The Order (white supremacist group)
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Formation | September 1983 |
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Dissolved | December 1984 |
Type | White supremacist, Christian Identity, neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, white separatist, white nationalist, domestic terrorist, insurrectionist |
Purpose | Paramilitary fomenting white supremacist revolution against the "Zionist Occupation Government", establishment of an all-white homeland in the Pacific Northwest, and genocide against blacks, Jews, "race-mixers", and other perceived enemies |
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The Order, also known as the Silent Brotherhood,[1] was a neo-Nazi terrorist organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.[2][3][4] The group raised funds via armed robbery. Ten members were tried and convicted for racketeering, and two for their role in the 1984 murder of radio talk show host Alan Berg.[5]
The Order's main objective was to start a white supremacist revolution against the United States, after which blacks, Jews, "race mixers", and other perceived enemies would be exterminated. Inspired by The Turner Diaries, the organization declared war on the federal government, which they called the "Zionist occupied government".[6][7] The Order drew up a hit list of enemies, and on June 18, 1984, radio talk show host Alan Berg was murdered in front of his home by Bruce Pierce, assisted by other members of the Order.[8] Berg was number two on the Order's list.[9]
In December 1984, authorities were able to track down Robert Jay Mathews, the organization's leader, to a house on Whidbey Island where he refused to surrender.[10] Mathews was suspected of wounding an FBI agent in a previous shooting in Oregon.[11] During a shootout, the house was ignited by incendiary flares and became engulfed in flames, and Mathews was killed.[10] Mathews is considered a martyr by many white nationalists.[12][13]
History
[edit]The Order was founded by Robert Jay Mathews in late September 1983 at his farm near Metaline, Washington.[14] Reportedly, Mathews's farm was where the members trained.[15] Mathews had previously formed the Sons of Liberty, an anti-communist militia mostly made up of Mormon survivalists, fundamentalists and associates of John Singer that had no connection to the historical American organization of the same name.
A fundamental goal of the Order was revolution against the American government, which its members, and those of other white supremacist groups, believed to be controlled by a cabal of Jews with internationalist and Jewish-racial loyalties, rather than loyalty to the American nation. The Order was named after, and partly modeled on, a fictional terrorist group in William Luther Pierce's novel The Turner Diaries.[10] The Order's goals included the establishment of a homeland (now the Northwest Territorial Imperative) from which Jews and non-whites would be barred. They often referred to the United States federal government as ZOG, an acronym for Zionist occupied government. Members of the Order included Randy Evans, Gary Yarborough, Bruce Pierce, Denver Parmenter, Frank DeSilva (also known as Frank Silva), Richard Scutari, David Lane, Randy Duey, and David Tate.
Funding
[edit]Next, the group discussed how to fund actions of the Order, considering bidding on lumber-jacking and timber contracts, counterfeiting money, diaspora funding from overseas oil countries, and robberies. Though timber contracts were legal, counterfeiting money appealed to the ideals of the group in that it undermined the government by devaluing US currency. Robbery was first denied as an option due to its perceived sinful nature, until someone suggested they could rob pimps and drug dealers, which would raise money for the organization as well as set back street criminals in their businesses.[16]
The organization won a bid on a timber trimming contract for a trail in the Salmo-Priest Wilderness. After five hours of grueling work, Mathews decided to call off the work and head home. Headed back to the trucks, David Lane muttered, "Well, we're going to have to be better thinkers than our fathers were, because we're sure not the men they were,"[16] while Mathews mentions that the pay off from the job "would not fund the right wing for a week anyway."[16] The Order decided to try their hand at robberies, attempting to target pimps and drug dealers. After weeks of trailing black men in flashy cars, they realized they had no idea what a pimp or drug dealer looked like, [citation needed] and decided to switch to other crimes for funding.
The Order raised money through robbery. This began with the robbery of a pornographic video store, which netted them $369.10.[17] Their later robberies were more effective, including a bank robbery, followed by a series of three armored car robberies. In the armored car robberies, they took a total of $4.1 million, including their final armored car robbery near Ukiah, California that netted them $3.8 million. The Order detonated a timed firebomb in a movie theater in Seattle (causing no deaths or injuries), in order to occupy the police during their second planned armored car robbery that took place the next day. They also detonated a bomb at the only synagogue in Boise, Idaho.[18] Proceeds from these robberies were distributed to leaders of sympathetic organizations such as William Pierce (National Alliance) and Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. (White Patriot Party).[19][20][21]
The Order also ran a counterfeiting operation, but their bills were of poor quality, especially early on, and they led to Bruce Pierce being jailed early on, which later precipitated the group's downfall.
