[mobglob-discuss] William Pierce Dead.

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Note by Hunterbear:

This was a major figure in raw American Hate. His organization, National
Alliance, is  now the leading hate mongering outfit in the United States --
with a very wide range of targets: especially all racial and ethnic
minorities of color, Jews, and very much gays and lesbians.  And
"foreigners." And "Reds."  National Alliance has been trying hard and
consistently to build itself into a national force.  And here in Idaho, as
I've noted on other occasions, it's vigorously attempting to fill the void
being left by the older faction-ridden and lawsuit-targeted outfits:  e.g.,
Aryan Nations and Identity.  It's been active right here in the general
Pocatello region -- and we are among a goodly number of people who are
actively combating it.

Racism and the whole sweep of Anti-People Bigotry  have deep and twisted
roots and headwaters. The death of a leader such as Pierce, while certainly
a setback to the sinister operations of hate organizations [ and possibly
something that will open the door to power struggles], obviously isn't going
to drive the wooden stake into these deeply rooted and pervasive virulent
sicknesses.

The old Southern Klans developed and functioned [and a few survivors still
do] in the context of  the traditionally closed South and its open,
widespread poverty  -- with the poverty-stricken poor Whites being cunningly
and consistently manipulated in anti-union and racist schemes by the
economic Big Mules, the "Captains." The primary basis for the old Klans
was/is economic.

These far more complex and increasingly sophisticated   contemporary hate
organizations [again, National Alliance, the Nationalist Movement, Aryan
Nations, The Order, Identity Church, modern Klan, skinheads, etc. et al. ]
reflect in virulent fashion -- via their own incredibly sick and twisted
perspective -- the great maelstrom of forces in which modern Humanity is
enmeshed.

But, when you cut down -- through it all -- right to their ultra-poisonous
bone, you find, again, the same very basic components:  racism,
anti-Semitism, and the other anti-people isms. And you find violence.  And
you also find, as the ultimate foundational component, very substantial
economic fears and insecurities.

While all of these pose substantial threats and dangers, the one category
now most open to racist/violent recruitment -- and this has been true for at
least this past generation -- has been economically precarious, disaffected
and alienated White youth:  Racist skinhead material.  And, again, this very
much
goes back to economic fear and great insecurity and, certainly in this
present era, deepening economic recession and rapidly mounting unemployment.

Approaches?  Widespread exposure and multi-faceted education  -- certainly.
Arrest and prosecution for hate crimes -- for sure.  But, far more
basically, ethnically integrated grassroots socio/economic justice and
advocacy organizations,  militant and pervasive unionization, widespread
public works programs and other shorter-term approaches -- and, most
fundamentally of all, a socialist society organized  to ensure a full
measure of bread and butter and a full measure of respect and liberty for
every human,
everywhere.


Hunter Gray  [Hunterbear]
www.hunterbear.org (strawberry socialism)
Protected by Na´shdo´i´ba´i´


White supremacist William Pierce, author of `The Turner Diaries,' dies at
age 68
Associated Press / SFGate

ALLISON BARKER, Associated Press Writer
Tuesday, July 23, 2002
©2002 Associated Press

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(07-23) 16:49 PDT CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) --

White supremacist leader William Pierce, whose book "The Turner Diaries" is
believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, died
Tuesday. He was 68.

Pierce died at his compound near Hillsboro, about 140 miles northeast of
Charleston, said his business manager, Bob DeMarias. He became ill about
three weeks ago from cancer, though he was never diagnosed, DeMarias said.

The medical examiner is expected to release a report on the cause of death
Wednesday, State Police Maj. B. D. Gore said.

Pierce's novel, published in 1978, depicts a violent overthrow of the
government by a small band of white supremacists who finance themselves
through counterfeiting and bank robbery.

One chapter, titled the "Day of the Rope," describes white corpses hung from
every street corner with placards reading, "I defiled my race."

FBI investigators have said McVeigh was a fan of Pierce's book and used it
as a blueprint for bombing the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. The
book includes a truck-bombing of FBI headquarters.

The Oklahoma City bombing wasn't the first violence that federal prosecutors
linked to "The Turner Diaries."

In 1985, 10 members of a supremacist group called The Order were convicted
of racketeering and other charges in Seattle. Among the crimes they were
accused of were armored-car robberies and the 1984 machine-gun slaying of
Jewish radio talk show host Alan Berg.

One witness testified that a defendant told him, "You should read it,
partner, it's all there. Everything that's going to happen is in 'The Turner
Diaries."'

Pierce led his group, National Alliance, from a two-story steel building on
400 acres deep in the Appalachians, about four hours southwest of
Washington.

"William Pierce was by far the most dangerous and effective American
extremist and racist in recent memory," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate
dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights
organization based in Los Angeles.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, estimated the
group makes more than $1 million a year, mainly through sales of white power
music and supremacist or neo-Nazi literature.

"This is the major hate group in the United States. It's the most organized,
the best run and the wealthiest," said Mark Potok, editor of the center's
intelligence report on hate groups.

The law center in 1995 won an $85,000 civil judgment against Pierce in a
case involving property he received from the neo-Nazi Church of the Creator.
Pierce has said the center raised $10 million with a funding appeal that
presented the case as a chance to bankrupt the 1,500-member National
Alliance.

Recently, Pierce began using the Internet to promote his recording label,
Resistance Records -- "The soundtrack for white revolution."

In an interview last July, Pierce, a former physics professor, said his
"long-term goal is to be the biggest distributor and producer of resistance
music in the world. We may be there now."

The Anti-Defamation League estimated last year that Resistance Records
received about 50 orders a day, with each order averaging $70. The league
won't say how it comes by its information, but Pierce had said the figures
were "not too far off." That would make gross revenues about $1.27 million a
year.

Potok said the National Alliance has experts in computers, Web site design,
video game technology, short-wave broadcasting and video production.

DeMarias said the group would continue to operate "as it did before." He
said Pierce left instructions to his associates about how to continue the
group's operations.

Pierce's death is a significant development because the group has no clear
heir, Potok said.

"It seems quite likely that the group will be led essentially by committee
in the coming months," Potok said. "The problem for this group is that it is
a group that is built around a single man, William Pierce."

The group said Pierce was not married and did not have children, but he was
survived by unspecified family members.

©2002 Associated Press




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