The Turner Diaries

Author	William Luther Pierce
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher
Released	1978

The Turner Diaries is a 1978 novel by Dr. William Luther Pierce (under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald), the late leader of the National Alliance, a white separatist organization. The novel depicts a violent racist revolutionary struggle in the United States that escalates into global genocide, leading to the extermination of all people who are not white.[1] For novelist Pierce, this was not a dystopian outcome, but rather the fulfillment of his "dream of a White world". Image File history File links Tdcover. ... William Luther Pierce III[1] (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the founder of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... A novel (from French nouvelle Italian novella, new) is an extended, generally fictional narrative in prose. ... William Luther Pierce III[1] (September 11, 1933 – July 23, 2002) was the founder of the white separatist National Alliance organization, and a principal ideologue of the white nationalist movement. ... This article refers to the United States-based organization. ... Racial segregation is a kind of formalized or institutionalized discrimination on the basis of race, characterized by the races separation from each other. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Look up Genocide in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Left panel (The Earthly Paradise, Garden of Eden), from Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights. ...

The novel was initially only available through mail order and at gun shows, and partially serialized in National Alliance publications. Sales figures as high as 500,000 have been claimed. The novel is now available for sale through mainstream book sources (ISBN 1-56980-086-3), or freely available from white supremacist websites. Mail order is a term which describes the buying of goods or services by mail delivery. ... A gun show is a form of exhibition or gathering where guns, gun parts and literature, as well as knives and miscellaneous collectibles are displayed, bought, sold (subject to regulations) and discussed. ...

According to the book description accompanying the 1996 edition published by Barricade Books, the United States Department of Justice considers the novel to be a manifesto for far right militia groups, while the Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that it served as inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. DOJ headquarters in Washington, D.C. Justice Department redirects here. ... A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ... The concept of the militia in the United States of America is a complex one. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... The Oklahoma City bombing was a terrorist attack on April 19, 1995, in which the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, a U.S. government office complex in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was destroyed, killing 168 people. ...

Plot summary

The narrative starts with a foreword set in the year 2099, one hundred years after most, if not all, of the non-whites in the world have been killed and a white supremacist revolutionary world government has been established. The bulk of the book then quotes a recently discovered diary of a man named Earl Turner, an active member of the movement that caused these events. The book details a violent overthrow of the United States federal government by Turner and his comrades and a brutal contemporaneous race war that takes place first in North America, and then the rest of the world. White supremacy is a racist ideology which holds the belief that white people are superior to other races. ... It has been suggested that World Federation be merged into this article or section. ... Race war is a slang term referring to developing hostilities between ethnic groups divided on the basis of race. ...

The story starts soon after the US federal government has confiscated all civilian firearms in the US under the "Cohen Act", and the "Organization" of which Turner and his cohorts are members "go underground" to launch a guerrilla war against the "System", which is depicted as the totality of the government, media, and economy that is under "Jewish control" (which equates, in the book, with support of multiculturalism). The Organization starts with acts such as the bombing of FBI headquarters and continues to prosecute an ongoing, low level campaign of terrorism, assassination and economic sabotage throughout the United States. Turner's exploits lead to his initiation into the "Order", a quasi-religious inner cadre that directs the Organization and whose existence remains secret to both the System and ordinary Organization members. The government of the United States, established by the United States Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states, a few territories and some protectorates. ... Look up guerrilla in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Zionist Occupation (or Occupied) Government, or ZOG, is an accusation made by antisemitic conspiracy theorists that a certain government is controlled by Jews. ... Terrorist redirects here. ... Assassin and Targeted killing redirect here. ... Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. ...

Eventually, the Organization seizes physical control of Southern California, including nuclear weapons at Vandenberg Air Force Base; ethnically cleanses the area of all blacks, Hispanics, and Asians; and summarily executes all Jews and "race-traitors". They then use both this base of operations and their nuclear weapons to open a wider war in which they launch nuclear strikes against New York City and Israel, initiate a nuclear exchange between the US and the Soviet Union, and plant nuclear weapons and new cells throughout North America. The diary section ends with the protagonist flying an airplane equipped with an atomic bomb on a suicide mission to destroy The Pentagon, in order to eliminate the leadership of the remaining military government before it orders an assault to retake California. The novel ends with an epilogue summarizing how the Organization continued on to conquer the rest of world and to eliminate all people of other races. Downtown Los Angeles Skyline Southern California, also colloquially referred to as SoCal, is an informal name for the megalopolis and nearby desert that occupies the southern-most quarter of the U.S. state of California. ... Vandenberg Air Force Base is a base with a spaceport, located in Santa Barbara County, California. ... Ethnic cleansing refers to various policies or practices aimed at the displacement of an ethnic group from a particular territory. ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613 Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... An Air France Boeing 777, a modern passenger jet. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). ... A military government is a form of government wherein the political power resides within the military and may either refer to a military dictatorship or to the government installed by a foreign power during belligerent occupation. ...

