Robert J. Mathews

[WhiteTruth]

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by Dr. William Pierce.

National Alliance BULLETIN - December 1984

(Note: Dr. Pierce’s writing on this subject spanned different sections of the December 1984 issue of the BULLETIN. They are reproduced here along with the usual commentary section.)

Robert J. Mathews, killed December 8 in the fiery explosion of his Seattle-area headquarters during a gunfight with nearly 100 FBI agents, headed an organization variously named in the press reports as Aryan Resistance Movement, Silent Brotherhood, and White American Bastion. It was, claims the FBI in court documents, modeled on “the Organization” in The Turner Diaries.

Mathews, who owned a small farm near Metaline Falls, WA, was a member of the Alliance from November 1979 until last year, when he asked to be dropped from active membership. During his four years in the Alliance he recruited tirelessly, placing advertisements in a number of different publications, writing letters to the editors of newspapers throughout his part of the country, speaking at meetings of farmers and truckers, and visiting other patriotic organizations to distribute Alliance materials. He designed and arranged for the manufacture of the attractive Alliance caps which were introduced at the 1983 General Convention.

At that convention Mathews spoke of his recruiting experiences among his fellow farmers and ranchers in the Pacific Northwest. He closed his brief but moving account with heartfelt words which everyone there always will remember: “We are born to fight and to die and to continue the flow of our people…. Stand up like men and reclaim our soil!... Kinsmen, arise! Look toward the stars and proclaim our destiny!”

He was an intense, passionate, courageous, utterly committed man. He was a “straight arrow” in his personal life and in all of his dealings with other Alliance members. He lived entirely for the Cause for which the Alliance works, and he was ready to die for it without hesitation – even gladly, if by doing so he could set an example for others.

A few days before his fiery death, knowing that he was the target of a massive manhunt by government police agents, the 31-year old Mathews wrote a letter to serve as his last testament. Portions of it are quoted here:

“For the past decade I have been a resident of northern Pend Orielle County. When I first arrived in Metaline Falls I had only $25 to my name, a desire to work hard and be left alone, and the dream of someday acquiring my own small farm.

“During my three years at the mine and seven years at the cement plant, I can safely say that I was known as a hard worker. I stayed out of the bars and pretty much kept to myself. Anyone who is familiar with Boundary Dam Road knows how my late father and I carved a beautiful place out of the woods. All of the goals I had when I arrived were accomplished but one: I was not left alone.

“Within months of my arrival the FBI went to the mine office and tried to have me fired from my job. I was working in the electrical department at the time, and my foreman, fortunately, had a deep and lasting dislike for the Feds. He was informed of the situation by the mine secretary. Had it been the mine manager instead of the secretary that the government goons talked to, I would have lost my job.

“This campaign of harassment and intimidation began because of my involvement in the tax-rebellion movement from the time I was 15 years old. The government was on me so much for nothing more than a misdemeanor tax violation.

“I left Arizona and the tax rebellion when I was 20….

“I soon settled down to marriage, clearing my land, and reading. Reading became an obsession with me. I consumed volume upon volume on subjects dealing with history, politics, and economics. I was especially taken with Spengler’s Decline of the West and Simpson’s Which Way Western Man? I also subscribed to numerous periodicals on current American problems, especially those concerned with the ever-increasing decline of White America.

“My knowledge of ancient European history started to awaken a wrongfully suppressed emotion buried deep within my soul, that of racial pride and consciousness.

“The stronger my love for my people grew, the deeper became my hatred for those who would destroy my race and my heritage and darken the future of my children.

“By the time my son had arrived I realized that White America, indeed my entire race, was headed for oblivion unless White men rose and turned the tide. The more I came to love my son the more I realized that, unless things changed radically, by the time he was my age he would be a stranger in his own land, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Aryan in a country populated mainly by Mexicans, mulattoes, Blacks, and Asians. His future was growing darker by the day.

“I came to learn that this was not by accident, that there is a small, cohesive, alien group within this nation working day and night to make this happen. I learned that these culture-distorters have an iron grip on both major political parties, on Congress, on the media, on the publishing houses, and on most of the major Christian denominations in this nation…

“This I have no choice. I must stand up like a White man and do battle.

“A secret war has been developing for the last year between the regime in Washington and an ever-growing number of White people who are determined to regain what our forefathers discovered, explored, conquered, settled, built, and died for…

“I have no regrets or apologies to mark for Gary [Yarbrough] or myself. In fact I am proud that we had the courage and the determination to stand up and fight for our race and our heritage at a time in our history when such a deed is called a crime and not an act of valor….

“I am not going into hiding; rather I will press the FBI and let them know what it is like to become the hunted. Doing so, it is only logical to assume that my days on this planet are rapidly drawing to a close. Even so, I have no fear. For the reality of life is death, and the worst the enemy can do to me is shorten my tour of duty in this world. I will leave knowing I have made the ultimate sacrifice to secure the future of my children.”

In Robert Mathews the race has lost one of its noblest warriors. His memory, however, lives on, and it will inspire countless other warriors in the years to come – for the war in which he fought continues and grows.

Debra Mathews, the widow of Robert Mathews, became an Alliance member in February 1984. She is left with a 53-acre farm and a three-year old son. Other members who wish to send donations to her should mail them directly to Box (number removed), Metaline Falls, WA 99153.

The Turner Diaries, as has been pointed out in the BULLETIN a dozen times in the past, is fiction. It is not a secret plan for a White revolution, even if the controlled news media and the FBI claim that it is. It is not even a recipe book of urban guerilla tactics, devices, or techniques. Although the author has a great interest in such matters, he has never overthrown a government, assassinated a public official, or blown up a power station, so he cannot claim expertise in anything beyond the gadgetry of revolution and sabotage. Someone who wants to know how to carry out a revolution is better advised to read the works of Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, or Che Guevara than those of Andrew Macdonald.

