and the inspiration for his attack was a book that s been called the bible of american white supremacists. it gave birth to a little known armed white rebellion that continues to this day. this is cold-blooded murder, any way you put it. to understand oklahoma city and today s violence in el paso. and all of the bloodshed that came before it. contact, shots fired, shots fired! we need to understand mcveigh s favorite book. it s called the turner diaries. nationalism really is the wave of the future. it was written in the 1970s by william pierce. i did admire many things hitler wrote. he was a one-time physics professor who became a leading figure in the white supremacist movement. villainous, traitorous!
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 turner diaries while he was in the army. when he first got it, he read it constantly, for three or four weeks. he kept wanting me to read it, you got to reit this book, you got to read this book. after mcveigh left the military, he radicalized even more, getting involved with a militia in michigan. he met with white supremacists across the nation while on the gun show circuit. where he also sold his favorite book. it just arrived today. he was outraged by waco. somebody told me a lot of people would be scared. which he visited in person during the standoff. the fiery inferno there drove him to action.
in the 1960s, pierce saw his cause under threat. 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. and white supremacists were divided. white revolution! among competing ideologies. pierce wrote the turner diaries hoping to unite the movement behind a story. pierce knew fiction would be more powerful than facts.
our founding. but, yes. it s getting worse. far right researchers working for the government have been defunded. we ve lost programs that have focused on domestic extremism. in fact, this is actually tied to trans national terrorism. since the 80s and 90s these groups have been tied overseas as far as financial networks and distribution networks for propaganda. this is something we need to be looking at. how are these shootings perceived in the white nationalist community? when you think, un, they re in body armor, writing manifestos. do white nationalists look at these murderers as heroes? they do. they look at them as martyrs in some cases. this is something they read about in fiction books that float around their movement, books like the turner diaries or might is right like the shooter referenced. you know, this is a problem. and they see this as disruption. this is a race war in their eyes. this is not just isolated attacks that they want to do. this is leading up to a r
fears about immigration. its own citizens that it needs whether our forebears were to be destroyed. strangers who crossed the atlantic, pacific, rio grande, holy cow. we are here because this country welcomed them in. on april 19, 1995, the two-year anniversary of waco, mcveigh carried out what he considered to be his masterpiece. throughout the history of this country, immigration has reinvigorated the united states. but it has also awakened the darkest american impulses. one little remembered chapter holds a frightening reminder of where those impulses can lead. the attack was eerily similar to earl turner s attack on the fbi ellis island, 100 years ago. in the turner diaries. it was the same kind of target, immigrants were pouring into the 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. country, at times 100,000 a his white supremacist hero. when he was arrested a few days after the bombi