Major themes

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The book is graphically violent. All non-whites, which include blacks and Latinos, are viciously depicted as being sub-human and bestial. Jews are depicted as conniving and manipulative puppet-masters who control the government, media and economy. Whites who do not support the race war are described as weak "race traitors" who must be terrorized into supporting it or else killed along with the non-whites. Image File history File links Circle-question. ... African Americans, also known as Afro-Americans or black Americans, are an ethnic group in the United States of America whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Sub-Saharan and West Africa. ... Latino refers to people living in the US of Latin American nationality and their US-born descendants. ...

The book depicts the hypothetical US of the mid-1990s as being a bleak, poor, decaying and oppressive society, with an economy on the brink of collapse, a government that has become a police-state, and a society that has taken multiculturalism and liberalism to irrational extremes (all of which is cast as the result of "Jewish domination"). This hypothetical America depicted in The Turner Diaries was a perhaps fanciful future extrapolation of the circumstances of the late-1970s that the author hoped would be ripe for future revolution. A police state is a state with authority which uses the police, especially secret police, to maintain and enforce political power, even through violent or arbitrary means if necessary. ... Multiculturalism is an ideology advocating that society should consist of, or at least allow and include, distinct cultural groups, with equal status. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ...

Interestingly, despite the manifest admiration for Hitler, whom the Organization calls "The Great One", the writer seemingly saw no way for National Socialist Americans to emulate Hitler's methods - i.e., build up popular support, create a mass party and take power through democratic elections, and only then establish a racially-based dictatorship. Throughout the struggle described in the book, it is solely the anti-racist forces who are able to hold mass rallies in which blacks and whites come together, with a specific rally in Chicago described as drawing hundreds of thousands of participants. Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945, standard German pronunciation in the IPA) was the Führer (leader) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) and of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. ... This article is about Illinois largest city. ...

Even after The Organization's troops take over Los Angeles they encounter stiff resistance from masses of whites and blacks who day after day "throw stones and bottles at our troops, while chanting 'racism must go' and 'equality forever'". The Organization is neither able nor interested in organising popular support for its racist ideas. Its answer is simply to break into their opponents' homes in the middle of a single night, drag them out in their tens of thousands and hang them on lampposts, by which means Los Angeles is at last "pacified" . Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ...

This "Day of the Rope," which the book graphically describes, also includes the seizing of thousands of white women who had sex with black men or were married to them, who are also summarily hanged on lampposts with signs reading "I defiled my race" attached to their bodies. (Strange as it may seem, in this respect "The Organization" is several steps in racist savagery ahead of the Nazi practice. While the infamous Nuremberg Laws forbade sexual intercourse and marriage between "Aryans" and Jews, infringement of these laws was punishable by no more than one year's imprisonment - not by death; existing mixed marriages were not annulled; the non-Jewish wives were never molested, and their Jewish spouses, seized in 1942, were released after the protests of their wives (see Rosenstrasse protest) and most of them survived the war.) It has been suggested that Reich Citizenship Law be merged into this article or section. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... This article needs cleanup. ...

The Organization then resorts to destroying New York with a nuclear bomb so as to kill its Jewish, black, Hispanic and liberal white population, and provokes the Soviet Union into destroying most of the other American cities - so that their prepared, well-organised cadre could at last cow the remnants of the starving population into accepting a rule which (as is specifically and frankly admitted at several points in the book) these people would never have chosen of their own free will. NY redirects here. ...