The entire purpose of The Turner Diaries is not to instruct the reader in the mechanics of overthrowing the U.S. government, but to present certain ideas to him. The plot serves only to maintain his interest and help him assimilate the ideas. It is what Earl Turner thinks and says that is important, not what he does. The action merely serves as a medium for the message, and the specific details of that action are largely irrelevant.

The Turner Diaries was meant to be inspirational, but it was not meant to inspire anyone to illegal activity. For one thing, the action in the book does not even begin until 1991 – and that is probably a wildly optimistic estimate of how soon a White revolution in America might be feasible. Armed opposition to the government is certainly not feasible at this time, nor is it likely to become feasible during the next decade. That, also, has been pointed out at least a dozen times in the BULLETIN. It is this conviction of infeasibility, not any love for the government or its laws, which is behind the standing Alliance policy of refraining from all illegal activity.

An action-minded young member may find this restriction intolerable. A member of any age may look at what the enemies of his race are doing and become so filled with rage that he cannot hold himself back from striking out at them. But he should resign from the Alliance before he acts.

And he serves his race better if he refrains from acting at all. A man of Robert Mathews’ quality is too precious to squander in premature action; he will be missed sorely when the suitable time for action does come.

Nor can the average member who yields to the temptation to take up arms against his race’s oppressors now count on becoming an honored martyr like Mathews. A much more likely fate for him is to spend long years, unremembered, in the hellish nightmare of a racially integrated Federal prison, worse than any medieval dungeon.

Finally, for those who absolutely are determined to go beyond the Alliance’s approved activities of personal recruiting and distribution of Alliance publications, and who believe that it is necessary to begin building a guerrilla army now, here is a little advice: keep it legal.

There is no overwhelming need to accumulate machine guns and hand grenades, when there are so many excellent semiautomatic assault rifles available. A member who must have a machine gun should acquire it legally by paying the required Federal transfer tax.

And there are many activities for guerrilla trainees to engage in without putting themselves into legal jeopardy; physical conditioning, marksmanship, ideological training, first aid, map reading, unarmed combat, etc. There are secure communications techniques to be devised and learned. There are a hundred vital questions to be answered: What are the criteria to be used in selecting recruits? How does one detect an infiltrator? How should various emergency situations be handled? Tentative answers should be found to all such questions, and then the answers should be put to the test in realistic simulations.

To satisfy their craving for action, would-be guerrillas should try getting through a survival course modeled on one used by the U.S. Army, not blowing up government buildings.

Building a guerrilla group capable of holding its own against the government’s secret police agencies is a task requiring years of hard work, with scrupulous attention to every detail. And during those years one of the details with which the group’s leaders will have to concern themselves is legality. They must do their work without illegal weapons, illegal actions, or illegal conspiracies. It is possible, but is it not a task recommended for amateurs.


Security is something which, in these dark days, every Alliance member must keep in mind. There is not only the ongoing ruckus about the Aryan Resistance Movement, but the Jews and their Federal servants increasingly are alarmed about the string of successful bombings of abortion clinics across the country, about a rising public approval or armed vigilantism in the nation’s crime centers, and about the increasing threat that overseas enemies of the Jews may bring their direct action to the United States and even link up with domestic patriots. As public alienation continues to grow, “right wing terrorism” (to use the media-approved term) is certain to become more widespread.

The government already is reacting to protect itself and its masters. The FBI and other secret-police agencies are operating now without many of the restrictions imposed on them in the wake of Watergate, Mail covers, phone taps and other forms of electronic surveillance, and the use of informers and agents provocateurs are up sharply. The situation will become much more oppressive in the future, with grand juries harassing patriots and seizing their records, the politicians falling over one another in their rush to pass new police-state legislation, and the controlled media cheering on the prosecutors and attempting to generate public hostility toward all White dissidents. And the American Civil Liberties Union will be very busy sitting on its hands and contemplating its navel.

The Neo-conservative element which has become so strongly entrenched in the Reagan government will move much more decisively to defend itself and crush its enemies than Jimmy Carter’s liberals ever did.

The National Office has taken some measures to protect itself and members, such as the burning of old correspondence and other records on a regular schedule, instead of permitting them to accumulate beyond the period when they really are needed. Sometimes the lack of records causes inconvenience, but on balance it seems a prudent precaution. It is not at all inconceivable, for example, that secret policemen could show up unexpectedly at the National Office armed with a subpoena for the names and addresses of everyone who has purchased a copy of The Turner Diaries. No such list has ever existed, and few lists of any kind will exist in the future.

Individual members also can take precautions:

• Never save correspondence or other papers which might be used to incriminate yourself or others. If you have ever written a letter saying you would like to blow up the White House, burn the carbon – and be more careful about your rhetoric in the future.

• Never permit yourself to be drawn into conversation about illegal matters. If someone offers to sell you an illegal hand grenade or machine gun, don’t say anything which later could be construed as evidence of your intent to commit a crime. Don’t report the incident to the police, but do report it to the National Office (not by telephone), where a decision can be made as to whether the offerer is a government provocateur or merely a careless patriot who needs a warning.

• Never engage in gossip, even with close friends, about rumors of illegal patriotic activity you have overheard; otherwise, you may be the cause of some patriot losing his life or his liberty. Loose talk is the greatest threat to any liberation struggle, and it is also a ground for expulsion from the Alliance.

[Fred]

Robert Mathews was a good White man.

[notmenomore]

Thanks for the reminder, White Truth. and for the wise advice and counsel from Dr. Pierce. We really lost a giant when Dr. Pierce left.