-Caveat Lector- Southern Poverty Law Center Report on the National Alliance http://www.www.splcenter.org The neo-Nazi organization that may have inspired the Oklahoma City bombing continues to flourish. West Virginia-based National Alliance--headed for two decades by one of the Patriot movement's intellectual godfathers, William Pierce--is growing at unprecedented levels. In recent years, Pierce has aggressively used the internet and the airwaves to bring in hundreds of new recruits, among them, followers of the anti-government Patriot Movement and members of the nation's armed forces. In expanding his organization, Pierce has capitalized on the Oklahoma City bombing. The government's chief suspect Timothy McVeigh is reportedly a zealous advocate of Pierce's inflammatory 1978 race war novel, THE TURNER DIARIES. The book depicts a truck bombing remarkably similar to the Oklahoma City blast. Pierce has warned of more terrorist attacks. The organization's growing influence among Patriots and the military, plus its ideological connections to the Oklahoma bombing, make it the most dangerous hate group operating in North America today. .... Pierce's long-range goal is to ignite a worldwide race war and establish an Aryan utopia in North America--a fascist society free of Jews, blacks, other racial minorities, and most important, the "traitors" to the white race so openly hated by Pierce and his neo-Nazi followers. As his organization and influence grow, Pierce has made his objectives clear. "We are in a war for the survival of our race...that ultimately we cannot win...except by killing our enemies." William Pierce, fascist Pierce is the ultimate fascist---a neo-Nazi's neo-Nazi who has described Adolf Hitler as the "greatest man of our era." An intellectual in a movement not noted for its great thinkers, the soft-spoken, pespectacled Pierce holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Colorado. From 1962 to 1965, he was an assistant professor of physics at Oregon State University. From 1965 to 1966, he was employed as a senior research scientist by the Advanced Materials Research and Development Laboratory of United AIrcraft's Pratt and Whitney Division in Connecticut. Like many racist intellectuals of his era, the Atlanta-born Pierce began his sojourn into the extremist right as a member of the JOhn Birch Society. In 1966 he abandoned his job and the Birchers for full time neo-Nazi activism, apprenticing under Ameica's then most notorious neo-Nazi, George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party. Pierce soon became one of ROckwell's most trusted lieutenants. After ROckwell's assassination in 1967, Pierce quickly rose to the top of the organization. By the early 1970s, he was leading a neo-Nazi splinter group--the National YOuth Alliance--that became today's National Allliance. In 1985, Pierce moved National Alliance headquarters from the Washington, D.C., suburb of Arlington, Virginia, to a 265 adcre site in rural Pocahontas COunty, West VIrginia. He said he wanted to escape constant reminders that the white race was in decline and that the country had been taken over by "non-whites, race-mixers, homosexuals and feminists." Under Pierce's leadership, the National Alliance is committed not only to a racist agenda, but to a fascist one as well. In Pierce's imagined Aryan utopia, those whites who remain after all non-whites and other "enemies" are purged will not have an equal voice. "In the long run, ...we want an honest government, not one which hides behind the carefully managed illusion that tens of millions of voters are its real rulers." Pierce envisions a government "more like a holy order than like any existing secular government today." The central task of this new government "will be to reverse the racially devolutionary course of the last few milleninia and keep it reversed: a long-term eugenics program involving at least the entire populations of EUrope and AMerica." A period of "temporary unpleasantness" will precede this long-term effort to rebuild the Aryan master race. Pierce wrote in a recent report to his members. "All the homosexuals, race-mixers, and hard-case collaborators in the country who are too far gone to be re-educated can be rounded up , packed into 10,000 or so railroad cattle cars, and eventually double-timed into an abandoned coal mine in a few days time." "Modern Day Goebbels" Pierce is the white supremacist movement's undisputed master of propaganda. HIs skills have earned him a reputation as a "modern day Goebbels. Thousands of copies of the National Alliance's pamphlet, "Who Rules America," have been distributed. The tract, which claims that a Jewish cabal controls the media, the government and the world monetary system , is a staple of the group's vast propaganda machine, National Vanguard Books. Through that operation, Pierce markets his own two powerful racist novels, HUNTER, published in 1989, and his most widely known work, THE TURNER DIARIES. Pierce also sells another racist diatribe, SERPENT'S WALK, published in 1991 with Randolph D. Calverhall listed as its author. Long before its recent notoriety involving McVeigh, the National Alliance was arleady the stuff of white supremacist legend due to its connection s in the early 1980s to a violent gang of racist terrorists later known as the Order. The Order's leader RObert Mathews was a National Alliance member and a TURNER DIARIES devotee who tried to bring the book's race war scenario to life through a string of murders and robberies. Mathews died ifn a shoot-out with federal agnets in 1984, and eventually some two dozen members of his group were captured and sentenced to long prison terms. The Militia Project In the fall of 1995, Pierce turned