The book contains a number of what would seem obvious inconsistencies. For instance, in the society described, the Feminist movement is strong and powerful (it is depicted as a decoy set up by "the Jews" in order to distract white women from their duty to have more white babies); yet it is also a society where rape is common, is committed almost openly and goes unpunished (that is, the rape of white women by black men). In some parts of the book Arabs are depicted positively as the enemies of Jewish Israel, but after the nuclear exchange which "the Organization" provoked, its members control the provision of food and shelter in ruined cities and make it dependent upon producing "the freshly cut head" of a "non-white person" - and the cut off heads of "Middle Eastern people" are accepted in this grisly "trade", as well as those of blacks. Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ) are an ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa. ...

In some parts of the book the Holocaust is denied - for example, it is asserted that Eichmann was an ordinary middle-ranking German Army officer, victimised by "the Jews" for no fault of his own. Yet Turner himself and other members of the Organization often vow to exterminate the Jews; some of the Organization's acts described in the book are directly inspired by the Nazi extermination methods, for example taking Jews and "mongrels" from Los Angeles to be executed in a canyon outside the city, obviously inspired by Babi Yar; and the diaries' supposed editor, a hundred years later, notes with satisfaction that all Jews had been exterminated though some copies of the Talmud had been preserved "to show what evil people the Jews were". Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ... Adolf Eichmann (March 19, 1906 — June 1, 1962) was a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany, and served as an Obersturmbannführer in the S.S.. He was largely responsible for the logistics of the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular Jews, which was called... Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин яр, Babyn yar; Russian: Бабий яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, first noted in historical records during the early fifteenth century but which is remembered today as the site where more than 100,000 Soviet civilians were executed by the Nazis assisted by the... The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a The Talmud (Hebrew: תלמוד) is a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history. ...

Many compare the novel to a later book written by William Pierce (again under the Macdonald pseudonym), Hunter. While The Turner Diaries portrays a classic hierarchical revolutionary movement, Hunter illustrates the concept of leaderless resistance. Hunter depicts the actions of a man, Oscar Yeager (Jaeger means "hunter" in German), obsessed with ridding society of the perceived enemies of the white race: blacks, Jews, and mixed-race couples. Yeager's actions eventually cultivate him a following, a small revolutionary cadre, which many correlate to early incarnations of The Order. Hunter is a 1984 novel written by William Luther Pierce, the late founder and chairman of the National Alliance, a white nationalist group, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. ... Leaderless resistance (or phantom cell structure) is a political resistance strategy in which small, independent groups (covert cells) challenge an established adversary such as a government. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The Order (also called the Silent Brotherhood) was a neo-Nazi organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984. ...

In the early chapters, the protagonist and his comrades are depicted as concerned mainly with the confiscation of arms under the law introduced by "Senator Cohen" - which is obviously intended to capture the support of opponents of gun control. In later chapters, however, the racist agenda of the book becomes more apparent, and the protagonist eventually gives an ironic "thanks to Senator Cohen" for having disarmed the Black population and thereby making easier their "neutralisation" and eventual imprisonment in what the book terms "holding camps" from which evidently none of them emerges alive. Upon its victory, the Organization institutes a dictatorial oligarchy, which is portrayed as being all-powerful, and of working towards "reclaiming the world for people of European ancestry" by such means as subjecting the entire continent of Asia to three whole years of bombardment by weapons of mass destruction and transforming it into "The Great Eastern Waste". At the supposed time of publication, a hundred years after the events described, preparations are made to exterminate the "mutants" who still live there after these bombardments. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Gun politics. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of living beings. ...

The "editorial notes" supposedly put in by with the diaries' publication a century later reveal that blacks were exterminated not only in America but also in the continent of Africa: "Uganda was a political subdivision of the continent of Africa during the Old Era, when that continent was inhabited by the Negro race." There is also a casual mention of a wholesale genocide of Puerto Ricans: "Puerto Rico was the Old Era name of the island of New Carolina. It is occupied now by the descendants of White refugees from radioactive areas of the southeastern United States, but before the race purges in the final days of the Great Revolution it was inhabited by a mongrel race of especially unsavory character". For other uses, see Mongrel (disambiguation). ...

