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| William L Pierce |
An arch racial conspiracy theorist every bit good every bit a white supremacist leader as well as publisher, William Pierce is most widely known for his novel The Turner Diaries. The novel, similar most of Pierce’s writings, depicts a racial revolution to overcome a national, multicultural conspiracy against Anglo-Saxon Americans inwards the like shooting fish in a barrel twentieth century.
The Turner Diaries by as well as large had an cloak-and-dagger existence every bit a mag series amid many white supremacist movements until its publication every bit a mass inwards 1978, when the Federal Bureau of Investigation denounced it every bit the most unsafe mass inwards the United States.
Pierce’s pseudonymous novel became notorious, however, when Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building inwards Apr 1995, killing 168 people inwards an enactment of ane of the novel’s key scenes. An excerpt from The Turner Diaries was found amongst McVeigh at the fourth dimension of his arrest as well as has since propelled Pierce’s advert every bit good every bit his organization, National Alliance, into the mainstream media.
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Pierce justifies his extremist writings amongst a conspiracy theorist’s fearfulness of ethnic diversity; inwards his writing, the liberal conspiracy to pollute the US amongst multiculturalism represents the destination of the white race. Ironically, Pierce’s run depicts as well as fifty-fifty exhorts a conspiracy of its own: the targeting as well as killing of those who stand upwards for or back upwards racial multifariousness inwards the United States.
While his fiction depicts the political strife of state of war inwards an imagined social transition from a multicultural to a white United States, Pierce too expresses his extremist politics through other political modes such every bit Libertarian as well as militia ideologies.
Pierce’s incendiary rhetoric has been effective amongst about of his readers; The Turner Diaries is known to postulate hold inspired other crimes. In the early on 1980s, a grouping named for The Turner Diaries’ highest echelon of resistance fighters (the Order) committed murder, robbery, as well as counterfeiting, as well as bombed a synagogue inwards Colorado.
In the early on 1990s, a grouping calling itself the Aryan Republican Army committed banking concern robberies as well as bombings across the Midwest. Later inwards the 1990s, members of the New Order inwards St. Louis were arrested for plotting to bomb the Anti-Defamation League’s New York headquarters, the Southern Poverty Law Center inwards Alabama, as well as the Simon Wiesenthal Center inwards Los Angeles.
Although Pierce denies the influence of The Turner Diaries or whatever other of his many publications as well as broadcasts inwards inspiring vehement acts, he has a history of generating conspiracy rhetoric that exhorts those who would seek a white US to postulate hold action.
Pierce has been active inwards right-wing extremist movements since the 1960s. Born inwards Atlanta, Georgia, xi September 1933, he holds a B.Sc. from Rice University (1955), as well as an M.A. (1958) as well as a Ph.D. (1962) inwards physics from the University of Colorado. Pierce was an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University from 1962 to 1965.
He as well as thus became a senior question scientist at the Advanced Materials Research Development Laboratory of United Aircraft’s Pratt as well as Whitney Division inwards 1965–1966. During this fourth dimension he was involved amongst the John Birch Society. By 1966, Pierce left his work as well as the John Birch Society for full-time neo-Nazi activism amongst the American Nazi Party, run yesteryear George Lincoln Rockwell.
There, he edited the National Socialist World, a quarterly magazine for academics as well as intellectuals. When Rockwell was assassinated inwards 1967, Pierce became ane of the leaders of the National Socialist White People’s Party, which succeeded the American Nazi Party.
By 1970, Pierce left the National Socialist White People’s Party to bring together the National Youth Alliance, a far-right political grouping whose aim was to disrupt liberal causes on college campuses. Infighting betwixt Pierce as well as the Nazi Youth Party’s founder, Willis Carto, split upwards the grouping into factions. Pierce’s fly came to last known every bit the National Alliance, a grouping he has run since 1974.
Pierce relocated the National Alliance from Arlington, Virginia, to a 346-acre farm inwards Mill Point, West Virginia. In many ways, Pierce is the National Alliance; he runs all aspects of the arrangement as well as writes most of as well as alone oversees all its media. Pierce edits as well as writes for its magazine, National Vanguard (originally Attack!), as well as an internal newsletter, National Alliance Bulletin (formerly titled Action), every bit good every bit Resistancemagazine.
He too oversees several businesses every bit purpose of the National Alliance: National Vanguard Books, Resistance Records, as well as Cymaphane Records. Additionally, Pierce broadcasts a weekly radio program, American Dissident Voices on AM/FM as well as shortwave radio as well as writes articles for Free Speech, the program’s newsletter.
The National Alliance aims to locomote the world’s largest umbrella arrangement for white supremacy as well as is good on its way to coming together that goal. Domestically, Pierce created affiliations amongst the antigovernment Patriot motion during its ascension inwards the 1990s.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 decade later, he reached out to neo-Nazi youth groups, in ane trial again, through his tape labels. With chapters inwards twenty-three states as well as a spider web page that is translatable into 8 languages, the National Alliance has locomote good established.
