The Turner Diaries

“I read the Turner Diaries for one video. Yeah. And I've been const people have been constantly like, "Oh, you should read uh Camp of the Saints. You should read Siege." And I'm like, "I don't know if I want."”

“And I I think to to a significant standpoint, like it's more important to understand, you know, and this isn't true for everybody cuz there's some people who, you know, are scholars of this stuff and you do need to to to to do the deep reading, but if you want to understand the degree to which siege and the”

“And it's interesting like the different kind of cuz both um Pierce, the author of the Turner Diaries, and Ross, you can see broad similarities in that they are both people who advocate for an armed overthrow of the government.”

“like um if I mean on one on one end you got the Turner Diaries which is like the most vile thing you can think of and then you've got unintended consequences which is much more nuanced and then you had stuff like we're talking about now somewhere in the middle”

“We talked briefly about Mason and Siege at the start of this book. He was a student of William Pierce and Siege might best be understood as a more academic accompanying text to the Turner Diaries. Where the Diaries proposes fiction, Siege outlines in strategic depth.”

“recruit kids on the internet in 1995 like one of the guys doing that had his computer bought for him by William Pierce's National Alliance. the guy who wrote The Turner Diaries, the book which inspired Timothy McVey, which inspired Eric Harris, which inspired 79 other mass shooters.”

“Men and women who did not identify as Nazis and had never held clan membership, but who were also quite capable of reading the Turner Diaries and identifying with its message.”

“It's entirely possible he came across some of Louis Beam's writings during this time. We know for a fact that he fell in love with a book we've already talked about a lot in this series.”

“Post Estie's Park, The Turner Diaries remained one of the lynch pins of white supremacist recruitment in the US. Ads for it in magazines like Soldier of Fortune often posed the question, "What will you do if the government comes for your guns?"”

“On base, McVey continued to read far-right literature, devouring conspiracy theories about the United States and the United Nations conspiring to steal the freedoms and guns of Americans. He handed out copies of the Turner Diaries to his closest comrades.”

“While he swore he never embraced racism, McVey actively explored the racist point of view. He had already begun selling copies of the Turner Diaries at gun shows. And because of the racist content of the book, McVey wound up on a mailing list for the Ku Klux Clan.”

“But over the months that followed Waco, McVeyy's rage, the paranoia stoked by fears of fringe right-wing conspiracy theories and his love of the Turner Diaries metastasized into a plan. A plan to bomb the Mura building in Oklahoma City.”

“It included many photocopied pages of the Turner diaries. McVey had highlighted one passage in particular from a chunk of the book where Earl Turner cell carries out a mortar attack on Washington DC.”

“McVey was radicalized by a constellation of writers and thinkers, as well as hundreds of men he spoke with at gun shows and survivalist conventions and sitting outside the siege lines at Waco. He was radicalized by William Pierce, who wrote the Turner Diaries”

“He was profoundly influenced by Beam's ideas and writings and was also an obsessive fan of the Turner Diaries.”

“In creating the order, Matthews had since synthesized decades of far-right thinking with his love of the Turner Diaries into a serious plan for revolution.”

“In 9 months, Bob Matthews had turned his dreams and the theories of men like Beam and Pierce into a real revolutionary movement. He'd made the Turner diaries real. New recruits to the order were reportedly handed copies of the book”

“During the case, prosecutors specifically noted that the Turner Diaries had acted as a blueprint for Bob Matthews. According to Blood and Politics, quote, in an opening statement”

“Now, this put beam in direct opposition to William Pierce, his national alliance, and the idealized neo-Nazi insurgency he'd imagined in the Turner diaries.”

“Matthews fell in love with the Turner Diaries and the vision of a possible white revolution it provided.”

“Louis Beam and William Pierce had spent years sketching out theories and passing out propaganda. They'd been rewarded by an American fascist movement that was hundreds of times larger and more capable than anything George Lincoln Rockwell had commanded. Now it was time to take the next step forward and make the fantasies William Pierce had written down in the”

“But the next year, 1975, William Luther Pierce introduced his first truly great innovation into the annals of right-wing terror. He started publishing a book in attack, a book titled The Turner Diaries. Oh, there it is. cuz I was wondering where they'd come in there. Yeah. Published in sections across several issues of Attack, the book is presented as”

“The order funds its operations by robbing banks and armored cars, which allows them to buy weapons and explosives to carry out more attacks and gradually to tip the country into a nightmare. The book launched a number of concepts into the fascist mindset, not the least of which is the idea of the day of the rope.”

“So, uh, The Turner Diaries took off like gang busters among the American farright. It was eventually published as a book selling as many as 500,000 copies. The Turner Diaries, yeah, way too many. And it did not sell the traditional way in a Barnes & Noble.”

