Is Donald Trump trying to incite politically-motivated violence ? Underscoring that question — on many minds these days — was Trump’s meeting this Spring with William S. Lind, a radical Washington ideologue whose 2014 novel celebrates a kamikaze airplane assassination of an American president.
The concept of “stochastic terrorism” (ST) has recently gained mainstream media notice, especially via articles at Rolling Stone and Vox.com which argue that ST is exactly what Trump was up to when he mentioned “second amendment” as a possible remedy to the dire prospect of Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election and then being in place to appoint new Supreme Court justices.
But Trump’s association with stochastic terrorism goes much deeper.
This Spring, Trump personally met William S. Lind who, among other attributes, is author of a 2014 novel which favorably describes white Christian militia groups overthrowing the federal government and then carrying out mass ethnic cleansing of African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and other non-white minorities.
The title of that book (I own a copy and have forced myself to read it and even take notes) is Victoria — A Novel of Fourth Generation War (here is my synopsis of the novel).
On page 201 of Lind’s novel, we find the following description of how a “lone wolf” terrorist assassinates the US president and top federal government leadership :
‘At 3PM on the afternoon of the 23rd, Warner, the last president of the United States gave a final speech on the White House lawn. After pledging to “fight the forces of racism and bigotry wherever they may appear,” he joined the vice president, senior cabinet members and the majority leaders from the House and the Senate on the presidential helicopter.’
The plot setting is the emergency relocation of the federal government from Washington, DC to Harrisburg, PA. En route, the presidential helicopter meets a fiery end:
“Just south of the Mason-Dixon Line, a single engine light plane had been cruising in lazy loops over the Monocracy River, which marked the most direct route from Washington to Harrisburg. At 3:27 PM, its pilot spotted the HMX-1 V-22 following the river about 3,000 feet below him, and dove on it. The crash turned both aircraft into a fireball that could be seen as far as Hagerstown.”
Lind’s novel explicitly identifies the assassin as a “kamikaze pilot” and, even more ominously, notes that the pilot is a former Marine —it’s ominous because it is from the ranks of the Marines that the presidential guard is drawn.
As an epitaph to the assassination, William Lind concludes,
“The Leaderless Resistance had struck again.”
The theory of Leaderless Resistance was developed most notably by white supremacist strategist Louis Beam, who recognized that strict division between those who promoted and spread revolutionary ideas and the people who acted upon those ideas was necessary to prevent government infiltration.
Besides his novel, William Lind is the most important theorist of 4th Generation Warfare, which incorporates aspects of Leaderless Resistance. Lind has repeatedly suggested that his 4GW ideas helped inspire the strategy behind al-Qaeda’s 2001 terrorist attacks on America.
Just as importantly, Lind has been the leading proponent of a conspiracy theory concerning “cultural Marxism”,”political correctness”, and multiculturalism that has spread through the American racist right into the US right generally and migrated to the UK and Europe, to Russia, and even to Brazil.
That conspiracy theory posits a Jewish Marxist conspiracy to destroy American and Western civilization, and Christianity, by undermining culture with “political correctness”, multiculturalism, and immigration.
As I have documented in this report, Lind’s conspiracy is linked to several notable acts of terrorism and right-wing violence including the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway by neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik that killed 78 and injured at least 319.