Like other hate groups today, the National Alliance uses the Internet to showcase its
racist and neo-Nazi ideology. Pierce, who has a doctorate in physics, was quick to
understand the potential power of the Internet and to take aggressive steps to incorporate
it into the National Alliance propaganda arsenal. The organization relies on the
Internet as a tool for recruitment and for broad, inexpensive dissemination of its
hate-filled ideas.
The NA maintains one of the most technically sophisticated hate sites on the
World Wide Web. Constantly updated, the site effectively uses the idea of
"Internet radio." The NA's weekly half-hour American Dissident Voices (ADV)
radio broadcasts -- transmitted over nine AM or FM radio stations and on shortwave radio
via WRNO (based in Metairie, Louisiana) -- appear on the group's Web site on the day of
the broadcast. They then stay in the Web site's program archives for several months, ready
to be listened to at any time, anywhere in the world. The user simply needs to click a
mouse to listen to the violent, hate-filled fantasies of William Pierce, and the venom he
aims at Blacks, Jews, and other minorities.
In a May 1998 broadcast, Pierce accused Russian Jewish immigrants in the United States
of belonging to a global criminal network called "Organizatsiya," a Russian word
meaning "the organization." He railed, ". . .These Jews from the former
Soviet Union are far more predatory than the Mafia ever was. They suck far more blood from
law-abiding Americans." In another broadcast, in July 1998, Pierce asked, "What
can we do to free ourselves from the Jews? What can we do to break their death grip on our
mass media of news and entertainment and on our political system? How can we bring about
an end to their racket of using us to extort money from the rest of the world for
them?"
In an effort to disseminate this type of virulent propaganda to sympathetic extremists
abroad, the NA has recently made the texts of selected ADV broadcasts
available in Swedish on the organization's Web site.
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