his attention to the Patriot Movement, announcing an effort he called his "militia project." His apparent aim is to develop contact with and exert influence over the hundreds of Partriot militia organizations that today operate in all 50 states. As Pierce explained in the September 1995 issue of the National Alliance BULLETIN, a publication sent only to the organization's members: Some of the militia groups in the United States are being badly misled in the ideological realm and are in need of some Alliance input. Any member interested in working with a non-Alliance militia group should write to Dr. Pierce, detailing any past or current contacts he has with a militia group and also mentioning any opportunity of which he is aware for establishing a new contact with a militia group in his area." Recently, the National Alliance began using Patriot terminology to promote the group's materials. In the January 1996 BULLETIN, Pierce reprinted an ado touting the National Alliance's catalog as "our big book catalog for patriots, listing over 400 books, tapes, and videos which America's enemies don'w want you to see." Using the Internet A month before Pierce began his "militia project, the National Alliance began disseminating its propaganda to a global audience through a sophisticated, well-designed site on the Internet's World Wide Web. In October 1995, two months later, Pierce reported that the Alliance's Internet page was being accessed by more than 500 users each day. In 1996, he said that figure had more than tripled to an average of 1,764 users daily. The site contains a membership application form, policy and position statements, essays from the group's erratically-published, magazine, NATIONAL VANGUARD, transcripts and audio files of the National Alliance's radio show "American DIssident Voices" and articles from FREE SPEECH, a newsletter for the group's radio listeners.... "Our message can be expected to have more of an impact on someonwe who wants to see it and looks for it on the Internet than on some Joe Sixpack who finds an unrequested leaflet in his screen door or under his windshile wiper. .... Recruiting the military Another major focus of Pierce's recent recruiting drive has been the military--an effort that came to light in late 1995 during a murder investigation in North Carolina. In April 1995, National Alliance recruiter RObert HUnt, 23, rented a billboard near the main gate of the sprawling FOrt Bragg Army base in North Carolina where he served with the 82nd Airborne Division. THe billboard read: "Enough! Let's start taking back America! National Allliance!" and carried the telephone number of the group's local message line. Eight months later, in nearby Fayetteville, on the night of December 7, 1995, a black couple--Jackie Burden, 27, and Michael James, 36--were shot to death as they walked down a quiet neighborhood street. Three active duty soldiers--two of them avowed neo-Nazis assigned to Fort Bragg's 82ndAirborne--were charged with the shootings. Pfc. James Norman Burmeister, 20, of Thompson, Pa., and pvt. Malcolm Wright Jr., 21, of Lexington, Ky., were charged with two counts of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. A third soldier, Spc. Randy Lee Meadows, 21, of Mulkeytown, Ill., was charged with conspiracy to commit first degree murder. Meadows, who chauffeured the other two soldiers the night of the murder, pleaded guilty. Burmeister was convicted of murder in February and was sentenced to two concurrent life terms after the jury deadlocked between the death penalty and life imprisonment. Wright's trial was set to begin on March 31. Police searching Burmeister's off-post room after the murders found a Nazi flag and a variety of white supremacists literature, including numerous National Alliance publications and a pamphlet detailing how to join the organization. Pierce wrote in the BULLETIN that the soldiers had never "had any contact with the alliance." ...... The Gospel according to William Pierce THE TURNER DIARIES is a scurrilous piece of racist fiction that National Alliance leader William Pierce describes as a "handbook for white victory." The novel's apocalyptic tale istold by Earl Turner, an underground terrorist group called the ORDER. Through TUrner's diaries, the book offers a glimpse of Pierce's imagined future in a fascist America: "From tens of thousands of lampposts, power poles and trees...the grisly forms hang...each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, 'I betrayed my race.'" (Ch 23) The book is much revered by racist revolutionaries because its powerful message taps into their most enduring fantasy--a race war won by whites. THe novel offers a revealing glimpse of Pierce's secret self-image, a daring and romantic figure fighting to the death to save the white race from destruction. Pierce, of course, has never done any such thing. But some of his followers, such as Mathews and possibly McVeigh, have tried. McVeigh was reportedly an avid fan of the novel which he once peddled at gun shows and, prior to that, handed out to this Army buddies. Pierce recently observed that THE TURNER DIARIES had been"effective in educating and inspiring a substational portion of the people who have rad it." Nevertheless, shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing, Pierce attempted to distance himself and the book from the tragedy labeling as "total nonsense" the similarities between that bombing and one described in his novel. Pierce argued that the bomb that destroyed the MUrrah Federal Building was "a standard terrorist bomb that any knowledgeable terrorist is familiar with." DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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