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David Lane
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Born	David Eden Lane (1938-11-02)November 2, 1938 Woden, Iowa, U.S.
Died	May 28, 2007(2007-05-28) (aged 68) FCI Terre Haute, Terre Haute, Indiana, U.S.
Other names	Wodensson
Occupation	Real estate broker
Known for	Fourteen Words White genocide conspiracy theory The Order Murder of Alan Berg
Movement	Ku Klux Klan Aryan Nations Wotansvolk
Spouses	Katja Maddox ​(m. 1994)​
Criminal status	Deceased
Allegiance	The Order
Motive	White nationalism, extermination of Jews
Conviction(s)	Violation of civil rights Racketeering Conspiracy to engage in racketeering
Criminal penalty	De facto life imprisonment (190 years in prison)
Details
Victims	Alan Harrison Berg, aged 50

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David Eden Lane (November 2, 1938 – May 28, 2007) was an American domestic terrorist, white separatist, neo-Nazi, and a convicted felon. A member of the terrorist organization The Order, he was convicted and sentenced to 190 years in prison for racketeering, conspiracy, and the violation of the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host, who prosecutors claimed was murdered by a member of the group via a drive-by shooting with Lane acting as driver, though they were unsuccessful in getting murder convictions. He died while still incarcerated at the FCI Terre Haute in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Lane coined the "Fourteen Words", a well known white supremacist slogan in North America. He has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "one of the most important ideologues of contemporary white supremacy".

Background

Lane was born as the third of four siblings in Woden, Iowa; he had a brother and two sisters. His father was an alcoholic migrant worker who was physically abusive toward his wife and children. Lane would later claim that his father forced his mother to engage in prostitution so he could obtain "booze money", and that his older brother was rendered permanently deaf as a result of a "beating gone awry". When Lane was four years old, his father abandoned his family. In 1944, his older brother was arrested after searching for food in a neighbor's trash bins, and he and his sisters were placed in foster care. Lane was soon adopted by a traveling Lutheran minister, which resulted in Lane being separated from his two sisters. Lane described his adoptive father as a "doctrinaire fundamentalist from the old school".

Lane rejected Christianity, which he found boring. Inspired by Nazi religious beliefs, Lane later favored pagan beliefs as a more authentic ancestral "white" religion, as opposed to what he viewed as Jewish influenced Christianity. Travelling across the Midwestern United States with his adoptive family, Lane finally settled in Aurora, Colorado, where he attended Aurora Central High School. Originally aspiring to become a golf professional, Lane worked as a real estate broker until his license was revoked because he "wouldn't sell homes to coloreds in white neighborhoods".

Lane claimed that he first became attracted to women of the "Caucasian race" after befriending a blonde-haired girl in first grade. Lane stated that while he reenacted battles with his foster brother as a child, he portrayed a Nazi stormtrooper while his brother portrayed an American soldier. Lane was briefly a member of the John Birch Society before joining the Ku Klux Klan, becoming the organizer of the Denver unit of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1979. In late 1981, Lane became Colorado State Organizer of Aryan Nations.

Lane met Robert Jay Mathews in July 1983 at the Aryan Nations world congress. On September 22, 1983, Lane was among the nine founding members to be sworn into The Order, a white supremacist group whose mission was to "deliver our people from the Jew and bring total victory to the Aryan race." The Order was accused of stealing over $4.1 million in armored car hijackings, killing three people (one of whom was Order member Walter E. West), detonating bombs, counterfeiting money, organizing militaristic training camps and carrying out numerous other crimes with the ultimate goal of overthrowing the "Zionist occupational government" they deemed in control of the United States and to "liberate the Pacific Northwest as a homeland for whites" in the process (see Northwest Territorial Imperative).

Convictions and incarceration

For his role in The Order's crimes, Lane was sentenced to consecutive sentences totaling 190 years, including 20 years for racketeering, 20 years for conspiracy, both under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and 150 years for violating the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host who was murdered on June 18, 1984. Berg was shot and killed in the driveway of his Denver home by three members of The Order. Lane was arrested on the evening of March 30, 1985, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While he did not pull the trigger, prosecutors said Lane drove the getaway car and played a large role in the planning of Berg's assassination.

Lane was also among 14 men prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but he was acquitted. Lane was considered extremely dangerous by the American justice system and was incarcerated at various times after his conviction in the United States Penitentiary, Marion, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, and the FCI Terre Haute.

While incarcerated, he had the Federal Bureau of Prisons ID # 12873–057. Lane wrote books and articles about gematria and the demographic and sociopolitical status of the white race for white nationalist periodicals and websites. With his wife and Ron McVan, he ran a publishing company called 14 Word Press in Idaho to disseminate his writings.

