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  Encyclopedia: William Luther Pierce
William Luther Pierce (1933–2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (ANP), founder of the white supremacist, neo-Nazi National Alliance and one of the most prominent ideologues of the white nationalist movement.
William Luther Pierce (1933–2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (additional info and facts about American Nazi Party) (ANP), founder of the National Alliance (additional info and facts about National Alliance) and one of the most prominent ideologues of the white nationalist (additional info and facts about white nationalist) movement.
Pierce was born on September 11 1933 in Atlanta, Georgia (additional info and facts about Atlanta, Georgia), and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University (additional info and facts about Rice University) in 1951.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/William-Luther-Pierce   (653 words)

  
 William Luther Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Luther Pierce (11 September 1933–23 July 2002) was an associate of the American Nazi Party (ANP), founder of the white supremacist, National Alliance and one of the most prominent ideologues of the white nationalist movement.
Pierce was born on September 11, 1933 in Atlanta, Georgia, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from Rice University in 1951.
Pierce spent his final years in relative seclusion in West Virginia, where he hosted a weekly radio show, American Dissident Voices and oversaw his publishing and record companies (Resistance Records) devoted to the promotion of his white nationalist political ideology and Cosmotheist religion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Luther_Pierce   (1269 words)

  
 Dr. William Pierce
Pierce, the author of "The Turner Diaries" and founder of the right-wing National Alliance, died Tuesday of cancer at his 400-acre compound.
Pierce's death is a "tremendous blow to the white supremacy movement, " said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino.
Pierce, who has a doctorate in physics, told The Associated Press in 1996 that he became interested in politics while he was a professor at Oregon State University and saw the government tolerating Vietnam War protesters.
www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/william_pierce.htm   (903 words)

  
 William Pierce, white supremacist: 7/25/02
Pierce's death is a "tremendous blow to the white supremacy movement," said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino.
Pierce, who had a doctorate in physics, told the Associated Press in 1996 that he became interested in politics while he was a professor at Oregon State University and saw the government tolerating Vietnam War protesters.
Pierce operated his 1,500-member group from an isolated two-building compound on remote land about 140 miles from Charleston that he bought in 1985 because longtime farmers in the area were white.
www.s-t.com /daily/07-02/07-25-02/a14lo067.htm   (652 words)

  
 FranklinPierce
Pierce was extremely against ending slavery so he prevented the petition from being debated on the floor of the House.
Pierce won and was elected the 14th president of the United States.
Pierce was the first president to recite his inaugural address from memory.
www.geocities.com /beckyok2/FranklinPierce.html   (1361 words)

  
 Tolerance.org: WHITE PRIDE WORLDWIDE: William Pierce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The purchases raised Pierce's international visibility, gave him the ability to communicate with youths far removed from his own generation, and raised the possibility of netting more than $1 million a year in the near future.
Pierce is clearly an opportunist about Skinhead music, seeing a chance to earn money and win recruits to his racist and revolutionary cause.
Pierce himself has repeatedly shown obvious scorn for Skinhead music and its "Negro roots." His own taste turns to Wagnerian operas, German marching tunes and polkas.
www.tolerance.org /news/article_hate.jsp?id=409   (223 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: William Pierce
William Pierce, the leading ideologue of America's neo-Nazi movement, who published a book that inspired the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995, has died of cancer aged 68.
Pierce rarely talked to the media, which he regarded as Jewish-dominated and therefore incapable of reporting him fairly, and he was by nature a recluse.
Pierce wrote: "Above the placard leered the horribly bloated, purplish face of a young woman, her eyes wide open and bulging, her mouth agape." He added that "many thousands" of women were hanged around the city because they had married or lived with fls, Jews or "other non-white males".
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,762592,00.html   (850 words)

