose them and remove  them
in whatever way."

   Carlson  asked  Beam  if he meant by violent measures and Beam
said, "To protect my country I would continue to do my duty as  a
patriot."

   "Including kill?"  Carlson asked.

   "If  so directed," Beam said. "I would do anything in my power
to protect the Constitution."

   Maxwell testified about a letter Beam wrote during his stay in
Mexico addressed  "To  my  friends."    Maxwell  quoted  Beam  as
writing,  "We  shall  continue  to operate (The Aryan Resistance)
underground.  Underground for us.  Under the ground for them."

   In the letter, Beam  also  encouraged  the  "annihilation  and
eradication of  ZOG  ...    Death  to  ZOG.  It  is not enough to
overthrow it," according to testimony.

   "The Soviets are the  lesser  of  two  evils  as  far  as  our
survival is  concerned.    Let  the  Soviets have Washington, for
afterward we will have the whole country," Beam wrote,  according
to testimony.

   Carlson asked Beam what "underground" meant.

   "Underground was  secretly  opposing  the  government.   I was
secretly opposing the government," Beam testified.

   Carlson asked Beam if he started  making  plans  as  early  as
December  1985  to  flee the United States in anticipation of the
indictment.

   "The plans included  assuming  a  new  identity  and  becoming
anonymous,"  Beam  testified.  "In 1976, I was urging everyone in
the movement to assume a new name.  This is America,  we  can  be
anybody we want to be."

   Beam's attorney, Kirk Lyons of Houston, said earlier that Beam
indicated to him in late 1985 the indictment was inevitable.

   On  his  flight,  Beam  said, "I was fleeing in Mexico for the
safety of my life and my family."    He  testified  he  left  the
United  States  April  7  with  his wife and 7-year-old daughter,
Sarah.

   Maxwell testified about  several  documents  found  at  Beam's
Mexico residence.    The documents consisted of several different
forms of false identification.

   Maxwell also testified about a  leaflet  found  inserted  into
Beam's booklet.    He  described  the insert as a chart of groups
such as judicial officers, members of the  Congress  and  Senate,
the  president,  Jewish leaders, civil rights leaders, communists
and black leaders.

   Accompanying the chart was a point system  rating  members  of
The Aryan Resistance for killing those targeted in the chart.

   However,  Beam  testified he wrote the essay and chart to show
how futile it would be to  try  to  kill  those  members  of  his
movement considered conspirators.

   "It's not possible to kill them.  It's silly to go after them.
They've  got  thousands  of  marshals  and  federal agents," Beam
testified.