William Luther Pierce
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William Luther Pierce was a leader in the white supremacy movement. He is most famous for writing (under the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald) the Turner Diaries, which predicted an upcoming "race war" in graphic detail. The Turner Diaries are thought to have inspired many other white supremacists, including the terrorist Timothy McVeigh. He also wrote a "more realistic" novel, Hunter, about a serial killer who attacks mixed-race couples, which he dedicated to a murderer who had killed precisely for similar reasons. (That killer has claimed to have been the one to paralyze Larry Flynt, after Flynt had included interracial sex in an issue of Hustler.)
He also ran the white supremacist groups "National Youth Alliance" and "National Alliance". After losing his tax exempt status, to help defray the costs he also founded "Cosmotheism", a religion that believed that white people were the current apex of evolution, and that only by keeping themselves separate from (and even exterminating) other "races" could white people evolve to a higher level. He was able to maintain a tax-exemption as a religion for several years, until the IRS investigated and found that most of the compound and activities were actually to support the National Alliance, which was not tax exempt.
His last years were spent holed up in his "Cosmotheist Community Church" in West Virginia. Like most supremacists, he blamed the media and the government for his own failings, including his inability to get anyone to take his ramblings seriously. Pierce died of cancer on July 23, 2002. His beloved National Alliance started showing signs of terminal illness itself less than two months later due to leadership disputes.
Sense then, Pierce's esteemed successors have devoted the bulk of their time to collecting child pornography [1], insulting each other's mothers on the internet[2] and playing video games [3].