The protagonist's first name "Earl" was taken from an associate of Pierce when he worked with the American Nazi Party.[2]

Quotes from the book

"What is really precious to the average American is not his freedom or his honor or the future of his race, but his pay check. He complained when the System began busing his kids to Black schools 20 years ago, but he was allowed to keep his station wagon and his fiberglass speedboat, so he didn't fight... He complained when they took away his guns five years ago, but he still had his color TV and his backyard barbeque, so he didn't fight... And he complains today when the Blacks rape his women at will and the System makes him show an identity pass to buy groceries or pick up his laundry, but he still has a full belly most of the time, so he won't fight... He hasn't an idea in his head that wasn't put there by his TV set... That, unfortunately, is our average White American..."

"About 45 seconds after the second round the third one landed on the roof of the south wing of the Capitol and exploded inside the building... We saw beautiful blossoms of flame and steel sprouting everywhere, dancing across the asphalt, thundering in the midst of splintered masonry and burning vehicles, erupting now inside and now outside the Capitol, wreaking their bloody toll in the ranks of tyranny and treason." (describing an Organization mortar attack on the US Capitol)

"These were no soft-bellied, conservative businessmen assembled for some Masonic mumbo-jumbo; no loudmouthed, beery red-necks letting off a little ritualized steam about "the goddam niggers"; no pious, frightened churchgoers whining for the guidance or protection of an anthropomorphic deity. These were real men, White men... the best my race has produced... combin[ing] fiery passion and icy discipline, deep intelligence and instant readiness for action... They are the vanguard of the coming New Era, the pioneers who will lead our race out of its present depths... And I am one with them!" (describing the Order)

"Today has been the Day of the Rope-a grim and bloody day, but an unavoidable one. Tonight,from tens of thousands of lampposts, power poles, and trees throughout this vast metropolitan area the grisly forms hang. Even the street signs at intersections have been pressed into service, and at practically every street corner I passed this evening on my way to HQ there was a dangling corpse, four at every intersection. Hanging from a single overpass only about a mile from here is a group of about 30, each with an identical placard around its neck bearing the printed legend, "I betrayed my race." Two or three of that group had been decked out in academic robes before they were strung up, and the whole batch are apparently faculty members from the nearby UCLA campus.(...) The first thing I saw in the moonlight was the placard with its legend in large, block letters: "I defiled my race." Above the placard leered the horribly bloated, purplish face of a young woman, her eyes wide open and bulging, her mouth agape. Finally I could make out the thin, vertical line of rope disappearing into the branches above. I shuddered and quickly went on my way. There are many thousands of hanging female corpses like that in this city tonight, all wearing identical placards around their necks. They are the White women who were married to or living with Blacks, with Jews, or with other non-White males. There are also a number of men wearing the l-defiled-my-race placard, but the women easily outnumber them seven or eight to one. On the other hand, about ninety per cent of the corpses with the I-betrayed-my-race placards are men, and overall the sexes seem to be roughly balanced. Those wearing the latter placards are the politicians, the lawyers, the businessmen, the TV newscasters, the newspaper reporters and editors, the judges, the teachers, the school officials, the "civic leaders," the bureaucrats, the preachers, and all the others who, for reasons of career or status or votes or whatever, helped promote or implement the System's racial program". (The Organization's treatment of Los Angeles after capturing it).

"Then, of course, came the mopping-up period, when the last of the non-White bands were hunted down and exterminated, followed by the final purge of undesirable racial elements among the remaining White population ... But it was in the year 1999, according to the chronology of the Old Era — just 110 years after the birth of The Great One (Adolf Hitler) — that the dream of a White world finally became a certainty." (from the book's epilogue)

(Some white separatists argue that the "White world" actually only refers to the White Western World, not the whole world, but nothing in the text of the book supports this assertion. In fact, a passage near the end of the book describes the systematic bombing of the entire continent of Asia with Weapons of Mass Destruction, with the express purpose of rendering it lifeless.) US soldier loading a M224 60-mm mortar. ... United States Capitol The United States Capitol is the building which serves as home for the legislative branch of the United States government. ... Hitler redirects here. ... Racial segregation is a kind of formalized or institutionalized discrimination on the basis of race, characterized by the races separation from each other. ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... Weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a term used to describe a munition with the capacity to indiscriminately kill large numbers of living beings. ...