“He identified some similarities between Bracken's third book in the Turner Diaries. Quote, "After an earthquake demolishes Memphis, black refugees turn into a seething mob of gang rapists and cannibals. Characterizations that feature memorably in the Turner Diaries while urban blacks loot a path from Baltimore to Washington DC, where they demand and receive a new socialist constitution engineered by”

“In writing The Turner Diaries, William Pierce ignited a movement within the far right that is still very much present and relevant today. The next chapter will discuss in depth the generation of terrorists who were inspired by his words to take horrifying bloody action. Like Christian identity theology, the Turner diaries have influenced many people who may never have”

“For more than a decade, they would build a potent insurgency armed with missiles, machine guns, and bombs utterly dedicated to a single dire mission. Turning the Turner diaries into a reality. That's what we're going to talk about in the next chapter.”

“never met George Lincoln Rockwell, but the commander had a strong impact on his life nonetheless. This was thanks to a book, The Turner Diaries, written by William Luther Pierce.”

“In 1978, he published his opus, the Turner Diaries. Pierce imagined a near future world in 1991 when a new American government called the system enforced racial integration.”

“Despite its terrible plot, absurd racism, and clunky style, The Turner Diaries includes some pretty apt observances about the nature of terrorism.”

“Not surprisingly, The Turner Diaries was Robert Matthews's favorite book. It directly inspired the creation of his own The Order.”

“The Turner Diaries was Timothy McVeyy's very favorite book. Now, McVey was not an ideological racist first and foremost.”

“On the day McVey detonated his bomb, killing 168 people, he put together a manifesto in an envelope in his car and included many photocopied pages of the Turner diaries.”

“In 1994, a year before McVeyy's attack, the Aryan Republican Army carried out a series of bank robberies inspired by both Matthews Real the Order and the Order from Pierce's book.”

“There have been fatal attacks in Germany, Ukraine, and many, many more attacks in the United States by people who claim the Turner Diaries as their direct inspiration.”

“With McVey, the calculus was more complicated, the backlash more severe. Pierce took pains to say that he had never met McVey and there is no direct evidence to say otherwise.”

“No, yeah, I bring this up because it highlights an important difference between the mentalities nurtured by siege and the Turner Diaries.”

“And I think that the reason the Turner Diaries killed more people up until now is that now is the time of it. Right. Right. We Yeah.”

“The next time you hear white genocide out of the mouth of somebody trying to claim that they're like a relatively reasonable person, remind them the phrase was invented by a bank robber who got in prison for bank robbery because he joined a group that was inspired by a bad science fiction.”

“He's the guy who gave William Pierce his first newsletter and, you know, started him on the path to writing the Turner Diaries.”

“The Turner Diaries. We don't have to get super deep into it today. I'm sure it will come up in most episodes of this show, unfortunately. You know, over the last 50 years this book has inspired a lot of race warriors.”

“And Kevin Strom's first wife, Kirsten, told an interviewer years later that when she first met Pierce in 1987, she told him she'd just finished reading The Turner Diaries. You know, there she's at dinner with her husband and Dr. Pierce.”

“helped fulfill orders for books they sold. Pierce's book, obviously, The Turner Diaries and a number of other sort of white nationalist publications and books.”

“It was the day of the Oklahoma City bombing. And when he came home from work that day, on April 19th, he didn't know yet. It hadn't hit the news yet what the police found with Timothy McVeigh in the car. When he was arrested, he had his favorite passages from the Turner Diaries on the car seat next to”

“His name is in the newspaper next to William Luther Pierce and Timothy McVeigh. He's the protege of the man who wrote the book that inspired the Oklahoma City bombing. He has no real job outside of editing a Nazi magazine and ghostwriting for David Duke.”

“He became a leading figure in the American Nazi party and at the age of 41 formed the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Beginning in 1975, he published in serial form one of the most influential examples of white supremacist literature, the Turner Diaries, a novel which told the story of white nationalist revolution in the United States in the near future.”

“White nationalists have since seen the Turner diaries as both an accurate description of the modern world and as a manual on how to win a race war. From 1983 to 1984, the order, a white supremacist terrorist group that took its name from the secret circle the fictional Earl Turner joins, robbed a pornography shop, banks, and armored cars,”

“At the time it was a a Christian national white supremacy domestic terrorism thing wrapped around this thing called the Turner Diaries which was the government's coming to get you and Zog was a Zionist occupational government.”

“you know the conspiracy theories you know the turner diaries is this book written in 1978 it it introduced the the replacement theory to a lot of people”

“The Turner Diaries is a terrible vitriolic racist Nazi book. It is unreadable if you were not like studying it as an academic or a Nazi.”

“he was inspired by white supremacist writings like the turner diary he was it was very much a white supremacist act of terror and movement”