The utilization of technology scientific discipline has driven Pierce’s outreach efforts as well as allows for unique associations: inwards 2002, a large excerpt from ane of his radio speeches, downloaded to a National Alliance listserv, ended upwards on a Hezbollah website ii weeks later. The National Alliance provides a arrive at of literature, radio, as well as music targeting both full general as well as specific audiences that disseminate white supremacist conspiracy theories.
Specifically, Pierce’s run describes a national crisis for white racial purism—a conspiracy of multiculturalism—and urges political activism as well as the recruitment of novel members to ready a political movement.
However, National Alliance’s ideology oftentimes describes strength every bit the agency to this reclamation of a white ancestry as well as a commitment to edifice a white nation. Pierce’s fiction, written nether the advert Andrew Macdonald, depicts con- spiracy theorists reacting to a perceived conspiracy of racial treason.
Largely critical of Jewish media as well as trouble organisation inwards the United States, these novels too focus on miscegenation as well as other racial “pollution” of the Anglo-Saxon bloodline. In these imagined scenarios, race patriots intend to provoke a racial state of war that volition allow for armed rebellion as well as the creation of a white nation.
In The Turner Diaries, the US is represented every bit severely intolerant of a specific “racism”—defined every bit acts perpetrated yesteryear whites against people of color—and has created a climate inwards which white people are nether scrutiny for racist transgressions patch people of color exploit the situation. The seemingly liberal regime extends its oppressive influence amongst a police that repeals the Second Amendment correct to ain firearms.
The consequent insurrection—which eventually becomes a global race war—is chronicled yesteryear ane of its unassuming heroes, Earl Turner, whose beau patriotic, militant white supremacists postulate hold prepared to handle “the System’s” despotism. Turner’s diary describes his experiences every bit he organizes minor resistance cells as well as goes virtually the daily undertaking of domestic terrorism inwards the conspiracy to overthrow the government.
Some of the novel’s major scenes include a mortar assail on Washington, D.C., as well as a truck bombing of FBI headquarters (which McVeigh borrowed for his terrorism inwards Oklahoma City). One of the most graphic scenes is “the Day of the Rope,” inwards which the grouping publicly hangs tens of thousands of race traitors amongst placards describing their treason.
Turner’s heroic acts Pb to his induction into the group’s inner circle (the Order)—a transcendence that concludes amongst Turner’s suicide mission as well as subsequent martyrdom every bit the group’s savior. By the novel’s end, the New Era of white authorisation has overcome the racial conspiracy.
Pierce’s minute novel, Hunter, published inwards 1989, reaches out to a unlike readership, moving away from the working-class emphasis of The Turner Diaries as well as focusing on a highly educated audience. The conspiracy of multiculturalism is the same, but the focus is the Jewish-owned media’s social role.
Protagonist Oscar Yeager is a talented engineer who, although highly educated as well as extremely rational, is beingness uncharacteristically reactionary—literally hunting dark as well as white “miscegenating” couples inwards his disgust virtually the reject of the race.
Unlike Turner, however, Yeager seeks a deeper, intellectual contextualization of his white supremacism every bit good every bit a solution that speaks to the social ambiguities he perceives. Hunter chronicles Yeager’s hunt for a philosophy, his subsequent didactics virtually the Jewish media conspiracy, as well as his ain response to the racial conspiracy of a multicultural United States.
In the novel’s solution, Yeager becomes a media mogul who educates the U.S. world virtually white supremacism amongst a fundamentalist idiot box preacher as well as deposes the Jewish media monopoly yesteryear gaining the largest marketplace position percentage of the viewing audience.
The novel depicts Yeager’s media counterconspiracy every bit a success both inwards reaching white America as well as starting fourth dimension the transition to a racially pure land amongst less large-scale bloodshed but, rather, key behind-the-scene assassinations at high levels.
In add-on to his ii novels, Pierce published Serpent’s Walk, about other racial conspiracy text, inwards 1991, nether the advert Randolph D. Calverhall, as well as has ii other books published amongst National Vanguard Books: The Best of Attack! as well as National Vanguard Tabloid (1984) as well as Gun Control inwards Germany, 1928–1945 (1994).
Pierce’s arrangement has reached out to other spheres of influence: from the buy of AT&T stock inwards lodge to utilization the share-holder meetings every bit a platform for antisemitic speech, to the targeting of youth markets inwards his newest ventures.
The most various products inwards his catalog include the 1993 comic title, New World Order Comix #1, The Saga of ... White Will! as well as a calculator game depicting a virtual race war: “Ethnic Cleansing: The Game!” In 1999, Pierce became involved inwards the music manufacture through white ability music labels Resistance as well as Cymophane Records.
Pierce finds conspiracy everywhere he looks: organizations working against hate-speech postulate hold targeted Pierce’s various businesses as well as postulate hold worked to discredit his tax-exempt condition (through his Church of the Creator organization) every bit good every bit to straight attending toward his enterprise.
In 1996, the Southern Poverty Law Center won an $85,000 judgment against Pierce for his purpose inwards an endeavour to maintain Church of the Creator assets from the household unit of measurement of a murdered member, Harold Mansfield. Pierce continues to refer to these groups every bit purpose of the conspiracy against white values as well as white supremacism, merely every bit he continues to abide by ways to convey his extremist politics to mainstream media.
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