He was featured in Nazi Pop Twins, a documentary aired on July 19, 2007, on Channel 4 in the UK. In it, he was shown speaking by phone with Prussian Blue (the music act from the documentary) and termed them "fantasy sweethearts" and that he viewed them like daughters.

Lane's earliest possible release date from prison would have been on March 29, 2035 (at age 96). He died on May 28, 2007, in FCI Terre Haute due to an epileptic seizure. On June 30, 2007, white supremacists held memorial demonstrations for Lane in cities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine.

Beliefs

Racial beliefs

Lane stated that his beliefs can be best summarized by a slogan he called the "Fourteen Words": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." He also coined a second 14-word slogan: "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."

88 Precepts

While he was in prison, Lane wrote the 88 Precepts as a treatise on his views on race, politics, and philosophy. Lane viewed these as the principles behind the two "Fourteen Words" slogans. The 88 Precepts are critical of democracy and oppose government under the claim of taxation as theft. They also promoted servant leadership, a Deistic theological view, and rejected racial integration, calling it a "euphemism" for "White genocide." Lane's writing also sought to establish a white ethnostate in North America and in Eastern Europe.

"88 Precepts" is one of several key texts, printed and distributed through 14 Word Press, including the "White Genocide Manifesto" (which contained 14 key points).

As in his other writings, Lane repeats the claim that white people are threatened by a lack of exclusive territorial hegemony and "forced racial mixing". Lane viewed the United States government as part of a Zionist conspiracy.

Consistent with the restrictive gender roles which were practiced within Aryan Nations, precept 35 of "88 Precepts" regards homosexuality as unnatural and also views sex as an act of reproduction which should be performed for the sole purpose of increasing the size of the white population. Lane also considers sex as a motivation for male subjugation of women, who are expected to be subservient. Lane advises men to subjugate women via power and control of territory, and he also advises white men to take up arms for this purpose.

According to its web site, the United Klans of America viewed the 88 Precepts as "a source for which we can ascertain lasting truths".

Wotansvolk

Lane was one of the founders of the Wotansvolk movement, a racist, neo-völkisch form of Odinism (or Heathenry) which he formed with his wife Katja in 1995 in order to promote his ideology which pursued a program of concerted outreach to prisoners. Wotansvolk combines an "Aryan call to arms" with an esoteric teaching, partially based on Jungian psychology, völkish philosophy, and National Socialism. Lane distanced himself from universalist Odinists (including "folkish Asatru") who did not embrace "survival of the Aryan race" as a core part of the movement. Lane argued with Stephen McNallen, then leader of the Asatru Folk Assembly when Lane was alive. By 2017, McNallen came out with support for Lane's 14 Words, quoting them verbatim.

Aiming to foment a white revolution, Wotansvolk endorsed "leaderless resistance," a strategy which was popularized by Louis Beam, a Klan veteran and a longtime friend of the Lane family. However, 14 Word Press and Temple of Wotan are defunct organizations and as a result no longer have mailing addresses or websites, although Wotanism is still practiced by independent kindreds.

Portraying Sir Francis Bacon and Shakespeare as being "adept in ancient divine wisdom" and believing that the pyramids were built by "Aryan architects", Lane taught a belief called the "Pyramid Prophecy 666", which included the concept that a Bible code was inserted by "Aryan adepts" within the King James Version of the Christian Bible. Lane's alleged deciphered code described him as being the "man" who is described in the Book of Revelation, with America being the Beast, but that belief was censored by Ron McVan and other strategists who believed that Lane's Messianic / Anti-Christ claims would be counterproductive by "turning off potential converts". Lane also issued a declaration called "Moral Authority", which calls the United States a "Red, White, and Blue travelling mass murder machine" intent on committing genocide against white people. According to the declaration, "true moral authority belongs to those who resist" this purported genocide. Lane claimed that was the "666 Sun Man" and that America was the "Beast", and that "14-88" was an integral part of coding in his "Pyramid Prophecy" and was fundamental Wotanism (with "88 Lines and 14 Words" being a supplement to 88 Precepts). 1488 is a combination of 14 as in Lane's Fourteen Words and 88, a white nationalist/supremacist abbreviation for "Heil Hitler."

