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metaphysicians-but one group was curiously neglected. They, too,
have bookshops of their own; their publications sell not badly even
though they are never reviewed in the mainstream media; and they were
anti-American before Roy and anti-globalization before Baudrillard.
They also sell manuals on how to manufacture bombs and even more
dangerous weapons. We mean, of course, the extreme Right, the neo–
fascists and the neo-Nazis. Leaders of the American neo-Nazi scene
were full of admiration for the attackers of September
I I.
Billy Roper
of the National Alliance said that he wished his followers had half as
much testicular fortitude as the suicide pilots. Tom Metzger of White
Aryan Resistance (WAR) declared that 91r
I
was a victory for Walhalla,
because the enemy of our enemy is our friend; and he also wished that
his comrades were as brave as the Arabs. Rocky Suhayda, chairman of
the American Nazi Party was quoted saying that a dozen-and-a-half
very brave people were willing to die for what they believed and that it
was a disgrace that among a hundred and fifty million white Aryans in
America, so few were willing to do the same. Martin Lindstedt of the
Missouri Militia declared that he wished the Arabs had stolen a hun–
dred jumbo jets full of "Talmudic Khazar mamzers, criminal regimeist
whiggers, niggers, gooks, beaners, etc." and crashed them into the
Supreme Court, Congress, the FBI building, all fifty state capitols, and
the TV stations-he would have called it a damn good start. Other
spokesmen of this camp recalled Blitzkrieg and the exploits of Otto Sko–
rzeny, who had been the commander of Hitler's praetorian guard.
There was a little problem. The attackers had not, after all, been pure
Aryans. But William Pierce, author of
The Turner Diaries,
the bible of
American neo-Nazis, overcame this difficulty. Not all people in
Afghanistan were greasy, black haired, swarthy, and hooknosed. Some
of these people were of Aryan origin, following the Aryan conquests
and colonization of Central Asia thirty-five hundred years ago. The ter–
rorists were obviously the descendants of the Aryans.
Holocaust deniers such as David Irving and Robert Faurisson in
France pleaded that they had been right all along. Irving compared the
killing of innocents in New York by "nineteen intelligent and virile
young Muslims" to the killing of innocents in World War II by Allied
bombings. Like Faurisson, he believed that it was all Israel's fault, with
one imaginary Holocaust leading to a real one.
Thus, the great majority of American neo-Nazis took the position
that the terrorists had been right. The u.S. government was the guilty
party, and they welcomed the attacks. From the superpatriots of forty
years ago, they have been moving to nihilism and pan-destructionism.