Downfall
[edit]The Order was ultimately brought down when a member, Tom Martinez, approached the FBI and offered to turn informant. His role in the organisation had been to pass counterfeit money and he had been arrested on June 29, 1984, for passing counterfeit ten dollar bills to buy liquor. After he was released on his own recognizance Mathews convinced him to go underground and during this period Martinez learned that Mathews intended to kill the liquor store owner in order to prevent him from testifying. When he learned of Mathews' plan, Martinez approached the FBI and offered to turn informant.[22][23]
On December 8, 1984, Mathews was cornered in a rented waterfront house off Smugglers Cove Rd near Greenbank Washington on Whidbey Island.[24] After a two-hour shoot-out, which involved the use of machine-guns, tear gas and a helicopter used to illuminate the target with flares, Mathews house was engulfed by flames and, according to FBI officials, exploded in "a huge fireball". Mathews had been wanted for the shooting of an FBI agent in Oregon two weeks before.[11]
Convictions
[edit]Ten members of the Order were tried and convicted under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statutes with the help of the testimony of Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who testified against Order members in order to have his own sentence reduced. In a separate trial, three other members of the Order were tried and convicted of violating the civil rights of Alan Berg.[25] No one has been charged in the murder of Berg. David Lane, the getaway driver for Berg's assailants, was sentenced to 190 consecutive years on the charges of racketeering, conspiracy, and violating Berg's civil rights. He died in prison in 2007.[26] Order member Bruce Pierce was sentenced to 252 years in prison for his involvement in the Berg murder, and died of natural causes at the Allenwood Federal Correctional Complex on August 16, 2010 at the age of 56.[27] Like Mathews, Lane and Pierce are regarded by many white-supremacists as heroes, political prisoners, and martyrs.[citation needed] In another trial, 14 men were charged with sedition, conspiracy, and civil rights violations.[26] Thirteen of them were acquitted, and the judge dismissed the charges against the fourteenth man for lack of evidence.[26]
A 2011 NPR report claimed that some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive communication management unit.[28] Richard Scutari, a member of the Order, was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 1986,[29] and was transferred to USP Marion CMU in July 2008.
Members
[edit]Name | Associated Group(s) | Sentence | Status | Ref. |
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David Charles Tate | Church of Israel and Aryan Nations | Life imprisonment without parole | Incarcerated at Southeast Correctional Center | [30][31][32][33][34] |
Richard Joseph Scutari | The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord | 60 years | Incarcerated at FCI Mendota[35] Released January 21, 2025[36] | |
Thomas Allen Martinez | National Alliance | 3 years probation | [37] | |
Andrew Virgil Barnhill | The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord | 40 years | Released on April 24, 2008 | |
Ardie McBrearty | Posse Comitatus | 40 years | Released on July 3, 1995 | [38] |
David Eden Lane | Aryan Nations | 190 years | Died while incarcerated at FCI Terre Haute on May 28, 2007 | |
Bruce Carroll Pierce | Aryan Nations | 252 years | Died while incarcerated at USP Allenwood on August 16, 2010 | |
Sharon Merki | LaPorte Church of Christ | 25 years | ||
Jean Margaret Craig | 40 years | Died in prison on April 18, 2001 | [39][40] | |
Denver Daw Parmenter II | Church of Jesus Christ–Christian | 20 years | [41] | |
Randolph George Duey | Aryan Nations | 100 years | Incarcerated at FCI Butner Medium | |
Frank Lee Silva | Ku Klux Klan | 40 years | Released on August 18, 1998 | |
Gary Lee Yarbrough | Aryan Nations | 60 years | Died while incarcerated at ADX Florence in 2018 | |
Zillah Craig | [42] | |||
Jackie Lee Norton | The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord | 6 months plus 5 years probation | [43] | |
James Sherman Dye | 20 years | [44] | ||
Robert E. Merki | LaPorte Church of Christ | 30 years |
The Order II (Bruder Schweigen Strike Force II)
[edit]The Order II, which is also known as the Bruder Schweigen Strike Force II, was an attempt to perpetuate the activities of the first Order by David and Deborah Dorr, both of whom were previously members of Aryan Nations, but their activities were confined to the state of Idaho.[45] The group launched its first attack on March 6, 1986, when it sent a packaged bomb to Gary Solomon, a local Jewish businessman who owned the Solomon Trucking company in Hayden Lake, Idaho.[46] No casualties resulted from the incident and it is unknown whether or not the explosion caused any property damage. The bomb was sent by David Dorr, the leader of Order II, a group that grew out of the original Order, which had previously collapsed. Order II (Bruder Schweigen Strike Force II) was also anti-government and antisemitic.[47][48]
