E1970 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks October 8, 1998 many of these same seniors also decide to icaid or any other federal health program, and recently released report of the Anti-Defamation skimp on drugs to treat potentially serious di- who pay an extra premium under Part B for League (ADL) entitled Explosion of Hate: The agnosed conditions, including leg swelling and Medicare drug coverage. Growing Danger of the National Alliance. This diabetes. I am introducing this bill, roughly modeled comprehensive and well-written document ad- This year, I have heard from many, many on the 1994 legislation, so that consumers, dresses the activities and proclivities of one of distraught seniors who have written to tell me pharmaceutical providers and others can study the most dangerous hate groups in America, they are going broke trying to pay for drugs the issue over the winter, comment and sug- the neo-Nazi National Alliance. their doctor told them they must take. I believe gest changes for a revised bill to be intro- The stated goal of the National Alliance is to that some will wind up in worse health when duced at the beginning of the 106th Congress. secure ``a racially clean area of the they decide to forgo or cut back on the very I am leaving the numbers for the deductible, earth . . . no non-whites in our living drugs designed to keep them clinically stable. the caps, and the premiums blank, so that space . . . a thorough rooting out of Semitic The absence of a prescription drug benefit groups can comment on what they think the and other non-Aryan values and customs ev- in Medicare that forces elderly people to skip appropriate combination of figures should be. erywhere.'' To achieve this warped end, this and skimp on drugs is inexcusable. It is time In a separate statement, I am reprinting organization of intolerance pledges ``to do for Congress to debate and enact legislation some of the literature that is available on the whatever is necessary to achieve this White that will provide all seniors who want it access cost of different prescription drug benefit plans living space and to keep it White. We will not to affordable Medicare-sponsored drug cov- at different deductible levels. Clearly, there is be deterred by the difficulty or temporary un- erage. a tradeoff between the size of the benefit and pleasantness involved.'' Indeed, the ADL re- There really aren't any good alternatives. its affordability: Striking the right balance is the port details the depths of ``temporary unpleas- Trends in employer-sponsored retiree health key to the passage of successful legislation. antness'' to which the National Alliance has There is a critical distinction between pre- coverageÐwhich has traditionally featured a sunk in its pursuit of its depraved agenda, vious proposals for Medicare drug coverage drug benefitÐshow it is eroding. A somber tracing numerous cold-blooded murders and and the legislation I am introducing today: If General Accounting Office report released last other terrorist activities to National Alliance you already have an adequate prescription members. Declared National Alliance leader summer warns that ``while an estimated 60 to drug benefit, you will not have to ``pay again'' William L. Pierce: ``We should not flinch from 70% of large employers offered retiree health in higher Part B premiums. If you have cov- this. We should not focus on the fact that it coverage during the 1980's, fewer than 40% erage, there will be no change and no new will be horrible and bloody, but on the fact that do so today, and that number is continuing to cost to you. If you do not have a prescription it is necessary, and because it is necessary it decline despite the recent period of strong drug benefit, you will face a higher Part B pre- economic growth.'' That's a polite way of mium, but if you are low income, you will get is good.'' The dramatic growth of this frighten- pointing out that the number of U.S. compa- assistance in paying for it. While it is tempting ing organization over the past several years nies offering their retirees health coverage in to say that the decision to enroll in the pre- should alarm us all. Mr. Speaker, I would like to enter into the the last decade has been dropping like a scription drug benefit could be voluntary, the RECORD selected portions of ``Explosion of stone. adverse risk selection (i.e., only sick people Hate: The Growing Danger of the National Alli- For those seniors who don'tÐand won'tÐ needing lots of costly prescriptions would be have retiree health coverage, purchasing a likely to sign up) would make the cost of pre- ance.'' I hope that my colleagues will read the supplemental policy with good drug coverage miums to those enrollees prohibitive. entire report on