Pierce made a lot of sense, if one ignored the politically incorrect hyperbole in his writings. It is ironic that Pierce died on the day Zionist War Criminal Ariel Sharon described destroying an apartment building full of civilians with a missile as "...in my view one of our biggest successes." ----- CHARLESTON, W.Va. (July 23, 2002 6:52 p.m. EDT) - White supremacist leader William Pierce, whose book "The Turner Diaries" is believed to have inspired Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, died Tuesday of cancer. He was 68. Pierce died at his compound in Mill Point, said his business manager, Bob DeMarias. He became ill about three weeks ago and his kidneys failed, DeMarias said. The novel, which some have called a grisly blueprint for a bloody race war, includes a chapter titled "Day of the Rope." It describes white corpses hung from every street corner with placards reading, "I defiled my race." FBI investigators 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," which was published in 1978. 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, the National Alliance, from a two-story steel building on 400 acres deep in the Appalachians four hours southwest of Washington. 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. [The Southern Poverty Law Center was revealed in "Harpers" to be little more than a group of money-grubbing Bible thumpers using racial animus as a theme to solicit donations. Harper's Magazine November, 2000 The Church of Morris Dees How the Southern Poverty Law Center profits from intolerance by Ken Silverstein http://www.politechbot.com/p-03500.html emc] "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. 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 he hoped 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." 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. The problem for this group is that it is a group that is built around a single man, William Pierce." -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"