re: #105 bratwurst

Ever heard of the Turner Diaries? Tim McVeigh did.

Glad you brought that up.

The Turner Diaries

The Turner Diaries is a novel written in 1978 by William Luther Pierce (former leader of the white Nationalist organization National Alliance) under the pseudonym “Andrew Macdonald”. The Turner Diaries depicts a violent revolution in the United States which leads to the overthrow of the United States federal government, nuclear war, and, ultimately, to the extermination of all Jews and non-whites, leaving an all-white world population of fifty million. The book was called “explicitly racist and anti-Semitic” by the New York Times and has been labeled the “bible of the racist right” by the FBI.

The novel has been associated with a number of real-life violent crimes. Most notably, some have suggested that a scene depicting preparation for the bombing of the FBI national headquarters served as the inspiration for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 by Timothy McVeigh, who had promoted the book.

Of course the ideologues Jonah Goldberg and Andrew Breitbart would probably say that it’s a “left wing” book.