he had pages of the turner diaries in his car. today there are tributes to mcveigh and the turner diaries all over the internet. remember the deadly group that planned the attack on nuclear plants. authorities discovered they had explosives, radio active materials and a frame photograph of timothy mcveigh along with the copy of the uturner diaries. with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, are you okay? even when i was there, i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira can help get, and keep uc under control when other medications haven t worked well enough. and it helps people achieve control that lasts. so you can experience few or no symptoms.
of american white supremacists. it gave birth to an armed white rebellion. that continues to this day. is it cold-blooded murder any way you claim it. to understand oklahoma city and today s violence in charleston and pittsburgh. shots fired. we need to understand mcvay s favorite book. it is called the turner diaries. it was written in the 1970s by william pearce. i did admire many things that hitler wrote. he was a one time physics professor who became a leading figure in the white supremacist movement. in the 1960s, pearce saw his cause in disarray. god would die even if i want
the white supremacist mocvement i for one under god will die before i will yield one inch. for years, the all powerful ku klux klan had led the charge. threats. beatings. rapings and, of course, murder. we shall overcome then came the civil rights movement. a crushing blow to the klan. free at last. free at last. thank god almighty, we are free at last. in its wake, klan membership declined. white supremacists were divided. among competing ideologies. pierce wrote the turner diaries hoping to unite the movement behind a story.
he was outraged by waco. somebody told me people would be scared. which he visited in person during the standoff. the fiery inferno there drove him to action. he decides that this government is so dangerous to its own citizens that it needs to be destroyed. holy cow. on april 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of waco, mcveigh carried out what he considered to be his masterpiece. the attack was similar to earl turner s attack on the fbi in the turner diaries. it was the same kind of target, a federal building. a similar kind of bomb. detonated at the same time of day, just after 9:00 a.m. mcveigh had become earl turner.
the demise of the branch davidian cult battling the feds near waco, texas. you are a disgrace to the white race. brought the movement to a fever pitch. while these incidents are happening, the number of groups in the united states is skyrocketing. the number of white supremacist groups is leaping in tandem with that. among those angry young men was a gulf war veteran named timothy mcveigh. he had been very interested in the turnerdiaries while he was in the army. he read it for three or four weeks. you gotta read this book. after mcveigh left the military, he radicalized even more. getting involved with the militia in michigan. he met with white supremacists across the nation while on the gun show circuit. he also sold his favorite book. i just arrived today.