Actions allegedly inspired by the book

To date, a number of actions are alleged to have been inspired by the novel:

• At the time of his arrest, Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted for the Oklahoma City bombing, had a copy of The Turner Diaries in his possession. McVeigh's bombing was similar to the event described in the book where the fictional terrorist group blows up FBI Headquarters.
• The Order, an early 1980s white supremacist group involved in murder, robberies and counterfeiting, was named after the group in the book and motivated by the book's scenarios for a race war. The group murdered Alan Berg, a controversial and outspoken Jewish talk show host, and engaged in other acts of violence in order to hasten the race war described in the book. The Order's efforts later inspired another group, The New Order, which planned to commit similar crimes in an effort to start a race war that would lead to a violent revolution.
• John William King was convicted for dragging James Byrd, an African-American, to his death in Jasper, Texas. As King shackled Byrd's legs to the back of his truck he was reported to have said, "We're going to start the Turner Diaries early."
• Eerie similarities have been drawn between the suicide mission to bomb the Pentagon, at the end of the book, and the attack on September 11, 2001 (William Luther Pierce's Birthday) by the Islamist group Al Qaeda. It has been suggested by some^{[citation needed]} that the book only serves as a model of how a local grass-roots movement can overthrow a powerful and tyrannical central government, and that this has led to some groups that do not even agree with the white separatist/supremacist movement using it as a model or blueprint for revolution. Another similar coincidence is that the attacks on New York and Washington fall on the same day that the Organisation in the Turner Diaries carries out an assault on the city of Houston, which happens on September 11 and 12, 1992 in the book.
• A copy of The Turner Diaries was found (amidst other Neo-Nazi propaganda) in the home of Jacob Robida, who attacked a gay bar and then committed suicide in 2006.

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First and second editions

The Turner Diaries was first serialized in the mid 70's in the National Alliance's tabloid paper, Attack!. The first printing in paperback was May 1978. Pierce originally set his story in the 1980s. Its reprinting (September 1980) came in a slightly altered second edition that moved the setting forward ten years. Although subsequent printings of The Turner Diaries have featured different cover art or back cover copy, they have kept to the second edition text.

In keeping with the new 1990s time frame, events in the past are generally aged by ten years, though not always. Some examples:

• Turner's diatribe about the "long string of Marxist acts of terror 10 to 15 years ago" is changed to "20 years ago."
• Turner's lament at the success of the System's brainwashing "these past 50 years or so" remains unchanged.
• The Order's "nearly 58 years of existence" is increased to 68, making the date of its founding 1925, a reference to the SS.
• Turner's astonishment at "how many dark, kinky-haired Middle Easterners have invaded this country in the last decade" is not changed.
• The epilogue's exultation that in 1989, "exactly a century after the birth of The Great One... the dream of a White world finally became a certainty," becomes "just 110 years" after Adolf Hitler's birth.

Also to make the book fit its later date, prices are usually doubled, and sums of money are also often doubled, but not consistently. Some examples from the second chapter: SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop...

• Turner's cell is forced to go underground with only about $37 in their pockets. The second edition changes this to $70.
• A note by the future historian tells readers that in Turner's day, a dollar could buy "a half-kilo loaf of bread or about a quarter of a kilo of sugar." The second edition reads two dollars.
• Another Organization cell has $200, and helps out Turner's unit with a car and $50. In the second edition, they have $400, but still give $50.
• The price of black market gasoline doubles from $5 a gallon to $10.
• A robbery nets Turner's unit $1426, described as enough to feed them for "more than two months." This remains unchanged.

The second edition retains one major artifact of the original setting: in the first edition, dates fall on the same day of the week as their real-world 1980s dates. The later edition does not change days of the week, putting them out of sync with their 1990s dates. Another minor change is that a short passage, where Turner's lover spots his Order pendant, is moved a few pages earlier to the end of Chapter X. The first edition also featured illustrations by Dennis Nix. Later printings dropped the illustrations, used a smaller typeface, and switched from bold to italics for emphasis.

See also

• Hunter
• Serpent's Walk
• Timothy McVeigh
• Zionist Occupation Government

Hunter is a 1984 novel written by William Luther Pierce, the late founder and chairman of the National Alliance, a white nationalist group, under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. ... Timothy McVeighs mugshot April 19, 1995 Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was an American terrorist convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role in the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. ... Zionist Occupation (or Occupied) Government, or ZOG, is an accusation made by antisemitic conspiracy theorists that a certain government is controlled by Jews. ...

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