Individualists and Cowards
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 4:38 pm
From the April 1998 National Alliance bulletin commentary by Dr. Pierce:
"In the past I've written more than once about two obstacles to our recruiting:
cowardice and selfishness. Correspondence received at the National Office this month
has reminded me again how important these two obstacles are.
"First we received an e-mail letter from someone who had been reading my American
Dissident Voices scripts on the Internet, and he had just read a script in which I urged
people to join the Alliance and take part in our struggle for freedom and progress. He
said that he agreed with many of my comments about Race, the jews and the media.
He deplored the advance of the welfare state and the Marxist policies he could see in
the U.S. government--but what, he wanted to know, would joining the Alliance do to
help him achieve his personal and professional goals? How could the Alliance help him
get ahead in life? If he joined, what benefits could he expect? I responded as follows:
"The National Alliance cannot help you attain your goals or 'get ahead,' if by that
you mean acquiring better employment, a larger income, a higher social status,
or the like. The National Alliance does not exist to further the financial or social
condition of its members.
"The purpose of the National Alliance is to secure the future of our people and to prepare
the earth for a higher type of man. Men and women who join the National Alliance do so
in order to work together toward these goals.
"If you can adopt the goals of the National Alliance as your goals, then we will be happy
to accept your application for membership.
"A second letter received this month is from someone in Dallas, Texas who signs his letter
'a supporter' and who identifies himself as 'a strong christian.' Despite his christianity, he says,
he wants very much to provide financial support for the Alliance--anonymously. But he has
several very serious concerns. First, what techniques can he use to send money to us and be
sure we are receiving it without the government or the jews finding out about him? Second, how
can he be sure we are not some sort of 'trick' organization set up by the jews 'as a tool to smoke
out anti-semites?'
"Which is worse: the Birch-style selfishness and individualism of the first writer, or the abject
groveling cowardice of the second? Can anything be done to make either of these types good
for something? It is tempting to write them both off as fit only for clearing minefields by driving
herds of them through suspected areas.
"Undoubtedly some cowards are born, and some are made. Men who have been sheltered from
danger all their lives, who have grown up in a welfare state, and who have never faced physical
danger or seen another man die a violent death may not be able to cope with the idea of risk or be
able to overcome even the minor fears which beset all of us every day of our lives. If our people
could grow up in a more natural society, we might have fewer of this type of 'made' coward, but
we need to build that society before we can reap its benefits."
"In the past I've written more than once about two obstacles to our recruiting:
cowardice and selfishness. Correspondence received at the National Office this month
has reminded me again how important these two obstacles are.
"First we received an e-mail letter from someone who had been reading my American
Dissident Voices scripts on the Internet, and he had just read a script in which I urged
people to join the Alliance and take part in our struggle for freedom and progress. He
said that he agreed with many of my comments about Race, the jews and the media.
He deplored the advance of the welfare state and the Marxist policies he could see in
the U.S. government--but what, he wanted to know, would joining the Alliance do to
help him achieve his personal and professional goals? How could the Alliance help him
get ahead in life? If he joined, what benefits could he expect? I responded as follows:
"The National Alliance cannot help you attain your goals or 'get ahead,' if by that
you mean acquiring better employment, a larger income, a higher social status,
or the like. The National Alliance does not exist to further the financial or social
condition of its members.
"The purpose of the National Alliance is to secure the future of our people and to prepare
the earth for a higher type of man. Men and women who join the National Alliance do so
in order to work together toward these goals.
"If you can adopt the goals of the National Alliance as your goals, then we will be happy
to accept your application for membership.
"A second letter received this month is from someone in Dallas, Texas who signs his letter
'a supporter' and who identifies himself as 'a strong christian.' Despite his christianity, he says,
he wants very much to provide financial support for the Alliance--anonymously. But he has
several very serious concerns. First, what techniques can he use to send money to us and be
sure we are receiving it without the government or the jews finding out about him? Second, how
can he be sure we are not some sort of 'trick' organization set up by the jews 'as a tool to smoke
out anti-semites?'
"Which is worse: the Birch-style selfishness and individualism of the first writer, or the abject
groveling cowardice of the second? Can anything be done to make either of these types good
for something? It is tempting to write them both off as fit only for clearing minefields by driving
herds of them through suspected areas.
"Undoubtedly some cowards are born, and some are made. Men who have been sheltered from
danger all their lives, who have grown up in a welfare state, and who have never faced physical
danger or seen another man die a violent death may not be able to cope with the idea of risk or be
able to overcome even the minor fears which beset all of us every day of our lives. If our people
could grow up in a more natural society, we might have fewer of this type of 'made' coward, but
we need to build that society before we can reap its benefits."