  
 The Framers of the Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
William Pierce, of Georgia, spoke very little at the Constitutional Convention, but his contributions to what we know of the other delegates to the Convention are invaluable.
William Pierce My own character I shall not attempt to draw, but leave those who may chose to speculate on it, to consider it in any light that their fancy or imagination may depict.
William Samuel Johnson Dr. Johnson is a character much celebrated for his legal knowledge; he is said to be one of the first classics in America, and certainly possesses a very strong and enlightened understanding.
www.usconstitution.net /constframe.html   (4315 words)

  
 Dr. William Luther Pierce, 1933-2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Pierce, America's most famous and influential pro-White activist, writer and organizer died July 23, 2002, at about 12:00 noon of cancer at his mountaintop home in Mill Point, W.V. Pierce, leader of the National Alliance, the largest National Socialist-influenced organization in the U.S., was diagnosed with cancer near the beginning of July 2002.
Pierce made a habit of personally answering many of the letters sent to him for the rest of his life, convinced that many people could be brought to the cause of White Nationalism with such personal attention to their inquires.
Pierce's mother had lived into her eighties and most of those who knew Pierce expected him to be leading the Alliance for at least that long.
www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /index417.htm   (1844 words)

  
 Dr. William Pierce, R.I.P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Pierce, R.I.P. Dr. William Luther Pierce, R.I.P. Cattle die, kindred die, and all men must die, but there is one thing that I know which never dies; the fame of a dead man's deeds.
Dr. Pierce dedicated his life to building an organization that could survive him and be greater than the sum of all its parts, and it is our duty to him, to ourselves, to our ancestors, and to our as yet unborn descendants to carry on the struggle.
Dr. Pierce's will would be that we continue to work towards awakening and educating our people to the dangers which threaten their very existence, until one day victory is ours and our people have control of our own destiny once again.
www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /index418.htm   (1109 words)

  
 SPLCenter.org: William Pierce: A Political History
Eventually, Pierce wins control of the group, which is limited to people under 30 and focuses on activities on college and university campuses.
In the fall, Pierce is keynote speaker at a convention of the neofascist British National Party.
While pierce says membership is flat, the number of his chapters jumps by more than half, from 22 in 1997 to 35 at the end of this year.
www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=232&printable=1   (1051 words)

  
 William Pierce, Turner Diaries and National Alliance -- Extremism in America
Pierce claims that he was never a member of the ANP, but he met with Rockwell often and became the editor of the National Socialist World, a quarterly aimed at intellectuals and academics that was published by Rockwell's World Union of National Socialists.
Pierce is cognizant of the fact that the vast majority of Americans do not accept National Socialism as a viable political ideology, so he attempts to present his views in a manner palatable to an American audience, particularly middle-class professionals he wants to attract to his group.
Pierce has said that he considers the NA to be "the only serious, mature, radical right-wing organization in America," equivalent to the NPD and the BNP.
www.adl.org /learn/Ext_US/Pierce.asp   (2925 words)

  
 USA: William Leigh Pierce
He argued for the election of one house of the federal legislature by the people and one house by the states; he favored a 3-year term instead of a 7-year term in the second house.
Pierce approved of the resulting Constitution, but he found it necessary to leave in the middle of the proceedings.
Pierce's notes on the proceedings of the convention were published in the Savannah Georgian in 1828.
odur.let.rug.nl /usa.990917/B/pierce/pierce.htm   (354 words)

  
 Cosmotheism
Pierce, who is the director of National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group headquartered in West Virginia, embraces a worldview shaped by a philosophy he refers to as 'Cosmotheism.' This syncretic belief ccombines scientific evolutionary theory with racial mysticism in its construction of reality.
Pierce's conception of total change from the degraded state of present affairs to a sublime future has as its major obstacle the societal institutions which are believed to be responsible for the decline of white America.
Pierce's apparent advocacy of a new strategy for insurrection, that of the small propaganda-utilizing cadre, would seem tailor-made for contemporary times when the far right's activities are being increasingly scrutinized by law enforcement organizations.
www.alphalink.com.au /~radnat/usanazis/cosmotheism.html   (6207 words)

