Rockwell Redux Again

More on the same issue.

For another perspective on this, please see this, re: Rockwell, Patler, Patler's wife, and other related issues. Subsequent pages of that book, as well as other sources, speculate about an alleged Koehl-Pierce conspiracy to kill Rockwell, to make Rockwell into a martyr and take over the organization as an explicitly Nordicist-Germanic-Old School Nazi outfit. I make no judgment about the truth or falseness of that, just reporting about the various hypotheses put forth in that book and elsewhere. Indeed, the book suggests that Rockwell was just as much at odds with Koehl (and Pierce) as he was with Patler, and some sources suggest that Rockwell was going to expel Koehl and Pierce as he did with Patler.  Again, I do not know the relative truth of these speculations, of this reporting, but it would appear that the situation may have been more complex than "movement" dogma that a "greasy little Greek turd" killed Rockwell while the heroic Koehl and Pierce strived to keep Rockwell's political vision alive. I don't pretend to know whether that dogma, or revisionist theories, are correct, but at least I admit I do not know, in contrast to others who claim a definitive knowledge about events that are far from clear.

That shifts the focus away from a Rockwell-Patler conflict to a Rockwell-Patler-Koehl-Pierce conflict, and adds the dimension of moral responsibility for Rockwell’s death in addition to the actual legal responsibility. Regardless of who pulled the trigger and whether or not a Koehl-Pierce conspiracy existed, it seems to me that at the very least Koehl and Pierce have significant moral responsibility for Rockwell's death. This episode also underscores the extreme Nordicism of Pierce – one could only imagine his subsequent contempt for non-Nordic National Alliance members.

The whole thing with the alleged affair between Rockwell and Patler's wife, and Patler's alleged submissive support for that affair, is disturbing and disgusting, and certainly puts a fresh perspective on "genetic omnidominance," cuckoldry, and extended phenotypes. It would seem that sometimes people "closer to human origins" are the extended phenotypes of people "farther from human origins."

This additional information also puts into a different perspective the following comments from Pierce from The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce by Robert S. Griffin:

The guy in charge of the print shop--and remember this name --was John Patler. While I was around there, I had a chance to observe Patler. His real name was Yanacki Patsalos. He was this dark, greasy- looking little guy from New York, and he felt bad he was Greek instead of Swedish or German. It really bugged him. He tried to disguise his origin by changing his name. He had this feeling of inferiority, and he had an envy and hatred for people with light eyes, hair, and complexion. I don't know exactly where this came from. Maybe it was because he had grown up in New York and he was from a poor immigrant family and was at the bottom of the pecking order, and at the top around where he was from were the English, Irish, and Germans. Anyway, he was organizing the darker members of the party against what he called the blue-eyed devils. He was a very aggressive little turd. It was wild, surreal. Patler was sort of talented, though. Besides the printing, he was an artist. He did cartoons for Rockwell. He was smart and had a lot of willpower and drive. The other people in the print shop were real losers of one sort or another, and they did the grunt work for him. "When it came time to print the magazine, I stayed down by the print shop. I ate my meals in a little kitchen in one end of the chicken coop and slept in a station wagon I had at the time. Rockwell had told me that I had better stay down there all the time because he suspected that Patler was going to sabotage the whole damn thing. Patler hates you, Rockwell said. Rockwell said Patler doesn't want this magazine produced because he looks upon it as a competitor to his own magazine, the one he edited, called Stormtrooper. And it did turn out that Patler and I were in constant warfare during that time.

That's very convenient, putting all the blame on Patler and ignoring the overall context. Note some things other there.  Pierce denigrates the "turd" Patler while at the same time that "turd" was "smart and had a lot of willpower and drive." Why was he a "turd" then? Pierce also is outrageously disingenuous here. He states about Patler: "He had this feeling of inferiority, and he had an envy and hatred for people with light eyes, hair, and complexion. I don't know exactly where this came from." That's after describing Patler as "this dark, greasy- looking little guy from New York." If that was the attitude of Patler's "comrades" then, well, is it any surprise Patler had certain negative attitudes toward them?  According to all sources I have seen, Pierce was denigrating Patler - you know, the smart guy with a lot of drive - as a racially inferior greaser, and then he says about Patler's reaction to that: "I don't know exactly where this came from."

Also see this about Rockwell:

“Link,” as Rockwell was nicknamed, was regarded as a selfish and lazy commander. “[He] would usually sit around and read or sleep away most of the day while the rest of us would work or look for work,” one former Nazi said in a typescript memoir acquired by the Arlington Public Library. “Many sympathizers would bring food over to the headquarters during the winter months, and Link would take the choicest food and hog it up and leave the scraps for everyone else.”

Der Movement has always been a defective joke.

In any case, the Nordicist view of the Rockwell-Patler scenario: "You can't trust those swathoids and thar'ts what happens when you include swarthoids in the movement" doesn't necessarily capture the full story that occurred in this case. This goes back to the major point in my last post on this issue. If your group claims to be pan-European, for all Whites, and accepts people like Greeks, then a Greek member who is "smart and had a lot of willpower and drive" is someone who should be valued and allowed to rise as far as their abilities allow. If your attitude toward such a person is that he's a "turd" and "this dark, greasy- looking little guy" then be explicitly Nordicist and don't allow Greeks in your group in the first place. You can't have it both ways. Decide what your ingroup is and then move on from that.