Got my hands on a copy of The Turner Diaries. I found it along with a stack of books about making homemade explosives in the back room of the bookstore I work at. Some people say Turner Diaries inspired Tim McVeigh to blow up Oklahoma City.
“Andrew Macdonalad” AKA William Luther Pierce wrote the book in 1978. It takes place in the year 2099 and read like a real-life journal belonging to a revolutionary bigot. The revolution leads to the overthrow of the United States Government, nuclear war and finally the extermination of all Jews and non-whites. Um… This shit is pretty extremist anti-Semitic racist widely influential scary literature. Several violent hate crimes have been linked to the readers of the “bible of the racist right.”
Now, I’m no Neo-Nazi and I’m CERTAINLY no extremist (I don’t care about anything). I just have enough morbid curiosity to the give Turner Diaries a run for its money.
Some of my favorite excerpts:
Henry let fly at her with a large jar of kosher pickles and scored a direct hit. She went down in a spray of pickles and broken glass.
October 6. Today I completed the detonating mechanism for the bomb we’ll use against the FBI building. The trigger mechanism itself was quite easy, but I was held up on the booster until yesterday, because I didn’t know what sort of explosives we would be using.
All in all, it has been depressingly easy for the System to deceive and manipulate the American people – whether the relatively naïve “conservatives” or the spoiled and pseudo-sophisticated “liberals.”
The hangings and the formation of the death columns went on for about 10 hours without interruption. When the troops finished their grim work early this afternoon and began returning to their barracks, the Los Angeles area was utterly and completely pacified.
November 9, 1993. It’s still three hours until first light, and all systems are “go.” I’ll use the time to write a few pages – my last diary entry. Then it’s a one-way trip to the Pentagon for me. The warhead is strapped into the front seat of the old Stearman and rigged to detonate either on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat. Hopefully, I’ll be able to manage a low-level air burst directly over the center of the Pentagon. Failing that, I’ll at least try to fly as close as I can before I’m shot down.
Uh-huh. If reading through The Turner Diaries taught me anything, it’s that racists are jerk offs who are just as much fun to laugh at as blacks and Jews. Pbbhhhhttt!
-Matthew Lee
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05.29.09 at 10:05 am
Thank goodness that 99% of the intended readership are Foxnation.com commenters who only have their 11 cats to help them build explosives & ease them out of their 400lb sorrow. SO RONERY
05.29.09 at 10:07 am
Book Review Bores
05.29.09 at 10:17 am
They only call it the neonazi bible. Cause it`s overhyped sensationalist fiction just like the real bible.
05.29.09 at 10:23 am
That’s the worst you could find, because besides the pickles being goofy your outrage is invisible.
05.29.09 at 11:37 am
I have no idea why you find any of those excerpts to be worthy of special mention. Oh boy, so what you’re telling us is that people who actually care about some personal agenda are lame. What a novel thinker you turned out to be. For the sake of extracting something worthwhile out of this garbage, I defy you or anyone else to prove that this one is some how false:
“All in all, it has been depressingly easy for the System to deceive and manipulate the American people – whether the relatively naïve “conservatives” or the spoiled and pseudo-sophisticated “liberals.”
05.29.09 at 11:41 am
Snore. Yawn.
05.29.09 at 12:22 pm
Seriously, if you are going to blow up the Pentagon with a warhead do not use a Stearman. They are really cool biplanes; use a v-tailed Bonanza – those fuckers are dangerous as shit and need to go away anyway.
05.29.09 at 1:02 pm
fag
05.29.09 at 1:06 pm
Aw, this is only my first draft! I resubmitted a better version which I hoped they would print. Oh well, fuckin chew me up and spit me out!
05.29.09 at 4:56 pm
this is absolute garbage. you should think long and hard before making a fool out of yourself. give up on the writing kid.
05.29.09 at 5:11 pm
^^ easy tiger-you don’t have to read it tough guy.
05.29.09 at 9:51 pm
yes we have no bananas, was that to me or Mr. Matthew Lee?
05.30.09 at 1:54 am
^ do you speak it motherfucker?
05.30.09 at 2:08 am
speak what???
05.30.09 at 2:26 am
I’m not sure what book you were reading but there’s tons more incendiary shit in this novel. I mean, come on- the author literally infers that African-Americans are cannibals on one section.
(I read this from my college library- it’s safe to assume that I’m now on an FBI list or three.)
05.30.09 at 3:30 am
ps. they’re totally not cannibals.
05.30.09 at 3:31 am
I thought your article was pretty good.
05.30.09 at 4:59 am
Can I borrow your copy?
05.30.09 at 2:22 pm
you can get this online. i’ll never forget the summer i read this like three times in a row, for two weeks i was either listening to talk radio in a tractor cab, reading the turner diaries, or getting drunk while watching anime. ahh, blissful memories of halcyon youth.
generally, imo, the turner diaries reminds me of a hardy boys or nancy drew novel. they seem to have their little adventures in a vaccuum, i mean.
PS
most classic segments might be the romance between the hero and his female revolutionary comrade… “I’m no woman’s libber,” and also when the hero stumbles upon her in the shower and “nature took its course”?! I wish William Pierce had published a dating advice book.
05.30.09 at 6:45 pm
“The Day of the Rope” chapter gets my vote for most classic Turner Diaries shit, come to think of it…
05.30.09 at 6:46 pm
this is total shit, you should stick to telling people you’re a ‘writer’ on your myspace page.
you could talk about your ‘writing gig’, and how you ‘write for some of the hottest sites on the inter-nuts’ (!)
radical stuff man.
and anyone with that lame shit about “you dont have to read it if you dont like it” should go watch a movie by Sandra Bullock called “The Internet” where she find out the hard way about passive aggressive wimps who cant handle public opinion about their shitty work and say things on the internet like “if you dont like it then dont read it” and she gets all up in their FACE because thats not the way it goes down on the internet these days, and boy does she learn her lesson.
05.31.09 at 7:22 pm
^DOUCHE.
06.08.09 at 8:56 pm