David Lane (white supremacist)

David Lane was born November 2, 1938 in Woden, Iowa. At the time of his birth, the town was largely populated by Germanic immigrants. Lane was the third of four siblings, with a brother and two sisters. When Lane was four years old, his father abandoned his family. In 1944, Roger was found searching for food in a neighbor's trash bins, and Lane and his sisters were placed in an orphanage. After being placed in state care Lane was separated from and lost contact with his biological family. He was soon adopted by a traveling Lutheran minister. With his new family he moved frequently. Traveling across the Midwestern United States with his adoptive family, Lane finally settled in Aurora, Colorado, where he attended Hinkley High School. His adoptive family was strictly Christian, which contributed to Lane's distaste for Christianity. As an adult, he changed his last name back to his biological father's surname, rather than that of his adopted family. He attended a community college, which he left after one semester despite obtaining good grades. == White supremacy ==

Lane claims that he rejected Christianity early in life, finding the faith boring. Lane later favored pagan beliefs as a more authentic ancestral "white" religion, as opposed to what he viewed as Jewish influenced Christianity. ==Convictions and incarceration==

For his role in The Order's crimes, Lane was sentenced to consecutive sentences totaling 190 years, including 20 years for racketeering, 20 years for conspiracy, both under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and 150 years for violating the civil rights of Alan Berg, a Jewish radio talk show host who was murdered on June 18, 1984. Berg was shot and killed in the driveway of his Denver home by three members of The Order. Lane was arrested on the evening of March 30, 1985, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. While he did not pull the trigger, prosecutors said Lane drove the getaway car and played a large role in the planning of Berg's assassination. Lane was also among 14 men prosecuted for seditious conspiracy in Fort Smith, Arkansas, but he was acquitted. Lane was considered extremely dangerous and thus held in high-security facilities such United States Penitentiary, Marion, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, and the FCI Terre Haute. While incarcerated, he had the Federal Bureau of Prisons ID # 12873–057. Lane wrote books and articles about gematria and the demographic and sociopolitical status of the white race for white nationalist periodicals and websites. With his wife and Ron McVan, he ran a publishing company called 14 Word Press in Idaho to disseminate his writings. He was featured in Nazi Pop Twins, a documentary aired on July 19, 2007, on Channel 4 in the UK. In it, he was shown speaking by phone with Prussian Blue (the music act from the documentary) and termed them "fantasy sweethearts" and that he viewed them like daughters. Lane's earliest possible release date from prison would have been on March 29, 2035 (at age 96). He died on May 28, 2007, in FCI Terre Haute due to an epileptic seizure. On June 30, 2007, white supremacists held memorial demonstrations for Lane in cities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine. ==Beliefs==

Racial beliefs Lane stated that his beliefs can be best summarized by a slogan he called the "Fourteen Words": "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children." He also coined a second 14-word slogan: "because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth." As in his other writings, Lane repeats the claim that white people are threatened by a lack of exclusive territorial hegemony and "forced racial mixing". Lane viewed the United States government as part of a Zionist conspiracy. Consistent with the restrictive gender roles which were practiced within Aryan Nations, precept 35 of "88 Precepts" regards homosexuality as unnatural and also views sex as an act of reproduction which should be performed for the sole purpose of increasing the size of the white population. Lane also considers sex as a motivation for male subjugation of women, who are expected to be subservient. Lane advises men to subjugate women via power and control of territory, and he also advises white men to take up arms for this purpose. According to its web site, the United Klans of America viewed the 88 Precepts as "a source for which we can ascertain lasting truths". Wotansvolk Lane was one of the founders of the Wotansvolk movement, a racist, neo-völkisch form of Odinism (or Heathenry) which he formed with his wife Katja in 1995 in order to promote his ideology Lane argued with Stephen McNallen, then leader of the Asatru Folk Assembly when Lane was alive. By 2017, McNallen came out with support for Lane's 14 Words, quoting them verbatim. == Notes ==