What
Was William Pierce Doing in the Last Years of His Life?
“It’s
still three hours until first light, and all systems are ‘go.’
I’ll use the time to write a few pages- my last diary entry. Then
it’s a one-way trip to the Pentagon for me. The warhead is strapped
into the front seat of the old Stearman and rigged to detonate either
on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat.”
With this,
William Luther Pierce ends the book “The Turner Diaries,” with
the narrator flying a suicide mission into the Pentagon. Sound familiar?
It should. Whether Pierce and his neo-Nazi brethren were involved with
9/11 or not is still unclear. However, it should be noted that it must
have been a great birthday present for Pierce who was born on September
11th, 1933.
Writing
in 1978 under the pseudonym Andrew McDonald, Pierce accurately foretold
future terrorist attacks on America, including Timothy McVeigh’s
truck bombing of the Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. McVeigh
was a big fan of Pierce and had a copy of “The Turner Diaries”
in his possession when he was captured.
It was exactly
three months before 9/11, when McVeigh was executed by lethal injection.
That must have been a momentus day for William Pierce. He and his die-hard
followers must have been furious and ready to wage war. Pierce must have
believed that McVeigh’s execution was a direct attack against his
neo-Nazi movement by a government he detested. He would have surely thought
it was an act that needed to be answered.
It was William
Pierce who said in regard to Arab extremists, “We have a common cause:
getting the U.S. government off the back of the rest of the world and
getting the Jews off the back of the U.S. government. There is ground
for joint action.”
Pierce died
in 2002. His last years were very active ones. He attended a neo-Nazi
convention in Germany in 1999, a period in which Mohammed Atta’s
Hamburg Cell was active. Pierce made a number of trips to Germany during
that period, obsessed with the idea that it was necessary for hate groups
to collaborate across national borders.
What else
do we know about William’s Pierce’s movements prior to 9/11?
Aaron
Dahl
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