On August 7 of the same year, a 12-inch tube bomb exploded at Fred Bower's auto repair shop in Hayden, Idaho, causing about $2,000 in damage.[46] No casualties resulted from the incident. The two perpetrators, David and Deborah Dorr, and an alleged third perpetrator, Edward W. Hawley, were members of the Bruder Schweigen Strike Force II.[49]
On September 16, 1986, an explosion was reported in front of the house of a Catholic priest who lived in the city of Coeur d'Alene, in Idaho. The explosion caused no injuries. It only caused property damage.[50][51] On September 29, 1986, his latest attack targeted a federal building, a telephone and luggage store, and a restaurant parking lot in Coeur d'Alene, without causing any injuries.[46]
The ATF and local, state and federal security forces collected evidence from the scene of the blast and executed a federal search warrant at Dorr's residence three days later. Special agents discovered a shelter that housed AR-15s converted to select-fire assault rifles in violation of federal firearms laws. Thirty other firearms, large amounts of ammunition, and counterfeit money were also found.[52][53] They also discovered bomb-making components that were used in the September 29 explosion, as well as in previous bombings. The militants received federal sentences which ranged from 6 to 30 years and state sentences which ranged from 5 years to life in prison.[54][55][56]
In popular culture
[edit]Several projects premiered during 1988, which drew inspiration from—albeit seldom direct depictions of—the events that unfolded during The Order's brief reign: The Oliver Stone-directed film Talk Radio, starred Eric Bogosian (who adapted his own play)[57] as a fictional radio DJ similar to Alan Berg, drawing inspiration from his assassination.[58] That same year, the film Betrayed—directed by Costa-Gavras and starring Debra Winger as an undercover FBI agent,[59] tasked with infiltrating Tom Berenger's clandestine "family"—also drew inspiration from The Order and its activities.[59] And another play from playwright Steven Dietz, titled God's Country,[60] documented the real-life events in a triptych, utilizing several key individuals as characters.[61] It premiered at Seattle's ACT Theatre on August 18, 1988.[62]
In 1989, the non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood: The Chilling Inside Story of America's Violent, Anti-Government Militia Movement (re-released as The Order: Inside America's Racist Underground),[33][63] written by investigative journalists Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, was published detailing The Order's history of events.[16]
A 1999 television film called Brotherhood of Murder, based upon the autobiography written by group member-turned-FBI informant Tom Martinez (along with co-writer John Guinther),[64][65] aired on Showtime. It starred William Baldwin as Martinez and Peter Gallagher as leader Robert Jay Mathews.[64]
The crime drama film The Order, loosely based on the aforementioned novel The Silent Brotherhood,[63] was released in 2024.[59] It features portrayals from Nicholas Hoult as Mathews;[63] Alison Oliver as his wife, Debbie;[66] Sebastian Pigott as Bruce Pierce;[67] Phillip Forest Lewitski as David Lane;[67] George Tchortov as Gary Yarbrough;[59] Odessa Young as Zillah Craig;[66] Victor Slezak as Richard Butler, founder of Aryan Nations;[59] Matias Lucas as Tony Torres (based on Tom Martinez);[65] Daniel Doheny as Walter West,[68] also assassinated by members of The Order;[69] and Marc Maron, in a cameo as Berg.[66] Jude Law,[63] Tye Sheridan,[70] and Jurnee Smollett also star,[66] in composite FBI roles. The film was directed by Justin Kurzel,[57][67] with a screenplay written by Zach Baylin.[70]
See also
[edit]- Atomwaffen Division, another far-right American neo-Nazi terrorist militia group
- Phineas Priesthood, a far-right radical Christian ideological faction also from the Pacific Northwest
- Fort Smith sedition trial
- Aryan Republican Army
- Elohim City, Oklahoma
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- ^ Morris Dees and Steve Fiffer. Hate on Trial: The Case Against America's Most Dangerous Neo-Nazi. Villard Books, 1993. page xiiv
- ^ a b c "The Alliance and the Law". Southern Poverty Law Center. Spring 2007. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
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In the words of Berg — a martyred saint here, striking a stark contrast with Eric Bogosian's fictionalization in Talk Radio — 'you have to have someone to blame for your life'.
