The Bible of the Racist Right
The story centers around Earl Turner, a low ranking member of a group called The Organization. The Organization was a new government that seized power, “saving” society from the Jews and other minorities (The System).
The first diary entry talks about how The Organization is finally waging war against the System and that it is said that the citizens are not allowed to own firearms under the Cohen Act. This entry also enforces harmful black stereotypes, Turner writes that without guns, there has been many black groups popping up to take advantage of defenseless whites.
Continuing on, Turner recalls how they tried to take away his firearms, apparently he had 8 firearms. I don’t quite understand why anyone would need so many. Another interesting piece of detail was that the Gun Raiders weren’t encouraged to search black neighborhoods because racists were primarily the ones that owned guns. The writer is very good at making whites the victim and antagonizing minorities.
Entry one ends with new rules that were enforced in The Organization. Anyone who missed a meeting twice in a row were expelled, anyone who failed to carry out a work task was expelled, anyone who talked bad about The Organization was expelled.
The second entry talked about how the members of The Organizations lived their lives. They had little to no money and had abandoned their cars because the police was looking for them. Turner wrote about how him and his friend, Henry, who was also a part of the Organization, robbed a liquor store and how they killed others for resources and money (Ex : Berman’s Deli).
The third entry talked about how The Organization and The System were actively fighting each other and that The Organization is very hellbent on getting rid of racists.
The next entries just follow Turner’s life in The Organization, which eventually they make a move, and take over more, and more of the country. When The Organization takes over, they kill all non-whites and race traitors (those who protected or married a non-white) a day they called The Day of the Rope. The book ends with Turner carrying out a Kamikaze style mission, destroying a important System stronghold.
The book was written by William Luther Pierce, who was the leader of a Neo-Nazi, white supremacist group called The National Alliance. Pierce was a physics professor at Oregon State University and was also a follower of George Lincoln’s American Nazi Party.
Pierce was said to not be very interested in politics until his colleagues blamed much of the state of the world on Jews. As he became more interested in politics, he neglected his kids, didn’t pay attention to them unless he was beating them. He was a very abusive father. Disgusting.
The Turner Diaries are also said to be the cause of a federal building bombing by Timothy McVeigh in 1995, which killed 168 people.
[7/10 Read, The story kind of reminded me of 1984, and gave me a new perspective on the dangers of oppressing people, even if the people are not innocent and are harmful to society.]