  
 The Power of Truth: William Pierce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Pierce was a tall, rangy, powerful man, more physically fit at nearly seventy than he had been at fifty.
It was in his fifties that he took on the tasks of an almost pioneer-style existence in his mountain aerie, the beauty of which was one of his greatest inspirations and where, sadly, the unworthy now stammer and feed.
William Pierce knew that we are made of the same stuff as the Earth and the stars, and that the souls of the men and women of our race are in some sense the soul of Life and of the Universe itself.
nationalvanguard.org /story.php?id=6074   (2446 words)

  
 William Pierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Pierce was the name of the following men:
William Pierce (politician) (1740–1789), a Continental Congressman from Georgia.
William Luther Pierce (1933–2002), a white supremacist associated with the American Nazi Party and founder of the National Alliance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Pierce   (139 words)

  
 National Alliance -- Extremism in America
At the same time, Pierce was formulating a philosophy that became the basis of what he called "Cosmotheism," a racist religion that stresses the superiority of the white race and the unity of the white race with nature.
Pierce's strict enforcement of these rules has helped the National Alliance conduct its activities with little of the internal politics and strife that have sapped the strength of other hate organizations.
Pierce clearly wants to reach out to every segment of the white population both in Europe and the United States, and he has the means to do so.
www.adl.org /learn/ext_us/N_Alliance.asp   (3494 words)

  
 White supremacist William Pierce, author of `The Turner Diaries,' dies at age 68   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Pierce's novel, published in 1978, depicts a violent overthrow of the government by a small band of white supremacists who finance themselves through counterfeiting and bank robbery.
"William Pierce was by far the most dangerous and effective American extremist and racist in recent memory," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organization based in Los Angeles.
Pierce has said the center raised $10 million with a funding appeal that presented the case as a chance to bankrupt the 1,500-member National Alliance.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/07/23/obituary1845EDT0839.DTL&type=printable   (661 words)

  
 [Deathwatch] William Pierce, Neo-Nazi Leader, 68   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Neo-Nazi leader Pierce dead at 68 July 24, 2002 Posted: 2:01 AM EDT (0601 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/07/23/obit.pierce/index.html HILLSBORO, West Virginia (CNN) -- William Pierce, the neo-Nazi whose novel "The Turner Diaries" inspired Timothy McVeigh to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building, died Tuesday at age 68.
Pierce died Tuesday afternoon of kidney and liver cancer, a source close to him told CNN.
Pierce, native of Portland, Oregon, earned a doctorate in physics and later taught at Oregon State University.
slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2002-July/000189.html   (283 words)

  
 Pied Piper from Hell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Pierce, the West-Virginia-based proprietor of various Internet, music and publishing operations, had been an associate of George Lincoln Rockwell, who had proclaimed himself the "American Fuhrer" during the Sixties.
In 1982, Pierce established what he termed the Cosmotheist Church, which had its tax-exemption yanked by the Internal Revenue Service after it was adjudged to be a sham for atheism.
Pierce had lately taken up the publication of "fl metal" music, which he acquired from George Burdi, a Satan-worshiper who also professed devotion to Hitler, but who shifted to promoting miscegenation and who moved in with his East Indian concubine.
www.nationalist.org /news/releases/2002/pied.html   (1236 words)

  
 Ding dong, William Pierce is dead! : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Luther Pierce, an ascetic physics professor who built an organization of young supporters for George Wallace for president into the nation's largest neo-Nazi group, and whose novel "The Turner Diaries" was credited by Timothy J. McVeigh with inspiring the Oklahoma City bombing, died yesterday.
Four weeks ago, Dr. Pierce, as he preferred to be called, learned that he had terminal cancer and began preparing for others to continue the work of his organization, the National Alliance, said Kevin Strom, editor of its magazine, The National Vanguard.
Dr. Pierce was a tenured professor at Oregon State University in 1965 when he grew concerned about the success of the civil rights movement and the rise of a counterculture.
sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=138397   (814 words)