the ADL's web site at may soon be unaffordable. Supplemental Adding an outpatient drug benefit to Medi- www.adl.org. Medigap policies now costs on average more care is not cheap. But IF prices are set at the EXPLOSION OF HATE: THE GROWING DANGER OF than $1,200 per year, according to the Amer- ``wholesale'' level that physicians, medical THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE ican Association of Retired Persons. But suppliers and other purchasers pay, and IF all INTRODUCTION: THRIVING ON HATE Medigap policies with drug coverage can cost budgetary savings are not immediately ear- The Most Dangerous Organized Hate Group far more. The range in costs for Medigap poli- marked for tax cuts, then Medicare drug cov- A new ADL investigation reveals that the cies with drug coverage is also large: In Los erage is affordable. neo-Nazi National Alliance (NA) is the single Angeles, Bankers' Life Insurance and Casualty In the next Congress, we will have another most dangerous organized hate group in the sells a drug-Medigap policy for $6,381 at age opportunity to reshape Medicare to make it a United States today. The NA sprang to na- 65. At age 75, the same policy costs $9,174! better program. As we work to stabilize the tional attention several years ago, when it was discovered that a fictitious incident in The difficulty that seniors have in affording program's financing, we must also improve it The Turner Diaries, a violent and racist comprehensive supplemental insurance is il- for those it was created to serveÐour nation's novel written by the NA’s leader, might have lustrated by the fact that in 1994±95, a mere seniors. been used as a model for the Oklahoma City 15% of seniors purchasing a Medigap policy Without drug coverage, more and more sen- bombing. Convicted bomber Timothy had drug coverage. iors will fall through the widening cracks of a McVeigh was a devoted reader of The Dia- The hard fact is that a Medigap policy with health care system that is getting leaner and ries, which features a bombing scenario that drug coverage is not nowÐand will never meaner. is eerily reminiscent of the April 19, 1995 beÐwithin the financial reach of millions of Without drug coverage, we'll see more sen- blast. The book was also the blueprint for The Order, a revolutionary terrorist group Medicare beneficiaries, particularly the very iors who can't afford to take their medications treated in the emergency room, where health that robbed and murdered its way to fame in old, who are spending down their assets. the early 1980s. The ringleader of The Order That brings us to Medicare managed care. care costs are highest. was an organizer for the NA. Remember, one quarter of those who are en- Adding a prescription drug benefit to Medi- Now, the National Alliance has leaped to rolled today don't have any drug coverage. care along with a requirement that costs be prominence again. In the last several years, Those who do are facing ever-higher held to reasonable levels and a reasonable dozens of violent crimes, including murders, deductibles and copayments, and ever-lower rate of growth is a clear way out of this di- bombings and robberies, have been traced to annual reimbursement caps. In Massachu- lemma. It is legislation that is 33 years over- NA members or appear to have been inspired due. I hope my colleagues will join me in vig- by the groups’s propaganda. At the same setts, where state law has long required all time, the National Alliance’s membership HMOs to offer drug coverage, Medicare man- orously advocating for passage of the Medi- care Prescription Drug Coverage Act in the base has experienced dramatic growth, with aged care plans are now asserting that last its numbers more than doubling since 1992. year's Balanced Budget Act says they don't 106th Congress. The group, headquartered near Hillsboro, have to comply! f West Virginia, is led by former University of Only recently have seniors begun to under- THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE: HA- Oregon physics professor and veteran anti- Semite William L. Pierce. stand that the comprehensive drug benefit TRED AND BIGOTRY IN ITS Active Cells From Coast to Coast they were promised in glossy HMO marketing MOST FRIGHTENING FORM materials is the equivalent of a ``low introduc- With 16 active cells from coast to coast, an tory rate'' pitch made by credit card compa- HON. TOM LANTOS estimated membership of 1,000 and several nies. It's great while it lasts. But after that, you thousand additional Americans listening to OF CALIFORNIA its radio broadcasts and browsing its Inter- could be in trouble. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES net site, the National Alliance is the largest The Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage Thursday, October 8, 1998 and most active neo-Nazi organization in the Act is carefully designed to help those who nation. The group has also developed signifi- most need an outpatient drug benefitÐwho Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to cant political connections abroad. In the don't get it from a former employer, from Med- ask my colleagues to join me in studying the past three years there has been evidence of CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1971 NA activity in no fewer than 26 states across tian family backgrounds. ‘‘We are obliged to publican Army’’ took its cues from The the country. The organization has been most oppose the Christian churches and to speak Order. Authorities say the ‘‘Army,’’ led by active in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, New York, out against their doctrines,’’ read the Peter Langan, committed 22 bank robberies Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and New group’s tenets. ‘‘It is not an Aryan religion and bombings across the Midwest between Mexico. .. . like the other Semitic religions [it] is ir- 1992 and 1996 using tactics reminiscent of The National Alliance’s current strength redeemably primitive.’’ The Order. Four members of the group have and influence can be attributed to several Jews as THE Threat pleaded guilty to a variety of robbery factors; its skillful embrace of technology, While Pierce and other NA figures dehu- charges, while Langan was convicted in two its willingness to cooperate with other ex- manize both Blacks and Jews, depicting Federal trails. In a racist video discovered by tremists, its energetic recruitment and pro- them as threats to ‘‘Aryan culture’’ and ‘‘ra- the FBI, Langan praised Robert Mathews motional activities, and its vicious, but de- cial purity,’’ Jews are considered a more im- and instructed his viewers to ‘‘learn from ceptively intellectualized propaganda. mediate menance to white survival. In his Bob,’’ Federal prosecutors have also dem- A HATE-FILLED NETHERWORLD infamous essay, ‘‘Who Rules America?’’ onstrated that The Turner Diaries was re- quired reading in the Aryan Republican Learning From The Turner Diaries Pierce’s hatred of Jews turns to paranoia and conspiracy mongering, as he describes Army. Around the country, local National Alli- the United States as being in the thrall of a The New Order: Planning Violence ance leaders are responsible for ensuring malevolent Jewish-owned media. The activities of The Order have also been that their charges read Pierce’s novel, The ‘‘The Jewish control of the mass media,’’ Turner Diaries, from cover to cover. Some of cited as a role model for an alleged conspir- Pierce writes, ‘‘is the single most important acy by a group of white supremacists in East these unit coordinators have suggested that fact of life, not just in America, but in the St. Louis, Illinois. In March 1998, Federal au- they regard the novel—which depicts an world today. There is nothing—plague, fam- thorities arrested Dennis McGiffen, an Aryan Aryan world takeover—as a model for their ine, economic collapse, even nuclear war— Nations leader and former Klansman, Wal- own activities. For instance, The Turner more dangerous to the future of our people.’’ lace Weicherding, also a former Klansman, Diaries describes the protagonists’ defiance The National Alliance attempts to intel- and Robert Bock. The three were charged of the fictitious ‘‘Cohen Act,’’ a law against lectualize its racist agenda in the page of its with conspiracy to possess and make ma- private ownership of weapons. Convinced glossy magazine, the National Vanguard. chine guns. McGiffen and Bock pleaded that the government will one day confiscate The magazine, which is published irregu- guilty to the charges one month later. Wal- the weapons of all citizens as it does in The larly, glorifies Aryan civilization and racial lace Weicherding was convicted on Septem- Diaries, some NA leaders have instructed purity in articles such as ‘‘Aryans: Culture ber 1, 1998. members to keep guns and ammunition hid- Bearers to China’’ and ‘‘Miscegenation: The At the time of their indictment, an FBI den on their property. Some coordinators Morality of Death.’’ The National Van- agent testified that McGiffen had been form- guard’s highbrow tone contrasts sharply have further advised followers to acquire M– ing a group called ‘‘The New Order,’’ pat- with the cruder, poorly edited propaganda 16s and other weapons used by the U.S. terned after Robert Mathews’ terrorist gang. materials of some other extremist groups, Army, so that in the event the government The group allegedly planned to bomb the and perhaps heightens the NA’s appeal does disarm its citizens, NA members will be Anti-Defamation League’s New York head- among better-educated bigots. able to raid military bases and steal ammu- quarters, the Southern Poverty Law Center nition for their hidden guns. THE DIARIES: AN INSPIRATION in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Simon The Ideology of Hate While he wrote ‘‘The Turner Diaries’’ more Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. They had Beyond these specific tactical instructions, than two decades ago, Pierce continues to also talked of bombing state capitols and National Alliance leaders school their adher- champion its ugly vision of a world for post offices, and poisoning public water sup- ents in an ideology of hate. The NA is deter- whites only. A National Alliance radio plies with cyanide. Like other admirers of mined to secure ‘‘a racially clean area of the broadcast aired in early 1997 provides one of The Order, McGiffen’s beliefs were report- earth . . . no non-whites in our living many examples: edly heavily influenced by ‘‘The Turner Dia- In 1975, when I began writing ‘‘The Turner space ... a thorough rooting out of Semitic ries.’’ Diaries’’ . . . I wanted to take all of the and other non-Aryan values and customs ev- RACIST LINKS feminist agitators and propagandists and all erywhere. . . . We must have new societies of the race-mixing fanatics and all of the The Fort Bragg Murders throughout the white world which are based media bosses and all of the bureaucrats and Also on the East Coast, the NA has at- on Aryan values and are compatible with the politicians who were collaborating with tempted to attract members among U.S. Aryan nature.’’ The National Alliance claims them, and I wanted to put them up against a Army personnel at Fort Bragg, in Fayette- it ‘‘will do whatever is necessary to achieve wall, in batches of a thousand or so at a ville, North Carolina. A member of the elite this White living space and to keep it White. time, and machine-gun them. And I still 82nd Airborne Division, Robert Hunt, report- We will not be deterred by the difficulty or want to do that. I am convinced that one day edly worked as a recruiter for the National temporary unpleasantness involved, because we will have to do that before we can get our Alliance while stationed at Fort Bragg. In we realize that it is absolutely necessary for civilization back on track, and I look for- April 1995, according to the NA, Hunt rented our racial survival.’’ ward to the day. a billboard outside Fort Bragg and used it to Fundamental to the organization’s doc- Following its broadcast on shortwave and post an advertisement and local phone num- trine is the belief that ‘‘our world is hier- conventional radio stations, a recording of ber for the group. archical’’ and that the Aryan race is en- Pierce’s explicitly violent statement was In December 1995, a Black couple was dowed by nature with superior qualities. The featured on the NA’s Web site. gunned down near the Army base in what National Alliance laments that ‘‘nature’’ is A Racist Crime Spree prosecutors called a racially motivated kill- currently unable to take its course, because Other murderers and terrorists appear to ing. James Burmeister and Malcolm Wright, ‘‘the sickness of multiculturalism is destroy- have shared the racist fantasies Pierce members of the 82nd Airborne Division, were ing America, Britain and every other Aryan voiced in his radio address. ‘‘The Turner Dia- ultimately convicted of the murders and sen- nation in which it is being promoted.’’ ries’’ is thought to be the inspiration behind tenced to life in prison. (A third soldier, Rejecting Democracy a crime spree in the early 1980s perpetrated Randy Meadows, pleaded guilty to conspir- The group’s racist vision extends to its by a gang of extremists called The Order. acy and accessory charges.) Burmeister and views on government. The National Alliance The Order’s crimes included murders, robber- Wright were active neo-Nazi Skinheads, and decries ‘‘the growth of mass democracy,’’ in- ies, counterfeiting and the bombing of a syn- reportedly read National Alliance propa- cluding ‘‘the enfranchisement of women and agogue.’’ ganda. of non-whites,’’ and favors a government After a Seattle bank robbery in 1983, the Racist Shooting in Mississippi that will ‘‘reverse the racially devolutionary terrorist gang’s leader, Robert Mathews, told Another racial incident that can be linked course of the last few millennia and keep it an acquaintance that he had orchestrated to National Alliance propaganda occurred in reversed.’’ the heist as the opening scene in what he April 1996, when Larry Wayne Shoemake NA activists are also eager to erase the hoped would be a reenactment of Pierce’s killed one African American and injured special progress made by women in the last American Nazi revolution. Prior to The Or- seven others in Jackson, Mississippi. Police century, and believe that ‘‘feminism is a der’s formation, Mathews was a Pacific say Shoemake piled a small arsenal of weap- threat to our race.’’ ‘‘A woman’s battlefield Northwest representative of the National Al- ons into an abandoned restaurant in a pre- is the maternity ward,’’ They say, and her liance, and other founders of this terrorist dominantly Black neighborhood, and from ‘‘greatest ‘diploma’ is to give birth to the gang also traced their roots to the NA. Even his hideout began shooting wildly into the ‘superman’ or ‘superwoman’ ’’ the group’s name, ‘‘The Order’’ was chosen as street in a murderous rampage. As an ambu- NA members believe that people are the a reverent nod to its inspiration—an elite, lance tried to rescue a dying victim, masters of their destiny, and can control the clandestine paramilitary unit featured, in Shoemake continued firing his rifle, prevent- trajectory of their lives, within the laws of ‘‘The Turner Diaries.’’ ing emergency workers from remaining on nature. The doctrines of various religious The Aryan Republican Army: Reading the the scene. Shoemake ultimately took his groups are therefore a target. The National Turner Diaries own life. Alliance specifically rails against Christian- More recently, members of a white su- In a police search of Shoemake’s home, au- ity, because most of its members have Chris- premacist gang calling itself the ‘‘Aryan Re- thorities found a Nazi flag draped over his E1972 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks October 8, 1998 bed, a copy of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and not because we hate Blacks, but because we tant resolution that addresses many of the un- literature from the National Alliance. Ac- cannot survive if we remain mixed with resolved issues of the Holocaust era. I appre- cording to his ex-wife, Shoemake first en- them. And we cannot survive if we permit countered NA propaganda in the mid-1980s, the Jews and the traitors among us to re- ciate the efforts of my colleagues, Mr. GILMAN when he borrowed ‘‘The Turner Diaries’’ main among us and to repeat their treach- and the bill's sponsor, Mr. LANTOS, and their from a friend. She said her husband wasn’t ery. Eventually we must hunt them down staff for preparing this important measure. the same after he read Pierce’s novel. ‘‘It and get rid of them. was like an eye-opener for him,’’ his wife Continuing his tirade, Pierce said that In the aftermath of the Holocaust, survivors said. ‘‘There was a distinct difference in while individual Blacks and Jews may seem struggled to rebuild their lives. Holocaust vic- him.’’ Shoemake also began subscribing to worthy of redemption, the only tenable solu- tims in Western countries generally received Pierce’s monthly publications. tion for white people is to eliminate all non- whites. some monetary compensation from Germany, Separation or Annihilation Calling for Racial Cleansing albeit very limited compensation. Those vic- The October 1995 issue of ‘‘Free Speech,’’ a tims whose homelands fell behind the Iron monthly newsletter sent to financial sup- In January 1998, in a speech titled, ‘‘What porters of the NA’s ‘‘American Dissident Is a Patriot to Do?’’ Pierce spoke of starting Curtain after World War II did not receive even Voices’’ radio program, seems to have had a an armed revolution against the Jewish peo- this slight measure of justice. Other issues re- particular impact on Shoemake. The issue ple. He agreed that such an act of resistance would demand sacrifice, but deemed its re- lated to the Holocaust era, including the dis- featured an article called ‘‘Separation or An- wards far greater: position of assets such as real or financial nihilation,’’ which exhorted readers to Yes, the great cleansing which must come choose between ‘‘racial separation’’ and ‘‘an- property, art work, and insurance policy pro- may destroy millions of our own people, the ceeds went unresolved for all of these individ- nihilation’’ of whites. It stated that ‘‘attain- innocent along with the guilty, the good ing racial separation and avoiding racial an- along with the bad. * * * But eventually it uals, as well as for religious communities. nihilation is worth any cost. We should be must come, because otherwise our people Mr. Speaker, a belated measure of justice willing to give up every material thing we will die, and everything that has gone before for Holocaust victims is within reach. Much own to achieve it.’’ Along the margins of the as well as everything that might come in the essay, Shoemake scrawled: ‘‘I say: Separa- future will be lost forever. The great cleans- has been achieved, including unprecedented tion or annihilation! Who is crazy? Me or ing must come, and we must do whatever it settlements between Holocaust survivors, you? We will see.’’ Shoemake repeated the takes to ensure that it does, so that our peo- Swiss Banks, and European insurance compa- NA’s slogan in a final, rambling letter ob- ple will live. tained and published by the Jackson, Mis- The bottom line to listeners was a shrill nies. Building on this momentum, the State sissippi, Clarion-Ledger. Shoemake wrote: cry for violence. ‘‘We should not flinch from Department and the United States Holocaust ‘‘Black is the problem. It’s in their this,’’ Pierce said. ‘‘We should not focus on Memorial Museum will convene the Washing- genes. . . . They will never forgive whites the fact that it will be horrible and bloody, ton Conference on Holocaust-era Assets next for all the supposedly terrible treatment we but on the fact that it is necessary, and be- did to them. The bottom line is: Separation cause it is necessary it is good.’’ month to address issues of Nazi-confiscated or annihilation.’’ LOOKING AHEAD assets, including art, insurance, communal A VENOMOUS VOICE The National Alliance’s dramatic growth is property, libraries and archives, as well as Broadcasting Hate significant because it comes at a time when Holocaust education, research and remem- Despite these crimes, Pierce continues to other neo-Nazi organizations, as well as brance. Conference participants will include glorify violence, offering it as the ultimate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, are becoming government officials from over 40 countries, weaker and more fragmented. Moreover, the solution to what he calls—in words reminis- historians, experts, and representatives of cent of Adolf Hitler—‘‘the Jewish problem.’’ NA does not appear to be siphoning members Much like his writings, Pierce’s weekly radio from these declining groups, but actually re- major NGOs including the survivor community. show is rife with incendiary speech. More- cruiting a fresh cast of educated, middle- class bigots. These new followers appear to This resolution could not be considered at a over, while the program’s topic varies from more opportune moment. The resolution calls week to week depending on current events, be attracted to the National Alliance’s dedi- cated membership, its commanding presence Pierce’s material never truly changes. Each on countries to return expropriated properties on the Internet, its emphasis on maintaining broadcast is a springboard for the NA’s en- to Holocaust victims or their heirs without arbi- a ‘‘sophisticated’’ image, and its powerful during message of anti-Jewish, anti-Black leadership. As the National Alliance contin- trary discrimination. It calls for the opening of and anti-government hatred. ues to gather momentum and strength, its archives relating to the Nazi era and for the The broadcasts can be picked up in most of threat of violence grows. Crimes being plot- the country on shortwave radio, are aired on continued prosecution of Nazi-era war crimi- ted or committed by NA members of ‘‘Turner local radio stations in parts of Arkansas, nals. It calls on Germany to provide just rep- Diaries’’ devotees have been mounting. By Texas, Alabama, New England, Florida and publishing this report, ADL seeks to increase arations to all Holocaust victims without delay California and can be downloaded in audio public awareness of the dangers posed by and without the use of unreasonable eligibility form from the NA’s World Wide Web site. these individuals, as well as to encourage Transcripts of the speeches are sent via E- criteria. Of equal importance, this resolution stepped-up vigilance by law enforcement of- calls on all countries to encourage education mail to subscribers and are sent to financial ficials at all levels. supporters in the form of a monthly news- on the history of the Holocaust and the con- paper. f sequences of the failure to respect human A Continuing Theme: Eliminating Jews and CONSIDERATION OF H. RES. 557 rights. non-whites In a November 1997 broadcast discussing Mr. Speaker, we should pass this resolution the revelation that a Black man in upstate HON. CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH as a demonstration of Congress' support for New York had infected dozens of local white OF NEW JERSEY the U.S. Government's efforts to achieve jus- girls with the AIDS virus, Pierce said: IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES tice for Holocaust victims and their families. I Ultimately, we must separate ourselves Thursday, October 8, 1998 from the Blacks and other non-whites and strongly urge my colleagues to join me in sup- keep ourselves separate, no matter what it Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, I porting this measure takes to accomplish this. We must do this am pleased to be a cosponsor of this impor-