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The National Alliance is a white nationalist, anti-semitic and white separatist political organization. It was founded by university physics professor Dr. William Luther Pierce in 1974, and was based in Hillsboro, West Virginia. The group ceased operations, as a "membership organization," in 2013.〔(Splcenter.org )〕 ==History== Pierce founded the group in 1974 at about the same time he created the pantheistic Cosmotheist Community Church. He was a former physics professor and the author of ''The Turner Diaries'' and ''Hunter'', both novels about a white revolution in America, which he wrote under the pen name Andrew MacDonald. The National Alliance was reorganized from an earlier group: the National Youth Alliance (NYA) which in turn was formed out of the remains of an organization called Youth for Wallace which supported Governor George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign. The NYA broke into factions as a result of infighting, and Pierce gained control of the largest remnant in 1970 and continued to lead the organization under that name until its reorganization in 1974. Pierce previously had been an associate of the assassinated leader of the American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, and had been editor of the party's magazine, ''National Socialist World''. Pierce died of cancer on July 23, 2002. The Board of Directors appointed Erich Gliebe to succeed William Pierce as Chairman of the organization. Power struggles within the organization began almost immediately. Billy Roper, the Deputy Membership Coordinator, was fired for incompetency in September 2002. In August 2003, another internal disruption occurred with two members of the Board of Directors, firefighter Fred Streed and former economics professor Robert DeMarais resigning. In April 2005, prominent Alliance member Kevin Alfred Strom, then editor of ''National Vanguard Magazine'', issued a declaration calling for Erich Gliebe to step down;〔(Nationalvanguard.org ) 〕 the Executive Committee of the National Alliance and most unit coordinators supported this action. Gliebe refused to meet the demand, claiming that the National Alliance operates under the "Leadership Principle" and stating that he would not yield to any coup. Strom then formed a new group called National Vanguard. In January 2007 Strom was indicted for possession of child pornography and for seeking to coerce a 10-year-old girl sexually. Two of the three charges were dismissed in October 2007 and the third was pending trial in January 2008. Since then, Strom has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography and all of the other charges have been dropped. He was sentenced to 23 months in prison in April 2008. In March 2007 National Vanguard dissolved. Shortly after the attempted coup by Strom, Gliebe resigned as Chairman of the Alliance stating that he needed more time to spend with his family, having married former stripper Erika Snyder. Gliebe briefly appointed Shaun Walker as his successor. However, in June 2006, Walker was arrested for conspiring to commit Civil Rights violations (in 2007 Walker was sentenced to 87 months in prison). After Walker's arrest, Gliebe again assumed leadership of the organization. According to the SPLC, paid membership had declined to fewer than 800 and the paid staff was down to only 10 people as of 2006. In January 2013, prominent Sacramento Unit Coordinator Jim Ring resigned from the organization and issued a plea for Gliebe to resign.〔(Splcenter.org )〕 At the same time, he expressed his willingness to take over the dwindling group. According to Ring, as of 2012 the organization consisted of less than 100 members, with no paid staff members other than Gliebe.〔(Natallnews.net )〕 In 2013 it was revealed that the organization's property in Mill Point, West Virginia had been put up for sale. This development, coupled with the organization's websites being down for much of 2013 and the end of the once-weekly American Dissident Voices broadcasts, suggest that the National Alliance may have ceased operating. The end of the National Alliance, as a "membership organization" was confirmed by Erich Gliebe in September 2013.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Alliance (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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