References

Informational notes

1. Served consecutively:
   • 150-year federal prison term (violation of civil rights)
   • 20-year federal prison term (racketeering)
   • 20-year federal prison term (conspiracy)

Citations

1. "- TERROR INMATES: COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM IN PRISON AND BEYOND". www.govinfo.gov. Retrieved December 22, 2024.
2. "White separatist Gary Lee Yarbrough, one-time security chief for The Order, dies in federal prison". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
3. "Neo-Nazi Diaspora", The Beast Reawakens, Routledge, pp. 135–168, October 23, 2013, doi:10.4324/9780203950296-12, ISBN 978-0-203-95029-6, retrieved January 4, 2021
4. ^ "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
5. Kleg, Milton (1993). Hate Prejudice and Racism. SUNY Press. pp. 194–195.
6. ^ Flynn, Kevin (May 29, 2007). "White supremacist, talk show host killer dies in prison". Rocky Mountain News. Archived from the original on July 3, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
7. ^ "The murder of Alan Berg in Denver: 25 years later". The Denver Post. June 17, 2009. Retrieved November 18, 2019. Federal authorities tried four suspects in 1987, and the two found guilty were convicted of violating Berg's civil rights. Lane, then 49, was sentenced to 150 years.
8. ^ "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved November 18, 2019. In 1987, Lane was additionally accused of violating Berg's civil rights by helping to assassinate him, a federal charge. While Lane did not pull the trigger, prosecutors said he drove the getaway car and played a large role in the planning of Berg's murder. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
9. ^ Boniface, Dan; Herdy, Amy (May 29, 2007). "Getaway driver in radio talk show host murder dies in prison". KUSA. Terre Haute, Indiana: Gannett Company. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2018. The getaway driver for the white supremacist group who murdered liberal Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg died in a Terre Haute, Indiana federal prison Monday. David Lane, a member of The Order, was 68.
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11. ^ Deceived, Damned & Defiant, pp. 7–12 (online "here". Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2007. and "here". Archived from the original on May 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2007.). Also recounted in Goodrick-Clarke, p. 270.
12. "David Lane". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
13. Flynn & Gerhardt (1990), p. 259.
14. ^ Schwartz (1996), p. 64.
15. Goodrick-Clarke (2003), p. 270.
16. Gardell (2003), p. 193.
17. "Jury Told of Plan to Kill Radio Host". The New York Times. November 8, 1987. Retrieved August 25, 2007.
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22. Simpson, Kevin; Blevins, Jason; Auge, Karen (June 17, 2009). "The murder of Alan Berg in Denver: 25 years later". The Denver Post. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
23. "David Eden Lane". Federal Bureau of Prisons. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
24. Gardell 2004, pp. 205–206
25. "Nazi Pop Twins". Channel 4. 2007. Archived from the original on October 13, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
26. "The Gaede Bunch: 'A is for Aryan'". Hatewatch. Southern Poverty Law Center. August 8, 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
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30. "Swedish Academic Mattias Gardell Discusses the Rise of Neo-Paganism in America". Intelligence Report. Southern Poverty Law Center. Spring 2001. Retrieved April 11, 2023.
31. ^ Gardell (2003).
32. Miller, Timothy (2016). Spiritual and Visionary Communities: Out to Save the World. Routledge. pp. 210–211. ISBN 978-1-317-05125-1. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
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35. ^ Gardell (2003), p. 381.
36. ^ Gardell, Mattias (2014). "Wolf Age Pagans". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aa. (eds.). Controversial New Religions (2nd ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9.
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38. Gardell 2003, p. 280.
39. Gardell (2003), p. 382.
40. "David Lane, White Supremacist Terrorist and Ideologue, Dies in Prison". Anti-Defamation League. May 30, 2007. Retrieved November 18, 2019. Lane also wrote "The 88 Precepts," an essay which provided guidelines for securing the goals of the 14 Words. ("88" is a hate symbol which is used by neo-Nazis: the eighth letter of the alphabet is "H"; eight two times signifies "HH," shorthand for the Nazi greeting, "Heil Hitler.")

Bibliography

• Flynn, Kevin J.; Gerhardt, Gary (November 6, 1990). The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground (Mass-market paperback) (Reprint ed.). New York: Signet Books. ISBN 9780451167866. OCLC 22700196.
• Gardell, Mattias (2003). Gods of the Blood: The Pagan Revival and White Separatism (1st Illustrated ed.). Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822330714. OCLC 849358349.
• Gardell, Mattias (2004). "White Racist Religions in the United States: From Christian Identity to Wolf Age Pagans". In Lewis, James R.; Petersen, Jesper Aagaard (eds.). Controversial New Religions (1st ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515682-9.
• Schwartz, Alan M., ed. (June 1, 1996). Danger: Extremism – The Major Vehicles and Voices on America's Far-Right Fringe (1st ed.). New York: Anti-Defamation League. ISBN 9780884641698. OCLC 980983202.
• Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas (July 1, 2003). Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity (Illustrated reissue ed.). New York University Press. ISBN 9780814731550. OCLC 1012939115.

External links

• Archive of David Lane's profile in the Anti-Defamation League's "Extremism in America" series.

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