- ^ Mattison, Josh (November 28, 2019). "Spotlight on Josh Mattison and The Order of Death". Yellow Scene (Online Magazine). Interviewed by French Davis. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
But my knowledge of the events was mostly informed by Oliver Stone's movie, Talk Radio,…
- ^ a b c d e Gleiberman, Owen (August 31, 2024). "The Order Review: Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult in an Explosive Crime Drama About the White-Supremacist Cult of the 1980s". Variety. ISSN 0042-2738. OCLC 60626328. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
One of them, Richard Butler (Victor Slezak), is the white nationalist who founded the Aryan Nations, the neo-Nazi cult that has its compound nearby.
- ^ Koehler, Robert (July 15, 1992). Coffey III, Shelby (ed.). "STAGE REVIEW: Dietz's God's Country: Big Sets, Big Ideas". Los Angeles Times. eISSN 2165-1736. ISSN 0458-3035. OCLC 3638237. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
…and its violent apotheosis in a small cadre called the Order.
- ^ Dietz, Steven (August 18, 1988). God's Country. ISBN 9780573691584 – via Google Books.
- ^ "God's Country (1988)". ACT Theatre. September 11, 1988. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
ACT's fourth production of its 1988 Mainstage Season will be the world premiere of God's Country, a play by Steven Dietz which focuses upon a white supremacist terrorist group.
- ^ a b c d Wiseman, Andreas (February 3, 2023). "Jude Law & Nicholas Hoult To Star In True Crime Pic The Order About Domestic Terror Group The Silent Brotherhood For Director Justin Kurzel & AGC Studios – EFM Hot Package". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
…Zach Baylin wrote the screenplay based on The Silent Brotherhood, the book by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt that chronicles the escalating crimes of the titular white supremist domestic terror group.
- ^ a b Martinez, Thomas; Guinther, John (1999). Brotherhood of Murder. iUniverse. ISBN 978-1-58348-580-4.
- ^ a b MacArthur, Greg (December 8, 2024). "The Order Ending Explained". Screen Rant. Retrieved February 28, 2025.
Terry interrogates Torres and eventually gets him to crack in a holding cell.
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…a horrific slaying that ultimately earns the perpetrators David Lane (Phillip Forest Lewitski) and Bruce Pierce (Sebastian Pigott) hundreds of years behind bars.
- ^ Marks, Ellen (October 11, 1985). "Walter West, allegedly executed by fellow neo-Nazis because he..." United Press International. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
…The Order killed West, an active member of the Aryan Nations Church…they feared he was leaking information about their splinter neo-Nazi sect.
- ^ Khalsa, G.S. (October 14, 1985). "Neo-Nazi describes murder of white supremacist". United Press International. Retrieved February 26, 2025.
James Dye said members of The Order decided to kill Walter E. West because he openly discussed the group's illegal activities.
- ^ a b Davids, Brian (December 4, 2024). Moody, Nekesa Mumbi (ed.). "The Order Star Tye Sheridan on Playing a Father for the First Time: 'It Didn't Feel Far From Reality'". The Hollywood Reporter. ISSN 0018-3660. OCLC 44653726. Retrieved February 27, 2025.
Further reading and listening
[edit]- Dees, Morris. Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat. Harper Perennial, 1997. ISBN 0-06-092789-5
- Flynn, Kevin J.; Gerhardt, Gary (1990). The Silent Brotherhood: Inside America's Racist Underground (Mass-market paperback) (Reprint ed.). New York: Signet Books (published November 6, 1990). ISBN 9780451167866. OCLC 22700196.
- Söderman, Magnus; Holappa, Henrik. Unbroken Warrior: The Richard Scutari Letters. Nationellt Motstånd Förlag, 2011. ISBN 978-91-85737-04-8
- Josh Mattison. "The Order of Death". Apple Podcasts Preview (Podcast). Apple Inc. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
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