THE AGONY OF WILLIAM PIERCE | 2007-09-01
I am told that near his death, William Pierce asked if he knew anyone who could take over from him. I am told he replied, "Yes, but they are all dead."
Only another person who spent his life fighting Pierce's fight could understand the AGONY that that sentence represented. I am proud to say that the first time I talked with Doctor Pierce people around us said it was as if we were talking in code. If you have read Larry Niven's scifi, it was like two Protectors talking. The stuff we had had to explain to others were concepts we had both long since thought out, and whole areas got the briefest mention as we leapt on.
My pride is that we thought alike, and it showed.
Pierce did his work on an astounding number of fronts. I was a professional writer, but I could never plot as he did in his novel.
If I have my way, unlike Pierce, I will not be greatly missed. That is because I do not plan to leave the gaping empty space Pierce did.
I, too, have fought on a bewildering number of fronts. Kelso is flatteringly amazed at the sheer number of people in the movement I have worked with down through the years. Pierson was a leader. I am a staff man. I help get things going and then move on. But I don't move on until the thing has failed or is being run by people who can handle it.
I had a great advantage in this over Pierce because he was organizing for ideological purity. I help with groups that are going in my general direction and then leave them to people who will run them. But as the banana peel begins to slip I have dedicated the last decade or so to slowly accumulating a group that can take over from me.
Pierce was a genius, not a staff man. He could not realize that accumulating a group to take over was a full-time job, not just a by-product of his other efforts. I spent over ten years doing this. It was costly. It was frustrating. It was exhausting.
Pierce was no kind of a bureaucrat. He was a loner. He could not know that finding successors is not just a matter of deciding to retire -– which in our case meant dying -- and selecting one of our followers on the deathbed. Jews can do that. Respectable conservatives can do that. We can't. When he was on HIS deathbed, he found that no one was there selected and trained to his special task.
I want BUGS built on bedrock. When I turn on my PC in Valhalla, I expect to see you continuing on without a bump.