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                                Terrorism: The Rite Of The Antichrist

                                                       The books The Turner Diaries
                                                       and Hunter, written by William
                                                       Pierce under the pen name
                                                       Andrew Macdonald, one of the
                                                       leaders of the National Alliance,
                                                       are important sources of inspira-
                                                       tion for racists around the world.
                                                       The Turner Diaries describes
                                                       how a lone racist bombs the FBI
                                                       headquarters. The hero of Hunter
                                                       kills Jews and members of other
                                                       minorities.


            phlet A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution by the French Nationalist
            Socialist Movement, which took those books as its theoretical basis,
            contains all the information a neo-Nazi would require. The pamphlet is

            a detailed, practical terrorist handbook, divided into such chapter
            headings as  Methods of Covert Direct Action, Escape and Evasion,
            Assasination, Terror Bombing, Sabotage, Racial War, How To Create A
            Revolutionary Situation, and Rules of Engagement – Regulations
            Concerning the Conduct of Soldiers of the Aryan Liberation Army.  27
                 Even if they do not play an active role within these groups, many
            people nevertheless support fascism and are influenced by these

            books. The Turner Diaries, for instance, describe how one underground
            group organized against the state and what kind of activities it en-
            gaged in. In his defense, a man by the name of John William King, who
            killed a Black man named James Byrd Jr. in 1998 by tying him and drag-
            ging him behind his pick-up truck, was reported to having said, "We're
            going to start The Turner Diaries early." 28
                 Following the 1993 Oklahoma bombing by Timothy McVeigh, atten-
            tion turned to William Pierce's book Hunter, in which Pierce described the
            actions of a bomber who acted alone. The hero of the book was not sup-

            ported by any group or organization, but consciously carried out a terror-
            ist attack single-handedly, just as Timothy McVeigh did.  29
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