David Lane (white supremacist)
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David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American
Lane coined the "Fourteen Words", a well known white supremacist slogan in North America. He has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "one of the most important ideologues of contemporary white supremacy".[3]
Background
Lane was born as the third of four siblings in
Lane rejected
Lane claimed that he first became attracted to women of the "
Lane met
Convictions and incarceration
For his role in The Order's crimes, Lane was sentenced to consecutive sentences totaling 190 years, including 20 years for
Lane was also among 14 men prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but he was acquitted. Lane was considered extremely dangerous by the American justice system and was incarcerated at various times after his conviction in the United States Penitentiary, Marion, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, and the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute.[citation needed]
While incarcerated, he had the Federal Bureau of Prisons ID # 12873–057.[22] Lane wrote books and articles about gematria and the demographic and sociopolitical status of the white race for white nationalist periodicals and websites. With his wife and Ron McVan, he ran a publishing company called 14 Word Press in Idaho to disseminate his writings.[23]
He was featured in Nazi Pop Twins, a documentary aired on July 19, 2007, on Channel 4 in the UK.[24] In it he was shown speaking by phone with Prussian Blue (the music act from the documentary) and termed them "fantasy sweethearts" and that he viewed them like daughters.[25]
Lane's earliest possible release date from prison would have been on March 29, 2035 (at age 96). He died on May 28, 2007, in FCC Terre Haute due to an epileptic seizure.[5] On June 30, 2007, white supremacists held memorial demonstrations for Lane in cities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine.[26]
Beliefs
Racial beliefs
Lane stated that his beliefs can be best summarized by a slogan he called the "Fourteen Words": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." He also coined a second 14-word slogan: "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."[9]
88 Precepts
While he was in prison, Lane wrote the 88 Precepts as a treatise on his views on race, politics, and philosophy. Lane viewed these as the principles behind the two "Fourteen Words" slogans. The 88 Precepts are critical of democracy and oppose government under the claim of taxation as theft. They also promoted servant leadership, a Deistic theological view, and rejected racial integration, calling it a "euphemism" for "White genocide". Lane's writing also sought to establish a white ethnostate in North America and in Eastern Europe.
"88 Precepts" is one of several key texts, printed and distributed through 14 Word Press, including the "White Genocide Manifesto" (which contained 14 key points).[27]
As in his other writings, Lane repeats the claim that white people are threatened by a lack of exclusive territorial hegemony and "forced racial mixing".[28] Lane viewed the United States government as part of a Zionist conspiracy.[29][30]
Consistent with the restrictive gender roles which were practiced within Aryan Nations, precept 35 of "88 Precepts" regards homosexuality as unnatural and also views sex as an act of reproduction which should be performed for the sole purpose of increasing the size of the white population. Lane also considers sex as a motivation for male subjugation of women, who are expected to be subservient. Lane advises men to subjugate women via power and control of territory, and he also advises white men to take up arms for this purpose.[31]
According to its web site, the United Klans of America viewed the 88 Precepts as "a source for which we can ascertain lasting truths".[32]
Wotansvolk
Lane was one of the founders of the
Aiming to foment a white revolution, Wotansvolk endorsed "
Portraying
References
Informational notes
- ^ Served consecutively:
- 150-year federal prison term (violation of civil rights)
- 20-year federal prison term (racketeering)
- 20-year federal prison term (conspiracy)
Citations
- ^ "White separatist Gary Lee Yarbrough, one-time security chief for The Order, dies in federal prison". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
- ISBN 978-0-203-95029-6, retrieved January 4, 2021
- ^ a b c "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
- ^ Kleg, Milton (1993). Hate Prejudice and Racism. SUNY Press. pp. 194–195.
- ^ a b Flynn, Kevin (May 29, 2007). "White supremacist, talk show host killer dies in prison". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ a b "The murder of Alan Berg in Denver: 25 years later". The Denver Post. June 17, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
Federal authorities tried four suspects in 1987, and the two found guilty were convicted of violating Berg's civil rights. Lane, then 49, was sentenced to 150 years.
