matt bracken unintended conseq

Due in part to Pierce’s desire

to appeal to normal people, as well as the novel’s limited

circulation among Neo-Nazis, Turner assumes its readers are

already racist and do not need to be recruited to that mindset. The

abandonment of “why” empowers a single narrative focus on “what”

and “how”, the necessity of immediate, violent action and

concrete suggestions about how to go about it. This is part of why

the book has so often been associated with violence and terrorism.

The Turner Diaries

would go on to become probably the most influential single piece of

fascist propaganda since Mein Kampf. It’s

inspired more than 200 murders since its publication. But it’s also

inspired a hell of a lot more than just murder. The Turner Diaries

became the ideological underpinning of a vicious American insurgency,

which eventually led to hundreds and hundreds of armed men around the

country working actively towards the establishment of a white

supremacist state. The Turner Diaries also inspired a whole

genre of fascist and quasi-fascist propaganda books, written to the

same rubric but reining in on the racism, just a little bit, in order

to avoid freaking out the “normies”. In 1996 John Ross published

Unintended Consequences, a novel that is best described as The

Turner Diaries but all the racism is whispered. The cover of the

copy I have features a burning copy of the Constitution, with a

black-clad cop attempting to sexually assault Lady Justice in front

of it. Its main innovation from The Turner Diaries was to

switch the focus of its revolutionaries away from race war and

towards just gun rights. The plot focuses around a man, Henry Bowman,

who winds up being framed by the ATF for some stupid reason related

to their desire to take all of America’s guns. He kills most of the

ATF agents who come for him and then brutally tortures one who he

captures. Bowman and a small group of gun rights activists then carry

out a terrorist campaign, horribly murdering gun control advocates

around the nation until the president repeals all gun control law.

Alex Jones has mentioned multiple times on InfoWars that Unintended

Consequences is one of his favorite books.

In more

recent years a guy named Matt Bracken has written a whole series of

books starting with Enemies

Foreign and Domestic.

Like Unintended

Consequences, his first

book is basically Turner

Diaries with less

racism. The liberal government creates a false flag mass

shooting to take away everyone’s guns. The ATF is the bad guy,

and brave patriots beat them via terrorism. Bracken’s innovation

was to have the cast of his books include numerous non-white people.

The idea seems to be that if most of the people aren’t white, then

the book can’t be racist. On an unrelated note, the second book in

the series is Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista. Its plot is

that the evil liberals orchestrate an invasion of Mexicans with the

goal of having them ban English in the Southwest and secede from the

United States. J.M. Berger, this time writing for The Daily Beast

identified some similarities between Bracken’s third book and The

Turner Diaries. “After an earthquake demolishes Memphis, black

refugees turn into a seething mob of gang-rapists and cannibals,

characterizations that feature memorably in The Turner Diaries,

while urban blacks loot a path from Baltimore to Washington DC, where

they demand and receive a new Socialist constitution engineered by a

thinly veiled caricature of President Obama. The narrative

disclaimers continue; one character condemns white racist killings in

the chaos after the quake, and a battle-weary white racist girl near

the end of the book accepts the hand of comfort offered by a black

army medic, but these and other individual moments of race-grace are

hard pressed to counter the otherwise vivid, lengthy depiction of

African-Americans en masse as cannibal rapists directly responsible

for destroying America’s constitution.”

In writing The Turner Diaries,

William Pierce ignited a movement within the far right that is still

very much present and relevant today. The next chapter will discuss,

in depth, the generation of terrorists who were inspired by his words

to take horrifying, bloody action. Like Christian Identity, The

Turner Diaries have influenced many people who may never have

even read the book. In his manifesto, the Christchurch Mosque shooter

wrote about his hope that his attack would spark renewed calls for

gun control in the United States, because he believed this would lead

inevitably to a new civil war. The Poway Synagogue shooter repeated

the same desire. William Peirce died in 2002 but his ideas live, and

kill, to this day.