  
 William Pierce: His Mission -- Free Speech, September 2002
William Pierce's vision was less of what European man is than of what European man could be in the future.
William Pierce knew that for our people to achieve their potential greatness, we must regain control of our own destiny.
William Pierce knew, with more depth of understanding than any other man, that they must be removed from their position of power over us, or all is lost.
www.natall.com /free-speech/fs0209a.html   (2203 words)

  
 Delegates to the Constitutional Convention: Georgia
William remained behind, helping to settle his father's affairs, until 1776 when he joined his family near Wrightsboro, Ga. About this time, he won admittance to the bar, based on earlier informal study, and set up practice in Augusta.
William Houstoun was the son of Sir Patrick Houstoun, a member of the council under the royal government of Georgia.
With the onset of war, many remained loyal to the crown, but William, a zealous advocate of colonists' rights, was among the first to counsel resistance to British aggression.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/marrygeorgia.html   (1506 words)

  
 William Pierce Rogers, Government Official & Lieutenant Commander, United States Navy
William P. Rogers, a suave and well-connected Republican lawyer who was secretary of state under President Richard M. Nixon and attorney general in the Eisenhower administration, died on Tuesday (January 2, 2001) in Bethesda, Maryland.
William Pierce Rogers was born on June 23, 1913, in Norfolk in upstate New York.
William Pierce Rogers was born in Norfolk, New York, on June 23, 1913.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /wprogers.htm   (4100 words)

  
 Supremacist was a father his sons never got to know
When he reached West Virginia for the funeral, Kelvin Pierce was taken to his father's trailer, shown the rickety signature on a will that left everything to a white supremacist group, then invited to take any personal effects he wished.
William Luther Pierce, who died July 23, was a physicist who in the early 1960s abruptly left his teaching job at Oregon State University, moved eastward and became a disciple of American Nazi leader George Lincoln Rockwell.
Patricia Pierce shielded the boys from their father's politics and lived in fear her husband's growing notoriety would cost her the teaching job that fed her family.
www.rickross.com /reference/alliance/alliance18.html   (685 words)

  
 Cult News.com: William Pierce’s hate consumed his life
Pierce accumulated a considerable estate including land and other assets, but left everything to the “National Alliance,” the hate group he founded.
Pierce was once a college professor, but his career was the first casualty of his hatred, which later also consumed his family life.
Pierce may have fantasized about some supposed historical significance, but in the end his family will likely represent his most enduring legacy.
www.cultnews.com /archives/000395.html   (310 words)

  
 University of Delaware: PIERCE FAMILY PAPERS
The Pierce Family Papers includes letters written by George Kirke Pierce and Enos William Pierce to their parents, Elias and Sarah A. Pierce; their sister, Marey Jane Pierce; and their brother, Ezra Pierce.
Other items in the collection include one letter from a cousin, William H. Pierce, who was a member of the First Delaware Battery stationed at Portsmouth, Virginia; a marriage certificate for Elias and Sarah Pierce; two photographs of George and Enos Pierce; and biographical information about the Pierce family.
This thesis used the Pierce letters and various military records to trace the movements and activities of the 97th Pennsylvania Volunteers, as well as detail the history of the regiment.
www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/findaids/piercefa.htm   (1334 words)

  
 William L. Pierce and The Turner Diaries
, a novel written and published in 1978 by William Pierce, leader of the neo-nazi National Alliance, under the pseudonym "Andrew Macdonald," is a fictional account of the activities of a racist, anti-Semitic underground which, through a series of violent acts during the 1990s, gains power in the U.S. and eventually the world.
Author Pierce, who holds a Ph.D. in physics and is a former college instructor in Oregon, has long held racist and anti-Semitic views.
Pierce also heads a pseudo-religious entity, the anti-Semitic "Cosmotheist Church" in West Virginia.
www.nizkor.org /hweb/orgs/american/adl/paranoia-as-patriotism/william-pierce.html   (359 words)

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