Members of the Klan and other hate groups have long considered Pierce an elder
statesman. As noted previously, his novels are wildly popular and highly regarded by other
white supremacists. Pierce and other members of his organization have addressed
Klan rallies and other hate fests -- further evidence of their stature in the
extremist world.
A Source of Hate-Filled Propaganda
A 1998 flyer from the Minnesota-based National Socialist Movement, an organization that
advocates armed struggle to defend the white race against "the common enemy"
(including the Federal Government, Blacks, Jews, liberals, and gay people) used a
quote by William Pierce as a call to action for the coming "revolution"
they want to stage: "While it is the time to be 'legal' we must stolidly endure
whatever the State sees fit to inflict upon us. And when it comes time to revolt, we must
be prepared to unleash all the furies of hell on the state until it yields."
The NSV Report, published by the National Socialist Vanguard, a virulently
anti-Semitic, racist, anti-government, neo-Nazi group, reported that Will Williams,
formerly the NA's regional coordinator in North Carolina, spoke at an annual gathering of
Aryan Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Virginia in September 1995. In 1996,
members of the National Alliance showed up to support a rally held by the Greensboro,
North Carolina, chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a
"grass-roots" organization that is against "big government" and
increased immigration and whose agenda includes "restoring moral values and the
traditional family according to [the country's] Christian heritage." NA
members from Florida also reportedly appeared at the second annual "White
Christmas" in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1997. The event, sponsored by the
Florida-based Knights of the White Kamelia and attended by various Klan and neo-Nazi
groups, is a rally celebrating "white pride."
Pierce's propaganda also appears to have inspired members of other extremist
groups to join the National Alliance, and to convince their former associates to
sign up as well. Several former members of the North Carolina Confederate Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan, which later evolved into the now-defunct violent paramilitary group the
White Patriot Party, are currently members of the National Alliance. At least two of these
former Klansmen currently act as NA leaders or "coordinators" in their
respective states, in charge of recruitment and other activities.
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