- ^ a b "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
In 1987, Lane was additionally accused of violating Berg's civil rights by helping to assassinate him, a federal charge. While Lane did not pull the trigger, prosecutors said he drove the getaway car and played a large role in the planning of Berg's murder. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
- ^ Gannett Company. Archived from the originalon July 3, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2018.
The getaway driver for the white supremacist group who murdered liberal Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg died in a Terre Haute, Indiana federal prison Monday. David Lane, a member of The Order, was 68.
- ^ a b c d e "David Lane". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on November 3, 2008.
- ^ a b Deceived, Damned & Defiant, pp. 7–12 (online "here". Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2007. and "here". Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2007.). Also recounted in Goodrick-Clarke, p. 270.
- ^ "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
- ^ Flynn & Gerhardt (1990), p. 259.
- ^ a b Schwartz (1996), p. 64.
- ^ Goodrick-Clarke (2003), p. 270.
- ^ Gardell (2003), p. 193.
- ^ "Jury Told of Plan to Kill Radio Host". The New York Times. November 8, 1987. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
- ^ Turner, Wallace (February 7, 1986). "5 Neo-Nazis Get Stiff Sentences For Crime Spree". The New York Times. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
- ^ "Witness in Racist Trial Identifies Gunman in Slaying of Radio Host". The New York Times. September 21, 1985. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
- ^ "Another Suspect Held In Radio Host's Death". The New York Times. April 1, 1985. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
- ^ "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
- ^ Simpson, Kevin; Blevins, Jason; Auge, Karen (June 17, 2009). "The murder of Alan Berg in Denver: 25 years later". The Denver Post. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ^ "David Eden Lane". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ Gardell 2004, pp. 205–206
- ^ "Nazi Pop Twins". Channel 4. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "The Gaede Bunch: 'A is for Aryan'". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. August 8, 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
- ^ "Terrorist, '14 Words' Author, Dies in Prison". Intelligence Report (Fall 2007). Southern Poverty Law Center. October 1, 2007. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ^ Rider, Sarah, Tolerating Intolerance: Resisting the Urge to Silence Student Opinion in the Writing Classroom, retrieved September 29, 2007
- ^ Anti-Defamation League, David Lane, archived from the original on May 17, 2011, retrieved November 18, 2019
- ^ "Swedish Academic Mattias Gardell Discusses the Rise of Neo-Paganism in America". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Spring 2001. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
- ^ a b Gardell (2003).
- ISBN 978-1-317-05125-1. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-4408-5751-5. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
- ^ a b "Neo-Volkisch". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
- ^ a b Gardell (2003), p. 381.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-939436-4.
- ^ "What Are the '14 Words' Everyone's Been Freaking Out About?". Haaretz. August 12, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2018.
- ^ Gardell 2003, p. 280.
- ^ Gardell (2003), p. 382.
- ^ "David Lane, White Supremacist Terrorist and Ideologue, Dies in Prison". Anti-Defamation League. May 30, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2019.
Lane also wrote "The 88 Precepts," an essay which provided guidelines for securing the goals of the 14 Words. ("88" is a hate symbol which is used by neo-Nazis: the eighth letter of the alphabet is "H"; eight two times signifies "HH," shorthand for the Nazi greeting, "Heil Hitler.")
Bibliography
- Flynn, Kevin J.; Gerhardt, Gary (November 6, 1990). The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground (OCLC 22700196.
- OCLC 849358349.
- Gardell, Mattias (2004). "White Racist Religions in the United States: From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (eds.). Controversial New Religions. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 387–422. ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9.
- Schwartz, Alan M., ed. (June 1, 1996). Danger: Extremism – The Major Vehicles and Voices on America's Far-Right Fringe (1st ed.). New York: OCLC 980983202.
- OCLC 1012939115.
External links
- Archive of David Lane's profile in the Anti-Defamation League's "Extremism in America" series.