David Lane

[[File:David Lane (white supremacist).jpg|thumb|right|165px|Lane, presumably in prison]]
{{Nazism}}
{{race}}
{{expand}}
'''David Lane''' (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an [[United States|American]] [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] and a founding member<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lane_%28white_supremacist%29</ref> of the [[terrorism|terrorist]] organisation The Order.

==Early life==
According to Lane, his father was an abusive drunkard, and his mother worked as a prostitute to pay for his father's alcohol. He claims that since childhood he had found [[Christianity]] [[Neo-Nazism#Religion|distasteful, preferring]] the Norse gods [[Odin|Wotan]] and [[Thor]]. When playing soldiers as a boy, he says, he preferred to play a [[Nazi]].

By 1978, Lane came to the conclusion that "[t]he Western nations were ruled by a [[Zionist]] conspiracy...the Zionist conspiracy above all things wants to exterminate the White Aryan race." Lane was briefly a member of the [[John Birch Society]] before joining [[David Duke]]'s Knights of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]<ref>''Danger Extremism: The Major Vehicles and Voices on America's Far-Right Fringe'' by Alan M. Schwartz (1996) Anti-Defamation League. ISBN 0884641694.</ref>{{rp|64}} and also became involved with [[Aryan Nations]] and [[Tom Metzger]]'s White American Political Association (now White Aryan Resistance).

==The Order==
In the eighties, he was one of the founding members of The Order (at one point named ''Bruder Schweigen'', the Silent Brotherhood), inspired by the plot of [[William Luther Pierce]]'s [[Neo-Nazi]] novel ''[[The Turner Diaries]]''. Members of The Order were responsible for numerous crimes, including the murder of Alan Berg, a [[Jewish]] radio host who insulted Lane on-air.

In 1984, Lane aided members of The Order in the robbery of $3.6 million from an armoured truck and was arrested the following year following a clampdown on far-right groups. He was put on trial three times between 1985 and 1989 for various crimes and was sentenced to a total of 190 years in prison.

==Life and death in prison==
He continued to write propaganda while in prison. His writings coined the "[[Fourteen Words]]": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." In 1995, he and his wife Katja founded 14 Words Press, a publishing company for white nationalist and [[Asatru]] material that came to be managed by Katja Lane with the aid of [[Ron McVan]].<ref>[http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/lane.asp?xpicked=2&item=lane Anti-Defamation League: David Lane]</ref>

Lane died in prison (unsurprisingly) in 2007, aged 68.<ref>[http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/david_lane_dies.htm Anti-Defamation League: David Lane, white supremacist terrorist and ideologue, dies in prison]</ref><ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2007/fall/domestic-terrorists Southern Poverty Law Center: Terrorist, '14 Words' Author, Dies in Prison]</ref> According to Neo-Nazi activist April Gaede, who was given custody of his body, his ashes were to have been interred inside the capstone of a pyramid monument erected in a "white homeland" but, instead, settled on having his ashes placed in 14 smaller pyramids (the same number from his "14 Words") and entrusted to selected people.<ref>[http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/david-lane Southern Poverty Law Center: David Lane]</ref>

==See also==
*[[Zionist Occupation Government|ZOG]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{DEFAULTSORT: Lane, David}}
[[Category:Antisemites]]
[[Category:Conspiracy theorists]]
[[Category:Convicted felons]]
[[Category:Criminals]]
[[Category:Fascists]]
[[Category:John Birch Society]]
[[Category:Neo-Nazis]]
[[Category:Paganism]]
[[Category:Racists]]
[[Category:Terrorists]]

Categories: Antisemites, Conspiracy theorists, Convicted felons, Criminals, Fascists, John Birch Society, Neo-Nazis, Paganism, Racists, Terrorists